Chapter 257: Cang Xu’s Despair
The Petal Snake Pirates.
Flagship – Flower Snake Tower.
“Reload!” A gunner shouted.
The six sailors assisting them used their entire bodies to lift a gigantic artillery shell together.
The artillery shell was overall cylindrical, its front end was a hemisphere, and it gave off a golden light.
The long cylindrical artillery shell was a Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell.
This shell emitted a gold level aura and was obviously not made of ordinary materials.
The artillery shell was pushed into a cannon by the sailors.
This peculiar cannon was known as an Arched Anti-air Cannon, it was ten meters long, and its cannon barrel curved several times around the ship’s central tower until the cannon mouth sat on the tower’s roof.
The Arched Anti-air Cannon had most certainly been remade by alchemy, its outward appearance and the Flower Snake Tower were in agreement, with the cannon’s mouth being a large, open snake mouth.
The surface of the entire serpentine cannon was covered in thousands of shields that were layered upon each other, completely covering the cannon to protect it.
“Close the cannon breech, activate the Arched Anti-air Cannon.” The main gunner sat in the central ship tower, controlling the alchemy system, this cabin was dedicated to shooting the cannon.
A large amount of magic power poured in from the Flower Snake Tower’s magic power reservoir and into the Arched Anti-air Cannon.
The anti-air cannon began to faintly shudder while simultaneously producing a snake hiss.
Two auxiliary gunners put both hands on the snake tail, mixing their battle qi into it to control the Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell.
The gold level artillery shell slowly activated, and from the snake tail, it began to accelerate through the tight spiral rifling of the cannon barrel.
As it circled through the cannon’s serpentine barrel once, the main gunner heard the alchemy system’s monotonous voice, “Level one acceleration complete.”
Then when the artillery shell circled around a second time, the alchemy system stated, “Level two acceleration complete.”
Soon after.
“Level three acceleration complete.”
The main gunner growled, “Fire!”
After the third level of acceleration, the gold artillery shell had reached an astonishing speed, it became a shadow that shot out from the cannon and within two seconds, it swiftly ascended into the air to an altitude of 1000 meters.
After the Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell reached maximum altitude, it began to fall.
At this time, its steel wings ejected from its two sides.
The steel wings vibrated through the air, producing a warbling rumble.
Whizz!
As it took aim at the ghost ship, the shell swooped down as its warbling lengthened, causing hearts to tense and hair to prick up of those who heard it.
On the ghost ship, everyone abruptly became discolored.
Ku Feng growled, “Not good, we must intercept it!”
Jian Gui’s ghost ship was only silver level, while Lady Sea Snake’s Arched Anti-air Cannon and Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell were both gold level.
If it hit the ghost ship, the consequences would be too horrible to contemplate!
Before Ku Feng shouted his warning, the three magicians were already moving,
Qing Xin produced a gigantic wind blade.
Xiao Wang Zi suddenly pulled off his left index finger and threw it.
The index finder turned into a lance as it flew through the air.
While Cang Xu took out the deteriorated magic book.
It was the water path magic book he and Zi Di had bought from Two Eyes Island’s auction.
The magic book only had three pages, but they were all gold level magic spells.
Cang Xu’s soul burden was very heavy, thus, his casting speed and success rate were very low, so during this emergency, he could only use this trump card.
One of the magic book’s pages disintegrated to ash and drifted into the wind.
A water arrow appeared from nothing and launched towards the Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell.
Qing Xin’s massive wind blade was the fastest and was the first to crash into the gold artillery shell. It turned to green light and only slowed down the artillery shell somewhat, nothing else.
Xiao Wang Zi’s bone spear had exceptional quality, it was an adequate silver level. It was not a spell, but rather a magic item that was shrunk normally, disguised as his finger.
But the bone spear didn’t hit the Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell.
In a crucial split second, the Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell unexpectedly ascended a bit to avoid the bone spear!
Of course, the gold level shell was not only powerful, but it also was excellently designed.
Since the Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell was designed to be a high altitude shell and its trajectory was a huge parabola, it gave the enemy a lot of time to intercept it.
With this taken into consideration, the alchemist master who manufactured this artillery shell had installed some meticulous things inside it to give it the capacity to evade.
“It avoided it?” Xiao Wang Zi was astonished and rushed to use his spiritual control to bring the spear back.
But how could the bone spear catch up with the gold artillery shell?
Xiao Wang Zi was forced to watch as the artillery shell quickly outpaced the bone spear.
Cang Xu used the magic book, and according to convention, his water arrow should have formed first.
But his mental state was quite terrible and in actual combat, he was the last to move.
“It’s all on me.” When Cang Xu saw Qing Xin and Xiao Wang Zi fail, he took in a nervous breath and used all of his spirit power.
He willed the water arrow to smash into the gold artillery shell
The Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell’s steel wings slightly turned, it wanted to use the same trick to avoid the Water Arrow spell.
However, the Water Arrow spell was being controlled by Cang Xu’s spirit and Cang Xu had been prepared for this and immediately changed the Water Arrow spell’s flight direction.
