Chapter 454: Ship Damage and Temporary Plan

"Hum-thrum!"

Rich emerald light filled with life energy exploded in the air, causing the rain curtain shrouded around the figurehead to become chaotic in an instant.

Finally completing the final preparations before casting the spell, Haian suddenly turned her wrist and scattered the tiny seeds she had originally held in her palm.

The emerald light lingering around her body seemed to form a resonance with something invisible, and Xia Nan suddenly felt a sharp and melodious strange cry ringing in his ears.

The perception took effect, and he subconsciously looked toward the bow of the ship.

He saw that the siren figurehead, which had been bathed in the storm and icy rain from beginning to end, facing the ocean in an embracing posture with a blurred face, now had a faint but real blurred light on its body surface, causing the surrounding rain to distort.

It flickered and flashed, echoing with the emerald light on Haian's body.

Zi-la—

A subtle sound erupted from under his feet.

【Rapid-Growth Vine Shell】

A special second-ring spell from the Coral Circle, after a long period of preparation, finally exerted its effect at the most dangerous moment when the Oath-Breaker was facing the storm and the fish school.

The few seeds Haian scattered on the deck broke their shells and sprouted under the nourishment of life energy, turning into plants of the seaweed and water grass type.

Assisted by the ship spirit resonance, the dark green water grass was like some kind of fungus that was rapidly proliferating, its branches, leaves, and roots like limbs and tentacles groping toward the surroundings, expanding and extending along the texture between the ship boards.

In just a few seconds, it dyed the entire bow of the ship a lush green and spread rapidly toward the bottom of the ship, which was being fiercely bitten and attacked by the fish school.

Xia Nan didn't know how much effect this spell had specifically, nor did he know if it had completely wrapped the entire outer hull of the Oath-Breaker.

But what he could feel was.

About ten seconds after the spell took effect, under his perception, those hair-raising, sluggish sounds of sharp teeth piercing the ship boards coming from under the water surface suddenly became hard and crisp.

"Ding-ding-dang-dang," just like gnawing on some hard object.

The maintenance of this spell should require ensuring a focused state. After the spell was cast, the Druid Haian had no more big movements, just holding her staff and guarding the edge of the deck with Xia Nan, occasionally blasting the Spiral-Toothed Sharks visible within Sasha's line of sight into fragments with pure energy missiles.

When attention was highly concentrated, it was as if the flow of time had also accelerated.

Xia Nan was still performing his duty as a "freeman" as before, using his balance on the swaying deck in the storm, supporting wherever manpower was needed, and occasionally taking bows and crossbows from the sailors' hands to shoot at the Spiral-Toothed Sharks underwater when he had some spare time.

He didn't know exactly how much time had passed.

He only knew that when his physical strength under his 8-point Constitution was consumed by one-third, a brilliant and magnificent sunlight, exceptionally dazzling in the darkness, suddenly burst out from deep within the clouds.

It was like a sign that the storm was about to pass.

Along with the quiet expansion of this ray of sunlight, the frequency of the gnawing sounds from under the sea surface gradually decreased, the swimming sharks became increasingly sparse, there were no more giant waves as high and towering as mountains, and even the strong wind that whistled and seemed to be able to roll people away in the air gradually calmed down.

The speed at which the storm retreated was much faster than when it came.

The gentle and warm sunlight was as usual, with a cool sea breeze carrying some humidity blowing past his cheeks; the blue sky was clear, and one could only faintly see a few lazy white clouds, and the sparkling sea surface was flat, vast, and quiet.

Only the messy deck showed the violent scene like the end of the world just now.

The meaning of the nickname "Shrew Queen" for 【Ocean Goddess】 Anboli was vividly reflected at this moment.

"Plop."

The crew members' clothes were all soaked by the combination of raindrops, seawater, and sweat.

Panting heavily, their eyes became dazed because their exhausted bodies were exhausted, or they sat down pale-faced leaning against the railing handrails, or they didn't even have the strength to untie the safety ropes around their waists, and the whole person lay on the deck.

The twin warriors Ryan and Gordon were also drowned rats. As professionals, their physical strength went without saying, and at this moment, they were cleaning the deck and inner cabins with the few remaining crew members, counting the damage.

The burly bald man Aken, whose energy that had no place to vent due to the Barbarian profession had been vented for the most part after such a storm, now appeared surprisingly calm, silently looking at the sea, as if entering some kind of "sage moment."

The Catfolk Sasha jumped down lightly from the mast, and the paw pads on his feet made almost no sound when he landed. When the crisis passed, the body's instinct suppressed rationality again, and the soaked fur made him feel extremely uncomfortable. The whole person was like a wild cat that had accidentally fallen into the water, shaking his fur left and right to shake off the water.

Captain Luo Lin let go of the helm, took the cigarette that had been wilted by the rain from her mouth with her slender fingers, subconsciously rubbed it toward the direction of the flame scimitar at her waist, wanting to relight it, and then reacted, threw the cigarette butt into the sea, took out a cigarette case from the strap between her thighs, lit a new one for herself, took a fierce puff with her cheeks sunken, and while the smoke lingered, brushed away the hair stuck to her cheeks.

Xia Nan's clothes were also soaked, sticky on his body, which was a bit uncomfortable, and his equipment had been soaked by raindrops and seawater once, and would need careful maintenance later.

To some extent, after such a long time of in-depth research on 【Gravity Control】, he could actually manage to support a gravity field around his body to isolate the rainwater.

But he didn't do so just now.

On one hand, his mental power was indeed limited. He was almost using his mind for three things at once: he had to pay attention to whether there was any place on the ship that needed manpower at all times, observe the damage to the ship's hull under the attack of the Spiral-Toothed Sharks, and relieve the pressure for the crew members holding bows and crossbows. Occasionally, when he encountered a crisis where a sailor was about to be rolled off the ship by the waves, he had to take action to support them.

He simply didn't have the energy to maintain the gravity shield at the same time.

On the other hand, it could be considered human sophistication.

He had just joined the team not long ago and was a temporary crew member. Such a sudden crisis, dealing with it together, was conducive to his integration.

But after such a storm, everyone else on the ship, including the captain herself, was soaked by the rain, and he was the only one clean... Perhaps most people on the ship wouldn't think there was anything wrong with this, and would even be surprised at his special ability, but since it could save a lot of trouble and allow his contribution in this crisis to be exerted to the greatest extent, Xia Nan was willing to have this sense of propriety.

On the other side, the Druid Haian, who was standing at the bow and at the very front, only had the brown long hair draped over her shoulders slightly damp.

The magic particles lingering around her body, the emerald green light filled with life energy, turned the rain falling on her into pure elemental energy during the spellcasting, keeping her clothes dry.

The difference between having such a spellcaster in the team and not having one was unimaginable.

In most cases, facing sudden encounter battles during adventures, without prior preparation, a spellcaster's performance in battle might not be as good as the warriors and rangers in the team.

Her role was reflected in the comprehensiveness endowed by the profession. ===== CHAPTER 455 =====