Chapter 249: Weeping Pine Naval Battle – Part 8
Qing Xin adjusted her posture, then immediately flew back up and zig zagged through the air in evasive flight.
Cang Xu did the same, flying through the air in an irregular fashion.
Both were sweating with cold fear.
They had just been ambushed by Lady Sea Snake’s magic, fortunately they responded correctly and had adequate magic scrolls, otherwise they would be far greater trouble!
Lady Sea Snake saw that her ambush was ineffective and couldn’t help but sigh to herself with deep regret.
She quickly adjusted her mentality and took out a piece of snake skin, then took out a glass full of blue liquid.
She began to chant, because she could speak normally in seawater.
As she chanted, a tenth of the blue liquid bubbled out and flowed into the snake skin.
The snake skin blossomed with a faint blue light.
Lady Sea Snake raised her left hand and threw the snake skin into the air.
The snake skin suddenly exploded to bits and turned into a serpentine stream of water that shot towards Cang Xu and Qing Xin.
Water path magic – Serpentine Water Arrow!
The water arrow ripped through the sky with great speed, and in a few breaths, it neared Qing Xin.
It was being controlled by Lady Sea Snake’s spirit and could lock onto things.
Despite Qing Xin dodging, she was still hit.
This time, the defensive magic collapsed and after slowing a bit, the serpentine water arrow penetrated Qing Xin’s left shoulder blade.
Qing Xin grunted as her left shoulder turned scarlet.
When Lady Sea Snake saw the serpentine water arrow worked, she took out another snake skin and began to chant again.
Cang Xu appeared callous as his unleashed his spirit and controlled ghosts to find her.
But when the ghosts got near her, they instantly triggered many magic traps, some that blew up, and others that hindered the ghosts.
Lady Sea Snake seemed to have built a tight perimeter around her.
Cang Xu’s heart sank, and he knew within a short period, he would find it difficult to break through the perimeter and threaten Lady Sea Snake.
I don’t really know how this person managed to hide and covertly deploy so many things!” So far, Cang Xu still didn’t know it was Lady Sea Snake, only that there was some water path magician in the seawater somewhere.
It was this magician that was attacking them!
Since he couldn’t prevent the enemy from casting, Cang Xu and Qing Xin both used scrolls as if by prior agreement to give themselves a layer of magical protection.
But choosing to go on the defensive meant they were going passive.
Lady Sea Snake was in a one versus two, but she held a large initial advantage, allowing her to focus on attacking Cang Xu and Qing Xin, firmly pushing them into a disadvantageous position.
The second serpentine water arrow was still aimed at Qing Xin.
Qing Xin couldn’t dodge it, so she didn’t try.
If she had wind path flying magic, she could fly much faster and possibly evade it.
Although this ordinary flying spell worked in the Windless Domain spell, its flying speed was nothing to write home about.
The serpentine water arrow had remarkable might, and after being reduced to a tenth of its size upon drilling through and breaking the protection magic, it still bit into Qing Xin’s abdomen like a poisonous viper.
Qing Xin deceivably took out an artifact.
It was a square piece of white cloth, and it looked like plain cotton. Two long protrusions stuck out from both sides that looked like two unfurled wings.
The white cloth emitted a silver level aura.
Qing Xin put it on her left shoulder wound.
The strip of white cloth instantly took effect, producing a pure light that flowed with an exquisite pattern.
It was the Life Saving Pad!
After three breaths of the Life Saving Pad taking effect, Qing Xin’s left shoulder was restored as to how it was before.
She also tore it down to stick it on her abdomen.
Soon after, her flesh was completely healed.
Lady Sea Snake clicked her tongue, feeling regret again. She had the better offence, and the other side had lacking defense. Her great results had been undone by Qing Xin taking out the Life Saving Pad, its formidable healing making up for her shortcomings in defense.
Lady Sea Snake’s heart moved, she instantly changed her methods and cast an acid spell.
Spell fusion!
Acid magic and the Serpentine Water Arrow spell fused together, forming a serpentine acid arrow.
By doing this, the magic came with corrosion effects and would counteract Qing Xin’s dominance in healing.
Lady Sea Snake had obviously come prepared and had deep casting abilities.
Cang Xu and Qing Xin had been firmly suppressed by her, and their situation was getting worse all the time.
They had planned to deal with Bei Xiang and stop the Love Triangle’s approach, but now they had their hands full and weren’t able to look after the Iron Lump.
Cang Xu strived to persevere.
He was only an iron level and lacked military strength, and if Lady Sea Snake attacked him, he would be in an even worse situation than Qing Xin.
However, Lady Sea Snake had been deceived by him.
To her, it seemed that it would be better to deal with the conventional wind path magician before tackling a necromancer of the same level.
“I should have sold off a silver level ghost.” Cang Xu felt very remorseful, his soul was heavily burdened, causing his spirit power to be at a low point, causing his casting speed and success rate to be low.
But it was too late now.
Getting rid of a silver level ghost was not as simple as throwing it away. Cang Xu needed to undo his spiritual connection and needed at least half an hour and couldn’t be disturbed during the process.
Then at this moment, Cang Xu’s communication device rang.
