Chapter 171: Yao Guan Zi

In another place.

Zong Ge and the knight fishman were fighting.

Without a mount, the fishman was slow, but his exoskeleton was still unyieldingly thick, and his defense was unsurpassed.

This let him make bolder and more unrestrained moves.

Zong Ge couldn’t compare.

His armor was not silver level.

Therefore, many times, he had to dodge or block, and due to that, his attack frequency naturally decreased.

Although Zi Di had obtained many treasures from the auction, they couldn’t be used immediately.

If they were, the relationship between the two would be exposed and the risk of their true identities being exposed would greatly increase.

After all, “having literally the same treasure” would foment suspicion.

Battle skill – Forest of Spears!

The 2 meter long lance thrusted ten times in mere seconds.

The speed of which left behind many illusory lance images in one’s retina.

The lance images were a wall that pressed towards Zong Ge.

Faced with this powerful offensive, Zong Ge didn’t bat an eyelid and harbored no ideas of retreat.

It couldn’t be intercepted with normal speeds.

Then, he would use Fast Fight!

Battle skill – Fast Fight

Silver level battle qi quickly circulated through his body, speeding up Zong Ge’s movement and attacks.

Ting, ding, ting…

A series of metal clangs pattered like rain.

Relying on his left handed shield and right handed sword, Zong Ge blocked all of the lance images.

The Steel Bone Knight fishman suddenly became discouraged.

Especially when he saw Zong Ge’s expressionless manner, causing his discouragement and powerlessness to aggravate further.

No matter how he attacked, Zong Ge could block them all.

He gave the impression of being as steady as a mountain peak.

Especially when Zong Ge changed his weapon, the feeling got stronger after he swapped to a sword and shield.

“Is he throwing?”

“Is he using all of his strength?”

The Steel Bone Knight fishman often thought that, impairing his fighting spirit by a level.

But soon after, his gaze paused.

He had noticed something entirely new.

This new discovery caused his eyes to suddenly flash and his battle intent ignited once again.

“He’s wounded!”

The fishman knight was pleasantly surprised to find that Zong Ge’s arm was seeping with blood.

“Did I do that?” The Steel Bone Knight fishman couldn’t help but wonder, “It seems my opponent isn’t invincible! I still have hope!!”

It was actually Zong Ge’s old injury.

Back from Mystifying Monster Island’s underground control center.

Since then, Zong Ge had tried to heal his arm injury.

During the auction, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had obtained a healing potion.

The gold level healing potion was enough to completely cure his broken arm!

This healing potion was on Zong Ge right now.

But he didn’t use it.

For one, his old injury relapsing could give the enemy hope and drag the fight on longer.

Zong Ge was an outstanding general, and knew the fishmen were still hiding a gold level cultivator.

He wanted to do his best to improve his control over the battlefield.

If he drew a gold level cultivator’s attack, then he would be in a passive situation and wouldn’t be able to do much at all.

On the other hand, the gold level potion was very precious.

If Zong Ge was wounded further, he could use the gold potion to heal his entire body.

Using it now was rather wasteful. 

Leaving it unused could prevent some accidents.

The dragonman youngster and Zong Ge held the advantage, however, the port battlefield situation was changing.

There were no longer two crucial fights, now there were three.

The outcome of the third fight would decide who won this battlefield.

The third fight was not against a person, but the Vinegar Jar.

The gold level pirate group’s flagship was very dauntless, it had charged into all kinds of magic traps and slew many ships leaving port until finally crashing through ships and coming ashore.

The Vinegar Jar had run aground.

But its constant firepower made it a gigantic turret that reinforced the fishmen’s firepower.

Not only that, but there were still many murderous fishmen pirates disembarking from it.

With these fresh troops, the fishmen’s offensive did not dimmish, but expanded further.

If one were to say it in terms of battle progress, the humans had the advantage at the higher echelons due to the dragonman youngster and Zong Ge, while on the lower echelons, the fishmen were suppressing the humans due to the spirited reinforcements from the Vinegar Jar.

“Follow me, kill these wretched fishmen!!” Commander Tie Bang roared.

“Seize the Vinegar Jar!” Shouted Commander Beng Dai.

The two people together were the spear tip that cleared the way for the troops behind them.

Ahead of them were layers of fishmen defensive lines, but against the two silver fighters’ all out assault, they were parted like the water underneath ship, and even if there was a continuous stream of fishmen trying to stop them, they were torn to shreds and turned into mere ocean spray.

Countless hopeful human eyes gazed at the two commanders.

Their charge had encouraged and inspired the human fighters.

To protect the Vinegar Jar, more than half the fishmen returned to it to attack the two commanders and their troops.

The two commanders and their mercenaries were united as one.

Their comrades and relatives were slaughtered.

