Chapter 169: Mysterious Intent
The Frozen Land Whale could withstand the entire patrol fleet’s bombardment by itself, and its charge didn’t slow at all.
While One Eye was powerless to do anything, Yan Ding rushed over.
He suddenly inhaled, causing the cigar in his mouth to violently burn down a small chunk.
Yan Ding puffed up his chest, and from his nostrils, a large cloud of smoke sprayed out.
The smoke looked like a black cloud, its darkness covered an entire area and was descending towards the water.
The water bubble held back the black cloud, but it quickly eroded into black ash.
The Frozen Land Whale wailed mournfully, finally feeling pain.
It slowed down too.
Despite it having coarse skin, thick flesh, and massive magic power, it couldn’t compare to a gold battle skill.
Yan Ding used another gold level battle skill.
The Frozen Land Whale quickly fell into a disadvantageous position.
The old fishman elder naturally couldn’t let this continue.
He immediately threw himself into the fountain of water.
He jetted through the water all the way to the top of the water bubble.
The old clan elder used a battle skill to attack the distant Yan Ding.
Black smoke floated around Yan Ding.
This smoke condensed into a wall that blocked the fishman clan elder’s attack.
The old clan elder didn’t have a flying battle skill, and Yan Ding didn’t want to fight in close quarters.
He was an expert at long range warfare, with massive area of effect, almost all of his battle skills were large scale.
The two became deadlocked.
With the fishman clan elder’s protection, the Frozen Land Whale quickly bumped into the old island.
The entire old island faintly rocked.
“Ogngrnmorn”
“gonmgoanga”
“gmnogognl”
The fishmen army had landed successfully, and one by one, they surged off the whale’s back like a beast tide and swarmed onto the island.
Yan Ding coldly snorted and used a battle skill with all of their strength.
The black smoke under him quickly swelled to an area of a thousand square meters.
Several holes appeared in the thick smoke.
The holes glistened bright red, like there were flames burning in them.
“Not good!” The fishman elder promptly strengthened his attacks, but he wasn’t good at long ranged attacks.
Yan Ding activated his battle skill without a hitch.
Battle skill – Cigar Butt Fire!
The holes in the thick smoke expanded, and like an anus defecating, large chunks of solid ash fired from them.
The solid ash was not heavy, and as they floated in the air, they suddenly exploded, distributing huge volumes of red cigar ash.
These cigar ashes looked like the flames that floated through the air after burning paper.
When they landed on fishmen, they immediately melted their fish scales and burned them, causing the fishmen to miserably shriek.
The cigar ash continued to fall.
Fishmen fell one after the other.
Yan Ding’s strength was quite outstanding, he really looked like a magician, instead of a battle qi cultivation expert.
When the fishman elder saw his people suffer sever casualties, he lamented.
But he couldn’t do anything.
He didn’t have a flying battle skill, nor could he trouble Yan Ding enough.
He used a communications battle skill, “Lord Priest, please act. Your divine spell can trouble Yan Ding immensely, we are all believers of our God.”
Inside the Frozen Land Whale, a priest was curled up, their eyes closed in meditation.
Her upper body was human, while from the waist down, her body was a snake.
She had a slim build, and most of her body was covered in a layer of green scales.
Unlike ordinary people, she had four arms, evenly distributed on both sides of her body. Her forehead also had green fin-like antennas.
She was not a fishman, but a naga.
She was also a caster, but didn’t have the aura of magic power, instead she was awash with the feeling of divine power.
Her aura was deeply restrained, and not a trace of it leaked out.
Upon hearing the old fishman elder’s plea, the worshiping naga opened her eyes and rejected it, “Old clan elder, I cannot act so rashly.”
“I bear a heavy mission this trip. This mission comes before everything else.”
The old clan elder anxious insisted, “Lord Priest, to attack Two Eyes Island, our entire clan has gone to war. If this continues, even if we recapture our homeland, my clan will be wiped out.”
The naga priestess placated him, “Old clan elder, a turning point is coming.”
“Although I cannot act, there is one person who won’t be able to restrain themselves.”
The old clan elder faintly stared, “Who?”
“Qi You.” The naga priestess silently laughed.
The old clan elder hesitated, “He’s a human. Furthermore, when the Vinegar Jar Pirates contacted him and asked him to help attack Two Eyes Island, he refused to.”
“Don’t tell me the Holy City has secretly instigated him?”
The naga priestess denied it, “We didn’t We have never contacted him.”
“But I can be certain that Qi You is bound to act.”
“You don’t understand this man.”
“At that time…how could the one who stole Xiao Shi away from me be content to live in obscurity?”
Whoosh!
As if responding to the naga priestess’s words, a sharp steam whistle shrieked from the new island.
Following the steam whistle, a silver level pirate ship appeared in the distance.
It had a pirate flag that flew high above it, a long and narrow hull, its sails looked like a black dragon’s wings, and it had a demonic charm that made it stand out from the masses.
Behind this pirate ship, there were many more ordinary ships.
“That is Qi You’s ship – the Black Whimper!
“The Ten Touch Pirates are charging in !!”
“Qi You!!” Hun Tong suddenly glared at Qi You.
At that moment, he realized he’d been tricked by Qi You.
Qi You appeared to be doing nothing while secretly contacting his fleet in actuality.
Now, the Ten Touch Pirates were joining the fray.
They wouldn’t be dealing with the laughably poor fishmen, because they were pirates, and would be targeting the populous and affluent human lands.
