Chapter 251: Weeping Pine Naval Battle – Part 10
Lady Sea Snake wasn’t looking too good.
She knew this kind of damage was not worthwhile, because she had to use her valuable magic power to destroy the many skeleton soldiers.
Her magic power was finite, and it was very easy to get more skeleton archers.
To maintain magic power reserves, Lady Sea Snake had no choice but to drink a magic power potion.
Lady Sea Snake continued to pursue.
This time, she was obstructed by magician Qi Ling.
The latter’s water ghost army appeared again and circled above Lady Sea Snake, launching their attacks.
Lady Sea Snake was unwilling to engage with them, choosing to fly up higher into the air while simultaneously using a spell to destroy many water ghosts.
The water ghosts were seriously reduced, and magician Qi Ling quickly had them retreat.
Lady Sea Snake was hovering in the air, overlooking the big Weeping Pine Island, and although she couldn’t see Cang Xu, her spirit had locked onto him.
Lady Sea Snake sneered and murmured, “You’re still thinking of hiding somewhere? Today, you will fall into my hands, don’t hold any illusions about it!”
After saying that, she first used an alchemy communication device to contact Yang Cong Tou and Bei Xiang, then ordered that they all make landfall on Weeping Pine Island to pursue and blockade Cang Xu and Qing Xin.
Soon after, she gently whistled and connected her spirit to her magic pet.
Whoosh.
With a gigantic wave, an enormous silhouette of a snake broke from the sea.
It was a monstrous snake that had a singular long swath of red hair from its neck down, it had wide snake scales, and the scales had a eye like pattern on them.
What amazed people the most was that its life aura was gold level!
It was a gold level sea snake.
Although Lady Sea Snake was only silver level, she had a gold level sea snake familiar.
That was also where her pirate nickname had come from.
The gold level sea snake held up its head and threw itself onto Weeping Pine Island.
It used its racial magic, and before Lady Sea Snake acted, it had completely memorized Cang Xu’s aura and locked onto him with its spirit. Then Lady Sea Snake helped conceal its aura from leaking as it used its racial magic.
After the gold sea snake cast successfully, its master, Lady Sea Snake, used her spiritual connection to ascertain Cang Xu’s position.
The sea snake went ashore and scuttled into the lush pine forest.
The tallest pine trees were only a head taller than the sea snake.
The sea snake only came into full view when it came ashore. Xiao Wang Zi couldn’t help but take in a cold breath, “What a long snake, it must be at least 15 meters! So much stronger than my generalissimo.”
Xiao Wang Zi suddenly felt that his own three headed undead sea serpent was not so appeasing.
“Move now!” Ku Feng grabbed his neck and quickly retreated again.
“Generalissimo, you’re too loud, go another way.” Xiao Wang Zi was cautious, after all Lady Sea Snake’s magic pet was gold level.
Magician Qi Ling had withdrawn earlier and had been silent for a long while.
Cang Xu and Qing Xin rapidly traveled through the forest, pine tress swiftly streaking across their vision.
The two magicians were flying close together.
But they were in different situations.
Qing Xin had abundant flying skills and experience, she didn’t touch the ground, and her body nimbly passed through the tress like a bluebird.
Cang Xu’s flying skill was obviously inferior to Qing Xin’s. Therefore, his flying skills couldn’t parse through the many obstacles precariously perched throughout the forest.
As more time passed, he had to used his hands and feet to step across tree trunks and break through branches to get through.
But his speed was about the same as Qing Xin’s.
Because he had transformed his body into a living dead person. Although Cang Xu didn’t have much physical strength, he had great endurance; furthermore, he had remained calm, and every bit of strength was used meticulously.
The two were already going at top speed, despite this, the powerful enemy behind them was getting closer.
The gold level sea snake was enormous, and although it was on land, it was still very fast.
“Come this way!” As the distance between the two grew ever closer, and with Lady Sea Snake watching from above, Cang Xu’s communication device transmitted Jian Gui’s voice again.
Jian Gui guided Cang Xu and Qing Xin towards a new escape route.
Soon after, the two arrived at a small, sloping hill.
“You left, I right!” Cang Xu pushed against the gale to say to Qing Xin.
Qing Xin nodded.
Thus, Cang Xu went right, and Qing Xin went left, temporarily separating.
The gold level sea snake didn’t hesitate to follow Cang Xu tightly.
But as it wound around the hill, it was ambushed.
Two undead horsemen, saddled in skeleton warhorses and hands holding bone lances had been waiting for a long time, their aura restrained.
Then, they suddenly galloped and crashed into the sea snake.
The two undead horsemen were immediately smashed off their mounts, but the sea snake’s charge lost momentum as a result, and it watched helplessly as Cang Xu’s back quickly faded into the distance.
Under Jian Gui’s guidance, the two undead horsemen swiftly climbed back onto their warhorses and attacked again.
The sea snake was forced to deal with them, and filled with anger, it unleashed a huge offensive and began to win heavily.
Although the two ambushing undead horsemen were silver level, they didn’t have Ku Feng’s intelligence.
They moved stiffly and could only fight rigidly. This immediately gave the gold sea snake the overwhelming advantage.
