2022-05-03

Chapter 157 Diana and the Mist

“Northwest has a mid-sized three-masted Sailboat, captain, what are we going to do?”

“What flag is on that ship?”

“No flag at all, captain.”

Wearing in neat navy uniform , a beard middle-aged man hearing this wearing an eagle-feather three-cornered hat, picked up a brass telescope and looked at the black spot in the distance.

After a while, he put down the telescope and said:

“The hull is not the slender style with pointed ears, it looks a bit like a merchant ship on the shore of the Eastern Sea.”

“If it’s just an ordinary merchant ship, we don’t need to worry about it, right?”

The sailor who reported the situation asked cautiously.

Hearing this, the middle-aged man of the beard stared and said:

“Has your brain rusted in the sea, how can there be any ordinary merchant on this route? ship. Where are they going to do business? The impossible is to go to the Ruins of Ossis, right? Tell the wind controller to speed up the wind and cut the ship first. I bet that the ship is either smuggled to Ava. A smuggler of supplies, or an elf spy disguised as a merchant ship.”

After hearing such a strong order, the sailor who understood what the captain was planning to do whispered:

“But Captain, what should we do on Miss Diana’s side…”

This sentence made the captain tangled for a while.

In normal times, if he encounters such a smuggling ship that does not fly the flag of the Imperial Shipping Company, he will grab it if he says it. After all, he has a privateer’s license issued by the royal family, and the other party is likely to be a smuggler doing illegal business with Awazhou… Well, even if it’s not a smuggler, who cares about disappearing in the vast sea What about a ship?

The empire’s naval system is very independent, with the exception of the priests who accompany the ship, the outside is basically unable to intervene. And the priests on the boat are also very easy to buy, it is really smelly and hard… There will always be some dangerous situations in the sea of danger lurks on every side, right?

In this way, they take over some of their own “private work”, and as long as their hands and feet are clean enough, they will basically have no trouble afterwards.

But now, in his cabin, there is a troublesome woman with lace cuffs on her cuffs, who not only eats with silver knives and forks, but also lights candlesticks. And they can neither bribe this woman, nor can they possibly create some surprises for her.

After all, who would dare to bribe or harm a divine enlightener who has been certified by the Eighth Order priest group and has caused a miracle?

After hesitating again and again, the captain still said:

“I’ll stabilize her, you go to inform the second officer, let him command the scene, let him act quickly and deal with it cleanly .”

…………

“It’s extremely unlucky now…”

Captain Hobbs watched as the ship appeared on the skyline The imperial warship muttered to itself.

“Are we still so far apart, can we be all right?”

William asked.

At this moment, he is putting his hand on his forehead, which looks like he is blocking the sunlight, but in fact he is covering up the amber halo that flows slightly in his eyes when he releases the [Eagle Eye Technique].

The imperial battleship that appeared in the sky was a little different from what William imagined.

Although it was also a barque of wood, it had no muzzles on the broadsides and no rams on the bow. Only in the center of the hull stood two conical wooden towers that were the same height as the masts, and the tops of the towers were lit with rays of light as deep as a starry sky.

In a world with a highly mobile, small-target artillery array like the Magic Singer, there really was no incentive to develop artillery, a weapon that was very cumbersome in the early days.

“Are you all right?”

At William’s question, Captain Hobbes laughed as if he had heard a joke.

It’s just that his face was a mixture of sarcasm and anguish.

“It’s not without reason that the empire can maintain such a large navy with such a small maritime budget.”

As he spoke, he raised the monocular telescope and looked at it for a moment. Towards the direction of the imperial battleship, he kept saying:

“The most vicious and famous pirates at sea are the pirates of Daemon Continent, who do business in the area of the White Sea, eight out of ten ships. They have been robbed by them. But generally speaking, as long as they cooperate with them, there is no one who resists or hurts them. In the case of overwhelming majority, those pirates will let the ship come back safely, which can be regarded as inexhaustible fishing. In contrast, the imperial navy is a bit fierce. No, can you guess why?”

William was silent.

“Because few people can survive to tell their glorious deeds, as long as they are targeted, the ship will be destroyed.”

Seeing that William did not answer, Hobbes directly said.

