The Destroyer's Fleet deviated half of their firepower to the oncoming fleet.
All the ships that came with the Dark Eater mothership were painted black as well, unlike the pirates who didn't have any specific color but a simple red skull flag for identification.
Dark Eater fired a bunch of dark orb and it blasted against the magic barrier, shaking the sky.
"That black orb consumed a lot of our mana crystals! We are running at 79% capacity."
"Fuck!" Aldred opened both of his palms and created hundreds of mana crystals per second. "Worker golems! Bring all these crystals to the storage."
The worker golems came by the hundred, and they scooped in tons of mana crystals before they left one by one to the storage.
Aldred looked at the projection, and the mana capacity of the battleship kept on decreasing.
"We cannot stay on the defensive."
"What should we do?" Stella asked.
"I have an idea." He summoned his 2 clones. And they all stood in front of him. "Stella, teleport them as close as possible to the enemy ship."
"But the ships are too far."
It's okay. Just do it as close as you can."
Stella nodded and teleported his 2 clones about 27 kilometers from the enemy ships. They were teleported in the sky.
"Are you planning to let them swim to their motherships?" Stella asked.
"No. That's not the plan."
The 2 clones set up a teleportation point in the sky. One for The Red Devil Skull, and one for Dark Eater.
The two fleets detected his clones in the sky and quickly bombarded them with explosive shells.
The sky was filled with explosions and his clones were completely destroyed.
"Those guys are truly vicious." Aldred smiled. "But I can be even more vicious than them."
Aldred summoned his clones again, and told them to open the portal in front of the main cannon.
"Burchard, direct the aim of your cannons into the portal."
"Yes, my lord."
When the fabric of space was ripped, and a portal appeared, the large cannons on the ships moved around until they aimed at the portal.
"Fire!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
After dozens of sky-shattering blasts, the shells all went into the portal and appeared above the pirates fleet and Simond's fleet.
This was Aldred's plan. Open a portal in unexpected locations and fire the cannons there.
The result was a destruction unlike many others.
Dozens of warships were blasted and sunk deep into the sea. Even the two enemy motherships suffered significant damage.
Aldred laughed. "Serves them right!"
"My lord! There's an enemy coming in from the portal."
"What?" Aldred looked at the portal and saw there were pirates and soldiers with powerful gear coming in from the portal.
"Fire at them!"
The main cannons started blasting, and a lot of the soldiers inside the portal were killed, meanwhile the rest were trying to find the crew of the mothership.
"Kill everyone here!"
But to their shock, there was no one on the mothership.
"Where are all the crew?"
"This ship doesn't need a crew. It's run by golems."
A fighter golem appeared from the hallway, standing 2 meters tall with a giant blade in its hand. Its two cold-blooded eyes made the pirates and the soldiers shiver.
And then numerous golems came out from the hallway, staring at them.
"Destroy these golems and find the captain!"
The pirates and the soldiers charged at the golems, but what happened next was an outright massacre.
The golems charged forward with thundering steps, raising their giant rare quality blades and slashed down, cutting 8 people at once.
Blood spattered with screams and cries of their victims.
But for Aldred, this is just an ordinary day to him. He simply stood there, watching the slaughter without emotion.
"My Lord, the enemies are attacking us through our own portals."
"Stop attacking. I will close the portal. Move the cannons to the appropriate trajectory."
"Yes, my lord."
Aldred closed the portal, and the cannons moved to their position before firing again.
As the two continued to fire shells at each other, they also closed the distance as time passed.
Aldred didn't plan to back down. He would end this battle once and for all and consume their motherships to strengthen his own.
"Aldred, you are cause for my master's wrath. For that he sent me to you with a small fraction of his power," a mechanical voice said.
Aldred looked at the projection and saw an enormous mechanical fleet accompanied by mechas, helicopters, jets, battleships, aircraft carriers, and numerous other advanced vehicles.
All the ships opened their missile pods, and fired to the sky. It made a trail of smoke before it arched towards Aldred's fleet.
Explosions arose as they struck the barrier. The barrier was unstable for a few seconds, but it repaired itself.
"Fuck! We have to fight three fleets now?"
He didn't. Because another fleet appeared in the distance. The mothership was the shape of a gigantic golden lion with majestic mane. On the side carved: King of Beast.
A lion-man walked to the front deck and his voice boomed: "My name is Xoros Goldenbelt. Stranger over there, please hand over our princess."
"Princess? What princess? The fuck are they talking about?"
Mary frowned. "Is it possible?" She looked at Kiara.
"Kiara is a princess?"
Kiara stepped back. "No. I am not. Don't let them take me. Please, don't let them take me."
"Calm down. I will not let anyone take you from me," Aldred said. "I don't care if you are a princess or not, if you don't want to go, then I will do anything and everything to prevent them from taking you."
Soon after, a holy light blasted from the sky and exploded the water as a fleet of white, bright, shining ships appeared out of nowhere. On the lead, a large mothership with a giant cathedral on top was brightly shining, blinding everyone nearby for a moment.
"Mister Aldred, please hand over our most valuable member of the church."
"What is it this time?"
"Please handover Sister Mira to us."
