The Final Boss Has Returned
Chapter 161
Boom!
Along with a deafening roar, pillars of fire shot up throughout Southwest Harbor.
The flying battleship.
It was because bombardment was literally raining down from the underside of the massive vessel floating in the sky.
“Ugh!”
“Agh!”
Users screamed everywhere, dying helplessly.
The defensive line painstakingly built by Simseong Iron Stars was shattered to pieces by the continuous bombardment, and the once-beautiful harbor gradually began to burn.
The flying battleship’s weapons were not limited to bombardment.
Rrrrrrk.
Along with a heavy mechanical rumble, gun barrels began protruding one by one from its open underside.
They were the cannons mounted on the flying battleship.
Boom! Crash!
The cannons of the flying battleship belched fire all at once.
“Dodge!”
“Ugh!”
“Whoa, look at that damage. It’s insane.”
And the rain of shells poured down directly onto the ground; the artillery falling from the sky was more than enough to drain the users’ fighting spirit.
At that very moment.
“Fire! Fire the ballistae!”
The users who had managed to keep their wits about them began counterattacking from the ground.
Ballistae!
Giant bolts loaded onto enormous ballistae—originally prepared to intercept wyvern riders taking flight from the aircraft carrier belonging to Drakan’s fleet—were fired into the sky all at once.
Perhaps because they were bolts made to shoot down wyverns, they were expensive bolts enchanted with magic, despite being consumables.
A cluster of arrows so massive that one might momentarily mistake it for a cloud of bolts forming in the sky!
But the fired bolts failed to inflict a single scratch on the flying battleship.
A translucent magical barrier formed around the flying battleship had blocked all the bolts fired from the ballistae.
“H-huh? It’s completely fine?”
“Keep firing! The flying battleship’s defense can’t be infinite!”
The ballistae attacks continued, but not for long.
Boom!
The ballista emplacements were being destroyed one by one by the bombardment raining down from the sky, taking direct hits.
“Wyvern squadron! Sortie!”
At that very moment, as the ballistae were being destroyed one by one.
Wyverns began appearing one by one in the skies above Southwest.
The wyvern riders deployed in the harbor for aerial defense had finally appeared.
The squadron commander leading the wyvern squadron gulped dryly at the overwhelming sight, as if a mountain were floating in the air.
‘Damn it! How the hell are we supposed to fight something like that?’
He had taken to the sky because the order was given, but he couldn’t come up with any angle on how to fight a flying battleship that was no different from a floating fortress.
As the commander continued wracking his brain, he soon derived an answer.
‘For one, it’s huge, so its mobility must be inferior to a wyvern’s. I have to exploit that.’
That was precisely digging into the weakness of the flying battleship’s sluggish mobility.
In truth, the flying battleship’s mobility was indeed inferior to a wyvern’s, making it the best move available to him.
“All units, attack. The enemy battleship lacks mobility compared to us. Exploit that point.”
The moment the commander’s order ended, the wyverns immediately flocked toward the flying battleship in groups.
At that very moment.
[Kyaaaaaaaah!!]
A horrifying shriek echoed across the sky.
A shriek that sent chills down the listener’s spine!
And the commander knew the owner of this shriek all too well.
“Bone Dragon…!”
Bone Dragon!
One of the most famous and strongest undead was now flying through the clouds up in that sky.
And behind it, the Dark Alliance’s wyvern riders led by Flyingman, mounted on a Red Drake, were flying in fast.
“Go beat the hell out of them all!”
Flyingman commanded the wyvern squadron with a smile.
Bone Dragon.
And the flying battleship.
Since the Dark Alliance possessed such powerful aerial forces, the aerial battle was undoubtedly their victory.
And above all, Flyingman had always loved aerial combat.
‘This aerial battle is my victory as well.’
Convinced of victory, Flyingman spurred his Red Drake and began charging forward.
The commander’s face stiffened as he watched the scene.
‘I expected the enemy wyvern squadron to appear, but a Bone Dragon… This is an unwinnable fight.’
If there had only been the flying battleship, they could have somehow kept it in check by exploiting its sluggish mobility.
Even if the enemy wyvern squadron appeared, they could have put up a decent fight.
But fighting a Bone Dragon on top of that was impossible.
Not only had the Bone Dragon never lost an aerial battle until now, but there was also no way to take down that monster with their current forces.
[Kyaaaaaaaah!!]
With agility that belied its massive frame, the Bone Dragon instantly dug deep into the Iron Stars’ wyvern squadron, and in its wake, the Dark Alliance’s wyvern squadron led by Flyingman followed inside.
Boom! Crash!
Explosions echoed in the air.
But the enemies the Iron Stars’ wyvern riders had to face were not just the Bone Dragon and the enemy wyvern riders.
Shells suddenly flying in with a thunderous roar!
Some of the flying battleships had begun providing supporting fire from afar.
“Kuaaaack!”
[Kieeeeeek!]
The aerial battle situation was gradually growing more desperate for the commander.
“It’s over.”
Watching the scene, the commander muttered in a despairing voice.
Just as he said, the result of the aerial battle was already decided.
