Chapter 106: Assault (I)
"Your Excellency, a giant sea serpent has been spotted. The captain, who had been waiting quietly at the magic compass, suddenly spoke, interrupting Rex and Juno's conversation.
"Sprinkle the fourteenth magic potion, drive away, don't do anything. Juno replied calmly. The giant sea snake is one level lower than the finless whale, but the attack is very strong, and it should not be dealt with in the first place unless the mission has been completed. There have been records of hunting ships being overturned by giant sea serpents, and on that occasion four mages died, along with a dozen swordsmen.
The magicians who participated in the hunt this time were of a higher level and could have done it, but now Juno's mind was not on hunting, but only ordered to drive away the sea snakes.
Encountering Warcraft at sea is different from land, and Warcraft in the sea will not attack if they are not hungry. Chance encounters, as long as there are means to target the surname, can be safely avoided. For example, the giant sea snake hates sweetness, and only needs to put a large amount of magic potions in the water that can release sweetness, and the giant sea snake will get away from it.
Similarly, depending on the surname of different magical beasts, the magic potions dropped can also be used to trap prey.
"My lord, it's a four-eyed sea serpent!" the captain's voice was a little hurried, and Juno heard this, raised his head and asked, "Really?"
"What is the Four-Eyed Sea Serpent?" Salin interjected when he saw that Juno had lost his composure.
"Let the Left Wing send a flying puppet to determine the target status. Juno was a little excited, and answered Sarin's question by the way, and said, "The four-eyed sea snake is an eighth-level demonic beast, and those who are active in the shallow sea are all underage. This thing is a hundred times more valuable than a finless whale. ”
"My lord, what about us?" the captain was thrilled when he saw Juno's intentions. The value of this four-eyed sea serpent was enough for him to never make a living from this adventure.
"Greet a few other ships and move closer to the left wing. ”
"Yes. The captain immediately opened the sound transmission magic array on the magic compass and contacted the other two ships. The ship in which Saleen was riding also began to turn and accelerate.
"Woo ......"
The horn sounded, Juno frowned, and said, "Several, if you are in trouble, go up there with me, and leave it to the captain to command." ”
Salin didn't know what the trouble was, and listening to Juno's tone, he was afraid that it would be dangerous. Several people followed Juno to the third floor, Juno's room was almost as big as the cabin where the magic compass was placed below, the front of the room was a huge crystal porthole, and the magic array was arranged at the back, and the two sixth-level magicians stared at the magic image on the magic array, and when they saw Juno coming back, they said, "My lord, it's a humanoid kraken." ”
Juno turned around and said to the swordsmen who had followed Saleen and the others up, "Go to the deck and be careful when the Kraken boards the ship. All the Krakens that were killed, count you in two. ”
"Yes!" the six swordsmen pressed their swords and walked away.
Sarin didn't ask what the humanoid kraken was, he walked to the porthole and already saw the anomaly on the surface of the sea.
On the calm sea, four or five meters high waves suddenly appeared, and in the middle of the waves, there were cyan humanoid creatures, stepping on the waves and rushing towards the hunting boat. This monster really looks a little like a human, its head is about three meters tall, its forelimbs are slender, it has sharp claws, and its upper body is exposed to seawater, covered with blue scales.
Juno glanced at Naris and Sika who remained by Salin's side and didn't say anything. Saleen and Sandru had a dispute because of the warriors around him, and Juno had seen a lot of this. If it weren't for Rex's special status, he wouldn't have gone down to mediate.
There were more and more humanoid krakens, and it seemed that there were less than four hundred, and surrounded the hunting ship that Saleen was riding. The Siren's face is somewhat human-like, or more like a golden-eyed baboon with a long snout. After surrounding the hunting ship, the humanoid kraken let out a high-pitched chirp and pounced on the side of the ship.
Salin gasped for air, the lower half of the humanoid Kraken was not a fish tail, but an animal-like hind limb, and its sharp fingers and claws hooked onto the side of the ship, and they quickly climbed up to the deck. It was only a step or two to climb onto the deck.
The mage cabin was in front of the ship, facing the sea on one side and the door to the deck on the other. The Kraken climbed onto the deck, and the swordsmen in the mage's cabin immediately poured out, protecting the entrance.
The door to the cabin on the first floor was wide open, and dozens of battle golems rushed out, as well as the ship's sailors.
A row of portholes opened in a reading cabin at the stern to reveal the firing ports, and small alchemical crossbows were erected and began to shoot at the Kraken as it swooped down.
The mage cabin in front of it faced the direction of the sea, and more than a dozen fireballs flew out to attack the Kraken on the sea. The Kraken, who had reached the deck, fell on all fours and pounced on the sailors and swordsmen.
The battle had no rhythm to speak of, and instantly became fierce and bloody. The Kraken's nostrils twitched, sniffing the scent of its prey, ignoring the battle golems and attacking swordsmen and sailors. Their long fingers and claws are the deadliest weapons of all. The swordsman's leather armor was a wound.
The swordsman on the ship used a straight knife with a wide head, which was good for stabbing and not good for stabbing. The sailors used spearguns with barbs on the tips of the guns, and three or five sailors, under the cover of the battle puppets, pierced the body of a kraken at the same time with several guns, and did not pull them out, and let go of their hands and returned to the cabin to retrieve their weapons again.
