Chapter 3677: Calling for Help
Chapter 3677: Calling for Help
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
"Oh? The main island?"
"Yes. Sea God Island was divided into three main islands according to the King of Gods each faction worshipped, belonging to three different factions. I had heard that although there were conflicts between the factions, they presented themselves as a single whole to outsiders. If anything really happened, all three would step in together."
Princess Willow’s expression also turned grave as she said, "The fleet of Sea God Island’s main island is terrifying. It is said they can borrow the power of the Sea God and are also one of the few fleets capable of entering the deep sea region."
Fang Heng curled his lip.
So after all that, Sawyer had left Sea God Island early to call for reinforcements.
According to the normal game flow, they would probably have passed Sea God Island’s trial first, then slowly made contact with the main island, and through the main island gained access to the underwater world.
This was not bad either. It would let him make contact with Sea God Island’s main island sooner.
"Your Highness, they have already entered battle formation."
An officer aboard the ship said with a grave expression, "The energy crystal cannons on their ships have already locked onto us. This will put us at a disadvantage."
When Princess Willow saw that the other side had immediately taken a battle stance the moment they met, displeasure rose in her heart as well.
It seemed Sea God Island had already regarded them as enemies.
Since things had come to this—
Even explaining themselves would be useless.
In any case, they had already completely fallen out with Sea God Island.
There was no need to think further. They would settle it with battle.
Willow’s aura changed as she said in a deep voice, "Prepare for battle!"
"Yes, Your Highness!"
The warships also activated their defensive barriers, and the muzzles of the energy crystal cannons all turned toward Sea God Island’s fleet.
The crew wore grim expressions.
At sea, artillery exchanges depended on a ship’s offensive capability and defensive barrier strength.
And both of these were tied to the strength of each side’s divine statues.
The moment they thought of their opponent being Sea God Island, which possessed the strongest divine statues, the Oz Empire sailors felt that things were going badly.
But now that they had already run into them, they could only brace themselves and fight.
"I’ve caused trouble for Your Highness."
As Fang Heng spoke, he looked toward the distant sea. "This time, there’s no need to trouble the Empire. Withdraw first and leave the rest to me. I’ll cover your retreat."
Hm?
The soldiers aboard the ship found Fang Heng’s words strange.
What did he mean?
Did he think one person’s strength could block the bombardment of Sea God Island’s fleet?
They saw Fang Heng take out a stack of rune papers from his pocket and scatter them across the sea.
"Bang! Bang bang bang!!"
The rune papers exploded one after another in midair.
What the hell!
What was that now?
The soldiers’ hearts jumped at the sight.
Monsters?
Flying monsters?
They saw countless Lickers burst out from the exploding rune papers. The flesh wings on their backs spread open as they beat their wings and flew toward Sea God Island’s fleet in the distance.
Fang Heng looked at the Lickers flying through the air and nodded to himself.
Ouroboros—Flying form modification.
The Lickers had grown thin flesh wings on their backs, allowing them to gain short-distance low-altitude flight capability for a short period of time.
However, this modification slightly weakened their agility attribute, and their dodging ability during flight was also lower.
In addition, since both the initial modification and permanent stabilization required a large amount of King of Gods’ points, Fang Heng had not modified all of them. He had only prepared some zombie clones with special abilities in advance to deal with special situations.
This was the first time he had used flying Lickers, and Fang Heng also wanted to see how they performed in actual combat.
The Lickers flew rapidly through the air while splitting at high speed—one into two, two into four.
In an instant, a vast black swarm of flying Lickers surged across the sea toward Sea God Island’s fleet!
As Princess Willow watched wave after wave of flying monsters appear in the sky, astonishment appeared in her eyes as well.
What kind of creature was that?
She prided herself on being well-read since childhood, yet she had never seen such ugly flying creatures in any book.
Still, judging from the way Fang Heng used them, they resembled alchemical creatures.
Had Fang Heng developed and created them himself?
Willow said in a deep voice, "Retreat first!"
"Yes!"
Sea God Island fleet.
When Tina saw a mass of strange creatures suddenly appear above the sea and rush toward them, surprise also appeared on her face.
Since when had the Oz Empire gained the ability to control such flying monsters?
It really was unexpected.
But...
Did they think these monsters could stop their energy crystal cannons?
What a joke!
Tina sneered inwardly and said coldly, "Open fire!"
"Yes!"
In an instant, hundreds of beams of light burst from the cannon muzzles and blanketed the dense region of Lickers over the sea with bombardment.
"Boom! Boom boom boom boom!!"
The sea was instantly drowned in muffled explosions.
Hm?!
Tina stared into the distance, her heart jumping as a grave look appeared in her eyes.
What kind of monsters were those?
They were so tough!
A single energy crystal beam was enough to destroy a small ship without an energy defensive barrier, but now?
In theory, one shot should have wiped out a whole patch of them.
But when the energy beams struck those monsters, the monsters only exploded?
Those creatures had actually endured the frontal impact of the energy crystal cannon beams and merely burst apart before falling into the sea?
The crew were equally shocked.
What were those monsters’ hides made of? They could actually tank energy crystal cannon fire head-on?
Tina let out a cold snort and said, "Continue!"
It was not a major problem.
At worst, they would just fire several more volleys from the magical crystal cannons!
Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
After a brief recharge, the energy crystal cannons fired volley after volley again.
At once, the sea rang out with dense explosions and bursts.
However, after several volleys, the crew began to notice something was wrong.
Strange.
The energy crystal cannons had already fired several volleys, yet the number of monsters over the sea showed no sign of decreasing.
On the contrary, because time had been wasted, the monsters were getting closer and closer to their ships.
What was going on now!?
Tina also realized something was wrong. She took the telescope from one of her subordinates and looked toward the swarm over the sea.
Hm?!
She saw the monsters blasted apart by the beams falling from the sky, yet their shattered flesh twisted and regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye while still in midair. Before they had even fallen into the sea, the monsters had already fully recovered, then immediately dove and flew back into the air.
What terrifying regenerative ability!
What exactly were those monsters!?
The swarm was already closing in on the ships.
Tina said in a deep voice, "Sea God priests, heed my command. Activate the divine statue, Hunter Spear Technique! Capture them! Do not let them approach the ships!"
"Yes!"
Nearly a hundred Sea God priests gathered in the middle of the ships and poured their mental strength into the ritual magic array.
The divine statue at the bow bloomed with dazzling red light.
Dark red spears appeared one after another around the divine statue, then shot densely toward the incoming swarm of Lickers in the air!
Just before striking the Lickers, the spears exploded, forming massive crimson nets that enveloped the Lickers.
The Lickers were caught by the crimson nets and immediately struggled wildly, but their sharp claws were unable to tear through the energy nets for the moment. Unable to maintain flight, they dropped one after another into the sea with splashes.
"Tide of the Sea God!!"