Chapter 184: The Undiscovered Traitor Exposed
“You still understand me.” Commander Beng Dai secretly praised, but on the surface he hesitantly replied, “Is that a good idea? If we seize the Iron Lump, how could we face the Iron Club Mercenary Corps?”
The auxiliary commander resisted the urge to roll his eyes as he responded, “Commander, you worry too much about old friendships. Right now, taking the Iron Lump is how we help our friend.”
“Commander Tie Bang is dead.”
“We must help them.”
“Of course, when we return the Iron Lump to them in the future, they’ll need to reward us somewhat for that.”
Those words interpreted from another point of view implied that “if the reward wasn’t to their satisfaction, then the Iron Lump wouldn’t be returned”.
“Your words have merit.” Commander Beng Dai immediately smiled when he heard the auxiliary commander’s veiled intent and was eager to adopt this idea.
He raised his voice as he looked to his other subordinates, “Did you hear that?”
“Let’s help our friends take back the Iron Lump!”
The mercenaries cheered together, vigorously responding to Commander Beng Dai’s call to battle.
But a moment later, someone reported something.
“The Iron Lump is being attacked!”
“Not by people, but by many alchemy puppets.”
“What?” Commander Beng Dai and the others turned pale, and they all leaned forward to gaze into the distance.
Commander Beng Dai took out a telescope and saw the swordsmen guard puppets killing their way across the Iron Lump.
He was utterly bewildered, “What’s going on?”
“That can’t be the Iron Club Mercenary Groups’ trump card.”
“Whose troops are those?”
The Bandage Mercenary Corps was normally the Iron Club Mercenary Corps’ rival, and sometimes partners.
Two Eyes Island is only so big, and after interacting with each other for so long, they knew each other’s foundation.
Therefore, Commander Beng Dai knew for certain that this wasn’t how the Iron Club Mercenary Corps operated.
Was it the feudal lord’s forces? Some merchant alliance force? Or perhaps…the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps?
Commander Beng Dai was suspicious of everyone.
“Commander, what should we do?” An obtuse mercenary asked.
Commander Beng Dai ruthlessly glared at the asker, “The enemy is powerful and unknown, we are spectators for the time being and don’t need to take the risk!”
“The commander is wise!” The auxiliary commander immediately approved.
The person that mobilized the alchemy puppets to attack the Iron Lump was Zi Di of course.
When she suggested to the dragonman youngster that it was time to seize the ship, she had secretly dispatched alchemy puppets from the Deep Sea Monster Fish.
Although the Iron Lump had fallen into the Vinegar Jar Pirates’ hands, there was no experts on board it.
The Vinegar jar Pirates’ experts were involved in their respective fights and weren’t able to reinforce.
Their main force were still fighting merchant alliance ships.
After Er Gua Zi had personally slaughtered the humans of the White Bandage and Iron Lump, the people transferred onto them were universally weak.
This gave The Bandage Mercenary Corps a golden opportunity to retake their flagship.
Likewise, it was an opportunity for Zi Di too.
Through the Deep Sea Monster Fish’s detection methods, she could see the entire battlefield clearly and knew where the enemy’s weak links were.
The alchemy puppets were quickly slew all of the fishmen around them.
But now there was a difficult problem before Zi Di.
Such as how to operate this bronze level magic ship.
She didn’t have authority over it and had to try to figure it out.
Another thing was that alchemy puppets weren’t flexible enough to control the Iron Lump.
“Cang Xu please come over and take charge of the Iron Lump.” Zi Di contacted Cang Xu.
Cang Xu had quietly left the port battlefield and was prepared to help Qing Xin and the others. But something unexpected happened, Qing Xin and Men Shi had joined forces to fight a fierce battle against Hu Li.
Cang Xu was only an iron level, and recklessly interfering in a fight between three silver levels was obviously unwise.
He continued to hide, waiting for the right opportunity.
As a result, before his chance arrived, Zi Di had contacted him.
“Qing Xin’s situation is getting worse, but she should last for a time.” Cang Xu didn’t leave immediately; he made his own judgements.
Zi Di didn’t command him, only the dragonman youngster could do so.
Cang Xu swept his eyes across the port battlefield.
He saw the humans were gaining the upper hand, and after weighing things swiftly, he decided to heed Zi Di’s proposal.
Cang Xu moved again, leaving his hiding spot and diving into the ocean.
He wanted to swim through the ocean and around the maritime battlefield to get onto the Iron Lump.
Magic spell – Sudden Spring!
Just as Cang Xu was leaving, Xi Dai Zi was obstructed.
The magic he used split open the ground around him, the resulting shockwaves devastated everything around him.
Wherever they went, human fighters were flung into the air.
Sudden Spring was about as powerful as Battering Hammer, and when many people were struck by it and thrown into the air, their falling corpses left sights so horrible, no one could bear to look at them.
Sudden Spring was very powerful and well hidden; thus, the Wealth priest was forced to get out of its way.
But a moment later, the Fertile Land priest behind Xi Dai Zi took out his sacred hoe.
He dug the hoe into the ground and used a divine spell.
Divine Spell – Soil Crusting.
The ground was suddenly reinforced and became very hard.
Even though Sudden Spring could still break out of the ground, its might had fallen was no longer a threat.
Xi Dai Zi became furious and took out his belt whip.
It was his magic weapon.
At the same time, he took out a totem from his storage bag.
A Rage Totem!
A bloody phantom suddenly rose from Xi Dai Zi.
The phantom looked like him, and after appearing, it quickly dissipated.
