Chapter 161: Cigar
The spiky fishman was forced to retreat.
The fire wall was surging violently with tempestuous heat.
He tried to go around so he could reinforce the Steel Bone Kight fishman.
But a moment later, a fireball shot at him, forcing him back again.
Cang Xu used his spirit power to lock onto his enemy, the fireball would almost certainly hit.
Unless the spiky fishman took out some counter equipment or special ability, based on his speed and agility, it would be difficult for him to dodge the fireball.
Although the spiky fishman was silver level, he wasn’t at peak condition.
After battling for so long, his condition had fallen gravely.
This was thanks to the White Bandage and the Iron Lump. Both had greatly depleted the spiky fishman’s battle strength.
Actually, even if he was in peak condition, the spiky fishman would have to strain himself to deal with just Cang Xu.
Based on life level, there was only one level between them, nothing more. Especially at the lower levels, the disparity between them wasn’t that obvious.
Besides life level, equipment also influenced battle strength,
Fire path rings were on five of Cang Xu’s fingers.
He also had a curved magic mask, and a human leather chest storage bag filled with many magic scrolls and readily available magic potions.
With the Magic Medicine Bathtub as its core, the survivors controlled an entire set of magic potion refinement equipment.
On Two Eyes Island, the survivors had gained many alchemy materials and first satisfied the magic potion needs of Cang Xu and Zi Di.
By contrast, the spiky fishman had simpler and cruder equipment.
Besides his passable weapon, he had no decent armor, relying on his hard scales to endure as he charged the ships.
If he were as big as the transformed Rou Zang, and had been covered with more firepower, he might have collapsed in minutes.
“mnfaglamngn”
The fishman knight noticed the spiky fishman and roared at him in between blows.
He wanted him to not run over and instead kill the magician who had appeared!
When the spiky fishman heard this, he resolutely grinded his teeth and shifted his target, instead charging at the ship where Cang Xu was.
Magicians had too many abilities.
Eliminating the magicians on the battlefield first was common sense tactics.
Since the fishman knight said that it proved he didn’t have problems defending himself for the time being.
The spiky fishman locked his eyes onto Cang Xu.
Sensing a silver level’s confrontation from afar naturally put pressure on Cang Xu.
But on the contrary, it relieved him much more.
If the spiky fishman stubbornly assisted the fishman knight, Cang Xu would have a thorny problem on his hands.
Because he couldn’t protect the Quick Knife battle squad.
He was only pretending to be a fire path magician.
His real strength lay with necromancy.
He couldn’t use necromancy, so Cang Xu had to use other types of magic, ones he didn’t have a perfect command of.
If the spiky fishman and the fishman knight converged, he wouldn’t be able to help the Quick Knife battle squad and would be forced to attack another target and wipe out the other fishmen.
By doing this, he would force the silver level fishman fighter to come to him.
If that happened, the Quick Knife battle squad would suffer an unknown number of casualties.
Perceptive people can make out that the Quick Knife battle squad pinning down the fishman knight was already at their limits.
One couldn’t demand too much of them; they were already doing good enough!
He couldn’t be exposed as a necromancer.
If he used necromancy, even if he repelled the silver level fishman fighter and protected the Quick Knife battle squad, the gains wouldn’t make up for the losses.
Because it would provoke far more trouble.
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps would discover that Lao Zhong was a necromancer, which would cause morale to slump, wisdom to dissolve, and battle intent to wither away.
The fishmen would more firmly believe they were the righteous side.
As feudal lord, Hun Tong would absolutely attack the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps when he broke out of the auction hall.
Even if these were resolved, the empire would dispatch a continuous stream of cultivators to kill this exposed necromancer.
The spiky fishman quickly approached Cang Xu’s ship.
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ ships were anchored together and weren’t far from each other, it was hard for firepower to provide cover,
Cang Xu used magic scrolls to fly into the air, then landed on an adjacent ship’s mast
During this, he didn’t forget to attack the spiky fishman with fireballs.
The spiky fishman pursued closely behind.
Cang Xu constantly moved, maintaining distance to stall for time as much as possible.
He was an iron level magician; it was quite hard for him to kill a silver level. Now that the spiky fishman was watching him as the primary target, he didn’t have enough time to prepare more powerful magic spells.
And so, the spiky fishman pursued Cang Xu while the Quick Knife battle squad encircled the Stee Bone Knight fishman.
The port battlefield was deadlocked in these two critical war situations.
“Next, we need to wait for the commanders to return to help in time.” Cang Xu sighed to himself.
He also had some trump cards.
Such as the Deep Sea Monster Fish.
But such a trump card could not easily be revealed.
In the best case scenario, the auction hall trap would be destroyed, allowing the dragonman youngster and Zong Ge to aid in time.
Luckily, the port, the light cannon turrets, and other such places were strategic locations on Two Eyes Island that had to be defended. If Hun Tong and the others regained their freedom and joined the battlefield, they would prioritize helping this place.