As he spoke, he also raised his whalebone prosthesis and knocked on the deck.

“Even if you live to accuse them of doing good deeds, no one wants to meddle in their business. They will only advise you to join the Imperial Shipping Company and register your ship as an Imperial Merchant ship for the sake of it. There is a huge tax on each shipment, and there is no risk in hoisting their flags… ah, that warship has sped up.”

William, who uses [Eagle Eye], also sees it. When he arrived, the sails of the warship in the distance with the dragon sword emblem were bulging like a woman in six armors, and the rays of light of silver shone on one of the wooden towers.

Obviously, the other party is also using the storm spell to speed up the ship.

“Unfortunately, they’ve got their eyes on us.”

Captain Hobbs concluded.

Immediately he loudly shouted to the surrounding sailors:

“Let the ‘Big Steel Cannon’ and ‘Thunder Fire’ come to the deck quickly. Let everyone get their weapons ready to take off We may have a tough battle to fight.”

After shouting, he looked back towards William and said:

“Mr. Ishma, please enter the cabin first. Hide for a while. Also, please hide half of your cargo and keep half of it on your body.”

“How long until then?”

William frowned asked.

“Hide until we kill them, or until they kill us. Of course, it’s even more dreamy that we can negotiate terms with them, and the other party will take more than half of the boat, and that’s it. Everyone is happy.”

“Which one has greater probability?”

William continued to ask.

In response, a bitter smile appeared on the other side’s face.

“My suggestion is that you can prepare a sharp enough dagger in advance, when the time comes it will be more enjoyable.”

William hearing this hesitated for a while.

In principle, William didn’t want to make too much noise before he got to Ava, or even saw Remedios. And he’s not quite clear. Is it a relatively big move to directly sink an imperial warship.

And if it’s just to get out of trouble, just release the spell of the storm system to accelerate the whalebone and throw away the imperial warship.

But…

William looked towards Liz beside him.

She obscured her figure with a faint mist on her body, and Captain Hobbs, who was not far from her, did not perceive the existence of this Demonness.

In response, Liz just gave William a “no problem” gesture helplessly.

“I’ll stay on deck too.”

William said to the lame captain.

Hobbs, who had turned around and planned to go back to set up the task, turned his head back. He looked at the Originium Silver merchant who claimed to be from the Blackwater Province with a curious expression on his face.

“What are you doing down here? Are you a cannon fodder?”

He asked very directly.

William shook the head, bright red flames blazing in his hands.

Looking at the flames burning in the opponent’s hands, Hobbs’ pupils suddenly dilated.

“Are you a magic caster?”

“You don’t really think that an ordinary person would dare to go to Ava alone with such dozens of kilograms of Elemental Silver. Do you want to do business in Europe?”

William replied, and then continued:

“I know a thing or two about magic, don’t worry, these pirates called the navy are Nothing will be taken from this ship.”

…………

“I heard some noise outside, is there something going on?”

A very ethereal female voice came out from the closed door, with no ups and downs in her tone.

The beard-faced middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, and finally didn’t open the wooden door that was carved with various runes.

Since he received the mission from the Eighth Order to escort Diana, the “Apocalypse” to Ava, rumors about her have spread on the ship more and more outrageous. .

Some say that looking at her for too long will make her eyes blind, some say that her tears can cure all diseases, and some say that she can turn iron stone into gold just by touching it…

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at first The other party said that he did not want to play the role of the so-called “God enlightened”, and hoped to be able to eat and live with the sailors on the ship. As a result, there were three brawls because of her on the second day on the ship, and a total of four fingers and one ear were lost in the final statistics – because the sailors competed for the qualification to sit next to her during dinner.

After that, as the captain, he had no choice but to give up his separate room to the “Saintess” adult, and the meal and other meals were also arranged for her alone.

“Miss Diana, our ship has just encountered a group of pirates, and the deck is now preparing for the encounter…” After a slight inhalation, the captain immediately accelerated his speech and said:

“But please rest assured that our martial power is fully able to protect your safety. But the premise is that you are in everything Before it’s over, stay here and don’t go out, it’s very dangerous outside.”

