Facing the dark gun muzzles and heavy ballistae, Pluton · Fearless drove its massive keel through the heaving waves, charging at full speed through the shattered gateway.
"Full speed ahead! Ram straight through!"
Lorne stood beside the heavy bow cannon, his black-and-gold cloak whipping wildly as he slashed his hand forward.
"Yes, sir!"
Ryan shoved down the warship's main acceleration lever, and the high-temperature Magma Circuits in the engine room roared furiously.
Amid the roar, Pluton · Fearless swept forward with raging winds, forcibly shoving aside the ten-thousand-ton bronze wreckage floating on the sea.
The wave-breaking armor plates along both sides of the warship threw up walls of white spray nearly a hundred meters high, like a steel behemoth charging headlong.
"Fire! Fire now!"
On the steel defensive embankment, the Marine frontline commander drew the sword at his waist and roared himself hoarse.
"Seastone armor-piercing ballistae, target the enemy ship's bow! Do not let them approach the harbor!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Thousands of specially made heavy Seastone ballistae belched acrid clouds of gunpowder smoke. Dense black specks swept across the bay like a rainstorm, hammering down on the charging Fearless.
"Protect the flagship!"
Denjiro leaped into the air, his twin swords becoming two ribbonlike streaks of silver.
"Raiu Style: Thousand-Blade Slash!"
Fierce slashing waves interwove in the air into an impenetrable net of blades, cutting the incoming Seastone bolts into a sky full of metal shavings.
Kuina also drew Wado Ichimonji, and Ryuo Haki instantly wrapped around its blade.
"Supreme Art: Startling Swan!"
A blue-green sword beam a hundred meters long tore through the sky, meeting several special explosive shells flying toward the port side head-on.
Boom!
Huge orange-red fireballs erupted in midair, their heat sending vast clouds of white mist steaming off the sea.
Yet the firepower on the