Suddenly, these Ender Warships seemed to lose buoyancy and sank rapidly.
"The ship is sinking?"
"Why? Is the ship leaking?"
"No, the ship isn't leaking, but it's sinking!"
"The giant dragon that the Witch transformed into also fell into the sea!"
"What in the world is happening?"
The helmsman desperately tried to turn the ship, sails unfurled.
The warship struggled in the dark waters, yet it couldn't escape its inevitable fate of sinking.
In just one or two breaths, the warship sank into the water, dark seawater surging into the cabins, then submerging the deck.
"Ah!"
"The ship is sinking, the ship is sinking!"
The same thing happened on the other warships.
The Soldiers on board were also swallowed by the dark seawater.
But they were, after all, the empire's marines, and even at this moment, they did not despair:
Their swimming skills were good; even if they fell into the sea, they wouldn't drown immediately.
As long as they held on for a little while, their companions on other warships would immediately rescue them.
However, when the Soldiers truly plunged into the dark seawater, they discovered:
No matter how much they flailed their arms, no matter how hard they tried to swim up, they couldn't float up from the dark seawater, couldn't lift their heads and noses above the surface to breathe even a wisp of air.
The Soldiers instinctively opened their mouths, desperately wanting to shout, but dark, viscous water poured into their mouths.
They kept sinking, sinking, and sinking further, and before losing consciousness, they helplessly stretched out their arms towards the increasingly distant sea surface, then, after a few gurgling sounds, their arms fell limply.
On the warships further away.
Many Ender Soldiers saw their companions' plight through the much thinner mist—
Many of the empire's warriors sank into the dark seawater and never resurfaced.
Only a few gurgling bubbles returned to the surface, dispersing without a trace with a single wave.
The Soldiers trembled with fear at the terrifying sight.
A few individual Soldiers suddenly recalled stories they had heard in childhood—terrifying legends about mermaids at sea.
The legends mentioned that mermaids loved to cause shipwrecks and misfortunes.
They would float on the surface, hand in hand, and sing their terrifying song to the sailors on the ship:
"Guests from afar, welcome to the palace of the Sea King, beneath the deep blue sea."
However, only the dead could reach the Sea King's palace.
At the bottom of the dark, deep waters.
The Sea Witch raised her head, watching warship after warship sink, and Soldiers, one by one, drowning and suffocating, struggling as they sank, falling from all directions around her, settling onto the seabed, unable to move again.
This terrifying and horrifying scene was like a beautiful yet cruel snowscape.
And she was the creator of this scene.
She was the Sea King's personal alchemist and court magician, the Sea Kingdom's only Witch, that Sea Hag!
The Sea Hag ignored the Soldiers sinking all around her, fixing her gaze on the enemy she truly needed to pay attention to—the giant dragon that had sunk into the seawater.
"..."
The giant dragon, submerged at the bottom of the sea, couldn't speak, but it stared straight at the Sea Hag, its eyes filled with half rage and half horror.
"Is that the fringe member of the Witch Society? That Sea Witch!"
"It was her who cast the spell, making the warship and me sink to the bottom of the sea!"
"Why? Why is she here?"
Countless thoughts flashed through the Eastern Witch's mind.
"Are you surprised to see me?"
The Sea Witch smiled, spreading her arms.
"On land, I am definitely no match for you.
But here is the seabed, this is my home turf!"
The coral reefs and various strangely shaped plants at the bottom of the sea came alive, extending their "arms" towards the giant dragon.
Looking at the giant dragon, whose eyes were filled with shock, the Sea Hag recalled the scene when Rhine came to find her not long ago, and the future that the magician had promised.
That day, the magician Rhine once again rode a large fish with a transparent belly, went to the Sea King's palace, and found the Sea King and her, who had already become the Sea Kingdom's court magician.
"Sea King, Sea Witch, I have something I need your help with."
"Sea Witch, long time no see, are you still worried about when you will encounter an attack from the Witch Society?"
That day, the Sea Hag nodded.
The attacker she still feared was the Slave Master of the Witch Society; she had a pair of silver shoes that could travel anywhere on the continent within three steps.
She was afraid that one night, after she fell into a deep sleep, she would never wake up again.
