Chapter 11: Sea Giant Invasion
Armed with iron anchors, they set off storms and waves and destroyed ships. Waving his hand, even the air currents can hurt the people around him.
- The Legend of the Sea Giant
Life in the city of Estes has not been peaceful, to be precise, since the appearance of the Moon Angel.
Gaillard is an isolated island that is constantly threatened by marine life. So, thousands of years ago, when the Night Elves first settled Gaillard, a sage, a powerful magician of the time, set up a vast barrier around Gaillard to protect his people and their descendants from the threat of life in the sea.
This barrier has sheltered this Cadore for thousands of years. With it, Kadore resisted many of the demonic beasts that ventured ashore.
Unfortunately, when Ouyang was summoned to Gaillard, the open spatial gate destroyed the barrier, and it has not been repaired to this day. It would not be easy to repair such a huge barrier, not to mention that there were no powerful enough mages in the current Cadore - the high-level mages were already the most powerful mages in Gayradri, and Elinee did not have the ability to arrange the enchantment. Now Kadore can only follow the records of the books, and little by little he is groping for the repair of the enchantment. Before the barrier was repaired, Gaillard was exposed to the claws of the Sea Beast.
During this time, the patrol sentinels became much more onerous, after all, the sea surrounded Gaillard and hid beneath it, and it was a threat to sea creatures. The Sea Giants tribe living near Gaillard is the biggest threat.
In the early morning of the nineteenth day of Ouyang's arrival, the faint eyebrow moon was still hanging in the sky, and the mist shrouded the island as always.
The difference is that the alarm sounded throughout the island. The enemy that has been on guard for a long time has finally come to the door, the sea giant.
Sea giants have always roamed Gaillard, and they have a special penchant for destruction, as well as a talent for destruction. Their attacks came suddenly and swiftly, breaking through the sentinel's lines and deep into the center of the island overnight.
Sea giants are an amphibious race, they are also known as "deep sea patrollers", sea giants like to roam the coast, hunting fish and beasts for food, although they spend most of their time in the sea, but occasionally prefer to go out on land to fight the autumn wind, or raid passing ships.
The sea giant does not have a stable residence, but lives a "safari" life, four meters tall, capable of capsizing, coupled with cunning by nature, with amphibious ability, it can run if it can't be beaten, which makes people tired to deal with. They look like sharks on their backs, and when they swim, they stick their dorsal fins out of the water, making people mistakenly think that sharks are approaching.
Sea Giants, a bandit style with a rogue style, have a high potential for guerrilla warfare.
For the first time in hundreds of years, the sea giants managed to break through the defenses of the Cadore outpost, and the invaders appeared excited, and after breaking through the Golden Beach outpost, they quickly dispersed into the forests along the coast.
Because of their seclusion, Cadore attaches great importance to the safety of the place where they live, and every resident of Estes City will have the responsibility of patrolling, whether it is a priest, a mage, a ranger, or a warrior, they will take on the task of sentry. Even as a civilian, Kadore has good archery skills and is more than capable of the role of sentry.
"These blue-skinned monsters must be kept out of the second line of defense! Estes can't withstand any fighting!" Sentinel General Therelanza gave the order to die.
Squads of sentries are ordered to disappear into the jungle in pursuit of the devastated enemy......
Ouyang joins the team led by Erlene, and the other three teammates are all familiar faces to him, Santis, Lacles, and Liya.
The one in charge of leading the way was the ranger who was most familiar with the forest, and Ouyang took this opportunity to ask her for advice.
The Ranger believes in Maekelly, the goddess of the forest, who has the heart of a ranger, can communicate with animals, can listen to the sounds of plants, and is good at tracking - rangers can always guess their whereabouts by the traces left by their enemies, and even "recreate the scene", tracking the intentions of others in the subtlety.
On the continent of Lothima, there is a widespread belief in gods, and each race will have a god they believe in, believing that the Father God or the Mother God created their entire race, is their creator and protector, and it is the gods who give them power, and the people who have this power are the earthly walkers of the gods and the spokesmen of the gods in the Lothema continent.
The Night Elves' belief in Elune, the god of the moon, is an example of this, and the priests of the other temples are the earthwalkers of the moon god, and the healing power that Santis wields is one of the god-given powers.
When the race is faced with great calamity or decline, the people will think that the gods are going to abandon them. At this time, God's earthly walkers will hold a ritual of praying to the gods in order to obtain God's protection again.
If the deity does not give up the protection of his people, he will give his will or have his messengers come down during the ceremony.
Similarly, the Night Elves' "Prayer Ceremony" is a manifestation of this ritual, and Ouyang, who descends during the ritual and makes a contractual connection with the priest, is the messenger of the Moon God, and in the will of the gods he will lead the Night Elves to glory.
Of course, Ouyang was an "impostor" messenger, and he hadn't heard any will from the moon god at all, so he came to Kadore's tribe in a daze.
But in the eyes of Kadore, or the priest of the temple, as long as the contract between Ouyang and the priest Santis existed, then he was the messenger chosen by the moon god, and he did not hear the divine decree, and that was because the lunar god thought that he was too weak to carry out the divine decree. (The high priest questioned Ouyang before, not because he was the identity of the Moon God Emissary, but because he was worried that the Emissary would be defiled by the Queen of the Spider, but the appearance of the "Moon Eye" proved that Ouyang was pure.) )
This belief is called the belief of the tribal gods.
