"It's not good news that they only had three whales to intercept instead of the whole pod of whales rushing up." Jahab looked at the track in the distance and said to the summer night.

"Why?"

"For whales, witches are both hunters and prey, and cups full of magic are very tasty food for them. Therefore, although the lone whale encounters the whaling ship can only escape; But if it's a pod of whales, they usually rush up and compete to prey on us.

"But right now, they've only separated three whales to intercept us, which shows that they have a more urgent matter than hunting – and that could be running for their lives."

After Yaha finished explaining, he shouted into the microphone, "Second mate, report the speed and distance of those three whales." Also, have you found any traces of mothbeasts? ”

A few seconds later, Tang Li's voice came: "The absolute speed is 120 knots, the relative speed is 450 knots, the distance is 8 nautical miles, and it is rapidly approaching...... No mothbeasts have been found within 30 nautical miles. ”

"Strange."

Yahab frowned, if the moth beast was still far away, the whales obviously didn't need to be in such a hurry to escape, but if it was already close, where were they?

But the situation in front of her did not allow her to think too much, 8 nautical miles, which was already within the range of the whale's attack.

"Structural divisions 1 and 2 enter the state of synchronous reinforcement, maintain the time for 60 seconds, and after 60 seconds, structural divisions 3 and 4 will take over." Ahab gave the order.

Almost at the same time, Summer Night saw two witches walking to either side of the turret, unshaved and barefoot on the metal deck. The two folded their hands in front of their chests, and when they spoke, the metal on the entire boat also "buzzed" and trembled, and they "recited" the witch text simultaneously with the two witches:

“S-tr-t-C-n-f-t”

It means "structural strengthening".

In the next second, dozens of translucent silk threads appeared between the two witches, they were suspended in the air as if they had no weight, each of them was stretched into a full arc, and the first time Xia Ye saw them, he immediately remembered the magnetic field lines between the poles of the magnet in the original world.

However, magnetic field lines are just fictional things made up by human beings in order to facilitate the understanding of magnetic fields, and these silk lines in front of us really exist. Shortly after the two were connected by silk threads, more threads emerged from various locations on the whaling ship, cutting through long arcs and connecting to the two witches.

At this moment, the three whales that rushed towards them suddenly lit up with a dazzling golden light.

Immediately afterward, Xia Ye saw hundreds of golden beams of light, shooting into the sky at a near-vertical angle at the same time!

In the blink of an eye, the beams reached the top of the arc of the trajectory, where they stayed for less than a second, and then, like a falcon that has spotted its prey, swooped straight in the direction of the whaling ship.

"Whale Breath!"

The helmsman shouted, and subconsciously turned the rudder—

But as soon as Jahab reached out his hand, he firmly grasped the rudder:

"Wait."

She stared up at the sky until the beam had dropped nearly halfway from its highest position before she jerked the wheel:

"Right full rudder!!" She shouted orders.

The rudder spun rapidly in the helmsman's hand and was soon struck to the right to the bottom. The Moby Dick, which was moving at a speed of 330 knots, jerked to the right, pulling out an arc-shaped white track in the sea of golden clouds.

As the whaling ship changed direction, the beams in mid-air also changed direction, and straight trajectories began to arc, but their height was too low and their speed was too fast, and those on the opposite edge were doomed to miss the target.

A second later, the first beam landed more than ten meters outside the port side of the Moby Dick, piercing a large hole in the thick clouds.

Immediately afterward, more beams of light fell densely from the sky like a rain of golden arrows.

Yaha's command allowed the whaling ship to avoid most of the beams, but the rest still hit the hull in full rudder steering, and when the first beam landed on the foredeck, the light exploded with a loud "bang".

Despite the loud movement, the hull only shook slightly, and Summer Night looked at the location where it had been hit, and found that it was charred black, as if it had been struck by lightning, and there was a shallow pit in the flat deck, but that was all there was to it - the seemingly mighty golden beam failed to penetrate even the deck, let alone destroy the cabins below.

After that, the whaling ship was hit by more than a dozen beams in quick succession, but each one failed to cause too much damage. Summer Night suddenly realized that this was the effect of the "Structural Strengthening" contract, and that such a high-intensity strengthening could only be completed by simultaneous strengthening.

"Structural Enhancement" is the contract of the "Paimon" pillar system, and the highest rank is Tier 8.

From the instructions he received from Lukana before his departure, Summer Night knew that "Structural Enhancement" would increase an ability called "Synchronous Enhancement" from Tier 4 onwards. As long as the body of the deed person is in contact with any mechanical structure in the broad sense, the physical strength of the person and the machine can be greatly increased for a certain period of time through the use of "simultaneous strengthening", but at the same time, the damage suffered by either of the two will also be shared.

At the same time, if there are multiple deed holders of the same rank using "structural strengthening" at the same time, then the overall strength of the deed formed by them can be further improved, but this improvement will become less and less obvious as the number of people increases.

Witches who have signed a Tier 4 or higher "Structural Enhancement" contract are known as "Structural Masters" on whaling ships, and they are the key to ensuring that whaling ships are not easily destroyed by whales, and they are also one of the most important positions on whaling ships.

On an ordinary whaling ship, there are usually only two architects who rotate with each other, but the Moby Dick has five of them, so it can be very luxurious to adopt a 2+2 rotation method, that is, two architects are arranged to strengthen the hull at the same time in each round.

The effect was obvious, as the beam of light, known as "Whale's Breath" by the whales, failed to penetrate even the Möby Dick's armor, and the two structurists who "shared the damage" with the hull did not have any more serious injuries on their bodies, except for a few minor bruises on their waists and thighs.

…… As for why the bruises on the other party's waist could be seen on the summer night, it was because after more than ten whale breath attacks, the sailor suits on the two structural engineers were damaged to varying degrees.

Although fabric, as a textile structure, can also be strengthened to the ordinary extent of the structurer, because it is not a machine, it cannot obtain the special strengthening effect of "simultaneous strengthening", so the dress on their body is much more fragile than that of the structurer himself.

Rumble!!!

Another whale breath hit the foredeck, smashing right on the structural's standing to the right of the turret.