Nabor shouted at the sailors on deck, his hands gripping the rudder tightly, controlling the longship as it navigated through the giant waves stirred up by the storm.
Although as a fishing boat captain from Lannisport, Nabor had experienced countless similar storm surges, he still did not dare to be careless, because he had seen too many companions, due to underestimating the waves, ultimately die in the spray.
Just now, a sailor was swept into the sea by a giant wave and seemed to be finished. That sailor was not a novice, but an old hand who had worked at sea for more than ten years. Now, due to carelessness, he was also buried in the sea. It shows that in front of the sea, old hands and new hands are all the same.
"Look! Nabor! Look over there, Mermaid's Fury! There's Mermaid's Fury over there!" At this moment, the lookout, who had tied himself to the mast, shouted loudly with his booming voice, pointing his hand towards the sea on the port side of the ship.
Upon hearing this, Nabor looked over in a panic, only to see a strange white line appearing on the distant horizon.
In reality, it was not a white line, but a row of giant waves. These giant waves were called Mermaid's Fury, because some said that the giant waves were caused by angry mermaids rolling at the bottom of the sea, and when swept to the bottom of the sea by the giant waves, one could still see mermaids swimming nearby.
No matter how absurd this claim, for any ship sailing at sea, the appearance of Mermaid's Fury meant death; no one could survive in such giant waves.
"Tie yourselves, tie yourselves to the mast, secure yourselves," Nabor shouted loudly. Although he knew this would be useless, he had no other choice.
After giving the order, he immediately turned the bow of the ship and headed in the direction of the Mermaid's Fury giant wave. He needed to get the ship to flip over the body of the wave before the giant wave reached its peak and began to roll. Only then would he and his ship have a chance of survival.
However, he seemed to have misjudged the intensity of the Mermaid's Fury. When he could clearly see the full extent of the Mermaid's Fury, he found that the height of the Mermaid's Fury giant wave far exceeded any giant wave he had ever seen. It was impossible for his ship to flip over this wall of giant waves.
Just as he was sinking into despair, he suddenly heard a peal of bells from the sea. This peal of bells was the most beautiful he had ever heard. It was louder and grander than the bells of the Sept, and even the immense sound created by the storm could not drown out this peal of bells, making anyone who heard it feel a sense of peace.
"Is this the Stranger's call?" Nabor couldn't help but exclaim.
And the sight that followed made him even more incredible, because the dark clouds above his head actually dispersed with the sound of the bells, and the storm stopped because of it.
No, not all of the storm stopped; the surrounding sea remained stormy, with towering waves, but only the area where Nabor was located was incredibly calm, with only gusts of sea breeze blowing. Sunlight also streamed down from the cracks in the dispersed dark clouds, shining on the sea, giving people a strange sense of sacredness.
The distant giant waves, losing the support of the storm, broke into two sections and continued to advance in different directions. The broken part was precisely in this calm sea area. That section of giant waves quickly fell, turning into waves that advanced under Nabor's ship, lifting and lowering Nabor's vessel.
At this moment, Nabor's gaze was no longer on the surrounding environment, because the moment the giant waves fell, the scene behind them had already fallen into his eyes, and what he saw was a dense array of ships covering the sea, rapidly sailing towards him.
As the fleet approached, Nabor also discovered that the lingering and grand bell sound came from one of the three-masted ships. On the helm platform of this ship, there was also a platform where a large bell was hung. Around the large bell were more than a dozen priests of the storm god, and a tall and strong storm god priest was carrying a wooden stake, striking the large bell. Every time the large bell rang, the mysterious patterns on the surface of the large bell would shine with bursts of light, and the surrounding storm would dissipate as the light spread. This was why this sea area was so calm in the storm.
"Sea Hag! Sea Dog!" At this moment, an old sailor on the ship suddenly shouted loudly: "It's the fleet of the Three Sea Monsters of the Stepstones! Sea Hag Asha Greyjoy and Sea Dog Beller Blackteas!"
Following the old sailor's shouts, Nabor finally noticed the flags on the ship, and his heart was instantly filled with shock and apprehension.
Various rumors about the Three Sea Monsters of the Stepstones had long spread to various ports with passing merchant ships, and Lannisport was naturally no exception.
Among the Three Sea Monsters, Sea Hag Asha Greyjoy was the most famous. This was not only because she was the leader of the Three Sea Monsters, nor because she was a woman, but because her abilities were the strongest among the Three Sea Monsters.
Her Sea Hag fleet roamed the Summer Sea, from Slavers Bay in the east to Oldtown in the west, and to the Summer Isles in the south. This vast sea area had almost become her backyard. Pirates who dared to enter this sea area were like prey to be slaughtered in front of her, each becoming a battle example that brought her fame.
One of her most outstanding naval battles was when she, with her flagship Black Wind alone, sank the ships of her uncle Euron Greyjoy's fleet, chasing her uncle Euron Greyjoy like prey, forcing him to flee in desperation to the shore, eventually abandoning his newly bought ships and escaping secretly from land to avoid her pursuit.
Besides the Sea Hag, the Sea Monster Dagon also had a very great reputation, but Dagon's reputation did not only come from his Sea Monster fleet, but more from his control of a real Sea Monster. This Sea Monster could easily drag a mast-sailed ship to the bottom of the sea, and its appearance was like the Sea Monster of the drowned god, so some also called Sea Monster Dagon the Son of the drowned god.
However, the people of the Iron Islands had considerable objections to this, because if Dagon was the Son of the drowned god, then it would mean that they were inferior to the storm god, the drowned god's sworn enemy. It should be known that the storm god's incarnation was Lord of Summerhall, Prince of the Narrow Sea, Linde Terra, to whom Dagon pledged allegiance.
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