Wizards begin by accessing the Inspiration panel.

Chapter 273 Rare Spoils of War

Three of the starfish's five enormous tentacles were badly damaged by the alchemical depth charges. Although none of them were broken, pale blue blood was gushing from the many bloody wounds.

"Melee team and the rest of you, move forward and buy time for the gunners!" Captain Barrolick shouted.

Having experienced the battle with the shark monster before, the artillerymen felt that with the combined fire of multiple cannons, they could fight the sea monster when they saw the giant, extraordinary marine creature, the Hundred-Eyed Starfish!

So, under Captain Barrolick's command, when the starfish climbed onto the deck, the melee crew and many sailors picked up various weapons and began to attack it, not expecting to do much damage, but only hoping to focus the starfish's attention on this spot.

However, when faced with the onslaught of the crowd, the Hundred-Eyed Starfish casually waved its giant tentacles, and four or five sailors were unable to dodge in time and were directly sent flying seven or eight meters!

It's clear he won't survive!

But the melee fighters remained fearless! Led by the orc Otombo, they bravely attacked the Hundred-Eyed Starfish.

Unfortunately, the difference in strength was too great, and the results were meager, only adding a few more bloody marks to the huge body of the Hundred-Eyed Starfish!

However, their bravery was not in vain, as it bought time for the gunners behind them. Dozens of elite gunners at the rear of the deck were slowly pushing out nearly ten of the largest caliber cannons and quickly loading them.

"Pfft!"

A black beam of light shot out from Richard's fingertip and instantly pierced through the body of the Hundred-Eyed Starfish!

However, the death ray, a powerful single-target attack, is not fatal to the massive size of the Hundred-Eyed Starfish unless it hits its brain or other vital organs.

Under the combined attack of the crowd, the Hundred-Eyed Starfish became even more ferocious.

Just when everyone thought the situation was settled, suddenly!

Suddenly, the hundreds of black eyes on the Hundred-Eyed Starfish flashed, and the entire battle scene froze!

Suddenly, all the gunners, sailors, and melee fighters within tens of meters of the Hundred-Eyed Starfish on the deck, including the orc first mate Otombo, stood frozen in place.

The next second, a massive mental storm raged outwards from the Hundred-Eyed Starfish!

"roar!!"

Along with this invisible mental storm, the crew members who approached the Hundred-Eyed Star all had ferocious expressions, as if they were fighting with something for control of their bodies!

Both eyes rolled upwards, revealing large whites. After a few seconds, the person seemed to have lost their soul and began to walk towards the huge, ferocious mouth of the starfish.

Such a bizarre scene is enough to make one gasp in horror!

At this moment, only Richard and Stephanie were able to withstand the mental storm of the Hundred-Eyed Starfish.

As a formal wizard, I possess mental strength far exceeding that of ordinary people, so it is not difficult for me to withstand this kind of area-of-effect mental storm attack!

Captain Barrolick, seemingly due to the distance, was not yet under control; he was merely crouching on the ground, clutching his head and groaning in pain, while his elite gunners lay scattered and fallen.

Ten 24-pound cannons were left unattended.

Captain Barrorick's initially confident plan to use cannons to shoot down the sea monster has completely failed!

Seeing this, Richard and Stephanie knew they had to go all out. Against such extraordinary marine creatures, no matter how well ordinary people cooperated or how good their equipment was, they would lose everything if they made a single careless mistake.

While it's not impossible for an ordinary person to fight a sea monster, the margin for error is simply too low.

A pale green light flashed, and a huge vengeful spirit, the Abomination, strode towards the Hundred-Eyed Starfish. On the other side, the Blood Bone Puppet moved even faster, attacking the Hundred-Eyed Starfish from the side.

However, the mind-controlled sailors suddenly changed course, surrounding the vengeful spirits and the blood-bone golems.

Richard immediately gave orders that the sailors were only allowed to be kicked away, but not to be killed.

After all, these are valuable crew members of the Princess, and they have survived several battles; those who survived are all elites.

Richard frowned as he watched the Hundred-Eyed Starfish shamelessly use the elite crew of the Princess as a shield.

If the vengeful spirits and blood-bone golems are not allowed to get close, it will be difficult for him and Stephania's sorcery attacks to inflict enough damage on the massive Hundred-Eyed Starfish.

However, Richard soon had a sudden inspiration. A brilliant idea flashed through his mind. He told Abomination to turn around and go to the artillery position, where he picked up two 24-pound cannons.

For ordinary humans, it would take seven or eight strong men to lift a one-ton cannon, but for the vengeful spirit, its arms, as thick as buckets, easily lifted the heavy cannon barrel onto its incredibly thick shoulders.

The vengeful spirits, weighing several tons, now served as the base for these two cannons.

