Emperor Lam will be onboard Admiral Huan Tah flag ship the “Dragon Fang" as fleet command, it is the largest and most heavily arm Heavy War Junk of the fleet with 5 masts, on it prow painted a green dragon head baring it fangs, and a large Varlann flag proudly flying in the wind on the ship stern. The expedition had launched, follow the fleet is 100 volunteer ships. They set out in a wing formation, with the Frigates in the front, the Galleys at the flanks and the Heavy War Junk at the rear in the center of the Heavy War Junk line is the “Dragon Fang”, on the very back of their formation, about 100 lias from the Heavy War Junks line is a large Transport ship acting at baited and been pull by the “Dragon Fang”, the volunteer ships created a ring surround the fleet to scouting ahead and the surround water, if they detect any movement under water they will send a signal to the “Dragon Fang” via smoke. They heading toward the area about 500 lias from the shore and 4 kelias (1 kelia = 1 kilometers) north - north east from Qua Loh. This area had been reported to have the most occurred attack by the monster. For 5 hours they have not found any sign of the monster, the search continue to midday, then a volunteer ship at the rear left flank sent a smoke signal. They had spotted 60 lias from their port side, a large shadow moving under the water. Battle order was sent, all hands on deck, all ballistae had loaded. The “Dragon Fang” signal the volunteer ships to return to the center of the formation and from that point they will pass on to return to shore. After the volunteer ships is clear, the fleet starting to change course and moving parallel with the monster, keeping their distain at 50 lias. The air is tense, every sailors face fill with stress and fear, why would they not, no amounts of training can prepared any person for situation like this, any sane person in situation like this would turn tail and run, yet they are not, yet they are still stand and waiting for order, yet in their eyes still show a hind of confident. How? Because their Emperor is here, his present has gave the troops the courage they need to stand, they believe him with their live. Especially is Admiral Huan Tah and some old captains for they have spent years follow Emperor Lam when he still a young crown prince in those final days of the Hundred Years War. 30 minutes pass the monster still keeping a steady speed and have no intention to attack, then it starting dive down and disappeared to the deep water. A whole minutes of dreadful silence pass, then another minutes, and suddenly it resurface at the very back end of the formation and attack the stern of the transport ship. The monster use it powerful jaw to try to crack the ship stern, the wooden planks creating a terrifying cracking sounds as the monster jagged teeth bite down on them. After a minutes chewing on the ship stern and cannot find a single soul on it, the monster realized this was just a decoy, and dive back down to the deep. But it cannot.
It struggle to try to dive back in to the water, yet somehow it’s head still remain above surface, not only that it upper body is starting to floating to the surface, it like there are some magical force keeping it from return to the deep. That magical force is of course Emperor Lam’s telekinesis, a high form of psychic magic that rarely any mage can use at this distain and to hold such large object. The monster is trapped, the fleet starting to encircle it and unleash their ballista bolts, their target is the mouth of the monster. The bolts ripping through the air toward their target, as hundreds of them hit the flesh in the monster mouth. The monster twist it body in pain, but unable to escape it starting to wagging it body and waving it huge fins, created violent waves around it, causing the fleet to have difficult aiming. But though the attack is going well, as Taosih Tsun has said about the monster scales, Emperor Lam can feel it slipping through his telekinesis grip, every time it twisted it body violently. After 10 minutes the encircling is completed, then a frigate called “Young Wind” break formation and approaching the monster, on the ship is Taosih Tsun and his mage team. They stand at the ship prow, trying to keep their balance while the ship swaying in the wave cause by the monster. When the ship getting near to a 5 lias distain from the monster, Taosih Tsun mage team starting to charging their inner power, which is called “Qigun” by the Downers. Then they channeling their qigun to Taosih Tsun by touching they palm to his back as he murmur a spell, and waiting for the moment between waves so the ship can stable enough for him to have a good aim, doing this is quite dangerous, for if Taosih Tsun holding his spell too long the additional qigun can overload his body and causing harm. After a few minutes waiting patiently, and when the opportunity came, he unleashes a lightning bolt from his fringe tips toward the monster head. The lightning bolt powered by 5 Taosih’s qigun created an eardrum popping thunder and a flash so bright is can temporary blinded anyone look directed into it.
The lightning found it mark and struck the monster left face, blowing it left eye off and heavily burn a good portion of it left face. The monster twisting in pain, and smack it gigantic tail on the water created even more high and violent waves nearly capsize the “Young Wind”, the “Dragon Fang” and some other ships, cause Emperor Lam to lost his balance and lost his grip on the monster. Finally free the monster immediately disappears back to the depth. Though the battle has won, but the monster had escaped. Standing at the ship prow, Emperor Lam stare at the blood spill in the water in silent, while the crew of the “Dragon Fang” and the whole fleet cheer on for they first victory again the monster. Do they actually win? Will the monster wound severely enough to kill it? He cannot be sure.
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