Sudden Battle

'At sea, as long as they had somewhere to land, those Griffon Cavalry were invincible.'

Great Mage Greimus stood at the bow of Magic Airship Thirteen, raising a staff high with both hands as he loudly chanted an incantation...

Behind Great Mage Greimus appeared a Water Elemental over ten meters tall. Behind it stood the gate to the Elemental World, where countless Ice Elementals poked their heads out. The frigid wind they blew formed a massive column-shaped vortex.

Driven by that vortex, an enormous whirlpool over two kilometers in diameter formed above the two Magic Airships.

The vortex churned the clouds overhead, drawing them continuously inward.

Snowflakes began to condense in the sky and drift down onto the sea, only to vanish without a trace.

But the snow landing on the Imperial Merchant ships began to accumulate slowly, turning the vessels into a world of ice and snow.

Sabrina stood on the deck of an Imperial Merchant ship with a group of Half-Elf guards, receiving the Half-Elves from aboard. The Half-Elves who ran out of the cabins were almost all disheveled, scantily dressed, and shivering as they crossed the deck and ran onto the Three-Masted Sailboat.

It was clear these Half-Elves had suffered terribly aboard the Imperial Merchant ship.

A Half-Elf woman held a little girl in her arms and led an older child by the hand. With dark circles beneath her eyes, her legs weak and unsteady, she still gritted her teeth as she emerged from below deck and ran with the crowd toward the Three-Masted Sailboat.

When the older elf child stepped onto the gangplank, the ships rocked violently, and he slipped and fell.

The Half-Elf woman screamed in terror while clutching the little girl.

Fortunately, a rope ladder had been spread beneath the gangplank...

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