Chapter 297

Outside the pier, a tattered seagoing vessel, disguised as a grain transport ship, had its deck piled high with grain.

Famine was everywhere recently, and grain was a necessity; the pier pilot's eyes lit up the moment he saw the grain bags, and without checking carefully, he hurriedly let the ship dock.

However, after docking at the pier, the ship revealed its fangs; a large number of grain bags were overturned to the side, revealing two magic crystal cannons hidden inside, one of which was already aimed at the direction of the City Lord's Mansion, ready to fire.

The City Lord's Mansion was preparing dinner, and the City Lord's family was waiting to eat; one shot hit the mark, and half the City Lord's Mansion was blown into the sky.

The second shot was aimed at the security station; once that place was blown away, with no one to maintain order, the chaotic people on the island could turn the entire island upside down.

On the deck between the two magic crystal cannons, a woman in ordinary attire waved a machete and shouted: "Boom! Boom! Bomb them for me! Dragon poop, daring to steal my home, bomb you bastards to death! Everyone on the ocean knows the relationship between Delige and the Sea Dragon, this place is equivalent to the Sea Dragon's lair; bomb it to pieces and see how they sell their stolen goods!"

After roaring, she added: "Aim carefully, don't hit innocent people."

"Don't worry, Captain Nightmare Shaya, there are no innocent people on this island." The first mate replied, then continued: "One shot consumes about two hundred magic crystals, and a World Tree decomposition rod costs five hundred magic crystals and can fire five times; adding it up, the cost of one shot is three hundred magic crystals. How many shots are we going to fire?"

The reason why Wali Gu wanted to build the magic egg cannon was that at the same power level, the magic egg cannon was cheaper and its firing was more concealed; compared to the magic crystal cannon, each had its own advantages and disadvantages.

"Hiss..." Nightmare Shaya felt a pang of heartache; she pulled open her pocket, looked, and said through gritted teeth: "Fire two more rounds; are we really that poor?"

The first mate rolled his eyes at her: "Otherwise? If I had money, would I come to be a pirate? Our home base was raided, and everyone said to split the remaining money and disband; you refused to listen. If we fire two more rounds, that's six shots, and twelve hundred magic crystals will be gone. If you want to disband later, there won't even be severance pay; think it over carefully."

Just as the first mate finished speaking, the ship shook, and the second shot was fired, heading straight for the security station.

Nightmare Shaya's face turned pale and green, and a birthmark actually appeared on her face.

The reason she was named Nightmare Shaya was because of the birthmark on her face; she had it since childhood, and it would appear when she was particularly excited, so one can imagine how excited she was now.

Three hundred magic crystals per shot was equivalent to three thousand gold coins; one gold coin was twenty-six grams, so one shot was equal to firing seventy-eight kilograms of gold. Heavens, she herself didn't even weigh seventy-eight kilograms, flesh and bones included.

Gritting her teeth, Nightmare Shaya said: "Fire two more shots and take out the exchange and the grain warehouse."

"Alright, at your service, my Empress... uh, Captain. Is that a person? He's charging at the cannonball, uh, he's hugging the cannon... he's hugging... he's hugging the cannonball." The first mate was first shocked, then trembling, unable to even speak coherently.

Nightmare Shaya also began to tremble: "Hug... hugging the magic crystal cannonball? Is this... is this still a human? Hey, are those scales on his body?"

Ang, transformed into the Dragon God, was pushing against the magic crystal cannonball; this was an energy orb larger than a person. Two hundred magic crystals, after disintegrating into an energy state, were temporarily bound by special power and then accelerated and thrown out; this was the principle of the magic crystal cannon.

However, compared to Wali Gu's magic egg cannon, the magic crystal cannon had too much wasted consumption; a magic egg only needed eighty magic crystals to achieve the same power, and the cost dropped by a large margin.

Moreover, it could be air-dropped, and the launch base could be simplified; in short, the cost was far lower than the magic crystal cannon. If it were replaced by a magic egg cannon, there would be no need for shelling; one could just carry the magic egg to the target and detonate it.

But whether it was a magic crystal cannon or a magic egg cannon, hugging it with bare hands was too ridiculous; people who saw this scene couldn't even believe their eyes.

Time passed second by second; five or six seconds later, everyone realized that the magic crystal cannonball wasn't being hugged, but solidified, because the energy light wasn't flickering, but frozen into a single frame, and the creature in front of the magic crystal cannonball was also solidified.

The personnel composition on Delige Island was complex, with all kinds of people, and naturally, there were those who were knowledgeable; seeing this, they shouted on the spot: "Spatial Solidification! The Red Copper Dragon's Spatial Solidification; he has scales on his body, he must be a transformed Red Copper Dragon!"

