As the Legends set the tone for this war.
The stalled battlefield sprang into motion again.
The cannons on both sides roared once more. Unlike before, the warships no longer merely kept their distance and exchanged fire.
Instead, they began closing in on one another and fighting boarding battles.
On a battlefield of this scale, the sheer number of cannons magnified their power without limit, allowing them to tear an ordinary warship apart with ease.
Against warships with High-Tier Classholders aboard, however, they still failed to achieve anything.
Thus, even though the navy held the advantage in the artillery exchange, it now had no choice but to begin boarding battles to decide the outcome.
"Barbarossa, a powerful Fourth-Tier fighter has appeared on the eastern battlefield. Go stop him!"
"Tyler, take a few Fourth-Tier fighters west. There are several naval officers over there."
Lamantis's flagship remained safely in the rear, where he surveyed the whole situation and directed the battle through a communication device.
Every other Pirate King had been dispersed across the battlefield. Lamantis commanded from the center, while each Pirate King coordinated the pirates in their area.
By now, the fighting between the two sides was gradually reaching fever pitch. Fierce clashes between High-Tier Classholders broke out across the battlefield from time to time. Between them, the two sides had dozens of Fourth-Tier Classholders and over a hundred Third-Tier Professionals in this battle.
Classholders such as [Sea Kings] and [Weather Masters] acted again, and for a time, the entire stretch of sea turned violent.
This inevitably disrupted the naval fleet's formation as well. The main problem was that battles between High-Tier Classholders affected far too wide an area. Once High-Tier Classholders began fighting, both fleets had to detour around the area.
Otherwise, most of their warships would sink in