A Little Intoxicating

Blazing, pale, resplendent light erupted from the Magic Floating Warships above!

Massive pulses of radiation exploded layer by layer, blasting across this stretch of sea.

And beneath that pale death ray,

the infected on the islands stiffened in place as though they had encountered their natural predators. The sickly green infection patterns on their bodies lost their vivid color and vitality; vast swathes of infected across the islands turned incomparably dim, as if struck by petrification rays.

The pale death rays continued pouring forth,

and the tremendous vibrations stirred up gust after gust of wind.

The surviving infected ran about wildly, smashing apart the petrified infected that had endured the saturated death-ray bombardment!

Once the initial chaos passed, they finally noticed the Magic Floating Warships in the sky. Roaring furiously, they leaped toward the heavens, trying to bring down the warships overhead.

It looked rather stupid.

After all, they could not fly...

Well,

some of them could.

Some powerful Siren Fishmen actually stirred up waves and charged into the sky! Their strength was precisely why the pale death rays had failed to kill them.

But they were not in much better condition. Whenever a threat drew near, the other ship cannons aboard the Magic Floating Warships locked onto the target through their internal sensor-targeting systems. One artillery blast sent them plummeting from the skies, the immense shock making them vomit blood again and again.

Then another pale death ray finished the job.

They did not use psionic Light Cannons because psionic strikes were far less effective against these infected than kinetic strikes.

The pale death rays were particle-based kinetic strike weapons.

After several rounds of death-ray sweeps, the surrounding sea had fallen completely silent.

Forget the infected,

even many of the birds and fish in the surrounding waters had died.