Hearing this clamor, Lord Nai Ge Li Si curled his lips in disdain: "Ignorant, this is the Dragon God transformation... forget it, even dragons have never seen the Dragon God transformation, let alone humans."

Nightmare Shaya on the ship said to the first mate: "We... we seem to have hit someone we shouldn't have; what should we do?"

"What 'we', it was you who hit them, alright? I don't even know you." The first mate took off his headscarf, rushed to the side of the ship, flipped over the gunwale, and plunged into the sea.

"You... don't you even want your severance pay?" The first mate, who always had severance pay on his lips but was actually loyal to her, had run away so decisively; Nightmare Shaya realized that things had become serious and couldn't help but turn to look at the second mate.

The second mate spread his hands and said: "Captain, such a powerhouse who can hug a magic crystal cannon with bare hands must have very powerful followers; if we don't run now, even if we get the severance pay, we won't have the life to spend it. Let's run."

As the second mate spoke, he also rushed to the side of the ship and jumped into the sea; the rest of the crew followed suit.

"Makes sense." Nightmare Shaya also rushed to the side of the ship, but immediately remembered something; she ran to the magic crystal cannon and unloaded all the remaining magic crystals. There were over four hundred magic crystals on each cannon, adding up to over eight hundred; this was the severance pay for everyone on the ship.

She stuffed the magic crystals into her pocket and jumped into the sea as she reached the side of the ship, but just as she flipped over the gunwale, the back of her collar tightened; Lu Se grinned hideously, lifted her up, brought her before his eyes, and said viciously: "You want to run after bombing us with a cannon?"

Nightmare Shaya's hands and feet went cold; the range of the magic crystal cannon was two kilometers, and the security station was 1.3 kilometers away. It had been less than twenty seconds since the cannonball fell, which meant this man in front of her had run 1.3 kilometers in twenty seconds... this man was so fast!

Nightmare Shaya wanted to cry: I'm just a pirate, why did I run into a pervert?

The difference in levels was too great; when Nightmare Shaya was escorted back, she couldn't even muster a single thought of escaping, behaving as obediently as a sheep, especially when she noticed that the magic crystal cannonball had been blown up.

The magic crystal cannonball had been blown up, and Lord Nai Ge Li Si also noticed that Ang's Dragon God transformation lasted for twenty-three seconds.

During the twenty-something seconds of Ang's Dragon God transformation, every second, thirteen small dots appeared in front of Ang; these small dots solidified as soon as they appeared and couldn't expand, but thirteen per second, continuously filling the space between Ang and the magic crystal cannonball.

The moment Spatial Solidification disappeared, those small dots in front of Ang instantly turned into explosive fireballs, spraying out together, forcibly tearing the magic crystal cannonball into fragments, spraying them away, and scattering them like fireworks.

Thirteen shots per second, twenty-three seconds, two hundred and ninety-nine explosive fireballs.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si was dumbfounded: "Do you know? I thought of hundreds of methods, such as you using the Beauty Fist to analyze its structure, or using Elemental Deprivation to strip its elements; I never imagined you would use Spatial Solidification to hoard magic? Is it really that simple and crude?"

Ang tilted his head: "Practical."

"What if the magic you hoarded wasn't enough to offset the power of the magic crystal cannonball? What then? It would still explode on you." Lord Nai Ge Li Si said.

"Power is small, no injury." Ang said.

Nearly three hundred explosive fireballs were enough to offset most of the cannonball's power; even if there was some residual force, it wasn't enough to cause damage to a Jin Huang Skeleton.

Calculating it this way, hoarding fireballs was indeed the most practical method.

After waiting for a while, Lu Se escorted Nightmare Shaya back: "My lord, it was this person's ship that fired the magic crystal cannon."

Lord Nai Ge Li Si looked Nightmare Shaya up and down and asked with a puzzled voice: "Do we know each other? Why did you ambush us?"

Although she didn't know why Ang could make a sound without opening his mouth, Nightmare Shaya still said honestly and obediently: "I... I just wanted to bomb the City Lord's Mansion and the security station; it wasn't an ambush against you."

While speaking, she also secretly looked at the security officers and their soldiers lying all over the ground and muttered in a low voice: "I think you probably aren't Drake's people either."

Drake couldn't find a powerhouse of this level; catching a magic crystal cannon with bare hands? That would probably require a Truth powerhouse, right?

"So, you just happened to start shelling when we were there, so you accidentally injured us?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si said.

