Chapter 158: Don’t Pretend, I am the Strongest Firepower

Zi Di took out some equipment from the Balloon Knapsack.

Among them were the star iron hatchets.

She had acquired them from the auction.

She had a full box of them.

Giving these iron level weapons to these ordinary slaves was extravagant.

But due to time constraints, Zi Di had to do it.

“Next, you need to protect yourself.”

“This place is still safe for the time being.”

“Stay here as long as possible, our slave agreement has already gone into effect. You know how chaotic it is outside, if you don’t want to be killed by fishmen, hide here.”

“Although it is close to the port, if anything happens, I’ll do my best to save you.”

“Upon seeing “Qing Xin” wasn’t admitting who she was, Zi Di could only sigh to herself.

The other person might be her sole “relative”, therefore, Zi Di didn’t take any drastic measures.

Although they didn’t recognize each other, this outcome was within Zi DI’s expectations.

Soon after, Zi Di and Cang Xu left the small villa together.

Zi Di and “Qing Xin” didn’t acknowledge each other, but Cang Xu approved of Zi Di’s caution.

Under the current circumstances, the survivors didn’t need to risk identifying themselves to obtain new cultivators.

Seeing Zi Di and Cang Xu leave, “Qing Xin” couldn’t help but reveal a complex look.

Soon after, the other slaves walked in and asked what her master had summoned her for.

“Qing Xin’s” peculiar look suddenly vanished and she became ordinary again, “The master called me to tidy up the room, he has an urgent matter to attend to.”

The bronze level mother, the mistress of Baron Zai Xiang, asked other questions out of concern.

“Qing Xin” respectfully answered, “Although master and I only exchanged a few words, I can feel that he…is a good natured person.”

Upon obtaining this answer, the blond mistress was soothed and relaxed her tone.

She was outwardly the strongest slave of them all.

But her bronze level strength only affected her sex appeal, she had no battle strength at all.

She moreso lacked any battle courage at all.

As one accustomed to being a canary, she never thought about running away or staring her own family, she only hoped that her new master could be someone she could live under.

Before Zi Di and Cang Xu left, they stealthily crushed a pearl bubble that affected the small villa.

For their auction attendance plan, they had prepared pearl bubbles in advance.

This facilitated their retreat.

Crushing the pearl bubbles was the shallowest was to use them.

But the divine artifact’s power was worth relying on!

With the pearl bubbles masking it, outsiders wouldn’t see anything wrong with the small villa.

For her own safety, Zi Di also crushed a second pearl bubble for herself.

She was carrying the Balloon Knapsack, and because it was loaded with the survivors’ auction spoils, it had inflated tremendously and was very conspicuous.

With the pearl bubble screening it, the Balloon Knapsack was thoroughly concealed from living beings and rendered “invisible”.

Driven by caution, Zi Di and Cang Xu didn’t rush to the port.

They first went to the edge of the seacoast far from the port.

There, Zi Di and Cang Xu separated.

Cang Xu circled back and snuck into the port.

Zi Di with the Balloon Knapsack entered the water and dove towards the seafloor.

The underwater was as tranquil as always.

“It seeming the raiding fishmen were hiding the depths of Two Eyes Island.”

“Could it be that they snuck in during the beast tide?”

“How did they do it? Neither the Deep Sea Monster Fish or Hun Tong detected them.”

Zi Di harbored suspicions as she continued to dive alone, her silhouette gradually covered up by the dark seawater.

The port battlefield.

The spiky fishman leader was beaten back again.

He withdrew from the frontline as he tenaciously glared at the White Bandage, unwilling to give up.

That nut was too hard to crack!

The spiky fishman’s anxious heart reflected outwardly, causing him to become more irritable.

The White Bandage had never fallen despite the chaotic battlefield.

The ship’s bandages danced in the breeze like big white pythons.

Some bandages attacked, twisting around fishmen and strangling them. Other bandages softly wrapped around mercenaries and glowed, healing them.

The spiky fishman suffered defeat after defeat on the front line, and soon after, there was not a single living fishman on board the White Bandage.

Upon seeing this, the spiky fishman growled and charged again.

At this moment, two iron level fishmen held him up.

“Ngamlgmnmalmlanm”

“Lnagnlagnlganlanlg”

The two iron level fishmen pointed at the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ ships, quickly speaking with anxious looks.

The spiky fishman was red with killing intent, yet he sobered up now.

When he heard their proposal, he stared at them, then held his head high and ran his eyes across the battlefield.

Then he noticed that the greatest number of fishmen casualties was not the White Bandage, where the battle was the fiercest, rather it was where the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps was.

There, the dead fishmen had piled up into a small hill.

The spiky fishman immediately roared in anger.

Compared to the defensive Iron Lump and White Bandage, all of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ ships were ordinary

But they had the most crossbows and firearms.

They didn’t have many ordinary cannons.

