World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 800 - 386: Yan Mo Utterly Defeated!_2

Chapter 800: Chapter 386: Yan Mo Utterly Defeated!_2

The closest Rock Demon Fleet warships had become empty.

Not exactly empty, as there were no standing pirates left, all had fallen in pools of blood, turned into corpses.

All the warships were shot full of holes. The foremost ones had their cabins on the deck punctured completely, with hundreds of holes through them.

From start to finish, barrage after barrage of grapeshot cannon fire!

Millions of bullets were sprayed out, and even if the majority hit the sea, still a small portion, over a million, struck the hundreds of Yan Mo’s warships.

Finally, the Rock Pirates, fearless in facing death, completely collapsed.

They were not afraid to die. They even actively sought it!

But their deaths were for the sake of victory, for plundering, not meaningless demise!

In the current battle, they saw no hope.

They desperately charged forward but could never get close to Suo Lun Fleet.

Many Rock Pirates bravely jumped into the sea, swimming towards Suo Lun’s warships.

However, it was an even more tragic tragedy; before they could climb aboard Suo Lun’s warships, they became ghosts under arrows.

Suo Lun’s fleet was always right in front of them, seemingly within reach, yet forever a world away.

And with every downpour-like barrage of grapeshot from Suo Lun Fleet, countless lives were taken away!

Every ship’s deck was drenched in blood, covered with bodies.

They didn’t surrender. They still weren’t afraid to die. But they no longer wished to fight, to resist fearlessly anymore.

This collapse, like a contagious disease, spread from ship to ship, as Rock Pirates on the decks knelt down in pain, giving up the resistance.

Suo Lun, riding on a griffin, circled above the Rock Pirate fleet.

Then, he saw waves of Rock Pirates kneeling down, truly like wheat stalks breaking under a strong wind.

Yan Mo had been utterly defeated!

He lost completely, thoroughly!

And what was most humiliating was that his one hundred thousand pirates had almost caused no casualties to Suo Lun!

From start to finish, only about twenty suicidal Rock Pirate warships reached the front of Suo Lun Fleet to start boarding combat.

But...

Nearly half of the pirates on these ships were already dead. Only a little over a thousand Rock Pirates actually engaged in boarding combat.

And, more tragically, half of the pirates chose to board Suo Lun’s three massive Cannon Warships.

Two had double-decked hulls, one had triple-decked, standing like small hills. Besides the gun ports, they were all sealed tight with thick planks.

Those who wished to engage in boarding combat couldn’t even find a place to cross over.

Many Rock Pirates bravely climbed up the warships, trying to enter through the gun ports. However, blades thrust fiercely from within, instantly shredding them.

And on the other dozen or so warships, nearly a thousand Rock Pirates managed to board the ships of Suo Lun Fleet successfully.

However, they faced two to three times as many enemies. After half a quarter of an hour of frenzied, bravely fought combat, the Rock Pirates who had successfully boarded were wiped out completely.

...

So, where was Yan Mo at this time?

He had fled! Yes, the invincible King of the Rock Pirates had run away!

At this time, he had already escaped dozens of miles from the battleground.

When Suo Lun fired the third and fourth rounds of grapeshot, he knew there was no hope left!

His plan to fight back from a position of death had utterly failed!

Because his fleet had been severely damaged, losing their speed advantage, they would never be able to catch up with Suo Lun Fleet, only to passively take hits; continuing would only lead to complete annihilation.

Strangely, when he knew he was totally defeated, he no longer felt pain. His heart did not bleed. There was only coldness and numbness.

Watching Suo Lun Fleet slaughtering his people, Yan Mo felt like he was watching a play, as if it was completely unrelated to him.

Then, he coldly issued an order: The Yan King main fleet was to escape the battlefield, all of it!

After Yan Mo gave the order to flee, he didn’t even sound the retreat horn. He just notified his main fleet to retreat and escape in a very private manner.

At that time, the majority of the fleet was engaged in their own battles, desperately lunging toward the Suo Lun Fleet like a pack of wolves.

The scene was chaotic, and in the end, the main part of the Rock Demon Fleet that managed to escape the battle had only a little over a hundred warships and ten thousand or so Rock Pirates.

