Red Ocean

Its unique appearance alone is enough to tell that it is different from others. Its huge body is five or six meters tall, and its body is covered with golden jasmine. Its key parts are also covered with heavy armor. Dozens of sharks three or four meters long surround it, and it seems that it is driving those sea beasts to come up and die.

Slaval Crimson Scale (Naga Shark Lord), a high-level BOSS template, level 47, with 560,000 HP.

Numerically speaking, he is even stronger than Xiao Yu.

Azathoth (Water Elemental Prince): "Hey, you lot, stop standing around! If my army suffers too many casualties, I'm not going to risk crossing the Maelstrom to take down that shark rider!"

This was practically blatant coercion. Upon hearing this, the three players were indeed forced to comply. Xiao Yu was right; if Xiao Yu hadn't entered the Maelstrom, their investment would have been wasted. Moreover, the reputation points from a high-level BOSS were indeed worth the risk.

"Attention everyone, charge with me!"

The frost giant Typhon, leading his ice golems, Charge. These elemental creatures, made of ice, possessed sturdy forms; their arms were adorned with sharp blades formed from ice, easily piercing the bodies of sea beasts. The sea beasts' teeth and claws, however, had little effect on the ice golems' hard bodies. As the ice golems and sea beasts clashed, the sea Elemental Lords Monari and the Water Elemental elder Kukuker also joined the attack.

These three forces, spearheaded by the ice elemental army and commanded by three skeleton-level bosses, were like a sharp sword, easily piercing through the Naga's formation and rushing directly towards the Shark Lord, immediately drawing away a large portion of the enemy.

Xiao Yu seized the opportunity to stabilize the formation.

Azathoth (Water Elemental Prince): "Advance slowly, maintain formation, keep firing! Don't stop the Frostbolt, don't stop, keep shooting!"

Azathoth (Water Elemental Prince): "Those without elemental power, retreat and recover! Those in the back, push forward, push forward!"

Azathoth (Water Elemental Prince): "Sairen, tell your priests not to attack! Leave the attacking to the elementals. You all cast healing spells! Song of the Ocean! Power of the Tides! Ice Armor!"

Xiao Yu kept issuing orders. Thanks to his experience playing real-time strategy games and his experience with large-scale wars in the Sky World, the battle situation gradually reversed in their favor. He kept maneuvering his troops, replacing old troops with new ones to ensure continuous firepower output, and retreating the wounded troops to the rear to regroup. He managed to withstand the Naga army's continuous attacks.

In battles between melee and ranged units, prolonged engagements can easily lead to attrition if the enemy cannot gain the upper hand. This was the case with the Naga army before them. As numerous Naga Warrior were killed and the sea turned red, the enemy's offensive gradually showed signs of fatigue. However, the Naga army was numerous and fearless, and they continued to hold on. Just as Xiao Yu was hesitating whether to unleash a powerful attack, a system notification sounded.

System notification: In the year 1375 of the Azure Age, under the command of Azathoth, the sea Elemental Lords Monari, the Water Elemental elder Kukuker, and the frost giant Typhon joined forces to kill Slava Crimsonscale (Naga Shark Master). You have gained 163 reputation points.

(Hehe, not bad, not bad, being a leader is really great), Xiao Yu felt a surge of secret pleasure upon hearing the system notification.

Although he didn't actually participate in the kill, because he was the commander of this story event and gave the order to kill Slava Crimsonscale (Naga Shark Lord), the system would determine that Xiao Yu was also a participant in the kill, and naturally he would receive a reputation bonus.

With their commander eliminated, the Naga's offensive immediately became chaotic, with some even fleeing. Some Naga officers tried to regroup, others attempted to request instructions from their superiors, and still others simply led their troops in a retreat. Taking advantage of this brief moment of chaos, Xiao Yu seized the opportunity.

Azathoth (Water Elemental Prince): "Player Legion —no, I mean Volunteer Legion, move out! All forces, disperse and attack the enemy!"

The players who had been suppressed for so long suddenly swarmed out. They weren't afraid of dying anyway, so why wait to reap the experience and reputation points?

He immediately engaged in a chaotic battle with the Naga army, unleashing a barrage of Frost Nova attacks. Taking advantage of the situation, Xiao Yu recounted the strength of his Water Elemental Legion and sea Elemental Legion. Although the battle had been intense, due to proper command, he had only lost a little over two hundred men, though many were wounded or severely injured, making up almost two-thirds of the entire army.

Now it's time for the final blow.

Water Priestess, Sea Priestess, and Ice Priestess—these three types of priests differ only in their offensive and defensive spells, but they share a common skill: Light of the Elements. This skill is only effective on elemental creatures. It can fuse with surrounding elements to repair the body of a damaged elemental creature, essentially functioning as Heal. It only works on elemental creatures, but its healing effect is much higher than that of ordinary healing spells.

This skill is also key to this battle.

Azathoth (Water Elemental Prince): "All priests, unleash your Light of the Elements! Start by healing those who are about to die! Heal as much as you can, until you've used up all your elemental power!"

For an army of three thousand elementals, these few dozen priests were not many. They exhausted all their elemental power and only managed to restore most of the elemental creatures' health to over 80%, but that was enough.

Azathoth (Water Elemental Prince): "Alright, Sairen, you stay behind with your priests to heal! Wotkud, Ximeng, take your minions and advance! Keep the firepower coming!"

The thousands of elemental troops advanced once again, this time at a much faster pace. The Naga were completely powerless to stop them. Caught in the melee with the player Legion, they couldn't break the formation effectively, and more and more fled, or were riddled with holes by the dense Frostbolt.

As the sea beasts that had served as cannon fodder gradually died out, the Naga witches began to retreat in droves. With a pull from the Naga witches, the Naga Warrior also turned and fled in disarray.

Azathoth (Water Elemental Prince): "All sirens, pursue! Army, continue the advance! Big Water Cunt, gather your men, we still have a battle to fight."

After Xiao Yu finished speaking, he glanced around the battlefield.

The surrounding seawater was now completely dyed red, resembling a crimson ocean. The corpses of dead Naga and sea beasts floated everywhere. Elemental creatures, however, turned directly into water upon death, so there seemed to be no casualties. Only slightly disorganized formations proved that a number of troops had indeed been lost.