Chapter 195: Controlling the Battlefield

Hun Tong flew to the ship and entered the main turret.

Without Qi You bothering him, he was a free man, and this process went abnormally smoothly.

In the fourth floor of the main turret, there was a control panel.

Hun Tong personally took control.

All around the control panel were crystal walls that depicted all sorts of changing magic runes,

Combined with the Golden Flash’s powerful detection methods, the walls could promptly display everything in a radius of a thousand miles.

In the Deep Sea Monster Fish, Zi Di had hypothesized close to the truth – the Golden Flash really had wide scale and long distance detection methods.

Hun Tong stood perfectly straight, his hands on the control helm, and scenes all across the battlefield depicted on the walls around him.

Countless landing skiffs were pierced by light beams, destroying a number of their hulls, causing them to quickly sink into the ocean.

The bleeding corpses of pirates followed them down.

Along with great amounts of money and valuables.

These invaluable things quickly sank to the seafloor.

However, Hun Tong wasn’t worried about that.

Those valuables in the sea could be salvaged after the battle.

“You want to plunder me, to steal my money, hehe, how could you?” Hun Tong sneered proudly.

“My detection component is the Gold Eye!”

“A gold level alchemy creation with the Wealth Church’s divine spell – Appraisal!”

It can detect every object within its range and appraise it.”

“These greedy pirates, as long as they are laden with treasures, they will be high value targes and will be firmly locked onto!”

“Thinking about it, it really is a little ironic.”

“None would expect these pirates to do everything possible, through their devastating looting, to leave a trail that attracted the Grim Reaper’s sickle towards them.”

The surviving pirates swam back towards their fleets, their lives depending on it.

The fishmen would saw this were utterly stunned.

They heard the human fighters cheering as they counterattacked in waves. 

Hun Tong took a deep breath; he couldn’t help but grip the red wheel tighter.

A tight squeeze.

The ship wheel’s wooden felt even better.

By being in control of this wheel, he was in control of the entire battlefield.

“Everything is under my control.”

“The fishmen who decided to come court death and the lethally greedy pirates. Hehe, along with those incompetent mercenary corps and those selfish merchant alliances.

“This time, I won’t just finish off the troublesome Blue Green coral fishman clan, I will also eradicate all of the pirates around the island.”

“Thanks to you all coming here to attack, I can catch you all in the same net.”

“You will all become my merits!”

Hun Tong’s eyes flashed brightly.

The most the Golden Flash could do was land on the ocean for a short resupply, but it couldn’t dive into it and fight.

The Blue Green Coral fishman clan deciding to attack the island was building towards the circumstances Hun Tong wanted.

While the looting pirates would let him free his reputation from all that tainted it and preserve his trustworthy image with the merchants and nobles.

Persuading the pirates to restrain themselves was actually him putting on a performance.

By showing weakness, he aroused the pirates’ greed.

The very first to fall into the trap was the strongest gold level pirate boss, Qi You!

“The pirates looked the entire island.”

“According to imperial law, when I kill them and fish out those valuables, they will all belong to me as spoils of war.”

“Many thanks to you for letting me seize the Wealth Church’s and every large store’s wealth, hahaha.”

“After a large fire, a prairie the next year will be verdant and shine with new vitality. My Two Eyes Island will be like that too.”

“After this violent upheaval, the prior agreements with the merchant alliances will be resigned, and even the five great merchant alliances will pay me a sum in exchange.”

“After all, the contract at the time said we were to resist external enemies together.”

“But in the end, when that time came, they sailed their ships away, waded through my magic traps, and damaged our defensive line at their own accord!”

Hun Tong was not just scheming against the fishmen and the pirates, but also the Wealth Church and every merchant alliance.

His gaze deepened, as if recalling something, “The empire’s order must be carried out.”

“In the future Two Eyes Island will become a supply line hub, therefore it has to be transformed!”

“From a commerce island into a transportation base.”

The empire’s order was not within Hun Tong’s plan.

For these last years, Hun Tong had been constantly thinking to how to transition himself.

Previous business contracts shackled him, and he also couldn’t unilaterally alter those contracts. As an island feudal lord, his background was far lesser than the six great merchant alliances.

In the future, he also had to ensure the transportation base’s security!

However, the merchant alliance ships were sure to be traveling to and fro, and according to the trade agreements, he couldn’t constrain them, this was a conflict with his administration.

If there was a breach of contract, he had to compensate with large amounts of money and even lose parts of his territory.

But by doing this, the merchant alliance will pay him money!

“In the following negotiations, I will seize the opportunity to shred those business contracts and free myself.”

“I didn’t expect the Wealth priest to die in battle.”

That had been his partner in the establishment of Two Eyes Island.

His sacrifice made Hun Tongn sigh incessantly.

“Thinking about it carefully, that’s fine.”

“When a new priest is dispatched, there will be a vacuum period.”

“That will be the optimal moment to strengthen my control.”

“I will seize the opportunity to introduce other churches and divide the religious aspects here into two, allowing them to check and balance each other.”

