Chapter 550 Night Attack on the Sea

General Copperfield praised, "My Lord, you have considered everything very carefully. Yes, once you reach the level of a three-masted sailing ship, speed will be the key.

Look at the largest one, it has heavy external suspension armor, plus a large number of defensive equipment. While giving it super strong defense and offensive power, it will also make it extremely bulky. The sailing speed will definitely not be too fast, and it is easy to become a sitting duck. The probability of war damage is too high. This alone excludes the possibility of being a flagship.

Look at the smallest one again. Do you see the two spires in front and behind?

That is called a casting platform, which can be used to protect those casters, so that they can concentrate on casting without being disturbed by long-range attacks, and can also automatically add super magic feats to the casters inside, usually spells and far, to increase the range of spells.

This shows that this ship There are at least two extraordinary spellcasters on the warship. They are the best attack weapons and do not need any other additional weapons.

The turbine device half hidden under the water is also used in conjunction with the spellcaster. By injecting spell power into it, it can rotate at high speed, allowing the warship to burst out at a terrifying speed in an instant. It is very practical whether it is escaping or chasing. It is said that it was invented by a pirate wizard, and pirates like to equip their warships with this power device, so it is also called a pirate turbine.

Just based on these two items, the value of this warship far exceeds the other two, which is twice the sum of their sum. The materials spent on manufacturing alone are 200,000..."

"Wait a minute, attack it first and capture it as much as possible." Gavin made the decision without hesitation.

This is a typical semi-magic ship. Although it does not use the pure magic power supply of magic warships, it also makes itself fit with the spellcaster to an ultra-high level.

Such ships are not a matter of price, but there is no chance to see them on the market. They are usually specially customized.

Although there is a real magic warship, the Watcher, waiting for Gavin to salvage it at the bottom of the sea, it will not be done in a short time.

How can it be more tempting than this one that is so close.

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Three armed slave ships, named the Nest of the Petrified Lizard.

Although it is late at night, it is still brightly lit and bustling with people. The noise of drinking, the helpless and angry wailing of slaves, and the fighting of sailors are all mixed together.

Sailor, slave trader, pirate, any of these three professions is a high-risk profession, not to mention that several professions are mixed together, which is even more high-risk.

Many times, it is not the vicious people who choose this profession, but this profession has created countless vicious people. When you have been in this industry that does not treat people as human beings for a long time and survived, you will soon stop treating people as human beings, including yourself, but a beast in human skin.

Moreover, this team is not entirely human. There are a large number of humanoid intelligent creatures and dark species mixed in it - hobgoblins, gnolls, orcs, werewolves, etc.

This situation not only occurs in the human slave trading group of the petrified lizards, but also in most other pirate groups. These chaotic evil people are typical strong-willed people. They don't care about your origin at all. As long as you prove that you are strong enough and can help the pirate group's looting business, you can join them.

Compared with humans, these humanoid intelligent creatures and dark species have innate abilities that give them strong advantages in many aspects.

For example, the sentry on the mast is not a human but a dragonborn.

Not a special dragonborn like Shanoba with a second-stage transformation, but a relatively pure dragonborn with a relatively pure bloodline. The appearance is 70% to 80% similar to the dragon-transformed big dog-headed man in the dwarf statue city, or it can be said that the dragon-transformed big dog-headed man evolved towards the dragonborn template.

This is a blue dragon descendant, which can be seen from the blue dragon scales on his body and the sharp horns on his forehead. His body is as tall and strong as a half-giant, at least two meters and three meters tall, and his expression is indescribably arrogant.

He is not sitting in the mast observation tower, but sitting on a mast, holding a bottle of strong liquor and drinking by himself.

Dragons are all solitary creatures, especially blue dragons, which are typical. They like to live in the desert far away from most creatures, surrounded by sand dunes and loneliness.

Dragon descendants will inherit the racial personality of the dragon mother clan to a great extent, and even more extreme, because dragons can still find their own kind, but dragon descendants find it difficult.

Although this dragon descendant joined the petrified lizard human slave trafficking group, it does not mean that he will integrate into it. This is just a temporary job for him. He joined because the clan needed it. When it is no longer needed, he will turn around and leave without hesitation.

He looked coldly at the pirates below who were squandering their lives, energy and emotions unscrupulously, and there was no emotional warmth in his vertical pupils.

Although he had no feelings for the slave traders below, he still performed his duties diligently, standing up from time to time and turning around to observe the movements on the sea. This was due to the blue dragon's pursuit of perfection and lawful nature. If you do it, do it the best.

In this regard, the dragonborn have an innate advantage.

They inherited some of the dragon's powerful senses. Not only do they have amazing vision, they also have dark and dim light vision, and can see scenes several kilometers away, which can be magnified to the point of revealing every detail.

Since he joined the Basilisk's Nest, this small fleet has never been attacked by surprise.

