Chapter 165 Breaking out of the Shell (two chapters in one)
At this time, on the "Shipwreck", in the captain's lounge, Captain Mara Nasr, dressed in a black robe, was not fiddling with his bottles and jars, but was discussing things with his first mate and the boatswain, which was rare.
The first mate was a one-eyed middle-aged man with a face full of flesh and a strong aura. It was obvious that he had the strength of at least a senior knight
. He just said, "Boss, why do you oppose the cooperation between Boss Bloody Hand and the Eagle Federation?" "I saw the fifty muskets they brought this time. They are well-made and powerful. They seem to be very sincere."
"Although this kind of musket does not pose any threat to us knights who have entered the extraordinary stage, but for the brothers under him, one more of this musket can greatly enhance the combat effectiveness."
"Yes, boss, talk to Boss Bloody Hand and give us a few more muskets for the 'Shipwreck'. The brothers under him have been complaining to me all day." The boatswain was a big man with a beard. At this time, he also echoed.
Mara raised his head and glanced at the two with a worried look on his face, and said, "We can cooperate with other pirates, but if we cooperate with the Eagle Federation, I'm afraid that if the Empire finds out, we will become a thorn in the Empire's side!"
"Besides, do you think the Eagle Federation is really here to help us? They just want to use us to further weaken the Imperial Navy."
The one-eyed first mate and the bearded boatswain were not stupid people. After hearing Mara's words, they immediately reacted and looked at each other.
"Hey, boss, how about you do some divination?" The one-eyed middle-aged man hesitated, as if he had thought of something, and said.
"I've already done some divination, and although the result is neither good nor bad, I always feel something is wrong, as if the divination is interfered with by something." Mara paced and explained.
"But... I plan to do some divination again now!" Mara's pale face froze.
This time, he planned to try the 'blood grass divination', which is a more advanced divination than the 'water grass divination'.
The 'blood grass divination' requires the fortuneteller's own blood to be mixed with the water grass to improve the accuracy of the divination.
However, this more advanced divination technique is rarely used by Mara because it damages the body.
But the wizard apprentice's keen perception seems to remind him that danger is approaching, especially since tonight, his eyelids have been twitching!
At the dock.
The attack on the Blood Sail Pirate flagship 'Blood Sail' has been launched, led by four naval officers with peak knight strength, followed by the navy's assault force, and the rear admiral and another master are responsible for the pressure.
Among them, the navy assault force left fifteen people, led by another naval officer, and seemed to be preparing to attack the 'Shipwreck' simultaneously.
"By the way, Leonard, when will the interference with divination within the scope of Merritt Island end?"
"My lord, it will last until dawn. If the divination is only performed at the level of wizard apprentices, I think no problems will be found." A naval colonel behind the major general said confidently.
Performing 'divination interference' is a routine operation for some special operations.
The rear admiral nodded, and then turned to the middle-aged man with a mustache in hunting clothes and said:
"Sir Theo, let's go and meet 'Blood Willy' and the messenger of the Eagle Federation."
"Of course, I also want to see the style of 'Blood Willy'." The head of the assessment team named Theo nodded with a smile and echoed.
"Huh!"
At this time, the rear admiral seemed to sense something and turned to look in the direction of Ryan.
At this time, Ryan, holding a two-handed weapon in each hand, whispered a spell.
"High temperature force field!"
As the low spell sounded, three seconds later, some changes appeared around Ryan's body.
Although Ryan's body is still very clear from an outsider's perspective, the temperature difference causes the change in air density, resulting in the refraction of light.
Simply put, if the enemy stabs Ryan's eyes with a sword, there may be a slight deviation, and it will stab Ryan's forehead or other nearby parts instead.
The next second, Ryan's body suddenly swelled up, and his muscles grew two full circles like air!
Fortunately, he changed into leather armor made of otter skin this time, which is much more flexible than metal plate armor, so it didn't burst all at once.
Ryan threw the glimmering giant sword in his hand at the stern of the three-masted sailing ship "Shipwreck" 20 to 30 meters away with the action of throwing a javelin!
"Swoosh!!!"
In an instant, the big sword was like a giant arrow, shooting straight at the stern at a super high speed, so fast that only a bright afterimage could be seen.
When the sound reached everyone's ears, the big sword had already nailed to the hull of the stern. After a "long journey" of dozens of meters, it still pierced the thick hull of the sailing ship by about half a meter, and revealed a shiny sword body of about one meter, which was buzzing and vibrating.
