After dealing with the Triarchy raiding parties that had tried to board their ships, the Holy Flame Fleet finally reached its preferred firing range.
Cameron took out his telescope and carefully surveyed the battle before him. With wildfire preventing the two fleets from closing in, both sides could only achieve results by launching surprise attacks from the flanks.
Meanwhile, the Great Dragon Quicksilver used the thickening smoke as cover as he unleashed dragonfire wildly throughout the Kingdom of the Three Daughters Fleet, leaving them in utter misery.
Although the Kingdom of the Three Daughters Fleet had prepared plenty of dragon-slaying measures, they had overlooked one fact: no Great Dragon would simply wait around to be slaughtered.
Moreover, an adult Great Dragon's scales rivaled the toughest armor. Their so-called dragon-slaying weapons could injure a dragon, but unless they struck a vital spot, they could not inflict a fatal wound.
Thus, whether it was their Iron Hedgehogs, their Scorpions, or the wildfire they had obtained from who knew where, these weapons posed a considerable threat to Quicksilver, yet still found it difficult to hurt him.
The telescope in Cameron's hand had been developed by Holy Flame's glassworkers based on the Citadel's Astronomical Telescope.
It was now a strictly controlled item on Holy Flame Island, and public notices had been posted on Holy Flame Island, in King's Landing and Oldtown, and throughout the Stepstones.
Holy Flame Island held permanent patent rights to this new type of telescope. Anyone who privately researched or manufactured it would face severe punishment from Holy Flame Island.
As more and more useful inventions emerged from Holy Flame Island, Danyla had begun instilling the concept of patents in its people.
A social contract clearly could not take shape in a short time, so for now, she could only enforce