Under the pitch-black night sky, Gray Dwarves on the deck were pierced through by Short Flying Spears falling from above, collapsing one after another onto the overcrowded deck. Some Gray Dwarves were packed so tightly into the crowd that they could not even fall over. Blood gushed continuously from their bodies, throwing the Gray Dwarves on deck into even greater chaos.
The Gray Dwarves who had not been struck by the Short Flying Spears scrambled to take cover beside the Ship Building and inside the bow storage hold.
Some quick-witted Gray Dwarf warriors even snatched up Dwarf Chain Shields hanging from the walls. Others fought to grab Magic Firearms, rushing to the top of the Ship Building and the mast crossbeams to fire into the fog-shrouded, pitch-black night sky.
Streams of flame shot into the air. By the light they cast, the Gray Dwarf warriors saw griffons streaking through the night beyond the mist, with even hazier figures on their backs. Those figures were the ones throwing Short Flying Spears from high above.
The Gray Dwarf warriors aboard the Three-Masted Sailboat tried to lift the rain covers over the cannons concealed along the edge of the deck, but the cannon mounts could not be raised high enough to fire into the sky.
A group of Gray Dwarf warriors raised their chain shields and moved in front of the bow-mounted ballista. The Three-Masted Sailboat had been equipped with this ballista to fire rope-tethered bolts. Once such bolts struck an enemy ship, they could quickly pull the two sailboats together.
They fired a rope-tethered bolt into the sky, but the night was too dark, and the griffons flew too high. Even at its highest point, the bolt could not reach the griffons' altitude. It could not harm them at all...
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