Chapter 17: Death is the deepest fear
Cautiously dodging the battlefield between the pirates and the Self-Defense Forces, Callando quietly felt to the rear, where the pirate ship was docked.
"There are about four or five people left behind on the boat, and there should be no more than ten people who can't be seen by obstacles. Four people guarding the cable at the side of the boat, in groups of two. ”
After taking a closer look at the pirates on the shore, and then looking back at the battle line that was already a little farther away, Carlando drew his knife with a look of excitement.
"Just let me see, how is the combat power of the pirates better than my five months of hard training?"
Without further concealment, Carlando held his knife and exposed it to the eyes of the four guards, then reflexively retreated.
"Two?"
Sensing that the two pirates were being pursued, Carlando found a slightly open spot to stop.
"Kill!"
Carlando's eyes widened, and his vision became a little hollow and slow. The last time he felt this way was the first time he had a fight in his previous life.
Watching the pirates in front of him get closer and closer, he was so nervous that he seemed to be able to hear his own heartbeat.
I don't know if it's instinct or self-driven, in the past five months, Carlando doesn't know how many times he has practiced the chopping move, and he roared out!
The katana in Carlando's hand and the opponent's scimitar clash in the air! Feeling the power of the knife, he instantly judged that the pirate in front of him was being crushed by himself in terms of physical fitness.
Ignoring the pits' stunned eyes, Callando once again used his strength to knock the weapons that the pirates were trying to control into the air. Immediately after the knife is retracted, the force is briefly charged, and the stabbing style is directed at the heart of the target.
"Poof!"
The tip of the knife felt like it was in the flesh, and Carlando immediately took a step forward with his left foot and drew his katana, and then swung his body halfway into a horizontal position.
"Ding!"
Steadily blocking the scimitar of another pirate, Carlando flicked his weapon upwards and landed a simple slash on the pirate's shoulder.
"Whoa!"
The blade slashed diagonally from the shoulder to the waist and abdomen, and scarlet blood splattered. Ignoring the blood that flew to his face, Calando slashed the pirate's neck.
Taking two sharp breaths, he looked at the first pirate who had fallen to the ground, and went up to make another stab in his throat.
Looking at the two people who died in his hands, Carando's hands trembled a little. Not fear and fear, but excitement.
"Is this a knife-to-flesh fight? Ha ha. ”
Carlando simply wiped the blood off his face with his sleeve and walked back to where the pirate ship was.
This time he was greeted by five people.
……
There is a huge gap between Kalando, who has a physique, dexterity, and perception of up to 13, and these pirates, who have an average attribute of only 11 points. Moreover, these pirates have no systematic weapon use skills, and they only go back and forth vertically, diagonally, and horizontally.
But they have combat experience and a mentality that does not hesitate in the face of fighting. So he was left with knife wounds on his shoulder, on his back, on the outside of his thigh.
Carlando felt the fun.
Yes, fun. He was the one who died once. In the days when he first came to this world, every time in the middle of the night, he would dream of the scene of his death, the emptiness after death.
The pain of the car crashing into the body, the bones broken, and the viscera twisted were incomparably clear; The empty eternal darkness, that can only be thought, cannot be moved, cannot be spoken. There is no beating of the heart, no flow of blood, no meaning of time. No, nothing.
In addition to thinking. But you can only think about it, that is a kind of torture! Every minute and every second, more and more fear overcame him! Squeeze him!
He didn't know if it was a "short" rush process that everyone would go through after they died, or if it was a "short" rush process when the system brought him into this world, but he didn't want to go through it again. In order to forget this experience, in order not to wake up in the middle of the night, he frantically exercised himself and numbed himself.
"Therefore, there is no fear in this world that is like death."
Feeling the bruised tendons and boiling blood on the body, the feeling of being alive is so clear.
Glancing at the five corpses on the ground, Carlando turned his gaze to the boat. Three steps and two steps, he climbed the pirate ship with swift movements, and his eyes swept over the six pirates who were nervously hesitating in front of him.
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The battle in the southern port has entered a critical stage, and the pirates who rely on the gangplank and rope to log in are fighting the Self-Defense Forces in the dark. But in the opinion of the first mate Mitchlin, the crew's side has fallen into a disadvantage, and if there is no accident, it is only a matter of time before the retreat happens.
"It's almost time to get started."
In order to make the plan go smoothly, the first mate exposed more strength, and after selling a flaw, he quickly killed the squadron leader in front of him.
Then he cleverly avoided people's eyes and came to the corner outside the turret. Vigilantly observing the surroundings to make sure that no one was paying attention to it, he quickly dug out something that had been buried here, an empty wooden pipe with a fuse.
"Richter, I hope you haven't been corrupted by power during your years in O'Hara, otherwise it won't be good for us to invade the town."
Ignite the fuse, and a faint spark spreads.
"Don't let me down, Rickett."
……
"Bang!!"
A violent explosion reached Calando's ears, and he turned his head to look out at the southern harbor, where he faintly saw a large amount of black smoke.
"Is it so intense?"
Calando suddenly became a little worried, maybe the book town was captured this time, but he didn't find the shelter where the townspeople were, so he only lost his belongings.
"That's it, I'll sneak in and help."
After bandaging all the wounds on his body, Calando grabbed the ship's harvest and jumped out of the boat, then lit the torch he found and threw it on the boat that was spilled with wine.
……
Rickett saw the town's gates blown open, and his whole body calmed down more and more. He looked at the evenly matched pirate captain in front of him, bursting out with more power, and couldn't let them rush into the town no matter what.
The gate that was suddenly blown open greatly stimulated the pirates who were fighting. If you fight hard, you can rush into the town and plunder! The battle was scorching again.
Captain Cordo looked around, then at the open gate, and knew that he could not order a retreat, for the harvest was imminent. But......
Moving his numb hands, Kordo felt a little lacking in confidence in the ironclad warrior in front of him. If only it could be ten years younger, the battle would have been over a long time ago.
Feeling his overwhelmed body, the big gasp of breath, all reminded him that he was old. After confronting the warrior in front of him with more than a dozen swords in a row, he felt more and more powerless.
Golden opportunity! Rickett saw that the pirate captain showed a flaw that did not look like a disguise, and immediately decided to use a set of well-honed sword moves.
The sword light and sword shadow disappeared, and an unwilling head fell to the ground.
"Your captain is dead, surrender and don't kill!"
Rickett lifted Cordo's head high with his sword, and all the pirates who saw Kordo's head panicked.
"The battle is lost, everyone retreat!"
I don't know who shouted in the crowd. And this reminds us
All the pirates, they fought and retreated to their own pirate ship.
"Stop! Don't chase it, go to the east and west ports first, and leave the escaped pirates to the navy to deal with. ”