Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 223 Who knows?
On the southern side of the Starsea Continent, the powerful army soldiers of the Frost Duchy, in coordination with the hybrid warriors of the Morfitta Duchy, are crashing against the ever-shrinking border between Gotland and Poiran like waves.

Behind them, not only were cannons forged by the Principality of Rica providing cover, but also recruited elven archers were carrying out precise volleying and sniping attacks.

Further north, the ancestral mountain of the dwarfs has been completely destroyed. The collapsed mountain, under precise blasting technology, has collapsed to both sides, forming two winding embankments.

On the inner side of these two dikes, as seawater flows back in, a canal has been formed that leads directly to the icy sea in the polar region.

After centuries of waiting since the Valkyries divided the borders of the nations, the Elven Duchy finally had its own outlet to the sea—at the cost of their once-proud pointed ears and silver hair, and at the cost of the dwarf mountains that had been bombed to the point of nothingness.

No, it's not like nothing is left.

After the canal was blasted open, something remained: a huge urn-shaped silver sphere.

However, this enormous sphere of silver, which Cheng Lang and his companions had once visited, along with the felled verdant sacred tree and even those verdant cannons, had become raw materials for building the Blood War Ark.

With these elves working tirelessly day and night, the moment for this enormous ark to set sail has arrived.

Meanwhile, the elven sailors, who had no real seafaring experience for generations, skillfully maneuvered this canoe, which was more like a "silver-clad log" than an ark, across the canal at an absurd speed into the Arctic Ice Sea, and then headed towards Iron Oak Island.

At the southernmost end of the canal, in the shipyard built around the capital of the Elven Kingdom, tens of thousands of black-haired elves were busily carving a massive warship, equipping it with emerald cannons, and covering it with a layer of silver urns that could repel the undead.

In the southernmost sea area of ​​the Starsea Continent, the fleets belonging to the Duchy of Morfita and the Pirate City are launching a relentless black plunder of all the seaports of the Duchy of Borland and Gotland, while also surrounding those warships that have no intention of fighting but only want to escape, as well as a large number of ghost ships that were originally hiding somewhere.

The battle didn't end there. In the heart of the Star Sea, in the waters surrounding Iron Oak Island shrouded in poisonous fog, fleets belonging to the Duchy of Rica, the Duchy of Frost, and the Pirate City were besieging the ghost ships trapped in this area.

Amidst the rumbling of naval cannons, clusters of spores exploded along with the nutrient solution, subsequently sprouting large patches of seemingly harmless but deadly mushrooms on the substrate.

Not only cannonballs and ballistae exploded, but also oak barrels connected by iron chains.

These submerged oak barrels are controlled by vessels with diving capabilities, which detonate them whenever a ghost ship attempts to escape underwater, blasting open the spores and nutrient solution inside.

On the outskirts of this battlefield, the Brotherhood fleet, commanded by the Honest Man and the Flamingo, was busy shuttling back and forth, distributing pre-packaged spores.

"Senfa! How many spores do we have left?" Yunhai shouted from the middle of the fleet, using the communication shells that had been distributed to everyone.

"Lots! We still have plenty of spores!"

Senfa replied in a hoarse voice, "The Fresh Fruit just delivered the latest batch of supplies! But we don't have enough manpower! We need a lot of people to repackage it!"

"Speed ​​up!" Yun Hai urged wearily. She was the commander of this hunt, but the battle here was far from as easy as she had expected.

Especially since this is just a battle between ships, if the prophecy is true, and if Poseidon has awakened, the balance of power on the battlefield will tilt irreversibly.

But unfortunately, all the sea monsters had already left the Star Sea, and she really couldn't imagine who could stop that monster once Poseidon fully woke up.

I don't know if that ship will be able to make it back in time.
Just as Yun Hai was lost in thought, a giant whale-like sea monster defied the will of the sea god and suddenly emerged from the edge of the poisonous fog.

Done
Yun Hai's breath hitched, but then the whale-like sea monster, its entire body rotting and covered in dark green slime, opened its mouth wide.

In an instant, a large amount of poisonous fog was swallowed by the whale, and Iron Oak Island, which had been shrouded in it for hundreds of years, gradually revealed its true appearance.

"Look! That's the Iron Oak Forest!"

Amidst the fighting, some captains exclaimed in surprise, and more and more telescopes were pointed at the long-secluded island.

The towering iron oak trees are the most attractive feature of this island. They are not only excellent materials for shipbuilding, but their iron oak blood cores are also a sacred object for ship repair.

"Full firepower coverage! Full firepower coverage!"

One of the captains yelled at the top of his lungs, "Smash that ghost ship into toothpicks! Let's go ashore and steal the Iron Oak Blood Core!"

This shout had an immediate effect; all the pirate ships, adventure ships, and even warships reacted instantly, unleashing their newly acquired spore shells with near-reckless abandon, desperately trying to close the distance between themselves and Iron Oak Island.

As for the cost, once we're on the island and have the Iron Oak Blood Core, even a broken keel isn't a big problem. Given that, why worry about the cost?
Compared to these bewitched sailors, Yun Hai saw something that was not mentioned in the records about Iron Oak Island.

It was a large ship drifting on the edge of the island, with a terrifying four-deck gunboat and a full six mainmasts.

