Chapter 79: Snake Rat Naval Battle (5)
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ five ships plunged straight into the central fighting group and rapidly drew near Tan Qiu’s flagship.
Rou Zang was following close behind, charging at the dragonman youngster’s flagship.
“He’s coming!”
“To battle!”
The dragonman youngster and Zong Ge took a deep breath, stepped onto the deck, then from the left and right, started to attack Rou Zang.
Battle skill – Demolition Fist.
Battle skill – Sword Point Assault.
The dragonman youngster and Zong Ge were ready when Rou Zang landed onto the deck.
The two battle skills struck Rou Zang.
But Rou Zang cackled and heeded them no mind.
The formidable attacks caused waves to tremble across his body fat.
Rou Zang actually absorbed the power of both battle skills!
Gold battle qi began to spring from him.
Fleshly waves began to roll, the force of dragonman youngster’s and Zong Ge’s attacks rolled into Rou Zang’s upper arm, then into his lower arm.
Battle skill – Small Flesh Reverse Palm
The dragonman youngster and Zong Ge sensed that things were bad and had already made a hurried withdrawal.
But the bowl sized palm made from gold battle qi still flew from Rou Zang’s palm.
Battle skill – Surge.
The dragoman youngster twisted his tail and ankles, turning his body sideways.
Then in that instant, explosions detonated under his feet, pushing him suddenly to the left, dodging the Small Flesh Reverse Palm.
Zong Ge rolled repeatedly, causing the Small Flesh Reverse Palm to hit the deck around him.
Boom.
With two consecutive explosions, the Small Flesh Palms smashed the deck to pieces, forming holes 2 meters in diameter in it.
Zong Ge fell down a level, while the dragonman youngster was still above deck, constantly moving and not counterattacking.
The city guard commander, Captain Hei Fei, and the four other silver levels had just returned to reinforce them.
In their eyes: Rou Zang was 3 meters tall, Zong Ge and the dragonman youngster only reached up to his chest. In their first confrontation against each other, Rou Zang had struck Zong Ge hard while the dragonman youngster was in a bad state.
Hei Fei unconsciously slowed his footsteps.
He had once had a feud with the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps and felt enmity towards them. Thus, he didn’t want to help them, and also knew the disparity between him and a gold level fighter.
The city guard commander was the same, Zong Ge had defeated him publicly and there was friction between the two.
The other two’s movements also slowed.
Previously, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had perfectly intercepted Rou Zang’s pirate group, but they had done it too well.
They not only entangled Rou Zang’s main force, but they also got to sit on the side lines and watch the alliance and Rou Zang’s main force tear each other apart, a tremendous bargain on their end.
Upon seeing the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ back luck, Ba Hu and the Night Hunting Commander felt some schadenfreude. In any case, Long Fu and Shi Qi were thick skinned and tough, it was a good thing if they got beat up and consumed Rou Zang’s battle qi.
But at this time, Zi Di’s shout transmitted, “Stop Rou Zang now, protect the gold cannon!”
“What?” The cannon is on the dragon lion Mercenary Corps’ flagship?” The alliance’s cultivators’ faces changed.
Beforehand, they had seen personally how the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps laid their trap.
They had seen much more than Rou Zang had.
They knew before the cannon fired that many sailors had dived into the water and been collected by other ships.
Contrariwise, they hadn’t seen either Shi Qi or the gold cannon being moved.
But Rou Zang had failed to hit Shi Qi, and now Shi Qi was suddenly at Long Fu’s side, thus the alliance knew that Shi Qi had also escaped too. They only didn’t see it occurring.
Now that they heard Zi Di’s call for help, they unconsciously chose to believe it.
“We have to protect the cannon; it is the best weapon to deal with Rou Zang! Support them now!!” Tan Qiu cried out.
The four silver fighters, along with Tan Qiu, and even the priest and the female magician all rushed to provide support to the best of their abilities.
Compared to them, Rou Zang was the one who moved the fastest.
After hearing Zi Di’s words, he slapped his palms to the deck suddenly.
The deck shattered with a loud bang, and he went down a level.
Rou Zang barged into the hold like a gigantic elephant, and upon penetrating every room inside, he stamped on every cannon in there.
Some mercenaries were unable to evade and were crushed to death on the spot.
Rou Zang made his way through the entire second level and didn’t find the gold cannon.
He smashed through the damaged deck and went into the hold on the third level.
As he searched half of the hold, the silver fighters surrounded him again.
This time, it wasn’t just the dragonman youngster and Zong Ge, there were now four other silver fighters too. Outside the encirclement were Tan Qiu, the priest, and the female magician already in position.
“Attack together! His defensive battle skill must have a limit.” The city guard commander shouted.
The alliance had shared all information on Rou Zang with each other.
The city guard commander took out his sword and activated its enchantment. Amor of blue light covered his body as he swung at Rou Zang.
Zong Ge waved his broadsword and attacked from another direction.
The dragonman youngster climbed onto the cabin wall, and with an explosion, jumped into the air, then attacked Rou Zang’s head from above.
The Night devil Hunting Commander, Hei Fei, and Ba Hu also launched their respective offensives simultaneously.
