Chapter 83: Snake Rat Naval Battle (9)
The main battlefield.
The dragonman youngster clenched his teeth, struggling until his shaky body finally stood up.
At this very moment, he was affected by both the Fear spell and the Domain of the Light of Contrition.
“Under my leadership, we killed Jia Sha.”
“I also imprisoned Zhen Jin, a noble!”
“I am guilty, guilty…”
The dragonman youngster’s heart was heavy, and he found it difficult to look around.
He saw the paralyzed Tan Qiu, the listless Cang Xu, the struggling Zong Ge, and many others besides themselves because of the guilt.
“This can’t continue.”
“If it does, we will lose!”
“I must do something!” The responsibility of leadership urged the dragonman youngster onwards.
Right now, Gu Qiao’s teachings to Rou Zang were ringing in his mind.
“Justice…”
“What is justice?”
Then a lightning bolt seemed to streak across his heart.
The dragonman youngster was on the Sapphire, and he immediately turned around and entered the captain’s room.
The Sapphire had an alchemy device capable of amplifying one’s voice.
The dragonman youngster’s voice was quickly transmitted from the captain’s room. “We all have a heart that seeks justice!”
The dragonman youngster’s voice spread throughout the entire battlefield.
“It is because of this that we feel remorse and are repenting right now.”
“We are all guilty!”
But it is precisely because of our sins that we repent and weep sorrowful tears. We can then understand more the importance of pursuing justice, no?
“We should be guilty!”
“Who hasn’t done wrong? Who can guarantee that throughout their life, they never made erred?”
“Furthermore, there are many times that things were beyond our control, or we were compelled by circumstance.”
“We have committed crimes for the sake of survival.”
“And this isn’t wrong!”
“Survival, survival!”
“Only by continuing to live can we have the chance to admit our mistakes, to redeem ourselves, to feel remorse, and to set back onto the path of righteousness.”
“Without life, how can we defend justice?”
These words caused Tan Qiu to stop weeping, and his eyes were once again bright.
He looked towards the dragonman youngster, “You’re right, you’re really right! If I didn’t give myself to Rou Zang, how could today have even happened?”
Most of the smoke around Bai Ya faded away, and he once again had the strength to stop his head from mutilating itself against the plank, “His Lordship is right, we were forced to kill Jia Sha.”
In the tears, Lan Zao saw the young captain smiling and reaching out a hand.
“My Lord!”
Lan Zao reached for the hand, and it that moment, it seemed he had obtained redemption.
Not only them, but much of the black smoke also faded away from Zi Di, Cang Xu, Hei Fei, and the others, and they recovered much of their battle strength.
Only Guang Ke pursed his brows.
He felt the dragonman youngster’s words were very problematic, but they also seemed to make sense.
As for what the problem was or why they were reasonable, Guang Ke did not have the time to think about such things during a pitched battle.
Then, the dragonman youngster’s voice could be heard again.
“Everyone please believe my words!”
“I am a believer of the great Justice God!”
“I understand justice more than an ordinary man!”
“In the Justice God’s creed, there is a saying - “Justice without strength is useless, and strength without justice is tyranny!”
“Rou Zang doesn’t have justice!”
“Fellow companions, comrades-in-arms, defeating the wicked Rou Zang is the righteous choice, and the best way for us to repent.”
“Stand up and let us join hands together to eradicate a treacherous villain and carry out justice!”
“You speak true! Rou Zang must pay with his life!” Tan Qiu straightened himself for battle, most of the black smoke around him had thinned out.
Rou Zang and Gu Qiao had morphed into a bone and flesh giant of massive build. Tan Qiu barely needed to aim to hit it with a crossbow.
Tan Qiu was a lord, a feudal lord even, so of course the arrows he fired were alchemical ones.
The bone and flesh giant paid scant regard to the alchemy arrows; his target was still Guang Ke. As long as he killed the alliance’s sole gold fighter, the others were nothing to worry about.
