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17. Sold!

The moment he saw the aircraft, Daelin realized something terrible for the army: his fleet's route had been under the control of Ratchet ever since it left the narrow peninsula. This meant that if Ratchet wanted to surprise him, he and his fleet could very well die without even knowing why.

However, Daelin knew that now was not the time to dwell on this. Although he was surprised that Ratchet would offer to help him instead of watching him and his fleet perish at sea, as a king, he made his decision in an instant.

How much will it cost?

Daelin's sword flashed with a blue light, shattering the weapon of a Naga and throwing the Naga, who was holding the weapon, back into the sea.

"What about half of the ships that haven't sunk yet?"

"Do you think I would agree to such conditions, Miss Tanis?"

Daelin used his left elbow to parry the trident of another Naga. As the Naga's weapon was deflected and exposed, he swung a cable and struck it in the chest, quickly taking its life.

"This is just a deal, General Dalyne."

"Heh...a deal..."

Daelin gave a mocking laugh and stopped talking to Tannis. Tannis didn't say anything more either, quietly continuing to monitor the battle using her drone. At that moment, the Wave-Treading Giant finally made contact with the fleet.

"boom!"

"boom!!"

With the surging waves, the weapons of these enormous creatures rising from the ocean depths slammed heavily onto the foremost warships, already riddled with holes from the Kraken's attack. Blow after blow, wood chips, steel fragments, and even worse debris flew everywhere under the sea giants' pounding, making the sea blessing on the Kul Tiran warships increasingly weak. The overburdened ships groaned and wailed, as if uttering their final words.

"Crack!!!"

Finally, the aura of the tidal blessing on a frigate-class vessel completely dissipated. The ship, having lost its last shred of protection, had its sails torn apart along with the mast by the merciless gale and thrown into the sky. Raging waves surged into the ship's interior, washing away everything that could be washed away. The chaotic force destroyed the riveting and adhesive between the already tattered planks, snapped the keel, and caused the entire ship, along with its soldiers, to be buried in the whirlpool and sink to the bottom of the sea within minutes.

"asshole!!!"

Seeing his ships begin to suffer losses, Daelin's eyes widened in fury. He kicked away a Naga that was trying to ambush him with his right foot, and pulled a necklace from his chest with his left hand. On the necklace, a bright blue gem shone.

The moment the gem was exposed to the air, the churning sea suddenly calmed down, the storm in the sky stopped pouring down rain, and apart from the sound of the Naga breaking through the waves, everything was quiet, so quiet that it was unsettling.

The next moment, the sea surged in an even more incomprehensible way, and the raging currents violently rushed into the battlefield in a way that everyone could see, bringing with them the true warriors born from the sea.

Ocean element.

"...Daelin can actually summon sea elementals? No, it's the power of that gem?"

Tanis's eyes nearly popped out of her head when she saw this, but she immediately realized that Daelin's spellcasting was related to the necklace he was wearing. What bothered her was that Daelin's expression seemed to indicate that he was very reluctant to use the power of this gem.

"The ocean... the sea element... could it be... that Daelin... or rather, the mastermind behind the Pridmore family is...?"

Tanis's lips twitched slightly; she seemed to understand why Daelin didn't want to use the gem.

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With the addition of sea elementals to the battle, the situation on the battlefield became unpredictable once again. Most of the Naga spells were ineffective against the sea elementals, and their preferred method of drowning enemies was meaningless to the Naga. More importantly, with the wind and waves calmed, the Kul Tiran crew dealt with the things on the deck with considerable ease; giant octopus tentacles rolled everywhere, and the Kraken's body was nowhere to be seen.

'Dailin can't have pulled off this comeback, can he?'

Just as Tennys was feeling 'extremely disappointed', the image transmitted back by the drone suddenly turned bright blue, indicating that a powerful spell had enveloped the battlefield space.

"Crackling sound!!!"

Before Tannis could even analyze what the spell was, a chilling sound clearly entered her ears through her headphones. Suddenly, cracks appeared in the sky above the battlefield, and endless cold air blew down. In an instant, a thin layer of ice covered Daelin's ships, Daelin's soldiers, and Daelin himself. To make matters worse, because Daelin's fleet had gained the upper hand, there were no Naga or Sea Giants on the sea!

As a result, in a very short time, Daelin's fleet was once again at a disadvantage. What shocked Daelin even more was that the bodies of the sea elementals he had summoned were all degrading. It was very clear that their bodies in the material world were no longer stable.

"I never expected to catch such a big fish as Neptulon's servant. The Queen will be very pleased..."

Accompanied by a seductive female voice, the tide surged once more, and a gigantic whale carrying a magnificent throne emerged from the sea. A six-armed Naga casually leaned back on a deck chair, her magnificent figure clearly indicating that she was not an ordinary Naga spellcaster, but the legendary Naga sea monster.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, I never agreed to be its 'servant'."

Dailin tucked the gem back into his chest and spoke in a deep voice.

"It doesn't matter, because you and your fleet will soon become the Queen's spoils, and all your secrets will be revealed—don't expect Neptulon to keep you here. I have severed the weak connection between you and Neptulon, and your sea element is no longer effective."

"So you think I'm helpless? Wrong, I still have one last resort."

Dalin turned his head slightly to look at the drone floating beside him—since Tennys had already considered most common weather conditions, the blizzard did not have a serious impact on Tennys' drone.

"I can't give you half the ships, but I can offer you all the spoils of war at sea, plus three medium-sized warships."

"make a deal!"

As if afraid that Daelin would change his mind, Tannis's drone landed on the deck of Daelin's flagship the second after Tannis shouted "Deal!" and opened a portal. Fully armed Tannis jumped out of the portal, casually shoved a contract into the expressionless Daelin, and then looked at the Naga Siren who was still unaware of what had happened with her golden eyes.

