Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!...

The battle line fired the first volley from three hundred meters away, countless shells accurately landing on the Second Fleet.

Most quasi-legendary warships possess one or more abilities that approach the level of legendary warships, with influence and intensity that can benefit the entire fleet.

However, because they have not developed a [Ship Spirit], it’s like humans having a good physique but not having learned "Flow State" to perfectly control themselves to achieve their full potential.

They would easily be defeated when faced with a truly legendary warship.

The abilities of this [Centaurus Constellation Number], as the name suggests, are related to Centaurus.

In the Mythological Era, centaurs were excellent archers, greatly enhancing the shooting capabilities of this fleet.

Like the renowned Hightins archers, the Hightins people have racial bonuses in long-range attacks.

The other quasi-legendary warship on the opposite side, [Royal Oak Number], is not lacking either.

Just like [Golden Deer], [Fearless], its name carries powerful extraordinary powers.

As long as an oak-made warship is given this name, it immediately gains corresponding quasi-legendary skills.

[The Kingmaker] Warwick threw an acorn, shouting loudly:

"Oak Blessing!"

The acorn instantly disintegrated, growing a towering oak illusion over a hundred meters tall, producing countless acorns that fell onto ally warships, growing more oak trees, and yielding more acorns...

In a blink, the line of oak-made warships turned into an oak forest belt, with all the ships becoming interconnected "root systems".

Ordinary oak material suddenly became incredibly resilient. Shells capable of piercing bulwarks would either bounce off or lodge into the interior of the bulwark.

Only the forty-two pound main cannon of first-level ships could still penetrate the oak board, yet its power greatly decreased.

The Royalist Party’s Third Fleet had to move closer to enter the opponent’s shooting range.

In the Strait Islands, the oak has special significance; it symbolizes strength and resilience and is the national tree of the Hightins, representing the country’s indomitable spirit.

After activating the Oak Blessing, the fleet naturally gained a series of related enhancement effects: Oak Guard, Tree-Protection Magic, Healing Aura, and so forth.

Notably, Byron’s [Crown of Power] is adorned with roses, thistles, and clovers representing the three main islands.

Legend has it that on Clover Island, the second largest of these, an ancient extreme environmental group, the "Druid Sect", existed during the Mythological Era.

Druids, also known as [Oak Sages], mastered various natural witchcrafts.

During the reign of the Great Red Dragon Abaddon, they were famously rebellious.

As a group of extreme environmentalists, they even wanted to ban the use of fire by everyone, forcing all intelligent creatures back to the most primitive Old Stone Age.

If this group of [Oak Sages] still lived here, they surely wouldn’t appreciate Byron’s... "Industrial Revolution", nor allow him to replicate colonial industrial centers in the Strait Islands.

Luckily, they have disappeared...right?

"Warwick!"

"Edward!"

Aboard the [Royal Oak Number] and [Centaurus Constellation Number] separated by hundreds of meters, Edward IV and Warwick stared fiercely at each other, once close political allies, now eager to tear each other’s bones and devour each other’s flesh.

Yet due to the offensive and defensive of the quasi-legendary warships, they were forced into a stalemate, competing on whose will was stronger, who could endure more casualties.

After almost ten rounds of mutual bombardment, hearing the painful groans of the wounded or even the nobility, they found it difficult to continue holding on.

They simultaneously revealed their prepared trump cards, shouting in succession:

"[Fearless], assist me!"

"[King Edward], assist me!"

As soon as they finished speaking, Byron and the old man didn’t intentionally delay, commanding the fleet to enter the fray simultaneously.

Apart from the heavy cruiser kept back as a trump card against another old fox, the Pirate Fleet first sailed out of the "National Border Lock", and then the Phantom Fleet also jumped into the Material World from the edge.

They didn’t bother with each other, but instead coordinated, forming multiple sub-fleets in "battle line" mode, directly striking at the main fleet already subjected to dozens of rounds of bombardment.

An experienced observer could easily tell they intended to use the next version of "Ship Maneuvering Tactics" to break the current version of "Line Tactics".

This tactic had been used to break the Treasure Fleet before, and the effect was excellent!

At this moment, neither Edward IV nor Warwick realized.

While the two reinforcements divided and dismantled the Second and Third Fleets, they also faintly encircled both [Royal Oak Number] and [Centaurus Constellation Number] within the central area.

After all, as they saw it, half of those inside and outside of this circle were their people; the situation was in control, how could it be considered an encirclement?

Wise! [Emperor’s New Clothes] salutes them!