The two mercenary corps’ flagships had been attacked and their crew massacred by Er Gua Zi.

Vengeance was what motivated the charging mercenaries the most.

Many fishmen toppled over.

The two commanders slaughtered countless and grew somewhat lenient.

No new silver level fighter appeared on the fishmen’s side.

The two commanders had no opponents on their level and advanced.

Soon after, their blood drenched bodies successfully climbed aboard, and they began to attack the Vinegar Jar’s first deck.

“I want the Vinegar Jar!”

“By seizing this ship, we’ll settle the score!!”

The two commanders glanced at each other, quickly reaching an accord.

They were very excited.

One was the thrill of revenge; the other was that the Vinegar Jar was worth far more than the Iron Lump and the White Bandage combined.

The Vinegar Jar was a silver level magic ship, while the other two were mere bronze levels.

The mercenaries behind t hem also boarded and killed their way to their commanders’ side.

The two commanders went to the left and right, destroying and killing everything in front of them, annihilating all of the fishmen on the first floor.

They joined back together at the ship’s stairs, ready to storm into the Vinegar Jar.

One of the commanders took out a potion and drank it down.

The other took out an alchemy item.

The potion was a water breathing potion.

The alchemy item was a Air Mask. It could generate air within the mask, allowing the user to freely breathe.

The two mercenary corps had made a living on this island, such equipment were standard.

It wasn’t just the commanders; the other mercenaries had been allocated with similar things too.

The only difference was the level used; they were inferior to the two commanders’ superior quality goods.

The two commanders used their items as they followed the stairs down to the deck below.

Behind them, many mercenaries were following.

The Vinegar Jar was a magic ship built specifically for fishmen; its first deck was covered in water that went up to an adult human’s knees.

The lower decks were completely submerged.

This was undoubtably the fishmen’s turf, that gave the attackers many disadvantages.

However, the two commanders’ joint attack was still successful in every endeavor.

There were many fishmen fighting in the dark water, but without a silver, they couldn’t hold back the two commanders’ advance.

Commander Tie Bang and Beng Dai were so engrossed in their slaughter that they unwittingly separated from their troops behind them.

As for the other mercenaries, fighting underwater greatly affected them.

The fishmen were routed by the commanders, but they were able to kill the other human mercenaries.

The two commanders did notice this, but they had no good answer for it. 

How could they advance if they were defending their troops?

If that happened, they would be pinned down by the fishmen.

Compassion could not lead an army.

The two commanders had led their corps for many years and understood that if the enemy led them by the nose, their entire team would sink into desperate straits.

They chose to charge in an attempt to seize the Vinegar Jar’s control hub.

Every magic ship had a control hub.

Similar to the Deep Sea Monster Fish’s cockpit.

Finally, the two killed their way to the bottom hold of the Vinegar Jar.

The water here was dark, dense, and even viscous.

The two commanders had illumination skills and after identifying where the central cabin was, they immediately cut their way there.

A skinny fishmen was in a dark corner.

The two commanders instantly slowed down.

Despite the fishman not directly intercepting them, his silver level aura gave them qualms.

“As expected, the Vinegar Jar has a silver level hidden in it.”

“It’s just one silver; can they stop the both of us?”

“He looks sickly, let’s take care of him first, then set sail!”

“Be careful. Er Gau Zi lets that guy keep watch here, he isn’t simple.”

“I don’t think so! If he was strong enough, he would have stepped in already. Why should he still be sitting as we came in?”

The two commanders had the methods needed to communicate unrestricted underwater.

After discussing it somewhat, they attacked the silver level fishmen together.

The silver level fishman was as thin as a match and too weak to stand up to the wind. When he saw the two truculent commanders attacking him, he needed to be oppressed by them and began to weakly cough.

But this cough cause the two commanders to change their expressions.

“Eh, how bizarre!”

“I’m poisoned!!”

Ten minutes later.

Pop.

A wave of water suddenly bubbled onto the first deck of the Vinegar Jar, from which Commander Beng Dai emerged.

Commander Beng Dai’s entire body twisted with bandages, his vigor taking a devastating decline and panic streaking across his face.

“Get away!” He yelled at the humans on deck.

“Commander!”

“Where is my commander?”

The human mercenaries turned pale with fright.

The contract between before and after was too great.

“Commander Tie Bang is dead already, this water is poisonous, don’t go in!” After leaving these words behind, Commander Beng Dai was the first to leap off and escape down the road.

Quick witted mercenaries followed closely behind.

The rest of the humans were killed fishmen who emerged soon after.

The silver level overseeing the Vinegar Jar was a skillful commander, he had adopted a defensive counterattack stratagem that first lured in a human assault, then exploited the favorable terrain to kill one silver and wound the other.

Afterwards, they smoothly laughed their massive counterattack, and with the smallest price possible, completely routed the human troops.