"This guy looks incredibly valuable!!"

18. The Angry Siren

Looking at Tanis, who was fully armed and standing next to Daelin, the Naga Siren narrowed her eyes slightly, scrutinizing the insolent landlubber with her arcane pupils. After a few seconds, a cold smile appeared on her lips.

"What gives you the audacity to speak so arrogantly in front of me, you mere mortal?"

"Module startup complete, hyperspace teleportation device stable, production line preheating..."

Tennys is activating the device.

"Mortal! How dare you disregard Lady Sirahir, the matriarch of the Dark Tide Naga?"

"The jump channel is activated, and energy is stable..."

Tannis opened the passage.

"Inferior creature! You will regret your reckless behavior!"

Ignored by the clatter of lightning, Lady Silasir was enraged. She clenched her fingers on her four arms, and dozens of thick bolts of lightning tore through the clouds and struck Tannis. Meanwhile, the Naga horde lurking in the ocean roared and charged once again, riding the waves.

"Crack!!"

The pale blue lightning struck Tannis, who stood there motionless like a target, with lightning speed. The slightly pale blue arcs of electricity traveled across her body, rippling outwards.

"External energy injection detected. The teleportation channel is ready."

To Daelin's slightly astonishment, the lightning summoned by the Naga Siren's magic was completely absorbed by the strange armor worn by Tannis within seconds, without even causing a ripple. Then, several small and exquisite objects detached from Tannis's armor and floated on the deck of his flagship, outlining the shape of a 'door' that was about three meters high and three meters wide.

"Hmm? Tactical teleportation magic?"

Having failed with her first attack, the Naga Siren, now taking Tannis a little more seriously, swung her arms again. The fingers of her six rapidly moving hands traced a complex pattern in the air. If anyone knowledgeable were here, they would easily recognize that the spell the Naga Siren was using was a special spell designed to counter tactical teleportation—the Area Dimensional Anchor!

However, before the Naga siren could finish casting her spell, a cannon barrel emerged from the portal opened by Tannis, locking onto the Naga siren who was still casting. Violent energy was surging wildly within the cannon barrel.

'Oh no! This guy's portal wasn't meant to transport living beings at all!'

The thought flashed through the Naga Siren's mind, and then she saw Tannis's expression in the distance—a malicious one—and a red button in her hand.

"boom!!!"

——————————————Ratchet————————————————————

"Stop moving around, Overspark. I understand how you feel, but moving around won't increase your chances of success!"

Gazlowe stood next to Oversbach, looking at the old dwarf who was in a state of high excitement, and couldn't help but speak.

"Please! Gazlowe! You should know how revolutionary it would be if this explosion could deliver our stuff perfectly!"

"Why do I feel like you gnome are even more enthusiastic about explosions than we goblins? What was that word Tannis used again... When in Rome, do as the Romans do? Your gnome way of thinking has already taken on the goblin's shadow?"

Gazlowe's half-joking remark didn't anger Oversbach—in the past, he would have grabbed a wrench and fought Gazlowe to the death.

"Tannis, the Great Tinker, taught the gnomes of Gnomeregan a lesson: it's foolish to divide engineering into goblins and gnomes! Engineering is engineering! It's a discipline that uses mechanics, numbers, and all sorts of principles that can at least be written down to change the world! It shouldn't, and cannot, have opposing forces..."

Before Overspark could finish speaking, another dwarf in the control room screamed.

"Master Craftsman! The item has been teleported!"

"Have all the bombs with beacons been sent over?"

Overspark and Gazlowe both beamed with joy.

"Not only were all the bombs teleported over, but the generator, launch pad, control center, and the rock about 3 meters deep with a radius of about 20 meters below were also teleported over!"

"Can it be tracked?"

"No! All the instruments have malfunctioned! We can only be sure that...maybe...it won't hit Tennys the Great Tinker on the head?"

"........"

Gazlowe looked at Overspark with a subtle expression, while Overspark spread his hands.

"At least, we've taken the first step."

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Lady Silasir, the Naga siren, was devastated.

As a powerful spellcaster, she was surprised that Tennys' weapon could attack before the teleportation was complete, but as an arcane master, Tennys' initial barrage only surprised her slightly, and then...

"Boom!!!"

As Tannis's energy ball exploded, a massive, chaotic space portal—the kind of space theoretically impossible to use for teleportation—opened above Lady Silasir's head, disrupting some of her defensive spells. Then, it hurled a ton of jumbled, spacetime-storm-ravaged debris at her head, instantly burying her firmly in a mass of dirt, metal, gravel, cables, gunpowder, and other debris.

"This is... your Ratchet's latest tactical research? Why not teleport something more threatening?"

Despite saying that, Dai Lin quickly began to think about how to counter the shell. He then concluded that if the shell could indeed deliver something dangerous, then this weapon would be an extremely difficult piece of equipment to deal with.

"...You'll have to ask Overspark, the master craftsman, about this project."

With an expressionless face, Tannis took a banana peel that had fallen from the sky off her head, pressed a button next to her control glasses, and with a slight buzzing sound, several more portals opened, and huge bird's nest-like objects landed on Daelin's flagship. At the same time, Lady Silasir, who had been covered in dust from being hit by trash, pushed aside the steel bars on her body and glared venomously at Tannis, who had made her look so bad.

"You lowly maggot! Your little tricks will only make your death more painful!!!"

"Yeah....."

With a flick of her finger, Tennys caused the indicator lights on the bird's nest to flash wildly, and all sorts of unmanned machines of different shapes and sizes were produced from it, taking to the sky or leaping into the ocean.

"Face an army of one, Naga."

19. The Naga Tragedy