Chapter 196 Cang Xu’s Troubles
Zi Di’s cautious proposal was deeply approved by Cang Xu.
Mystifying Monster Island had cultivated the survivors into treating everything prudently, and keeping space to retreat was a good habit.
However, when he tried to pull the Iron Lump away from the new island, two silver levels appeared unexpectedly to bar Cang Xu’s way.
“Finally, I’ve been waiting for this! Where do you think you’re going?” One of them was a female silver level with a gloomy face and emitted a strong hostility.
Seeing this suddenly emerging enemy, Cang Xu’s complexion changed slightly, “Ya Ma?”
Ya Ma once had friction with Cang Xu and Zi Di, and after the two had defeated her, they forced her to give her auction ticket to them in exchange for her freedom.
“Because of you, I missed the auction.”
“Now, you’ve stolen the Iron Lump, you think you can just walk away from it all?”
“Hehe, in your dreams!”
“I only lose to you guys because I didn’t have enough time to cast, giving you a cheap shot.”
“This time, we’ll settle our old debt.” Ya Ma spat out.
She was a summoner.
When Cang Xu and Zi Di faced her last time, they had used fire path rings to launch an undefendable magic barrage to win.
This time, he saw that she was riding a giant flying ant she had summoned and knew she had come prepared.
The Iron Lump was already some distance from shore, and it was through riding on this giant ant that Ya Ma was able to bar Cang Xu’s way.
Cang Xu’s head wrinkled as he looked at Ya Ma, then gazed at her companion.
It was someone familiar to Cang Xu.
She was broad and fat, had an owl like face, and was the beastman dancer Yue Ban.
Ya Ma had come for vengeance, Cang Xu could connect the dots.
But why was Yue Ban here?
Just as Cang Xu was about to speak, ready to negotiate, Yue Ban spoke first, “Magician, I have also been looking for you.”
“While doing so, I received Magician Ya Ma’s invitation to meet with you.”
“During the auction, you purchased a pair of dancing shoes, you should remember them.”
“Those Mushroom Dancing Shoes are very important to me.”
“Can you sell them to me please?”
“I need them!”
Cang Xu faintly nodded, “Mushroom Dancing Shoes…gold level equipment. Lord Yue Ban, how much do you plan to offer for them?”
“You lost to us during the auction, and those Mushroom Dancing Shoes now belong to us.”
“Now you want to buy it, don’t tell me you’ll force us to sell it at a loss?”
“What can you offer for it?”
Yue Ban was silent for a moment, “That’s right, I don’t have enough money.”
“That doesn’t matter.” Cang Xu shook his head, “This world does not value just money. In fact, there are many things money is unable to weigh in on.”
“If you can help me deal with the trouble before me, we are willing to discuss things based on your contribution and give you a discount on the Mushroom Dancing Shoes.” Cang Xu said after mulling on it.
He wanted to negotiate, turn an enemy into a friend, and bring Yue Ban onto his side.
But this move of his drew a sneer from Ya Ma.
Since Ya Ma had invited Yue Ban over, she naturally understood what was happening. If she let Cang Xu so easily convert her ally over, then she’d be quite the dullard.
As expected, Yue Ban shook her head, “Sorry, I can’t do that.”
“If I didn’t get Magician Ya Ma’s help, I wouldn’t have been able to find you.”
Yue Ban was also flying on a giant ant.
She continued, “Order cannot be overturned, I won’t bite the hand that feeds me.”
“Furthermore, my clan has a close connection with Ya Ma.”
Ya Ma smiled, “My summoned Yellow Wasp lives in Yue Ban’s hometown and has signed a summoning contract.”
“Therefore, sire don’t waste your saliva, obediently surrender without a fight and you can avoid bodily suffering.”
Yue Ban agreed, “Hand over the Mushroom Dancing Shoes and I will plea for leniency.”
Cang Xu laughed back, “Since that is so, then let us settle this, I hope you can treasure your time. If you wait for my companion to come and help, then you won’t have another opportunity.”
Qing Xin had already flown into the air.
Since a powerful enemy had suddenly arrived, she had no choice but to keep fighting.
Cang Xu was at a severe disadvantage.
He looked like a silver level, but that was merely a disguise, his real life level was only at the iron level.
Furthermore, he was relying on fire path rings.
His true skills couldn’t be used publicly.
“A pity Men Shi left the ship to look for a chance to repay the commander’s kindness. Otherwise, the situation wouldn’t be this bad.” Cang Xu regretfully thought.
He didn’t use a communications device to call for help in front of his two enemies.
Because he knew Zi Di would notice the emergency here.
An unexpected fight unfolded on the Iron Lump.
The summoner Ya Ma and the beastman dancer Yue Ban versus Cang Xu and Qing Xin!
In the subterranean depths.
Bang.
An explosion caused smoke and dust to scatter about.
The dragonman youngster stormed into the center of the formation.
“This is the place the fishman caster is!”
“But where are they?”
