Chapter 151: Fifteen Days at Sea (26)
Near the Nagfar's energy furnace, Hablon put his hands on the mana pipes to deliver energy.
Similar operations were performed every half day for an hour at a time, which became a habit over the course of four days.
In the long run, Hablon actually felt that the magic in his body was still a lot purer, and it could be regarded as a blessing in disguise.
Compared to him, Victor was much more embarrassed. Although the body of this Haimeng City Lord was as terrifying as a dragon, the most unbearable thing for him during this time was the spiritual emptiness and loneliness, as well as the constant torture of the loss of his son. He had stopped tossing and turning a day earlier, and had just sat down in despair, and had stopped cursing, looking sluggish.
But Hablon knew very well that this guy was silently gathering strength, so he chose to communicate with him.
……
"Victor, do you want to avenge your son?"
Hablon?
He froze for a moment, then stood up and looked around, but saw nothing but the constant chaos.
"Listen Viktor, we're not enemies, I was just forced to do this, I hope you forgive me."
Heh, forgive? Victor smiled sarcastically.
"I know you're resenting me, and I didn't mean to clear my name. Listen, we've all lost what we hold dear most, Breu is to you what this ship is to me, we all want revenge, right? I have a way to make it happen, but need your help.
"You don't need to reply to me, your voice will fluctuate when it comes back, and I'm afraid the kid will find out, so you just have to listen. If you hear that, take a step forward with your left foot. ”
Victor thought about it and did so.
"Good."
Hablon breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "I have already taken control of half of the ship, and now I am trying to find a way to get the other half. The kid had tampered with the control room's magic pattern with Ash's help, but he didn't know that my blood had melted into the barrier there, and that he couldn't change it. It was with the connection between these blood and the lines that I modified the magic pattern back little by little, and in half a day at most, I would be able to recapture the Nagfar without being discovered by him. ”
After a pause, she continued: "What you have to do is very simple, just add chaos and provide me with enough time. Listen to me, I guess the reason he stopped at Vadan was to arrange for his friend to disembark safely, and he was assigned by Andrew's fellow, and he would do it. At that time, the barrier on the ship will open, and I will let you out while there is chaos, and you can only catch the blonde woman in his team, and it will be enough to delay time.
"If you accept my plan, take the right foot."
Victor did so, and not only that, but he clenched his fists and moved his shoulders, making a crisp click from his joints.
"Very well, just be patient now."
With that, Hablon continued to focus on the energy furnace in front of him.
It was from here that his perception emanated down the pipe, all the way to the barrier in the control room. Under the cover of magic, he believes that he will not be discovered by anyone.
Wait patiently, and soon it's time for you to die, boy.
……
Outside the city of Vadan, there was a crowd of people, and Andrew moved out of the city with more than forty huge lights in one go, making the outside of the city as bright as day.
The aroma of barbecue and the boiling voices are intertwined, and it looks like a festival.
Mowgli stood on a high platform and looked into the distance. Bane told him that it wouldn't be long before a huge ship would come from the River Styx, with a hideous face at the front of it, a one-eyed hipsterman with a scythe on his back.
"Lord Bain, I see the ship!"
Noticing an ever-enlarged black dot at the intersection of sea and sky, Mowgli was about to jump up with excitement.
"Yes, I saw it too."
Bane reassured.
"But...... Why isn't there a bump angle as you said? ”
"Uh...... Possible...... Maybe they've changed their style this year. ”
Bane was also a little surprised when he saw the bare bow of the ship.
As time went on, the people of Vadan became more and more excited, and the drum band, which had been arranged in advance, began to play. The Raven Tamers, under Andrew's orders, commanded the Bloodbeaked Raven to take to the skies and unfurled a huge magic banner that read:
"A warm welcome to His Excellency Hablon and his [huge] crew"
Among them, the word "huge number" is particularly dazzling, and it can be seen from afar.
Fortunately, Hablon is still working near the energy furnace at this time, otherwise he is afraid that he will be disturbed by the magic of Qi.
Mu Yan saw the banner clearly from afar, and as an agreed matter before leaving, he extracted a large number of elements from the hull of the ship, and also gathered a line of words above his head in response.
