Under the ravages of the green Dragonfire, a total of six to seven thousand warriors from the four factions were mercilessly engulfed by the flames.
Most of them were reduced to ashes in their painful and desperate wails and struggles, with few remains left.
But as their lives ended, a warm power rapidly generated in the nearby sea, then continuously gathered towards the three Dragon Eggs that the Patriolius Family members were praying to.
At this time, the ship cabin they were in had become terrifyingly hot, but those immersed in devout prayer did not notice in the slightest.
Because during the prayer, a certain power in their blood was completely awakened, as if they had completely lost their self-awareness, fully immersed in the high-pitched chanting.
The terrifying Dragonfire had completely robbed the four factions of any courage to continue fighting.
At this moment, escaping with their lives from this Dragonfire, which was like a awakened devil, was the top priority.
After another hour, the dragon-green Dragonfire finally began to slowly extinguish.
However, at this time, fewer than a hundred surviving ships remained on the nearby sea, and most of them were already riddled with holes.
Augusta, who had luckily escaped with his life, looked at his slowly sinking ships from the deck, his heart turning cold.
That was his entire fortune, painstakingly earned over the past two years by traveling far to Asshai and the eastern coast of Sothoryos!
They were filled with gold, jewels, ivory, rhino horns, spices, silk, and various rare exotic beasts.
But now, besides his main flagship, only about twenty dilapidated Purple Fleet sailboats remained.
It was fortunate that he had not stored Dragonfire on his ships to make more room for treasures, which was why he was spared.
The Three-City Alliance army and the Stepstones pirates fared even worse; almost all of their attacking warships were scrapped.
Their three-party alliance managed to seize five or six Purple Fleet ships to escape, but the total number of survivors was only seven or eight hundred.
In the distance, Klahas Hadar was leading over twenty Three-City Alliance warships that had not participated in the battle, rapidly moving to rendezvous with the three-party allied ships.
Now that the battle had evolved into such a situation, all four sides had suffered heavy losses.
Therefore, everyone naturally no longer had the desire to continue fighting, but they still cautiously maintained their distance from each other.
There were still some survivors in the sea, so all four sides were fully engaged in rescuing their comrades who had jumped into the sea and were still alive.
However, the wind and waves and the storm on the sea were still very strong at this time, making their rescue efforts very difficult.
The most desperate were the surviving pirate leaders, as almost none of their ships had survived intact.
Who made their equipment the worst to begin with? And they had always been at the center of the battle; it was already a miracle that they were not completely wiped out.
On the contrary, the Patriolius Family Fleet, having kept thirty warships to guard the flagship, was now the strongest force in this sea area.
But they did not know that at this moment, inside the main ship's cabin where the Patriolius Family members were located, all of the Patriolius Family members had self-immolated into dust.
Only three scorching Dragon Eggs continued to absorb the hot energy constantly gathering towards them.
It was also fortunate that these Dragon Eggs could devour heat and flames, which prevented them from igniting the cabin when they spontaneously combusted.
"Gargle gargle~"
A low beastly roar suddenly sounded not far away.
Although the sounds of wind, rain, waves, and thunder and lightning were loud, everyone still heard it clearly.
"Oh no, it's a sea monster!"
The experienced pirate leader immediately realized what was happening.
Sea monsters frequently appeared in the vast Sunset Sea, and almost all ships that encountered them were unable to escape.
It was clear that the intense smell of blood from today's naval battle had not only attracted a large number of large sea beasts but also extremely rare sea monsters.
"Coming soon~ Run! Run!"
The captains of the four factions quickly realized the danger, so they hurriedly ordered the shipwrights to frantically row the oars, quickly fleeing towards the Stepstones.
They no longer cared about their comrades still struggling to survive in the waves.
The shark groups, attracted by the bloody smell and lurking nearby, also sensed the danger and began to frantically flee.
Several flashes of lightning illuminated the sea, and three huge shadows finally appeared below this blood-stained sea area, immediately followed by dozens of thick tentacles suddenly extending out of the water from the sea.
These tentacles, like flexible steel whips, instantly coiled around corpses and struggling people, then delivered them to their open mouths.
Accompanied by a series of crunching sounds, the sea monster, having tasted human flesh, roared excitedly as if it had taken a stimulant.
"Gargle gargle~"
"Ooh gargle~"
One of the sea monsters, with a metal ring on its head, was eating with the most relish; although it was the smallest in size, it had twenty to thirty thick tentacles, each over ten meters long, growing on its body.
After devouring the nearby corpses and living people, it swung its tentacles towards several ships that were about to sink.
With one strike, a pirate ship was shattered, and the people on board fell into the sea, crying out in despair.
The others, seeing this, quickly waved the leather whips in their hands and frantically lashed the shipwrights, wanting them to row faster.
But even if these poor shipwrights used all their strength, they could not match the sea monster's extreme speed.
Its tentacles quickly wrapped around several nearby ships, dragging them into the deep sea.
The relatively intact ships that were sailing away at full speed wished they could sprout wings and fly directly away from this place.
"Lord Auseris, our ships are too heavily loaded, we can't go fast!"
"Should we…"
The Purple Fleet commander had heard that the appetites of those sea beasts were like bottomless pits, capable of easily devouring fleets of several hundred ships.
So, even if they ate all the survivors, it might not be enough to fill their stomachs.
Therefore, if they couldn't leave quickly, they would likely not escape the fate of being devoured by it.
"Don't even think about it!"
"If the cargo on these ships is also lost, I would rather be eaten by those sea monsters!"
"Anyway, those broken ships and the people in the sea are enough to stall them for a while."
"Didn't they say these sea monsters wouldn't approach the mainland? Aren't the Stepstones and the coast of the Three Daughters Kingdom just ahead?"
"Our fleet is the fastest, and the Three-City Alliance and the Stepstones pirates can still hold them off for us for a while!"
"You immediately go and command those shipwrights, tell them to put in more effort; if they can escape the sea monster's pursuit, I will reward them handsomely!"
Perhaps the bloody smell from the previous battlefield and that special energy attracted by the Patriolius Family's prayers were too enticing for the sea monsters.
They had been lurking near the battlefield, searching for and devouring dead bodies and people who had fallen into the water, and had not immediately pursued the ships.
And as the battle ended, the storm also began to show signs of slowly dissipating.
However, at this moment, a huge shadow rapidly passed through the clouds.
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