Chapter 197: Yellow Nest Wasps
When the old fishman elder gave his walking stick to another, the meaning was self-evident.
“Lord Clan Elder!” The fishman confidant shouted.
The old clan elder bitterly laughed back, and Cang Sang apologized, “So sorry everyone, I really was an incompetence elder.”
“Our homeland was lost by my hands.”
“I knew my own daughter had been kidnapped and was being tortured by the enemy, but I couldn’t act.”
“To save her, I didn’t hesitate to deceive our allies and violate my convictions and principles.”
“To have this chance to redeem myself in self-sacrifice really makes me fortunate.”
“Before this battle, I lay down my will.”
“Everything in this will shall be done.”
“Lord Clan Elder…boohoo.” The people choked with sobs and wept.
The old clan elder gazed hopefully at the naga priestess, “Lord Priestess, I leave my clansmen and daughter in your care!”
The naga priestess was solemn, although they had cheated her slightly, his willingness to sacrifice himself was a righteous achievement and more than made up for it.
The naga priestess nodded faintly, “With that ship present, I can only do by best.”
“Be at ease. That ship will find it difficult to attend to you soon.” After the old clan elder said this, he firmly stamped his feet and shouted the Frozen Land Whale’s childhood name.
The Frozen Land Whale was a magic beast the clan had raised.
Since the year they had been banished, the clan began to raise it, and didn’t hesitate to ration their own food, all to retake their homeland.
But Hun Tong was an excellent businessman, and he had enough money to build a gold level magic ship, which far outstripped the bred Frozen Land Whale.
The Frozen Land Whale had been trained to have a tacit understanding, and without the old clan elder saying anything, merely just stamping his foot, it knew what to do.
Racial magic – Ascending Spring!
Seawater flowed from its breathing hole and sprayed out, shooting the old clan elder into the sky.
The fishman elder flew at lightning speed as he gained altitude.
The old clan elder had kept this trick hidden, originally he had intended to find an opportunity to rise suddenly into the sky to ruthlessly attack Yan Ding or Hun Tong’s clone.
But he never found that chance.
Due to the crucial military situation, he had to use it now.
The old clan elder’s skill really went against Hun Tong’s expectations.
He hastily manipulated three of the five light cannons.
The light beams hit the old clan elder, however, he stiffly went against the bombardment and rose to the altitude of the Golden Flash, then wounded and bloody, he landed on the Golden Flash’s deck
“There is still 75% of the magic power reservoir, that’s enough.”
“But I won’t be able to personally control it anymore.”
Hun Tong’s eyes shrank.
He couldn’t ignore the old fishman elder and let him devastate his flagship.
The Golden Flash didn’t have good defenses.
Especially when the old clan elder was staking his life on this, Hun Tong wouldn’t dare let a gold level do what he wanted!
Hun Tong prodded the magic runes, giving the Golden Flash hurried orders to continue bombarding, then immediately flew below to fight the fishman elder.
The fishman elder was unarmed, but his long green seaweed like hair and his bubbling golden battle qi danced as he caused chaos everywhere.
“Come, let us fight to the death!” The old clan elder was filled with determination, ready to die.
Hun Tong’s eyes shrank again.
The enemy before him was most troublesome.
He was a gold level too, and did not care about living.
More crucially, he was on the Golden Flash.
If anything was broken, he wouldn’t be able to repair it for the time being!
He couldn’t repair the underground patrollers, let alone the Golden Flash.
Previously, the old clan elder had to protect the fishman army from Yan Ding.
Now, it was Hun Tong’s turn to be sullen.
Bang, thump, boom.
A fierce fight on the Golden Flash unfolded.
Two old enemies pitted themselves against each other once more.
This time, it was both victory and defeat, life and death!
“Shoot them down!”
The pirates and the fishmen yelled.
For a moment, all kinds of arrows and bullets soared through the air, along with even cannons in a constant rumble.
Magic spell – Water Arrow!
Xi Dai Zi was barely able to cast.
He was in a terrible state, but the Vinegar Jar still had magic power reserves.
Battle skill – Musical Scale.
Hu Li jumped onto his musical scale, leaped into the air, and used his palm to slap down a Flying Whirling Disc.
These discs were crucial, it was through them that the light cannon towers could split their attacks in countless directions.
The discs suffered all kinds of attacks, but few of them broke.
They were gold level components.
Since they had to take the light cannon towers’ gigantic light beams, then scatter and refract them, they had to have considerable defenses.
These attacks were fruitless, but the pirates and the fishmen didn’t give up.
On the contrary, they began to attack more frantically.
Because they knew full well that if they didn’t smash these Flying Whirling Discs, they would die!
Although the Golden Flash was a better target, they couldn’t reach it.
The targets they could attack were the Flying Whirling Discs.
Only if they smashed these discs to pieces did they have a hope of surviving.
But although the discs seemed frail, few were shot down.
The main light cannon diffused light once again, and another light net bombardment fired.
But this time, the fishmen and pirates suffered fewer casualties than before.
The survivors were both startled and delighted as they reacted one after the other.