Rou Zang had a massive and plumpy body, he was slow and was forced to defend himself.
The attacks from all over caused his body fat to tremble and once again form a wave of flesh.
Battle skill – Small Flesh Reverse Palm
Through this battle skill, his body absorbed incoming firepower and redirected it at his attackers.
Gold battle qi condensed in his palms, and four shot out.
The bold battle skill’s might was astonishing, and the silver levels all took evasive action.
Captain Hei Fei rolled away from direct danger but was still blown away.
The Night Hunting Commander, in his moment of desperation, threw a bottle of medicine. The medicine smashed into the hold, causing a black fog to burst out, and with it concealing him, managed to dodge the Small Flesh Reverse Palm.
The city guard commander took the blow head on, causing the sapphire light armor to shatter and him to cough blood.
As he crawled back up, he saw that the dragonman youngster had been smashed into the hull by an exploding palm, embedding the latter into it.
But the dragonman shouted, cracked his back and waist, and pulled himself out. Then as if that didn’t happen, he charged at Rou Zang again while ordering, “Continue the assault, don’t give him a chance to catch his breath!”
“He is a dragonman after all.” The city guard commander was envious of the dragonman youngster’s defense.
Speed was not his strong suit.
He didn’t dare to advance and instead shot his crossbow from a distance.
The other silver fighters for a moment also chose to attack from afar.
Although silver battle qi couldn’t form outside the body, the silver fighters could make up for this immense disadvantage through all kinds of equipment.
For a moment, the dragonman youngster was the main one in the fight, while the others played it by ear, primarily attacking with ranged weapons and only getting in close when the opportunity seldom came.
For every second Rou Zang was being attacked, his body’s fleshy waves were ceaselessly rolling, with no end to them in sight.
Outside of the encirclement, the merchant alliance magician finally cast blindness magic.
Rou Zang was a gold level, and wasn’t completely blinded, rather his vision become muddled as if he was seeing the world through a cloud.
The priest frequently used healing divine spells. Divine light dropped from the sky onto the silver fighters, quickly healing their injuries.
Rou Zang growled as his internal battle qi wildly circulated, he wasn’t evading or fleeing.
“He wants to use a battle skill, stop him!!” Tan Qiu shouted from behind.
For a moment, everyone attacked more often.
Rou Zang was still standing proudly after fifteen seconds.
He took a cold breath, then his internal battle qi suddenly exploded.
His body quickly swelled, especially his belly, which seemed to inflate like a balloon, and became massive.
He had already been a tall person that reached 3 meters in height. Now with the battle skill empowering him, he grew to a giant of 6 meters.
Thus, his legs were thicker than a mammoth, his shoulders busted out into the deck, and his head towered above the sides of the ship, allowing him to see the ocean and the sky.
The ship seemed to grow crowded and to Rou Zang, it suddenly became a canoe.
Battle skill – Flesh Mountain Gigantification!
The alliance’s cultivators rained down their offensive, but the fleshly waves they caused to Rou Zang were small.
After giantizing himself, Rou Zang’s defensive became stronger.
But Rou Zang was not in a rush to deal with the alliance’s cultivators, instead his arms and legs exerted themselves and destroyed the ship around them.
He snapped a mast like a piece of bamboo, his shoulder smashed a boat house, then he ran through the ship, completely destroying two decks.
Finally, Rou Zang arrived at the aft and pushed with both arms.
The miserable hull could not withstand the force, it snapped into two and sank into the sea.
The silver levels were in a tight situation, and one after the other, they fled, with some jumping onto nearby ships, and others using pieces of the hull to remain above water.
The merchant alliance magician unleashed a magic offensive, but Rou Zang’s gold battle qi protected him.
Rou Zang didn’t press the attack, rather he rushed towards another of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ ships.
“Everyone retreat, abandon ship!” Zong Ge yelled.
The mercenaries promptly jumped off and abandoned the defense entirely.
Rou Zang had a battle skill that allowed him to walk on water, and he rammed into the hull.
Soon after, he wantonly destroyed the ship, gold battle qi bubbled out, and in less than 30 seconds, the ship was sinking.
The alliance’s silver level cultivators wildly attacked Rou Zang.
But Rou Zang paid them scant regard and hit another of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ ships.
“He wants to find the gold cannon!” Tan Qiu was anxious, “We must stop him!”
Indeed, the gold cannon was the greatest threat to Rou Zang.
The alliance’s cultivators did their utmost to intercept him but were never able to hinder him.
Rou Zang was no simple gold level cultivator, for now he could not be stopped!
All kinds of attacks fell onto him, yet he did not seem to feel anything, the fleshy waves across his skin on the contrary, fostered his offensive.
However, despite tearing apart all of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ ships, he never found the gold level cannon.
“Where is the cannon?” Tan Qiu and the others were flabbergasted.
“Don’t tell me they have a gold level storage device?”
“It’s possible, after all they are arms smugglers.”
The priest and the merchant alliance magician secretly communicated to each other.
Rou Zang bellowed angrily. He noticed he had been played with, and despite destroying all these ships and suffering so many attacks, he didn’t even find a silver cannon, let alone a gold cannon.