Chapter 0426: Greedy Therkanes
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It's a secluded and serene marine world.
The blue sea swells overhead, and thousands of dense schools of tidal fish that shimmer with a little phosphorescent form a magnificent silver ribbon, swirling and churning under the action of tidal currents, making people salivate.
These schools of fish gathered together to swim are chaotic and orderly. With the ocean currents and food, it moves from east to west, neatly aligned; When attacked by hunters, they suddenly gather and disperse, like an organization with a strict division of labor and cooperation.
However, not far below the ribbon, the Ghost Battleship was slowly moving through the cloud shield. Although the boat sailed without a trace, under the dense school of fish, thousands of bahama fish swimming with the school collided with the invisible and qualitative outer shield from time to time, revealing the huge outline of the hull.
These stupid schools of fish don't think about what they've hit, they just swam with their companions and follow the surging tide.
After several major battles, the spectral energy reserves in Therkanes' body have been insufficient, and the high-quality corpse sources stored are almost none. Therefore, in the face of the school of ignorant fish surrounding it, it really has to force itself to suppress its hungry nature so that it can not stretch out its "hand" to feast.
However, just looking at the fact that it is still wandering back and forth in the intensive fishing flood, and even its stealth methods are about to be broken by the fish, I know that its sanity is only a little.
It's really hungry!
I don't know if it was the arrogance of a certain salmon that angered it, or if it didn't control its hunger instincts, the ghost ropes hidden in the belly of the ship slowly came out and began to try to prey on these nearby sea creatures.
At first, it was only a school of fish that was restrainedly wrapped around its side and into its belly. But with the stimulation of flesh and blood, and the slow increase of ghost energy reserves, Thercanes could no longer restrain his "eating", turned around and plunged into the most dense waters of the fishing flood, and launched a large-scale killing and absorption.
In order to achieve the fastest "eating" effect, even hundreds of resentful banshees in the belly of the ship were released.
It is more convenient and faster to kill these weak creatures in groups, or the weakened version of the Banshee's "Banshee's Howl", and often a soul-piercing cry can make a school of fish within a radius of 5 meters lose its vitality. The dozen or so ghost ropes were freed up and were only responsible for dragging the fainted salmon back to the belly of the ship one by one through the ropes.
Completely immersed in the thrill of killing and eating, Therkanes did not notice that in the dense salmon school, several strange and sneaky sea creatures were secretly watching it, and silently transmitting certain information in a way that it could not detect.
These strange seahorse-like creatures are the foundation of the lowest level of the Ocean Empire, the Sea Herdsmen, and the fish that the Ghost Battleship is feeding on are not wild fish, but the private ranch of a certain maritime noble.
Thercanes, who knew nothing about the sea, leaked himself out of this way, and after just escaping the Sea Clan's round-up for 1 day, he took the initiative to put himself in the sight of the Sea Clan.
The Sea Clan is also a race of sapient beings.
The Klein Continent can evolve thousands of strange creatures of different species, and the endless ocean, which is far more than a hundred times larger than the continent, is pregnant with countless marine creatures.
For the huge system of the Ocean Empire, the appearance of the ghost warship is like a fierce beast running near a remote mountain village in the human realm, and it is not worth the ruler of this empire to care about even a second.
So far, the information about the ghost warship has only been reported to the commander of a frontier legion in the Buos Sea of the Patsel Sea Empire, and the larger purpose of sending troops to encircle it is only to capture a magical alchemy life and offer it to the king in exchange for some rich rewards.
The arrival of the Sea Clan army was 3 hours later.
They could have arrived earlier, but given the lethality displayed by the ghost warship during its escape last time, one of the commanders behind the Sea Clan decided that it would be more reliable to spend a little more time closing the siege.
Almost as soon as the Sea Clan's caster, the Tide Warlock, came within 10 miles of the ghost warship Thercanes. When it turned its attention away from the fish, it noticed that the Sea Clan warriors had appeared in all directions around it, and the nearest group was even within 3 miles.
With the Ghost Battleship's own ability, it is not a problem to face the Sea Clan Mermaid Warriors, Shark Warriors, Octopus Samurai and other soldiers who rely on their bodies to eat at the same time within 300 people. No matter how many enemies there are, as long as you rely on fast movement speed and strange attack methods, you don't have to worry about being overwhelmed by the sea of enemies.
Therefore, after realizing that he was surrounded, Therkanes did not panic too much, and even the sufficient reserve of ghost energy that he had just eaten well made it have plans to collect some more corpses. Schools of fish can only be thrown into the pool of spectral energy to extract energy, and the only way to replenish the ship's warriors, the Wraithing Banshees, can only be done with the corpses of intelligent beings.
With a simple discernment of direction, Therkanes drove his huge body to pounce on the swarming Sea Clan legions.
Fighting in the sea is very different from fighting on land.