Nightmare Shaya's head nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

Actually, Lord Nai Ge Li Si guessed the same; if they were truly their enemies, they wouldn't have chosen to use a magic crystal cannon to bomb them, and even if Ang couldn't catch the cannonball with bare hands, they would have had enough time to dodge before the cannonball landed.

Moreover, they had only arrived at Drake for half an hour; who could mobilize a cannon ship to wait for them at the pier so quickly? Besides, if they were attacking them, why bomb the City Lord's Mansion first?

In summary, Lord Nai Ge Li Si felt that they were just unlucky; damn it, they had never been bombed by a magic crystal cannon in their lives, and the first time they were bombed, it was an accidental bombing?

"Then how do you plan to compensate us?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked viciously; although the other party's target wasn't them, they were ultimately affected, so it couldn't just end like this; pay up!

Nightmare Shaya's whole face collapsed; she took out all the eight hundred magic crystals she had just retrieved from her pocket and lamented in her heart: The severance pay couldn't be saved after all.

When Nightmare Shaya held up a bag of magic crystals with both hands to present it, Lord Nai Ge Li Si almost couldn't help but jump out and slap her: "Are you insulting us? Are you trying to dismiss a beggar with this little bit of magic crystals?"

Nightmare Shaya said with a mournful face: "This is all my property; there's only this much."

"Aren't you a pirate? Why are you so poor? You just fired two magic crystal cannon shots; each shot must have cost several hundred magic crystals, right? Are you lying to us?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked suspiciously.

Nightmare Shaya shook her head desperately: "Our base was just raided, which is why I came to retaliate; but even if the base hadn't been raided, our usual operating funds would only be two or three thousand magic crystals, not much more than now."

"Being so poor, how could you afford a magic crystal cannon?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked.

"Stole it, stole it; someone was smuggling it, I snatched it, and I never dared to use it." Nightmare Shaya explained.

"Really? You're not lying to me?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked.

"Really, I'm definitely not lying to you; I swear in the name of the Dragon God, there is absolutely no lie in the above words." Nightmare Shaya said solemnly.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si suddenly felt a great sense of goodwill: "You still believe in the Dragon God?"

Nightmare Shaya said: "Not really, but when swearing, one always has to find a god to rely on; on this ocean, using the name of the Dragon God is the safest."

"Hehe, don't let the Dragon Clan Chief hear you say that, or he will swallow you in one bite; the name of the Dragon God is not something that can be used casually." Lord Nai Ge Li Si scolded.

Nightmare Shaya laughed dryly: "How could that be, how could that be; a big shot like the Dragon Clan Chief, how could he possibly hear me making a casual oath."

"Hehe..." Lord Nai Ge Li Si was just about to say something when, at that moment, a white firework suddenly shot up from the direction of the pier and exploded with a bang.

Everyone looked in the direction where the firework exploded; Lu Se asked confusedly: "Why set off white fireworks? It's broad daylight, you can't see what it is."

Nightmare Shaya's whole face turned black, and she said urgently: "That's the signal of the Sea Dragon Pirate Group; the Sea Dragon Pirate Group is here."

The terrain of the security station was relatively high; walking out of the wall and looking down from a high vantage point, one could see the harbor pier. They saw that outside the harbor, four large black sailing ships had appeared, each flying white sails, charging into the harbor recklessly.

One of them approached Nightmare Shaya's ship side-by-side, and a group of agile pirates boarded it; the trail of that firework pointed to Nightmare Shaya's ship, and it was clearly fired by the Sea Dragon pirates who boarded the ship.

It might have been a safety signal; on the second Sea Dragon pirate ship, a mage flew up, as if supported by invisible hands, standing in the air with his hands behind his back, moving forward horizontally, full of posture.

Nightmare Shaya saw the mage, and her face turned even darker: "It's an eighth-rank mage! Wind Sea Dragon Laili, heavens, why did he come personally? It definitely wasn't to track me; by the way, I heard he comes ashore every month to find female slaves to relax; maybe today just happens to be his day to come ashore."

"My lords, if I am caught by him later, please be sure to kill me first; absolutely do not let me fall into his hands. I heard he likes women of my age the most, playing with them in all sorts of ways, and after he's done playing, he throws them into the slave labor camp; if they really can't play anymore, he throws them into the sea to feed the fish."

"Heavens, I'm also a somewhat famous female pirate, I must be very popular; no, no, I beg you to kill me first."

It was unknown if what Laili had done was too terrifying, triggering Nightmare Shaya's post-traumatic stress disorder, causing her to lose her composure, screaming in terror there, which made Lord Nai Ge Li Si and Lu Se speechless.

