Chapter 5 To the North Round 12 Broadside Battle

87_87643The sound of laughter was mixed with the mighty tide, and the water vapor that rushed to the face made people who had already been drenched still feel a lingering tide lingering and sweeping over the whole body, and the shock brought by this sound for a time even exceeded the raging whirlpool.

"What is this?" Forty-Seven temporarily dismissed the idea of smashing the Hermit Crab to pieces, and watched with interest the black tide that flowed up the whirlpool from the mist of the abyss.

"Olidra. The ancient prince of the water elementals, the dark princess who controls countless evil water creatures......" Chloe answered his question in place of Moriel: "I really didn't expect to be able to summon such a powerful being to the main material realm, it seems that they really can't be underestimated." ”

Now a tornado-like column of water had appeared in the lower part of the whirlpool, attracting the condensed black sea water to swirl around her, and the salty and astringent bitter water fluttered outwards one after another, like debris falling from a sculpture, and a huge but enchanting human form was formed from it.

"Olidra, I called you, you must serve me now!" Orlando stood at the bow of the ship, now the Hermit Crab and the Dodo were revolving around a few positions above Olidra, the black tide brought by the Water Elemental Princess held them up, temporarily stopped the trend of continuing to slide, and he didn't care if Olidra would be annoyed by his ignorance, and change his mind and overturn the Hermit Crab:" I now beg you to send us out of the whirlpool, and to tow the other ship into the depths of the sea, and destroy it completely!"

"Idiot!" Olidra swerved to face the Hermit Crab, which was drifting down the whirlpool behind her. This action made her completely condensed by the sea water, and the layers of waves spread all the way through the whirlpool, turning the Hermit Crab into a sideways posture, which could turn over at any moment under the impact of the rapidly rotating seawater.

The Water Elemental Princess swam up with ease, her movements in the raging maelstrom as if it were as simple as stepping on a few steps, Olidra tilted her head slightly, and stared at Orlando who dared to give orders to her with her dark green eyes, compared to her size, the flat Hermit Crab was not much different from a table in front of an ordinary person. Orlando and the other Shireks standing above were even more inconspicuous: "You ordered me?"

Olidra's voice was clearer, but it still sounded like a choppy whistling: "You boy, dare to command the old lady?"

Orlando was completely soaked by the vapor from the water elemental princess's breath, and he had been staying in the hermit crab's closed wheelhouse, but his body was refreshing: "Water elemental princess!

His face was unusually pale, but his barely white-eyed eyes reflected Olidra's face like a mirror—strange to say, even though the vast expanse of water around the water elemental princess had become as if tens of thousands of squid had spewed ink stirring, her face and body were almost entirely made of clear and transparent waves. There are no impurities at all, and the broken waves are constantly flying and splashing, forming a waterfall of long hair.

"I speak to you now in the name of glorious Ciric!" Orlando cried out to the mist, "As his faithful servant, I ask for your help on his behalf!

"I'm not a servant of the Land of Ciric!" Olidra raised her hand, and immediately formed a tall wall of water between her wide sleeves and the surface of the whirlpool, wrapping the Hermit Crab in the waves that suddenly appeared: "The old lady wants to teach you a lesson, what the hell boy!"

"It seems that those guys have Olidra......" Chloe, who was watching the excitement on the Dodo on the other side of the vortex, had just turned his head sideways to say this to Moriel, when he saw Moryl's face become extremely ugly.

"That's not right...... Be careful!" Morrill hadn't had time to react before he could see the problem. Olidra attacked them. The maelstrom suddenly went berserk under the dancing figure of the water elemental princess, and its speed increased suddenly, tearing the dodo into the abyss below in an instant. Engulfed by the black waves that pressed down from all directions.

Oledra looked with satisfaction at her ruined masterpiece. Then she lifted up the hermit crab, and under its control, a slightly smaller rotating hole parallel to the wall of the whirlpool opened in the maelstrom, like a deep passage: "Get out." Don't let me see you, boy!"

Olidra sent the Hermit Crab to the waterway that led nowhere, and then glanced around the maelstrom she was, "It's hard to come once. Why don't you move this cute whirlpool to a more crowded place......"

The water elemental princess jerked to the side. The Dodo broke the waves. It flew out of the jaws of the abyss—literally, and with a large amount of black water, it swept past Olidra, and rushed after the Hermit Crab into the whirlpool that had not yet closed.

