Chapter 2270: Preemptive Strike: Cutting Weeds and Eliminating Roots

The Doom sailed toward Terror Island. From a distance, the sky above Terror Island was pitch black, and everything on the island was black.

Thump!

A collision sound came from under the ship, followed by a sonic wave spreading out. Some kind of marine creature was screaming.

Some creature had attacked the Doom with a weapon. The Doom was not a dead object that wouldn't fight back. The moment it was attacked, withered roots grew from its hull, wrapping around the creature that had attacked it.

A withered corpse floated to the sea surface. Bahamut swooped down, fished the corpse out of the sea, and tossed it onto the deck.

With a bang, the withered corpse fell onto the deck. This creature had a human body and a fish tail, and it held a sharp fork in its hand. This was a sea folk.

The sea surface began to vibrate, kicking up a large spray of water. A sea folk with a human body, a fish tail, and hair like seaweed rushed out of the sea surface. While in mid-air, it flicked its arm and threw a bone spear.

Bang!

The bone spear nailed into the deck. This was clearly a warning, a warning for Su Xiao to stay away from Terror Island.

There were sea folk guards near Terror Island, prohibiting humans from boarding the island. Thinking of this, Su Xiao raised his left arm, and roots spread out from the deck under his feet, wrapping around his left arm.

Gurgle~

The Doom began to sink into the sea. The sails were furled. Su Xiao took a deep breath. The seawater first submerged his knees, then his chest, and finally his entire body entered the sea.

In the light blue seawater, black shadows shuttled around the Doom. The number was conservatively estimated to be in the thousands.

Snap, snap.

The wooden boards at the bow of the Doom opened, revealing the bow cannon inside. Dark energy was brewing in the cannon barrel, which was nearly half a meter thick.

Boom!

Layers of ripples shook in the seawater. A solid cannonball was fired. Wherever the cannonball passed, the sea folk were blown into large mists of blood.

One shot, and more than a dozen sea folk were killed instantly. The bow cannon was used to bombard ships and wasn't very useful against sea folk; they were too scattered.

"Hehehe..."

"Living things, come, join us, sweet living things."

"Who am I? Ah~, I forgot. But, drown with me, drown in the Magic Sea, hehehahaha!"

One Cursed One after another crawled out from various parts of the Doom. They laughed wildly and cursed. In the sea, they were like evil ghosts of the deep sea. To them, all living things were delicious.

The Cursed Ones were once cursed sailors. Their swimming skills could be imagined. In the sea, their speed was not weaker than the sea folk.

In the seawater, the Doom was like a sea monster, stealthily moving forward quickly. One Cursed One after another rushed out from various parts of the Doom's hull, pouncing on the surrounding sea folk.

A few minutes later, the Doom rushed out of the sea surface. Seawater surged out from various parts of the hull, while on the surrounding sea surface, cries and roars were connected. The sea folk, who were accustomed to intercepting passing ships, had encountered evil ghosts in the sea today.

Su Xiao's left arm exerted force, snapping the withered roots connected to the Doom with a snap. In the seawater, as if receiving an order, the Cursed Ones returned to the vicinity of the Doom, their bodies merging into the hull.

"Kill, kill everyone, I haven't..."

A Cursed One poked its upper body out from the deck, its turbid eyes staring at Su Xiao, its mouth letting out strange laughter.

"Shut up, get back into the ship."

"!"

The Cursed One's wild laughter stopped abruptly, its teeth clattering.

"As you command, Captain. The curse of the Magic Sea is coming, hehehahaha."

The Cursed One shrank back into the hull. Whether it was the Doom or the Cursed Ones, they were double-edged swords. If one's heart and strength were not strong enough, one couldn't control them at all. The first thing this ship wanted to do after breaking free from the seal was to devour its master.

The sea folk were stunned by the Cursed Ones. They could occupy the vicinity of Terror Island only because major factions didn't want to come and deal with them, which made them mistakenly believe they were the masters of Terror Island.

The Doom docked, directly to the point of running aground. Su Xiao jumped off the ship and took a glass bottle from Amu's backpack.

Su Xiao tossed the glass bottle toward the Doom. With a crash, the lower half of the glass bottle shattered, and gray-black sand poured out, shrouding the Doom inside.

