Chapter 205: The Optimal Bombardment
The main light cannon turret fired!
Boom!
A thick light beam shot straight at the pier.
In the port battlefield, the gold level Song Shou and Er Gua Zi were fighting each other.
The light beam was extremely fast, and even if they were on guard, they wouldn’t be able to react.
Er Gua Zi had been maintaining a defensive battle skill, and when he realized the light beam was shot towards them, it was already too late.
He could only clench his teeth, prepared to get through the pain.
But the white hot light beam brushed past him and struck Song Shou.
Song Shou also couldn’t react in time, but he too was maintaining a defensive battle skill and also had a special movement battle skill.
Battle skill – Grass Movement!
When the wind blew, the grass moved.
The fighter who created this battle skill was ingenious.
The principle behind the Grass Movement battle skill was this: when an immense attack was drawing near, the user could take advantage of the new situation and in passing, immediately relocate and avoid the attack. If it couldn’t be avoided, then when the attack hit the fighter, part of its power would be drained away.
This kind of evasion movement was not subject to the fighter’s control, like the wind blowing small grass, it was triggered by and responded to external pressure.
The main light cannon’s explosive attack had immense might.
To Song Shou, the moment before the bombardment hit set off a squall.
The light beam had taken aim at him, and before his mind could react, the Grass Movement battle skill had flung his body backwards.
A moment later, the place where he had been standing had a deep hole blown into it by the light beam bombardment.
“The incandescent light beam hit nothing!” The hearts of Hun Tong and the old fishman elder shook.
The first two times, the main light cannon had hit its target, but on the third time, it had achieved nothing.
“What happened?” The cannon shot caused Er Gua Zi’s heart to shiver in fear and bewilderment, “Did the shot deviate?”
“He thought he was going to be hit and suffer serious damage.
In the end, he noticed the light beam cannon had shot at Song Shou.
But Song Shou didn’t get hit.
Er Gua Zi looked at Song Shou, clearly afraid of him.
“The light beam shot towards him.”
“But even at so short a distance, he actually wasn’t hit.”
“Song Shou reacted too quickly!”
“He was actually able to dodge it?!”
Er Gua Zi couldn’t help but narrow his eyes; at that moment, he suddenly realized the truth.
That was despite him being on the up, suppressing Song Shou, Song Shou wasn’t using his full strength.
“This guy still has hidden skills!”
Song Shou had been conserving his strength.
He had used eight to nine parts of his strength, always holding back one or two parts.
After all, this wasn’t his territory.
However, Song Shou’s face was gloomy.
“Just now, it seems the cannon was aimed at me?”
“What’s going on?!”
“What is Hun Tong up to? What has happened to him up there?”
In the main light cannon turret.
Hun Tong sighed, “I didn’t hit Song Shou.!”
“Before, I was able to hit Qi You because the Golden Flash surprised him and also because I diverted most of Qi You’s attention.
“If we had a gold level coordinating with our fire, then the hit rate would be substantially improved.”
The clan elder’s heart was also filled with regret, “His battle skill isn’t ordinary, it doesn’t seem to be consciously controlled.”
“At such close range, I wouldn’t be able to evade it.”
On the other side, Yan Ding and the naga priestess also took note of this strange scene.
“Why did the magic ship bombard its own people?” The naga priestess felt baffled.
“Was it because the hull was unstable, causing the attack to deviate? Or was it due to prior attack damaging the light cannons?” Yan Ding also looked skeptical.
“Which to shoot next? Continue to target Song Shou or switch to Yan Ding?” The fishman elder restrained his disappointment but was growing more nervous.
Because he knew this opportunity was too rare!
He rapidly pondered.
“Qi You was heavily injured, is hiding in his flagship, and hasn’t showed his head again, he is a pirate and isn’t a prime target.”
“Song Shou got a fright, that battle skill of his seemed to allow him to dodge the light beam cannon and shooting him now will be at a lower accuracy than before.”
“Yan Ding…he hasn’t revealed any explosive movement skills so far, but he also uses defensive battle skills, and most crucially, he can fly!”
“He is a bigger threat to the Golden Flash.”
“He should be ‘Shadow’, a leader of the secret spy organization, if he is shot dead, the vile effects won’t just be limited to just a gold level dying.”
“Then let him taste this power.”
“Even if he isn’t killed, as long as he is bombarded, it will allow the Lord Priestess to understand that something unexpected has occurred on the Golden Flash. She should be able to make the connection that the Devil Gold Coins are affecting Hun Tong!”
Thinking of that, the old fishman elder said to Hun Tong, “Shoot Yan Ding!”
Hun Tong nodded, but then shook his head, “I still need more time until the light cannon turret is able to fire again.”
“The alchemy components need to cool and aren’t able to take consecutive discharges.”
The old fishman elder stared blankly.
He recalled something.
Indeed, there was a gap between every time the main light cannon turret shot.
It never did consecutive shots.
Hun Tong then said, “We can now use a light net bombardment.”
“The light net bombardment, as a matter of fact, are shot by the side light cannon turrets, their alchemy components have already cooled off.” Hun Tong asked the old fishman elder for instructions.