It was because of him that the sailors below were so relieved to revel, and even the lookout sentinels on the other two ships were attracted, secretly putting down their tasks and joining the ranks of drunkenness and dreaming.

For this irresponsible behavior, the blue dragon dragonborn was full of anger and disdain. If they were his subordinates, they would have beaten them to death a thousand times.

Unfortunately, the petrified lizards were a slave trading group, not an army. His harsh style from the army made him unpopular despite his ability. Although he once climbed to a high position, he was overthrown by those who were better at indulging their subordinates.

He had no complaints or revenge for this, because this situation did not occur because the enemy was too powerful, but because he was inadequate.

"Well, what is that?" The blue dragon dragonborn's eyes condensed, and he immediately jumped up, accompanied by a pair of huge dragon wings that began to vibrate, and the dark green holy emblem of the sea goddess Amber on his chest lit up, and the magic power shrouding him suddenly subsided, allowing him to start flying smoothly.

He was not a believer of the shrewish queen. This holy emblem was the key to the mist barrier covering the warship. There was a no-fly rule here. Without it, he would be like a weight, falling straight on the deck, and his wings would be useless.

Although the mist barrier covering the warship was temporary, it was a nine-ring barrier. It not only had the ability to prohibit flying and teleportation, but also the ability to prohibit diving. Regardless of whether it was a land creature or a marine creature, if it wanted to approach the warship underwater, it would uncontrollably float part of its body to the surface.

The situation where a large number of marine creatures appeared around the warship and swam away in panic did not occur. That unique scene usually appeared when the warship was sailing at high speed. Like in front of him, during the stationing period, after the mist barrier was synchronized with the surrounding waters, those marine creatures would have a sense of induction and automatically avoid this area.

After the blue dragon dragonborn's body rose, his vertical pupils began to open layer by layer, and the muscles on his face expanded outward, making his eyes strangely expand by nearly twice, which seemed extremely inconsistent with the size of his entire face. With his monster body, there was no cute feeling of kawaii, only a strong sense of fear.

This is not an ability that all dragonborns have, but his personal dragonborn blood ability - the vision of a real dragon.

At this moment, his visual ability is completely comparable to that of a real dragon.

There was nothing in the empty sea, but the blue dragon dragonborn always felt that there was something wrong, and he couldn't help but scan it again.

This time he finally found the problem - water ripples, a series of water ripples were constantly rippling, and there was a rhythmic sound of splashing.

The blue dragon dragonborn, who had nearly ten years of experience in making a living on the sea, instantly recognized that this was the sound of paddling.

The blue dragon dragonborn shouted without hesitation: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, enemy attack, a large number of invisible ships are approaching, everyone prepare for battle, three cloaking flares in the southwest direction, if you don't want to die, all move."

The blue dragon dragonborn's voice clearly contained magical power, not only the people on his ship heard it, but the people on the other two ships also heard it immediately.

"It's the alarm of that bastard Sadro. Everyone, prepare for battle. Prepare for battle quickly."

"Everyone, take your positions. All sailors, board the deck, guard all defensive weapons, guard the deck, and prevent the enemy from boarding."

"Idiot, get up, how long are you going to sleep? Wait until the enemy rushes in and cuts off your heads?"

"Where's Charlie? Where's that idiot Charlie? Did he get drunk again? If he wasn't really accurate with the crossbow, I would have cut off the old bastard's head long ago. Whose crossbow can still shoot? I'm short of a crossbowman here..."

"Burp... Burp... Captain... Captain... Why are you in such a hurry? I... I... Am I here?"

"You can't even stand steadily, and you can still use a crossbow ? "

"Using a crossbow... is using hands, not feet... hiccups, I promise, even if I use my feet... I can shoot more accurately than them... Besides, they are not much better... hiccups, most of the crossbowmen on our ship... hiccups, have been drunk by me... hahahaha..."

"Asshole, you still have the nerve to laugh, when the enemy rushes up, you won't be able to laugh... Hurry up, prepare the stealth-breaking flares, otherwise it will be too late when the enemy rushes up."

The slave traders in the petrified lizard's nest showed super high military literacy. After hearing the alarm, they picked up their weapons and ran to their posts, even though many of them were already drunk. Not to mention running, even if they walked, they were crooked and looked like they would fall down at any time.

What constrained them was not discipline, but the particularity of the industry they were engaged in. Once they failed, they would hardly have a chance to survive. Even if the enemies who attacked them were willing to let them go, the rescued slaves would eat them alive.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three alchemical bombs were fired by the crossbow on the ship to a height of hundreds of meters and exploded.

This is not an ordinary flare, but a cloak-breaking flare made by the second-level magic flash dust.

It is the latest magic product of the red-robed wizards of Sel.

The price is very high, each worth one thousand gold coins, and just these three shots cost three thousand gold coins.

But it is still very popular among pirates and in short supply because it is worth the money.

