The commander's death had dealt a tremendous blow to the morale of all the Shahua Mermen on the battlefield.
Many of the Murloc Minions who had originally fought bravely against the weakened adventurers under the commander's encouragement, along with some of the Elite Guards, had lost much of their fighting spirit. They seemed to have lost their backbone.
The situation, which had been reversed in an instant when the commander came ashore, once again began tilting toward the adventurers' side.
This was entirely predictable.
After all, to some extent, the existence of a Murloc Commander had always been a not-so-obvious double-edged sword.
A Murloc colony with such an elite individual could display the discipline and coordination of a large-scale army of intelligent creatures, combining the strength of the minions, guards, and priests to unleash power far beyond what they could normally achieve.
But if the commander was decapitated, the morale that had been boosted by its existence would also suffer a backlash, causing the entire Shahua Merman colony under its command to sink into a bleak, dispirited atmosphere.
With that as the premise, after Xia Nan charged through them with Tooth Hunt imbued with the Feat [Night Mother's Gaze], they immediately lost their will to fight and collapsed completely.
They could bring out less than half their usual combat strength. Some were strangled to death by the adventurers working together, while others let out shrill cries and fled back into the sea in disgrace.
In less than ten minutes, the battlefield that had just been filled with a tense atmosphere no longer had a single Shahua Merman left who could still draw breath.
With a casual flourish of his sword, Xia Nan shook off the glowing blue blood staining the Grey-Black Straight Sword. He took gauze from his robes and