"What are you doing?!" Clemento exclaimed, his eyes wide.
The next moment, the young soldier rushed in front of Clemento. After glancing at Clemento's angry face, he grabbed the railing and jumped down.
Clemento's angry expression gradually turned blank, and he stiffly turned to look at the sea.
What came into view were countless Yan Kingdom warships, their surfaces flashing with fire—that was from artillery fire.
A series of agonizing screams and cries came from behind. These voices sounded incredibly weak amidst the booming cannon fire. Flames were burning the hull, and nauseating smoke mixed with dust drifted across the view.
Clemento stared blankly up at the mainmast; the sails were burned to ashes, and the charred mast was engulfed in flames.
The cannons were scattered everywhere from the blown-open hull, and the shells rolled into the sea from the tilting hull.
A loud crash was heard.
The collapsing mainmast crashed down beside him, splattering him with pieces of wood and sparks, yet he remained motionless, staring blankly at the national flag that had fallen before him as the mast collapsed.
The flag had already been half burned away by the flames, and as soon as Clemento reached out, the flag was blown out to sea by the wind.
"The ship is sinking! The ship is sinking!" the panicked soldiers shouted, and then jumped into the sea without hesitation.
Clemento sat down slowly, looking dejected, and then took off his hat and placed it on the deck.
He leaned against the ship's railing, facing the road he had come from, gazing at the distant continent of Leon, and then murmured to himself:
"Your Majesty, please be sure to..."
"Boom boom boom!"
More than a dozen explosive shells fell from the sky and landed precisely on the already damaged Dawn ship.
Amidst continuous explosions, flames soared into the sky, and fragments of the ship's hull shot out, charred limbs scattered everywhere.
The hat that was placed on the deck flew into the sky, spun a few times, and fell into the sea, disappearing without a trace in an instant.
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