"Mom, what just happened?"
Baron Tamago panted in alarm. Even he could not stay entirely calm in the face of a devastating move like Raigo. Yet the sense of danger had vanished in an instant, leaving no trace. Unless Charlotte Linlin had intervened, he could not believe Loa would have stopped on his own.
"Hmph! He thought a little lightning could sink my Whole Cake Island? Ignorant fool!"
Charlotte Linlin summoned Zeus, the Thundercloud, back and slowly rose from her seat. "Come. Let's go outside."
Sink Whole Cake Island?
Baron Tamago swallowed hard, then hurriedly answered and followed her out of the hall.
"Fire! Don't let them reach the beach!"
Under the officers' orders, the Chess Soldiers rapidly loaded and fired their cannons. A dense barrage of black cannonballs blotted out the sunlight. Even the smaller Ice Wolf Knights, let alone large targets like ships, would each have to withstand at least three shots.
The guns carried by a few sailing ships could never match the carefully prepared firepower on shore. Simon had anticipated that, which was why he had deployed the Ice Wolf Cavalry.
Undead Soldiers rode Ice Wolves swiftly across the sea, nimbly dodging the cannon fire coming at them. Even when an unlucky rider was hit, the Ice Wolf beneath him could take the blow instead.
The bombardment from the coast did not stop their advance. On the contrary, no matter how intense it grew, the Ice Wolf Cavalry kept closing in.
At the cost of less than a tenth of their number, they reached the soft Sandy Beach. What followed was a glorious slaughter.
"Charge!"
"Kill them all!"
The agile Undead Soldiers and their nimble Ice Wolves butchered the coastal artillery crews, leaving them no chance to mount an effective counterattack. The Undead Legion tore through