The man behind the door was silent for a while, and then said in an ethereal voice:

“Since it’s a pirate, , there is no way to do that.”

Hearing this, the captain’s dangling heart finally calmed down a little.

As the imperial navy in the true sense of the sky and the emperor, the empire has not developed a method to limit their plundering.

However, the cost of effective means is too high, and the effect of low-cost means is extremely limited. In the end, the empire had to force each ship to be equipped with an accompanying priest to influence and wash the souls of the crew. In this way, it is estimated that they themselves will not believe that they have done their best.

And for those Holy Spirit pastors, he has a joke he never gets tired of telling.

Devotion, wisdom and sincerity, any pastor can only possess two of these three excellent qualities at the same time.

And as long as he found out which quality they lacked, he could easily control the priests who were sent on board to monitor them for his use.

Now it seems that not only the pastor, but even the so-called “God Initiator”, who is said to have predicted the future through her mouth, the Eighth Holy Spirit, cannot escape this pastor’s law.

She may be religious and sincere enough, but it’s clear that wisdom or something has nothing to do with her.

You must know that this is the Broken Sea. In the past 800 years, except for the storm helmsman who tied his head to the waistband of the smuggling business, no pirates would haunt such a place.

But he just said so, and the other party believed it.

The captain suppressed his complacent mood and glanced aside. The two sailors who had been waiting for the order for a long time came over and guarded the door of this room.

“You stay here and protect Miss Diana.”

The captain said loudly.

Immediately he added to the two sailors in a whisper-like voice:

“Remember, don’t let her step out of this room until I get back…”

Before he could finish his words, the ethereal voice with no emotion inside the door suddenly sounded, making him shivered with fright.

“Captain, in fact, I don’t need to arrange additional protection here, or the battle outside is more dangerous.”

“Don’t worry, pirates are just mobs to us. , let them protect you here just to prevent that the other party may have a thunder and lightning wizard, when the time comes jumping over the wall and jumping in with a spell like teleportation.” The captain said perfunctorily, and then he ignored it. The other party’s answer hurried away.

Therefore, he didn’t hear Diana’s last words

“In the battle for a while, please pay attention to the fog…”

… ………

“Can it be done?”

Taking advantage of the attention of the surrounding people on the space of the warship, William quietly confronted Liz who was flying behind him. asked.

“Small problem, if you want to send people over, there may be some risks. But just laying the magic channel is not difficult for the fog of demoness.”

Flying behind him, Liz replied with energy for some reason.

William, who is far away in Blackwater Marsh, wants to use his Avatar to release spell on the Broken Sea. The most deadly problem is the decay of magic power.

Now in Blackwater Marsh and Nakuland, William has overcome distance problems between several major cities by using reaction terminals inscribed with spatial spells as base stations for magic transmissions.

However, in this vast sea, he couldn’t fix the reaction terminal as a magic power transmission base station – throwing it into the sea might be swept away by the ocean currents. Second, even if he has mastered the source silver resources of the entire Thorn City now, he cannot afford such profligacy. The distance between the Broken Sea and Blackwater Marsh is much larger than the big cities in Blackwater Marsh. too much.

But fortunately, William finally recalled that in addition to the lightning spell, there is another way to pull the distance across space.

That’s the innate talent magic of the Demoness, the fog of the Demoness.

Through the concept of blurring and confusing distance, the two places are connected. If the thunder and lightning spell is similar to the space warp, then the fog of demoness is a bit like quantum entanglement.

Of course, it is indeed a bit inappropriate to use William’s previous world with very strict underlying rules to describe this world where the rules are too casual.

But in any case, for the fog of Demonness, the increase in distance will not increase the consumption of magic power like teleporting spells, but will only seriously reduce the success probability of transmission – the more complex the concept, the success less likely.

But magic is the constituent substance of all things, and the effect of distance on them can be said to be negligible.

As long as there are two extremely ambiguous places, the fog of Demoness can truly connect the magic path regardless of distance. During Liz channeling the fog of Demoness, William’s Avatar can basically reach the intensity of the body’s descent.

I wish you all a Happy International Labor Day!

Intel Nishonal must make it happen!

(End of this chapter)

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