"Bai Ye, this Magic Whale Beast's ice lances cover too wide an area. If this keeps up, we won't hold out much longer. We'll have to use magic scrolls." The veiled woman from the Sacred Law Palace glanced at the ship's durability and furrowed her brow slightly.
The Bladed Demon Sharks were merely Great Lord-tier sea beasts with straightforward skills. Dodging and blocking them was easy enough—a Bronze-Rank speedboat could handle them just fine. The Magic Whale Beast, on the other hand, appeared sluggish, moved at a leisurely pace, and had no complicated attack patterns, yet it proved far more troublesome.
That was because the Magic Whale Beast, aside from its fierce charges, relied on two main attacks: the Star of Ice and the Rain of Ice Lances. The Star of Ice dropped a massive ice sphere from the sky that six MTs had to tank together, instantly depleting over two-thirds of each one's health—absolutely devastating. It fell at a rapid clip, requiring eighteen MTs rotating through just to keep up, and the healers were under enormous pressure. One slip and an entire squad of MTs would be wiped out…
But that wasn't even the worst of it. The most infuriating part was the Rain of Ice Lances.
The Rain of Ice Lances summoned countless ice spears from the sky. Individual damage wasn't high—each hit only dealt ten thousand points, which any player could absorb. But the sheer number was overwhelming; even with everyone trying to intercept, they couldn't block them all. It was essentially an anti-ship skill.
A single use of this skill shaved three to four points off the small sailing ship's durability.
If this dragged on, they'd probably lose all 700 points of the ship's durability before they even managed to drain the Magic Whale Beast's 200 million HP.
"King-tier sea beasts really are no joke." Bai Ye watched the ice lances begin to coalesce in the sky once more, a bitter smile tugging at her lips. "Use the Tier 3 Summoning Scroll. Let the Tier 3 Summoned Beast take some of the Rain of Ice Lances' damage."
The veiled woman nodded and produced a Tier 3 Summoning Scroll, beginning her chant.
With the Tier 3 Summoned Beast absorbing a portion of the Rain of Ice Lances, the ship's durability loss dropped dramatically—only one point now.
At the same time, they directed some of the ship's cannons toward the Bladed Demon Sharks in the distance, supporting the other Bronze-Rank speedboats in their assault and slowly whittling down the sharks' HP.
The original 80 million HP dropped at a visible pace.
95%… 94%… 93%…
"Bai Ye, it looks like Jun Wuchang's group is making a move too," the veiled woman said, spotting the Single-Horn Sailing Ship approaching in the distance while controlling the summoned beast. She couldn't help but feel surprised.
Jun Wuchang only had 90 people. Even with a small sailing ship, that number was nowhere near enough to fight a Magic Whale Beast—any half-decent player should have known that, and Jun Wuchang as a fleet commander should have understood it better than anyone.
"They're actually daring to charge in like this?" Bai Ye glanced at
She knew Jun Wuchang well. His personal combat skills were mediocre at best, but his battle command and monster assessment abilities were top-tier—he would never make such a reckless move. The only explanation was that Shi Feng, whom Jun Wuchang had invited along, had insisted on it.
Meanwhile, Shang Buyan, Xia Tianqi, and the others also noticed the Single-Horn Sailing Ship.
"They still haven't given up?" Xia Tianqi scoffed. "I'd like to see how long you can last."
Right now, they were barely holding on themselves, and whether they could actually kill the Magic Whale Beast was still up in the air. But as for Jun Wuchang's group—forget killing the whale beast, they'd be lucky to even deal with the two Bladed Demon Sharks.
Just as everyone was thinking this, a bolt of golden lightning shot from the Single-Horn Sailing Ship, striking the Magic Whale Beast's thick hide directly.
Boom!
The thick skin, which had shrugged off cannon fire without so much as a scratch, was now trailing wisps of smoke with streaks of blue blood seeping through—clearly, the beast had been wounded.
"How can it have that much power!" Bai Ye was startled.