But soon after, more alchemy arrows hit him.
Zong Ge, Zi Di, and Cang Xu were encircling him.
The dragonman youngster used Surge, and like an artillery shell, his two fists hit the bone and flesh giant’s back.
Battle skill – Demolition Fist!
The bone and flesh giant was staggered by his blow, and the gold battle qi protecting him violently shuddered.
The bone and flesh giant was forced to punch from the side.
The arm swept across.
The dragonman youngster was unable to avoid it completely, and the edge of the fist scratched him, smashing him into a ship aft house.
The dragonman youngster had dragon scales protecting him, but he had still been beaten bloody.
At that moment, the bone and flesh giant used the battle skill, Thorn in the Flesh, and like a tempest, condensed gold battle qi needles fired out in all directions.
The cultivators around him scattered and took cover.
The dragonman youngster shook his head and stood up in the ruins of the ship aft house, he then noticed someone in front of him, the Night Devil Hunting Group commander.
The hunting commander had protected him from Thorn in the Flesh.
“Commander Long Fu, your speech was excellent! Let’s fight side by side!” The Night Devil Hunting commander shouted.
“That’s right.” Captain Hei Fei rushed over, two blades in hand.
Once, he and the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had feuded.
However, with a powerful enemy in front of them, and also receiving the dragonman youngster’s grace, he had abandoned this prejudice and now fought with all of his strength.
Everyone besieged the bone and flesh giant, their offensive continuous, all of them attacking again and again.
Guang Ke took on the greatest pressure at the front.
For a moment, the situation was deadlocked, both sides equally matched.
On a ship to the side of Stone Forest Island.
The village chief sighed ruefully, “Who was the one on the speaker? Their words really reached the bottom of our hearts!”
Xu Ma immediately replied, “That was our commander, Lord Long Fu.”
The village chief looked faintly queer, “Survival comes first, we don’t have a choice for survival’s sake.”
“Tan Qiu’s taxes are too heavy, far too heavy!”
“Living in his territory is too painful, too hard.”
“Therefore, we will hide the blood brain pebble so we can survive.”
Xu Ma promptly replied, “I can understand, I can understand that everyone’s lives are not easy.”
“Therefore, I’m sorry!” The old village chief began to emit a dangerous aura.
Xu Ma stepped back and waved his hands, “Villagers, don’t be impulsive, I am not your enemy!”
The Village chief, along with many villagers were surrounding him, “But you know our secret. We are evading taxes, a serious offense. As long as e kill you, we can flee to some faraway place.”
“Tan Qiu is too busy managing his own affairs, regardless of how this battle ends, he won’t be able to pursue us.”
“By eliminating you, no one else will know about the blood brain pebble.”
“By selling it, our entire village will have a better future!”
“Kill!”
After the village chief said that he ordered the villagers to kill Xu Ma.
Xu Ma was only a bronze level, how could he dare to fight these people in combat, instead he crashed through a widow and rolled onto the deck.
“What bad luck, what truly terrible luck.”
“Commander Long Fu, you brought calamity upon me!”
Xu Ma was quite nimble, and with hands and feet, he climbed the mast in a flurry.
The villagers on the deck did not give up the pursuit.
Cang Xu tore open a healing scroll.
A milky white wave of healing soon flowed out of it, and like a chain, it wrapped around the dragonman youngster, Zong Ge, Tan Qiu, and the others.
Their injuries soon faded away or lessened somewhat.
Zi Di was responsible for using fireball spell scrolls to help Gunag Ke impede the bone and flesh giant.
These magic scrolls were from War Merchant’s storehouse.
Right now, Cang Xu’ and Zi Di’s magic power were nearly dry, but their spirits were still good, and using these scrolls were their best option.
The bone and flesh giant was scarred again and again, and it was gasping for breath.
He was already on a downward turn.
“Those damm guys…” Rou Zang gnashed his teeth.
He couldn’t escape anymore.