Wyverns and riders fell to the ground like leaves in an autumn gale, dying, and soon, not a single enemy force remained in the sky.
It was the moment the Dark Alliance completely seized air supremacy over Southwest Harbor not long after the aerial battle began.
Boom!
Once again, the muzzles of the flying battleships belched fire.
But this time, it wasn’t only the flying battleships attacking the ground.
[Kyeeeeeek!]
Wyverns!
Mages riding on the backs of the wyvern squadron flying in low-altitude formation in perfect unison under Flyingman’s command poured magical bombardment onto the ground.
The anti-air weapons known as ballistae, meant to take down wyverns, were already almost all destroyed and burned by the earlier bombardment and shelling.
A small number of intact ballistae did fire anti-air shots, but they were insufficient to oppose the Dark Alliance’s aerial forces that had already seized air supremacy.
And the one to deliver the finishing blow was none other than the Bone Dragon.
[Kwaaaaaaaah!]
The breath rising from the Bone Dragon’s wide-open maw struck the ground directly, incinerating countless users instantly and scorching the area into a wasteland in moments.
With the attack from the air, the defensive line immediately began to collapse, and the ground below quickly turned into a bloodbath.
The coastal batteries, coastal fortifications, and lighthouses built with enormous sums of money all burned, crumbled, and collapsed.
But Drakan’s attack did not end there.
Not from the sea surface, but from the seabed!
Beneath the Dark Alliance fleet, in the depths of the sea, Nereus, King of the Merfolk, who stood at the forefront of countless merfolk troops waiting atop marine creatures such as whales and sea turtles, pointed ahead with the spear in his hand and spoke quietly.
“Rage of the Sea.”
With those words, the ancient coral crown atop Nereus’s head began to vibrate violently.
Rage of the Sea.
The ultimate skill of Nereus, King of the Merfolk, and the innate authority of the Merfolk King allowing him to control the sea as he pleased.
That authority finally descended upon the waters before Southwest Harbor.
Swooooooosh!
It began with an ominous churning of the sea and the sound of waves.
A massive tsunami surged toward Southwest Harbor, which was already helplessly taking the aerial assault.
Nereus.
He had caused the tsunami with Rage of the Sea.
“Kuaaaack!”
“Kek!”
The coastal defense line, already collapsing, was instantly smashed to pieces by the tsunami that struck Southwest Harbor without warning, and the ranks of the users forming the defense completely broke down.
Watching the scene from afar, Drakan spoke seriously.
“Prepare the landing boats. I’m going first.”
The moment Drakan finished speaking, landing boats were prepared, and soon, landing boats carrying Drakan and numerous other users headed toward the harbor whose defense line had completely collapsed.
But the first to land was not Drakan.
“Advance onto land. Go forth and clear away those who block the Apostle’s path.”
Nereus, King of the Merfolk.
The merfolk led by him were already riding the waves and beginning to land on the ground.
The merfolk suddenly surging out of the sea began one-sidedly slaughtering the defense force users who were already in disarray from the aerial bombardment and tsunami.
Mournful wails echoed from everywhere.
“N-no!”
“This is an unwinnable fight!”
The morale of the Simseong Iron Stars users had hit rock bottom, to the point of showing the unsightly sight of fleeing on the spot.
After the merfolk cleared the coast, it wasn’t long before the landing boats carrying the Dark Alliance users finally reached the Southwest coast without any resistance.
And among them, the first user to set foot on the coast was none other than Drakan.
The moment Drakan stepped onto the white sands of the coast.
A notification window appeared before his eyes.
[You have entered Southwest Harbor.]
[Southwest Harbor]
[Southwest Harbor is the largest coastal city and trading port in the south, located in the southwest. It is also a famous resort known for its mild weather, clear skies year-round, and beautiful emerald sea.]
[Also serving as the center of southern trade and a strategic point on the coast, Southwest Harbor has long enjoyed prosperity and peace as the largest port in the south.]
It was an information window containing a description of Southwest Harbor.
Prosperity and peace.
Watching the harbor burning and crumbling everywhere—in complete opposition to what was written in the information window—Drakan smiled.
In Drakan’s field of vision, his chat window was being refreshed relentlessly by the second.
[WTF lololol bloodless conquest lololol]
[Isn’t this too much of a one-sided beatdown? lol]
[Kya, this is exactly why I watch Drakan’s stream.]
[Where to next?]
[Took down Southwest in one go lol]
[This is the Dark Alliance!]
[Hail the Alliance!]
[For the Alliance!]
A faint smile hung on Drakan’s lips as he watched the chat window conveying the frenzied reactions of the users watching this scene in real time.
Drakan.
Just as he had expected, the users were going wild over the overwhelming performance of the flying battleship.
As Drakan watched the chat window with satisfaction, Nereus’s voice reached his ears.
“O Apostle, I have cleared away all those who blocked your path.”
“Well done, Nereus.”
Drakan threw a word of praise to Nereus, who was bowing his head beside him, and then immediately strode into the burning harbor.
Countless Dark Alliance users followed behind him.