General Copperfield praised, "Your Excellency has been very thoughtful, and yes, once you get to the magnitude of a three-masted galleon, speed will be the key.

You see the largest one, with heavy external suspension armor, plus a large number of defensive equipment, while giving him super defensive and offensive power, it will also make it extremely bulky, the sailing speed is definitely not too fast, it is easy to become a live target, and the probability of battle damage is too high, this alone excludes the possibility of being a flagship.

Do you look at the smallest one, and see the two minarets in front of you?

It's called a spell casting table, which can be used to protect those spellcasters from long-range attacks and concentrate on spellcasting, and it can also automatically add super magic expertise to the caster who casts spells inside, which is usually spell and far, and is used to increase the range of spells.

This shows that there are at least two transcendent spellcasters on this battleship, and they are the best offensive weapons, and there is no need for other additional weapons.

The turbine device that is half-hidden under the water is also used with the caster, and the magic power is injected into it, which can make it spin at high speed, so that the battleship can burst out with terrifying speed in an instant, whether it is escape or pursuit, it is very practical, it is said to have been invented by a pirate mage, and pirates like to equip this power device on their warships, so it is also called the pirate turbine.

These two alone make this battleship far more valuable than the other two, twice as much as the sum of their combined values, and the materials spent on manufacturing it alone cost 200,000 ......."

"Wait a minute, attack it first, capture it as much as you can." Gavin didn't hesitate.

This is a typical semi-magic ship, and although it does not have the pure magic power of a magic warship, it also makes itself and the caster fit to a super high level.

Such ships are not a matter of price, but on the market, there is no chance to see them at all, they are usually custom-made.

Although there is a real magic battleship at the bottom of the sea, the Overwatch, waiting for Gavin to salvage, it is not something that can be done in a while.

How can there be a close one, more tempting.

……

Three armed slave ships called the Petrified Lizard's Lair.

Although it was late at night, the lights were still bright, and the noise of drinking, the helpless and angry wails of slaves, and the slapping of sailors were all mixed together.

Sailors, slave traders, and pirates, if you take one of these three professions, they are all high-risk occupations, not to mention the mixing of several professions, which is even more high-risk among high-risk.

Many times, it is not the poor and vicious people who choose this profession, but this profession has created countless extremely vicious people, when you have been stumbling for a long time in this industry that does not treat people as people, and after surviving, you will soon no longer treat people as people, including yourself, but a beast in human skin.

And this team is not entirely human, it is mixed with a large number of humanoid intelligent creatures and dark species - goblins, gnolls, orcs, werewolves, and so on.

This situation is not only the case of the petrified lizard's human slave trafficking group, but also the other pirate groups, these chaotic and evil people are the typical strong and respected, they don't care about your origins, as long as you prove that you are strong enough to help the pirate group's raiding cause, you can join it.

Compared to humans, these humanoid intelligent creatures and dark species have innate abilities that give them a strong advantage in many ways.

For example, the person who stood guard on the mast was not a human, but a dragonborn.

It's not a special dragonborn with a two-stage transformation like Shanopa, but a dragonborn with relatively pure blood, and its appearance is seventy or eighty percent similar to the dragonized big kobold over there in Dwarf Statue City, or the dragonized big kobold evolved towards the dragonborn template.

This is a blue dragon dragonborn, which can be seen from the blue dragon scales on his body and the sharp horns on his forehead, his body is as tall and strong as a half-giant, at least two meters and three, and there is an indescribable arrogance in his expression.

He did not sit on a mast lookout, but on a mast, carrying a bottle of spirits and drinking to himself.

Dragons are solitary creatures, especially blue dragons, who like to live in large deserts far from most creatures, surrounded by sand dunes and loneliness.

Dragonborn will inherit the racial personality of the Mother Dragonborn to a great extent, and even more extremely, as Dragons can still find their own kind, but Dragonborn have a hard time.

Although this dragonborn joined the petrified lizard's human slave cartel, it didn't mean that he would be part of it, it was just a temporary job for him, because the clan needed to join it, and when he didn't need to, he would not hesitate to turn around and leave.

He looked coldly at the pirates below, who were recklessly squandering their lives, energy, and emotions, and he couldn't feel a trace of emotional warmth in his vertical pupils.

Although he didn't have the slightest affection for the group of slave traders below, he was still dutiful, standing up and turning around from time to time to observe the movement on the sea, which came from the blue dragon's orderly nature of pursuing perfection, or not doing it, or doing the best.

In this regard, the Dragonborn have an innate advantage.

They have inherited some of the dragon's powerful senses, and not only do they have amazing vision, but they also have dark, low-light vision, and can see from miles away, which can be magnified to the point of being subtle.

Ever since he joined the Petrified Lizard's Lair, the small fleet has never been attacked again.

It was precisely because of him that the sailors below were so relieved to carnival that even the lookout sentries on the other two ships were attracted and secretly put down their tasks and joined the ranks of drunken dreams and death.