The ocean was boundless, and he no longer had a ship to cross it.
The Bath Tub had already sunk.
And his gold battle qi was also about to run out.
Originally, he had the advantage, but because of one person’s speech, the scales of victory were slowly slanting to another.
If this trend continued, the bone and flesh giant would no longer be able to fight.
“It is time.” The dragonman youngster detected an opportunity, and once again, stood in place and chanted draconic words.
Racial magic – Life Scorching Dragon Breath.
“I’ll kill you!” The bone and flesh giant yelled, it was Rou Zang’s voice this time.
He loathed the dragonman youngster much more than Guang Ke.
When the dragonman youngster saw the bone and flesh giant pouncing at him, he ceased the racial magic.
He coughed out blood, resisting the failed casting backfire as he extricated himself from the flesh and bone giant.
Guang Ke followed close behind.
Battle skill – Sacred Light Sword.
Divine spell – Just Punishment.
Gold battle qi bubbled out and condensed into a three meter long sword.
The battle skill and divine spell combined, coating the giant sword in a silver-gold radiance.
The silver-gold sword swung down, cutting through the bone and flesh giant’s back, and cleaving it in half.
The bone and flesh giant miserably howled, and gold battle qi scattered, separating Gu Qiao and Rou Zang back into two people.
Gu Qiao looked like a worn out sack, and by the time he hit the deck, he was already unconscious and delirious.
It’s no wonder that in the latter stages of the fight that the bone and flesh giant only spoke with Rou Zang’s voice.
Guang Ke had severed Gu Qiao’s arm, the latter losing consciousness was not odd at all.
As for Rou Zang, he was still awake.
After falling into the sea, he immediately climbed onto a skiff drifting in the sea.
With the silver-gold sword of light in hand, Guang Ke floated above Rou Zang.
Rou Zang glowered at him, but didn’t attack.
His battle qi was spent and was at the mercy of his foes.
“Lord Guang Ke, spare his life!” At this time, Tan Qiu unexpectedly exclaimed for leniency.
“Capture him alive, make Rou Zang tell us where his treasure is.” The merchant alliance magician added on, “There is also the bounty, Rou Zang will be worth more alive than dead!”
Right now, Rou Zang was Guang Ke’s prisoner.
Soon after, the alliance forces also imprisoned the still unconscious Gu Qiao.
The strongest forces on the pirate’s side were defeated, removing all suspense from this conflict.
The alliance was victorious, and the vast majority of the pirates had completely lost their will to fight, laying down their weapons and surrendering, Hua Dun among them.
A minority of the pirates stubbornly refused to admit defeat or were slaughtered by infuriated alliance forces as they asserted their victory.
“We are victorious!” Joyous shouts rose across the battlefield.
The entirety of the alliance looked adoringly at Guang Ke.
Guang Ke was the alliance’s strongest power, and the greatest hero during this battle.
Without him, the alliance would have been routed and be forced to nurse their grievances, there was no other possibility.
Guang Ke looked towards the dragonman youngster.
He had complex feelings about the youngster he had recently converted.
If he was the battle’s greatest hero, then the most pivotal person was doubtlessly the dragonman youngster.
It was the dragonman youngster’s speech that had roused the silver level cultivators’ battle strength. Without the silver levels helping Guang Ke, he wouldn’t have defeated the bone and flesh giant.
Guang Ke now recalled the dragonman youngster’s pivotal declaration, and the more he pondered it, the more he felt there was something amiss about it.
But he couldn’t vocalize what was amiss about it.
“Ah save me, save me!” Beyond the celebratory ambience, Xu Ma was still wildly jumping around the ship, using all of his strength to run away.
“The villagers were crowded into a large group, and whichever mast Xu Ma jumped to, they would rush over to surround it from below. They used every kind of farm tools or slipshod bows and arrows to jab and shoot at Xu Ma.
“Save me, save me!” Xu Ma begged for help with a husky voice.