"Melee teams and others move forward to buy time for the gunners!" Captain Balorik shouted.
After the last battle with the shark monster, the gunners felt that they could fight the sea monster with the salvo of multiple cannons when they saw the huge sea monster again! So, under the command of Captain Balorik, when the sea monster climbed onto the deck, the melee team members and many sailors picked up various weapons and began to attack it, not expecting to cause much damage to it, but hoping to focus the sea monster's attention here.
However, facing the siege of the crowd, the Hundred-Eyed Starfish waved its giant tentacles casually, and four or five sailors were unable to dodge and were directly knocked seven or eight meters away!
It’s obvious that he won’t survive!
But the melee team members were not afraid! Under the leadership of the orc Otombo, they bravely attacked the Hundred-Eyed Starfish.
Unfortunately, the difference in strength was too great, and the results were few, only adding a few more bloodstains on the huge body of the Hundred-Eyed Sea Star! However, their bravery was not in vain, and bought time for the gunners in the rear. Dozens of elite gunners at the rear of the deck were slowly pushing out nearly ten cannons of the largest caliber and quickly loading them.
“Puff!”
A black beam of light shot out from Richard's fingertips and instantly pierced through the body of the Hundred-eyed Starfish!
However, the death ray is a strong single-target attack. For the huge body of the hundred-eyed sea star, the trauma is not enough to be fatal unless it hits its brain or other vital parts.
Under the siege of the crowd, the hundred-eyed starfish became more and more violent.
Just when everyone thought the situation was settled, suddenly!
Hundreds of black eyes on the Hundred-Eyed Starfish suddenly flashed, and the entire battle scene suddenly froze! All of a sudden, all the gunners, sailors, and melee team members on the deck within a few dozen meters of the Hundred-Eyed Starfish, including the orc first mate Otombo, all stood there in a daze.
The next second, a huge mental storm, centered on the Hundred-Eyed Starfish, raged in all directions! "Roar!!"
Along with this invisible mental storm, the crew members who were close to the Hundred-eyed Starfish now all had ferocious expressions, as if they were fighting with something for dominance of the body!
Both eyeballs rolled upwards, revealing their big whites. After a few seconds, the whole person, as if he had lost his soul, began to walk towards the huge, ferocious mouthparts of the hundred-eyed starfish.
Such a weird scene made people gasp! At this time, the only ones who could fully withstand the impact of the Hundred-Eyed Starfish's mental storm were Richard and Stephana.
As an official wizard, he possesses mental strength far beyond that of ordinary people, so it is not difficult for him to withstand the attack of this large-scale mental storm!
Captain Balorik seemed to be far enough away that he had not been controlled at this time. He just held his head, squatted on the ground and wailed. A group of elite gunners fell down in a mess.
There were ten 24-pound guns left behind, unmanned.
Captain Baloric's original plan of using artillery to defeat the sea monster was completely thwarted!!
When Richard and Stephanie saw this scene, they knew that they had to fight with all their strength. Facing this extraordinary marine creature, no matter how well-coordinated ordinary people were or how good their equipment was, if they made a mistake in dealing with one move, they would lose everything.
Ordinary people do have a chance to fight sea monsters, but the margin for error is too low.
A light green light flashed, and a huge vengeful abomination strode towards the Hundred-Eyed Starfish with big thuds. On the other side, the Blood-Bone Puppet moved even faster and attacked the Hundred-Eyed Starfish from the side.
However, the sailors who were under mind control suddenly changed their direction and surrounded the evil spirits, abominations and blood-bone puppets.
Richard immediately gave the order, only allowing the sailors to be kicked away, but not launching fatal attacks.
After all, these are the valuable crew members of the Princess, and they have experienced several battles, and those who survived are elites.
Richard couldn't help but frown as he watched the Hundred-Eyed Starfish shamelessly using the elite crew members on the Princess as a shield! If he didn't let the Wraiths and the Blood-Bone Puppet get close, it would be difficult for him and Stephanie's witchcraft attacks alone to cause enough damage to the huge Hundred-Eyed Starfish.
