Chapter 289: Siege? No! This Is Sending Them to Their Death!

Huh… la…

In the depths of darkness and undead gray mist.

"Blood Demon Hand" moved like a massive beast crawling through the sea, breaking the cold, ice‑laden water and proceeding at an unhurried pace.

Atop the lookout tower of the fore‑mast shield sail, the on‑duty barnacle crew members were a witch and an assassin.

The two coordinated: one hurled a fireball into the tower's refracting lantern, while the other manipulated the lantern to gather the light and illuminate the sea ahead.

Though the light was dim.

Nevertheless, the two barnacle crew members serving as lookouts possessed incomparable extraordinary vision.

Even with the thick undead gray mist shrouding the entire sea in deep darkness.

Relying only on that faint light, the two lookouts could still see the vast sea ahead with crystal clarity.

Caw…

Caw…

Suddenly, deep within the undead gray mist, a hoarse, low crowing of a raven rang out.

Looking out, they saw a blood‑colored raven slash through the darkness, swiftly flying toward the aft cabin.

"It's the Raven First Mate!" the barnacle crew witch said with a hint of envy.

"We used to just call the first mate the Raven First Mate; now we finally understand why he's called that."

"The Raven First Mate… actually has a raven, and it's a formidable blood‑colored raven."

"Indeed!"

The assassin beside them also sighed.

"I wonder how many lost undead souls this wave of the Raven First Mate has brought back."

Having left Source Realm Island, they have been sailing through the deep undead gray mist for over half a month.

The crew aboard the Blood Demon Hand have finally witnessed the Raven First Mate's raven's formidable prowess.

As the blood raven sliced through the lifeless undead gray mist.

Dozens of fifth‑tier, powerful soul‑type "Sequence Undead" ranging from level 50 to 59 followed in a soaring, chasing formation.

They captured these powerful fifth‑tier Sequence Undead en masse and delivered them into the Soul Sail.

This was the terrifying strength and method the fourth‑tier Raven First Mate displayed during this period.

Even Bishop Doctor, also a witch, lacked such formidable tactics.

During this time aboard the Blood Demon Hand, rumors about the Raven First Mate were plentiful.

Even rumors that the forbidden spell of Silver Star Fan Frost Port was released by the Raven First Mate began to surface.

【9】 Caw…

ga-ga…

Accompanied by the raven's screech, Ta Ke pushed open the window.

A blood‑colored forbidden raven perched on the window, opening its beak to demand food from Ta Ke.

Ta Ke raised his hand and fed it a thread of life essence and a small amount of fresh blood.

After a few bites, the forbidden raven was satiated.

Now the forbidden raven's cultivation progress has reached 100%.

A modest feeding of a little food allows it to be used for a long time.

Meanwhile, the attracted fifth‑tier Sequence Undead seemed to have found a home.

They emitted strange howls and then rushed swiftly into the Soul Sail.

It was as if, within the Soul Sail, their lost, death‑filled hearts could finally find peace.

After feeding, the forbidden raven leapt onto Ta Ke's shoulder on its own.

Carrying the forbidden raven, Ta Ke walked toward his own living room.

At that moment.

Captain Ya Bohan and Dr. Stan Lee were both in Ta Ke's first‑mate cabin.

Their purpose in coming was—to mooch wine.

These past two days Ta Ke has been pondering whether to charge these two fellows for the wine.

Especially Captain Ya Bohan; drinking here is one thing, but each time he leaves he takes half a barrel, showing an audacious nerve.

For a captain drinking like that, extra payment is required!

On Source Realm Island, Captain Ya Bohan completed the Bishop Advancement, awaiting consolidation of his Bishop realm.

After a candid discussion among the three.

They discovered that not only Ta Ke was urged to head to Padelin New Voyage Island, but the two were also being urged to go there.

The forces behind Ta Ke differ from those behind the captain and the doctor.

Yet all three were being pressed to go to Padelin New Voyage Island.

Obviously, the situation on Padelin New Voyage Island was indeed quite dangerous.

Soon, the three unanimously voted to set sail for Padelin New Voyage Island.

During the voyage through the undead gray mist.

Ta Ke began an in‑depth test and experiment of the "Precision·High‑Dimensional·Correction" extraordinary talent.

As he entered higher‑dimensional realms to examine deeper world threads and trajectories.

Soon, Ta Ke discovered another way to activate the "Precision·High‑Dimensional·Correction" extraordinary talent.

Ta Ke found that the Sequence Undead in the Undead Strait Valley all possessed a thread with a "homeward" characteristic.

In the Undead Strait Valley region, naturally born undead creatures are ordinary undead beings.

And an Extraordinary Being that dies within the Undead Strait Valley does so because it carries an extraordinary sequence.

