Chapter 773: The Steel Torrent and the Final Reckoning

The horizon vanished. One moment, there was the familiar line where the azure sky met the deep blue of the sea. The next, it was blotted out by a sprawling, nightmarish forest of masts and sails. The fleet of the Temple of Adonis had arrived. It was not an armada; it was a plague upon the waters, a seemingly infinite swarm of wooden warships, galleons, and transports, their banners bearing the golden sun of Adonis fluttering like a thousand angry wasps. On the bridge of the BMS *Vanguard*,...