The Villains Need to Save the World?

, Mr.
Gaden.
Do you know any fishing villages nearby? I’d like to go and have a look there.
Maybe they’ll have the ship I need.”

“Well…There are, but…Grand Duke Baize, you are our Empire’s nobility so you should understand, it would be inconvenient for me to say more.”

But what made Bella speechless even more was the fact that Ship Owner Gaden’s face turned strange as soon as the fishing villages nearby were mentioned.
No matter what Bella asked later, he never brought them up again, nor did he mention anything outside of Oldrango City and the locations of the fishing villages nearby.
It seems like he was withholding important information from her.

Seeing that there was no valuable information she could get out of him, she could only take Lisha’s hand and leave the port.
Since Gaden won’t talk, then she won’t force him.
If not for Princess Ariel’s sake, she would long have thrown Gaden onto the deck of his own ship and let him experience the safety of the ship for himself.

“Bella, why don’t we just make do with it? I saw the other academies come to order ships as well.”

“No can do, Kriss! How can I let you guys go out to sea on a dangerous ship!”

Bella directly rejected Kriss’s suggestion.
Since finding out from one of the Ancient Twelve Demon Kings that the Oceanic Race has been constantly attacking the human continent, Bella had a hunch that the Oceanic Race would definitely be stirring up trouble during the Twelve Academies’ exchange.
But just as Bella was hesitating and considering whether she should visit a nearby fishing village, she bumped into an acquaintance near the entrance of the pier.

The little sister of the Golden Legend Society’s chairman, Student Union President Caroline of Frederica Academy, was dressed in a navy blue school uniform and was chatting cheerfully with a few girls as she walked in.
A charming luster was cast on the flaxen-colored long hair draped over her shoulder under the sunlight.
Caroline could sense Bella’s gaze and when she looked towards it, her smile froze on her face.

Bella’s gaze caused Caroline to surrender immediately.
She excused herself from the other girls and came before Bella alone.
Even though she was the Student Union President of Frederica Academy, Caroline kept no secrets from Bella, whom she had been pushed by plenty of times.
It wasn’t just Caroline.
Back then, at New Moon Island, the entire Frederica Academy’s cast of beauties was bullied into submission by her.

When Bella saved her from the hands of the ogres, she also had her way with her a few times, so Caroline has already completely submitted to her now.
Even if Bella has changed into a mage outfit, she could still recognize her.
Caroline did not dare to pretend she did not see Bella, and so she came over very obediently.

“Mis…Bella, you’re here as well! Did you need anything from me?”

“Caroline, long time no see.
You seem to have grown a lot again.
From the looks of things I’ll need to find some time so I can get to have a deeper chat with you.”

“Bella, it’s still early, better not.
What about at night…”

“Alright, let’s talk business first.
Caroline, we can discuss this again once we arrive at Alan Island.”

Frederica Academy is one of the Twelve Academies of the human continent, located in the port city of Freka, southeast of the Aldridge Empire.
They were considered one of the local academies.
Their academy was more adept at sea navigation and maritime commerce, but not so much magic.
In terms of strength, Frederica is ranked at the bottom of the Twelve Academies, and so half of them have come this time as spectators.

From Caroline, Bella was able to learn important information.
Most of the fishing villages outside of Oldrango City have been attacked by the Oceanic Race; now only a few of them could provide ships.
The Aldridge Empire has long silenced this piece of news, but Caroline knew more about the situation due to her participation in maritime trade.

After a brief exchange of information with Caroline, Bella brought the girls to the easternmost fishing village of Robin.
Due to Bella’s identity as a Grand Duke, the soldiers stationed at the gates of Oldrango City did not dare to stop her and could only let them go.
Right now, Oldrango City has actually implemented a gating policy that restricts general students from leaving the city.
President Caroline knew the terror of Bella’s ability, so she did not need to remind her to be careful.

