Chapter 49: The Battle on the Reef
The wooden barrel was like crushed peanuts that had fallen onto a pudding, tossing up and down in the wrapping of the waves, and it was pitch black all around, and Vanessa could only see the huge rising figure of the "Happy Harvest Season" overhead, and directly below the ship, the thick and long irregular black shadow slowly revealed the sea.
"What's that?" Vanessa clung to Reina's barrel, "I can't see clearly. ”
"It's a reef." Reina replied bitterly. The archer has a much better eyesight than the princess.
The reef is rising, holding up the "Happy Harvest Season"! Vanessa came to this conclusion. Suddenly, there was a sound of fighting in the ship's armor, accompanied by a dazzling lightning attack, and the mage's loud chant echoed all around, and the opposing camp seemed to have magicians as well, they invited a storm of arrows, and the two spinnakers were immediately full of holes, and there were not many people on the boat brought by Brant, and the dead and wounded who died after being overturned by Victor were injured, and even fewer could participate in the battle now, Vanessa unconsciously sweated for Brant.
The Merry Harvest shuddered as the two sides battled with each other, blue arcs of light and ball lightning flashing together, roars and screams resounding through the night sky, and people screaming and falling into the water, cut to pieces by the sharp reef beneath the hull, and the inky waters opened their jaws to engulf their corpses without leaving a trace.
At this moment, a human head suddenly appeared on the surface of the water in front of her, which frightened Vanessa to scream loudly.
"It's me." The man in the water flung his long hair back to reveal his snow-white upper body.
"Victor," the princess was shocked, "how come you were in the sea, and you didn't leave with the ladies on a log?" ”
"I was going to stay on board to help Brant, but he told me to come to you and make sure I got you ashore."
"No, we can't just leave," Vanessa said, looking at the nearly broken Happy Harvest Season, "How's it going on board?" ”
"It seems to be people from the country of mountains, it is too dark, I can't see clearly, I just think they are all short, and when they come up, they cut people with axes."
The Land of Mountains and the Land of Wine Valley are close neighbors, and the people there are most interested in two things, wine and precious stones, in addition to crafting weapons. The Happy Harvest was not a transport ship, nor was it a merchant ship, and the only wine warehouse was almost empty by Vanessa, neither of which made sense to attract a large number of mountain dwarves.
"Where's their ship?" Vanessa suddenly thought of something, "Take us there." ”
Victor's eyes lit up, and he immediately grabbed the barrel of the two, swinging his legs like dolphins, and swimming back in the water.
"You're a great swim!" Vanessa felt the wind in her ears and exclaimed.
"I'm afraid this is the best magic God has ever given me!"
But I still think it would be better if I could fly. Vanessa looked at Reina so I could fly over the mountains and seas with him on my back and send him to the Temple of Dionysus for healing.
The reef holding the Happy Harvest no longer rises, and the bottom of the ship is about twenty yards above the surface, which is high enough to cause a headache for any rescue team. The three men circled around to the stern of the ship and found the mountain dwarf's boat. It was a dhow, one-tenth the size of the Happy Harvest, and the mountain dwarves were skilled craftsmen, who must have added a special bracket to the ship, so that she could hide in the waves and speed away from detection.
At this moment, there were only two dwarves left on the ship, and Victor took control of the ship, and he sailed the boat away from the terrifying reef area, trying to find a position close to the big ship, and then began to collect wind lanterns and butter candles. He set them all on fire, from bow to stern, marking with the light of fire where they could land. This was all taught by Vanessa, and before she got on the boat, the princess had a plan to pick up Brandt.
Vanessa nervously watched Victor's movements as the carnage on the big ship continued, with occasional shouts of slogans to charge, followed by the terrible sound of heavy objects crashing, the sizzle of blades cutting through the skin, and the thud of rolling to the ground. Vanessa tried not to think about what was rolling across the deck. At this moment, a real lightning bolt pierced the night sky and illuminated the stern of the "Happy Harvest Season", thunder followed, the wind blew the black clouds overhead, the cobweb-like lightning split the sky, and danced brilliantly on the surface of the sea, and the storm was coming.
The moment lightning lit up the world, Vanessa was sure she saw a special mark out of the corner of her eye. She couldn't believe that the picture was real, but she was thinking quickly, connecting the events of the past two days, her eyes widened and she looked at the longing figure on the deck with hard disbelief, and then she shouted Victor's name, asking him to disembark and send herself and Reina ashore as fast as she could
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