Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 195 Battles and Trouble That Battles Can't Solve
"I'm going to cut off the soul of your second son!"

The attack on Cheng Lang and his group had just begun when everyone heard Shenba's insane roar.

With a mixture of bewilderment, disdain, and heightened vigilance, Shenba swung the large scythe in his hand.

However, before the numerous enemies, who had been drawn to the weapon, could change their positions to avoid the giant scythe, they discovered that their feet were being held firmly to the ground by an invisible force!

"puff!"

Before these enemies, realizing the danger, could have their lives or souls harvested by Shenba's giant scythe, sharp thorns suddenly sprouted from between their legs.

In their indescribable agony, these injured people clearly misunderstood the way Shenba intended to "harvest the soul of the second son."

This surprise attack also highlighted the differences between these enemies from different backgrounds.

Some had thorns piercing their groins, while a considerable number of enemies were clearly protected—they wore chainmail and iron underpants.

"Can we get out of here by burrowing beetles?" Gerta asked loudly.

“Those burrowing beetles around us won’t let us go,” Yun Lan replied. “If we get trapped underground, we’re really doomed.”

"Captain! Captain! Can I do it?!" Yavso asked.

"Do it!"

Cheng Lang answered without hesitation. At the same time, Shenba's scythe finally began to harvest, but strangely, the scythe did not cut any of the enemies.

But the enemies, as they were reaped by the sickle, wore expressions of idiocy.

"Are you harvesting the second brother's soul?" Gerta shouted.

"I mixed up the big and small heads!"

As Shenba responded, he caught the sickle that flew back, then swung his arm and flung it out again.

"I'm going to turn you all into mushrooms!"

As Yavso spoke, she drew her bow with her glowing green hands and shot an arrow with a spore bottle attached at the furthest burrowing beetles.

Almost at the same time that the glass bottles exploded one after another, Yun Ji had already dodged all the attacks and rushed to the elves.

"laugh!"

The dagger in her hand swiftly sliced ​​open the skins of the elves, revealing the dwarves inside.

"Become the nourishment for the blooming of the golden roses, it is your honor."

Yun Lan secretly muttered her favorite catchphrase to herself, but her expression showed a hint of embarrassment.

Of course, this did not stop the pirates, whose bodies were covered in thorns, from turning into mummies.

Cheng Lang was not idle either. As he flung out the invisible spider web and pulled hard, the mixed-race sailors who had almost rushed forward and were wearing iron shorts suddenly squeezed together. Then, as Cheng Lang continued to pull hard, they turned into neatly cut pieces of meat!
"crash"

As the blood-stained spiderweb, now barely visible, unfurled, the uncut pieces of metal scattered across the ground.

"Watch out overhead!"

Gerta shouted a warning, and before he could finish speaking, a group of eagle-clan orcs swooping down from above sprouted thorns all over their bodies. They were then restrained by invisible whips and forcibly dragged in different directions before hitting the ground.

"Capture a few alive"

Before Cheng Lang could finish speaking, a rope had already wrapped around a captain wearing a tricorn hat and dragged him to Cheng Lang's feet.

Before the pirate captain could speak or use the power granted by the ship's core to resist, a jet-black whip lashed out by Cheng Lang had already wrapped around his neck.

"A pirate captain?" Cheng Lang asked.

"That's right"

The prisoner was in considerable pain, but the terror in his voice was undeniable. The reason was simple: the cold, slippery whip had already slipped its slender tip into his ear.

"Whom are you risking your life for?" Cheng Lang asked.

"The Ghost Fleet," the captain replied.

"And who provided me with this intelligence?" Cheng Lang continued to ask.

“I don’t know,” the pirate captain replied.

"Then you fucking wasted my time!"

As Cheng Lang spoke, the slender tip of his whip sliced ​​open the other man's neck.

"I've found something here."

Yun Lan also captured a prisoner at this time, a prisoner who was half-elf and half-siren, and she had the pattern of a wandering circus on her chest.

"Should you tell me yourself, or should I help you?"

As Yun Lan spoke, she pressed her rapier against the gill opening on the other person's neck.

"I come from a wandering circus."

