Chapter 174: The Barracks Battlefield
When the priest first lead his team to war, there were fewer humans than fishmen.
But now, the fishmen numbers had been cut down to equal the humans, and were continuing to be substantially weakened.
As the fishmen leaders, Dao Hen and Hong Bo naturally knew they had to eliminate the priest and the others.
But they also knew that actually doing so was very difficult.
The humans knew the importance of these reinforcements and guarded them with their lives.
Dao Hen and Hong Bo attacked, and although they could cause the human defensive line to waver, this wasn’t an ideal result.
The priest and the other clergy were standing on top of the light cannon turret.
The turret was surrounded by city guards.
There were also Wealth Church temple guards inside the lower strata of the light cannon turret.
Bang.
A fireball exploded into the fishmen’s ranks.
Ten fishmen died in the explosion.
The attack came from the side of the barracks.
“It’s Shi Fa!” Soon after, a human soldier identified the help.
Shi Fa hurried to the barracks battlefield.
“I have received my Mercenary Guild mission and have come to help defend!” Said Shi Fa.
Merchants weren’t the only ones issuing missions to hire help at huge sums, Hun Tong had done so too.
Two Eyes Island had many loners, and there was no lack of silver level experts among them. If this power was not exploited, it would be rather wasteful.
Unlike Mei Ban, Shi Fa didn’t choose to be employed by a merchant alliance, instead he chose to help Two Eyes Island’s feudal lord.
“Let him come in!” The human fighters cheered.
Shi Fa was a silver level magician, undoubtedly strong aid.
At once, human soldiers gushed out to welcome and brought Shi Fa into their position.
Once that happened, Shi Fa would be defended by layers of human fighters.
He constantly cast all kinds of magic that pounded into the fishmen like rain.
Shi Fa’s signature feature was his magic playing cards.
These playing cards were small sized magic scrolls.
Shi Fa was fluent in this rarely seen alchemy skill.
Whenever he used his spirit to trigger a playing card, he could instantly use the magic inside the playing card.
Various magic spells fell like a torrential rainstorm.
Fishmen died a terrible rate.
This was the straw that broke the fishmen’s back.
“Retreat!” Although he was extremely unwilling, Hong Bo still grinded his teeth and sounded the withdrawal.
If this continued, the fishmen would all die.
Even if all of the fishmen sacrificed themselves, they couldn’t capture the human barracks.
The fishmen could only retreat.
Hong Bo and Dao Hen brought up the rear.
Naturally, the human soldiers wouldn’t sit by and watch the enemy withdraw, and they immediately advanced towards them.
Hong Bo and Dao He did their utmost to stop them.
They were silver levels and stiffly relied on their personal strength to obstruct the pursuing human army.
Dao Hen was especially dangerous, and despite not using battle skills, his own battle techniques made him a constant threat.
As long as he hit a solider, they would fall miserably and lose their life.
Essentially, no one could match three moves with Dao Hen.
Magic – Spider Web.
Magic – Electric Shock.
When Shi Fa saw the situation, his finger flicked two magic cards, casting two magic spells at nearly the same time.
A spider web fell from the sky and covered Dao Hen.
Lightning accurately struck Hong Bo.
Hong Bo trembled all over, he took a step back, and his weapon nearly fell from his hand.
Dao Hen was clearly stronger.
He used a battle skill, and his forearm blade fins glinted with silvery light.
Dao Hen brandished his forearm knife fins, cutting the spider web apart and easily escaped from it.
“grann”
Dao Hen grabbed Hong Bo’s arm and ran off, leaving the battlefield.
“After them! Don’t let them escape.” The human soldiers angrily pursued relentlessly.
The troops were motivated, but the city guard auxiliary leader was hesitant.
He deeply understood that based on how strong he was, if he brazenly pursued, he might be the one who would be slain.
The auxiliary leader asked for Shi Fa’s and the priest’s opinion.
Shi Fa spoke candidly, “My mission is to help protect the barracks. However, I can pursue the fishman too. But I need another reward for that.”
The priest spoke from his knowledge and experience, “We must get in touch with the Feudal Lord and wait for his orders.”
Two Eyes Island was in chaos.
The barracks battlefield had just calmed down, while the port battlefield was still raging.
Large amounts of pirates had already come ashore and were looting everywhere.
Hun Tong and the other gold levels were busy fighting their opponents and weren’t able to attend to other things.
The city guard auxiliary commander promptly contacted Hun Tong.
Hun Tong fought Qi You while leaning of this news from an alchemy device.
This was good news.
Hun Tong thought on it, glanced at the battlefield, and firmly ordered, “Defend the barracks!”
The barracks’ human troops were greater than Hong Bo’s and Dao Hen’s troops.
But their military power was heavily dependent on the priest, Shi Fa, and the light cannon tower in the middle of the barracks.
If they pursued, the city guard would lose their locational advantage, and even if they eradicated Hong Bo and Dao Hen, they would pay a heavy price for it.
In fact, pursuing had other risks.
Such as those plundering pirates everywhere.
The city guard was likely to clash with pirates, and would suffer losses from them, and could even be surrounded and annihilated by them.
