Chapter 480: Sea Serpent Man
In the following journey, Levi and the others kept encountering large and small Norsca pirate troops, these savage and brainless guys didn't seem to know what it meant to be afraid, even if there was such an obvious and huge gap between their warships, even if Levi's side showed such ferocious long-range firepower, but these guys still rowed their small wrecked ships desperately one by one, trying to rush over and start a fierce hand-to-hand combat.
It's just that most of the time, they don't get this opportunity.
Either their warship was blown up by various war machines early and hit the halfway, and the whole ship of pirates fell into the Talon Sea together and fed the sea beasts, or under the command of Sienna, the long-range troops directly killed them halfway.
Without the participation of various monster units such as wolfskins and swamp monsters on land, the Norska pirates themselves are not very powerful.
They don't have enough strength, and they are surprisingly stupid, although these Norscan pirates are also humans, but they are not as cunning as the beastmen in nature, they are no different from the brainless green skins, at least the beastmen also know the ambush, know how to attack the human villages with weak defenses, they are rarely like these Norscan pirates, obviously their strength is very different from each other, and they take the initiative to attack!
With Jerrick the Dwarf, Sienna finally no longer has to be distracted to command all kinds of war machines, and now she can command long-range troops with all her energy, showing extraordinary enthusiasm, and because of Reiner's status as a High Elf, and the skills of the militia master, her self-esteem seems to have been slightly stimulated, and she is currently working hard to train and command her subordinates, trying to improve their strength in the shortest possible time.
Levi was happy to see this, and his subordinates knew that it would be a great thing for him to work harder, so he ordered all of Sienna's intentions to be fully cooperated.
Compared with the Norsca pirates, the endless variety of sea beasts and sea races in the Talon Sea brought more trouble to Levi and them.
These sea beasts not only have strange appearances, but also have a variety of abilities, and they are not all guys who use brute force, many sea beasts have their own unique talents, what poisoning, discharge, ice picks, wind blades and the like emerge in endlessly, except for the sea beasts that have not seen any use of fire magic, the magic of the other seven factions is all together, and there are some very rare or out-of-the-way magic, but it has opened everyone's eyes.
However, the biggest threat to Levi is still those intelligent sea races, such as the sea snake people who are fighting with Levi and them, which are very difficult.
At first glance, these sea snakes look somewhat similar to the Naga, they are all humanoids with their upper body and snake tails on the lower body, but compared to the Naga, they are slimmer, thinner, and have much thinner scales on their bodies, and of course they are much uglier, but this does not mean that they are less threatening.
The sea snake people not only start at the 3rd order per capita, but the most elite main force is basically the 4th order, and they also have a very clear division of occupations, there are warriors responsible for absorbing damage in the front, and mages who cast water and wind magic in the back, and they also have a small number of animal tamers, who can drive a large number of sea beasts as cannon fodder, and a very small number of assassin-type units, as if they are a race with intelligence and social class, and almost all sea snakes have the natural power to spit venom from their mouths.
When they first encountered them, Levi and the others had just finished a battle with a group of Norscan pirates, cleaning the loot and salvaging the boxes, but unexpectedly, some uninvited guests were attracted by the blood escaping from the sea, and they took advantage of the situation to launch a surprise attack, at least forty or fifty warriors let out a cry of pain, and their bodies were instantly dyed dark green, it was these sea snake people.
Although Levi and his men immediately launched a swift counterattack, they still lost a little bit of troops when the opponent took the lead.
Then these sea serpents seemed to have a grudge, and continued to attack them on the next road, and they never attacked head-on, always taking advantage of the fire when Levi and the others were fighting, and launched all kinds of despicable sneak attacks.
Of course, they don't have the ability or guts to engage in a head-on confrontation with a warship that is tens of meters long and has a large number of artillery, they generally drive a large number of brainless sea beasts to attack first, and then they use their agility to get close to the warship, try to rush onto the ship, and have a white-knuckle battle.
Although because Levi and they are strong enough, these sea snake people's plans have all failed so far, and they have not been able to cause them many casualties in total, but have contributed a lot of experience points and equipment or something, but this behavior itself makes Levi and them a little annoyed!
Now, after another failed sneak attack, the sea serpents plan to use the old tactics again, using the sea beasts under their control as cannon fodder, while they themselves want to get out of the way.
It's their old trick, they've done it before, it's just that because everyone is annoying them, they don't skimp on all kinds of attacks, they fail every time they retreat, and they are all killed in the end, and probably because of this, they continue to come and attack again and again, and they don't have a long memory at all.
However, Levi decided to let them go this time and not kill them all.
Because he has been wondering, why do these sea snake people, who are obviously not particularly low in intelligence, have to bite themselves and others to death? Isn't the best option when confronted with an irresistible enemy?
There must be a demon when something goes wrong, and there must be something strange about this matter!
So Levi decided to let a few sea serpents flee the battlefield this time, and then they followed from a distance to see where the other party would run back, and maybe he could solve the secret.
After getting Levi's instructions, the others also left some hands, and after killing all those sea beasts, they didn't kill all the sea snakes this time, but let go of a few guys, and after they escaped, Levi immediately ordered a wolf ship to be released to track, if you use the Landuine directly, the movement is still too big.
It turned out that although these sea serpents had looked very cunning in the previous battle, they were still much worse than real humans, so it was easy for a wolf ship to find their nest, and then the huge ship Landuin and the three wolf ships also rushed there.
After seeing the situation there clearly, Levi and the others understood why the Sea Serpents had been attacking them before.
