Battle

Upon the sea, a bronze-colored illusory door covered in mysterious patterns and filled with an indescribable stench abruptly swung open. Vast amounts of black mist spread out from within, like countless outstretched hands dragging every person and object they could touch toward the doorway.

On the flagship, the King's Blade, of the Fourth Fleet under the King of Immortality, the fleet commander known as the Gray Giant, Gravina, frowned deeply at the sight.

Gravina stood over 2.1 meters tall, with an unhealthy grayish-white complexion. At first glance, he looked like a corpse.

He was only in his thirties, yet he had long since lost all his hair. To conceal that fact, Gravina deliberately wore a blue-and-white naval officer's cap.

"Admiral, the Giant Claw and the Sharp Fang have sent word. They have activated their steam engines, but they still cannot break free from the inexplicable pull," a pirate came over to report at that moment.

Gravina had once served in Feysac's regular navy, so out of habit, he had always had his subordinates address him as Admiral.

"This should be the effect of a ritual spell..." Gravina stared at the illusory door for a moment before reaching a conclusion. He turned to the pirate who had just reported and ordered,

"Have Chester and Angelo prepare for battle. Calibrate every cannon. Once we are dragged into the effective range of the black mist, immediately bombard the nearby reefs and small islands!

"Before that, I'll go test the capabilities of that strange man blocking our path!"

With that, Gravina, the Gray Giant, controlled the King's Blade and gave up resisting the pulling force. The ship surged forward for quite some distance before its engines were restarted and it came to a stop.

Standing at the bow, he raised his head toward the