bookbashuk Chapter 386 War Breaks Out
Chapter 386 War Breaks Out
Chapter 386 War Breaks Out
On the surface of the Bay of Rune, pirates and elves faced off at a distance.
Elven warriors stood on the deck of the steamship, bows and arrows in hand.
At a command, the elves drew their bows and shot arrows, accurately aiming at the pirates on the other side.
The elven warriors were well-trained and highly skilled archers; not a single arrow missed its mark.
After a volley of arrows, a group of pirates at the front fell to the ground, screaming and howling in agony.
The pirate marshal was furious and ordered the cannons to be used to blast the elf's ship to pieces.
To their astonishment and anger, the elves' ships were not only made of metal and looked incredibly sturdy, but they were also more than twice as fast as their own, quickly putting them at a distance from the enemy and preventing cannonballs from hitting their hulls.
They were forced to eat the smoke from behind, which was literally eating the smoke in a very obvious way.
The pirates couldn't understand the elves' ships. These steel vessels not only didn't sink, but they were also faster than their large ships. They had no oars or sails; instead, they had strange smokestacks that constantly spewed out steam and mist.
The two sides engaged in a fierce battle on Luen Bay.
The elves used the speed of the steamship to constantly outmaneuver the pirate ship.
Meanwhile, the pirates whipped the orcs rowing the oars, yelling at them to speed up, while bombarding the elven ships with cannons.
As the elves of the Lindon region gradually migrated to Valinor, their numbers dwindled to only a few thousand, with just a few hundred ships in the three ports of Grey Harbor, Harbor, and Falbor.
Compared to the pirate crew's thousands of ships and tens of thousands of men, the disparity was enormous.
Despite the vast disparity in combat strength, even though the elves' steamships were fast, they still couldn't avoid being surrounded and then damaged by cannon fire.
The once exquisite ship was now dilapidated and on the verge of collapse.
The pirate ship also suffered heavy losses. Its wooden hull was attacked by rockets and burned continuously. Some pirates jumped into the sea to escape in order to avoid being burned to death.
But the next second, he was killed by an arrow from the elf and became food for a large fish in the sea.
Fierce fighting spread across the sea, with flames shooting into the sky and screams echoing everywhere.
Although the pirates suffered increasing losses under the elves' desperate counterattacks, they remained unconcerned. The pirate marshal even ordered that all elves' ships be destroyed at all costs, even if it meant trading one for one or even committing suicide.
What made the elves even more alarmed was that the pirates had also attracted a group of enormous evil sea creatures!
Those were sharks, as large as ships and twenty or thirty meters long, corrupted by Sauron's power and fed corpses by the Umbal pirates, thus becoming evil sea creatures.
They use their massive bodies to attack ships underwater and then devour anyone who falls into the water. These bloodthirsty and evil giant sharks do not distinguish between friend and foe; as long as someone falls into the water, whether they are a pirate or an elf, they will be swallowed whole and become the belly of the fish.
Under such circumstances, the elves not only had to deal with the pirates' attacks, but also had to guard against attacks from giant underwater sharks, making the situation increasingly unfavorable.
Just as the elven warship was about to be completely surrounded by the pirate ship, a series of slight cracking sounds rang out in the air, and figures appeared on the elven or pirate ships.
As soon as they appeared, they swiftly and decisively waved their wands, sending pirates flying, blowing up small boats, and even attacking giant sharks underwater.
They were the one hundred Aurors sent by Dui to support Grey Harbor, who were originally stationed at Grey Harbor, Harbor Harlem, and Harbor Harlem.
Port Fortress, assist the elves in guarding the port.
They originally thought that with the more advanced steamships, even if the elves couldn't defeat them by force, they could still use their speed to hold their own.
But unexpectedly, this pirate raid also brought with it a giant shark, an evil creature.
With pirate crews outnumbering them several times over on the water and giant sharks capable of capsizing ships underwater, the elven fleet was caught in a dire situation, facing attacks from both sides.
Gardor, the elven secretary in charge of this naval operation, immediately sought help from the Aurors.
The Aurors kept appearing on ships on the sea, or taking out flying brooms to attack the pirate ships from the air.
Small boats, along with their pirates, were blown to pieces by the Aurors using explosive spells.
Large pirate ships were also sunk, capsized, or set on fire by the Aurors.
Even the giant sharks lurking in the water were killed one by one by the Aurors.
These giant sharks weren't very intelligent; they would go berserk at the mere smell of blood. So when the pirate ship was sunk and the pirates fell into the water, they were met with the frenzied tearing and devouring of those giant sharks.
This gave the Aurors an opportunity to join forces and kill these bloodthirsty giant sharks.
Under the relentless attacks and destruction by the Aurors, the pirate ship suffered heavy losses, and blood stained the Bay of Loon red. The water was filled with the severed limbs of the pirates, as well as the carcasses of giant sharks with their bellies turned upside down.
Some pirates who fell into the water and miraculously survived struggled desperately, but were eventually swallowed up by the turbulent currents.
The pirates were terrified by the sudden appearance of the Aurors. As they watched their pirate ships being sunk one after another, they all rushed towards the canyon entrance, causing a traffic jam.
More than a dozen small boats were capsized by the large ship, and hundreds of pirates perished in the gorge along with them.
The pirate ships that eventually escaped from Lune Bay and reached the sea were reduced to only about twenty large ships and a few hundred small ships, and their numbers were reduced by two-thirds.
It can be said that the pirate crew suffered extremely heavy losses this time.
After the pirate crew escaped to the sea, the Aurors did not pursue them but chose to rescue the elves first.
Despite suffering such severe losses, the pirates did not choose to leave. Instead, they formed a fan-shaped blockade around the sea route off the coast, as if waiting for something.
At the same time that the naval battle took place in the Gulf of Loon, Mordor's army also poured out from Morlannon and the pass of Chilis-Ugo, attacking Rohan and Gondor.
Meanwhile, the Harads south of Mordor and the Eastern Barbarians north of Mordor also joined the Mordor army in their westward advance.
The armies of Mordor, the Eastern Barbarians, and the Harads numbered in the millions, divided into several large armies: one attacking Gondor, one attacking Rohan, one attacking Lorien and Mirkwood, and one heading north to attack Dale and the Lonely Mountain.
Meanwhile, in the Angmar region north of the Misty Mountains, an army of over 100,000 Orks has quietly gathered, controlled by the Witch King of Angmar.
Meanwhile, the Witch-King of Angmar used evil magic to summon countless evil spirits, which possessed the dead who once slept beneath this land, transforming them into undead that crawled out of their graves.
Tens of thousands of undead, like an undead army, marched towards the Eliador region at the command of the Witch-King of Angmar, accompanied by dark clouds moving south.
War has once again swept across Middle-earth, and it is far more terrifying than ever before!