Another type of belief is the belief in ability, and the various functionaries on the continent of Lothmar believe that every power in the world is given by a god, and each power represents a god.
For example, the forest god Mekairi believed in by the rangers, the elemental god believed in by various magicians, and so on.
Reya, who worships the moon goddess Elune as her mother goddess, is using the power she has gained from the forest goddess Mekelly to search for the enemy's whereabouts in the surrounding tracks, tracking down the five sea giants who have separated from the main army and attacked the second outpost.
"The five sea giants acted separately, two of them pursued from the middle lane, the other two were outflanked from both sides, and one slowly followed along the middle, which looked very calm from the traces. In addition to this, there are traces of snakes crawling on the ground, which should be a deep-sea crawler. ”
The ranger carefully searched for traces on the ground, and from time to time looked up at the surrounding trees, pointing them out to Ouyang one by one, and explaining how to produce these tracks, so as to deduce the whereabouts of the enemy.
Liya's tracking ability lived up to Ouyang's expectations, and they soon encountered the enemy......
"Dead open!"
Ouyang kicked the blue-skinned monster with a broken waist away, shook the blue blood on the axe, and looked around.
I heard that the sea giant seems to have something to do with the giant, with a height of four meters like a pile of meat, ringed eyes and leopard teeth, and a high raised dorsal fin on his back, living a standing shark!
"Phew, the shark praised you, catfish!" Ouyang's feet rubbed on the ground, rubbing the slime from his leather boots into the thick layer of dead leaves.
Not only are the sea giants tall, but they are also very strong, and the pile of flesh holds the skin tightly like a fat catfish, and even the skin is like that of a catfish, covered with thin scales and slippery slime. It's not just visual, it's even more disgusting that it can make the weapon that hits it slide away!
Ouyang relied on superhuman brute strength to cut a big gap in the sea giant's waist, but his comrades-in-arms did not have such strength, and they all fell into a bitter battle.
Lacles, who is tall and has a high nose, has changed her noble and cold appearance when she first met, and the clothes on her upper body are off and hung on her belt, and her tall waist and towering mountains are particularly attractive, but at this moment her skin is even more eye-catching. The lilac skin was branded with runes, and the runes were green with wisps, like burning flames, which made the beauty of this big beauty stained with evil!
What kind of ability is this?!Watching Lacles swing his blade to fight a sea giant, leaving wounds burning with green flames on his enemy's body, Ouyang couldn't help but feel agitated.
He hurriedly opened his eyes and put aside his yearning for this power, the green flame was mysterious no matter how he looked at it, and he felt repulsed.
Ranger Riya leaps next to another sea giant with her Nightblade Leopard, her dagger and tusks trying to pierce the skin of her foes again and again, but to little avail.
Ouyang remembered that Liya used a bow, why did she switch to melee with a knife?
He quickly found the answer, the sea giant had a broken arrow stuck in his chest, and this arrow was the only one stuck in the sea giant's body, but it didn't go deep - the elves' arrows all had rulers on them. It's impossible for a trained ranger to shoot just one arrow in this time, and obviously arrows won't be very effective against such a disgusting enemy!
Why don't you shoot your eyes?" Ouyang wondered in his heart.
Unbeknownst to him, the cunning sea giant covered his eyes as soon as he faced the elven bow and arrow—the sea giant had a thick layer of skin on the back of his hand, and then smashed it everywhere with the surprisingly hard black coral in his hand. After witnessing the sea giant smash a tree, Liya, who was considerate of her comrades, gave up her bow and arrow, and instead entangled the sea giant with her beast companion to prevent him from disturbing others, or to lure him away so that she could use her bow and arrow.
"Liya, back off, with a bow!" Ouyang shouted at Liya, and after the other party retreated, the sharp axe in his hand flung at the sea giant's big belly.
The sheer force caused the double-edged axe to cut through the barrier of the skin and sink deep into the flesh. The attack caused the sea giant to roar in pain. Ouyang had bought enough time for Liya, and there were other preparations, and the spider silk wrapped around the handle of the axe pulled the sharp axe from between the sea giant's hands, and cut a wound on the finger.
Enough time!The swollen bow and strings contracted instantly, sending an arrow into one of the sea giant's eyes, deep enough to cut a hole in the uncomplicated structure of the brain.
The sea giant fell, and Liya relieved the fat on Ouyang's face with a grateful smile.
After leveling the two enemies, when Ouyang was enthusiastically preparing to fly axes to help others, the two Kadolei he was most familiar with had already put the enemies to the ground.
Ellene is silent with her eyes closed, a small ritual that every elven mage performs after using the power of magic to destroy their enemies, to show gratitude to the elementals, and to soothe the elementals' mania after taking their lives. She didn't mean to come to her sister's aid, though she was able to use her magic to eliminate a sea giant, just like the one she had just fought against, the high-level magic "Flame Wheel Saw" could ignore the sea giant's skin defenses and cut a large scorched black into his chest.