Unexpected help arrived with the heavy rainfall!

Thunderstorm arrived as soon as the Sun is finally set. Then, it rained. And it rained for days! As a result, all fighting ceased with the pirates are unwilling to go attack blindly due to the fact that they can no longer see anything far from where they are standing. The same also applied to the survivors who barricaded themselves near the Azure Palace.

For many days and nights, the heavy rain kept going. The rains not only put out the fires but also kept the scents of the corpses hidden as well.

As the pirates cannot do anything but maintaining their fleet and occupying the neighborhoods they already seized, things are going quite differently behind the barricaded areas.

Behind the lines, the religious leaders such as the Elder of the Reformed Church, the Bishop of the Catholic Church, the Imam of the Mosque of New Rotterdam, the Chief Rabbi of New Rotterdam Synagogue, the Mahant of the local Hindu Temple and the Shinto Priestess are leading the prayers and providing all helps that they can to the survivors while the Magistrate and the officers of the law enforcement department worked with the garrison's commanding officers to help keep the security tightened.

Despite the fact that the fighting is now ceased at the moment, it is nothing but temporary respite. And to make it worse, such heavy rainfall that kept going for days and nights like this one will be nothing but the delay for the reinforcement from The New Hague and also make it impossible for the King to request for military assistance from the Finance Minister that he appointed as the Magistrate of the Axeman City. Many survivors knew this. So they know when the rain ceased, it shall be their last stand.

Now, it is the fifth day since the raining has begun and no signs of stopping appeared at all.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"What was that?!" Brittany asked after she heard three loud explosions!

"You heard that too?" You asked her as you turned to look at her.

Then, Valeria and Rain run into your room and ask the same question.

"Did you guys hear-" Rain said but you interrupted her.

"Yes, we did." You said after your turned to look at her and the Italian-American girl.

"Then we all heard the same thing. And they came from the port." Valeria said as she stared at you.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"You girls wanted to see what is going on, right?" You asked all three of them, which they nodded in reply.

After that, you leave your room with the three girls and head for the nearest balcony. There, you see that Elijah is already standing there with Queen Cynthia. And Elijah kept acting like his spyglass does not function well or something despite the fact that the waters from the rains barely touched its glass.

When you looked out at the port, you can barely see anything due to the heavy rainfall but you can definitely see that the blockade is being broken by the three new ships are arriving in the south!

And while you cannot see them clearly, they definitely do not looked like armed galleons oar-powered vessels at all.

"No... way..." Elijah said as he's looking at what is going on down there with a spyglass.

"What is it?" You asked him, wondering what he saw over there.

"Those are steamships! And they are demolishing the pirates' blockade with their cannons!" Elijah said as even he cannot even believed what he is witnessing at the harbor down below himself!

"What are steamships?" Rain asked everyone curiously because she never heard of such things before.

"Were they like the steamboat that the Sullivan family has in their possession?" Brittany asked the ghoul.

"Kind of similar but they are way bigger!" Elijah said without turning to look at her as he keeps his only functional eye on the blockade that is being demolished by three mysterious steam-powered naval vessels.

At the harbor, three mysterious steamships formed a beeline and open fire upon the unsuspecting blockade of the pirates with all cannons on their sides that are facing them. And they are firing at such speed and ferocity that the pirate vessels are unable to retaliate in time!

In a matter of ten minutes, the entire left flank of the pirates' blockade is turned into a pile of destroyed wooden ships. The three mysterious vessels then broke off the formation and begin to sail northward to engage the remaining pirate ships.

Then, the rain begins to slowly disappear and the Sun begin to shine for the first time in five days. And when it shone down, the remaining pirates get to see the destroyed remnants of the blockade that used to be there.

And that is also when the flags of these mysterious ships are shown as well. Their flags are blue and also have green cross on each of them.

"No... it's them!" Noseless Pete said when he saw the flags of these steamships.

"Who are they, uncle?" Bonita asked, having no idea who they are at all.

"These are ships from navy of the Republic of Florida!" Noseless Pete said as he kept his eyes on one of those flags!

"The Republic of Florida is real?!" Bonita said as she cannot believed it at all!

"Yes, they are! And I used to raid them for loots and slaves before!" Noseless Pete replied to his busty Latina niece.

"What do we do?!" One of the pirates asked him, waiting for his Captain's order.

"Sink those ships, of course!" Noseless Pete said and upon hearing that, his crew begin to pilot the ship forward while also signaling the other ships to break off the blockade and begin the attack on the incoming Floridan naval vessels.

As soon as they are in the position, they opened the hatches and push all loaded breech-loading cannons forward. But as soon as they did so, the Floridan steamships quickly opened fire upon them with the same speed and the same ferocity they unleashed earlier!

Faced with either the total annihilation or jumping into the waters, many of the pirates chose to jump off the ships! And among them is none other but Noseless Pete's niece, Bonita Quezada!

"AAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Bonita screamed as she's falling into the water after she jumped off the burning vessel.

SPLASH!

"Ooh!" Bonita sighed as she raised her head above the water and begin to swim to New Rotterdam's opposite riverbank. Many surviving pirates soon followed her example and swim there because the inhabitants of New Rotterdam will definitely welcomed them with either imprisonments or even executions for what they did to their city.

"Uncle? Uncle!" Bonita said as she's looking around for her uncle among the surviving pirates. However, she cannot find him at all.

"Ooh..." Noseless Pete groaned not far from where she and the surviving pirates are.

She quickly rushed to the source of his sound along with the others and found him lying on the riverbank with his body is full of bleeding wounds and the only remaining limb left on him is his right arm.

"Quick! Help him get up!" Bonita ordered her men to help her get her maternal uncle up.

Once she has her maternal uncle on her back, she begins to walk southward.

"Where are we going?" One of the surviving pirates asked her, wanting to know where she is taking her uncle and the survivors.

"To the Divine Mountain! Maybe some folks there can helped us!" Bonita said as she continued her march southward with her injured maternal uncle on her back.

"And will we come back again to have our ****?" Another one of the surviving pirates asked her, wondering will they assembled a new fleet to attack New Rotterdam in the future or not.

Upon hearing that, Bonita stopped in her tracks and then turn to look at them with bits of tears in her eyes.

"I am done with **** and piracy." Bonita said with shaky voice as a way of covering up the fact that she was the one responsible for this by lying to her maternal uncle that she was **** by the guards while being imprisoned in New Rotterdam's prison.

Back at the harbor of New Rotterdam, the three naval vessels from the Republic of Florida finally anchored and their crews began to come down to greet the inhabitants of New Rotterdam.

"Greetings, my name is Lajos Buchanan, the Rear Admiral in service of the navy of the Republic of Florida and the one in charge of this expedition. May we speak with the highest authority here to discuss matters regarding diplomacy between us and you?" Lajos asked as he's stepping forward while his crewmen who are dressed up in fine white sailor uniforms are standing behind him.