Olidra didn't care what happened to the Dodo, but turned her head to stare into the depths of the whirlpool.

The huge forty-seven followed the water breaking, and the roaring roar that emitted even the screech of the maelstrom was overshadowed for a while, and when it flew above the water elemental princess's head, it had already turned into a murderous steel dragon.

"I just thought...... The old lady still underestimates you, dry boy!" Olidra waved her sleeves, and the turbulent waves immediately shook Lao Gao, and she also rose higher and higher along the whirlpool, no, even the whole whirlpool rose higher and higher.

Forty-seven flapped his iron wings and shook the storm: "Don't be arrogant, little girl...... Come to Daddy. ”

What is this place?

The calm, waveless waters were dead, except for the ripples caused by the sudden appearance of the Hermit Crab that spread into the distance, submerging in the hazy mist. Simon shook his head, trying to dispel the dizziness that came with passing through the swirling vortex. Now he could only see the bow of the ship clearly, and farther away it was all shadowed, and the portholes of the wheelhouse, blurred and stained with oily seawater, looked very uncomfortable—suddenly Simon struck the steering wheel violently, and spun it like a windmill, narrowly avoiding the sharp reef that suddenly peeked out of the mist.

Damn it. Aren't the reefs in the stormy ocean not afraid of the erosion of the wind and waves? Simon squinted at the hideous rocks passing by the side of the ship, and cursed secretly. To his instincts, the place was rather weird, and he vaguely felt that the sailing experience he had accumulated over the years seemed to be of little use here.

"Hey, where are we now?" The first mate walked into the wheelhouse with a calm face, his steps were a little vain, and he was still bandaging the wound on his wrist, and the first mate who dared to speak to the captain in this tone was unique: "Hurry up and figure it out!"

Day fuck ...... It's not me who summoned the monster out!!Simon really wanted to turn around and kick this bastard who was raised by his stepmother into the sea, but he gritted his teeth. Finally, I looked at the compass fixed to the steering wheel - it was spinning wildly, obviously out of order, and I don't know if it was caused by the shock in the whirlpool or something.

Orlando also walked into the cab: "Find a way to leave."

Well, we just need to ...... now."

With a loud bang, the Hermit Crab shook violently, and a large splash exploded on the side of the ship.

Simon was the first to react: "! Someone is attacking! Ready to fight!"

"Aim at it! Your guts have been shattered by the maelstrom, are your eyes also blinded?" Rohr had already ripped off his tattered shirt, and his two small eyes widened at the hermit crab that appeared and disappeared in the dense fog not far away. Now the benefits of the open deck are manifested: "Give him another one!"

It makes sense to strike first. Unlike the tattered Dodo, the Hermit Crab had been damaged in the whirlpool abyss, but its structure remained intact, and if the Cultists of the Shirek found out that they were following them and attacked, there was almost no doubt that the Dodo, having lost all of its mast, would have little hope of attacking from a distance or in close combat.

Thankfully, the catapults on the Dodo were still working. Although gunpowder, a weapon of destruction that had not been completely eliminated in the original world of Forty-Seven until the interstellar age, the range and power of this unique marine trebuchet were equally impressive—the second shell struck the Hermit Crab again in a parabola, and the angle was fine-tuned because of the previous shot. Morrill could clearly see the spherical stone projectile slamming into the side of the Hermit Crab, and immediately sawdust flew sideways.

There was an immediate burst of cheers aboard the Dodo, though the sailors did not see as clearly as Moriel. But they also knew that the blow hit beautifully.

"Beautiful!" because his head was broken in the whirlpool, so a piece of cloth was tied to his head, and the second officer, who stood behind the catapult and personally operated the knife, shook his fist fiercely: "I said that as a sailor, the guys on the ship opposite now are terrible!"

Indeed, after being attacked, he was not able to turn in time to react and was hit by a light yì. The Hermit Crab is indeed sluggish enough.

"Why are these guys suddenly in good spirits?" Chloe couldn't help much, no matter how good she was at swordsmanship, she couldn't rush over on the water, she stood beside Morriel and watched the Dodo run around. The surviving sailors had a look of excitement on their faces: "Hey, do you think that if you can escape from the maelstrom, you don't care about the god of murder? On the other side are the Shirek cultists who are favored by the dark sun! Let's find a way to escape before the ship sinks!"