"Instead of passively defending, it's better to take the initiative!"
Immediately after, the Sea Hag's eyes widened as she watched Rhine smile and pull out a silver shoe.
"Just right, I now have a way to lure the Slave Master into a trap."
"Let's join forces.
Let's set a trap together and kill the Slave Master!"
"We must ensure that this battle takes place at sea.
The blue ocean is our home turf!"
"From now on, you won't have to worry about assassinations from the Witch Society!"
"And I, after capturing the Slave Master, also have answers I want to get from her, about, the leader of the Witch Society..."
...
The Sea Hag's memories faded, only the enraged giant dragon remained before her.
The giant dragon's eyes bulged, bloodshot.
The Eastern Witch never expected that the Queen and the Sea Witch, two fringe members she usually looked down upon, would actually join forces to set a trap for her!
Half of the Witch Society's members converged on this sea today.
However, it was two betraying fringe members, joining forces to hunt a core member!
The giant dragon flapped its wings underwater, stirring up turbulent currents, propelling its body forward, running across the seabed, and pouncing towards the Sea Hag!
I'll kill you!
After transforming into a giant dragon, the Eastern Witch's physique was strong enough to withstand terrifying water pressure and short-term asphyxiation threats.
She wanted to kill this colleague from the Witch Society before suffocating, and then escape from this area of water without buoyancy!
"Don't think you can defeat me in the sea!"
The giant dragon charged wildly across the seabed, making the entire seabed tremble.
The corals and plants that tried to entangle the giant dragon were all broken by her astonishing brute force!
"Even if you can hold me back, it's useless.
The Ender Warships will still sink the ship the Queen is on, and that Old Witch's vengeful spirit will also go and kill the Queen in my place."
The Sea Hag looked at her former colleague surging towards her, a smile spreading across her wrinkled face.
Before Rhine returned, she was certainly not the only formidable figure on the battlefield of the sea.
...
On the sea surface.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Amidst the increasingly ethereal and thin mist, the smell of gunpowder filled the air.
Cannonballs cut through the thin mist one by one.
After nearly half of the warships sank, the remaining Ender Warships actively kept their distance from the dark waters shrouded in shadow, to avoid repeating the fate of their companions.
And that dark water that made buoyancy disappear had now stopped expanding.
The warships maintained a certain distance from the large ship carrying the Queen, firing cannons at each other.
Undoubtedly, even after losing half of the warships, the remaining warships' firepower held an absolute advantage.
Boom!
The beautiful flower boat carrying the Queen shook violently, almost capsizing.
On the deck, many sailors and Soldiers lost their balance and fell to the ground.
"Oh no, the ship's been hit!"
"The enemy's firepower is too strong, we can't possibly deal with it!"
They knew that if the enemy warships hadn't had to keep their distance to avoid that dark, black water, this ship would have been sunk long ago.
Boom!
Another cannonball struck the flower boat, causing the ship to shake violently again, making the Soldiers who had just stood up fall once more.
This beautiful flower boat, symbolizing the White Kingdom's royalty, swayed on the sea like a flickering candle in the wind.
"No, if it takes one more hit, the ship will definitely sink."
Even the elite White Kingdom Soldiers, at this moment, had ashen faces, and an uncontrollable despair rose in their hearts.
"Queen, where are you?"
Boom!
Another cannonball struck, cutting through the thin mist, about to hit the flower boat.
Suddenly, a small figure rushed out of the cabin at high speed, faster than an arrow leaving a bowstring, leaving a blur in the air that was difficult for the naked eye to catch.
This small figure leaped into the air, kicked away the incoming steel cannonball, and then landed steadily on the deck.
Bang!
The kicked cannonball exploded beside the ship, stirring up surging waves.
The Soldiers on the ship stared wide-eyed, completely stunned.
Their eyes couldn't catch the small figure's movements, but they vaguely understood what had just happened!
"Are you kidding me? Kicking away a cannonball with a foot, is that something a human can do?"
The small figure stood against the wind, allowing the surrounding Soldiers to clearly see her appearance.
It was the particularly short Soldier who had been guarding the Queen earlier!
"Is it him? Who exactly is he?"