No High Walls on the Storm Sea (Super Large Chapter, Please Vote)

The rolling waves crashed against the harbor reefs, making crisp sounds beneath the night sky.

"Watch out!"

The Red Haired Woman shouted low and looked back at the Dragon Rider Fighter pursuing them at low altitude.

She raised her hand, and a pitch-black dagger shot out instantly, piercing through the Dragon Rider Fighter.

Boom—

As flames and the thunderous roar of the fighter's explosion erupted behind them, she grabbed Vili beside her and turned into a deeper alleyway.

Falling snow drifted through the gaps between rusted shacks, landing on the two women's hair and shoulders.

"Are you familiar with this place?"

Vili glanced at the dilapidated shacks around them, then looked up at the Dragon Rider Fighters approaching in the distance.

"I grew up here,"

Laina shrugged, wiped the mud from her cheek, and looked back at the Dragon Rider Fighters in the sky. "These mercenaries are like hyenas. Their noses are way too sharp. They actually managed to track us here."

She lowered her head and looked at Vili beside her. "They've been on our trail for too long. That mercenary group's B-rank might already be on its way. We need to leave immediately."

"Okay!"

Vili nodded quickly.

Her gaze swept over the surrounding shacks. Through the gaps in the rusted shanties, pairs of withered eyes hid in the darkness, watching them.

"Commander."

A loose military overcoat had been draped over a man whose entire body was charred black.

The man raised a hand, took a loose cotton cap, and pulled it over his half-bald, half-burned hair.

"Fuck, don't let me find out who fired that cannon."

"Commander, your cigar."

A mercenary beside him wiped the sweat from his brow and handed the man a lit cigar.

The man's charred lips split apart, revealing snow-white teeth. He clenched