Previously, the dragonman youngster made a deal with the Flint and Secret Medicine branch managers, along with the two mercenary commanders to obtain many cannons, but that just made up deficiencies, that’s all.

In the port, the ships were crowded together, and if these cannons were fired, they could easily injure allies and damage the port.

Therefore, firearms and crossbows were the long range weapons of choice.

The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps as a result have killed the most fishmen.

If they were left alone to keeping shooting, the fishmen would suffer more disastrous casualties.

The spiky fishman was an accomplished military man and instantly realized the situation.

The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps was a great threat, in addition their ships were ordinary, and their defenses were far weaker than magic ships.

This also caused the spiky fishman leader to change their target.

At once, he flicked his arm and shouted loudly, leading his subordinates towards the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.

“Be careful, they are coming towards us!”

“Fire arrows, fire arrows now.”

“Use the alchemy arrows and ammunition, target that spiky fishman!”

The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ members immediately grew tense.

The dragonman youngster and Zong Ge were missing. Without a silver level fighter, they couldn’t stop the spiky fishman leader.

They could still rely on their long ranged weaponry though.

For a moment, all kinds of alchemy arrows and bullets appeared.

Watter arrows, wind needle arrows, smoke arrows, flash arrows, explosion bullets, blood poisoning bullets, and freeze bullets…

A multicolored wave of dazzling firepower interweaved in the air.

The firepower ferociously covered the charging fishmen.

The spiky fishman leader felt fear and trepidation in the face of disaster!

The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ sudden eruption of firepower really was too fierce.

In just a few short breaths, the fishmen beside him knelt to the ground.

Fishmen corpses were in all kinds of states, some were frozen, some were charred, some had blood necrosis, some were blown to bits, and some were turned to pools of mincemeat.

Even though the spiky fishman leader was silver level, he couldn’t endure it and was forced to cease his charge and pull back to a nearby bunker to take a breather.

He originally believed the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps was a big threat, he didn’t expect that when he actually fought them that’d he greatly underestimate the other side’s battle strength!

His troops only made it halfway there before all of them were slaughtered, their corpses strewing the ground.

He barely resisted the firepower, his battle qi greatly expended, and his body dotted with many new wounds.

Rou Zang had once suffered losses against such firepower.

Let alone a silver level fishman leader.

In the prior battle, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had actually been restraining themselves, worried that if they showed off too much, they’d provoke the main fishman force.

They didn’t expect that despite doing that, they’d still be noticed.

Their outstanding firepower was to blame, and no matter how much they restrained themselves, their military strength would still be conspicuous.

Since the main fishman force was targeting them, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps might as well lay their cards onto the table.

Fine, I won’t pretend.

I am the one with the strongest firepower on this port.

The spiky fishman didn’t think the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps would hide themselves so deeply, and for a moment, he had to bunker down and not dare show his head.

The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ members cheered, their morale surging.

For a moment, many people thought the silver level fishman wasn’t that dreadful.

Of course, their firepower didn’t come without its costs.

Both alchemy arrows and ammunition were consumable goods.

Money was shot out.

When Zi Di saw this, she felt a heartache.

Was it worth using so many munitions here?

The spiky fishman leader wasn’t dead.

Most crucially, they didn’t need to fight the fishmen to the death, that should be Hun Tong’s people’s job.

Even if they annihilate these fishmen, how much would Two Eyes Island reward them?

Taking advantage of this labor, Cang Xu quietly boarded.

When he saw it, he also sighed.

These arms were from War Merchant’s munitions stock.

After the Snake Rat naval battle and Two Eyes Island’s defensive battle, the survivors’ inventory was getting smaller.

This can’t continue, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps shouldn’t resist a calamity in place of another.

The fishmen were attacking this place to attack Two Eyes Island and Hun Tong.

The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps being attacked from all sides was not in the survivors’ interest.

The relationship between the survivors and Hun Tong was far from being that close.

But it had to be said that mass usage of munitions got instant results on the battlefield.

For the first time, the fishmen’s offensive was seriously bogged down. 

Many fishmen were at a loss.

The spiky fishman leader was trapped in an impossible situation.

If he ignored the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, the fishmen would suffer terrible losses, but if he went to deal with the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, how could he charge them? Even if he could kill off the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, the fishmen would also be wiped out too!

At this moment, fishmen reinforcements arrived.

They were led by the Steel Bone Knight fishman, and with lizard steed mounted, he galloped forth boldly.

“Hgmaamnanaggmang”

The Steel Bone Knight fishman howled at the spiky fishman leader.

He was the one who let Men Shi and his dwarfs go, and with the mysterious purple scaled fishman’s aid had smoothly attacked the light cannon turret.

Afterwards, he noticed from his vantage point that the port battlefield situation was becoming deeply worrying.

After destroying the light cannon turret, he let his team over to reinforce.