On land, even if you are encircled, most of the attacks are plane attacks from all directions, and you rarely need to call the sky and the ground. In the ocean, all battles are three-dimensional, and once you are encircled, it is really a 360-degree saturation attack with no dead angles.
However, for such low-intensity physical attacks, the ghost battleship has no fear at all.
Hundreds of Wraithing Banshees were scattered around the perimeter, forming the first line of defense. These banshees may not be qualified as meat shields, but they are good at gags. With a body that transforms between virtual and real, there is no battle formation that they can't break through, and almost in the blink of an eye, the banshee and the sea clan warriors are mixed together.
As an advanced creature of ghosts, the physical reduction of the entity banshee has also reached a terrifying 80%, and there is no so-called vital point, so it is almost invincible to deal with these sea warriors who only have physical attack ability.
Transformed into virtual bodies, they kept getting in and out of the dense queue of Sea Clan warriors, luring them to attack indiscriminately, causing a lot of accidental injuries to each other. Whenever he saw the gap, he instantly transformed into an entity, first with a sharp and piercing weakened version of the "Banshee's Howl" that shocked the enemies around him, and then opened his ugly mouth that was crooked and twisted, and slammed into the Sea Clan in front of him with his half-illusory sharp claws.
The Banshee's physical attacks are inherently partially defensive, and the fine scales on the outside of the Sea Clan warrior's body do not protect at all. Often, the Sea Clan warrior stabbed out with a spear, and the bone spear slashed through the banshee's body as if it had entered nothing, and it could not do much damage to it, and his chest was piercing cold after a sharp pain, and he didn't feel anything else.
The translucent shadow glowing with a faint green light was accompanied by an even more poignant cry, and it could often submerge its hideous claws into the body of the Sea Clan warrior, and use the gifted "Ice Touch" to directly freeze the opponent's soul vitality.
A spirit attack may not be able to directly kill a vigorous Sea Clan warrior, but the translucent shadows of the banshees that are constantly shuttling back and forth have completely enveloped this sea area, and often a roaring banshee surging past, leaving behind a large area of cold corpses with a sluggish expression and no life in the body.
And at this time, the ghost warship that is immediately behind the banshee group will be crushed. More than a dozen ghost ships that were as nimble as snakes could not be retracted, and the corpses of these dead Sea Clan warriors were collected into their bodies and sent into the constantly running ghost pool, which continued to expand their combat power.
If he only relied on these melee Sea Clan warriors, Therkanes could completely rely on sports warfare to slowly wear down the opponent's numbers. It's a pity that in addition to a huge number of low-level soldiers, the Sea Clan also has the largest team of spellcasters and abilities in the Crane Continent, as well as some super terrifying sea monsters.
In the last battle, a large group of Sea Clan Tidal Warlocks led by a Level 16 Sea Priest were beaten by the Ghost Battleship and lost their armor and suffered heavy losses. Therefore, this time, the Sea Clan commander was reluctant to send the spellcaster to the front line of the battle again, but dispatched the unique sea giant beast of the Patsel Ocean Empire, the Deep Sea Serpent.
It is a huge sea monster that stretches out to 200 meters and weighs up to 300 tons, which should belong to the sea snake category in terms of species, but it is difficult to compare its huge size with ordinary sea snakes. It is only in the depths of the vast and deep ocean that such a terrifying giant sea monster can survive, if it is placed on land, it does not need to be attacked by natural enemies, but the self-weight of this terrifying person is enough to crush it.
Most of the deep-sea giant snakes live and survive on the dark and dull seabed, which is a deep-sea world below 8,000 meters, and even ordinary sea creatures cannot reach that area without the help of special means. Therefore, the deep-sea giant snake does not have visual organs, and every time the only large mouth on its head is opened, a terrifying vortex suction force will be formed.
The front end of the mouthparts of the deep-sea giant snake is densely packed with concentric circles of countless sharp teeth. These drum knife array-like sawtooth teeth extend all the way into its black hole, and are the basic tools for it to suck in and crush a qiē. Therefore, the deep-sea giant snake meat is not taboo, as long as it can absorb organic matter, its terrifying stomach pouch can be crushed and digested.
Ever since the Patsel Ocean Empire domesticated these deep sea serpents, they have become a heavy class in the Imperial Sea Clan's battle sequence, and the battle array is far more powerful than the giant octopus and giant whale warriors. It's just that the deep sea serpents don't have visual organs, and they can distinguish friend and foe by relying on the command of the sea priests, and exert their terrifying power to devour the battlefield, which may be their only flaw.
With the huge shape of the ghost battleship, it may be able to compete with the giant whale warriors of the Sea Clan, and even with the giant octopus for a few rounds, but as soon as he encounters the deep sea serpent, he immediately becomes a toddler in front of the giant man.
The ghost battleship that was still killing all sides in the dense blockade circle of the Sea Clan just now encountered a huge existential crisis in the next moment.
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