Chapter 234: Chi Lai and Men Shi vs Long Fu
After the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had sailed for three days and nights since departing from Two Eyes Island, they stopped at some small isle at noon.
Soon after, a survey team returned to report that it was a safe and uninhabited island.
The barren island had scarce resources, fortunately there was a smidgen of fresh water.
The dragonman youngster had his subordinates draw water to replace and replenish the ships’ fresh water stores.
After the dragonman youngster finished eating lunch, he came ashore to the island.
He stood on top of a rock mound and looked around, seeing the overgrown gray rocks filling the ground and scant shrubs in the gaps between the rocks, tenaciously surviving.
Men Shi marched heavily over behind the dragonman youngster, his face filled with anxiety and worry, “Lord Commander, did we lose track of the Iron Lump?”
The dragonman youngster’s sudden landfall was certainly abnormal.
According to common sense, they should be pursuing closely and not stop, like they had been doing for the last three days.
The fleet had adequate supplies, and Men Shi couldn’t find why they suddenly came ashore.
As a matter of fact, it wasn’t the dragonman youngster who was deliberately procrastinating.
Rather they had already reached their destination.
Weeping Pine Island was quite close to his barren island. The fleet couldn’t get any closer, otherwise they would reveal themselves.
In accordance with the dragonman youngster’s plan, they needed to stop here and wait for an opportune moment. They would wait until the undead gathering had concluded, Cang Xu finished his transactions, and for most of the people there to leave, then they would deliberately carry out a good performance on the Iron Lump at the last moment.
In the meantime, if Cang Xu had an accident over yonder and encountered danger, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps could also deploy ahead of time and provide emergency support.
He couldn’t tell Men Shi the actual reason why.
The dragonman youngster could only say a half truth, “We have dispatched scouting puppets to bring us important intelligence.”
“The Iron Lump has already made landfall on Weeping Pine Island.”
“Every month, that island erupts with a tide of negative energy, forming a wind across the ocean around the pine island.”
“The Iron Lump is acting abnormally; we surmise that perhaps Weeping Pine Island is that necromancer’s lair.”
“So that’s how it is!” Men Shi’s heart shook greatly, and wasn’t at all suspicious, “On Two Eyes Island, I also heard about this Weeping Pine Island. This island’s environment is unusual; it had a large quantity of negative energy on it. For a necromancer, it is a natural blessed land.”
The honest middle aged dwarf soon wrinkled his brows. Because he thought of his clansmen, worry prickling up in his thoughts, “If the island has a necromancer’s lair on it, then would that necromancer experiment on my clansmen and even turn them into undead beings?”
At that moment, Men Shi heard the dragonman youngster consoling him, “Don’t worry too much, Men Shi.”
“Our best plan for now is to wait.”
“Wait until the Pine Island wind loosens up, then we’ll immediately attack the island!”
Men Shi nodded, and sighed, “It should be done this way, the Pine Island Sea Wind is a tide of negative energy, in this kind of environment, necromancy will be greatly augmented, and we’ll be at too much of a disadvantage.”
“Lord Commander, thank you truly. Without you, I wouldn’t have a chance to go rescue my clansmen.”
The dragonman burst with laughter and clapped Men Shi’s shoulder, “You are my comrade, and even more so part of us, I will help you save your clansmen will all my strength.”
“It just so happened that I was also looking for you.”
“Come, give me a good fight now.”
“To tell the truth, my bones have been itching due to being cooped up on my ship for last few days!”
Men Shi stared at him, his understanding of the dragonman youngster increasing a bit, “It seems our commander is also a battle junkie?”
This addiction was quite common.
But Men Shi didn’t immediately agree, rather he hesitated, “Lord Commander, you have spirit, and of course I wish to keep you company, but battle is imminent…”
The dragonman youngster waved his hand, “We are merely comparing notes, this isn’t a life and death battle.”
“Besides, I need to fight you myself, to verify your strength and skills. This will be helpful for the upcoming joint battle, no?”
The dragonman youngster’s words smoothly removed Men Shi’s hesitation.
“Then forgive this subordinate’s offense.” Men Shi was about to take out his two handed war hammer.
The dragonman youngster was unarmed, he took a few steps back, the shouted, “Right, then let’s go!”
After saying that, he charged.
Bang, thump, slam.
The two people attacked each other, the commotion immediately attracting the attention of the surrounding mercenaries.
“Who is fighting?!”
“What is happening?”
Lan Zao stood at the edge of the battlefield, “Why are you flustered? This is a normal spar!”
After that explanation, the mercenaries became excited, and they gathered together to watch the fight.
The mercenaries ashore all agilely climbed onto the stones and peeked their heads out to look around.
The mercenaries on the ships in the distance were surveying it from a distance.
The probing was finished.
The dragonman youngster roared and used the Surge and Demolition Fist battle skills.
Men Shis felt the pressure on his increase sharply and rushed to use a defensive battle skill, watching for a chance to counterattack with his two-handed war hammer.
Both sides came at each other, their blows growing more momentous than ever before.
Xu Ma excitedly ran across the ship, shouting loudly, “Bets are open, bets are open.”
