"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"
Terrifying thunder shot out with a boom from the five Longships, falling upon the white beach and blasting stones and sand into the sky! This was the dignified thunder of the Main God, descending for the first time upon the vast northern lands to punish the enemies who resisted!
"Kill the invaders!... Uh!... Ah?!..."
And a dozen paces away, the Tribal warriors who had been bristling with murderous force and shouting for blood instantly fell silent, like a flock of water ducks quacking merrily only to have their necks suddenly seized! Then, as flying stones and sand came splashing over with fierce force, the crowd gathered on the shore let out terrified howls.
"Ah! What is this? Thunder! Thunder!"
"Ancestors! Thunder shot out from the Longships! They have evil thunder spirits!"
"It's Thunderbird! Thunderbird! They came from the sea, they must be descendants of the Thunderbird goddess! They've come to take revenge on the descendants of the forest!..."
The Longships' attack did not pause at all. After one round of cannon fire came a volley of arcing arrows. More than a hundred Kingdom warriors drew their great bows together and loosed a high flight of Feathered Arrows toward the shore where figures surged and ran in chaos!
"Aim, shoot the Totem Pole! The Main God blesses us!"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
More than a hundred fierce arrows let out a soul-seizing shriek, passed over the terrified and panicked Tribal warriors, and slanted down beside the Totem Pole on the shore. The sharp yet cheap Bone Arrows sank into the soft sand, almost two inches deep!
"Tiger-Crouching Cannons, fire! The Main God blesses us!"
"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"
The chaos on the shore continued, and thunder from the sea kept exploding, landing beside the terrified and flustered