Meanwhile.
Two Eyes Island’s auction hall.
Hun Tong didn’t know what was going on outside, and as time dragged on, his mood got more irritable.
But outwardly, he still remained calm.
“Group three rest.”
“Group one, prepare to act, group two supervise.”
Hun Tong had divided everyone into three groups, one would attack, one would rest, and one would inspect.
Although this measure was very crude, it was effective.
The cultivators trapped in the auction hall weren’t disorderly as a result and instead were trying to break out in an orderly fashion.
Such a spectacle was rarely seen.
Pirates, mercenaries, merchants, feudal lord forces, along with other powers had gathered to fight together.
Of course, there might be a traitor among them!
As a frogman and the Applause Pirates’ commander, Hu li suffered the most suspicions.
Most people were glancing at him and his underlings.
“If I had known about this earlier, I wouldn’t have participated in this auction!” Hu Li felt very regretful.
He wasn’t able to buy anything he wanted; it had all been taken by room 21.
Now, he was trapped in this auction, the myriad suspicious made him feel like he was sitting on pins and needles, he was very worried that he would be executed for being the traitor.
The auction hall was small, and most present were humans, so he couldn’t even run away even if wanted to.
“Those abominable people in room 21!” Hu Li clicked his teeth.
Those in room 21 were not present in the auction hall!
They went backstage ahead of time to collect their slaves, and as a result, had avoided the coming trap.
That was too much of a coincidence!
“They are the traitors. If they aren’t, then who else could it be?” Hu Li felt very remorseful, “If they were here, things would be so much better!”
His opinion was quite universal.
Most people here suspected Zi Di and Cang Xu, the people in room 21.
Of course, the dwarf Men Shi had also left early.
But he was far less suspect than Zi Di and Cang Xu.
Room 21 had been too much in the public eye and had incited much jealousy.
Hun Tong’ was in the first group.
As feudal lord, he had to set an example.
With hand holding a gold level dagger, he used a battle skill in passing.
With gold light shooting out, he instantly dug a hole into the depts of the wall.
The gold light had extraordinary penetration, but it didn’t make it through the auction hall wall.
From the moment the trap was sprung, the auction hall was constantly getting thicker.
The coral ball cage tree was a gold level magic plant, its vines and branches, along with the Suffering Endurance Barrier made it hard for even Hun Tong to pierce.
Soon after, the first team withdrew, and the second team acted.
This wave of people had two gold level fighters.
One was Song Shou, who had supported Hun Tong, while the other was the Ten Touch Pirates’ commander Qi You.
Both used their respective battle skills.
Song Shou smacked the wall with both palms.
With a fierce rumble, cracks formed across the wall, as if it had been covered in spider wells in an instant.
Soon after, a chuck of wall fell off, exposing a brand new layer.
Qi You then extended his fingers and pointed at the wall from a distance.
The gold level battle skill condensed a helix slipstream.
The slipstream looked like a drill bit that dug into the wall, small at the front, and large at the back.
A large hole was dug out of the wall, but after a few seconds, the hole was grown over and filled in by about half.
Qi You stopped there.
He obviously retained energy to maintain his guard against the people around him.
Hun Ton was expressionless.
Despite saying whoever held back would be a suspected traitor, since it was Qi You, he would handle it prudently.
Qi You was a gold level.
He was a pirate commander, and an opposing faction.
If both sides had a fallout out at this crucial time, Hun Tong wouldn’t gain any benefits.
Hun Tong chose to restrain himself.
Thinking about it positively, Qi You acting was already good enough.
The second group withdrew, and the third group went on stage.
This group also had a gold level fighter.
He had been the middle aged smoker in room 2.
Even in the hall, he still had a cigar in his mouth.
This cigar was unusually thick, and the point of the cigar still maintained a small flame.
The man was at the forefront and took a deep breath.
Following his breath, the cigar’s small flame expanded several folds and burned intensely.
The cigar’s length was rapidly shortened by the flame.
The man subsequently straightened his chest.
Battle skill – Tobacco Ash!
A moment later, two puffs of smoke jetted from the man’s nostrils.
The smoke appeared ashen black and contained some gold within.
Like two pythons, the smoke puffs pounded at the walls, one to the left and the other on the right.
The smoke permeated the walls in a quiet manner.
The man quickly finished smoking.
The walls looked like burnt charcoal and had turned completely black.
Soon after, the black walls looked like ash and dust, then a large area of it crumbled to the ground in a cloud of black ash.
Those that saw this were no longer surprised.
The mad had done this attack many times previously.
His identity had also been revealed during communications and discussions with everyone.
The man was called Yan Ding, a well-known mercenary.
He had the Black Tobacco bloodline, and in conjunction with the Fireworks battle qi technique and matching battle skills, he was a very strong combatant.
His battle style was quite remarkable, and his battle skills were often large scale and imposingly huge.