Chapter 156: Fishmen Ambush
The dwarfs were stupefied.
It took a few seconds for them to react.
“Hehe, how interesting, those damned humans suffered damage.”
“Be careful, we are in danger too!”
A group of fishmen rushing past noticed the dwarfs.
Men Shi bravely stepped forward and took out his stem war hammer, gripping it tightly with both hands, centering it in his chest.
“Fishmen, we are not your enemy.” Men Shi growled, his thick eyebrows and big eyes tenaciously watching the fishmen’s leader.
The fishmen’s leader was steeped in a silver level aura, riding a four legged ocean lizard, and had many bones covering his body.
The ash gray skeleton covering him looked like armor.
It was the Steel Bone Knight bloodline.
The fishman had an extraordinary bloodline!
The blue skinned lizard growled threateningly at Men Shi and was becoming agitated.
The fishman leader looked deeply at Men Shi, then across Men Shi’s dwarven people. Then with shivering killing intent, he clapped his lizard’s head.
“gklllrma”
He said something, and the subordinates he commanded charged from behind him and brushed past the dwarfs.
The dwarfs walked pass the precipice of death.
Upon seeing the fishmen leave, the dwarfs whose hearts were in their throats groaned, all of them wanted to collapse from that.
“We were nearly finished.”
“What can we do? We can’t die on Two Eyes Island after getting free.”
“We don’t need to help those humans!”
Men Shi said, “We should still return to the hotel, I have food and clothing there, and I have some simple weapons for you too.”
The allocation of weapons was not odd.
This world had cultivators and numerous magic beasts. Even something as powerful as the Sheng Ming Empire had bandits in its hinterlands and was never able to achieve a completely safe society.
Adding on the rampant pirates, Men Shi would have prepared more weapons if he hadn’t been saving money to purchase his clansmen.
The dwarfs didn’t dare to stay in place, and they sped up their pace towards the hotel.
Boom, bang, rumble.
Three fireballs continuously bombarded the auction hall’s wall.
It was Zi Di and Cang Xu using fire path rings.
The auction hall’s external wall was thicker and was constantly wrapped up with the coral ball cage tree’s branches and vines.
“Even if we use all of our magic power to bomb indiscriminately, we won’t gain anything.” Cang Xu shook his head.
Zi Di looked grave and carefully surveyed the yellow light in front of her, “The auction hall is part of the coral ball cage tree. Its growth has gone wild. Furthermore, it seems there is also a divine spell’s power here.”
At the same time, detection alchemy puppets were constantly feeding information on the surroundings.
Zi Di and Cang Xu knew the fishmen had surged up and attacked every strategic location on the island.
Cang Xu replied, “The culprit behind this is the fishmen! Xi Dai Zi is a fishman, the Vinegar jar Pirates are all fishmen, and although we haven’t seen them yet, this should be related to them!”
The necromancer’s brows creased tightly, and he gazed at the well-fortified auction hall as he calmly analyzed, “The Commander’s defense is outstanding, and he has Zong Ge at his side, he won’t be in danger for now.”
It wasn’t easy for the Vinger Jar Pirates to pull off such a big move.”
“However, this should be their limit.”
“If they were stronger, wouldn’t it be better to eliminate Hun Tong and the rest right away? The auction hall is just a cage that has trapped them temporarily, so they can’t take charge of the situation.”
“We are not the fishmen’s main target!”
When Zi Di heard Cang Xu’s words, she reluctantly restrained her fretfulness.
Cang Xu’s words indeed made sense.
Even if the auction hall was a fishman’s killing move, the most important target was not the dragonman youngster, but rather Hun Tong.
Of course, more crucially was that it was very hard for them to break into the auction hall.
Cang Xu sighed, “The Vinegar Jar Pirates’ move was so big that it caught nearly all of Two Eyes Islands’ cultivators in it.
“But the fact they aren’t defending this place indicates what?”
“It indicates they aren’t worried about people breaking into the auction hall. Our attempts just now also prove that we don’t have the internal energy to smash this obstruction in a short amount of time.”
After hearing what was said, Zi Di turned around to look at something close by.
It was a group of people.
They had been the slaves they had just purchased.
They were headed by a mother and child. The mother was blond and beautiful and was holding her son tight.
Just as they left the auction hall, the fishmen attacked Two Eyes Island, causing both of them to panic and at a loss.
Zi Di’s eyes stayed on the mother and son for only an instant before sliding past to look at a middle aged woman in the crowd.
“Is she older sister Qing Xin? If we have her, we’d have three magicians, will that be enough to break into the auction hall?” Zi Di wondered.
Although she believed it was a high possibility that they were Qing Xin, before confirming it, everything was only just a possibility.
Zi Di couldn’t expose her identity right now.
Therefore, the situation was actually even more complicated.
Suppose the other person was Qing Xin…
Zi Di couldn’t say who she really was, and if that was the case, she wouldn’t be able to swiftly gain Qing Xin’s trust and count on her help.
There was another crucial thing, how strong was Qing Xin?