Soon after, the pharmacist hurried in, then after using magic to examine the area, he said, “They used camouflage magic, they actually relocated before we got here.”
Zong Ge frowned, “The fishman magician using the large scale magic cannot just be bait. They must have left because they attained their objective. This facade they induced just delayed our battle with them.”
“There is nothing we can do about it.” The dragonman youngster shook his head slightly.
If the enemy wasn’t stopped, the rewards afterwards wouldn’t be much.
But for the sake of his and his subordinates’ lives, the dragonman youngster didn’t regret adopting a steady and slow strategy.
At this moment, Zi Di transmitted the latest information.
The dragonman youngster’s heart quaked, “What? Cang Xu ran into trouble?”
The young man was serene outwardly but inwardly be frowned and felt prickled.
Cang Xu was using the face of a Wisteria elder, thus, it was very inconvenient for the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps to help him.
“But no matter what, it is better to leave this place first and get closer to Cang Xu.”
Thinking of that, the dragonman youngster immediately ordered, “The enemy magician has left already, our operation has failed. We should immediately return topside to deal with the enemy’s defenses.:
The auxiliary commander and the pharmacist both laughed, completely at ease.
The latter believed that the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps didn’t know the latest intelligence and proudly stated, “Don’t be so tense, Commander Long Fu. The Feudal Lord has truly acted, and now the situation is utterly titled towards us, we have already secured victory!”
“Oh? Really?” The dragonman youngster was startled, “Tell me now, what’s going on,”
The pharmacist joyfully recounted the tale as the group quickly made their way back.
The purple scaled fishman and Shi Fa struggled to drag a fishman corpse through a dark path.
To conceal their auras, they didn’t choose to use magic.
The fishman corpse was the long dead Hai Ping.
Despite the years, his corpse hadn’t decayed, it was still full of flesh, seemed true to life, and he looked like he was in a deep sleep, that if he opened his eyes, he would awaken.
At first glance, the purple scaled fishman lamented, it really was the Swelling Wave bloodline.
The purple scaled fishman suddenly stopped, “I smell the ocean. We are nearly off of Two Eyes Island. How are you doing?”
The purple scaled fishman threw a worried glance at Shi Fa.
Shi Fa was in a bad state.
He was deathly pale, his skin was colorless, his body was verged on collapse, he was weak all over, and his spirit was nearly spent.
Shi Fa smiled, “I’ll do my best to keep up.”
“It doesn’t matter.” He instead consoled the purple scaled fishman, “I have already performed my function.”
“This matter is finished.”
“Originally, I thought about staying behind, fighting to give you time.”
“But you were right, with my state right now, it would only give the enemy a victory and wouldn’t stall for any time at all.”
“When we enter the sea, I can use the last of my magic power to disguise myself with your aura and go another direction.”
“Good luck!”
The purple scaled fishman opened her mouth, but didn’t say anything, instead merely nodding.
They had found Hai Ping’s corpse far quicker than they had expected.
Thus, Shi Fa hadn’t sacrificed his life.
The purple scaled fishman respected Shi Fa, and when she heard Shi Fa wanted to stay behind, her advising him to come with her was due to her wanting to save his life.
Now that they were about to dive into the ocean, Shi Fa still chose to sacrifice himself in another way.
And this time, the purple scaled fishman didn’t stop him.
Because the two had received the naga priestess’ message and knew the battlefield on the island had dramatically shifted.
The fishmen were routed.
There wasn’t much time for the two to retreat!
When the two reached the end of the secret path, the purple scaled fishman quickly cast a spell that caused the vines and branches before them to slowly separate, allowing seawater to bubbling through small cracks.
As the passage expanded, so too did the flow of seawater.
The purple scaled fishman and Shi Fa were fish back in water and dove down into it.
The two looked at each other, silently nodded, and separated.
The purple scaled fishman tugged Hai Ping’s corpse deeper and spared no effort to haul it away from the island.
After a moment, Shi Fa cast a spell to disguise himself with the purple scaled fishman’s aura and swan in another direction.
“They’re out, I need to support them!” The naga priestess’ eyes flashed briefly.
But she was still entangled with Hun Tong’s clone and couldn’t free herself.
Hun Tong’s alchemy clone was unafraid of death and was very troublesome.
The naga priestess knew she wasn’t very mobile, and if she acted abnormally, it was bound to provoke the gold level magic ship’s indiscriminate bombing.
The situation was utterly in tatters, but there was one thing the naga priestess was happy about: to protect his benefits, Hun Tong hadn’t shot these gold levels yet. The bombardments were motivated by him wanting to “stop valuables from leaving and to protect his territory”,
Thus, the naga priestess looked at the old fishman elder.
The fishman elder suddenly felt his heart move, realizing it was time for him to sacrifice himself.
He deeply sighed and entrusted his walking stick to a fishman next to him.
The walking stick wasn’t just gold level equipment, it also had significant meaning.
It was the symbol of the clan elder’s authority!