He organized a betting pool, instantly attracting many mercenaries to participate.
Many older members crossed their arms, sneering at it.
When Zong Ge quickly got news someone opened a betting pool, he immediately snorted coldly, “Gambling is strictly prohibited on the ship, every gambler will receive severe punishment!”
As a general, he greatly disapproved of gambling. If this kind of conduct inundated an army, it would greatly dig into the fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers, needlessly increase hatred and vengeance for each other, and gravely affect unity, reducing the unit’s fighting strength.
But just as Zong Ge was about to give the order, Zi Di decided to contact him.
Zi Di communicated through an alchemy device, “Don’t act now, wait until the betting pool is set up and the participates all put in their stake, then we’ll mop them up, that way they’ll feel real pain. In the future, the offenders won’t make such a mistake.”
Zong Ge was silent for a bit, he instantly made out Zi Di’s other intention, perhaps even the main one, confiscating the gambling money.
But Zong Ge still agreed to the proposal.
It was just as Zi Di had said, it would make those gamblers feel pain!
Zong Ge soon gazed back at the island.
Men Shi and the dragonman youngster were fighting near the coast.
Their fight attracted Zong Ge, one who had the same strength.
After a half minute, Zong Ge saw how the fight was progressing, “If nothing unexpected happens, the victor will be Long Fu.”
Men Shi displayed his fighting style.
The majority of the dwarfs were the same, he was an expert at defense.
But defense found it very difficult to achieve victory.
Men Shi’s main offense came from his long war hammer.
This war hammer was of impressive quality; it was a silver level weapon.
But against the dragonman youngster, it wasn’t enough.
The dragonman youngster’s dragon scales could resist gold level battle skills.
Men Shi’s attacks couldn’t threaten the dragonman youngster, thus, he became a boxing dummy.
The dragonman youngster naturally could see the outcome of the battle more clearly than Zong Ge, so he suddenly took a step back, putting distance between him and Men Shi.
The dragonman youngster yelled, “This fight isn’t enjoyable enough. Chi Lai! Join in too.”
Chi Lai was still on a ship, and when he heard this order, he stared slightly before responding by immediately jumping off the ship and running to shore to join the battle.
Chi Lai and Men Shi worked together to do battle with the dragonman youngster.
The mercenaries were even more lively as they felt their commander’s heroic fighting spirit inspiring them.
At the same time, everyone was also more curious at what the final outcome of this spar would be.
Simultaneously faced with two silver levels, the dragonman youngster instantly felt the pressure on him dramatically increase.
However, he quickly adapted.
Chi Lai and Men Shi were both undoubtably silver level elites.
They both had their respective nicknames, and had reached the limits of their bloodlines, unable to go any steps further.
Regardless of whether it was battle skills or divine spells, they used them all very proficiently, like they were instinct.
But the previous problem still existed.
They fell short of fire power.
Even though Chi Lai used the divine spell Justice Vanguard to increase his and Men Shi’s attack capabilities by double, they still couldn’t pierce the dragonman youngster’s tenacious dragon scales.
“That’s it, we lost!” After fighting for a while, Men Shi conceded.
Chi Lai also pulled back without delay, “Not wrong, continuing to fight will be an empty waste of battle qi. If Long Fu was fighting like he did during the battle for Two Eyes Island, he would have been defeated already.”
The dragonman youngster laughed, “I did say this was merely a spar.”
Following that, he curbed his rising laughter and looked next to him, seeing the smashed and disorderly rock beach, “This is the inconvenience of ocean sailing, there are too few places where people can freely learn from each other.”
Although the White Bandage was a magic ship, it was a bronze level one and couldn’t take silver levels crossing blades with each other.
Hearing the dragonman youngster say this, Chi Lai and Men Shi glanced at each other, sensing the dragonman youngster’s excellent marital side.
This was the world of the strong.
Good martial skills was an excellent characteristic.
Seeing the fight finish, the mercenaries loudly cheered exclaiming their admiration for their commander’s formidability one after the other.
During this celebratory ambience, Tripleblade led a group of people to sally out to sweep up the gambling pool and grab the gambling mercenaries.
As the chief offender, Xu Ma’s tears regretfully dropped.
Seeing the betting money confiscated, sorrow flooded his miserable heart, forming a distinct contrast to the people cheering around him.
“The commander is eager to be first!”
“Even Chi Lai and Men Shi combined are not his opponent.”
“The commander is the strongest!”
“No, it is still Lord Shi Qi.”
“Say, if Lords Shi Qi and Long Fu fought each other, who would be stronger?”
“Does this need to be said, don’t you know what their ranks are?”
“But Lord Shi Qi’s battle qi already has a gold luster. He also used a healing potion to cure his injury; he can cultivate normally again.
The mercenaries’ discussions entered Zong Ge’s ears.
Zong Ge was unconcerned, he faintly moved his finger, feeling a bit itchy.
However, to his side, Tripleblade was a bit proud of himself; he looked at Zong Ge, more certain that he was headed in the correct direction.
As for the dragonman youngster, he secretly activated the Grand Arena Medal.