Prior rum0ors said she died in a bandit raid, and that she got away through playing dead, was that really the case?
She concealed her identity, does that mean she had a hidden trouble that was hard talk about?
When Cang Xu saw Zi Di looking, he immediately understood what Zi Di was thinking.
His voice became somewhat cold, “I advise you not do that.”
Zi Di sighed and nodded.
It was too risky to expose her true identity!
Furthermore, Qing Xin was a silver level magician, and even with her power combined with Cang Xu’s and Zi Di’s, the likelihood of breaking into the auction hall was very small.
Didn’t you see that Hun Tong and the other gold levels are trapped inside and unable to escape momentarily?
After thoroughly dispelling thoughts of attacking the auction hall, Zi Di recovered her former shrewdness, “We have more important work now, protecting the ships at port.”
“The fishmen are attacking Two Eyes Island, the port is one of their main targets.”
“We have to ensure our ships are still there.”
“By the time the commander and the rest break out, there won’t be any ships left to sail, they’ll be trapped on Two Eyes Island and the desperate struggle with the fishmen.”
Cang Xu’s expression eased somewhat, “Then we should do that! However, what do you intend to do with these slaves?”
Zi Di whispered back, “We will put these people near the port, but we cannot put them on the ships. I need a chance to talk privately, and when that time comes, we’ll play it by ear.”
This was a sensible plan, and it immediately won Cang Xu’s endorsement.
Zi Di looked deeply back at the auction hall, then bit her teeth as she turned to leave.
She and Cang Xu helped the slaves run towards the port.
“Nmlgmlalgsmlgn”
“Gnmnnla”
“Gmlamgngnmal”
The fishmen roared from under the light cannon turrets.
Their leader was the Steel Bone Knight who left Men Shi, and the dwarfs go – Fishman Gang Kui.
The reason why they let the dwarfs go was because they had more important military targets.
The light cannon turrets!
They had been recently built by Hun Tong and had been a very prominent defensive weapon during the beast tide.
But as Fishman Gang Kui and his troops charged towards the light cannon turrets, they remained still.
Ding.
Gang Kui controlled his mount, raised his 2 meter long lance, and crashed into a light cannon turret’s door, the first to charge up.
The light cannon turret’s guards were all on the ground.
None had any breath, their eyes were rolled back to their whites, and purple poisonous blood was flowing from their mouths.
In the shadows, the silhouette of a purple scaled fishman shaman appeared.
Guang Kui promptly saluted her.
The fishman shaman nodded back to him, and like bubbles, the silhouette dissipated.
Guang Kui quickly ascended to the top, stuck his tribe’s totem pillar at the top, and lit the firework signal.
The light cannon turret had been captured!
Two Eyes Island’s barracks.
Large quantities of fishmen crazily attacked from all sides.
The barrack’s soldiers were fighting for their lives.
The situation for the humans was very unfavorable.
The biggest factor was the storm fishman leader, a silver level redeye fishman – Hong Bo.
The Red Eye bloodline came with its own Blood Fury spell.
The red eyed fishman leader was a silver level, and after activating his Blood Fury spell, his military power would increase sharply, each attack shaking the barrack’s gates.
“We must persevere!”
“The auction hall also had a mishap, I don’t see the Feudal Lord.”
“Then where is the Lord Commander? He didn’t participate in the auction.”
With their leader absent, the human soldiers’ morale was beginning to waver.
In a street.
Shops along the border had become ruins.
A fierce struggle had already unfolded.
There were only two people fighting, and both of them were gasping for air.
The silver level human city guard commander spat out some watery blood and a broken tooth.
Opposing him a dozen paces away was a silver scaled fishman.
This fishman was slender and was two heads taller than a normal fishman.
The outside of his forearms, back of his forelegs, as well as his entire fish head and back were covered in vertical fins. The fins were dark silver, and their points were very sharp.
His weapons were his pair of forearm knife fins.
The silver level blade fin fishman – Dao Hen!
As Hun Tong presided over the auction, the heavy burden of Two Eyes Island’s defenses was given to his city guard commander.
As the commander hurried towards the barracks, Dao Hen had ambushed him and caught him off guard, suffering minor injuries from it.
Fishmen had reduced military strength on dry land, and these minor injuries also decreased the city guard commander’s strength.
As time went on, the commander’s mind grew more irascible.
He wanted to break through this place and return to the barracks, but Dao Hen tenaciously blocked him.
“Damm fishman, after I kill you, I will chop you into pieces and turn you into salted fish!” The commander cursed, and with a vengeful glare, charged at Dao Hen.
Ding!
The commander’s blade crashed into Dao Hen’s forearm fin, creating a crisp noise and sparks.
The fierce battle began once more.
The port.
It was a sight of chaotic warfare.
A silver level spiky stinger fishman lead their subordinates into the toppled hastily created defensive line.
But the humans held fast.
Because the port had their ships berthed here, all of which were natural forts.
Especially the many magic ships which were easy to defend and hard to attack. Even though this place had the largest number of fishmen attacking this place, it was difficult to defeat their enemy quickly.