Challenge: Breaking Through the Distant Seas

All right, we're gonna pay them back a hundred times over for how they welcomed us to this Lostbelt!

First and second torpedo tubes loaded! Fire!

Those ships might look like the ones from ancient Greece, but they couldn't be more different!

They have internal combustion engines, and their beam sails give off magical energy readings too!

It might be a seriously strange mix of technology, but it also gives them a really distinct sound!

And that means all we have to do is target the sources of that sound!

Exactly! Yaaay!

We got 'em! Now, hard to port!

Send out the Lamia! Go, go, go!

Aw crap!

It's more of those Lamia that attacked us when we first got here!

Tell them they should've known better than to try the same trick twice! We figured out a plan for them ages ago!

Cut the engine! Launch the special torpedoes!

A-are you sure this is a good idea!?

Of course. It's all there in the report.

Back when they first attacked my ship, it was the engine that suffered the most damage by far.

And since Lamia are serpentine creatures, it's not hard to figure out why.

They're drawn to heat.

Ohhh!

Exactly.

So all we have to do is fire specialized decoy torpedoes that give off heat signatures as they move.

The Lamia have begun homing in on the torpedoes' heat!

Good! We'll start the engine back up once we've put enough distance between them and us!

I'm counting on you, engine room! We don't have a second to waste!

Aye, aye, sir! You don't gotta tell me that!

For whatever reason, most likely their fear of Poseidon, our enemy here doesn't seem to have anything in the way of submarine technology.

They probably figure it's fine to sail atop the sea, but to swim beneath its surface is tantamount to blasphemy.

Whatever the case, it means the Storm Border has an overwhelming advantage over them there, so make sure you use it to destroy as many of them as you can!

Now fire torpedoes from the third and fourth tubes too!

Aye, sir! Hurry up and get those first two tubes reloaded!

We've made contact with the enemy! Board the ship! Kill them all!

Hahaha! Sorry to burst your bubble, but the only ones you'll find here are me and a buncha Nemo extras!

And none of us have any combat value at all!

Speak for yourself! I don't know about you, but I think I have incredible value!

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...Oh, whatever. Just kill them all!

Dammit, looks like these guys don't have much in the way of humor.

Phew, made it! That was close!

There you have it. Now it's time to play defense! Go on, get 'em!

And be ready to fend off a veritable mountain of them!

You got it!

Dammit, they're starting to catch on to us! Look out! They're throwing two ships at us now!

And they're mixing in Lamia among their lineup, too! That must mean you-know-who's almost here!

Plus, our airborne reinforcements aren't keeping up well! C'mon, Paris! Get it together!

Will do!

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I never dreamed I'd one day be carrying my rider's mortal enemy. But I guess now's no time to complain. I should get off my high horse! Guheehee.

I-I suppose so!

...Wait. You ARE a horse!

So? It's just an idiom, no need to take it so seriously.

Oh. I guess that's true...

That's enough chatter, Paris! We have work to do.

And just to be clear, this isn't about me being jealous that you're talking to another animal besides me or anything!

What kind of throwback mascot are you supposed to be?

I'm an ANCIENT Greek god, thank you very much.

Okay, let's do this!!

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Enemy detected, nine o'clock high! Take that chariot down!!!

Look out, Xanthos!

I see 'em, I see 'em.

Dammit, all our shots are missing! It's too damn fast!

Yes! All I have to do is keep this up

I guess we'll just have to bring out the big guns. Bring out the large-scale annihilators!

Huh? Did someone just say something?

Yes. One of the soldiers on the ground said something about large-scale weapons. Probably cover a big area.

N-no way.

... ...

Yes way, it would seem.

Well, shit.

R-ruuun!!!

A new kind of enemy!? Dammit, I didn't plan for these guys!

That bastard Odysseus must have been saving them for this occasion!

Well, we can't afford to falter here. Take them down now! I'll help!

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No!

All we can do now is wade into the fight and win!