Outside Beastfort, that garbage-heap city of the fishmen, players kept arriving and joining the battle against the enemy like sparks catching fire. Together, they made quite a force. With Murphy and his Hades Guard holding the front line like nails hammered into place to meet the fishmen's charge, the commanders had plenty of time to deploy their forces.
Once the savage fishmen failed to break through the players' defenses in their first wave, they had little chance of ever tasting victory. After thirty minutes of fierce fighting, reinforcements from beyond the Gray Trench finally reached the underwater battlefield.
Lady Hood had come in person!
Of course, the governor had courage, but her combat abilities were quite ordinary. She had come here mainly to boost morale. The one truly holding up the sky was Lady Bichuca, former "pope" of the Kingdom of Atlantis.
Riding her armored octopus war-beast, the lady charged in like lightning. She swung her Storm Scepter and summoned a vast deep-sea whirlpool, scattering the Dagon spawn advancing on the merfolk lines. Then she cast the Colossal Rock Secret Art, sending an invisible summons rippling outward with the currents. Before long, a low, desolate roar sounded from the edges of the killing waters.
To the astonished cries of players who were enthusiastically clashing weapons with fishmen, three ferocious white whale sharks swayed into the battlefield from three different directions, like savage beasts from the dawn of time.
These creatures had bodies like orcas and the intelligence of tiger sharks. They knew exactly how to hunt together. The moment Lady Bichuca called them over, they became the merfolk's "breakthrough vanguard," leading the sea beasts raised by the merfolk on a rampage through the whole Beastfort region.
Watching the three whale sharks' ferocity, Murphy, striking a pose on the front line,