Ryan, who had activated the "Limit Breaking" and the extraordinary characteristic "Giant Strength Level 3", pushed hard and rushed from the dock to a small boat moored on the shore.
The next second, Ryan stepped on the deck of the boat, and the deck was instantly overwhelmed by the "creaking" sound.
It turned out that Ryan used the boat as a "transfer station". His kick was so powerful that the entire hull of the boat was pressed down by dozens of centimeters.
Then, he jumped into the air again like a big bird and flew to the stern of the three-masted sailing ship "Shipwreck".
At this moment, the beautiful female naval lieutenant Marika on the beach, her cherry mouth was wide open, enough to fit an apple, her beautiful eyes were wide open, and she couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.
It seemed that her face was forever fixed on this expression.
It was not until Ryan had already flown from the dock to the stern of the Shipwreck that she came to her senses and murmured, "If he has such strength, why doesn't he join the others? And what is he going to do?"
"The stern."
The red-haired girl Evelyn's beautiful eyes suddenly widened as she looked at Ryan's bird-like figure flying straight to the stern of the Shipwreck. However, her mind was quickly thinking about Ryan's intention in doing this.
The few moves just now have shown that Ryan is definitely a master who is not inferior to her.
But she still doesn't understand Ryan's intention of doing this!
Why not take the ordinary gangplank to enter the "Shipwreck"?
At this moment, the gangplank of the "Shipwreck" has not been removed and is still connected to the dock. With his strength, it should be easy to kill directly.
This guy ran to the stern
. Does it mean that he thinks there will be fewer people landing on the deck from the stern?
It seems that this is the only explanation!
The red-haired girl nodded and thought to herself.
And the naval officer standing next to the female major Marika, who has reached the peak knight, naturally looked at Ryan with surprise. An idea suddenly popped up in his mind.
It is this kid in front of him, who may give them an explosive scene.
In addition, he murmured slightly: "This is definitely not a formal knight who has just entered the extraordinary. Even the muscle changes of senior knights are not so exaggerated. Could it be that the other party is..."
The rear admiral and the middle-aged man of the assessment team who were farther away raised their eyebrows, and their eyes were obviously surprised.
"Are you going to attack the captain's room directly?"
"But the hull thickness of the three-masted sailing ship is more than 30 centimeters." The middle-aged man with a mustache seemed to see Ryan's purpose at a glance and whispered.
"It should be." The rear admiral nodded and agreed with the view of the middle-aged noble with a mustache.
Just as everyone on the shore was watching what Ryan would do next.
Ryan's feet landed during his descent and stood firmly on the glimmering giant sword inserted horizontally on the hull.
Due to his own weight and the impact of the high jump just now, the sword body, which was mixed with star iron and was extremely flexible, immediately bent about 30 degrees like a strong bow being stretched tight.
At this moment, Ryan took advantage of the situation and bent his knees, preparing to jump up.
Ryan's bent knees suddenly exerted force to straighten them, and with the upward elastic force of the sword body, Ryan, holding the heavy pig-headed hammer, suddenly jumped up more than four meters high.
"Power burst!"
At the same time, his already bulging muscles swelled again, and he swung his pig-head hammer heavily with both hands - 'indestructible force', rotating 360 degrees from bottom to top, and hammered hard at the heavy hull where the small round window was located with a rotating force.
Because there is the captain's lounge of the 'Shipwreck'!
"Rising Dragon Hammer!"
At this time, in the captain's lounge of the 'Shipwreck'.
Mara was biting his finger and pouring blood drop by drop on a slender water grass.
Suddenly, he seemed to vaguely see a black shadow flashing through the small window on the side of the ship in the captain's room.
Just as he was confused and looked at it intently.
Suddenly!
"Bang!"
In front of his table, the 30-centimeter-thick wooden hull exploded!
Countless tiny wooden spikes, under the action of a huge force, instantly splashed around!
The edges of these wood pieces of different sizes and shapes were extremely sharp, like bullets coming at high speed, rushing towards Mara and the other three in the room like a tidal wave!
If it was just the hull fragments, it would not be a big deal, because the three of them were all at the extraordinary level and would only suffer some superficial injuries at most.
But just as the three raised their hands to block the wood pieces from attacking their eyes, something that shocked Mara happened!
Through the gap between his fingers, he saw a huge heavy hammer shining with a black metallic luster, which was suddenly attacking his forehead from top to bottom along with the flying sawdust storm.
"Earth-splitting hammer!"