For this irresponsible behavior, the Blue Dragon Dragonborn was full of anger and disdain, if they were their own subordinates, they would have been killed eight hundred times.

It's a pity that the Petrified Lizard Man is a slave cartel, not an army, and his harsh style from the army makes him capable but not popular, and although he has climbed to a high position, he has been overthrown by those who are better at indulging their subordinates.

He neither complained nor retaliated against this, because in this case, it was not because the enemy was too strong, but because he was not enough.

"Well, what's that?" The blue dragon dragonborn's eyes froze, and he immediately jumped up, and with a pair of huge dragon wings began to vibrate, the dark green emblem of the sea goddess Amberi on his chest lit up, and the magical power enveloping him suddenly subsided, allowing him to start flying smoothly.

He is not a believer in the Spicy Queen, this emblem is the key to the misty barrier that shrouds this battleship, and here is shrouded in the law of no-flying, without it, he would be like a weighing stone here, falling straight and straight on the deck, and his wings would be like decorations.

Although the misty barrier shrouded in this battleship is temporary, it is nine-ring, not only has the ability to prohibit flight, teleportation, but also has the ability to prohibit diving and swimming, regardless of whether it is a land creature or a sea creature, if you want to approach this battleship underwater, you will be unable to control a part of your body to the surface.

The kind of situation where a large number of sea creatures appeared around the warship and swam away in panic did not appear, and that unique sight usually appeared when the battleship was sailing at high speed, like in front of me, during the stationing period, after the misty barrier was in tune with the surrounding waters, those sea creatures would feel it and automatically avoid this area.

After the body of the blue dragon dragonborn was raised, the pair of vertical pupils began to open layer by layer, and the muscles of the face expanded outward, making his eyes nearly double the strange expansion, which looked extremely incongruous with the size of the entire face, with his monster body, there was no kawaii cute feeling, only deep fear.

This is not an ability that all Dragonborn have, but his personal Dragonborn bloodline ability, True Dragonvision.

At this moment, his visual abilities are completely comparable to a real dragon.

There was nothing on the surface of the sea, but the Blue Dragon Dragonborn always felt that there was something discordant, and involuntarily glanced at it again.

This time he finally found out the problem - the water ripples, strings of water ripples were rippling, and there was a rhythmic rattling sound.

The Blue Dragon Dragonborn, who had nearly ten years of experience in begging for life at sea, instantly recognized that it was the sound of paddling.

The Blue Dragon Dragonborn said in a loud voice without hesitation: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, enemy attack, there are a large number of stealth ships approaching, everyone is preparing for battle, breaking the hidden flares, three in the southwest direction, if you don't want to die, just move them all for me." ”

The voice of the Blue Dragon Dragonborn clearly contained magical power, and not only the people on the ship he was on heard it, but also the people on the other two ships heard it for the first time.

"It's the siren of that bastard Sadero, everyone prepare, hurry up and prepare."

"All men are in place, all sailors are on deck, all defensive weapons are guarded, and the deck is guarded to prevent the enemy from rushing to the board."

"Fool, fuck me off, when are you going to sleep? Wait until the enemy rushes in and cuts off your heads? ”

"What about Charlie? What about Charlie's idiot? Did you get yourself drunk again? If he hadn't been accurate with his ballista, I would have cut off that old bastard's head, whose ballista shot is okay? I've got one less ballista here......"

"Hiccup...... Belch...... Captain...... Captain...... What are you anxious about, I ...... I...... Isn't that coming? ”

"You can't stand still, can you still use a ballista?"

"With a ballista...... with hands, not with feet...... Hiccup, I promise, even with your feet...... I'm shooting better than them...... Besides, they're no better...... Hiccup, most of the ballistamen on our ship...... Hiccup, I've already drunk it...... Hahaha......"

"Bastard, you're too embarrassed to laugh, and you won't be able to laugh until the enemy rushes up...... Hurry up, hurry up and prepare the concealment flares, or it will be too late for the enemy to rush closer. ”

The slave traders in the petrified lizard's nest showed a super high military quality, and after hearing the siren, they grabbed their weapons and ran to their posts, even if many of them were already drunk, let alone running, even if they walked, they were crooked, and they looked like they would fall down at any time.

It is not discipline that binds them, but the peculiarities of the profession in which they are engaged, and if they fail, they have little chance of survival, and even if the enemies who attack them are willing to spare them, the freed slaves will eat them alive.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three alchemy bombs were shot hundreds of meters into the air by the ship's ballistae and exploded with a bang.

This is not an ordinary flare, but a Stealth flare created using the two-ring spell Flash Dust.

It is the latest magic merchandise of Serre's red-robed mages.

The price is very high, each of them is worth 1,000 gold coins, and just these three cannons have gone out for 3,000 gold coins.

But it's still hugely popular among pirates and is in short supply because it's worth the money.

The light they burst out was not comparable to illumination, at least three or four times as much, and the sea surface that seemed to be problematic was illuminated as bright as day, not only tearing through the darkness, but also illuminating the existence that was invisible.

