Chapter 256: Snow Elf Patrol Inspection
Ku Feng acted almost as fast as Xiao Wang Zi called for help.
He grabbed Cang Xu by the neck and pulled him back.
Cang Xu was roused.
He was horrified to discover that he was unwittingly lying across the side of the ship, stretching out his upper body, and was about to fall into the Underworld River.
“Newcomer, you went so far as to dare gaze into the Underworld River, you really don’t know what fear is.” Xiao Wang Zi slapped his palm across his ribs with a gasp of surprise.
“Don’t gaze into the Underworld River, it will absorb your soul.” Ku Feng explained.
“Many thanks.” Cang Xu shivered with post-traumatic stress.
Compared to veteran undead like Xiao Wang Zi and Ku Feng, his knowledge appeared superficial.
In fact, conventional books had no accounts about the taboos of the Underworld River.
Any knowledge pertaining to the undead was strictly controlled by major powers. Furthermore, in the wake of growing numbers of necromancers, this control grew ever stronger.
Xiao Wang Zi sighed, “It’s a pity that the gold level black clothed person didn’t chase us. Since he used the Shadow Plane to move, he should have been able to use it to intrude into the Ghost World.
“If he came here, without the ghost ship to carry him, he would have definitely been absorbed by the Underworld River.
The Underworld River was very treacherous, and if Qing Xin wasn’t on the ghost ship and was alone, she wouldn’t have enough time to react before the Underworld River absorbed her.
Cang Xu calmed down, then looked at the Underworld River’s surface, but this time he only looked at it from the corner of his eyes and constantly shifted his line of sight.
He let out a sincere sigh, “The Underworld River, how mysterious and intriguing. When my soul was being sucked in, I felt infinite peace and seemed to be an exhausted traveler finally returning to a warm home.”
“In the Underworld River I also saw a shadow, I don’t know what it was.”
When Ku Feng heard that, he immediately grew discolored.
Xiao Wang Zi cried out in alarm, “What newcomer, what did you just see?”
Cang Xu suddenly grew tense, “I didn’t see it clearly, it looked like a vague silhouette of a human.”
A moment later, there was a wail, and a ghost flew out of the Underworld River and blocked the path in front of the ghost ship.
A gold level water ghost!
Cang Xu’s heart shook, then relaxed slightly, “Not bad, its only gold level.”
But Xiao Wang Zi and Ku Feng were panic-stricken.
Xiao Wang Zi was so anxious that his voice cracked, “What nonsense! Gold levels in the Underworld River can only survive in groups.”
Just as he said that there was more ghostly wailing.
Ten gold level water ghosts floated up and barred the ghost ship’s way.
Cang Xu and Qing Xin were overwhelmed with horror.
“Lord Jian Gui, save us, save us!” Xiao Wang Zi called.
As a matter of fact, Jian Gui didn’t need Xiao Wang Zi’s yelling, he had been alarmed by the situation already.
“Everyone into the ship cabin, I need to return to the Main World!” Jian Gui shouted.
Cang Xu and the others rushed into the ship cabin.
Fortunately, the water ghost group had no intelligence, they had been utterly eroded by negative energy and their original memories had been eroded to nothing.
The water ghosts only detested living beings.
They vaguely sensed the smell of a living being from the ghost ship, but then felt perplexed.
As they circled around the ghost ship, space fiercely fluctuated, and the ghost ship seemed to dissipate like the fog.
“Returned!” When Cang Xu and the others returned to the deck, they saw a blue sky and white clouds, along with a barren island not too far in the distance.
“Where are we?” Qing Xin asked.
Cang Xu took out a palm compass and began to orient himself.
Jian Gui transmitted, “This is one of my bases, it has some resources in storage. Of course, most importantly, it has a Eulogy Tombstone, and by relying on its spatial coordinate, I was able to quickly return to the Main World.”
“Wait a moment.” Cang Xu felt something was fishy, he looked at the eastern sun, “When we left Weeping Pine Island, it was afternoon.”
Xiao Wang Zi giggled, “Newcomer, you are so stupid.”
“You think that sailing through the Underworld River only affects space?”
“Time flows differently in the two planes, or to be more precise, it has been four days since Weeping Pine Island.”
Cang Xu’s eyes couldn’t help but widen, “So that’s how it is!”
Jian Gui transmitted, “I must heal and rest here for a bit. It is inadvisable to stay here for long for since Qi Ling is a traitor, this place is no longer safe.”
When Qi Ling was mentioned, Xiao Wang Zi coldly snorted, and his anger quickly flared.
He was just about to curse when a fleet came from the other side of the island.
Everyone on the ghost ship changed color simultaneously.
“Not good, its Lady Sea Snake’s Petal Snake Pirates!”
Meanwhile, as the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps entered Ice Sculpture Island waters, they all had the same feeling.
The air temperature was dropping.
The closer they got to Ice Sculpture Island, the colder it got.
While the necromancers encountered Lady Sea Snake’s fleet, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps also had a fleet appearing before it.
“This is Ice Sculpture waters, the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s seas, we are the kingdom’s 17th patrol fleet, if you want to land on Ice Sculpture Island, please stop your ships and accept inspection and registration.” The patrol captain was a silver level fighter who spoke through a sound amplification device to convey their message.
“Two silver levels, three bronze level magic ships.” The dragonman youngster gazed into the distance, immediately sensing the other side’s auras.
