Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
Huga! Huga!
As the stone shot flew wildly through the monster horde, a commotion broke out among the merman sea monsters.
This volley of stone shot alone took out at least thirty or so merman sea monsters.
That was only because the beach was soft, preventing the round stones from bouncing repeatedly. On ordinary muddy ground, the casualties would have increased by at least another half.
Huga! Huga!
The merman sea monsters had finally been enraged by the catapults' attack. The next moment, all six or seven hundred of them abandoned their original sluggish pace, raised their weapons of every kind, and began charging forward with rapid huga-huga cries.
"Reload the catapults with five scattershot rounds! Fire at will!" Vivian began issuing orders as well. Afterward, she turned her gaze toward the five ballistae at the side of the formation.
"Ballista squad, draw the strings and load the bolts!"
"Yes, drawing the strings and loading the bolts!"
Creak! Creak!
Amid the teeth-grinding sound of bowstrings being drawn, the five ballistae were loaded by the guards a few seconds later.
"Target the merman sea monsters. Fire!"
Bwoom! Bwoom! Bwoom!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
As the bowstrings thrummed, five terrifying giant bolts, each nearly 1.8 meters long, shot out and sped toward the charging merman sea monster horde.
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
A few breaths later, the five fearsome bolts bored into the merman sea monster horde in a flat trajectory.
In an instant, five straight lines of merrily huga-huga-ing merman sea monsters fell in heaps, like diced meat meeting bamboo skewers and being threaded directly into kebabs.
"Not bad, around twenty!" Nalant nodded in satisfaction. Sitting high up with a clear view, he accurately estimated how many merman sea monsters the ballistae had taken out in that round.
Although the