Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 224 The Unexpected Poseidon
"You thief, the thief who stole my body!"

Accompanied by a roar that made all the sailors' heads spin and then involuntarily reveal strange, lewd expressions, the large ship finally slowly left Iron Oak Island, severing the huge blood vessels connecting the island in the process.

"How can this ship be so big!"

Cheng Lang stared blankly at the large ship that was getting closer and closer through the telescope. In his mind, it was impossible to make such a large ship out of wood!
“Captain, I think this ship, filled with resentment, is probably heading towards us,” the Silver Queen warned.

"Charging towards us?"

Cheng Lang shuddered, tossed aside the binoculars in his hand, and frantically ran towards the open bridge at the stern, shouting orders, "Silver Queen, run! Can we outrun him?"

"I'm sure!"

Before the Silver Queen could finish speaking, the Valkyrie had already gracefully circled around in a very small circle, and propelled by its exceptionally bulging bat-wing sails and bony dragonfly fins, it reached a speed that left all the ships present speechless.

"boom!"

The large ship following closely behind began to roar as its eight cannons at the bow roared.

Before the shells could fly over the middle of the field, the Valkyrie, under Cheng Lang's command, suddenly turned to the side, revealing its double-layered gun turrets.

"boom--!"

Amidst the muffled roar of cannon fire, two rows of bone cannons opened fire simultaneously, propelling the Valkyrie sideways while simultaneously unleashing wooden shells covered in layers of leaves.

Before the smoke of battle had cleared, the Valkyrie was already running again.

It was precisely because of this brief delay that the cannonballs fired by the large ship grazed the top of the Valkyrie's mast and flew away. In contrast, the wooden cannonballs fired by the Valkyrie were like thrown frisbees, all of which were caught by the large ship chasing after them, and after hitting various places, they spread out large patches of blood-red poisonous mushrooms.

"The bet was right!"

In the Valkyrie's conference room, Yavso excitedly waved her little fist, "I knew they wouldn't give up using Iron Oak Blood Cores after they occupied Iron Oak Island! Hmph! This batch of mushrooms was all cultivated using Iron Oak Blood Cores!"

"Shenba! Quickly! Order the artillery decks to be reloaded with incendiary shells! Those mushroom spores need high temperatures to accelerate their division! Your Highness! Thorn mines!"

As soon as Yafso gave the order, Shenba immediately notified his monkey friends to change the cannonballs, while Yunlan, who was clearly the captain, immediately directed the mixed-race female sailors of the ray tribe on the deck to push the oak barrels into the sea.

"Silver Queen!"

Just as those oak barrels fell into the sea, Cheng Lang also let out a shout.

Upon receiving the signal, the Silver Queen immediately summoned a vast expanse of dense sea fog, spanning four or five nautical miles in diameter.

"Sea fog can't stop it."

Poseidon, hiding on that large ship, only managed to utter the first half of his sarcastic remark before realizing that he couldn't completely dispel the sea fog.

"Even my queen is standing here... no, Panini, you lowly octopus!"

Even as Poseidon roared, Cheng Lang had already summoned a jellyfish that completely enveloped the Valkyrie, while the Silver Queen once again seized the T-series ship thanks to its agile maneuverability.

"boom--!"

With another long, booming sound, cannonballs filled with asphalt and gunpowder slammed into the large ship, instantly igniting the spores that the mushrooms had shaken off.

Strangely, amidst the raging flames, the newly sprouted mushrooms grew considerably larger, and even Poseidon, hiding inside the ship, let out a muffled groan.

"Your Highness!"

"Snapped!"

As soon as Yafso shouted, Yun Lan snapped her fingers. Instantly, the oak barrels that had been thrown out were pierced by thorns, which then detonated the gunpowder inside, causing a large number of spores to spread across the sea surface.

Almost simultaneously, Poseidon also mobilized seawater to try to extinguish the open flames on the deck.

However, as seawater was pumped onto the deck, the spores that had just burst open on the surface of the sea had already seeped into various parts of the ship.

"I knew this would work! Fire the arrows!"

On the Valkyrie, which was running again, Yavso let out a cheer.

The meticulous tactic she just used—first dropping mushrooms, then setting fires, and then preemptively adding spores to the seawater before the enemy could draw up seawater to put out the fire—was all something she figured out herself.