The female prisoner said, "We sold your information, but we don't know how we obtained it. Besides, we had no malicious intent; we just wanted to buy it."

"laugh!"

Before the female prisoner could finish speaking, Yun Lan's rapier had already slashed open her neck.

"These lowly bastards are going to buy me."

As Yun Lan spoke, she pulled out a handkerchief and carefully wiped the bloodstains off the rapier.

"Hopefully they can offer a good price," Cheng Lang joked, while Yun Ji and Shen Ba each dragged back a prisoner.

"Captain! Look at this!"

Shenba boasted triumphantly, "I severed his soul from the neck down!"

"Can he still speak?"

After asking the question, Cheng Lang looked directly at Yun Ji, who never disappointed the captain, and she was carrying a dwarf in her hand.

He also came from the Ghost Fleet.

Yun Ji glanced at her younger brother, who was shaking the captive, rolled her eyes, and said, "They need the armor of ambition, don't you think so?"

"The commander of the Ghost Fleet needs the armor of ambition."

The dwarf, whose body was covered in knife wounds but hadn't bled much, shuddered and then quickly said, "Our initial goal was also the Armor of Ambition."

"Who is your commander-in-chief?" Cheng Lang asked.

"I do not know"

The dwarf said, “I have never seen the Grand Commander.”

"Fortunately, Lord Panini didn't lay a hand on us," Cheng Lang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Captain, the one I caught actually came from Pirate City."

Shenba quickly shook the lump of still-living mud in his hand and said, "They come from the First Main City. Lord Panini personally gave them the order."

"What orders?" Yun Lan asked while using thorns to fend off the closing enemies.

“Capture Yafso alive and bring her back to Pirate City.” Shenba gave an answer that surprised everyone. “You’re not going to ask about this prisoner anymore, are you? Then I’ll just leave her here.”

With that, he tossed the unlucky fellow in his hand away.

At this moment, the battlefield of siege was no longer necessary because of the thorns summoned by Yun Lan and the invisible whips that could bind and confiscate at any time.

"Don't waste your time."

Cheng Lang said, "Each person is responsible for one direction, prioritizing taking down their leader and destroying their burrowing beetles."

"Good method"

As Yun Lan spoke, she gently lifted her skirt and walked towards the pirates amidst the thorns—they weren't wearing iron shorts. "Those grass carp bastards are mine!"

As Shenba spoke, he brandished his scythe and charged headlong towards the mixed-blood sea monsters—he couldn't tell the difference between the leader and the minions.

“Yafso, come with me.”

As Yun Ji spoke, she charged towards the dwarves disguised as elves and their burrowing beetles at lightning speed, like a ghost.

"I'm coming too!"

As Yavso spoke, she ran over with two boat-shaped bottles in her hand.

"Can any of you tell me who you are, and who sent you?"

As Cheng Lang spoke, he walked up to some enemies who were clearly dressed as land mercenaries and used whip ropes to tie the necks of several of them who looked like leaders.

"Please let go, please let go!"

One of them was struggling, his face flushed, but Cheng Lang ignored him and instead looked at the others who were still breathing.

"We...we are from Lebanon."

One of them said, "The royal family of Rica received intelligence that the pirate Cheng Lang had kidnapped Princess Rica, and we were ordered to rescue her."

Do you think there's a princess here?

As Cheng Lang spoke, a whip appeared in his hand.

"If you are willing to let us leave, we will tell you the truth."

"Sorry, I'm not that easily fooled."

After Cheng Lang finished speaking, he lashed out with his whip.

At the furthest point reached by the whip tip, an invisible spiderweb unfolded, its delicate threads easily tearing through the skin of these enemies, generously delivering a sharp pain in return.

Sure enough, as the wounds multiplied, someone finally admitted that they were not from Rica but from the Principality of Borland, and that they had come on the orders of Princess Rica.

As soon as these words were spoken, Yun Lan, who had been eavesdropping, breathed a sigh of relief. Thick, towering thorns with barbs immediately sprouted from the ground between these people's legs.

"I'm actually quite gentle."

Cheng Lang shrugged, while secretly marveling at the combined combat power of the verdant sacred tree and the ship's core, which was far greater than the sum of its parts.

