Avery's slap was so strong that, the moment Avery hit the Flagship of the Dreadheart Family, the vessel split into two.
"This is impossible," one of the Officers of a ship beside the Flag Ship muttered in disbelief. "This can't be happening."
This was the thought of everyone who belonged to the Great Families.
They had come to start a one-sided annihilation of the Pirates, not the other way around.
Even now, they refused to believe that the strongest Admiral in their fleet had been easily dealt with by their enemy with just a single slap.
To make matters worse, their Flag Ship, which was the best vessel in their fleet, was destroyed in the blink of an eye, despite being covered by multiple defensive artifacts.
This made the members of the Three Great Families panic.
"Retreat!" all the Officers who were commanding their own ships shouted.
They knew that this battle was lost the moment their Admiral was defeated.
However, how could they possibly escape when Avery was standing in front of them?
The Skeleton Pirate King chuckled as he waved his hand.
Countless skeleton spikes jutted out of the sea, preventing any of the ships from escaping.
"Did I tell you that you could leave?" Avery rhetorically asked with a devilish smile on his face. "If you don't want to die, behave and submit to My Princess. That way, you will be able to live another day."
After saying those words, Avery disappeared from where he was and dove into the sea.
Admiral Onyx had regained his consciousness and tried to escape underwater, hoping that no one would notice him.
He wanted to return to the Ford Federation and tell the two other Supremes who didn't join the battle about the appearance of the Skeleton Pirate King.
Admiral Onyx believed that, as long as the three of them worked together, they would have a chance of winning against the Monster who had appeared out of nowhere.
At that moment, he heard the sound of singing inside his head.
"I'll sing you a song, it's a song of the sea. Row, me bully boys, row."
"Oh, I'll sing you a song if you'll sing it with me, and it's row, me bully boys, row."
All the hairs at the back of the Admiral's neck stood up on end as the face of the Skeleton Pirate King appeared in front of him.
Deep under the sea, a soundless scream was drowned out by the water as one of the Supremes of the Three Great Families faced the Terror of the Seven Seas.
No matter what he did, no matter how much he struggled, it was all futile in the face of absolute strength.
After beating the Supreme until he was half-dead, Avery rose from the water and reappeared on the deck of the Bone Ship, Poseidon.
"Princess, I am back," Avery said respectfully.
"Good job," Eiko nodded. "Blackfire, get him."
The Black Coffin appeared above Eiko and opened its lid.
A childlike giggle rose from the dark depths of the coffin as countless hands grabbed hold of the dying Supreme.
Admiral Onyx, who had sensed that something terrible was going to happen to him, raised his head to look at the Black Coffin.
A glint appeared in his eyes as his gaze landed on the Baby Slime, whom Avery had called Princess.
'That must be their leader,' Admiral Onyx thought as he gathered all the strength in his body to kill the Baby Slime, who was looking back at him with a fearless gaze.
But before he could even move to attack Eiko, Avery's foot landed on his head, smashing it against the deck of the ship, interrupting Admiral Onyx's concentration.
Blackfire giggled a second time because he found the Admiral's attempt quite amusing.
By the time Avery was done beating the other party, Admiral Onyx's face had turned into a bloody mess, making it impossible to identify him.
The Black Coffin no longer hesitated and pulled the Supreme inside its body until the Admiral disappeared from sight.
"You want Saints, Blackfire?" Eiko asked the Black Coffin, who nodded its body in reply.
"Avery, help Blackfire get Saints," Eiko ordered.
"As you command, Princess," Avery replied and he once again disappeared from the deck of the ship.
Blackfire, who also sensed that there were several Saints ripe for the picking, flew towards the Fleet of the Ford Federation.
The Black Coffin's standards had already changed, and it no longer bothered to collect ordinary Rankers.
Since it could only devour 100,000 souls, it decided to be more selective and only set its sights on High-Rankers, Saints, Supremes, Calamities, and Demigods.
With dozens of Saints ready to be devoured, the Black Coffin was especially excited.
It felt very sad when it wasn't able to help his Master save Gaap from his imminent death.
Even with all of its powers, there was simply nothing Blackfire could do to change Gaap's fate.
Even if it gathered the Halfling's ashes and re-animated it, he would not be the same person that Lux and Hereswith cared for.
Doing so would just depress its Master even more, so Blackfire chose not to do it.
It knew that seeing the revived Halfling would only hurt its Master, so it defied Lux's order and refused to do anything back then.
Still, Blackfire had no intention of letting the same thing happen again.
Because of this, it decided to speed up its collection of strong fighters who would help its Master against his enemies.
The Half-Elf and the Black Coffin shared a common goal.
Their main target remained the same, and that was none other than the vile woman, who had repeatedly schemed to kill Hereswith, Gaap, and Lux.
Blackfire wanted nothing more than to devour the Oracle of the Divine Army.
It didn't care what method was used in order to achieve its goal.
It also didn't care if it got the Oracle dead or alive.
The Black Coffin wouldn't stop until the Oracle ended up in its deadly embrace.
Blackfire knew that once that day finally came when the Oracle fell into its grasp, it would make her understand that there were fates worse than death.
So for now, it would focus on the task at hand.
With the help of Avery, the Black Coffin devoured all of the Saints and High Rankers of the Ford Federation, leaving the rest to the mercy of the Pirate Princess.
The battle ended in less than an hour, and the Pirates rounded up the survivors.
Although the Pirates also suffered many casualties, they were still very happy with the outcome.
All of them directed their reverent gaze at the Baby Slime, who was perched on top of the fluttering flag of her Bone Ship.
Eiko stared at the Pirates who were looking up at her with a smile.
Captain Jack Spawow, who was also staring up at Eiko, couldn't help but smirk. Although he was certain that the Baby Slime didn't know the consequences of her actions, he was certain of one thing.
Whether Eiko liked it or not, all the Pirates acknowledged her existence, bringing her one step closer to making the entire Ford Federation submit under her rule.
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