But this was not the end. Just as the large ship began to put out the fire, the ballistae on the deck also began to operate at her command, launching arrows with bottles of nutrient solution attached to them onto the ship's deck.

As the thin glass bottles shattered one after another, the nutrient solution rushed into the cabin along with the seawater used to extinguish the fire, urging the spores that had entered earlier to begin germinating.

Just as Poseidon let out an angry roar, the Valkyrie started running again.

Just then, a beacon flew in from the Flamingo and landed on Cheng Lang's shoulder.

"Prepare both gun decks!"

As Cheng Lang issued the order, he removed the ship armor flipping hourglass that he had exchanged with Captain Senfa from the flamingo's neck and installed it on the bridge.

After glancing at Yun Lan, who was walking up with her skirt lifted, Cheng Lang issued a command in a strong voice, "Silver Queen! Sea Fog!"

"As you wish"

As the Silver Queen lifted her skirt, an even thicker sea fog rose up, and the two chandelier-shaped anchors on either side of the Valkyrie's stern were ignited by the Queen's protective ship lights.

Now, even Poseidon couldn't dispel the thick sea fog.

"fire!"

With Cheng Lang's command, shells filled with spores once again slammed into various parts of the large ship.

"Snapped!"

With a crisp high five from Cheng Lang and Yun Lan, the Valkyrie capsized into the sea, while the Thorn rose above the surface.

Before the seawater on the deck had even dried up, the ballistae on the gun deck and the open deck were firing at the same time.

With a muffled "whoosh!", arrows, each bound with nutrient solution, flew toward the large ship.

"Snapped!"

When Cheng Lang and Yun Lan high-fived again on the other side of the Mirror Sea, the Valkyrie once again flipped out of the water. Then, because Cheng Lang flipped the hourglass on the ship's platform, the direction in which the bow was pointing changed by a full 180 degrees!
"boom--!"

Another series of booming sounds pushed the ship sideways as the second round of spore shells flew out, and the Valkyrie once again capsized below the surface of the sea, allowing the Thorn to fire its second round of nutrient solution.

It was during this time that the large ship where Poseidon was hiding finally began its first counterattack, maneuvering the row of cannons at the bow.

However, of the shells that were powerful enough to pierce through a regular pirate ship, more than half were narrowly avoided because the Valkyrie had flipped over again. The remaining few, although they hit the waterline precisely, only created ripples that spread along the hull and did not cause any actual damage.

"run!"

Cheng Lang issued a new order; at this point, they had to run.

The reason is simple: the saturation attack they just launched, which relied on flipping the hourglass, was their only three tricks up their sleeve.

In other words, they don't have many other options left.

Even so, although the large ship, protected by the sea fog by its own wife, withstood the only three blows, its interior and exterior were now completely filled with an excessive number of mushrooms of various colors.

"Is this all the methods you have?"

Poseidon's voice turned icy cold, and the seawater in this area seemed to turn into amber in an instant, trapping the Valkyrie, which had just broken free of its high speed, and dispelling the thick fog at sea. "What do we do?" Shenba asked in a panic on the deck of the Valkyrie.

Prepare for a fight to the death.

As Cheng Lang spoke, he and Yun Lan distributed a boat-shaped bottle to each of the core members.

Taking the bottle from the ship and examining it, the fish-woman Tinesa, who had been unable to help, tucked it into the cleavage of her chest. Then, she gently plucked the strings of her harp and said, "The whole orchestra, and Mrs. Silver Queen, let's play the Elegy of the Final Battle one more time."

"It's my pleasure"

As the Silver Queen spoke, she floated to the piano at the bow of the ship and began playing a duet once again with the fish-woman girls who had each plucked a scale from the piano's tail.

The melody and singing, accompanied by the surging sea fog, spread further and further away.

This time, although the sailors in the distance did not eat the fingernails of the Kotoo fishman, they clearly heard the uplifting melody and the Silver Queen's song.

"A lament for the final battle! It is a lament for the final battle!"

On the Honest Man, the brothers Kervik and Belvik issued the order in unison: "All sailors! Cease all work, let's begin the final battle!"

With shouts, HMS Honesty, followed by all the sailors of the Brotherhood fleet, and then the sailors of the surrounding waters, all began to sing together.