It was just an eighth-rank mage, why was she acting like she had never seen the world, panicking; clearly, she had seen the scene of Ang catching a cannonball with bare hands, yet she could still be frightened by an eighth-rank mage.

However, this was also normal; it was like some ordinary people, if you tell them they are cursed by a god, they might not react, but if you tell them they were bitten by a snake, they might be terrified because they know what the consequences of being bitten by a snake are.

Many people saw Nightmare Shaya being escorted up, so the eighth-rank mage floated straight toward here; he carried his hands behind his back, his mage robes fluttering, showing his good attainments in wind-element magic.

Floating above the security station, he immediately saw Ang and the others and Nightmare Shaya; his gaze fell on Nightmare Shaya, and a lecherous light flashed in his eyes:

"Hey, isn't this Captain Nightmare Shaya? How is your ship... hey, this little girl is so cute, come play with uncle..."

Before he could finish speaking to Nightmare Shaya, he discovered the little angel, and his target immediately shifted; then, before he could finish speaking to the little angel, the little angel spread her light wings, and holy light shone.

A beam of light flashed Laili and his words into charred carbon together.

Nightmare Shaya's eyes almost popped out: "This... this... you... you..."

Flash let out a big yawn: "So boring, when will Bulusike arrive? Bored to death."

Lu Se also crossed his arms and nodded, saying: "Yeah, these people are too weak; there isn't even an enemy worthy of my Dragon-Patterned Steel Core Mithril Wire-Inlaid Magic-Patterned Earth-Covered Tempered Gem-Enhanced Piercing Enchanted Two-Handed Sword being drawn."

"Ho... ho... horse... can talk?!" Nightmare Shaya's trembling words were incoherent.

Flash glanced at her and actually didn't refute, too lazy to pay attention to her.

One after another, red fireworks shot into the sky; the Sea Dragon pirates were like ants whose nest had been poked, and everyone on the four ships moved; one of the three giants of the pirate group, the eighth-rank mage Laili, was killed in full view of everyone like this; if they didn't have any reaction, the Sea Dragon Pirate Group wouldn't be able to mix on the ocean in the future.

The four ships each pushed out eight magic crystal cannons; four ships meant thirty-two magic crystal cannons, all aimed at the security station on the hillside.

"Hey, there's a bit of a challenge now; drink fresh blood, my Dragon-Patterned Steel... Core Sword!" Sensing the gazes cast by everyone, Lu Se tactfully swallowed the rest of the name.

With a clang, he drew his long sword, and a sword glow extended from the blade, flickering.

Nightmare Shaya was clearly a person who knew her stuff and trembled again: "High... High-Rank... High-Rank Sword Saint!"

Dragon poop, the errand-running lackey was actually a High-Rank Sword Saint; what kind of people were these guys?

Just as everyone was preparing to kill their way out and smash those ships, a golden figure swooped down from high altitude, diving straight at the four pirate ships, and dragon breath swept across every pirate ship.

In the blink of an eye, all four ships were swallowed by dragon breath and began to burn; shrill screams rang out on the decks, and pirates covered in dragon breath jumped into the sea like dumplings.

Unfortunately, even if they jumped into the sea, the dragon breath wouldn't extinguish; those who were touched would turn into skeletons and sink to the bottom of the sea.

The surrounding pirate ships were burned into fire cabinets, and the golden giant dragon turned around and flew toward the location of the security station.

"Dragon... Dragon... Dragon! Aren't you running?" Nightmare Shaya trembled again.

Not only did they not run, but Lu Se jumped and scolded: "Bulusike, you shameless thing, stealing my monsters!"

"Bu... Bulusike? Dragon Clan Chief?" Nightmare Shaya suddenly remembered this name; she felt it sounded familiar when she heard it just now, and seeing that it was a golden dragon, she immediately remembered the legend.

Bulusike landed in front of the security station and said to everyone: "Everyone, sorry to keep you waiting; come up, I'll carry everyone over. Hey, who is this girl? Haven't seen her before."

Nightmare Shaya looked at the big head that had come up to her forehead, and her skin twitched a few times; she remembered that when she swore in the name of the Dragon God just now, she even said that a big shot like the Dragon Clan Chief wouldn't hear it.

Now it was great; the Dragon Clan Chief had come, what to do? Would it swallow her in one bite? Thinking of this, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.

The moment she fainted, she was still a little glad; whether dead or alive, at least she didn't have to face it while awake.

Unfortunately, she was happy too soon; when she woke up, her hand touched beneath her and felt hard scales, and instantly her hair stood on end: Am I lying on a dragon's back?