In a split second, Xi Dai Zi’s attack and speed dramatically increased.
The Wealth priest was no longer able to intercept him.
Xi Dai Zi charged towards the Vinegar Jar.
They couldn’t allow Xi Dai Zi into the Vinegar Jar.
He knew this magic ship well, and if he got in, he was sure to regain control of it quickly.
“Shi Fa!” The Wealth priest shouted.
The playing card magician was the final line of defense.
After he had killed Yao Guan Zi, he began to drain the poison water and used detection magic on the ship’s interior.
Before he could examine it properly, Xi Dai Zi had charged in.
Shi Fa waved his cuff, and three playing cards flew out, turning into three fire balls shaped like a to stop Xi Dai Zi.
Xi Dai Zi snapped his magic whip, scattering the three fireballs.
But his speed had slowed by 30%.
As it turns out, Shi Fa had used another playing card with the Slow spell.
“Well done!” The Wealth priest saw his chance to catch up.
He cast a divine spell onto Xi Dai Zi, instantly causing the latter to shake with heavy injuries.
When Shi Fa saw this, he took out three blue playing cards.
Every playing card was Lightning Spear.
The three playing cards discharged together, and the lightning spears combined into one three meter long spear.
The crackling spear emitted an extraordinary biting cold aura.
“Oh no!” When Xi Dai Zi sensed the danger of death from this spear, he promptly dodged.
But in response to that, the Wealth priest combined his efforts.
Another divine spell fell onto Xi Dai Zi, locking him in place, making him an immobilized target.
“I’m dead!” A moment later, Xi Dai Zi saw the lighting spear shooting towards him.
It brushed past his eyebrow and shot straight into the Wealth priest’s heart!
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This startling development shocked everyone.
Not just the humans, but also Xi Dai Zi and the other fishmen.
“What just happened?”
“Did his shot stray off target?”
“No, the Lightning Spear spell is a directed magic, it is controlled by a magician’s spirit, then why did the shot deviate?”
A number of thoughts churned in people’s minds.
The fact was present before them.
In that case, there was only one thing Shi Fa could be.
“You are a fishman plant?!” The Fertile Land priest furiously asked.
His heart filled with ire and lingering fear.
Shi Fa had hidden well.
He had killed Yao Guan Zi and Hong Bo with his own hands, and had taken Dao Hen captive, yet the one who had eliminated all of these fishmen was the traitor!
The Wealth priest had fallen into his trap when he had done his best to pin down Xi Dai Zi and wasn’t moving.
Shi Fa had killed him in a single blow!
“I didn’t expect that after hiding for ten years, this would be the moment I revealed myself.” Shi Fa sighed, “In that case everyone, I shall take my leave first.”
Shi Fa gracefully bowed humbly to everyone.
A playing card flew out and stopped above his head, then exploded in sparkling light.
The light moved across Shi Fa, then faded away.
Magic spell - Short Distance Teleportation!
He actually ran away.
According to common sense, after killing the Wealth priest, he should have helped in Xi Dai Zi and the others in their counteroffensive against the humans.
But he didn’t do so and instead left.
The people left behind were utterly bewildered.
What was Shi Fa doing?
What was his purpose?
His conduct didn’t make any sense!
The light of a teleportation spell suddenly appeared in front of the purple scaled fishman.
The light withered away, revealing Shi Fa to the purple scaled fishman.
“You are?” When the purple scaled fishman saw Shi Fa, she exposed her amazement and wariness.
She had contacted the naga priestess, who told her that someone was coming to help her.
The one who came was Shi Fa.
Shi Fa nodded to the purple scaled fishman, he rolled his Adam’s apple and extended his tongue, in his tongue was a pearl.
When the pearl was taken out, Shi Fa’s form also changed; it began to overlap and grow fuzzy.
It was obvious that he had been disguised, he had another true appearance.
When she saw the pearl, the purple scaled fishman’s vigilance was dispelled instantly.
She knew that was a gold level alchemy treasure – Disguise Pearl.
This main refinement material of this pearl was god level, it came from the extraordinary Pearl Bubbles.
The Pearl Bubbles came from her Goddess’ divine artifact, the Mermaid Fairy Tale.
There are none left nowadays.
Shi Fa swallowed the Disguise Pearl again, “Twenty years ago, my God’s oracle created Disguise Pearls and arranged spies to infiltrate every continent. I am one of them.”
“But today has made the identity I painstakingly built utterly useless.”
“Alas, I hope exposing it will be worth it.”
As it turns out, Shi Fa had also received a secret order from the naga priestess, leading to his sudden attack.
Before that, he had killed fishmen to continue hiding, establish merits, and win the trust of the humans, succeeding greatly in all counts.
The purple fishman nodded to Shi Fa and used a respectful and affirmative to reply, “Your sacrifice will be worth it!”
“My Goddess’ oracle told us to come here.”
“We are looking for a fishman corpse, in life he was called Hai Ping.”
“Hai Ping?” Shi Fa sensed this name was somewhat familiar.
He soon reacted, “I remember, Hai Ping is a fishman powerhouse who reached the saint level.”
The purple scaled fishman nodded, “He lived incognito in his later years and was buried in this coral ball cage tree.”
“Through dreams, my Goddess told our oracle of his whereabouts.”
Shi Fa frowned, “He has been dead for a long time, don’t tell me we can still resurrect him?”
The purple scaled fishman shook her head, “We don’t need to resurrect him, we just need to bring back his corpse because…he has the Surging Wave fishman bloodline!”