After a sound of wooden boards rubbing, the Doom was sealed again. As the gray-black sand rolled back into the glass bottle, the fragments at the bottom of the glass bottle pieced together.

Picking up the glass bottle on the reef, the sand inside had turned pitch black. The Doom was being sealed inside. If it were sealed for too long, the Doom would slide from a five-masted ship to a four-masted ship. This period was about 3–5 years.

Time was ample, but Su Xiao was preparing to find an opportunity to sell the Doom. The curse of the Magic Sea was no joke. Being the captain of the Doom for a long time would lead to erosion by the curse of the Magic Sea.

Moreover, Su Xiao felt that the Cursed Ones weren't actually that great. Their combat strength in the sea was indeed not bad, but once they boarded land, they instantly turned into flying ash. Resisting the curse of the Magic Sea for these high-level cannon fodder wasn't worth it.

Su Xiao's first thought was to sell the Doom to the God Emperor, but he immediately gave up. The Doom was a top-tier dangerous object of the Sixth Tier. If the God Emperor dared to use this thing, he might be wiped out instantly.

"Hey."

A somewhat familiar voice came. Su Xiao looked in the direction of the sound. It was Lord Rat, wrapped in bandages.

"Law-Breaker, aren't you curious about how I became like this?"

Lord Rat sat on the reef by the shore, bloodstains still soaking through the bandages on his body.

"Not curious."

Su Xiao tossed a bottle of liquor to Violent Rat. Violent Rat raised its rat claw to catch it, bit off the cork, and drank several large gulps.

"The third round is quite exciting, isn't it? If I had known this place was the sea."

Violent Rat adjusted its sitting posture, wincing in pain. It became like this because it had leaked the venue of the third round and was punished by the Void Tree.

Don't think this is shameful. Being punished by the Void Tree without dying, and still being able to continue serving as a "Guide," already explained Violent Rat's ability and personal strength.

"You came slower than I imagined, although you were the first to arrive."

"Slaughtered an Ancient God on the way."

"Pfft~"

Violent Rat's shoulders trembled, and then it burst into loud laughter.

"You really have a way. No wonder you can inherit the Law-Breaker. Did the Ancient God eat the rice of your Law-Breaker family? No matter which generation of Law-Breaker it is, they all have a grudge against Ancient Gods. I can't take it anymore, laughing until my stomach hurts."

Violent Rat laughed heroically. After laughing for a while, it triggered the wounds on its body, wincing.

"I heard a while ago that an Ancient God called the Moon God seemed to be squatting at home when it was suddenly sought out and slaughtered. There was also an ancient tree and two little spirits witnessing the scene. That wouldn't be your doing, would it?"

"Who knows."

"Is that so."

Violent Rat's tone was meaningful.

"You have to be careful. Someone has spread the word that they want to seek justice for the Moon God, but they don't know your appearance yet."

"Oh? Who is it?"

Su Xiao didn't care much that Violent Rat knew he had killed the Moon God.

"So it really was you. The Ancient God who wants to seek revenge on you is called..." Violent Rat stopped here. After the expression on its face twisted for a while, it continued:

"That Ancient God is called... the Nightmare God Nigadi. It and the Moon God are Ancient Gods of the same 'Divine Source System.' The most obvious characteristics of that type of Ancient God are exoskeleton and faith power."

"Nightmare God, Nigadi..."

Su Xiao now knew why he felt Nigadi looked familiar. It turned out this guy and the Moon God were of the same breed. Listening to Violent Rat, the two of them even had a friendship.

"Nigadi hadn't even gone to seek revenge on you before it was slaughtered by you on the way. On the way, hahaha, goddamn 'on the way'."

Violent Rat drank several gulps of rum and let out a long breath of liquor vapor.

"The reminiscing ends here. There's one more thing: the fourth round is the Arena mode. This information has already been made public. An 'acquaintance' will go to watch the battle: Mage Sage Sephilia."

Hearing this name, Su Xiao immediately thought of Dilin. The other party was a disciple of Mage Sage Sephilia.

"I heard that Sephilia's disciple also came to participate in the Strongest Contest. You say, if you two meet in the draw for the fourth round, what will happen? By then, Sephilia will be watching the battle. That would truly be... too interesting."

As soon as Violent Rat finished speaking, Su Xiao felt a sense of teleportation. He was about to return to the rest area of the Strongest Contest. ===== CHAPTER 2271 =====