Like the North Star cruiser gliding on ice, it came to an abrupt stop.
Its cold, steel hull had just traced a 180-degree semicircle in the void.
Though such maneuvering, in the critical and biased eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Saleria Longbow Fleet, was still somewhat clumsy, with the stern swaying uncontrollably and the rotation angle not quite right... the North Star still effortlessly brought the Ragged Fleet's left front flank within the thirty-degree fire range of its main gun.
At the same time, the pirate Phoenix destroyer circling from the opposite direction completed the same move.
The two warships, one on the left and one on the right, trapped the Ragged Fleet like a pair of pincers.
The Ragged Fleet completely ignored the pirates' flanking circles. It wasn't until they stubbornly tore apart the remaining two armed merchant ships and an escort ship of the pirate fleet with savage gunfire that they began to leisurely turn the rudder.
