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72.65% Unbound Familiar / Chapter 518: Naval Discharge...

章節 518: Naval Discharge...

Admiral Tuindal of the third Aldmeri Dominion crosses his arms atop his flagship as it begins its bombardment of Winterhold.

Most of their projectiles had been aimed into the city itself, while others had been targeting the foundation of the College of Winterhold. While it was an ancient place of learning that most elves would pause at destroying, he and his leaders knew well that it was one of the central pillars holding up Skyrim and Nord society itself.

The stubborn Nords wouldn't like to admit it, but magic was part of their lives, and without the College, they'd quickly find themselves dearly lacking when compared to the rest of the world.

"Keep firing until that damned city is rubble!"

"At once! Admiral!" a few of his men chorus in response.

Everyone was going fine... Until it wasn't...

"ADMIRAL! Enemy ships ahead of us!" a man shouts from the crows next atop the vessel.

Tuindal frowns in confusion, their plans were kept strictly secret aside from the few in the know. The nearest port to Winterhold was Windhelm, not to mention Dawnstar that'd been burned to the ground recently...

He pulls the telescope from someone and takes a peek, becoming even more baffled when he spots the two ghost ships ahead of them, each being manned by hundreds of ghost sailors... "What in Oblivion is that!?"

*ROOOAAAR!*

Tuindal reflexively ducks as he hears the dragon roar, only then realising that the dragon was above Winterhold and seemingly ignoring him and his other ships... "What in all the gods is going on here!?"

"Sir! The enemy! They're pulling cannons to their bow!! Your orders!?"

Tuindal shakes his head and forces himself to breathe easy, "VANGUARD PREPARE A STARBOARD BROADSIDE! SECOND-LINE PORT BROADSIDE! BLAST THEM TO PIECES!" he commands, causing a quarter of the forward Aldmeri navy to begin moving while the boats behind them begin their own preparations for battle.

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Michael grins as he steers the Ghost Ship towards the Thalmor navy, the ability had been maxed out so he was looking forward to seeing what his enhanced cannons would do to the elves.

"Aharhar~! Wind from my hair, salt in my beard! Let's show these scoundrels what our being alive means for them!" Kunkka laughs in the Ghost Ship beside Michael's, clapping one of the ghost sailors on the shoulder as he does so... Surprisingly, the ghost actually grins in response, as if he were feeling emotions and familiar with the Admiral.

"He's enjoying himself too much for a man sailing into an enemy naval army..." Derflinger mutters.

Michael shrugs, "Let him enjoy it... At least this time he can go down with his ship."

He then looks up ahead and spots the Thalmor boats beginning to make their move. Surprisingly, they made a show of preparing their own cannons, surprising Michael as he hadn't expected the Thalmor to possess them...

Sure, had been developed in Tamriel, but the powder they used was far too volatile for anything but heavily enchanted cannons. That, of course, required a lot of gold to fund.

Regardless, no one was in range yet, and the Thalmor begin showing the broadside of the many vanguard ships... If he and Kunkka wanted to get any closer they'd be heading directly in a hailstorm of cannonballs.

...

But... Kunkka didn't seem swayed at all...

The Admiral raises Tidebringer and laughs uproariously, "RAMMING SPEED MEN! LET'S SEE HOW THEIR CANNONS FAIR AGAINST OUR BOAT!"

"Slow down you crack-pot pirate! There are fifteen boats aiming at us! I thought you were supposed to be a master in naval strategy!" Michael shouts after him, thinking that there must've been a better way to approach this... He could probably just glide on over and disrupt the front formation to make way for the ghost ships...

Kunkka didn't care.

"I am a battlefield genius! Which is why I'm charging! Hide on land if this is too much for you lad!"

"I'm beginning to think that this is why you had no navy, Kunkka!" Michael retorts, positioning his ship behind Kunkka's so the admiral could take all the focus. Still, he was prepared for them to get utterly decimated by cannon fire... They had two boats, while the Thalmor had around a hundred... The fight was nowhere near even.

Kunkka grins as his ship enters cannon range. "FIRE LADS! SCUPPER THE FLEET AND KEELHAUL THE LOT OF THEM!"

*BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG!*

The cannons pushed to the front of the ship all fire, Michael's boat firing over Kunkka's at a steep angle to avoid friendly fire. Thankfully, the Thalmor appeared to have shittier cannons than they did, allowing them to get fire blood in battle.

The thing about showing your broadside was, while you could fire many more guns at once, you also made yourself a larger target... The Thalmor's tactics had backfired simply due to the difference in their weaponry, two of their boats getting blasted by the initial volley.

A few mages attempt to block and deflect the ghostly cannon balls, but they were far too powerful and magically resistant to be moved by such means. The ghost ships were rank 4, far better than the rank 1 ship Michael had used to destroy a Daedric Fortress... And it showed.

Once the cannonballs struck the enemy vessel, the impact side all but disintegrated, as if the cannonball weighed as much as a small mountain without the size to slow it. The projectile hits the starboard side of the ship and shoots straight out the other side after devastating the underdeck. One cannon ball would've been enough to eventually sink it, but add the many others?

*CRAAAAAASH!*

The ship quickly slams to a halt as the anchor is blasted out from where it was held, causing it to unintentionally unfurl. This, of course, causes the other Thalmor ships behind it to slow or swerve in order to avoid crashing into its stern.


