On the morning of the third day after the island siege ended, the players' eleven airships took off together, carrying fully armed warriors to the waters occupied by the fishmen.
Eight of Pablo's pirate ships were still blockading and providing support on the surface, while the roaming priests of the Colossal Rock Temple joined forces to raise the waves and alter the currents, cutting off the fishmen's escape to the open sea. The Tidehunter Avengers were ready to charge straight into the fishmen's lair and crush the filthy creatures once and for all.
The preparations for this assault hadn't originally been expected to finish so quickly. After all, the Colossal Rock Temple had suffered heavy losses in the previous battles. But now that Li Ji, a true big shot, was secretly backing them, the temple's preparations for an attack on the underwater fishmen's lair had naturally moved into full swing.
Though Mannis had sealed Li Ji and reduced all her attributes to 30%, leaving her able to wield at most a third of a demigod's strength, she still had her gift for controlling wind and rain. With the newly ascended Rain Princess dragonkin Liwen helping her, the spells cast by these two "little dragon goddesses" were more than enough to disperse the endless storm blanketing the waters.
The fishmen clan still had no new Chosen of Dagon. Faced with this aggressive assault, the fishmen entrenched among the reefs below had no authority to negotiate. They had no choice but to fight.
But they had little chance of winning.
For one thing, they'd already suffered heavy losses attacking the Colossal Rock Temple's outpost. For another, more than half of this fishmen clan were currently on land in the northern part of the Genoa Peninsula, helping the gnolls attack the goldenrod army.