As the ship symbolizing the Dennis family, Maifan and his deputy are both professional knights, and the family will arrange a team of knights to escort them every time they travel.
Just like this time, the number of professional knights on the ship reached more than a dozen, including bronze and silver levels.
As for the Fleming family of Screaming Island, the overlord of this sea area, they are indeed powerful, but their targets are all passing merchant ships. After intercepting them, they only ask for some escort fees, so they are actually not that dangerous.
Over the years, the Fleming family has intercepted the Dennis only a handful of times, not to mention that this time the ship was flying not only the flag of the Dennis family, but also the golden mountain flag of the Wushan family.
The Earl of the kingdom would not be so far as to deny face to the Marquis of the kingdom.
So, when Captain Wheat Bran saw a ship coming, the first thing he worried about was whether there would be a collision at sea, and only then did he worry about other things.
Luo Ning was awakened by the crew's notification and also came to the deck, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance.
With his eyesight, he still couldn't see the detailed appearance of the other ship.
"No telescope here?"
Roning took a quick look and found that neither Reese, Captain Bran, nor the lookout standing high up had a telescope in their hands.
Even the Dennis family, who owned the port, didn't have this thing. Apparently the telescope had not yet been invented.
He secretly kept this matter in mind. After all, as long as one has received nine years of compulsory education, one knows the principles of the telescope.
All Roning had to do was find a crystal craftsman and ask him to polish the appropriate concave and convex mirrors, and the production of the telescope would be about 80% complete.
Compared with blast furnace iron smelting, ceramics and looms, the difficulty of making telescopes can be said to be very low.
"They are not ships from Screaming Island!"
At this time, the distance between the two sides was shortened to several hundred meters, and the lookout with excellent eyesight could already see the other side's hull clearly.
There was no coat of arms of the Fleming family, Earl of Screaming Island, on their hulls, and the large white flags hoisted on the ships were not the blue flags of the Fleming family.
Merchant ship?
Or a pirate?
Roning squinted and looked over. His eyesight was better than the lookout's. He could clearly see that there was a white skull flag hanging on the sailboat opposite.
"It's pirates!" Roning immediately reminded.
Reese also saw it clearly, and immediately drew the long sword from his waist and shouted loudly: "Everyone, be alert!"
Following his shout, all the knights on the ship responded, holding their shields, drawing their swords, and taking alert postures.
Behind Ronin, Tom and David, who barely walked out of the room, also made the same move. But this was not their battlefield, and being able to exert half of their strength was probably already very good.
At this moment, the three ships on the opposite side changed their formation: Roning looked forward and saw that the three sailboats had changed their formation: the two ships on the left and right separated to both sides, while the one in the middle maintained its speed and drove straight over. The three ships seemed to be in a double-teaming posture.
The key is that they can take advantage of the wind and are faster than Dennis III.
"Damn it, quick, turn the rudder to starboard, and side sail!"
Captain Bran exclaimed in surprise.
He was horrified to find that the ship in the middle showed no signs of slowing down or turning, and seemed to be heading straight for him.
"Lord Reese, they're going to hit us!"
Mai Fan ran over in horror. He had been sailing for decades and had never seen any pirate actively ramming another ship.
After all, a ship like this costs nearly ten thousand gold coins. Pirates make their living on ships and cherish them very much. It is impossible for them to do something that would hurt both sides.
Reese had sensed something was wrong.
Although Dennis III had turned in advance to dodge, the opponent seemed to have adjusted its direction and was approaching quickly with the advantage of the tailwind, making it almost difficult to dodge.
“Damn it!”
Reese cursed angrily and swung the knight sword in his hand with a powerful fighting spirit, but he failed to attack the enemy ship a hundred meters away.
Luo Ning did not expect this to happen.
The other party's actions did not seem like robbery, but more like directly sinking the ship with the purpose of killing people.
"Is it for me, or for Reese?"
Roning raised his hand and cast the Fire Blast Technique at an extremely fast speed. In an instant, the temperature around him soared.
Reese was shocked by this scene. Looking at the huge fireball with a diameter of six meters, this seems to be different from the Firestorm, right?
Moreover, in addition to being a silver knight, Ronin is also a high-level magician?
At this moment, the Fire Blast Technique was completely formed.
Luo Ning frowned.
Fire elements were relatively scarce on the sea surface, so the time it took to form magic was actually several seconds longer than usual, and it was still a little short of the maximum diameter of eight meters.
Fortunately, he used the Firestorm Magic instead of the Red Flame Snake Magic or even the Fire Dragon Devouring Magic, otherwise it would have been too late.
Boom! A huge fireball with a diameter of six meters flew through the air and directly hit the bow of the enemy ship, which was directly blown to pieces. The entire ship was also shaken, and its speed dropped sharply and it yawed to a certain extent.
“So strong…”
Reese's throat rolled. Although he did not admit that he lost to the opponent, the opponent's move made him intimidated.
After being affected by the fire storm, the two ships passed each other on the sea at an extremely dangerous distance of two or three meters. Everyone was frightened but also cheered.
But at this moment, a cold breath swept over.
"boom!"
Dennis III shook violently, and many people were not prepared and fell and rolled on the deck.
Roning suddenly turned his head to the right, and saw a huge ice spike that had pierced a big hole in the hull of Dennis III!
The opponent’s second ship was actually equipped with a magic cannon!
"It's a level 4 ice cone magic cannon!"
Reese shouted, "Intermediate level and above knights, quickly use fighting skills to resist the opponent's second machine!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
Before he finished his words, the sound of arrows breaking through the air whistled from the left, and suddenly a tragic wailing was heard from the deck.
Fortunately, the knights reacted quickly, but the ordinary crew members were hit directly by arrows, and some were even shot through the neck, bleeding profusely, and fell to the ground and died on the spot.
Whoosh! Whoosh! The sharp sounds of breaking through the air were like death warrants. After the initial panic, the people on the Dennis III quickly used the side of the ship as a cover to hide.
Being robbed at sea is not a big deal, at most you have to pay some money;
But if the other party is ready to fight for his life, that’s a different story.
"Tom, David, watch out for arrows."
While instructing his two followers, Roning summoned his fighting spirit armor and used the newly mastered Wall of Sighs.
The fire element is relatively rare at sea, but the wind element is not rare.
Just as he was casting the spell, the magic cannon on the enemy ship on the right fired a second huge ice cone.
"Fighting skills to resist!"
Knight Reis shouted and took the lead.
Bing Lu's fighting skills poured out, meeting the huge ice cone that was bombarding him. At the same time, several middle and high-level knights under his command also used fighting skills. Various kinds of fighting spirit gathered together and actually directly shattered the huge ice cone that was shooting towards them in the air.
They can still resist one or two level four magic cannons.
At this time, Ronin's Wall of Sighs had been completed.
Suddenly, a light wall of wind covered the entire bow. The arrows bombarded the magic shield like rain hitting a window, making crackling sounds, but not a single arrow came in.
"What kind of magic is this?" Reese asked subconsciously.
"Level 3 magic, wind wall."
Roning said casually, "Knight Reese, now is not the time to ask these questions, let's think about how to escape!"
With the Wall of Sighs in place, it seems the crisis has been temporarily resolved.
But the hull of Dennis III was damaged, which meant that the ship was about to sink. Without a ship in this vast ocean, their situation would be extremely dangerous. (End of this chapter)