At this moment, the wizard apprentice instinct in Mara's body instantly overwhelmed the knight instinct. His first reaction was not to roll over to avoid it, but to immediately use his mental power to trigger the life-saving amulet on his chest.
This amulet is a one-time instant witchcraft prop, and Mara would never be willing to use it until the critical moment.
Just like the sudden sawdust storm just now, he was reluctant to use it.
"Ah!!!!"
With Mara's scream, the amulet on his chest suddenly burst, and at the same time, a water-blue film instantly wrapped Mara in it.
With this shield-like film protection, Mara was no longer panicked in the face of the heavy hammer, and his horrified face suddenly calmed down a lot.
"Sizzle!!!"
The dense black spikes on the tip of the black pig-head hammer hit the water-blue film heavily, and immediately made a huge dent in the film.
Then, in Mara's unbelievable eyes, the thickest and longest spike actually directly penetrated the "water film shield" that he relied on to save his life.
Although it only penetrated a little bit, the black spike pierced his forehead about two centimeters with some kind of violent shock force.
At this time, the light blue "water film shield" on Mara's body may have been penetrated at one point, causing the shield to burst completely like a bubble with a "pop"!
Ryan held the hammer with both hands and used the "earth-splitting hammer" to strike downward!
Mara's body stood still on the spot, his palms still kept the five fingers stretched out, blocking in front of his eyes, looking defensive, and his facial expression remained on "finally releasing the life-saving water film shield", with a relaxed expression of relief.
"Bang!!!"
Mara was stabbed in the forehead directly opposite the back of the head, but at this moment, it suddenly exploded.
Blood-red liquid and white brain matter splashed!
In an instant, the head was hollowed out!
Because the back of Mara's head had been blown away, but the front of the face was still intact.
This gave people an illusion that from the front, Mara's face still maintained a relieved expression, as if he was still alive.
The next second, his whole body twitched twice and fell heavily to the ground.
At this time, the first mate and the boatswain on the side had just put down their arms to block the flying wood chips.
So, the two of them looked at the scene in front of them in shock, their eyes bulged and their mouths opened.
The scene just now happened too fast, and they didn't have time to react at all. But when the exploding sawdust storm dissipated, they saw the scene that made them feel scared.
Their boss died just like that!
Their boss, who specialized in divination and water witchcraft and had superb self-protection ability, died just like that?
This immediately gave them an extremely absurd feeling, as if the boss Mara did nothing, just stood there and let the other party hammer him to death!
But obviously, this is impossible, even rabbits bite when they are anxious, let alone their boss!
Because last time, Ryan was in the "Triple State", a huge hammer with a 261% power increase hit almost broke Adams' black film shield at that time, so he chose such a fierce attack this time.
And this time, with the further improvement of Ryan's strength, with the dual blessing of 273% power increase and the hammer technique "Earth-breaking Hammer", he finally achieved a shield-breaking blow!
After killing the fortune teller Mara with a hammer, Ryan immediately cancelled the "Power Explosion" to avoid exhaustion, and only retained the "Breaking Limit" and the extraordinary characteristic "Giant Strength Level 3".
As a result, his entire body began to shrink rapidly.
Although Ryan's physique has improved a lot, as his breaking limit value increased, his explosive power in the triple superposition state of "Breaking Limit", the extraordinary characteristic "Giant Strength" plus 100% "Power Explosion" has also increased further.
Therefore, the burden on the body is still not small.
But compared to the previous "sequelae" like muscle tearing, it has obviously improved a lot.
However, in the eyes of others, after attacking and killing Mara, he seemed to be in a "weak" state after the outbreak of some secret technique.
This immediately made the two people in the captain's lounge react, and they shouted in shock and anger:
"He killed Boss Mara! Come!"
"You're dead! Come!"
In fact, they didn't need to shout. There was such a big commotion in the captain's lounge, and the Blood Sail Pirates who were on guard rushed in immediately.
However, when they saw the body of their boss with his head hollowed out, their expressions changed drastically.
"Kill him!!" The Blood Sail Pirates were "indignant".
In any case, Ryan was just one person, but they
had a whole ship of people! !
With the noisy shouts, many fearless Blood Sail Pirates immediately waved various weapons and rushed towards Ryan.
However, when they approached Ryan, they immediately felt a scorching heat coming towards them, as if they were sprayed by steam at 80 or 90 degrees.
Immediately, many Blood Sail Pirate minions who were not strong enough screamed and tried to push back quickly.
But they forgot that they were in the captain's lounge, a closed space that was not particularly spacious, but so many people poured in at once.
Although there was no trampling, they could not retreat!
