With Xia Nan, Alton, and the two Elite Adventurer teams, "Raging Waves War Gang" and "Windforged," joining the fight, the situation on the dock, which had been tilting toward the Shahua Mermen, was instantly pulled back.
As a bard favored by the Goddess of Fortune, Shorty's role on a battlefield of this scale went without saying. After helping Lorraine behead the Murloc Commander, Xia Nan dove straight beneath the waves. Just as before, he broke through the Guards' defenses and slew the Priest Spellcasters one after another.
This not only eased the pressure on the adventurers, who had been fighting separately under the Murlocs' assault and struggling to form a united front, but also greatly boosted the morale of their side.
The veterans' strength and their combat instincts as adventurers finally came into play as the rhythm of the battlefield gradually fell under control.
In a little over ten minutes, every Shahua Merman that had reached the dock had been slaughtered.
"Whew—whew—"
A mixture of blood and sweat slowly dripped along the lines etched by the tattoos on his skin, splashing onto the deck in murky, pale-red flowers.
Barbarian Aken was panting heavily. His eyes, slightly dazed from overexertion after the battle, stared blankly ahead. The enormous anchor-shaped axe blade rested against the ground, while his right hand, clenched around the Axe Handle, trembled faintly.
Before him lay a hideous Shark Beast that was completely dead, its body covered in wounds.
As a powerful monster summoned by the Murlocs, the huge beast that had leaped onto the deck had single-handedly withstood the combined assault of the Oath of Vengeance Blades' Crew Members.
Although most of the core Crew Members were still weakened after leaving the Secret Realm, the wound in the center of Barbarian Aken's chest that continued to seep