The light they burst out was not comparable to the illumination magic, at least three or four times brighter than it. The suspected problematic sea surface was illuminated as bright as day, not only tearing through the darkness, but also illuminating the invisible existence.

The blue dragon dragonborn was not wrong. There were indeed a large number of invisible paddle boats in the water, heading towards the petrified lizard's nest.

Even if they saw through the invisibility, they did not see what the enemy who attacked them looked like.

Because the other party did not use the invisibility spell, but was covered by a huge black tarpaulin, so even if it was illuminated by the invisibility-breaking flare, it was still looming and seemed very unreal. Moreover, at the bow position, there were wall shields that were inlaid and intertwined, turning these speedboats into turtle ships.

These speedboats were not specially built by Gavin's orders, but were pieced together using local materials.

The clippers came from the small dock of Ilip that they had just secretly controlled. It was not difficult for them to do this with a layout that was seriously disconnected from the city and the dock, especially when they had absolute force. The dozens of pirate soldiers stationed there did not even have the opportunity to pick up their weapons. A small number of sentries were secretly wiped out, and most of them were killed on their beds by a five-ring death cloud spell.

The shadow spinning produced in the Ghost Textile Factory of Misnoel provided invisibility for these clippers, and the shadow carriage tarpaulin made of it was a new use developed after the number of shadow spinning increased significantly. As long as this tarpaulin was covered, an ordinary carriage would also become a ghost carriage, which could play an unexpected tactical effect. However, before it had time to shine on the battlefield, Gavin used it in naval battles.

If it weren't for the blue dragon dragonborn's diligence and vigilance, they would have all touched the ship, and it is estimated that these slave traders immersed in the carnival would have just discovered it.

The wall shields were taken from the side car panels of the side car. They were directly dismantled and slightly modified to be used as shields for the earth giants. Four such large wooden shields were enough to protect the bow of the clipper tightly, making it impossible to see the actual situation inside.

"Full speed ahead."

After discovering that their whereabouts were exposed, Gavin, who was sitting on the front clipper, ordered loudly.

In order to operate secretly, their rowing speed was not particularly fast, at least only half of the speed they could row at full strength.

With his order, the speed of dozens of clippers soared to the extreme, split into three, and rushed towards their respective targets.

"Crossbows, where are the crossbows? What are crossbows for? Fire quickly! Fire quickly!"

"Where are the mages? Where are our mages? Why aren't they casting spells yet?"

"Too far away, the opponent hasn't entered the spell range yet."

"Fire! Fire! Fire quickly!"

Accompanied by waves of commotion, the crossbow carts and crossbows on the three-masted sailing ships started to move one after another, shooting sparsely at the turtle-shaped speedboats that were rushing forward.

"Go full speed ahead, don't worry about them, they can't hurt us."

"Don't change direction, keep full speed."

Facing this kind of crossbow shooting, under normal circumstances, even if the speedboats don't flee in panic, they will take a zigzag approach to dodge, in order to reduce the possibility of being attacked.

As long as you know that these warships are equipped with heavy crossbows, and all the arrows fired are specially made armor-piercing crossbows. Once hit, their cargo speedboats, which are only six or seven meters long, will be directly penetrated.

When they found that the enemies on the speedboats did not do so, the slave traders who were operating the crossbows showed cruel and bloodthirsty smiles on their faces.

"Haha, they are a group of idiots who have no experience in naval warfare. Prepare to change the crossbows to shotgun shells and wait to beat the drowning dogs."

"The wizard prepares a group attack and lethal spell."

"It hits, haha...hiccup...it hits, hitting such idiots who don't know how to dodge, I...hiccup...even if I drink two more bottles of rum, I can hit them one by one."

"Impossible, impossible, absolutely impossible, I just shot it, why is there no damage?"

"It went through, the crossbow actually went through, are we not dealing with ordinary enemies, but really a group of ghosts?"

The slave traders who were still clapping and celebrating in the last second showed incredible expressions in the next second, their crossbows went straight through those ships like passing through phantoms.

"Don't panic, those are magic phantoms. Those following behind are their real entities. Don't worry about the front row. Attack the middle and back rows first."

There are also knowledgeable slave traders who can see the problem at a glance.

When they heard that it was just magic, the slave traders calmed down a lot. They observed the situation on the sea and found the problem.

Although the ships in front looked extremely realistic, even the ripples of the oars were vivid, but they lacked something - those ripples of the oars suddenly disappeared after spreading to a certain extent, obviously reaching the range of the spell.

This is not a spell in the orthodox sense, but a new application of Regina's real phantom, which is projected by the spirit crystal stone to confuse the enemy and attract the enemy's firepower.

If it is a simple projection, it is still relatively easy to distinguish, but these speedboats are covered with phantom cloaks, and they are caught off guard and very easy to be fooled.

While these heavy crossbows were powerful, they were also very bulky and relatively slow to load. Due to this delay, the speedboats had already advanced dozens of meters towards them.