Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three alchemical bombs were shot by the ship's ballista into the sky, hundreds of meters high, and exploded with a thunderous roar.
These were no ordinary illumination shells, but stealth-breaking illumination shells crafted from the Second Circle spell Flash Dust.
They were the latest magic product from the Red Robe Mages of Ser.
Priced quite exorbitantly, each costing a thousand Gold Coins, just firing these three shells had cost three thousand Gold Coins.
But they were extremely popular among pirates, in high demand yet undersupplied, because they were worth every coin.
The light they emitted was incomparable to that of a regular Illumination Spell, at least three to four times brighter; it made the questionable sea surface as bright as day, tearing through darkness and revealing anything hidden by invisibility.