Regardless of which bombardment was sent, all of them were risky, and Hun Tong couldn’t judge which option was more advantageous.
The old fishman elder’s heart slammed and jumped.
Faced with this problem, he was more nervous than he had been while fighting Hun Tong.
From somewhere mysterious and inexorable, he had a strong premonition.
This bombardment would likely decide the outcome of this war!
“Shooting a gold level is liable to hit nothing.”
“The target might not necessarily even die from it!”
“Not only that, but it cannot be fired right now.”
The light net bombardment can cover a large area but is even less of a threat to the gold levels.”
“No matter which is picked, after this bombardment, everyone will realize the Golden Flash has had an unforeseen event on it.”
“When the humans counterattack, the gold levels will be the greatest threat to us.”
The old fishman elder’s head with burning with thoughts.
The more he thought, the more his mind was in chaos.
All kinds of feelings were entangled with each other in an increasingly jumbled mess.
Overall, shooting a gold level needed time and had a low accuracy. If an enemy gold was heavily damaged, the advantage established would be massive.
Firing a light net bombardment didn’t require waiting, and the hit rate was high, however even if it hit a gold level, it wouldn’t hurt them much.
“Decide, decide now!”
“The longer time drags on, the fewer chances there will be.”
The old fishman elder understood that the situation was urgent and needed to make every second count.
When met with a hard choice, one’s temperament plays an immense role.
The old fishman elder finally growled, “Use the net attack, Hun Tong.”
According to his nature, he decided not to take a gamble, and instead chose the most dependable bombardment pattern.
The discs spiraled in the air.
Bang.
The main light cannon turret shuddered and erupted with vast flowing light.
The flowing light dispersed to the remaining four light cannons, there had been five, but the Deep Sea Monster Fish had destroyed one of them.
Four light beams shot at the closest Flying Whirling Discs and immediately scattered, once, twice, thrice.
A light net quickly formed in the air.
There were thousands of light beams at every tip of the light net.
The light beams shot into human fighters, causing innumerable slaughter!
Hun Tong didn’t forget to “show consideration” for Song Shou and Yan Ding.
The two gold levels couldn’t keep evading and seemed to be in a difficult situation.
But Hun Tong’s bombardment was focused on the silver levels.
Commander Beng Dai couldn’t protect himself and was struck by two at the same time, killing him on the spot!
“The commander, the commander has been killed!” The Bandage mercenaries howled in grief, and their morale was at the edge of collapse.
Commander Beng Dai never anticipated that the light beams would target him.
He was careless.
Now he was dead.
There was also anguished waling from the merchant alliance flagships.
The merchant alliance representatives were killed and wounded.
By initial estimates, at least three silver level merchant alliance representatives were dead!
On the island battlefield, the pharmacist was struck by a light beam in the thigh, causing it to vanish and leave his lower leg still standing on the ground.
The pharmacist felt to the ground, clutching his thigh and howling in anguish.
The human soldiers had suffered a calamity, while the patrol fleet was even more of a mess.
The Golden Flash’s bombardment really had a deceitful nature this time.
The humans would have never expected that their trump card had suddenly become the enemy’s firepower!
When many of them saw the Flying Whirling Discs above their heads, none paid them any heed.
As a result, they became targets one after the other.
Hun Tong had an astonishing battle result with this bombardment!
An unprecedented military success.
From a bird’s eye view of the battlefield, one could notice that there were hundreds of empty holes where the human lines had been bombed.
What an irony, Hun Tong’s optimal bombardment success was not against his enemy, but against his own soldiers.
This backstab really was too ruthless!
“Why?” Many people were deathly pale.
“No, this can’t be!” Another person held their head, unable to accept the facts.
“What just happened, is someone controlling the Feudal Lord?” After getting past their shock, the cultivators frowned as they looked up.
They sensed something fishing going on up there.
The fighting between the clan elder and Hun Tong had already ceased.
Everyone had forgotten about that due to the Golden Flash being stuck and its descent to the ocean surface.
The naga priestess’ eyes flashed radiantly, and she immediately guessed the truth, “Perhaps it is the Devil Gold Coins. I didn’t expect this large sum to actually end up in Hun Tong’s hands.”
“This…is truly wonderful!”
This was the best surprise the fishmen had got since the battle commenced.
The situation from this changed dramatically.
The scales of victory violently swung towards the fishmen!
Song Shou decided to retreat and quickly reached the edge of the port battlefield.
Yang Ding also stopped attacking the naga priestess.
A dense black cloud eagerly lifted him up towards the Golden Flash.
The old fishman elder’s judgement was sound.
The naga priestess recovered her freedom.
She didn’t fly up to the Golden Flash to help defend the old fishman elder.
She instead looked towards the Deep Sea Monster Fish.
The expedition to Two Eyes Island was her heavy responsibility.
From start to finish, she didn’t forget what her greatest objective was.
The Golden Flash’s bombardment also caused Zi Di to blankly stare.
She also thought she would suffer the Golden Flash’s counterattack.
She had already made preparations.
But they weren’t needed.
“If that is so, do I keep shooting it?”
“But why did it help the fishmen?”