“Qi You, do you want to be my enemy?” Hun Tong growled, “Think it over carefully. If you really attack, Two Eyes Island will forever be barred to the Ten Touch Pirates!”
“You, a human, will be helping the fishmen, you will be a traitor to humanity!”
Qi You burst into laughter, “Don’t try to bluff me, Hun Tong.”
“Your Two Eyes Island is about to become an imperial logistics base.”
“No more shall pirates dispose of their booty here. Even if there are auctions here, it’ll have nothing to do with us!”
Hun Tong’s heart shook, he narrowed his eyes, and his desire to commit murder boiled over in a flash.
“What?” Dian Wan and the others looked at each other in dismay, they were a level lower than Qi You and hadn’t received anything about that whatsoever.
“Don’t label me a traitor to humanity. I just want to grab a profit today.”
“Hehehe.”
“You’ve earned too much these last few years Hun Tong.”
“You’ve actually been fleecing us pirates.”
“Did you really think you’d always be able to take advantage of us? Today, I will teach you a lesson.”
After saying that, Qi You leapt at Hun Tong.
Gold battle qi bubbled out from his back and condensed into a pair of demonic bat wings.
He also had a flying battle skill!
The naga priestess never spoke with Qi You at all.
Qi You had refused the Vinegar Jar Pirates’ invitation.
He was wholly acting as a pirate that saw a chance for plunder, and moved in less than a heartbeat.
Hun Tong had written off how prosperous the pirates had made Two Eyes Island and was now eating a bitter fruit.
This bitter fruit had been grown by him,
He had no choice but to fight Qi You.
If he allowed this gold level to wreak havoc on the new island, they would reap a great toll!
“What should we do?”
“This guy Qi You, I have a whole new respect for him.”
“Hehehe, Qi You is right. This is a wonderful opportunity; we must grab a huge sum.”
“Looting a gold level’s foundation under their eyes is too stimulating, I like it!!”
Dian Wan, Hu Li, Yang Cong Tou, and the others excitedly stood up, each of them contacting their pirate groups.
Although they had participated in the auction, they were only able to bring some trusted men onto the island.
This was a rule drawn up by Hun Tong.
Of course, Hun Tong wasn’t that stupidly arrogant to allow a pirate group’s main force to tread on his island.
When they wanted to trade, they would comply with his rules.
Therefore, their respective pirate groups were roaming in nearby waters.
Generally speaking, after the auction finished, the main fleets would pick up their respective commanders and sail away.
But now, after receiving their commanders’ hails, they bulged their sails, shouted out, and rushed towards the new island.
Two Eyes Island’s war situation had once more sunken into chaotic unrest.
On the new island’s seafloor, the Deep Sea Monster Fish camouflaged as a reef was of no interest to anyone and had been left in peace.
This gold level magic ship’s camouflage ability was too powerful, and no one noticed it.
Zi Di was keeping watch, controlling the magic ship and examining the entire battlefield.
“I have discovered something significant!”
She transmitted the information.
“There are many life auras hidden inside the Frozen Land Whale.”
“A conservative estimate of at least a thousand fishmen.”
“Not only that but I have also sniffed out a gold level aura, initial analysis determines it’s a cleric!”
Hun Tong didn’t notice the naga priestess, however, the Deep Sea Monster Fish’s detection methods laid the naga priestess bare.
“The fishmen actually have another hidden gold level?” The dragonman youngster was astonished.
Ding.
An explosion rang out and his body soared to avoid Xi Dai Zi’s magic.
Taking advantage of this chance, he swept his eyes over the battlefield.
Hun Tong and Qi You were chasing each other in the sky, Yan Ding and the fishman elder were doing battle, and Song Shou was following Er Gua Zi across the shoreline.
The humans’ gold levels were pinned down, while the fishmen had one other gold level power.
“Now it’s time to see if Hun Tong has any other tricks.” The dragonman youngster thought.
The chance of this was very high.
The light cannon turrets rising had increased the dragonman youngster’s faith in this conjecture.
“I’ll need to be patient; the current situation isn’t clear yet.” The dragonman youngster decided to restraint his strength as he tangled with Xi Dai Zi and Peng Ding Zi.
The situation was deadlocked, and he secretly preserved himself to guard against not having the energy to deal with the gold level.
Zong Ge did the same.
“The fishmen have more gold levels than the humans.”
“A rare situation.”
“I have always felt that the fishmen’s intentions for attacking the island aren’t so simple!
At the same time.
In the depths of the auction hall.
Two silver level magicians cup open a passage and stepped into the space where the blue scaled fishmen were assembled.
They were Hun Tong’s subordinates.
One was an alchemist with weak alchemist abilities, he normally presided over appraisals mostly.
The other was a pharmacist, the one who had developed the Fragrant Gill Tea.
Although the auction hall trap was broken, all kinds of signs indicated that there should be a control center hidden nearby.
Even if the Suffering Endurance Barrier didn’t have one, the Magic Power Counteraction formation must have a control formation.
Naturally, Hun Tong wouldn’t allow the continued existence of this formation, so he ordered these two to investigate and destroy it.
“Found it, it’s here!” The alchemist raised his voice.
The pharmacist swept his eyes over the blue scaled fishmen corpses, “These fishmen are all dead. No, there is still the aura of magic power in the distance.”
“A silver level life aura…”
“That side!”
The pharmacist threw a medicinal powder that melted the wall, revealing a new tunnel.
The tunnel led to an even deeper abyss.
The alchemist hesitated, “Strange, the island is an abyss of suffering right now, yet the silver level caster is incessantly drilling deeper.”
“What are they up to?”