Floating Monsters lifted massive pillars, trying to attack the amphibious exploration ship, but Charles clearly wasn't going to let them succeed. Stirring his bat wings, he met them head-on.
A shrill screech filled the air, and the Floating Monsters fled in panic.
In the fuel factory, a pirate, perched on the shoulder of a Floating Monster with a mirror box in hand, tried to rush over to relieve it. Unfortunately, Charles wasn't fighting alone this time.
Gunshots rang out, and the pirate's flesh was instantly plowed by bullets, he spat blood and plummeted to the ground.
Behind the amphibious exploration ship, hundreds of crew members, armed with various weapons, surged forward.
In the lead was James, now hugely transformed, wearing armor with a black thick cannon barrel slung over his shoulder.
Brown rats scurried up and down his body as the fuse on the barrel ignited; with a loud boom, a tall tower at the distant fuel factory collapsed instantly.