Chapter 82: Snake Rat Naval Battle (8)
The gigantic magic formation successfully activated.
The dark red light in the seawater formed into a pillar of light that pointed towards the sky.
The tremendous magical might radiated in an area over four thousand meters in diameter.
Fear spell!
The magic Mo Kong was best at when he lived.
He sacrificed himself, including his bloodline, his skin, his flesh, his magic power, and everything else as casting materials for a single spell!
“What this the gift you were talking about before you died!? Damm it!” The Flower Wall Pirate commander, Hua Dun, had a flash of remembrance a moment before being affected by the Fear spell.
If living beings were struck by a simple fear spell, for a short time, they would lose all calmness, reason, and reflection, and run around howling in fright.
But beforehand, Guang Ke had used his divine spell - Domain of the Light of Contrition.
The combination of the divine spell and magic caused everyone on the battlefield to immediately be affected even worse.
For a moment, fights between the alliance’s soldiers and the pirates nearly ceased.
Everywhere, people were falling to the deck.
Gunfire went silent, and shouts of fighting stopped too.
Clang, clang…
Many people no longer had the strength to move, and their weapons fell to the deck.
Soldiers and pirates could no longer fight, pain and remorse filled their faces.
Some were kneeling, some crying with covered faces, and some put their hands together in prayer, their hearts praying to the gods.
“I am guilty, I am truly guilty!”
“I want to repent, my God, this lowly believer prays for your understanding!”
“How am I still alive, I harmed others as I live, why don’t I just die?”
Unexpectedly, someone who couldn’t endure the condemnation of their innermost being committed suicide on the spot!
Compared to what happened on Snake Rat Island, this time, the combination of the Domain of the Light of Contrition and the Fear spell produced a far more frightening result.
Firstly, Guang Ke’s divine spell was far stronger than last time.
Secondly, the Fear spell was also far more powerful than the one cast on Snake Rat Island. Because this time, Mo Kong sacrificed himself as the main casting material. Last time, he only used his eyeball as a casting material.
“I am a disgrace to my clan, I am only interested in saving myself, and once, in order to survive, I swore allegiance to pirates…” Tan Qiu couldn’t move his sword as tears streamed down both cheeks.
Hei Fei was deathly pale, he held his head and shouted, “Should die, I should die!”
He was thinking of all the homes he had destroyed, all the beastmen slaves he had captured.
“I knew you had families and friends, lives that were ruined because of me.”
“Yet I sold you all off for money to provide for my life of pleasure.”
“I am no human; I am a devil!”
The survivors weren’t in good condition either.
Bai Ya slammed his head into a ship plank, weeping bitter tears, “It was I who killed Jia Sha, boohoo, I killed him.”
“I am a commoner, yet I offended my elders and killed a priest.”
“I am guilty, I should die!”
Lan Zao’s heart and soul were filled with regret and self-blame, he even lifted his cutlass to his own neck.
He raised his head to the sky, “Little brother, I harmed you.”
“It was I who killed you.”
“I am your older brother, but as your older brother, I killed you to survive!”
“I shamed my mother and shamed you more.”
“Everything was my mistake, all of it was my wrongs!!”
Gradually, his arm pressed the blade into his skin, and a bloody trace began to faintly appear around his neck.
Zi Di was gasping for breath.
Her body was filled with thick black smoke.
“I am a guilty woman.”
“I conspired to murder my fiancé and had an affair with another man!”
“In my search for power, I secretly cultivated necromancy!”
“For money, I manufactured a shipwreck.”
“How can I still have the face to remain alive?”
Zong Ge grinded his teeth, weakness and anxiety manifesting in his usually firm features.
“Father.”
“I failed to live up to your expectations.”
“Right now, I am in endless straits and keep company with necromancers.”
“I did not get to the Wilderness Continent in a timely manner, I am still rushing across the seas for the sake of redemption.”
Cang Xu held a bottle of medicine unsteadily.
His other hand covered his heart, and his face was in knots, full of self-blame.
“I became a necromancer!”
“After it all, I became a living dead man, all for the purpose of my selfish desires.”
“Now, even my closest flesh and blood, my son, has reported me to the authorities.”
“I became a fugitive and can only float about in exile.
“Perhaps, I should end this senseless life. I should go back and turn myself in.”
The Domain of the Light of Contrition and the Fear spell not only enveloped the battlefield but continued to radiate outwards.
Everyone on Stone Forest Island was also affected.
Black smoke also rose from Xu Ma.
He lowered his head, tears of remorse dripping, “I am guilty.”
“I stole many times, too many to count.”
“I am timid, of small guts, I don’t dare to steal from the rich and strong. I stole from the poor many times and added insult to the injury that was their lives.”
“I once had companions but got cold feet when met with a wolf group and betrayed them. I lived, but they didn’t!
“I am also guilty!!” Suddenly, the village chief to Xu Ma could be heard.
Xu Ma turned to look at him, his tearful eyes suddenly wide open.
He was shocked to discover that the black smoke around the old village chief was denser than his.
The village chief proclaimed through tears and snot, “It was I who encouraged the villagers.”
“Rou Zang’s pirate group never attacked Stone Forest Island; everyone was done by our hands.”