However, Richard soon had a sudden idea, and a good idea flashed through his mind. He asked the Abomination to turn around and go to the artillery position and directly pick up two 24-pound cannons.
For ordinary humans, it would take seven or eight strong men to lift a one-ton artillery piece. But for the vengeful abomination, it could just use its arms as thick as buckets to carry the heavy artillery barrel on its extremely thick shoulders.
The vengeful abomination weighing several tons now became the base of the two cannons.
Richard waved his hands, and the camouflage metal on his wrist guard suddenly flew out and landed on the shoulder of the Wraith Abomination, isolating the cannon and the head of the Wraith Abomination.
Avoid the roar of artillery from shocking the evil brain of the vengeful spirit.
At this time, several pairs of small hands on the back of the Wrathful Abomination began to load the shells. Richard snapped his fingers lightly, and the fuses of the two cannons were instantly ignited by flames.
“Hiss!”
The next second, the roar of the cannon sounded! After Richard's improvement, the power of the gunpowder was further improved. In addition, the most important thing was that the cannon fired not ordinary solid iron bullets, but chain bullets made of two iron bullets hinged together by iron chains.
Similar to a heavy boomerang, it can cause enough damage to giant creatures.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
The Hundred-eyed Starfish let out an angry roar, which clearly contained the kind of impotent rage that came from being severely injured. It had no other effect except giving everyone a headache!
However, the scene of the four-meter-tall, multi-ton-weight Wraith Abomination carrying two heavy cannons on its shoulders and bombarding the Hundred-Eyed Starfish shocked almost everyone on the ship, except Richard! Stephanie's eyes widened, and she was stunned! Stephanie admired Richard's wild ideas from the bottom of her heart!
Captain Balorik was also dumbfounded at this moment, staring at the scene in front of him, dumbfounded! He had never thought that summons could be used in this way!
He looked at the tall vengeful abomination, and then at the cannon. How did Lord Richard think of combining the abomination and the cannon together?
In fact, Richard's idea is not completely out of the blue, but is based on some reference.
If you think about it carefully, you will find that Richard is referring to the puppetry of the gray dwarves in the Underdark. Don't forget, Richard is a puppet master! When the gray dwarves make advanced puppets, such as the extremely tall combat puppets like the war colossus, some war colossi will have a magic crystal cannon installed on their backs.
The shape is similar to the current Wraith Abomination! Of course, the War Colossus is more exaggerated, reaching more than ten meters, while the Abomination is only more than four meters, nearly twice as long.
But at the same time, the opponent's magic crystal cannon is much more powerful than the cannon on the Princess' ship! After the abomination was fired, the several arms on the back of its hand were responsible for cleaning and reloading.
Judging from the overall fluency, it was actually faster than the five elite artillerymen.
But how could Richard let it do what it wanted? They had killed so many of his crew members, and now that they couldn't win, they wanted to just run away? It was not that easy! Just as the Hundred-Eyed Starfish was about to escape, the Wrathful Abomination fired the two heavy cannons on its shoulders, and then threw three iron chains directly at it!
The iron chain with an iron hook tightly wrapped around the huge body of the Hundred-eyed Starfish. In terms of strength, the difference between the Wrathful Spirit and the Hundred-eyed Starfish was not much, especially since the other party was currently seriously injured.
This instantly shattered the Baimu Sea Star's escape plan!
“Whoosh!”
At this time, the Blood-Bone Puppet attacked from the side at high speed. As soon as it got close to the Hundred-Eyed Sea Star, it released a bone blade storm, which immediately caused the Hundred-Eyed Sea Star's body, which had already been torn apart, to be severely damaged again, and blood splattered everywhere!
One tentacle was directly minced into meat paste by the high-speed cutting bone blade.
After a while, the hundred-eyed starfish cried out in pain, then fell to the ground and never moved again!
The entire deck of the Princess was filled with a strong smell of sea and blood!
