Looking at the enormous iceberg several hundred meters away, Kazna thought for a long time before deciding to split her forces. "This could be a plot by those beasts. Desanka, take your people around from the other side and inspect the iceberg while you're at it!"
The High-Rank mermaid named Desanka nodded, then waved a hand and led 200 merfolk toward the southeast.
"Phew! May the sea's might prevail! May Your Majesty protect your people!" Kazna whispered. Then she led the remaining 300 merfolk southwest.
For merfolk, a hundred-meter iceberg was only a few minutes away. When Kazna had just rounded the side of it, she was still a little nervous. But once she saw the far end, her mood gradually improved. An iceberg barely a hundred meters long wasn't really worth splitting up her forces over.
Feeling the cold current flowing from the iceberg, Kazna and the four High-Rank merfolk following her sped up without hesitation. But just after they passed the iceberg and joined the three High-Rank merfolk on the other side, she suddenly realized that fewer than twenty of her people had caught up. All the other merfolk had been left on the iceberg's western side.
A closer look revealed countless Sea Beastmen surging out from beneath the iceberg and clashing with the merfolk. The sea beasts' tactics were simple: they picked their opponents and slammed the merfolk against the iceberg's side. The iceberg's flank, over a hundred meters long and dozens of meters high, had become a battleground where the two sides grappled for dominance.
"No!" Kazna cried out in shock. "Hurry and support them!"
Ordinarily, two merfolk warriors could completely overpower a burly Sea Beastman in the bone-chilling water. That was why Kazna had been so eager to attack: if the numbers of the sea