"Fire!!!"
At the command, more than twenty Navy warships opened fire at once. The fierce barrage almost instantly blanketed the sky above the entire port town.
Seeing this, Magnus, who was fighting Kong and Seabas, grimaced.
"Kong, you actually ordered an attack on civilians!?"
Magnus roared. Although he had long since had the Black Heart Pirates help evacuate the civilians, leaving only a group of utterly vile pirates in the port town.
Kong did not know that!
Hearing Magnus's voice, Kong froze, even halting his attack.
"Eliot!!!"
Kong roared toward the warships.
"Who gave the order to bombard them?"
Over the years, Kong had risen to become a candidate for Fleet Admiral through intelligence gathered on Sphinx. He understood Sphinx even better than Magnus did.
Sphinx was not large.
Its diameter was less than thirty kilometers, and its permanent population was under three hundred thousand. Resources were scarce here, and pirates ran rampant. If not for Magnus's appearance, this country would have collapsed more than a decade ago.
There were indeed plenty of scum in the Navy. Some even looked down on civilians, only helping drive away pirates because it was their duty.
They treated ordinary civilians that way, let alone civilians from non-government Affiliated Nations who were not even residents of Affiliated Nations.
But not every Navy officer was like that.
For example, Kong believed that most pirates were beyond redemption, but he would never order an attack on civilians just to capture pirates.
They captured pirates to protect civilians.
If they attacked civilians in order to capture pirates, would that not be putting the cart before the horse?
Even civilians from non-Affiliated Nations deserved human rights!
"Kong, don't space out!"
Taking advantage of Kong's attention being drawn elsewhere, Magnus, who had been getting beaten down for quite some