They have a probability of being transformed into wraiths with extraordinary sequences, thus they are called 【Sequence Wraiths】.

【Sequence Wraiths】, because they master extraordinary sequences, are generally very strong.

Each 【Sequence Wraith】 can be regarded as a petty overlord of a small area.

Depending on their talents before death and their strength, their power ranges from elite to leader level.

And the 【Sequence Wraiths】 that Ta Ke has selected have grown to the fifth stage.

Naturally, there's no need to say more about their strength; being able to grow to the fifth stage itself makes them extremely powerful beings.

And Ta Ke's control over these fifth-stage sequence wraiths is precisely what he discovered through the "High-Dimensional World"—the Destiny Context.

【Sequence Wraiths】 seem to be souls abandoned deep in the Soul Sea Strait Valley… uh… not just seeming, they are exactly the souls abandoned here.

【Sequence Wraiths】 urgently long to find their own destiny.

Destiny!

It is a very abstract and general description.

But in the context of the "High-Dimensional World," it is a very concrete form.

Ta Ke can gather and correct the Destiny Context of the sequence wraiths for use.

Sixth-stage bishop-level 【Sequence Wraiths】 have begun to awaken their own "wraith consciousness"; their Destiny Context is relatively weak, making it unsuitable to tamper with them.

Meanwhile, fifth-stage 【Sequence Wraiths】 have no self wraith consciousness.

At the same time, their own strength is relatively strong, so there's no need to worry about their safety.

At this time, their desire to seek destiny is especially strong.

Utilizing his grasp of the Destiny Context and the destiny trait of fifth-stage sequence wraiths.

Ta Ke releases the Forbidden Crow to wander outside, gathering and concentrating the Destiny Context of the fifth-stage sequence wraiths he finds onto the Forbidden Crow.

Then he pulls it over, then anchors it onto the Soul Sail.

Thus, these fifth-stage 【Sequence Wraiths】 have found their destiny.

And the combat power of the Blood Demon Hand also begins to increase significantly.

Ta Ke is unsure whether this wave is a win-win.

But now the Blood Demon Hand's "Soul Sail" has become its first formidable combat point, which cannot be escaped.

He sits down on the soft sofa outside the magic wardrobe where a blazing bonfire burns.

Captain Ya Bo Han looked over.

"This batch of fifth-stage wraiths has been captured, almost two hundred fifth-stage 【Sequence Wraiths】, right?"

After feeling it, Ta Ke responded.

"About two hundred thirty or so."

Hearing that there are really that many, Captain Ya Bo Han lightly laughed.

"More than two hundred fifth-stage 【Sequence Wraiths】, I don't know if other bishops can withstand them; anyway, if I encountered that many fifth-stage 【Sequence Wraiths】, running away would be certain."

"This force is probably too much even for other formidable bishops to withstand!"

Beside him, Dr. Si Tan Li thought seriously and responded.

Ta Ke said, lost in thought.

"Besides their numbers, among these 【Sequence Wraiths】, several are extremely fierce, matching or exceeding same-stage leader-level wraiths in one-on-one combat; moreover, they faintly show a tendency to advance to bishop-level wraiths."

"Bishop-level sequence wraiths?"

Dr. Si Tan Li's pupils contracted slightly.

"Bishop-level wraiths are indeed very formidable."

"They themselves have grown in sequence, and moreover they have awakened self wraith consciousness."

"Besides that, they can construct their own wraith life framework, allowing them to transform into true leader-level wraiths."

"Bishop wraiths are entirely not inferior to our human bishop powerhouses."

"If we continue developing at this scale…… our Blood Demon Hand will have bishop wraiths in droves."

"In the not-too-distant future…… that will probably become a dreaded wraith sea demon ship on the extraordinary ocean!"

"How…… can it not be?"

Ta Ke lightly laughed and said.

"It can be…… I just didn't expect it to actually be true."

Dr. Si Tan Li lightly sighed.

"You should know that my hope of advancing to bishop before was already very slim; the injuries I suffered years ago made it hard for me to make major progress."

"I didn't expect this time to actually succeed."

"Even now, feeling my current bishop realm, I feel somewhat dazed."

"And from now on, we can even gallop across the extraordinary ocean and become the true ocean overlord."

"I wouldn't even dare think that in my dreams!"

"Haha…… I'm different; at least when I dream, I still dare to imagine it."

Ya Bo Han laughed and said.

"And our Divine Favored Highness, he, is truly the terrifying existence that brings our dream scene into reality!"

Just as Ta Ke was about to start a wave of commercial hype.

"Ga ga……"

The Forbidden Crow resting on the sofa back suddenly emitted an ethereal hiss.

Ta Ke immediately narrowed his eyes and carefully sensed it.