When Bella and the girls arrived at Robin Village, she realized that this is no fishing village, this was simply a battlefield.
You could see the red of flames from a good distance away.
The entirety of Robin Village had been set on fire with dense smoke clouds all over the place.
Charred remains could be seen all over the ruins of the village.
The deaths were tragic.
The hands of many of the dead were facing up, pointing straight at the sky, as if to express their dismay at their sudden death.

Bella remembered to ask the guards at the city before setting off to see what was up with the smoke outside the city.
During that time, the soldiers said with serious faces that it was smoke from the cooking endeavors happening at the villages.
But isn’t that smoke a bit too big? It could practically cover up the entirety of the sky over in that direction.

The fleet that attacked Robin Village was stopped on the waters nearby.
They were raining down magic cannonballs at Robin Village.
The scale of this fleet was no worse than the Bella’s Demon King Coalition during the war on the Beastman continent.
They were deep sea warships painted black and outfitted with dozens of magic-guided cannons.

The ones fighting with the Oceanic Race are a small division of the Aldridge Empire’s eighteenth legion from the eastern garrison of the Aldridge Empire stationed at Robin Village, as well as mercenary troops recruited from the Mercenary Union and the private armies of the small and medium noble families near Oldrango City who came to offer support.
The troops totalled around a hundred thousand men.
The invading Oceanic Race numbered only about several tens of thousands, but relying on their superior equipment, they were actually able to defeat the combined army of over a hundred thousand men without leaving them any chance to fight back.

The high-ranking mages of the Aldridge Empire have all been moved to Alan Island so there were no high-ranking mages here.
Other than holding up defensive barriers against the Oceanic Race’s cannons, they were unable to make any effective attacks against the fleet far away at sea.
Their magic control was not effective enough for them to shoot any projectiles to such a far location.
The Empire’s navy did not have cannons either, so faced with the Oceanic Race’s fleet equipped with magic-guiding cannons, they didn’t dare to come seek death.

“Hm? The deep sea fleet’s ship doesn’t look too bad? Jackpot.
We were just worrying about whether we’d find a warship, so Kriss, let’s go and seize those ships!”

“Yes, Bella.
We’ll take your lead.”

Bella and the girls took a side path and passed the outer edge of Robin Village without being seen by the human empire’s coalition soldiers stationed here.
Moreover, Ariel and Bella’s identities were currently those of the Empire’s princess and grand duke.
The Aldridge Empire’s army would not let the powerful people of their own Empire come into harm and will definitely step in to stop Bella and the girls from heading to the frontline, so it’s better to avoid them for now.

On the deck of the Oceanic Race’s allied fleet’s flagship, “Black Pearl”, Ocean General Sinir was commanding his men to shell the humans’ positions.
They heard that the Nation of Arcana was going to be difficult to deal with, but now it seems those were just rumors.
In fact, the human navy did not even have the courage to head to sea to fight them.

Ocean General Sinir stands more than two meters tall and was wearing black deep sea armor.
He looked more like a warrior of a magic tribe.
Behind him was a huge black greatsword still stained with blood.
Who knows which unlucky guy left that behind.

“These humans are too weak; this isn’t interesting at all.
We’ll go straight to Port Casper and blast that later.
It doesn’t seem like occupying Oldrango is going to be much of a problem either!”

“The General is wise.
These humans are simply cowards.”

The warships that were originally moving were suddenly locked in place.
Many of the Oceanic Race soldiers could not steady themselves and fell over on the deck.
The entire fleet of a dozen warships at sea was stuck in place as the surface of the ocean around them was completely frozen.
Most of the magic-guiding cannons were fire types, so they were half paralyzed as seen when the cold breeze blew over.
If the human army had been equipped with cannons, then that Oceanic Race’s fleet would only be able to wait for death.

“What’s going on here? The holy magic mentors of the humans clearly aren’t supposed to be here.”

“Sorry big guy, but I’ll be confiscating this ship.”