Red Storm

Book 4-8.4

Thriger was watching the team fix up the damages by the fire as he started to get angry all over again. The ships were in pristine condition prior to this attack.

How cool was it to see that slick body cut through the sand with the wind behind its sails? It angered Thriger to see the bulky patches on the slick body of his beloved ship.

Only ship people know just how much love a captain has for his ship.

“I will destroy those bastards.”

Thriger confirmed his thoughts once more before taking another look at the ships that were being fixed. He then guided the team about what needed to be done before riling up the crew.

By the time the pain in his shoulder started to fade away, the ships were pretty much done being fixed as well.

Thriger called the captains of the other ships to report to him before closing his eyes for a moment and processing everything he had been thinking about until now.

The arrows, Mult-Arrow, and the 20,000 warriors from the Large Oasis to use those weapons. Most importantly, the enemy was not knowledgeable about ships at all. They wouldn’t know anything about the direction of the flowing sand or even about how to properly use the wind to their advantage.

If they did, they would not have retreated after sinking just one ship in the last battle.

‘How should I get my revenge?”

Thriger had full confidence that he would win. It was obvious. There was no way he could lose to a bunch of amateurs when he had a total of 11 ships under his command. Absolutely impossible.

It would be fine to use a direct attack or even to be sly and trick them. What he was thinking about was how he could snap the enemy’s morale in half and make sure they would never step foot in this quicksand river ever again.

That was extremely important to Thriger.

‘The number of enemies from last time was around 20,000. Hmm...it would be difficult to get rid of them all at once.’

Thriger was thinking about the thousands of small ships from the last attack. He had determined that it would be impossible to sweep them all at once with his brigade’s fire power.

With so many boats being spread out far and wide, using the Mult-Arrow and arrows would not be enough.

‘......!’

It was at that moment that a thought rushed through Thriger’s head.

“Right. The enemy is an extremely small boat. Yes, extremely small boats indeed.”

“Muhahahahahahahaha.”

Thriger suddenly let out a loud laugh.

The other captains had been gathering after receiving Thriger’s message to come over. All of them just sat there in confusion at Thriger’s continued laughter. They could only stare at him and wait.

Once all of the captains had gathered, Thriger suddenly stopped laughing and looked toward the captains before starting to speak.

“Is everybody here?”

“Yes, captain.”

As one captain responded as the representative, Thriger looked around at all of them before asking a question.

“Are you angry?”

“......”

“Hmm? You’re not angry?”

As the captains remained silent at his question, Thriger asked again in surprise.

Griiiiiiind.

There still was no answer. Instead, all he could hear was the grinding of teeth. They seemed to be embarrassed that they were defeated without being able to do anything about it.

“Stop grinding your teeth and answer me.”

Even the eleven lead warriors were grinding their teeth. This was especially true about the warrior who had been the captain of the destroyed Ship 6. Just how much must he have been thinking about this since the attack? His face was no longer the same shape.

“I am angry and full of resentment. That was not a fight.”

The captain of Ship 6 answered with an expression that clearly seemed to indicate he was holding his anger back.

Snap.

Thriger snapped his finger before continuing on.

“You are right. That was not a fight. That is why we need to return the favor in the exact same way. All of you must remember how much interest the Glow has on this upcoming battle.”

“Yes, captain.”

Seeing the captains respond in a vigorous voice, Thriger pushed forward the arrow that he had been holding in his hand.

“You should know how much money the tribe is pouring into us. Precious steel is being used to make our arrows that we use once and do not retrieve. The Glow even mentioned that we can use everything we have in this upcoming battle.”

Thriger stopped for a moment before continuing on.

After being a commander for a very long time, he knew when to stop and when to continue. This was one of the things that made Thriger a great captain.

“There is no way for us to lose.”

Thriger shrugged both of his shoulders, opened up both of his palms and started to speak in a joking tone. This made the other captains confused for a moment.

He had been building up the suspense before suddenly making such a funny action. But that confusion was only for a moment. Thriger’s actions made the captains forget about the dark rain clouds that were filling their minds and automatically start to smile.

“Captain, you are correct.”

“The enemy has fed us water. If that’s the case, shouldn’t we capture the bastards that fed us water and make them choke on sand?”

“Absolutely, Captain!”

“Alright then. Let’s go make them choke on sand and even feed a couple arrows to the ones that have itchy assholes. [1] If their asshole is full of shit so one arrow is not enough, then...well…, I guess an extra shot from the Volley Star should be enough to clear their ass.”

“We are ready to go, Captain.”

Thriger put on a satisfied smile before turning around to head to his ship.

“Then let’s go. We need to return the favor.”

TO BE CONTINUED

Author’s Note - As Book 4 comes to an end

After having a lot of trouble with the story not going right in the middle, Book 4 is finally finished. ^0^

‘I want to show something exhilarating this time!’ Rather than something like that, I was focused on the different individuals’ and their stories, as well as setting the scene for the story that would be shared in Book 5 as well as the ending. I think I managed to show a couple different scenes related to that in this book.

Personally, I am deeply troubled at the fact that it is not entertaining for me to see any of the side characters moving around other than Venersis.

It is for that reason that I have high expectations for Violet.

I wanted a stronger character in my mind, and with Yulian tied down by the title of Glow which prevents him from taking certain actions, I wanted another individual who was full of charisma.

I want to thank Yujung noo-nim who is always working hard to catch my typos and errors with character names. [2]

I also wanted to thank all of the readers who have read until the end of Book 4. I hope that you will continue with me on this journey for two more books.

I will work hard to become a better writer and to make Red Storm a bit better.

Sincerely,

Noh Cyungchan, August 2006~!

Translator Thoughts - As Book 4 Comes to an End

We are 2/3 of the way done with the Series! Just Book 5 and Book 6 left as we come to the end of Red Storm. Thank you all for sticking with me so far and I hope that you continue to join me on this adventure.

As of this moment when I write this, I have not read any of Book 5. As mentioned before, I personally do not like reading too far ahead so that the story remains a suspense for me as well (although I ended up binging Book 4 once the action started to pick up ^.^’ )

Let’s see what the author has in store for us for the upcoming two books!

Miraclerifle out!

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[1] Not...sure about the equivalent metaphor so just left it as is...

[2] This lady might be why it is now consistently War God of the East compared to before.