Bai Ya stood on the side of a ship, today it was his turn to wash the deck. When he heard the patrol fleet’s declaration, he couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise, “Heavens, they are only patrol fleet 17, that means there are at least 16 other fleets of similar scale? The Ice Sculpture Kingdom is so strong!”
The mercenaries near him immediately ridicule that, “Youngster, you have little experience. Ice Sculpture Island cannot be compared to Snake Rat Island or Two Eyes Island.”
“Its territory is vast, it more than a dozen cities and no less than 8 large harbors.”
“The patrol fleets are not the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s main maritime power, the kingdom has three main fleets, which includes the royal fleet’s saint level flagship!”
Bai Ya was dumbstruck by this.
Sufficient maritime military power gave Ice Sculpture Island safe waters.
In fact, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had encountered a patrol fleet a long way from the island.
In light of this distance, it could be assessed that the patrol fleet’s routes were at least a hundredfold larger than Two Eyes Island’s patrol fleet’s!
The dragonman youngster ordered the ships to stop and accepted an inspection.
It was quite hard to stop ships in the sea, sometimes ship anchors couldn’t hit the bottom.
Anyways, the patrol fleet didn’t need the ships to stop, they dispatched an inspection team composed of all cultivators that could jump the five to six hundred meters distance to them.
Snow elves!
Most of the mercenaries widened their eyes, amazed to take measure of these people.
To be more precise, these were not humans, they were elves.
Elves had many classifications, there were wood elves, dark elves (Drow), sea elves, and more, and one of them were snow elves.
Snow elves had the characteristics of elven kind, regardless of gender, they were equally pretty, and their statures were tall and thin.
They had the distinctive long ears of elves, along with white hair and eyebrows, a bloodline trait that distinguished them from other elves.
The entire snow elf inspection team wore leather armor and had cutlasses strapped to their waists.
They were equipment with special alchemy equipment that were used to scan for hidden things.
Zong Ge calmly observed them, noticing that in a small team of 7, there was at least one magician.
The team had a magician to fighter ratio of 1:6.
This ratio was astonishing!
This was also the advantage of elven bloodlines – their magical gifts were very strong and far exceeded that of humans.
Two inspection teams examined the Love Triangle together.
This was their main inspection target.
“Stay away, humans.” The snow elves haughtily held their long handle alchemy items as they scanned back and forth.
At the front end of the item was an iron circle that emitted a blue light.
The inspection team climbed down the ladder to a lower floor, then stopped moving in front of a cabin door.
Their long handle iron circles produced a red light.
“What’s inside?” A snow elf investigator asked with a tough attitude, “Please open it, so we can continue inspecting.”
The dragonman youngster ordered that the cabin door be opened.
A cabin filled with weapons and armor was revealed to the snow elves.
The snow elves looked at the walls filled with alchemy crossbows and firearms, their eyelids jumping.
These long range weapons came from War Merchant’s warehouse and were of superior quality.
The snow elf investigators had seldom seen such a scene.
“This is the armory, under normal circumstances, this equipment is stored here. Only during wartime are they given out.” Lan Zao, who was accompanying them, presented.
The snow elf investigator nodded, “A good system.”
“Hey, partner, look what I found!” Another snow elf investigator couldn’t help but whistle.
The long handle iron circle in his hand was also glowing red.
He was in front of a cannon.
The gold level cannon.
Chi Lai was nearby, watching the cannon, and he coldly replied to the snow elf investigator, “It is my treasure, and as you can see, it needs repairs.”
The snow elf investigator nodded, then took out paper and pen to record it while saying, “My country has many outstanding alchemy masters, the Icey Alchemy Workship is even one of the best in the world. You will be able to repair it. Of course, if you have enough money to repair it.”
Chi Lai nodded back and didn’t reply.
The snow elf inspector on the Iron Lump was taking measure of the Feather Snake Sail with a reprimanding tone, “I find it hard to imagine that you actually installed such a beautiful sail on such a stupid thing. Heavens, this is just a temporary magic power flow channel, don’t tell me you didn’t know this kind of magic power transference is not stable? Using the Feather Snake Sail like this will reduce its usage life, this simply is a waste of resources!”
The inspection team took quite a while, ascertaining what was what to the bottom of the ship.
Zong Ge had an iron expression.
As a general, he had investigated his troops thoroughly, and this made him extremely resentful and even humiliated.
The inspection team reported all kinds of information to the patrol fleet captain.
“Three magic ships, the iron level Love Triangle, the bronze level White Bandage and Iron Lump.”
“The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps…Commander Long Fu is silver level; Auxiliary Commander Shi Qi is also silver level. In addition to that, there are other silver level fighters.”
“A gold level cannon, and a Feather Snake Sail of the same level…”
“As a small sized mercenary corps, they actually have gold level equipment! Along with many silver levels. It could even be said they have a deep foundation and are a group of competent people.”
“But…” When the patrol captain saw it, he exposed a weird expression, “What’s going on with their ranks? They have all kinds of races.”
“Dwarfs, water pigmen, dogmen, humans, a half giant, a dragonman…do they want to open a circus?”
“What a mess!”
The patrol captain was worried about the dragonman youngster. This was a mixed group composed of many races and many religions, how could such a group continue to exist?
If only he knew that the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps also had a half beastman, a goblin, and even a necromancer, who knows what he would think about that.