After Cang Xu connected, Jian Gui transmitted, “Return to Weeping Pine Island.”
Cang Xu’s mind shook fiercely!
Cang Xu glanced at the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ fleet and noticed that they were already here.
He used the communication device to respond to Jian Gui, “Understood, Lord Jian Gui!”
Cang Xu called out to Qing Xin and the two quickly flew towards Weeping Pine Island.
Lady Sea Snake’s eyebrows deeply creased.
Of course, she wouldn’t sit there and stare blankly as Cang Xu and Qing Xin flew off, thus, she was forced to leave her tight defensive line and pursue them.
However, she still hid in the seawater, so people could only sense her aura and approximate position.
Cang Xu and Qing Xin originally thought of protecting the Iron Lump, but Lady Sea Snake had forced them to flee to Weeping Pine Island.
Qing Xin was nervous and fretful, while Cang Xu was pleasantly surprised.
Jian Gui had decided to contact him and tell him to fly back to Weeping Pine Island, his willingness to help him was clear.
Cang Xu had been anxious that perhaps Jian Gui wanted to attack the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ fleet.
“That water path magician is in pursuit, very good!”
“In light of the developing situation, I only need to serve as bait and lure them to Weeping Pine Island, then have Jian Gui deal with them.”
“If neither side wins, then we’ll be the one who gets everything, that would be the best outcome.
Cang Xu was only thinking about it.
The water path magician that ambushed them was only silver level, and to him, it should be the pirate alliance’s secret weapon.
How could the silver level water path magician be the gold level Jian Gui’s match?
Cang Xu fleeing took away Lady Sea Snake, but not the Love Triangle.
The Love Triangle didn’t lack motive power and easily approached, then anchored next to the Iron Lump.
The humans and dwarfs aboard the Iron Lump were panic-stricken, they fired off some cannons inaccurately, provoking laughter from the pirates on the Love Triangle.
At this moment, Bei Xiang and the others heard the dragonman youngster shout, “Applaud Pirates!”
“I’ll give you one chance to run away.”
“The one you want to loot has my comrades on it; I won’t allow you to touch them!”
“If you run away now, then I Long Fu will use my reputation to guarantee that I will let you leave this naval battle alive!”
The dragonman youngster had used a sound amplification device to warn the Love Triangle.
Bei Xiang and the others all became discolored.
“Captain, what should we do?” The frogmen pirates were universally terrified.
Beig Xiang was both angry and hateful, “Rob them! Are you telling me you’re afraid?”
He couldn’t cower now.
He had just become commander, and if he shrank back now, it would damage his reputation too much. How could his underlings look at him as their new commander?
Bei Xiang knew he had to stabilize his position as commander, he couldn’t look cowardly, be timid of battle, or have other such things associated with his reputation.
After all, the Love Triangle was much closer to the Iron Lump than the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ fleet.
They could quickly come next to the Iron Lump, then with the frogmen’s strong jumping ability, many frogmen didn’t need to set up embarkment planks and could just jump onto the Iron Lump and start fighting.
The Iron Lump’s humans and dwarfs were already on full alert.
Both sides began to fight each other fiercely.
Because Cang Xu and Qing Xin had released them earlier, and had mobilized them, the humans and dwarfs had high morale.
Also, the main force and defense on deck was not them, rather it was the swordsmen guards Cang Xu had intentionally left behind.
These alchemy puppets were scattered across the deck and became the cornerstone of the defensive lines.
With these alchemy puppets’ support, they locked the frogmen pirates in battle.
This battle continued for a few minutes.
The humans and dwarfs lost the first deck level, for in the end, they were no match for the frogmen’s offensive and were forced to retreat to and defend the middle deck level.
Bang.
With an explosion, the dragonman youngster jumped into the sky, then with a brazen drop, directly landed on the Love Triangle!
While Zong Ge and Men Shi led the Quick Knife battle squad and the other mercenaries onto the Iron Lump.
This was a wise plan.
Because the dragonman youngster used explosives in his attacks, and was liable to easily cause accidental injuries to teammates. His most suitable move was to be a one man army that could rampage through the enemy’s base.
Battle skill – Surge.
Battle skill – Demolition Fist.
The dragonman youngster looked like a crimson grim reaper that with every explosion, caused frogmen flesh flew apart and the Love Triangle to groan.
Bei Xiang had no choice but to bite his teeth and stand against the dragonman youngster.
The dragonman youngster threw him into the air with two consecutive fists.
“Where is Hu Li? Get him for me!” The dragonman youngster roared with astonishing grandeur.
On the Iron Lump.
Zong Ge wielded his two handed broadsword, but he didn’t charge ahead, instead he stood next to the Quick Knife battle squad to protect them.
“Throw!” Zong Ge loudly ordered.
Leader Kuai Tui and the dogmen all threw their swords.
The swords flew through the air in an arc, cutting a number of frogmen heads off then flying back to their master’s hand.
The bronze level weapons – the ring swords.
Battle skill – Throwing Knife.
With the two of them paired together, they had remarkable power!
There used to be frogmen pirates across the Iron Lump.
With one volley of the Throwing Knife battle skill, a wide expanse had been cleared, with only the frogmen in the corner barely able to avoid disaster.