Soon after, the two undead horsemen, their steeds, and their lances all had distinct cracks, they would soon fracture and break.
When Jian Gui saw this, he deployed three more undead horsemen as reinforcements.
One silver level, two iron levels.
With these new reinforcements, the sea snake was once more besieged.
When Lady Sea Snake flying above saw this from her vantage point, she couldn’t help but narrow her eyes.
Five undead horsemen strived to encircle the gold level sea snake, causing the latter to throw its body about, throwing dirt and rocks into the air, and swiftly devastating the nearby pine trees.
Within a half-minute, the iron level undead horsemen were all slain, turned to two piles of crushed bone fragments.
The three remaining silver level horsemen were in imminent danger.
Jian Gui promptly withdrew them, these silver level horsemen were valuable treasures he as a gold level necromancer was unwilling to easily lose.
Without these hindrances, the gold sea snake continued to chase down Cang Xu.
It firmly remembered Cang Xu’s aura, and as long as they were within a kilometer of each other, the sea snake could easily find Cang Xu.
It was no simple sense of smell, rather it was a type of racial magic.
It was worth mentioning that Cang Xu had Deceptive Disguise and the Anti-investigation and Prophecy spells on him,
But at this time, one could see the systemic problem with external casting. If one wasn’t the one to use a spell, the actual results would be of lesser value.
Only when Cang Xu used Deceptive Disguise again to change his current fake aura, would the sea snake lose track of him.
As for the Anti-investigation and Prophecy spell, it was mainly used to supplement the use of Deceptive Disguise.
The actual result of this was that when other people investigated the survivors’ fake identities, they wouldn’t sense anything peculiar, even if they took it a step further with prophecy, the would verify it as “true”.
If it was purely just the Anti-investigation and Prophecy spell, one would sense their investigation and prophecies fail, which was bound to trigger alerts and suspicion, and thus even more investigations.
Lady Sea Snake high in the air, followed Cang Xu through the spiritual connection to her sea snake, never losing her target.
A moment later, ghostly figures suddenly appeared high in the air, quite close to her!
Five silver level ghosts threw themselves at Lady Sea Snake.
Lady Sea Snake went stiff, then turned her body into a blue liquid that fell and dispersed from the air.
Jian Gui couldn’t help but express his surprise.
The Lady Sea Snake in the air was actually a false water path mirage!
“When did she disguise herself?” Jian Gui’s brows lightly creased as he pondered.
Jian Gui inspected his memory, not noticing any flaws.
“It is very possible that before she approached Weeping Pine Island that she hid herself somewhere secretly.”
“Interesting.”
Jian Gui was somewhat flabbergasted for a moment, then calmed back down.
Lady Sea Snake was a magician, and this kind of tactic was very normal, or in other words, this was the difference between a smart magician and an impulsive fighter or a faith blinded priest!
Since Lady Sea Snake was hiding somewhere, Jian Gui didn’t look into it. It was too troublesome, and not only would it cost time and magic power, when he was using detection magic, he might expose himself first.
Therefore, that was why Jian Gui had hidden ghosts in the air and deployed undead horsemen to besiege the gold sea snake.
Lady Sea Snake had already seen her mirage die tragically and would never show her true self.
She also couldn’t ignore her magic pet’s predicament and immediately used a communication device to give an order to the pirates, “Pursue the target, I have already pinned down their main force.”
Lady Sea Snake had summoned three pirate groups, and currently, the Lightning Pirates had withdrawn, leaving the Applaud Pirates and the Stench Pirates.
Bei Xiang received Lady Sea Snake’s message and was very hesitant, “I am only an iron level, my pirate group doesn’t have a silver level, how can I hunt down two silver level magicians?”
The Love Triangle had already been seized by the dragonman youngster, and after facing the dragonman youngster, Bei Xiang was terrified.
He had converged back with the Applaud Pirates’ main force, and boarded an auxiliary warship, an awkward situation.
Lady Sea Snake coldly snorted, shedding all pretenses of cordiality for tough words, “Bei Xiang, you will obey! You will gather your entire force and storm Weeping Pine Island! Otherwise, I will kill you.”
“In fact, even if I don’t kill you, do you really think you’ll have a good ending to this?”
“If this battle is lost, how will your crew look upon you, will you too be brought to a pirate trial?”
When Bei Xiang heard this, he was both scared and furious; his back also chilled.
He relied on Lady Sea Snake’s help, plotted against Hu Li, conducted a pirate trial, all to take the position of commander.
If he lost this battle, then it would likely be his last battle.
Never underestimate the savageness of pirates.
They not only treated their prey and enemies savagely, but also their own.
After waiting for Bei Xiang’s response for a long while, Lady Sea Snake added, “Don’t have any fantasies.”
“Even if your crew is willing to let you off, and give you another chance, will I?”
“If I can help you, then I can naturally help another.”
“Standing from your point of view, you might as well take advantage of your remaining authority, your crew won’t dare to revolt against you on the battlefield, and will be quite obedient for the time being, let them throw away their lives!”
“If this battle is won, then everyone will be delighted, you will be regarded by your underlings as one who dares to fight and dares to be unyielding to risk. But if you lose, do you want more or less crew that’ll make things deliberately difficult for you?”