Eldritch Creature's Guide

When the pirates were divided, they were easy targets for Samiel and his entourage of Holy Templar Knights and Priests. One or two pirate crews couldn't match the might of the elite troops of the Hall of Kadath.

Unfortunately, this time, the numerical disparity was too huge just to ignore because this time, they were meeting probably more than thirty thousand pirates and that was just an optimistic guess.

'If we use everything we can in order to weaken them before they get close, we can cut down their number approximately by 40% to 47% at best... realistically speaking; it should be around 44%, which is good...'

Though, even if they managed to bring the numbers down, it would still leave them with more than fifteen thousand pirates of various Tiers, all of them rather powerful Professionals on their own.

One thing that nobody could take from the pirates of the 11th Floor of the Tower was that they really knew how to fight and how to kill. Just Samiel casting 5th Level Spell of the Winter Magic, Clash of Glaciers, was enough to destroy a good number of ships and kill hundreds of people.

Naturally, Samiel didn't forget to put out the soul-collecting rune as he started catching the souls of the departed.

When the first souls started getting back to him, he took the soul of the most powerful person and immediately devoured the soul to get the information of what was happening.

[Proficiency with the Level 3 Ultimate Ability Soul Devour has been increased by 1%.]

[Proficiency with the Level 3 Ultimate Ability Soul Devour has been increased by 1%.]

The moment he devoured a whole bunch of souls, due to his relatively high proficiency with the Soul Devour, he got all information and it confirmed all of his fears...

It appeared that one of the Pirate Kings reached Half-Step Gold Tier and hearing that somebody was hunting pirates en masse, he decided to use his newfound strength to unite all pirate crews in these waters under his rule and deal with the pirate hunter.

'Damm... Half-Step Gold Professional is too much for me to handle right now, but it seems that there is no other choice.'

Samiel was already calculating countless scenarios on how to fight such an enemy and the odds of him defeating him were slim. The disparity in raw strength was too much and while he easily could fight above his Tier, fighting someone who was halfway to getting Mastery was suicidal.

'The best way to end this would be to kill the leader... rest of these rats would just escape and hide in whatever hole they could find.'

As the Holy Son of the Hall of Kadath, it was his duty and responsibility to fight against the Pirate King even though the opponent was vastly above his Tier. But at the same time, Samiel was also aware that if he played his cards right, he could kill the Pirate King and this entire situation would reverse in a split of a second.

Most, if not all, of the pirates here, were only recently unified into a Grand Fleet and there was no sense of unity or comradery between them, not like most of the pirates even knew what those two words meant.

Second later, huge explosions could be seen and heard from the skies as the battleship activated its anti-aircraft weapons and started shooting down the airships belonging to the pirates one by one.

Fortunately, the airships that the sea scums were using were the ones without any proper protection and they didn't even have some basic shield or anything that could help them survive being hit.

Samiel grinned, seeing this, because not even a moment later, their battleship started shooting toward the incoming naval vessels of the pirates and sinking many of them.

While they may have hundreds of ships, all of them were inferior wooden ships and were basically just wood floating on the water.

Nothing extra.

Pirates were often poor and only big and powerful crews had good ships and only the best ones among them had ships made from metals. Everyone from the Hall of Kadath was doing everything they could to operate the ship's weapons system to the maximum.

The traps were already laid down without any of the pirates noticing that they were marching to their certain doom, creating only a small pathway for a few of them to cross, which would be defended even more...

Like the three hundred spartans defended Thermopyles from the Persian Emperor and his army, Samiel and his Knights and Priests would defend their position at all costs and massacre anyone who dared to board their ship.

The Templar Knights were already finished stretching out the defenses and right now, most of them were around the cannons and shooting at the incoming pirate fleet, while the Priests of the Ecclesiarchy were casting Spell after Spell.

Targeting the Airships high in the air because it was a bigger threat than the naval vessels on the ocean. The anti-aircraft defenses were already working fully and were shooting literarily non-stop.

Samiel's Undead also joined the defenses as he summoned hundreds of Bronze-Tier Undead, together with his Higher Undead, that were doing their job in defending the ship against pirates.

This continued for some time, but even due to the enormous losses that the pirates were getting from the battleship, they were not stopping their attack. When their the naval vessels of the pirates were close enough, Samiel grinned as he gave the order to activate the "gift".

Fortunately, the airships of the pirates were forced to halt their advance due to the enormous losses temporarily they were suffering from the Anti-Aircraft Mana Cannons and Spell Casters on the ship.

Instantaneously, at a diameter of three hundred meters away from the ship, everything exploded in enormous explosions, taking down with it tens of pirate ships that were near and severely damaging more than a hundred.

Everything around the battleship turned into a flaming inferno as Samiel got an influx of more than ten thousand souls instantaneously.

Not only that but all that smoke and ash created an enormous cloud above them, essentially crippling the movement ability of the airships that were hovering above them. They were forced to retreat even further away from the cloud of ash and smoke.

"Launch the second wave!"

Samiel shouted the orders, as everyone knew what to do, as they started the second wave of a counter-offensive against the pirates. Using every bit of ammunition, they had in their disposition to give their enemy hell.

Suddenly as they were counterattacking from the smoke and ash, one enormous ship appeared among the pirate fleet, which Samiel recognized as the flagship of the pirate king...