Because according to their previous route, it would not take long for them to pass through a small island, but now on this barren island, there are nearly a thousand sea snakes plus a thousand sea beasts of all kinds that can go ashore, who are engaged in the work of miners here, and on the periphery of the island, there are thousands of sea beasts densely packed as guards. Although most of the sea beasts in this area are low-level cannon fodder, it is definitely not very easy for the sea snakes to be able to gather such a large number.
Needless to say, Levi immediately knew that these sea snakes must have found some treasure on the island, and the reason why they frequently attacked their group was that they wanted to disrupt their own routes, so as not to delay their treasure digging operations!
But now that Levi's has discovered the secret here, what else is there to say, just fight!
With Levi's order, the guns rang out for a while, and the shells of dozens of mortar cannons and cannons crashed into those sea beasts, instantly setting off a large wave of blood, and their proud hard scale armor and heavy skin looked so vulnerable in front of these war machines born for killing.
The roaring cannons and the painful howls of the sea beasts were intertwined, and the sea snakes on the shore were immediately stunned, and they immediately put down their work in a little panic, picked up their weapons instead, and turned to attack Levi and the others.
But unlike previous encounters, the sea serpents could not rely on their more agile bodies to cling to the warship to fight guerrilla warfare. Often before they touched Levi's warship, they had been killed directly on the way, and the originally clean and clear sea was soon polluted by their dark green blood, as well as all kinds of dirty blood flowing out of the bodies of those sea beasts, and I don't know if it was their blood or the venom in their bodies, even from a distance of one hundred and eighty meters, Levi could also smell the fishy smell.
However, the sea snake people refused to give up, and with a few sharp whistles, some special sea beasts that had never appeared before appeared in everyone's sight.
First of all, there are some giant sea snakes with a diameter of nearly one meter and a length of more than ten or twenty meters, looking at their size, and then looking at the thick scales that are densely covered with their bodies, Levi knows that their defense and vitality are not much weaker, but if nothing else, they should also be meat shield type or cannon fodder type troops.
No way, these snakes that don't even have claws, their attack is nothing more than biting with their teeth and then injecting venom, or using their bodies to tie up the enemy and strangle them, at most, they add a tail to smoke even if it's very remarkable, and it's just those kinds of things over and over again, nothing new at all.
Then there were some giant jellyfish that looked like they were all poisonous, and some large seahorses with hard spines and looked like porcupines, gathered five or six hundred together, and attacked in a mighty way, and it seemed that it should be a relatively rare beast tamer unit among the sea snake people on a large scale.
But soon the constantly roaring cannons used their powerful attack power to tell the sea snake people that this level of resistance did not make any sense at all!
In less than ten minutes, the sea around this barren island was completely covered with the corpses of various sea beasts and sea snakes, and all the enemies who tried to resist had been killed, and only some sea snake people who saw a bad chance slipped away from the battlefield in advance.
For these little clever ghosts, Levi is too lazy to hunt them down, they have a total of four boats, and it is simply unrealistic to continue to divide the troops, the sea is so mysterious to them after all, the sea snake people are weak does not mean that all other sea creatures are weak, it is better to be cautious.
The only thing that's a little regrettable is that I don't know if I can't speak at all, or if I don't know how to negotiate at all, until the moment before the whole army was wiped out, no sea snake people tried to communicate with Levi and them, so Levi didn't know what the sea snake people were digging on this deserted island, and it seemed that they had to go down to see it in person.
"Hahaha, what's going on, Levi, I'll just say it's okay to hand it over to me, right?"
Looking at the excited and happy look of the dwarf Jerek, Levi was also a little funny, speaking of which, this is the first time that such a high-intensity naval battle has been officially conducted, and the artillery unit has shown its full strength for the first time.
But the other party is right, his skills for artillery war machinery increase is indeed very obvious, even the mortar that has always been criticized for its low hit rate, under his command can also play a good hit rate, sure enough, there is a specialization in the art industry.
So Levi complimented Jerek a few words according to the other party's meaning, which made Jerek laugh even more happily. Dwarves are like that, if they are enemies, they show their ruthless side, but if they are friends, they are actually very good people to befriend.
Thanks to the small dock that the Sea Serpents had built earlier, Levi and his family didn't have to swim in the stinking blood and guts, but docked on the dock before heading to the digging site.
Considering that it may be necessary to use physical strength, most of the warrior professions that Levi brought this time are good at brute force, mainly dwarves, after all, they are the best at mining or something, and then the bald troops led by the Sky Lone Star, those zealots of the Sigma Church are also very brute force, otherwise they would not have charged the enemy with a big shield and a war hammer in the other.
Then there are the small number of half-elves led by Sienna and her little friend Kelly, who are of course not here to mine, but to cooperate with the warrior monk Chen Cone and the dark elf female assassin Otilia in reconnaissance and vigilance.
Although this small island looks very barren, except for the path that the sea snake people barely carved out before, the rest of the place is full of weeds more than half a man tall, but there are not many trees, but this kind of terrain is very suitable for hiding some small and medium-sized enemies, such as beasts and Skaven rat people or something, Levi doesn't want to dig here with people for a long time, only to be robbed of the fruits of victory by others, so the necessary vigilance is indispensable.
Finally, there is Ophine, mainly because Levi thinks that there may be something related to magic, so he takes her as insurance.
As for most of the rest, they were left on the warship, and Levi didn't want to be taken advantage of by some enemy fleet because he brought too many troops out, so that even if they dug up the treasure, they couldn't leave, and in the end they were cheaper than others!