Chapter 3656: Teaching a Lesson
Chapter 3656: Teaching a Lesson
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Hmm?!
What was that?!
Vengeful spirits?!
After the Tide of Terror receded, countless densely packed vengeful spirits were left behind.
The densely packed undead-element vengeful spirits surrounded the outer defensive barrier of the ship.
The barrier radiated a crimson glow, continuously dissolving the incoming vengeful spirits.
However, the barrier had just endured a wave of tidal attacks, and its energy had been greatly weakened. Now, under the siege of the vengeful spirits, its color had become increasingly dim.
Not good!
"Hurry! The barrier is about to collapse! Switch to backup energy!"
Captain Cyril reacted first and ordered his subordinates to replace the energy supply.
"Boom!"
Before the crew, still shaken and unsteady from the sea surge, could fully regain their footing, the red defensive barrier covering the ship suddenly shattered. The wraith creatures gathered outside surged into the ship.
"D*mn it! Follow me! Engage the enemy!"
Cyril raised his longsword and charged toward the vengeful spirits, shouting sharply, "Priest corps! Pray to the god! Crush them!"
The priest corps members were still disoriented from the sea impact. After some effort, they gradually recovered in small groups and once again concentrated their mental strength to pray to the deity.
Instantly, Cyril’s weapon was enveloped in a crimson glow under the deity’s blessing.
"Chi!!!"
Cyril swung his longsword and slashed out, shattering a wraith.
It worked!
Cyril slightly relaxed.
Within seconds, the Empire’s elite soldiers gradually recovered, gripping the rails as they stood and began dealing with the wraith creatures that had invaded the ship.
Raygynold himself had average strength. After narrowly surviving, he saw the ship being invaded by vengeful spirits and panicked completely. He hid behind a group of elite imperial guards and shouted, "Hurry! Pull back! Stay away from here! Retreat! Return to Sea God Island!"
But it was impossible.
Inside the control room, the deputy captain’s forehead was covered in sweat.
He also wanted to leave!
All the systems had been pushed to their limits, but the ship was as if nailed in place, unable to move at all, as if something was holding it down.
The deputy captain looked beneath the ship and immediately changed expression.
Under the vessel, the originally deep-blue ocean had been covered in black. From the black water, countless dark hands reached out and firmly grabbed the ship, pinning it in place so it could not move even an inch.
In addition to the swarming vengeful spirits, skeletons wielding bone swords crawled out of the water and climbed up along the ship, invading it.
"Hold them back! Do not let them damage the ship!"
The soldiers, empowered by the deity’s force, temporarily ignored pain and became highly energized, swinging their blades to block the undead creatures.
Under the stimulation of the deity’s power, the soldiers erupted with combat strength twice as high as usual.
But it was useless!
There were too many skeletal creatures!
They could not be killed!
They simply could not be killed!
Faced with the ever-increasing number of undead creatures, the soldiers on the deck fought desperately, but they found more and more skeletal creatures on the ship. They gradually could not withstand the pressure, began to retreat, and even deaths started to occur.
Raygynold’s face turned deathly pale.
What should he do?
Everything had turned out completely different from what he had expected!
He had thought that obtaining a high-level deity would make him invincible, but before he could even celebrate, he had been drenched in cold water.
Was the opponent’s deity even stronger than theirs?
In the distance, Priest Darcy stood on the deck of the ship, his eyes filled with deep shock.
He had personally witnessed the three Lyman Empire ships being engulfed by a cloud of death. Countless undead kept rising from the sea, dragging the ships downward.
If this continued, the Lyman Empire ships would truly be dragged into the sea and buried forever by the undead.
He was only thankful that it was not him trapped in that undead tide.
The power of the undead!
Which deity was this?!
The accompanying deputy captain was also extremely tense, his throat dry, "Sir, should we..."
"Activate the deity!" Darcy took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Go to rescue them!"
Raygynold held an important status and was part of the High Priest’s grand plan. Before departure, she had repeatedly instructed that he must be protected at all costs.
They could not just watch him die.
At least they had to try.
"Yes!"
As the Sea God’s believers on the ship began chanting, the deity at the bow radiated a purple-red glow, and the entire ship moved toward the three vessels shrouded in death.
"Chi! Chi chi!!"
The ship protected by purple-red light entered the range of the spell.
The death aura began to rapidly dissolve upon contact with the purple barrier.
Huh?
It worked?!
Darcy’s heart jumped.
The undead mist was rapidly dispersing under the deity’s power.
The effect was far better than he had expected.
Could it be that the deity had a special counter-effect against undead power?
Darcy frowned, then looked toward the Oz Empire merchant ship not far away.
Or had they stopped?
Either way, Darcy finally breathed a slight sigh of relief and signaled the ship to move in for reinforcement.
Fang Heng still stood on the deck of the ship, watching the approaching Sea God Island vessel from afar, and muttered softly to himself.
"Not bad."
The Sea God believers’ divine power had gradually broken down the spell formed by the death aura.
It was not to the point of having no resistance at all.
But this was also under the condition that he had not continued to suppress it.
That was enough to give them a lesson.
In just a few minutes, his favorability with Sea God Island had dropped by more than twenty thousand. In contrast, his favorability and merit points with the Oz Empire had increased quite a bit.
Fang Heng simply withdrew the spell.
As the black mist receded, the undead creatures also gradually retreated into the sea.
"Let’s go. We will go around from the right side and land on the island."
"Yes!" Deputy Captain Howell shouted. "Change course! Go around and land from the right side!"
On the three Lyman Empire ships, the Sea God priests’ mental strength had already reached its limit, on the verge of collapse.
Fortunately, Sea God Island’s reinforcements had arrived at the last second.
As the priests stopped controlling the deity, the red mist blessing around the ships dispersed. Without the deity’s power enhancement, the soldiers felt an overwhelming wave of exhaustion, and due to severe mental depletion, they no longer had the strength to stand and collapsed all over the deck.
Darcy led a group from Sea God Island aboard the ship and quickly walked toward Raygynold.
"Your Highness, are you alright?"
Alright?
He was anything but alright!
Raygynold’s legs were still weak.
He had never been so close to death in his life.
After the fear subsided, what followed was endless rage.
He had nearly died!
All because of those Oz Empire people!
And Sea God Island too!
It was all a scam!
Raygynold’s eyes reddened as he stared at Darcy and said in a low voice, "Why! Why did the deity granted by Sea God Island fail to deal with that guy?"