During the chorus, the heart of the Valkyrie began to pound violently, and the last trace of fear in the hearts of the sailors on board was completely dispelled.

"We are facing Poseidon, but unfortunately, we are not Valkyries."

As Cheng Lang spoke, he lashed out with a black whip, "Fight if you can, run if you can't win."

"I have no habit of deserting in the face of battle," Shenba said, already drawing his large scythe.

There's no escaping it.

As Gerta spoke, he drew two pre-loaded flintlock pistols from his chest. "This is for fighting Poseidon. To show my respect, I even used gold bullets."

Speaking of which, if we kill Poseidon, will we no longer need to ask for Poseidon's blessing when we pray?

“I never need his blessing. Besides, I actually have one last trick up my sleeve.”

As Yafso muttered to himself, he had already tied the bottle containing the sap of the sacred green tree, a bottle containing black liquid, and even the blood pump he had borrowed from Captain Cheng Lang to an arrow shaft.

"What trick?"

Yun Ji drew two dark elf daggers, twirling them as she asked.

"this"

Yavso pointed to the bottle containing the black liquid, "This contains failed spores and nutrient solution; it's very dangerous."
What I mean is, I have no idea what kind of mess they'll become once they're thrown out.

"gollum"

Everyone swallowed hard. They all knew that the mushrooms, which even Yavso herself wasn't confident about, would always produce results far exceeding expectations.

The ship is getting closer.

Yun Lan said nervously. Of course she had reason to be nervous, because that was Poseidon.

"We'll find a way to get on that ship and fight."

Cheng Lang said, "Yafso, you stay here. Once the time comes, shoot that arrow over here!"

"Woo——"

Just then, a melodious horn sounded from afar.

"It was a large ship, no, it looked like a vessel with iron plates at one end."

"boom!"

Before Yun Ji could finish speaking, a tremendous roar came from the incredibly simple large ship.

Amidst the roar, massive cannonballs whistled and slammed into the large ship that was getting closer and closer to the Valkyrie. The force of the impact even caused the ship where Poseidon was hiding to deviate from its course.

"It's the Royal Music Troupe of the Elf Kingdom," Yun Ji was the first to make the judgment.

"A music troupe?" Cheng Lang looked at Yun Ji blankly.

“The Elven Duchy’s most powerful group of combat dancers,” Yun Lan explained, “are far more mysterious than the Verdant Hunters. Not only do they not obey the Elven royal family’s orders, but they even possess the ability to command the Elven royal family when necessary. But…”

"what?"

“It’s nothing,” Yun Lan shook her head at this moment.

"boom!"

Just then, the huge log fired again and slammed into Poseidon's ship once more.

This time, everyone finally saw clearly that what was mounted on that huge log was actually a row of verdant cannons!

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

With one booming sound after another, cannonballs slammed into Poseidon's ship. These verdant cannons had a range far exceeding that of Poseidon's ship, so much so that the latter was completely powerless to retaliate for a time.

Gradually, the large ship where Poseidon was hiding began to break down, and large amounts of mushrooms were even gushing out of the broken parts.

However, such reckless attacks would also cause enormous damage to that huge log.

Even without the aid of binoculars, they could clearly see that the log had developed numerous cracks, and the emerald cannons had turned a deep red-hot.

"boom--!"

After another round of frantic salvo, one of the verdant cannons exploded, and a huge, longitudinal crack appeared on the log—it even showed signs of sinking into the sea!

"Crack!"

A huge gap appeared at the waistline of the large ship where Poseidon was hiding during this round of shelling.

As the seawater spread and the verdant cannons went out of service, the crowd heard Poseidon's roar once again.

"You have broken my eternal coffin! You pointy-eared shipworms, you have actually broken my eternal coffin!"

With that roar, a series of breaking sounds came from the large ship on the sea.

It was amidst the shattering sound that a huge figure sat up from inside the cabin.

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The people at sea couldn't help but look at each other in bewilderment. Why was Poseidon a woman with long black hair?

"Valkyrie! That's Valkyrie!"

Finally, a quick-thinking captain recognized the graceful figure who was slowly sitting up.

"How could it be Valkyrie?" Cheng Lang stared blankly at the enemy in the distance, who was taller than a mast, and was momentarily lost in thought.

(End of this chapter)