"Ahh!!!"
So, the weak minions screamed and covered their faces.
Just a few seconds later, many people's skin had been burned by Ryan's "high temperature force field"!
From red to a little white, this is
a sign of being roasted!
A few minions scratched their faces too hard, and the epidermis of their faces was torn off, revealing the bloody subcutaneous tissue.
The bloodsail pirates around looked at this weird scene, and for a while they were a little afraid to move forward.
But soon, among the bloodsail pirates who kept pouring in, several raised brand new matchlock guns, and the matchlocks had been lit.
Ryan narrowed his eyes. Although he had the extraordinary characteristic "Iron Skin lv3" and was not afraid of such powerful projectile attacks, he didn't need to fight with the other party here.
I'd better follow the plan I made before! Ryan thought to himself.
The next second, Ryan used a heavy pig-head hammer to hit the floor hard, and directly smashed a big hole in the deck of the captain's room, and he immediately jumped to the next deck.
Compared with the hull, the thickness of this deck is much thinner, and it is much easier to break.
The blood-sail pirates were like a group of hyenas, led by the first mate with a face full of flesh and the boatswain with a beard, chasing Ryan down.
But when they just jumped down, some blood-sail pirates just went around from the outside to the next deck, and saw Ryan knocking on the deck again, and then quickly jumped into the hole on the deck and came to the bottom deck.
This made the first mate and the boatswain on the "Shipwreck" a little confused!
They really haven't seen an "assassin" who doesn't run away after the assassination, but continues to "go deep behind the enemy's back".
The other party's mysterious operation is completely incomprehensible!
At this moment, because Ryan penetrated the deck layer by layer, almost all the blood sail pirates on the entire "Shipwreck" were mobilized.
So, nearly two hundred blood sail pirates began to rush towards Ryan's current position.
This made the first mate with a face full of flesh and the bearded boatswain suddenly confident!
"You are a great knight, you are dead this time! One person can drown you with a pee!"
At the dock.
"What a trick, even if you can break the hull, you will inevitably face the siege of the blood sail pirates if you attack alone. It's really stupid!" The male naval officer standing next to the female major Marika shouted angrily after being surprised.
Long-term military experience makes male naval officers very particular about "keeping pace and close cooperation".
He hates this kind of "individual heroism" behavior!
In addition, as a peak knight, when he first saw Ryan smash the heavy hull of the "Shipwreck" with a hammer and entered the captain's lounge, he was first surprised by Ryan's strength, but then he frowned!
Because no matter how strong your personal strength is, there is always a limit to human power.
It is not a wise move for one person to face the siege of more than ten or even dozens of Blood Sail Pirates.
But due to his duty, this naval officer at the peak knight level immediately tiptoed and quickly chased towards the big hole in the "Shipwreck".
It is estimated that it is too late, but try to collect the other party's whole body! He thought so.
At this time, the beautiful female naval lieutenant Marika finally came back to her senses from the shock of Ryan piercing the heavy hull!
She closed her cherry mouth and followed the naval officer and hurriedly chased after him.
Because she was also one of the recorders of this canonization assessment, she naturally had to follow closely, otherwise, how could she record the first-hand situation.
Behind her, two naval officers and a member of the assessment team in noble hunting clothes immediately followed.
The three of them were all breathing slowly and moving swiftly. There was no unnecessary dragging of hands and feet, and they all seemed to be masters at the peak knight level.
The hammer that Ryan used to break the hull of the "Shipwreck" naturally fell into the eyes of the rear admiral and the middle-aged noble man with a mustache on the beach.
But strangely, the two did not move at all, as if they were not worried about Ryan's safety at all.
The Rear Admiral watched Ryan rush into the captain's room. After several seconds, he turned around with a smile and asked the middle-aged man with a mustache beside him:
"Sir Theo, you have been in charge of so many canonization assessments. Have you ever seen such an interesting young man?"
The middle-aged man with a mustache also showed joy. After thinking for a while, he replied: "General Silva, it should be three years since I last saw such a motivated young man."
The person in charge of the canonization assessment named Theo used the word "motivated", which is very interesting.
Rear Admiral Silva naturally understood what the other party meant. He smiled and continued: "Yes! There are many young people with strength, but it is rare to find such a motivated one."
"Sir Theo, I may have to trouble you with something."
"Oh?" Theo raised his eyebrows and waited for Silva's next words with interest.
You know, it is difficult to earn the favor of Rear Admiral Silva, one of the representatives of the young and strong faction of the Imperial Navy.
(End of this chapter)
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