Chapter 126: The Defense of Two Eyes Island (5)
Six ships formed a fleet that sailed across the dark blue sea.
The dragonman youngster stood at the side of the ship and felt the sea wind on his face.
The red dragon scales reflected the sunlight and emitted a copper luster.
“A school of fish detected ahead!”
“A school of ghost face fish!”
“No, it is a school of ghost face fish and noble flying porgies fighting each other.”
The lookout pointed and shouted to pass on the information.
After the mercenaries heard this, they expressed a trace of excitement.
“What great luck!”
“When coming across fish schools fighting, we only need to pick up the ones left behind.”
“A pity, I wanted to enjoy a fight.”
After the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ mercenaries got through the beast tide defense battle, the mentality of a number of them more or less changed.
The entire mercenary corps’ internal atmosphere suddenly changed for the better.
It was precisely because of their mutual cooperation and dependence on each other during battle that some comrades-in-arms were formed.
The secret competition and internal instability between members during the early stage of establishment had come and gone.
The mercenaries had managed to institute a hierarchical relationship.
After this battle, the entire mercenary corps seemed to have been cleansed inside and out.
The dragonman youngster felt that commanding the mercenary corps was now much smoother than before.
“Reduce speed, approach slowly.”
“All personnel be on your guard.”
“Be alert for fish school attacks.”
The dragonman youngster issued a series of orders.
The mercenaries began to push up cannons, rope in some sails, inspect hulls, and wait in certain places.
The ships gradually approached the fish school battlefield.
The dragonman youngster calmly gazed into the distance.
The fighting between the schools of fish was very fierce.
This was normal.
The beast tide had reached and attacked Two Eyes Island, but because of Hun Tong’s performance, it was utterly routed.
After the beast tide collapsed, many remnants of it sojourned in the waters around Two Eyes Island.
Because Two Eyes Island’s rising and falling attracted many ocean predators, all of the fish schools in the beast tide were essentially carnivores.
When the beast tide passed, these different types of predators began to match their strength against and battle each other.
The young man’s face was tranquil, his heart too.
The Deep Sea Monster Fish gave him information far soon and with more detail than any lookout could.
It was precisely because of this scouting that the dragonman youngster had intentionally adjusted his course to guide the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps towards discovering these fish schools.
The dragonman youngster patiently waited for a bit until the outcome of the battle between fish schools was decided.
The winner was the ghost face fish school.
Their ghosts troubled the noble flying porgies greatly.
The flying porgy school didn’t have clerics to solve this problem.
Therefore, despite the ghost face fish school being smaller than the flying porgy school, they were ultimately the winner.
“Attack!”
Seeing the opportunity mature, the dragonman youngster led his troops into the battlefield.
The ghost face fish were almost depleted, and the victorious survivors were wounded and dispirited.
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps were a tiger setting upon sheep, and after a slaughter, the battlefield became calm.
They immediately began to clean up the battlefield.
A large number of harvested fish was crammed into the holds.
The mercenaries were quite practiced at doing this.
During the day of the beast tide invasion, they had captured a large quantity of resources.
It could even be said they filled their coffers.
If this harvest continued for one or two months, the mercenary corps could purchase a manor in an important imperial city.
The survivors not only gained money but also advanced their main project – the bloodline medicine database had consequently made a lot of progress.
Zi Di was in charge of establishing the bloodline medicine testing database. She and Cang Xu had already begun to prepare the materials needed for the Bloodline Purification Formation.
Anyways, the most valuable alchemy materials from the beast tide was in Hun Tong’s hands.
Two gold level magic beasts were slain by his hands.
Whether it was the seafloor mountain snail or the noble flying porgy, both gold level leaders were full of gold level alchemy materials.
The Bloodline Purification Formation just happened to need some choice morsels of mountain snail flesh.
Thus, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps asked Hun Tong for a deal.
But Hun Tong’s reply was that he would sell these spoils at the auction.
By doing this, he would undoubtably be the one who benefited the most.
After all, he had sold some items ahead of time to the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps. But now, after the beast tide, he now has even more materials of even higher quality.
It is always said that when there are risks, there were usually profits.
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps was left helpless and could only wait for the auction.
Fortunately, it was a few days away.
During that time, besides needing to repair their ships and treat their wounded, they also took Mercenary Guild missions related to cleaning up the beast tide.
After spending half an hour, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps finished cleaning up the battlefield. Then, following the dragonman youngster’s lead, they rushed to the next location.
Night was falling.
The mercenaries were both exhausted and content.
Today’s fish catch was abundant, and although it couldn’t compare to when the beast tide was most turbulent, the combat pressure and risks were far fewer.
It was a wonderful experience that many mercenaries were reluctant to part with.
Many people ruefully sighed: if such fish harvests continued, they wouldn’t need to live dangerously as mercenaries and instead take money and become wealthy.
Some people even proclaimed: since the mercenary corps had such good detection puppets, it would be better to become a hunting group and specialize in ocean fishing.
Such an opinion indicated that the vast majority of those who lived as mercenaries were only in it for their livelihood.
Of course, such calls for this were merely superficial.
Most of their mercenaries were pirates or lived on islands year round, thus they knew that beast tides were rare.
“Report!”
“A small ordinary ship had appeared ahead.”
A lookout on the mast suddenly shouted and pointed.
“What are we afraid of?”
“We are the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps!”
“Go on and kill them, that fish school belongs to us.”
“They were currently pursuing a fish school; it was their last hunt of the day.
Because the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps possessed a formidable information advantage, within a day, they had fished up almost all of the most valuable fish schools from the waters around Two Eyes Island.
The leftovers had low value, low enough that the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps wouldn’t be going out tomorrow.
The mercenaries all knew this, and despite being beaten, the harvest allowed them to maintain their vigorous spirit.
They had experienced the Two Eyes Island’s beast tide defense battle and also knew the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps position in Two Eyes Island’s hierarchy, therefore, they were unconcerned about a small ordinary ship.
But the dragoman youngster’s eyes flashed gravely.
The Deep Sea Monster Fish transmitted information, illustrating that this small ordinary ship was not so ordinary after all. Or more accurately, the sailors were not ordinary.
“Pursue them.”
“Hold the sails at full.”
“All personnel on guard!”
The dragonman youngster ordered.
He didn’t choose to disclose this information.
Scout type alchemy puppets couldn’t investigate to this degree.
“A group of ice blade fish is charging towards us?” On the small ship, a young fighter’s brows were raised when he heard this news.
“Captain.” His first mate analyzed, “It should be a remnant of the beast tide.”
“Ice blade fish have considerable value, many of their parts can be used in alchemy.”
“Correct.” The youthful captain nodded repeatedly. Every strand of his blue hair was vertically sticking up from his scalp and formed the shape of an explosion.
“Hehe.” The youthful captain laughed heartily, “Pretty good luck to have a fish school approaching us as we are coming to Two Eyes Island’s auction.”
“This is our money!”
“The ship won’t do; I shall take action personally.”