What materials are used to make such a large ship? Ironwood?
Yun Hai suppressed her suspicions and continued to use the ship's core to grant her the ability to see through illusions, observing this island, which was not much smaller than the pirate city.

"boom!"

Just then, accompanied by a loud bang, a cloud of smoke and dust rose from the large ship. Immediately afterward, the fastest pirate ship was pierced through from bow to stern by a cannonball!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

With one booming sound after another, all the cannons on the huge ship began to roar, and with each roar, one ship after another rushing towards Iron Oak Island was pierced through by those powerful cannonballs.

In just a few breaths, the pirate ships and exploration ships that had launched the attack quickly dispersed, circling around and heading in other directions of the island.

However, although the island was protected by poisonous fog for hundreds of years, the defenses along its coastline had also been built up over hundreds of years.

With the roar of shore cannons, the attacking ships gradually came to a stop.

At the same time, after the festering whale devoured all the poisonous mist, its flesh gradually dissolved, leaving only a green skeleton and its rotting internal organs.

"My name is Greedy Tongue, the mirror attendant is Greedy Tongue."

The whale let out its final roar, "Omniscient and omnipotent Santa Barbaya, I have fulfilled your request." With its roar, the internal organs of its skeleton dissolved one after another, revealing a tall woman wearing a cloak and with an ugly appearance.

She sat on a throne pieced together from countless broken mirrors, with tassels connecting it to the ribs of a whale.

"crash"

With the sound of the mirror shattering, the tall, ugly woman stood up and stepped onto a reef that barely rose above the sea, using the whale's pale green tongue as a stepping stone.

Almost simultaneously, the whale's skeleton crumbled into dust, while the tongue, wriggling like a giant sea slug, carried the throne to the edge of the reef, allowing the tall woman he called Saint Barbaya to sit down again.

"Poseidon, what happened to you? You look like a monster!"

The ugly woman mocked him in a hoarse voice, like a stone rubbing against glass.

"You thief!" came an angry roar from the large ship.

“Santa Barbaya, we searched every stone and every fallen leaf on Iron Oak Island but couldn’t find you. It turns out you were hiding inside the sea monster’s belly.”

Before the words were finished, a richly dressed dwarf walked to the bow of the large ship and shouted, "You're too late! Poseidon has successfully awakened and become the heart of the ship of salvation. From now on, all sea monsters, all waves, currents, and winds will obey our commands. We'll be here soon!"

"Shorty who aren't even as tall as a powder keg"

Saint Barbaya, sitting on the throne with her legs crossed, reminded the other party before they could finish speaking, "You overlooked a small detail."

After he finished speaking, the dwarf standing at the bow of the ship stopped. "What details?"

"Do you really believe that the power of the ship's core comes from Poseidon?"

Santa Barbara scoffed, "You little dwarfs are still so easily fooled."

Why bother pointing that out?

The voice that had just been suppressed suddenly spoke with regret, "I'm just a little bit away from fully waking up."

“Yes, it was just a little short,” Santa Barbara said with a cheerful smile.

"No, how could this be, this..."

Before the dwarf standing at the bow could finish speaking, a thick rope had already wrapped around his neck and the necks of everyone on board, and was dragging them into the lowest level of the cabin at an extremely fast speed.

For a moment, the sounds of crunching and chewing could be heard across the battlefield, both near and far, accompanied by faint screams.

Under the horrified gaze of everyone, more and more cables spread out from the great ship, rushing towards Iron Oak Island at an astonishing speed, pulling one dwarf after another into the cabin.

“Mr. Poseidon, can we talk after you finish your meal?” Santa Barbara asked patiently.

“Of course, we can talk now,” Poseidon’s voice came from the large ship.

"What do you want to do next?" Santa Barbara asked with great interest.

"The power of one heart is still too weak."

Poseidon was remarkably candid, saying, "While killing you would be enough, it would make me feel weary, and this eternal coffin is also draining my power."

So you're going to look for your other heart?

“There’s no rush for this.”

Poseidon said with delight, “There are so many ship hearts around here, and I can smell the scent of Lo on one of them. I don’t mind tasting the flavor of my old friend first.”

Before he could finish speaking, the surrounding ships, realizing the danger, began to retreat hastily.

However, before their boat could complete its turn, cables that had somehow appeared from underwater broke through the hull, strangled the ship's center, and pulled it out of the water.

"It's time to talk to you."

As Poseidon devoured the ship's cores he had seized from all sides, he asked, "Lo's servant, did you come here just to keep me company?"

“A servant?” Saint Barbaya smiled. “I have come to witness the fall of God.”

"Witness the fall of a god?"

As Poseidon spoke, he had already extended numerous cables toward the throne atop the reef. "Are you referring to me?"

"Who knows?"

As the reefs, sea slugs, the throne, and the ugly woman on it were strangled into mirror fragments by the cables, Santa Barbaya's voice reached everyone's ears from all directions.

At the same time, a Nobunaga flew to the open bridge of the Flamingo. Before the Nobunaga, which had flown from the Sea of ​​Despair, could fold its wings, a pure white bone ship also rushed into the battlefield with lightness and swiftness.

(End of this chapter)