Not long after they all went all out, the battle, in which the outnumbered fought the many, lost its purpose of encirclement and annihilation as the pirates collapsed first.

During Yun Ji's high-speed hunt, the second wave of those who left were the dwarves who hurriedly hid in the burrowing beetles.

Seeing that things were going badly, the remaining enemies scattered and disappeared without a trace.

"Should"

Cheng Lang took a deep breath. "It's time for us to leave. Hurry, let's leave quickly."

"What should we do with these corpses?" Shenba asked a stupid question.

"They are the best breeding ground."

As Yafso spoke, she threw a glass bottle at a corpse in the distance, which was then shattered by Yun Lan with the help of long thorns.

As the cold wind blew, these spores spread rapidly, causing large patches of strangely shaped corpse mushrooms to grow on the surrounding corpses.

Meanwhile, Cheng Lang and his companions had already boarded the carriage, abandoning unnecessary supplies and running desperately toward the direction of Slippery Oil Town.

"Keep up with them"

Behind Cheng Lang and the others, on the top of a low hill, a woman belonging to a wandering circus said with satisfaction, "Their fighting ability is very good. Capture them."

"But we..."

"Then let's use those borrowed monsters."

The woman said nonchalantly, "Let's make our move in Gate Canyon, and while we're at it, we'll bury the rest of the forces there."

"But."

“As long as there are no survivors, we won’t be exposed,” the woman said. “Including our people.”

"Yes," her subordinate quickly replied.

I don't quite understand.

On the slightly bumpy carriage, Yafso asked blankly, "Why did that stinky octopus grab me?"

"Perhaps it's because of your mushrooms?" Shenba guessed.

"Mushroom stew with octopus?" Yavso rolled her eyes.

"I also don't understand why they wanted to capture Yafso," Yun Lan and Yun Ji said in unison, and both looked at Cheng Lang.

"Don't look at me, I don't know either."

Cheng Lang responded absentmindedly, then glanced at Gerta, who was driving, without leaving a trace. He vaguely felt that Gerta might know the reason.

However, regardless of the reason, their primary task right now is to escape the Frost Duchy immediately.

During the journey, pursuers appeared from time to time, but perhaps because of the previous battle.

These pursuers maintained a seemingly insignificant distance, neither leaving nor launching a sneak attack, yet they remained elusive within their sight.

Even if these people used some method to escape underground and change their appearance by using burrowing beetles, they could always be found soon afterward.

Amidst the irritation of being surrounded by flies, the group, who had been traveling day and night, finally passed through Oil Town three days later and then rushed to Gate Canyon.

This so-called Gat Canyon is like a crack in the ice.

At one end of this ice crevice, the only town is Oil Town, and besides that, there are oil wells of all sizes.

On the other side of the crevasse, the only faint light visible was not the stars and aurora in the night sky, but the lighthouse of Frostflower Harbor.

"Gateway isn't very deep."

"It's said that this place used to connect to the Arctic Ice Sea, but..." said Gerta, who was in charge of driving.

"Is it because of the battle between the Valkyrie and Poseidon again?" Cheng Lang asked.

"That's right"

Gerta nodded. "The crevasse is only ten nautical miles wide, but the path to it on the other side is a hundred nautical miles due north, unless..."

"A burrowing beetle?" Yun Lan quickly answered.

"That's right"

Gerta nodded again, "But I doubt those disgusting bastards behind us, who are as worm-like as shipworms, will just let us into the canyon like that."

"It's a pity that Lord Yedi is unwilling to come out and help us stop them," Cheng Lang sighed helplessly. That bastard big cat's excuse was just that he was afraid of the cold. Nobody would believe that!

"Ladies and gentlemen."

Yun Ji, who had been keeping a close eye on what was behind her, reminded her, "They've caught up."

"Should we stop?" Yun Lan asked.

"Stop? No, no, no need to stop, just charge straight into the canyon."

Cheng Lang said, "Shenba, you will take Mr. Gerta flying later. Yun Ji, you will take Princess Yun Lan."

"This plan sounds exciting!" Yun Lan was the first to express her support.

"I hope they also have the Dark Elf's excellent night vision," Cheng Lang muttered to himself.

(End of this chapter)