“Even if we can’t smash those disks, we can still interfere with them!”
“That’s right, continue attacking, don’t stop.”
So long as the Flying Whirling Discs were off tilt, when they refracted the light beams, its attacks would veer massively.
The discs resisted these interferences by rotating in the air.
The level of interference wasn’t that big actually.
In fact, many light beams brushed right past their targets.
However, because the light beams were very precise, and their might was concentrated, too excessively so, if it brushed past an enemy, it was enough for them to survive.
“We can live; we can survive!” A pirate roared.
The fishmen were also clamoring.
There were many unafraid of death as they gathered the scattered valuable around them.
“Mine, all mine!”
“Even if I die, I will die on a pile of gold coins.”
A pirate’s greed could be seen from this.
“Hold on, what is that?”
Many diving pirates seeking valuables were shocked when they discovered the shadows of beings in the depths of the seafloor.
These shadows looked like people with snake tails.
They were also gathering valuables!
“Naga!”
“Not only are there fishmen, but there are also nagas on the seabed.”
“They are taking our sunken treasures. Damn them, we went through great trouble to steal them!”
The pirates felt aggrieved, but they couldn’t do anything.
It was difficult for them to dive to the bottom of the seabed.
Even if they could, their strength would tumble, could they fight the naga down there?
Of course, those weren’t really naga.
They were deep sea salvagers.
When Zi Di saw valuables tumbling down into the sea, she had dispatched these salvaging alchemy puppets.
These valuables on the seafloor came from the big stores, houses, and churches the pirates had robbed.
Two Eyes Island was a bustling commerce island, and its development had led to both its officials and citizens all having great wealth.
The generous funerary objects they were buried with was an indication of that.
“I didn’t expect that there’d be easy money!” Zi Di’s mouth twitched.
This pleasant surprise was brief, as her heart was filled more with concern.
Qing Xin and Cang Xu were in a bad situation.
Ya Ma and Yue Ban were in peak condition, and genuine silver levels.
Cang Xu was an iron level pretending to be a silver level.
Although Qing Xin was a silver level magician, the long fight with Hu Li had depleted her strength, in addition, her lack of equipment left her in a sorry state.
With summons surrounding her, Ya Ma grew more confident, “It was a true disgrace I actually lost to you.”
“Are you really a silver level?”
“Are those the only fire spells you can use?”
Before, when there was friction between Ya Ma, Zi Di, and Cang Xu, she didn’t have enough time to summon anything, and had been suppressed by fire magic, unable to catch a breath.
Under that pressure, she was forced to admit defeat.
Now that she had space, she was full of mettle.
Qing Xin could only fly into the air, and repeat the tactics she used against Hu Li, constantly moving and relying mostly on evasion.
Cang Xu also used a flying scroll, and adopted evasion tactics, doing as much as he could to stall for time.
He consciously drew closer to the dragonman youngster.
When the battle began, he decided to stay far from the Iron Lump.
As for the dragonman youngster, it was troublesome for him to help out Cang Xu and Qing Xin.
After all, during the auction, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps constantly antagonized Cang Xu and Zi Di, winning the good graces of the masses and building a hostile relationship with them.
Now, if the dragonman youngster interfered, and helped Cang Xu, then that behavior would be inconsistent with his previous actions.
It would surely provoke suspicion!
“Oh dear, this really won’t do, I have no choice but to act.” The dragonman youngster sighed to himself as he hastened his pace.
Compared to external suspicion, Cang Xu’s life was of course more important!
“Where do you think you are going?” Ya Ma laughed.
She had grown impatient with this chase and decided to cast.
A magic formation formed in the sky.
The disk shaped formation rotated once and turned into a bright circular gate.
From the round light gate flew out an elephant sized wasp.
The wasp was covered in tiger like skin, black and yellow alternated across its body, its compound eyes were pitch black and covered in dark luster, it looked very strong.
Most unusual was its rear section.
Its rear was enormous and looked someone deformed.
Its rear was five long pillars, and at their ends were many small holes.
The wasp emitted a silver level aura.
The small holes also emitted many strange auras too.
When Ya Ma summoned the silver level magic beast, she immediately pointed her finger at Cang Xu and ordered, “Blow him up.”
Buzz, buzz, buzz…
A moment later, many alchemy wasps flew from those holes.
The wasps looked like a black cloud covering Cang Xu.
Cang Xu immediately felt his head go numb, and as he cursed to himself, he tore open a scroll.
The scroll’s magic took effect, creating ten phantoms of himself that flew in all directions.
The wasp cloud was forced to divide itself into eleven, each part pursuing a phantom of Cang Xu.
Bang, slam, thump.
After chasing down their target, the small wasps exploded one after the other.
The phantoms instantly blew up, turning the surrounding houses and streets into ruins in a surge of smoke and dust.
Cang Xu’s real body was quickly found.
The remaining wasps buzzed over, surrounding him.
“Not good!” Zi Di turned pale when she saw this.
At this moment, a fatal crisis was looming over Cang Xu!