“It was all to hide that chunk of blood brain pebble.”
“Ordinarily, the highest quality brain pebbles get is the silver level. Blood brain pebbles are very rare, it is the brain pebble inside the brain pebble, an uncommon gold level material.”
“If the feudal lord discovered it, he would surely have confiscated the blood brain pebble.
“We wanted to secretly keep it and sell it behind the feudal lord’s back, then use the money to migrate the entire village away from Stone Forest Island!”
“The taxes here are too heavy.”
Upon hearing the village chief’s confession, Xu Ma was stunned, “So that’s what happened!”
Hua Dun felt his armor grow exponentially heavier.
He also was in the Fear spell and the Domain of the Light of Contrition, all of his killing intent was gone.
He too emitted black smoke, for as a pirate, he naturally had committed many crimes.
“I am bad!”
I was insatiably greedy, I became a pirate of my own accord, I killed, looted, and committed all imaginable crimes.”
“To satisfy my incomparably ugly cravings, I defiled many pure young men.”
“I am scared of dying, and due to Mo Kong’s curse, I have to slave away for him.”
When he thought of Mo Kong, Hua Dun was unable to understand something.
He knew that the Fear spell should be the ‘gift’ Mo Kong mentioned before he died.
But didn’t Mo Kong know that this magic couldn’t distinguish between friend and foe?
The alliance was thrown into chaos, but the pirates were in the same boat!
Boom!
The bone and flesh giant punched Guang Ke into the air.
Guang Ke crashed through three ships before steadying himself and flying back into the air.
The bone and flesh giant was already chasing after him.
The two dueled with each other through the air, through ships, and even in the ocean.
Unlike before, Guang Ke was now actually losing.
“What is going on?” Hua Dun, along with the other silver level cultivators able to withstand the divine spell and magic, were observing the battlefield, noting this fact with indefinite bewilderment.
Hua Dun and the others felt very puzzled.
Guang Ke was unconstrained by the Domain of the Light of Contrition, only the Fear spell was affecting him.
While the bone and flesh giant wasn’t affected by the Fear spell, only by the surging black smoke from the Domain of the Light of Contrition
“Rou Zang, you have an excellent underling.” The voice from the bone and flesh giant was Gu Qiao this time.
Rou Zang coldly snorted, “Mo Kong was a crafty guy, I made a deal with him, therefore his magic doesn’t affect me.”
Rou Zang wasn’t affected by the Fear spell, thus the bone and flesh giant he had combined with Gu Qiao to make wasn’t affected either.
The bone and flesh giant spoke with Gu Qiao’s voice again, “Rou Zang, what do you believe justice is?”
“Eh?” Rou Zang was puzzled.
“This is the Justice Church’s divine spell, the Domain of the Light of Contrition, it is very renowned. Through my temple’s research, it was discovered that its true effect is that it stimulates a target’s feelings of repentance and guides their religious conversion.”
“However, it is standardized in how it stimulates the target’s feelings of repentance.”
“This standard is how the target understands justice in their heart.”
“Which things are just, and which things are wicked. If they have done more wicked things, then the target will feel more repentant.”
“Are you saying…” Rou Zang trailed off, then suddenly realized what Gu Qiao was proposing.
Guang Ke’s face slightly changed, and he intensified his attacks.
As the bone and flesh giant fought Guang Ke, Gu Qiao instructed Rou Zang, “Therefore, you understand what justice is.”
Rou Zang realized it, and told himself, “The most just thing in this world is power! The small and weak are sinful, and whatever the truly strong do is right, that is the meaning of justice!!”
He said this many times over.
Every time he said that some of the black smoke on the bone and flesh giant dispelled, allowing the bone and flesh giant to become nimbler.
Rou Zang and Gu Qiao were both from the Great Pain Temple, and combined, they were stronger than the sum of their parts.
Guang Ke was affected by the Fear spell, while the Bone and Flesh giant was still in the Domain of the Light of Contrition.
As Rou Zang altered his definition of justice, the Domain of the Light of Contrition’s effect on the bone and flesh giant waned.
The bone and flesh giant’s battle strength continued to rise and was beginning to firmly suppress Guang Ke.
Guang Ke was gradually wounded.
The situation was getting worse for the alliance.
“What’s going on?” Xu Ma gazed from Stone Forest Island, he couldn’t hear the conversation between Gu Qiao and Rou Zang, but he could still see how the war situation was changing.
“Even someone like Guang Ke isn’t Rou Zang’s opponent!”
“Not good…”
“It’s mainly because Rou Zang is too shameless, he was actually able to combine with another gold level with that strange battle skill!”
“Should I withdraw or not?”
Xu Ma’s eyes twinkled.
He had just joined the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, and his sense of belonging to them was quite weak.
Upon seeing the situation was sloping downwards, he didn’t want to fall into the hands of pirates and already wanted to flee.
“Village chief, surely you have a boat on hand?” Xu Ma grabbed the village chief of Stone Forest Island.
The village chief replied while weeping bitter tears, “Yes, I have a boat.”
“That’s good. What are we waiting for, prepare it!” Xu Ma exclaimed.