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章節 519: Yohoho!

While Michael and Kunkka's volley did a huge amount of damage, it was limited to the couple ships they were aiming at, leaving the other Thalmor ships to unload on them as they got into range... Or at least, they would, if Kunkka hadn't swung Tidebringer upwards and caused large torrents of water to sprout directly in front of the enemy ships, completely blocking their vision.

This doesn't last long, but it's definitely enough to avoid instant death. The Thalmor still fired their cannons despite being unable to properly aim... This causes a huge volley of cannon balls to speckle the ocean, some even managing to strike Kunkka's boat.

Kunkka crew drop low to take cover, but the Admiral himself stands on the bow with a straight back, as if the possibility of getting struck was, well, impossible. "MAKE ALL SAIL MEN! LET'S DRIVE THROUGH THEM LIKE ROTTED WOOD!"

The two sides trade volleys one more time, the Thalmor bringing down one of Kunkka's sails now that they were able to aim, but it was too late to slow their advance... Kunkka's ship slams into the broadside of a Thalmor ship, the collision creating a hellishly loud sound as the elf ship crumbles into itself.

*CRRARAAAAACK!*

Like Moses parting the waves, so too did Kunkk part the ship. His ghost ship crashes through the Thalmor boat with little issue, leaving the two sinking halves behind with the few elf survivors diving into the sea to save themselves... Not that such a thing would work, the north Skyrim seas were freezing temperatures. Any who went under never came up.

Michael had his own ship crash into the Thalmor vessel behind the one Kunkka had downed, as expected, the boat did similar damage. A few Thalmor threw themselves on the ghost ship in a vain attempt to fight back, but all they did was leave themselves surrounded on a boat full of angry undead sailors...

Michael looks away from the quickly dying elves and spots Kunkka getting shot from many sides, the Thalmor had prepared boats behind the vanguard for a situation similar to this, but the Admiral seemed intent on doing this as recklessly as possible.

Kunkka raises Tidebringer and slices horizontally towards the deck of the nearest enemy ship, this produces a slice of jet-like water which cleaves anyone caught up in it in half. It also cuts down the sails of the ship, all but crippling it.

"Why doesn't mine work like that...!?" Michael wonders aloud as his [Tidebringer] skill, despite being maxed out couldn't do what Kunkka had just done.

"It's his blade Partner, you've got a bit of the magic, but not the origin... That thing's almost as good as me!" Derflinger remarks, obviously impressed judging by his reluctant compliment... This was one of the first times he'd heard the sentient blade honestly compliment another weapon.

"Fuck it, the boat can handle itself..." he turns and looks at nearby undead sailors manning the sails, "You there, take the wheel! Ar Ar and all that shit!" he orders before summoning his frost wings and gliding to a nearby Thalmor ship, beginning to burn it and everyone on it with morbid glee.

Meanwhile with Kunkka...

*SLASH!*

Tidebringer cuts a cannonball in half as it's about to hit the Admiral straight on, them and then turns his attention to the ship in front of him.

Kunkka could tell that the flagship was behind it, so all he needed to do was get past and he'd send their leader to the seafloor. "FULL SPEED AHEAD!" he shouts, swinging his blade again after taking a moment to charge it up, literally splitting the boat in front of him in half vertically.

*CRASH!*

The ghost ship ploughs through it and sets on a course for the Thalmor flagship. Kunkka's own ship had sustained massive damage from the continuous enemy fire, but he was sure they could ram his target before they sunk.

He raises Tidebringer above him and yells, summoning the waves below the ship to carry them ever faster.

"YOHOHO, AND A JOLLY DAY TO DIE!"

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Admiral Tuindal's eyes widen as he looks at the rapidly approaching ship, unable to do anything to stop it... The ephemeral boat was already sinking as it sailed, but the enemy looked intent on taking them down with them.

"PREPARE FOR IMPACT!"

"YOHOHO, AND A JOLLY DAY TO DIE!" the Admiral yells with a cackle and a mad gleam in his eye as the two ships crash. This signalled the death knell for the ghost ship as it crumbled on impact, but the ghostly sailors showed no fear as they streamed onto the Thalmor ship like locusts upon a field.

The Thalmor warriors and mages were working overtime to recover their footing and fight off the enemy. Admiral Tuindal himself had been quietly retreating after his Helmsman had taken a ghostly knife to the eye, but unfortunately, his vision was soon filled by a blood-smeared ocean blue coat worn by the leader of the ghostly vessel...

He raises his elven sword to defend himself but finds a glowing blue two-handed cutlass cutting through his weapon, disembowelling him and severing his spine all in one go.

He yells as he hits the ground, all feeling in his legs leaving him as he looks up at the grinning bearded man.

"You're the one leading this navy!? I should I thought it! All brains and no brawn! Suits the cowardly tactics you employ, both on the waves and on the deck!"

Tuindal tries to open his mouth to plead for mercy but barely gets out a whisper as his heart is stabbed, killing him faster than his already grievous wounds would've done.

"Hmph, don't worry, at least this crew will have a proper captain to go down with the ship... Me! Hahahaha!" is the last thing Admiral Tuindal hears before his life peters out.


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