At this time, a large number of melee team members and sailors who had escaped from the mental control of the Hundred-Eyed Starfish looked at each other in confusion.
They clearly remembered that they were fighting with the Hundred-eyed Starfish before, but they suddenly lost consciousness. When they woke up again, the Hundred-eyed Starfish had been successfully killed!
But this did not stop them from cheering loudly again!
“We won!!”
“.”
Captain Barrorick came to Richard and saluted respectfully, saying, "Sir Richard, you have saved the entire ship once again!"
"Oh, sir, regarding the hundred-eyed starfish, I once heard a wizard say that it seems that the brain inside the hundred-eyed starfish has a special effect of enhancing mental strength if taken directly!"
"Of course, I was just passing by and heard it from a distance. So, I'm not sure whether the so-called brain of the starfish needs to be prepared or eaten raw."
Richard raised his eyebrows. Captain Balorik's words made him quite interested.
At the same time, he asked Captain Balorik to recount the scene of his encounter with the wizard.
"Sir, that was my experience when I was young and joined the whaling team. At that time, I was working on a whaling ship. One day, a mysterious man came and asked the captain to rent the right to use the whaling ship for three months. His purpose was to look for starfish."
"But unfortunately, after three months of searching, we still failed to find the Hundred-Eyed Starfish. At that time, the wizard seemed to be very sorry for not being able to find the Hundred-Eyed Starfish. I also heard him sigh and mutter to himself."
Just as Captain Balorik was speaking, the blood-bone puppet came up to Richard with a ball of white jelly-like substance in its hand.
Huh! Richard couldn't help but look sideways.
Because this white jelly is obviously different from other parts of the starfish. If this is really the brain of the starfish, it would be really magical because the white jelly is emitting a faint fragrance.
Unlike other starfish parts, this one has a strong fishy smell!
Richard thought about this special substance that could possibly be eaten directly, then cut a piece and fed it to the seabirds circling in the sky.
After a seagull finished eating, its eyes suddenly became bright, and it even chirped a few times before continuing to hover over Richard's head. The meaning was self-evident: it wanted to eat more!
Since it was proven to be non-toxic, Richard boldly cut a small piece and put it into his mouth.
Suddenly, a very special feeling began to spread from Richard's mouth! Delicious!
A little sweet! An indescribable taste!
A few seconds later, a strange heat flow began to gather from the body to the spiritual sea! Richard clearly felt a slight improvement in his mental strength, but it was not enough to be displayed on the panel.
So Richard started swallowing them continuously.
After eating nearly half a fist-sized piece of white jelly, Richard felt very little of the strange fever when he took it again.
He knew that he had developed drug resistance to the brain of the starfish, and repeated use of the drug would have no effect.
At this time, Richard called up the inspiration panel and took a look: [Name]: Richard Clavier [Attributes]: Strength 12.1, Agility 13.3, Constitution 12.6, Spirit 74.5 (Atomization 69%)
The mental strength that had not been improved for a long time increased by about ten points, and the degree of atomization also increased from the original 62% to 69%. The effect was remarkable! Moreover, Richard could clearly feel that this growth would continue for a while. Although the overall increase was only about 1%, at Richard's current level, every 1% would take a lot of time.
Richard really didn't expect that after killing the hundred-eyed starfish, he would have this unexpected gain.
Sure enough, the vast ocean contains countless mysteries and is a real treasure trove! "Stephanie, want to try it?"
"Okay, master!" Stephanna, who had originally been extremely resistant to the white jelly taken out from the brain of the starfish, was very happy to see her master eating it.
The resistance in my heart has improved a lot.
In addition, this white jelly has no special smell but instead has a fresh fragrance, which is one of the reasons why Stephanie dared to try it.
Richard immediately gave the remaining half of the starfish's brain to Stephanie.
After Stephanie tried a small piece, her beautiful eyes suddenly gleamed with brilliance, and she couldn't help but praise: "Master, I didn't expect it to taste like this! It's as delicious as golden horned frog eggs!"
"And the effect is really good at improving mental strength!"
(End of this chapter)