The port battlefield situation was another essential factor.
From Hun Tong’s point of view, he saw the vast might of the Vinegar Jar. And that the dragonman youngster and Zong Ge “powerless” to beat their respective opponents.
Hun Tong had to consider the overall situation.
If they lost the port battlefield, he needed a new place to make a stand on the island.
That would be the barracks.
Hearing Hun Tong give the order to defend, the city guard auxiliary commander promptly complied and secretly relaxed.
He was only iron level.
After the city guard commander was slain, he assumed leadership during this crisis, summoning up the courage to shoulder the responsibility of command, the pressure was exceedingly massive on him.
He didn’t want to risk pursuing. Iron level strength on this battlefield did not give him a sense of security.
Shi Fa shrugged his shoulders high, “Since that’s the case, then my mission to protect the barracks is complete. I’ll take my leave first.”
The Mercenary Guild still have plenty of defense missions.
To a silver level loner, this was a golden opportunity to make money.
Shi Fa left the barracks at once.
As he saw Shi Fa depart, the Wealth Church priest also let out a breath.
The haze of an undiscovered traitor lingered in the priest’s heart.
Two Eyes Island was the Wealth Goddess’ parish, which meant this was the priest’s domain somewhat.
When Shi Fa rushed to provide assistance, the priest remained vigilant.
Therefore, the priest and the other clergy remained inside the light cannon turret, while the closest Shi Fa got was at the base of the turret, he never entered it.
“We’ll also be leaving.” The priest said his goodbye to the auxiliary leader.
The looting pirates had given him a new worry.
He had to return to protect his church.
However, just as the priest and other clergy were about to depart, fishmen sprung up again.
“Enemy attack, enemy attack!”
“Those fishmen came back. They dared to return?!”
“Lord Priest, don’t leave!”
The human soldiers were alarmed and prepared for battle at once.
The priest and other clergy rushed back upstairs.
“Were the fishmen reinforced?”
The priest looked down from the light cannon turret and noticed something odd.
The fishmen’s ranks hadn’t expanded on the contrary, there were fewer of them now.
Furthermore, they lacked fighting spirit and instead looked nervous and fearful.
What was going on?
The silhouettes of three silver level fighters appeared around a street corner.
Beside Hong Bo and Dao Hen, there was also a human fighter.
It was the wandering ronin Ku Feng!
As it turns out, the retreating fishmen had run into Ku Feng by accident, who had been searching for them.
Ku Feng wholeheartedly wanted to challenge Dao Hen and attacked.
The fishmen were not his opponent and some were killed by him.
Dao Hen and Hong Bo furiously fought back.
Ku Feng quickly secured the upper hand.
The main reason was because he was in peak condition while the two fishmen fighters were bruised and cut all over, moreover, their battle qi reserves had dropped to dangerous levels.
The fishmen fighters had to save battle qi and had their actions limited, while Ku Feng recklessly squandered his.
He used battle skills again and again, causing Dao Hen and Hong Bo to retreat again and again.
The two retreated, forcing the fishmen behind them to retreat too.
After constantly retreating, they had returned to the outskirts of the barracks.
After discovering the truth, the humans celebrated.
The auxiliary commander even hastily dispatched a soldier to inform the recently departed Shi Fa.
The light cannon turret took the lead to unleash its power.
The light bombardment burst into the fishmen crowd, melting the center of it and leaving only a big hole behind.
During the previous battle, the fishmen were fighting in close quarters and the light cannon turret was unable to bombard as it wished.
The circumstances are different now.
The fishmen failed to retread and were being attacked from both sides, causing their morale to slump to record lows.
When Hong Bo saw this, he hastily used the fishman language to shout, “Scatter, flee!”
They would undoubtedly die if they stayed here.
There was nothing else they could do but to disperse.
The fishmen dispersed in confusion.
Dao Hen and Hong Bo glanced at each other, and a moment later, they ran in different directions.
Ku Feng’s target was Dao Hen, and he chased after him.
Not long after Hong Bo fled, Shi Fa intercepted him.
The two silver level fights sank into a deadlock.
“Who should I help first?” The Wealth priest pondered upstairs.
A church aid scrambled over and panicky told the priest the bad news.
Pirates had broken into the church!
The priest’s eyes darkened, the church contained much of his property!
“The Fertile Land priest didn’t defend it?”
“He did, but the pirates were stronger. Lord Priest, return now so we can take back our church!” The aid wept.
But the priest shook his head.
It is too late to go back.”
“The best way to handle the big picture is to help the fights before us.”
“A destroyed church can be rebuilt.”
“Property can be stolen, but there is hope we can take it back. Pirates are greedy by nature, and the new island has many places they can loot. Their ships won’t be leaving Two Eyes Island soon.”
The priest calmly analyzed and commanded his subordinates to attack.
He decided to aid Shi Fa first!
Shi Fa had proven himself to him already.
Ku Feng appearing at an opportune moment was somewhat of a coincidence.
The priest was worried that Ku Feng was the undiscovered traitor, staging a bloodening of the fishmen to gain his confidence.