"Thunder! Go home and collect your clothes! ”
Seeing this, Andrew also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. The two had made an agreement long before Mu Yan and the others set off for Peric City to board the ship, and Mu Yan predicted to him the possibility that he would be forced to do it early, and if that happened, Vadan's side would also receive the news. If all goes well, they will take control of the Nagfar before they reach Vadan, and he won't need to prepare his fighting power to deal with the Michaos, just provide assistance to help them escape north of the River Styx.
Mu Yan also said that if this situation occurs, it is recommended that the people of Wadan City should also evacuate quickly at that time, so as not to cause accidental injuries.
For his plan, Andrew almost raised his feet in favor, after all, providing combat effectiveness means casualties, and casualties mean compensation, and he least likes to hear the word "compensation" come out of other people's mouths.
But he also didn't agree with the second half of Mu Yan's sentence, after all, the Wadan people are the best at defending this kind of thing, and this city-state is simply synonymous with indestructibility. To this end, he deliberately hired a large number of wizards to prepare the strongest enchantment ever. After all, this is the most proud time in Vadan City in so many years, and the more people who can see Hablon's embarrassed appearance, the better.
Now Mu Yan's response also confirms the message sent back from Haimeng four days ago. It's also time for him to deliver on his promises.
Andrew summoned a raven tamer, whispered a few words, and told the wizards to stretch the barrier while ordering the guards to drive the slum crowds gathered around the exhaust vent back to the city. After all, these people have a lowly status, and it is too extravagant to protect them with an enchantment, but it is also a little distressing to let them die like this.
This scene happened to be seen by Mowgli, who looked at Bane with some bewilderment.
"Why were they kicked back, Grandpa Cook?"
Cook was his caregiver in the slums, and the old man refused to go into the city with Mowgli when he saw that he had a bright future, fearing that he would be looked down upon because of himself.
"Maybe it's for safety." Bane's face became solemn.
He looked at Mu Yan's words in response, as if he had realized something.
"Let's go back, Mowgli."
With that, he grabbed Mowgli and walked down the stairs without saying a word.
……
The big ship was getting closer and closer to the shore, and Mu Yan couldn't help frowning when he saw this black and oppressive crowd.
What does Andrew think about this?
At this moment, the sound of wings flapping was heard, and several blood-beaked ravens with banners tied to their claws flew back and forth around the Nagfar, getting closer and closer, and the purpose was self-evident.
Hablon happened to come out of the cabin, and when he saw this line, his face quickly darkened.
The old wizard gritted his teeth with hatred, and wanted to tear these ravens with his own hands, but he did not dare to act rashly.
Seeing Hablon appear, the cheers and drums on the shore became louder, all kinds of praise and blessings poured in like a tide, and the merchants' sharp mouths were comparable to the most powerful psychic magic at this moment, and Mu Yan seemed to be able to see that the air around Hablon was distorted.
The wrath of a legendary wizard is enough to make the surrounding elements boil, like now.
But there was no time to think about it, he condensed the fire elemental and burned the banner to ashes, freeing the blood-beaked ravens from their burden.
After eating the golden apple, the "sincere heart" given to him by the system has never come in handy, and now it is finally time to play a role. This innate affinity, as well as the necromancer's skill at communicating souls, makes him good enough to communicate with the Bloodbeaked Raven.
Four ravens lined up and swept overhead, and at the same time, the thousands of wood chips on the deck were lifted one by one to form a staircase, and the long-necked dragon that was prostrate on the ground suddenly raised its head and sent several people above its head into the air.
Just when Hablon realized what Mu Yan was going to do, the four ravens flashed by, and the person who was sent into the air sat on the broad crow's back in the blink of an eye, grabbed the feathers, and gradually moved away under the fierce wind over the River Styx.
Now there are only four people left on the boat, three men and one woman, counting the Hosdi hidden in the crowd on the shore, the stage of this big drama seems a little empty, sorry for so many spectators.
With a loud bang, Victor sprang out from under the cabin, his ascent unabated, chasing the ravens in the air like cannonballs.
"Do you think I don't know what you're doing behind your back?"
Mu Yan laughed, and two streamers suddenly flew out of the raven, specifically from Glazer's side. The Flame Strike and the Lava Staff shone brightly in the air, like a small artificial sun, and like a meteor streaked across the sky, striking Victor with precision from left to right, who had no way of relying on his strength in the air, but could only curl up to block it.