In the 【High-Dimensional Vision】, Ta Ke saw the power of the divination ritual continuously bursting forth from the mystic dimension, radiating across the entire outline of the sea demon ship, and even radiating across the surrounding vast ocean and the wraith gray mist.

But!

At this very moment, Taku is completely independent of this divination's predictions and the probing of fate.

The Sears Forbidden Raven, at 50% cultivation progress.

The Dire Blood Raven will enter an advanced form.

Thus Taku gains the forbidden ability 【Sears Misfortune】.

The Dire Blood Raven will siphon others' luck and convert it into the host's luck.

And it will continuously graft the host's misfortune onto target units.

The host will be exempt from the probing and curses of fate's calamities.

"Luck" conversion is rather interesting.

Using it at critical junctures yields especially good results.

For example, opening treasure chests, searching for loot, or choosing crossroads—moments that test the lucky king and the unlucky.

Siphon luck, graft misfortune!

Taku will become the true lucky king.

Of course, every lucky king's birth inevitably has an unlucky bearing the burden.

What Taku values most is the wondrous ability that "the host can be exempt from fate's calamity probing and curses".

And at this moment.

Various occult fate‑probing divination methods from the enemy.

They happen to be countered by the Death‑grade 【Sears Forbidden】 Raven's 【Misfortune】 ability.

【Sears Misfortune】 may not make Taku "step beyond the three realms, outside the five elements," but occult divination methods find it hard to probe Taku.

At this point, Taku uses high‑dimensional vision to confirm it all.

Taku completely evades the enemy's investigative and inferential divination rites.

It can be foreseen that.

In the divination's inference and fate‑probing over there.

What they discover is only that the Blood Demon Hand has relatively strong foes, but they can be defeated.

Yet their divination completely ignores Taku's existence.

Moreover, because it is the destiny convergence of the undead gathered by the Sears Forbidden Raven at this tier.

Thus the massive fifth‑tier sequence of undead gathered within the ghost sail were also not detected by that divination rite.

Avoiding the probing and insight of fate's misfortune, this wondrous method and ability.

It is also why Taku chose the 【Sears Forbidden Raven】.

Evading divination's probing.

This is indeed a very powerful method and ability.

After all, the 【Sears Forbidden Raven】 is a genuine 【Death‑grade】 forbidden creature.

When Taku feels it in detail.

Captain Abraham and Dr. Stan Lee both straightened their bodies and looked over cautiously.

"How's that!"

After a long wait, Captain Abraham finally spoke.

After a moment of thought, Taku leisurely began to speak.

"They... just as before, continue with divination and inference."

"Not only do they possess capture of the sea's fate power."

"They also have probing of the undead's fate."

"And simultaneously investigation from the intersecting currents of the Blood Demon Ship."

"Hmm... their divination power is quite formidable."

As Taku spoke, he smiled lightly.

"From their repeated divination of us over this period,"

"I think they've already inferred our general course and location."

"Even the three very patient bishops are waiting for us on the southern route to Padelin New Voyage Island."

"I think they're waiting for us..."

He paused slightly at this point.

Immediately, Taku looked out the window.

A faint glow began to appear on the window, and the sky outside started to brighten.

After a little less than half a month of sailing, the Blood Demon Hand is about to leave the Ghost Strait and enter normal seas.

Feeling the growing light, Taku said softly.

"No need to wait; the enemy will arrive soon."

Stan Lee and Abraham both rose and looked out the window.

The enemy continuously conducts occult divination rites, no doubt.

When the fleet officially leaves the ghost sea, they will likely face a massive battle.

And they have long been prepared for this.

…

"Clang— clang— clang…"

As the ship's bell on the watchtower rang clang—clang—clang, the crew quickly took their stations.

As the wind and waves drove the sails and the origin-energy steam engine roared.

The Blood Demon Hand accelerated toward the normal sea realm.

As the Blood Demon Hand, like a giant beast, passed through a thick sea of necromantic mist, the azure waves and blue sky before it unfolded like a splendid scroll, vast and magnificent, refreshing the mind and delighting the spirit.

After being cooped up in the necromantic mist for so long, even though Ta Ke had entered the expanding azure sea, he couldn't help but spread his arms to embrace the fresh sea breeze.

Just then.

"Clang clang block…"

The lookout tower's ship bell was desperately and densely pulled by the lookout assassin.

"Enemy! There are enemies!"

With the lookout assassin's hoarse shout.

The many supernatural beings previously prepared on the Blood Demon Hand all took their positions.

At this moment, the azure sea surface was exactly as Ta Ke had anticipated.

At this time, not only were they besieged, but there were actually three ships.

"Eclipse!"

"Swordfish!"

"Giant Octopus!"

The three powerful demon ships formed a pincer movement against the Blood Demon Hand.

At the same time.