The Blue Dragonborn was not mistaken, there were indeed a large number of stealth paddle clippers in the water, heading towards the petrified lizard's nest.

Even if they saw through the stealth, they didn't see what the enemy who attacked them was like.

Because the other party did not use a stealth spell, but was covered by a huge tarpaulin as black as ink, so, even if it was illuminated by the broken concealment flare, it was still looming, and it was very unreal, and at the bow of the ship, there were wall shields that were inlaid and intertwined, turning these clippers into out-and-out turtle ships.

These clippers were not specially built by Gavin, but were cobbled together from local materials.

The clippers came from the small dock attached to Ilip that had just secretly taken control, and it was not difficult for them to do this with a layout that was seriously disconnected from the city and the docks, especially with absolute force, the dozens of pirate soldiers stationed there did not even have a chance to pick up their weapons, and a small number of sentry posts were secretly touched, and most of them were killed on their beds by a five-ring death cloud technique.

To provide stealth for these clippers, it is the shadow spinning produced in the Shadow Weaver Textile Mill in the Misnoel Ghost Textile Factory, which is made of the Shadow Carriage tarpaulin - this is a new use developed after the number of shadow spinning has been greatly increased, as long as this tarpaulin is covered, ordinary carriages will also become ghost carriages, which can play a surprise tactical effect, but before they have time to shine on the battlefield, they are used by Gavin in naval battles.

If it weren't for the blue dragon dragonborn's conscientiousness and vigilance enough, they all touched the boat, and it is estimated that these slave traders who were immersed in the carnival would have found out.

The wall shield is from the side car board of the side car, directly dismantled, slightly modified, for those big goblin giants to use as a shield, four such large wooden shields, enough to protect the bow of the clipper tightly, can not see the actual situation inside.

"Full speed ahead."

After discovering that his whereabouts were exposed, Gavin, who was sitting on the clipper ship at the front, commanded loudly.

Previously, in order to act stealthily, they were not particularly fast rowing, at least half as fast as they would if they were trying their best.

With his order, the speed of dozens of clippers soared to the extreme, splitting into three, and rushing towards their respective goals.

"Ballista, what about ballistas? What are ballistae for? Hurry up and launch! Hurry up and launch! ”

"What about the mage? What about our mage? Why don't you cast spells now? ”

"It's too far, the other party hasn't entered the spell range yet."

"Launch! Launch! Hurry up and launch! ”

With a commotion, the ballistas and ballistas on the three-masted sailing ship began to operate one after another, shooting towards the rushing turtle-shaped clipper.

"Full speed ahead, leave them alone, they won't hurt us."

"Don't change direction, keep full speed."

In the face of this kind of ballista fire, under normal circumstances, even if the Clippers are not frightened and flee in embarrassment, they will dodge in a way that moves in a different way to reduce the possibility of being attacked.

As long as you know that these warships are all equipped with heavy ballistas, and all the arrows fired are special armor-piercing crossbow arrows, once hit, their cargo clippers, which are only six or seven meters long, will be directly pierced.

Realizing that the enemies on the fast ship did not do this, the slave traders who operated the ballista had a cruel and bloodthirsty smile on their faces.

"Haha, that's a bunch of idiots who don't have any experience in naval warfare, and the ballistas are ready to exchange shots, waiting to beat the water dogs."

"Mages prepare group attack lethal spells."

"Hit, haha...... Belch...... hit, hit such a stupid guy who doesn't know how to dodge, Lao Tzu...... Belch...... Even if you drink two more bottles of rum, it's a dozen. ”

"Impossible, impossible, absolutely impossible, I just shot it, why didn't it hurt?"

"Passing through, the crossbow arrows actually passed through, are we not dealing with ordinary enemies, but really a group of ghosts?"

The slave traders who were still high-five each other one second, and the next second they showed incredible expressions, and their crossbow arrows passed directly through the ships as if they had passed through the phantoms.

"Don't panic, it's a magic phantom, the one who follows behind is their real entity, don't worry about the front row, give priority to attacking the middle and back rows."

There were also those who knew the goods among the slave traders, and they could see the problem at a glance.

As soon as they heard that it was just magic, the slave traders calmed down a lot, and they quietly observed the situation on the sea, and sure enough, they found the problem.

The ships in front of them, although they looked extremely realistic, even the ripples of the oars were vivid, but there was one thing missing—the ripples of the oars spread to a certain extent and then suddenly disappeared, apparently reaching the range of the spell duration.

This is not a spell in the orthodox sense, but a new use of Regina's real apparition, which is used to confuse enemies and attract their firepower through the projection of spirit crystals.

If it is a simple projection, it is still relatively easy to distinguish, but on these clippers, when there is a phantom cloak, it is very easy to be fooled when caught off guard.

While these heavy ballistas were powerful, they also made them very bulky and relatively slow to reload, and with this delay, the clippers had already advanced dozens of meters towards them.

(End of chapter)