Chapter 020: The Black Tide is Coming

Chen Zhou's home is not far from the high cliff of Wanghai where the Seagull Pavilion is located, but this part of the road is still full of obstacles.

Faced with a large number of fish-man ghosts that appeared inexplicably, most of them stayed in the room decisively, leaving their lives and deaths to random fate.

Therefore, when the three of them went out in groups, they soon attracted several waves of ghosts.

Fortunately, the three people who hurried away were not ordinary people who were in a hurry, and the immortal aura and gaze emanating from the ghosts did not mean much to them.

Ice blades that have been oiled and strengthened into secondary magic weapons can easily slash incoming spirits, and alchemy bombs can blow up clusters of enemies within a few meters.

As for Natya, after the first few symbolic light crossbows that missed his grandmother's house failed, he had to reluctantly put away his weapons and start paddling.

After all, just following Chen Zhou's pace was already very difficult for the two.

In the process of hurrying, Chen Zhou found that his XP points had reached the upper limit due to the initial dozen or so ghosts.

It's just that after these XP were saved to 3000/3000, nothing happened unexpectedly, and there was no golden flash to upgrade in place.

Presumably, it's just a restriction that restricts the complexity of exchanging knowledge.

In order to avoid waste, he unlocked some knowledge he cared about every time he was on the verge of reaching the maximum XP, and deliberately saved some of it.

By the time this event was over, he would have enough knowledge to learn how to produce magical items.

At the very least, the life spells that are not very common to the caster's level, such as light spells and magic tricks, can be made into magic items and can be used, Chen Zhou thought, so that he can replace his own spells with more meaningful powerful spells......

"There seem to be a little less ghosts." Natya, who was relatively idle, said suddenly.

Ten minutes later, the three of them were halfway through the walk, and gradually realized that the frequency of attacks by the Kou Tao Fish-Man Ghost had decreased.

"It feels so quiet, and there are no Kou Tao fish-man ghosts on the streets, which is really different from my neighborhood."

Chen Zhou nodded, he was now basically sure that the three turtle grandsons had definitely taken care of themselves.

But......

He then looked up at the Adventurers' Guild standing on a cliff a kilometer away.

In the deep darkness of the night, a little bit of magical starlight and blue shadows kept flashing.

I'm afraid that those Kou Tao fish-man ghosts nearby have focused their attention on the Wanghai Cliff.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

Even his "good" neighbor, the 1-ring alchemist Kaji, can destroy a small piece of ghost with a bouncing bomb, and the president of the Seagull Pavilion, as the official caster of the 3-ring, can naturally kill it with his eyes closed.

"Then again, Kaji's bomb is very powerful, why did you need me to help you in the first place?"

Chen Zhou suddenly reacted, the ghosts he had solved at the beginning were by no means a problem for alchemists.

Hearing this, Kaji was inevitably a little embarrassed: "Then I have to get them together to solve it, otherwise I won't have any good ideas for the time being if they attack from all sides at the same time." ”

He couldn't have fought in his shop, even nine lives wouldn't be enough.

Chen Zhou subconsciously imagined the scene of dozens or hundreds of bombs exploding at the same time...... When you go home this time, you'll have to protect yourself with wild arcane before you go to bed!

After a while, the three of them finally arrived at the bottom of the Wanghai Cliff, and only then did they see the things that flickered in the sky above the guild—dozens of ghosts, which were the result of the guild members' efforts to reduce the number.

The guildmaster doesn't seem to be there?

Seeing this, the dwarf excitedly quickened his pace, the battle was not over yet, which meant that he still had a chance to sell the potion to the adventurers of the guild!

Natya, who was paddling silently, was three points slower, hoping that the battle would be over by the time he arrived.

And Chen Zhou further confirmed a detail after carefully observing the ghost ghosts of Kou Tao Fishman above the guild, combined with those ghosts he had encountered before.

"Natya, not all of the Kou Tao Fishmen are soldiers, there should still be a large number of old and weak women and children in their tribe?"

At least all the fish-man ghosts that Chen Zhou has encountered so far seem to be transformed from old and weak women and children who have no combat effectiveness.

"Of course."

The mage nodded, since this is the case, where in this world is there a race of all professionals?

Even if there were, it wouldn't be the Kou Tao Fishman, otherwise the coastal cities of the Human Kingdom would have been razed to the ground and become the ovaries that hatched that kind of human monster!

Chen Zhou thought for a moment, that is to say, the so-called "plot to slaughter the Koutao Fishman Tribe" by the three adventurers should refer to the slaughter of those non-combatants.

They had to take advantage of the absence of the Fishmen's combat power, or deliberately take away the Fishmen's army to do this.

So what will they do when the large army of the Kou Tao Fishmen returns to the tribe and find that the old and weak, women and children have been slaughtered, and the resentment has even caused the deceased to turn into ghosts and be bound into foreign objects......

There is no need to even deliberately investigate, when the three of them occupy a commanding height with a better field of view during the climbing of Wanghai Cliff-

I saw that in the coastal area of Fanhua Port, there were dense blue-black figures rushing to the land like a tide, sweeping everything on the shore at the same time, but also towards the deeper land!

The revenge of the Kou Tao Fish-Man tribe is coming!

"It's Kuroshio!"

Natya, who has lived in the port for a long time, immediately confirmed the situation: "Damn, isn't it enough to only have the ghost of the fishman, how could the Kou Tao fishman attack the port of flowers in this season!" ”

The so-called Kuroshio is a spectacular scene of more than a dozen Koutao fish-man tribes gathering forces and attacking the coastal area at the same time.

Every winter, when a blizzard is approaching, those human-like monsters that believe in evil gods will carry out the final raid at the end of the year.

Not just for food rations, but also for the captivity of the inhabitants who had fallen into a trough due to the winter and to sacrifice them alive.

"Winter? Aren't fishmen afraid of the cold? Chen Zhou felt that the end of autumn was a good time to plunder.

Natya shook her head and explained, "The sea cools down more slowly than the land, and while the civilians of the Flower Harbor are inconvenient to move due to the cold wind, the Kou Tao Fishman who has preserved his body temperature in the sea still maintains a relatively good combat strength. ”

When winter comes, the combat power of the fish-people can only be said to be acceptable, but the human side is terrible.

Every year, many people will be lost under the Black Tide.

At the moment, however, the Kuroshio Tide is coming early on a summer night.

The Blossom Harbor will not be captured in one fell swoop due to the rush, but the population of the coast will certainly not have time to move.

"But that's not right, is it?" Kaji looked at the line of soldiers on the shore in confusion, "The reason why the fish-people are plundering in winter is also because the two gods they believe in prefer winter sacrifices, why did they come this summer. ”

Summer sacrifices don't get full feedback, and the Koutao Fishmen will lose their lives and fish mouths in large-scale battles, which is completely an option that outweighs the cost.

Chen Zhou sighed helplessly, who would have thought that the cause of such an incident was actually because the three adventurers had failed to earn funeral expenses and pensions for the dead mage......

No, they're all so ruthless that they still care about their dead teammates?