On the surrounding sea, third-, fourth-, and fifth-tier supernatural beings, using various means, stepped on the waves and attacked the Blood Demon Hand from all directions.

They had long prepared a net, waiting for the Blood Demon Hand to sail into it.

Moreover, upon knowing that the Blood Demon Hand had a forbidden-spell mage, they did not dare to cluster too tightly.

The plan to scatter and attack the Blood Demon Hand from all directions was undoubtedly very clever.

This amounted to at least four or five hundred people.

With not a few fifth-tier experts, there was enough for the Blood Demon Hand's crew to drink a pot.

"Kill kill…"

"Brothers, charge for me, and I'll give you shields."

"Damn, we're the ones who rob others, yet no one has ever dared to stir up trouble on our Bloodfall Sea Pirate Gang's head."

"How they robbed us, today we'll rob them back the same way!"

"Kill!"

The members of the Bloodfall Sea Pirate Gang, trampling the waves, approached the Blood Demon Hand with fierce and menacing looks.

When some long-range mages could already use magic to bombard the swift fourth- and fifth-tier supernatural beings.

"Howl howl howl…"

"Roar roar…"

"Heh heh…"

The low growls of the undead suddenly erupted on the Blood Demon Hand.

The next moment.

A large number of fifth-tier Sequence Undead howled as they broke free and flew off the Wraith Sail.

In a short time.

Between the intertwined sails of the Blood Demon Hand, fifth-tier Sequence Undead filled the spaces.

Soon, over two hundred Sequence Undead, craving blood, life, and soul, found their target.

Those were the supernatural beings of the Bloodfall Sea Pirate Gang who had charged at the demon ships and had not received the Blood Demon Hand's ecological protection.

"Hiss…"

"Roar…"

Accompanied by sharp, piercing wails that shook the soul.

A large number of fifth-tier Sequence Undead, like demons released from a cage, lunged at the food presented to them.

These crew members of the Bloodfall Sea Pirate Gang.

The number of fifth-tiers was still relatively small, at most fewer than twenty.

The fourth-tiers numbered only about seventy or eighty.

The remaining three or four hundred were all third-tier.

Yet at this moment, facing over two hundred fifth-tier Sequence Undead, this amount was probably insufficient to go around.

Seeing such dense and numerous fifth-tier Sequence Undead,

the charging pirates each almost had their dog eyes pop out.

Seeing the large number of fifth-tier undead lunging at them,

The pirates perfectly illustrated what a rabble is.

The pirates, who had just begun to form a encirclement, instantly exploded.

However fast they had charged, now they fled just as fast.

"Oh my god! So many undead!"

"Run."

"Save me… gulp… gulp…"

"Mom… I'll never be a pirate again!"

"…"

A fifth-rank undead, using a Leap Shuttle, dragged a third-rank extraordinary being down to the seabed; in just a dozen seconds, that third-rank extraordinary being was sucked dry by a fifth-rank Sequence Undead into 'human jerky'.

Some people, when they are at the third rank, can go head-to-head with fifth-rank powerhouses.

But the vast majority of third-rank extraordinary beings, when facing fifth-rank powerhouses, basically have no chance to resist and die instantly.

At this moment, the many pirates fleeing in panic perfectly illustrated the truth that 'the slow ones are the front line'.

Third- and fourth-rank extraordinary beings were constantly caught up by fifth-rank Sequence Undead, and then they died miserably.

Originally, they had planned to gather and launch a surrounding attack.

But unexpectedly, they instantly scattered, turning into a one-sided hunt.

And at this moment.

He watched as his crewmen on the sea surface were chased by large numbers of fifth-rank Sequence Undead, engaging in an oceanic battle royale.

The three bishop captains' faces all turned green.

Gathered, all those fifth-rank Sequence Undead—shouldn't they be fighting each other to the death?

How could that Blood Demon Hand gather so many fifth-rank Sequence Undead?

This is unscientific!

And the divination—why didn't it predict the threat of so many fifth-rank sequence sequence?

Faced with so many different means of fifth-rank Sequence Undead.

In the lack of effective countermeasures, if they themselves take action, they would likely be in danger.

Moreover, the Blood Demon Hand hides terrifying forbidden-spell witches within.

Capable of taking out a sixth-rank bishop with a single strike.

Just as the three bishop captains were still wanting to proceed with further communication.

But then, the already setting sail Blood Demon Hand emitted a steam-roaring sound.

Like a giant beast spewing steam, it charged straight toward the Black Eclipse.

At this moment, Ta Ke, crouching on the rail of the watchtower, used the Forbidden Raven Vision.

He beheld the Blood Demon Hand, charging forward like a sea monster without restraint, and the distant Black Eclipse, turning in panic to flee.

Ta Ke lightly laughed.

Surround attack?

Wrong!

You guys are just asking to die!