Ding.
The Water Arrow spell struck the gold artillery shell.
The gold artillery shell screeched to a halt, and the hemisphere warhead was smashed vertically down into the ocean.
It ended up in the seawater.
Boom!
With a large explosion, the shell blew up in the ocean.
The fierce explosion lifted a jet of water up to ten meters tall, which crashed back down into gigantic white waves that swept from the explosion.
The ghost ship rode the waves.
On the deck, the necromancers and the rest were in indeterminate panic and lingering fear.
Xiao Wang Zi clapped his chest, “How dangerous, good think it was intercepted.”
The bone spear he had thrown out had flown back, and Xiao Wang Zi grabbed it.
Xiao Wang Zi then shouted, “Save me, save me Lord Jian Gui!”
Like before in the Underworld River, he cried for help just the same now.
Cang Xu couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows and think, why was Xiao Wang Zi’s call for help so practiced?
A moment later, Jian Gui weakly replied, “A gold water ghost came back with us, I am in the process of suppressing it.”
“For a short time, we cannot go back to the Ghost World.”
“The magic power reservoir has already reached critical levels.”
“Next, I will use the Ghost Fog spell, you will all hide in the ship cabin and do your best to fight for time.”
If Jian Gui used Ghost World Transversal again, the ghost ship would return to the Underworld River again.
They would once again face the water ghost group and were sure to face disaster.
Even if they bet on the ghost group dispersing before then, the ghost ship couldn’t return to the Ghost World.
Because planar teleportation used up great amounts of magic power, and traveling the Underworld River also consumed lots of magic power too.
The ghost ship had inadequate magic power.
If it went back to the Ghost World again, it wouldn’t have enough magic power to return to the Main World.
They would meet their end in the Underworld River, for after barely traveling a bit, their magic power would be utterly exhausted, and the ghost ship would be eroded completely by negative energy, until finally, it was assimilated into the ecology of the Underworld River.
The Flower Snake Tower.
When Lady Sea Snake saw her first artillery shell was stopped, her face flickered and she ordered, “Keep shooting.”
The other side using gold level magic to intercept the Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell was sensible.
The advantages of the strong were reflected here.
If a gold level magician used magic to intercept the artillery shell, they would have a high success rate of doing so. Magicians only expended magic and spirit power.
After a time, they could autonomously recover it.
The cost was so low!
By contrast, when factoring in the artillery shell’s price, along with the anti-air cannon’s maintenance and magic power cost, Lady Sea Snake had paid a few hundred gold coins to fire that shell.
But Lady Sea Snake remained unmoved and still ordered the crew to keep firing.
Because even though the first was intercepted, it didn’t mean the second or third would be.
Even if only one worked, she would be content.
This was tantamount to her spending money to deplete the other side’s magic power.
Magic power needed time to recover, or recovery medicine, both would consume the enemy’s war potential.
Soon after, a second Baby Bird Mushroom Cloud shell was loaded in.
But as the anti-air cannon was being activated, a thick fog rose around the ghost ship.
The thick fog quickly expanded, completely covering the ghost ship.
The main gunner reported, “Commander, we lost visual.”
Lady Sea Snake coldly snorted, “Thia is the Ghost Fog spell, the necromancy school’s advantage still exist, and conventional detection methods won’t work. Forget about it, stop firing.”
After Lady Sea Snake said that she couldn’t help but laugh.
She turned around to look at Wei Ying.
The gold fighter’s arms were crossed, and he was leaning in a corner. The captain’s room was obviously well it, but he was surrounded by dense shadows.
Lady Sea Snake said to him, “It seems our luck is pretty good. The ghost ship was obviously forced to come here, the Underworld River’s dangers are hard to estimate.”
“They are now stalling for time; grab hold of this chance to accomplish our mission.”
“What are we waiting for?” As Wei Ying spoke, the shadows around his body quickly vanished.
Cang Xu hid in a ship cabin.
But this ship cabin didn’t give him any sense of security.
He sensed that the ghost ship was sailing far away from where it had once been.
But not far enough.
The Ghost Fog spell had a finite range, and the other side had many men.
Given enough time, they would be found.
Cang Xu most dreaded the mysterious black clothed fighter, followed by Lady Sea Snake’s gold level magic pet.
If any came calling, the necromancers would be in trouble.
“If battle starts, I will be most in danger.” Cang Xu was only an iron level in actuality.
“Battle strength, I need battle strength!” Cang Xu’s mouth and tongue were dry as his heart filled with a strong longing for greater battle strength.
Every increase of military power would increase his chances of survival.
But how to increase it?
Faced with this difficult problem, Cang Xu sank into rapid pondering.
Despite obtaining many undead inheritances, these all new magics needed time to familiarize with and to develop, so he could cast them successfully.
Risking casting them now would likely lead to them failing and him suffering the terrifying backlash.
“Calm down.”
“I cannot take too many risks, that would be almost equal to committing suicide.”
Cang Xu pondered for a moment, unable to find a solution, causing the trace of despair in his mind to turn into a flood.