After casually tossing the noble girl out of the way into the cabin below deck, Renato bent down and picked up the heavy harpoon the merfolk had just thrown.
The corroded head was covered in red rust from seawater, but its barbs and weight still gave the harpoon its crude lethality.
As the merfolk charged at him with piercing shrieks, he drew his arm sharply back, moving so fast that an ordinary person could barely catch the afterimage, and hurled it straight at them!
Driven by the swordsman's strength, the heavy harpoon tore through the air with a shrill whistle and plunged straight into the chest of the foremost sahuagin!
Even a shot to the eye from a light matchlock had struggled to penetrate that body, yet the high-speed harpoon easily punched through its supple, scaled hide, its tip shattering the hard bones beneath.
Carrying fragments of shattered breastbone and organs, the harpoon burst through the other side and pinned the sahuagin dead to the deck.
The merfolk's limbs jerked wildly in spasms, looking as ridiculous as a fish stranded on shore.
These sahuagin certainly are tenacious. Renato ignored the opponent felled by the harpoon and immediately took his sword in both hands. His upper arms tensed, his waist and hips twisted together, and the instant the hideous monsters lunged at him from every direction, he unleashed a perfect sweeping spin as though he had anticipated their every move!
The Silent Lady's blade traced a perfectly round arc of black light, shattering bone knives and splitting scales wherever it passed.
Several sahuagin were sliced cleanly apart. Some were severed at the waist, their upper bodies pitching forward; others were cleaved diagonally from shoulder to hip. The moment the blade left their bodies, blood and viscera sprayed out, staining the entire