One of the swordsmen was unsteady on his feet, stepped on the kraken's hooked intestines, and fell to the deck, and immediately two krakens pounced, one of them pulling the swordsman's leg, and the other opened his bloody mouth and bit off the swordsman's neck.
There were casualties, and the two sixth-level magicians couldn't sit still, and said to Juno, "My lord, let's go down." ”
"Don't worry, this Kraken is weird, don't have any traps. ”
"My lord, pirates don't have this ability, and they don't dare to enter this sea. ”
"You wait outside first, and if the Kraken is half dead and doesn't retreat, you can do it again. There are more than a dozen mages below, and it will be fine for the time being. Juno calmly watched the battle on deck. There are no islands around here, how can there be so many krakens? If you want to say that this thing was raised by pirates, you can't believe it if you kill him.
The pirates within a thousand miles have long been wiped out, and even the Yunliu fleet will not come here.
The magic array on the foredeck lit up, and the lower limbs of the battle golem were tightly fixed to the deck, forming a circle, wielding the giant axe in their hands. The swordsmen began to hide behind the battle golems, and the sailors in the cabin changed to steel crossbows, no longer fighting the Kraken.
The battle puppets in Alchemy City are obviously not as good as those made by Rex, these battle puppets are huge, clumsy, and easily destroyed by various human weapons on the battlefield, but they are the best thing to deal with Warcraft.
The swordsmen held steady formation, dragging the Kraken on the deck, and the door of the mage's cabin was tightly sealed, and a bowl-sized opening in the door continued to spew magic outward.
There were fifteen foreign mages on this boat, three accompanied Juno to watch the excitement, and there were twelve below, and four of these twelve mages were third-level mages, and the rest were fourth-level.
Despite the fact that Andrew and Gorgen had participated in the hunt, the mages quickly found the right magic to deal with the Kraken.
Ice Archery - Level 2 water magic, with more penetrating power than ice picks, and has a long-term freeze and sluggishness effect.
The scale armor on the kraken's body is not afraid of fire, and although the fireball technique consumes little mental power, after hitting the kraken, it can only explode a small wound. Ice archery is different, even if it is just a small cut on the kraken, it can reduce the speed of the kraken by half. The Kraken's speed slows down, and even the battle golems can easily deal with it.
Poof...... A kraken who was scratched by an ice arrow was struck by the giant axe of the battle puppet, and the axe of more than two hundred catties split the door of the kraken's head, and the brown brains splashed, several krakens tried to attack the mage cabin, but the door of the mage cabin was steel, and the kraken's claws cut deep marks on it, and they couldn't break through the door, but they were killed by the ice picks cast by the mage at close range.
Saleen carefully estimated that the combat effectiveness of these krakens was uneven, and the stronger ones were already able to deal with two human swordsmen at once, and the ordinary ones were not as good as those sailors with spearguns. The sailors were obviously very familiar with the Kraken, and they didn't want to provoke the powerful Kraken, three or five sailors together, some holding rattan cards, some holding spearguns, but there were no casualties.
These Krakens look like people, but they don't have much intelligence. Saleen estimated that he would be able to wipe out all the Krakens on the deck with a single second-level icicle. However, I am afraid that my own attack will destroy the deck. In the same way, Juno's casually unleashed level 7 magic could also kill squirrels of Kraken, but there was no guarantee that the ship would not be destroyed.
If an ordinary fishing boat encountered this kind of magical beast, it would have been finished long ago, the number of mages and warriors on the hunting ship in Alchemy City was too large, the open space on the deck was not large, a circle of battle puppets protected the swordsman, and the kraken had no room to rotate.
There were suddenly more than a dozen small boats on the sea in the distance, but it was the ironclad that followed behind that received the alarm and sent them to support. The cabins of these dinghies were enclosed, with only four sailors roaming inside. On the deck of the dinghy is a fixed puppet that shoots at the Kraken on the surface of the sea with an alchemy crossbow.
This small boat is less than ten meters long, and if you don't follow the big ship, you won't have much survivability at sea, and now it's very useful. Under the puppet's fang, the alchemy crossbow had six huge arrows in a row, easily penetrating the kraken's body, and patches of purple red in the sea.
The Kraken spotted these deadly dinghys and tried to surround them and attack. The speed of the dinghy is extremely fast, only on the periphery, and not close. The Kraken caught up, and the dinghy dodged far away. In a minute, these boats shot hundreds of krakens.
I don't know if the arrows on the dinghy were finished, or if the magic core was almost depleted, but after a brief attack, the dinghy left the hunting ship of Salen and headed back. The magic array on this small boat is completely embedded, and the magic core needs to be replaced on a large ship, and the magic array is more complicated to use at sea, and the elements are not as stable as land, and once the magic core is consumed, it needs to be re-embedded on a large ship.
By the time the second group arrived, the Krakens had already dispersed, and the remaining Krakens on board were killed under siege by the magicians. Salin breathed a sigh of relief, the Kraken was a monster after all, and if he couldn't beat it, he would run. He'd been counting the twelve mage's magic strings on the front deck. If the Kraken doesn't go, these magicians will quickly lose their combat effectiveness and will take at least three hours to recover.
(To be continued)