The remaining sixty thousand Rock Pirates were sacrificed and abandoned, becoming cannon fodder to cover the Rock Demon’s retreat!

Not only that, but the Rock Demon also changed his clothes and hid inside a cabin, blending in with the numerous Rock Pirates!

Therefore, as the battle drew to a close, many Rock Pirates looked back, wanting to catch one last glimpse of their great king, either before dying or to draw courage from the sight of the Yan King.

As a result, they discovered that their Yan King was nowhere to be found; he had fled in a cowardly escape.

They realized that they had been abandoned, betrayed by their own great king.

Consequently, the group of Rock Pirates completely collapsed, gave up any resistance, and knelt on the ground.

...

Suo Lun, flying in the air, instantly spotted the retreat attempt by the Rock Demon’s main fleet.

However, he did not order a pursuit by the fleet!

Because his fleet was in the midst of proper battle order, which absolutely could not be disrupted. Moreover, with tens of thousands of Rock Pirates entangling them, it was impossible to break away to pursue the fleeing Rock Demon.

Making a swift decision, Suo Lun sent out over a dozen griffins with gunpowder packs and barrels of fire oil to conduct an air raid on the fleeing Rock Demon’s main fleet.

The result was as in the drills, the hit rate was too low.

Moreover, a dozen or so griffins were just too few in number to inflict significant damage on the fleeing Rock Demon’s main fleet, let alone stop their retreat.

By the time the battle on Suo Lun’s side ended, more than an hour had passed. By then, the Rock Demon had already led over a hundred of his main fleet warships to escape fifty to sixty miles away.

Queen Yan Chuo intervened, offering to accept the surrender of the thoroughly defeated Rock Pirates and pirates.

By now, there was no need for Queen Yan Chuo to make an appearance; after realizing they were abandoned, these Rock Pirates had already lost all will to fight.

Queen Yan Chuo ordered the surviving Rock Pirates and pirates to surrender, to lower their sails, and to cut their ropes.

In doing so, the enemy ships that survived the battle lost all power of movement, left to drift aimlessly on the sea.

Then Suo Lun ordered to leave only five thousand navy members to guard the prisoners, while the remaining twenty thousand navy members continued to pursue the Rock Demon Fleet!

...

In the evening, the sun set in the west!

The Rock Demon’s hundred plus warships were frantically fleeing ahead, with the Suo Lun Fleet doggedly pursuing from behind.

In the air, over a dozen griffins were incessantly bombarding the Rock Demon Fleet.

Thus, the two fleets, one ahead and the other behind, chased relentlessly.

An hour later, darkness fell!

Both fleets became more cautious, but still, one was escaping and the other giving chase.

Another whole night went by!

The next day, the morning sun rose, the sunlight scattering on the surface of the sea as if countless Gold Coins were glinting.

After a night of chasing, the Suo Lun Fleet and the Rock Demon Fleet were still sixty to seventy miles apart.

The main fleet of the Rock Demon, with most ships relatively intact and fleeing at full speed, was so fast that the Suo Lun Fleet not only failed to close the distance but was gradually falling further behind.

...

At this time, three hundred miles ahead of the fleeing Rock Demon Fleet!

Hai Gang’s fifty thousand main fleet was moving mightily and at full speed, heading south!

At this moment, Hai Gang had only one thought in his mind, hoping that Suo Lun would fall slowly enough that by the time his fleet arrived, there would still be some leftovers for him to feast upon.

The last thing he wanted to see was to rush to the battlefield after much hardship only to find the battle over, with Yan Mo hoisting Suo Lun’s head and saying, "Father-in-law, why have you arrived so late? The battle is already over; you might as well return the way you came!"

Having traveled thousands of miles with Hai Gang leading fifty thousand main fleet warships to the south, returning empty-handed would indeed make him so angry he might spit blood.

"Suo Lun, you must hold on, don’t lose too quickly, you must endure until I arrive to deliver the fatal blow!"

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Note: For those brothers who can’t get enough of this book, feel free to check out my other completed fantasy novel "Nine Yang Sword Saint", where a college freshman named Yang Dingtian, with a rare Nine Yang Body found one in a billion, crosses into another world. Bizarrely, he inherits the world’s number one major sect and becomes the fiancé of the world’s most beautiful woman!