"Boom—"
A brilliant firework exploded in mid-air, like a rain of fire, the firelight illuminated most of the night sky, and the dim souls falling from the sky in the background color became a foil.
The people of Vadan who were sitting on the shore suddenly boiled, clapping their hands desperately, eager to use their feet.
But Shaohua was short-lived after all, and even the energy that burst out of the two powerful weapons at the moment of destruction only lasted for a moment before it ended. As Victor's charred body slammed into the deck, smashing a large hole, Victor also launched a scramble for the ship.
If anyone stayed in the control room, they could see that a red dot suddenly appeared on the barrier, and then it spread violently in all directions, spreading along the crystal wall on the wall to the modified magic pattern.
The crystal wall lit up instantly, and the two colors of light, one gold and one red, flowed back and forth, and elemental sparks burst out from time to time on the lines, and it seemed that the competition was extremely fierce.
Mu Yan felt all this, but he didn't resist. He was not Hablon again, and he almost regarded the ship as part of his body. He hadn't touched those magic patterns since they had been modified, and now he didn't even have to worry about the battle for permission, in other words, what Hablon had put half of his mind on fighting was essentially "PVE", not "PVP".
What he was going to do now was something else.
While he still had control, he let all the decks of the ship fall off, like falling leaves, rising against the wind, diving straight underwater, swimming like a fish at the bottom of the boat, and reassembling into a cylinder.
Then he moved the energy stove to just above the cylinder.
With a muffled thud, the most energy-intensive, largest, and most valuable part of the Nagfar smashed through the bottom of the ship and rolled into the depths of the Styx with the help of a canister. Behind its ass was a long string of tiny magical pipes that glistened in the chaotic waters.
At this time, Hablon's "PVE" journey was also at the end, and he seemed to see the dawn of the successful strategy of this "magic pattern copy", and showed a hideous smile to Mu Yan.
Although he sensed Mu Yan's movements, he stubbornly thought that it was a trapped beast. Like those vanquished who are about to become captives in their final dying throes.
Facing his victory, Mu Yan couldn't help but have something to say.
"Your Excellency Hablon. You're as confident now as I was back then. Because of self-righteousness, he always thinks that he can dominate all this, and despite occasional setbacks, he stubbornly thinks that it is just a small problem and can be quickly adjusted. In fact, whether it is knowledge or strength, these things are like a layer of mist, blocking your vision and making you a little far away from the truth.
"Of course, no one is to blame. Because man is a pathetic subjective creature, especially when there is only "one person", there is no possibility of getting out of blind subjectivity in theory, so no matter what you do, you are always a blind man touching the elephant and not seeing the whole picture.
"We all have the courage not to hit the south wall and not look back, but we don't necessarily have this awareness. Because he is too confident, he refuses to take a step further even if the truth is in front of him, after all, admitting the truth means denying everything in his past. ”
He sighed and smiled, "But I've already denied it, and now it's your turn." ”
"Just say these nonsensical things, boy."
Hablon already took full control of the ship. He was controlling the energy furnace that had sunk to the bottom of the river to rise little by little, and the scattered deck also flew back like a homing milk swallow, and the moment the cylinder cracked, the river flooded into it and came into contact with the energy furnace.
"I have to admit that this time I have planted a big heel in your hands, so I allow you to choose your own death. I can even be generous enough to allow you to die with your companions. Don't worry, it's just a few ravens, I'll get you all together soon. ”
"Really?" Mu Yan smiled and asked rhetorically, "I heard that the reason why Victor became like this is because you failed to save Bru. So the question is, have you ever wondered why you couldn't save Bruux? ”
Hablon thought of the strangeness of the River Styx that day, and his expression suddenly froze.
"Isn't it your hands and feet?"
"No, no, no, you look up to me. From the beginning to the end, I was just acting in secret, and if it hadn't happened suddenly, how could I have come to the stage. In that case, I'll say a few more words.
"Your Excellency may not know that the Soul Snatcher has a rule that it is not allowed to speak in the River Styx, because the fluctuations of the soul will be detected by the scavengers, that is, Nioudra, so do you understand what I am going to do?"
After saying that, he looked at Hablon and found that the other party was still confused.
"You want to stall?" Hablon sneered, and the elemental like an arm's finger instantly wrapped Mu Yan, like a shackle.