Hun Tong was not a cleric, he was a noble, a representative of monarchical power.

Monarchial power and divine power were unified but were also opposed to each other!

“Wonderful, the future really is too wonderful!”

When Hun Tong thought of these merits, he couldn’t help but chuckle.

In his calculations, the future would be bright, the previous haze all cleaned away.

The round “scales” flying in the air evaded attacks as they changed their angles.

These were parts of the gold module – Flying Whiriling Compact Discs.

The main turret poured light into the five light cannon turrets again.

The light network was formed once more.

The Golden Flash’s third bombardment!

For a moment, fishmen and pirates howled and screamed.

The casualties were innumerable.

The gold level magic ship could slaughter as many enemies as it liked.

The two bombardments had inflicted casualties on most of it already.

It was difficult to imagine that this was once a tremendous military that could sweep across the entire island.

“Retreat, retreat!!” the old clan elder yelled, his eyes flowing with tears of blood.

He wanted to retake their homeland, for this he had used his full strength.

But now, the clan was nearly extinct, and taking back their homeland had become a dream.

The Golden Flash fired a fourth time!

This time, Hun Tong mainly targeted the ocean battlefield.

Many Flying Whirling Discs flew above the ships there.

A hundred thousand light beams fired out perfectly straight, instantly forming a forest of lights.

If the Deep Sea Monster Fish fired its cannons, it would be constrained by worries of friendly fire. 

But these light cannon turrets were extremely accurate.

Especially with the Flying Whiriling Discs’ help, it simply was like sticking a muzzle to an enemy’s forehead, how could it miss? 

“No!!” It was Er Gua Zi’s turn to have his heart pierced with sorrow.

The Vinegar Jar Pirates were already having a hard time staying strong, as the enemy merchant ships outnumbered them and there were more silver level merchant alliance representatives than pirates of the same level.

The reason why they could last this long was mainly because the merchant alliance representatives cherished their property and were more focused on worrying about and saving their fleets.

At the same time, they also cherished themselves and weren’t willing to take risks, afraid of a gold level retaliation.

With this bombardment, the Vinegar Jar Pirates suffered a mortal blow.

Although the fishmen pirates didn’t suffer many losses.

Their ships began to slowly sink.

In a blink, this large gold level pirate group only had one seaworthy ship left.

It was their flagship, the Vinegar Jar.

In the Vinegar Jar, Xi Dai Zi’s head was filled with cold sweat.

“If the next bombardment targets the flagship…we won’t be able to hold on!”

Ku Feng and Mei Ban were dumbfounded.

Hong Zhu slowed down.

She had originally judged that the fishmen held an immense advantage, therefore she decided to go to the water and think of a means of taking a boat from the island.

But in the end, after Hun Tong unleased his trump card, the treasure hunter discovered how wrong she was!

The ocean battlefield went silent.

The merchant alliance representatives watched the fishmen doing their best to mend their vessels and saw the fishmen corpses strewn across their decks.

Even friendly forces were astonished by the bombardment’s might.

“Hun Tong, this guy. If he had called this magic ship out earlier, we wouldn’t have suffered such immense damage!”

“He is too treacherous; this is a scheme against us.”

“Repulsive, hateful!”

At this moment, Hun Tong’s voice rang throughout the battlefield, “Everyone, if you don’t press the attack now, when will you?”

The merchant alliance representatives were startled.

Hun Tong’s tone contained a menacing implication.

With that gold level magic ship, he was the strongest force on the field.

Not a single merchant alliance representative could compete openly with the high spirited Hun Tong.

“Kill!”

“Kill those fishmen.”

“Steal their ships to make up for our losses.”

As if waking from a dream, the merchant alliance representatives rushed out of their flagships.

The Golden Flash’s bombardment had inflicted heavy losses on the Vinegar Jar Pirates, and the latter could no longer do anything to the merchant alliance ships, liberating the merchant alliance representatives.

“The Vinegar Jar Pirates are finished!” Cang Xu saw this from a distance, even though he wasn’t an accomplished military man, he immediately judged the situation correctly.

He then glanced at the orbiting “scales” in the air, causing Cang Xu to cough.

During the prior bombardments, he was very nervous and afraid that he’d become a target of them.

But Hun Tong didn’t target the Iron Lump.

Probably because Cang Xu was on the bow, looking like how he did during the auction, along with the fishmen corpses left strewn across the deck, Qing Xin, Men Shi, and the other humans making it clear where they stood.

At this moment, Zi Di transmitted, “With that gold level magic ship, Hun Tong has established victory, our prior conjecture was correct, he was holding back and still had this trump card.”

“But you should still leave first, keep distance from Two Eyes Island.”

“The Iron Lump is the Iron Club Mercenary Corps’ flagship, I am worried that after the battle, that mercenary corps will leverage its connections to pressure us into giving it back.”

“We must sail away first, it would be best if they never got the chance to do this.”

“After so many days, there hasn’t been any response to our ransom letter. This makes me very worried, and I have a bad premonition about it.”