This provocative remark aroused the dissatisfaction of the sailors, and a sailor with a bare chest and a bearded face turned around and waved his fist at Chloe: "What are you afraid of! Even such a terrifying maelstrom has escaped, what else is there to be afraid of! Tracking that ship has made us suffer so much these days, let's see how we can do it without giving them some color!"

Chloe smiled at Morriel, "Simple-minded guys—but wood-headed people are generally very motivated. When he turned into that and threw the Dodo out of the whirlpool abyss, I thought it was some monster summoned by the other party that didn't belong to the main material world. ”

Oh, yes. Simple-minded guys. Morrill looked at the Hermit Crab, which had turned its bow in the mist and began to move in this direction, and suddenly felt a little strange...... Could it be that I am thinking too much?

The Hermit Crab also attacked the Dodo, but they were clearly inexperienced, and they did not even understand the range and usage of the ship's ballistas, and the spears and crossbows fired were crooked and unthreatening. However, the cultists of Ciric actually chose to attack with the weapons on the ship instead of using the priest's magic first, and it seems that summoning the water elemental princess also cost them a lot of money.

The Dodo fired a third shot, this time a bale of burning asphalt. It took a great deal of effort for the sailors to get the soaked thing out of the tattered bilge, but luckily the oilcloth wrapped around it was very tight, and the fire was lucky to be found—the asphalt pack was blocked by the protective magic cast by the priest Shirek, but it still broke above the hermit crab's slope, causing the small half of its hull and the surrounding sea to burst into flames.

"Extinguish the fire! Extinguish the fire! Speed up and rush over!" The original plan to launch a long-distance artillery bombardment and sink the Dodo without bloodshed was completely in vain, and Simon's anger was full of smoke, and now he felt like a paralyzed patient with only a clear mind, who understood everything but could not do anything, and it was a shame that he had never encountered to be beaten like this by a ship that was almost incapacitated: "Prepare for a broadside battle! You are not going to be hand-to-hand combat and you are not opponents!"

The Hermit Crab braved the dodo's fire in the almost windless waters, and if it weren't for the ship's Reverend Shirek fending off a significant portion of Moriel's spell attacks, her fireballs and barrage of missiles might have sunk the ship.

Seeing the smoking Hermit Crab rushing over, Morriel put down his hand and turned his head to look at Chloe: "You should close the door and let the dog go, right?"

Indeed, in hand-to-hand combat, the followers of Ciric had an absolute advantage - before the two ships could meet, the Dark Guardians and Assassins, who had been blessed with spells such as "Bull Power", "Demonized Weapons", and "Coordinated Combat", leaped forward with their weapons, and several sailors were cut down in an instant.

"Who? Who?" Shadow Wolf, who had not known where to hide since the beginning of the storm, suddenly sprang out, stood on the deck and looked left and right, his eyes looked a little confused when he saw his colleagues: "Who are you?

A Shirek assassin who was rushing over was obviously stunned for a moment, he held a long sword in one hand and a dagger in the other, and both weapons flashed with dark light, lightly cutting the sailor's scimitar of the second mate of the Dodo, but because of the interference of the shadow wolf, he couldn't continue the pursuit: "Why are you ......?"

His face was split from it. Chloe swept like a bird, tapping her sword on the Shadow Wolf's shoulder, and leaping over the Assassin's corpse - a trail of water.

Warm blood sprayed on the Shadow Wolf's face, making him stunned for a moment, and then his gaze became furious.

"Wang!"

A needle-like thin sword shot out of his cuff, stabbing a heavily armored warrior who noticed Chloe and was about to turn after the female swordsman. The Shirek cultist hadn't taken off his heavy black armor even when he was traveling at sea, and his paranoia about his own protection was understandable—but no matter how careful he was, he couldn't fail to look at things, and the Shadow Wolf's bayonet sword drilled through his right eye, straight into his brain, and then wrenched hard. The warrior, who was close to eight feet, staggered back, one eye a bloody hole, the other rolled upward, and there was no eye at all, only a white white that was gradually bruising. He was blocked by the ship's side railing, but his upper body then leaned back and threw himself into the sea.

Fierce battles. The Hermit Crab had already hit the Dodo, pushing it further into the depths of the fog. On the dark waters, a few shallow waves streaked by, as if something was there—but neither of the warring sides paid attention