You can't use this ship as a threat, the other party is like a weak baby.
"I didn't mean that." Mu Yan shook his head.
"Then let me ask you another question, have you noticed any difference in the magic or elements in the energy furnace in the past four days?
"Well, with your IQ, that's a bit of a tough question. The answer is no. The 'battery' on the ship, or the 'magic core', provides the surging element, and the magic pattern I have rewritten uses the 'dead element' that you have never seen or studied.
"Then a new question arises, what wonderful changes will happen to the rich souls in the River Styx, coupled with these two completely different elements, in the case of no one to control them?"
Mu Yan's question after question seemed to hit the depths of Hablon's heart, and an instinctive tremor and fear of the unknown arose.
He began to increase his mana output, trying to reel the energy furnace back into the cabin faster.
However, his magic power to increase the output instead broke the delicate balance between the three energies, and the energy furnace soaked in the river water began to escape.
At first it was just a faint popping sound in the water, with a bubble or two and sparks.
These bursts then ruptured the pipes and more energy escaped into the river. Xenomorph elements that collided with each other and then annihilated intertwined, and majestic souls were infused into the voids created after annihilation, quickly forming a vortex.
It's like the scene that happened on the martial arts arena of Morning Star on the day Surya was sent to Heru. But compared to that time, the current reaction site is in the water of the Styx River where the soul energy is liquefied, and it is ten thousand times stronger.
The turmoil began to be violent, and despite Hablon's best efforts to control it, he was powerless in the face of this force of nature.
"What did you do!!" He roared, refusing to leave the deck.
"Do you know what my teacher's name is Ash?"
"What?"
“Brun to ash!”
This sentence is like a signal, and everything that follows is an apt interpretation.
"Boom-"
There was a loud bang from the bottom of the River Styx, as if even the ground on both sides of the river was shaking a little.
A mushroom cloud of smoke and water splashed rose from the river, and the huge impact destroyed all the enchantments arranged by the Vadan people with the strength of the whole city, except for some people with their own mercenaries and guards, the others were shaken away by this force, and their bodies hit the towering walls of Vadan, turning into flesh in an instant.
And that's not all, the rising waters of the River Styx lifted its feet on the banks like enraged giants, and in an instant drowned a group of spectators, who were swept into the flood before they could even resist.
The few remaining decks of the Nagfar were blown into the air, and Mu Yan saw a figure rushing from the shore and rushing straight towards the terrified Mei Lulu. Seeing this, he was also a little unbearable, and threw out two "raincoats" made of dead elements, just wrapping the two of them inside.
Victor was so lucky, after he was injured in the explosion, he had been waiting for Hablon's order to turn the tables, and wanted to tear Mu Yan apart with his own hands, but he didn't expect to wait for this kind of explosion. Although he was moving around on the only plank, like a dexterous monkey, he still could not avoid being swallowed up by the flood.
The warrior with a body worthy of a dragon screamed in the River Styx for ten seconds before it completely melted.
Compared to Hablon, he was the best, although he was confused by the bombing and couldn't accept the reality of the shipwreck for a while, his survival instinct still made him float in the air, dodging the poisonous river back and forth, and then tilted all his anger on Mu Yan.
The latter felt as if he had been cooked by the elements, and Hablon was determined to kill him in the most brutal way possible, and the turbulent elements around him ate away at his flesh little by little, like a school of piranhas tearing flesh at each other.
Wake up, Lord Alduin.
Mu Yan shouted in his heart,
Hasn't this shrill alarm got you out of bed yet!
As if hearing his call, a roar from the sky shook everyone's hearts, like a knock on the soul.
At this moment, the fog in the sky was torn apart, and under the golden light, it seemed as if the separation between the worlds was torn.
No matter who they were, no matter what they were facing, the survivors on the shore all stood up and looked at the horizon......
The spell that Hablon was originally going to release on Mu Yan also collapsed because of this roar......
The crowd that flew away on the raven was also affected, and the raven, like a bird with folded wings, began to stagger in disobedience......
It is the fear of all intelligent beings, etched in the depths of the soul, pronounced by the Lokan as "the destroyer of the worlds" and the Heru as "the devourer of all things".
Burn to ash! = Burn to ashes! [The voice of Baron Gatun of the ashes in Hearthstone.] Although I would love to complain, it is often heard as burn to ass, burn to py