Richard waved his hands, and the mimicry metal on his wristbands suddenly flew out and landed on the shoulder of the vengeful spirit, separating the cannon from the vengeful spirit's head.

To avoid the roar of cannons disturbing the brains of vengeful spirits.

At this moment, the small hands on the back of the vengeful spirit began loading shells. Richard snapped his fingers lightly, and the fuses of the two cannons were instantly ignited by flames.

"Sizzle!"

The next second, the roar of cannons rang out!

After Richard's improvements, the gunpowder was further enhanced in power. In addition, and most importantly, the cannon did not fire ordinary solid iron bullets, but chain bullets consisting of two iron bullets hinged together by an iron chain.

Similar to a heavy boomerang, it can inflict significant damage on giant creatures.

"Bang!"

"Snapped!"

The Hundred-Eyed Starfish let out a roar, a roar that clearly contained the impotent rage of someone who had suffered a severe injury. It did nothing but give everyone a headache!

However, the sight of the four-meter-tall, several-ton vengeful spirit carrying two heavy cannons and bombarding the Hundred-Eyed Starfish stunned almost everyone on the ship, except Richard!

Stephanie's beautiful eyes widened in disbelief; she was completely stunned!

Stephena admired Richard's imaginative ideas from the bottom of her heart!

Captain Barolorick was completely dumbfounded, staring blankly at the scene before him, utterly speechless!

He never imagined that summoned creatures could be used in this way!

He looked at the towering vengeful spirit, then at the cannon. How did Lord Richard come up with the idea of ​​combining vengeful spirit and cannon?

Actually, Richard's idea wasn't entirely far-fetched; it did have some basis in reality.

If you think about it carefully, you'll realize that Richard referenced the puppetry of the grey dwarves in the Underdark. Don't forget, Richard is a puppet master!

When the Grey Dwarves create advanced golems, such as war colossi, which are extremely large combat golems, some war colossi will have a magic crystal cannon mounted on their backs.

The design is remarkably similar to the current vengeful spirits!

Of course, the War Colossus is much larger, reaching over ten meters in height, while the Abomination is only a little over four meters, nearly twice as large.

However, the enemy's magic crystal cannons are also far more powerful than the cannons on the Princess Ship!

After firing, the Abomination's several arms on the back of its hand are responsible for cleaning and reloading.

In terms of overall smoothness, it was even faster than five elite artillerymen.

Thus, under the relentless attacks of the vengeful spirits carrying cannons, the Hundred-Eyed Starfish could no longer withstand the onslaught. More than ten holes the size of washbasins had been frozen through its body. No matter how large it was or how much blood it had, it could not withstand such attacks!

The Hundred-Eyed Starfish flung all the crew members it controlled toward the vengeful spirits, while it itself quickly turned around, intending to leap into the sea and escape.

But Richard wasn't about to let it go. After killing so many of his crew members, now that he couldn't win, he wanted to just walk away.

There's no such thing as a free lunch!

Just as the Hundred-Eyed Starfish was about to escape, the Wraith of Hatred put down the two heavy cannons on its shoulders and then hurled three iron chains at it!

Iron chains with hooks were tightly wrapped around the massive body of the Hundred-Eyed Starfish. In terms of strength, the Wraith and the Hundred-Eyed Starfish were not much different, especially since the latter was currently seriously injured.

This instantly ruined the starfish's escape plan!

"Whoosh!"

At this moment, the Blood Bone Puppet attacked from the side at high speed. As soon as it got close to the Hundred-Eyed Starfish, it released a Bone Blade Storm, which immediately caused the Hundred-Eyed Starfish's already torn and bleeding body to suffer another heavy blow, with blood splattering everywhere!

One of the tentacles was directly shredded into mincemeat by the high-speed bone blades.

A short while later, after a mournful cry, the starfish lay motionless on the ground!

The entire deck of the Princess was filled with a strong smell of the sea and blood!

At this moment, a large group of melee fighters and sailors who had broken free from the mental control of the Hundred-Eyed Starfish looked at each other blankly.

They clearly remembered that they were fighting a fierce battle with the Hundred-Eyed Starfish, but they suddenly lost consciousness. When they woke up again, the Hundred-Eyed Starfish had been successfully killed!

But that didn't stop them from cheering loudly again!

"We won!!"

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Captain Barrolick approached Richard and bowed respectfully, saying, "Lord Richard, you have once again saved the entire crew!"

"By the way, sir, I once heard a wizard mention the Hundred-Eyed Starfish. It seems that consuming its brain directly can have a special effect of enhancing mental power!"

"Of course, I was just passing by and heard it from a distance. So I'm not quite sure whether the so-called 'hundred-eyed starfish brain' needs to be processed or eaten raw."

Richard raised an eyebrow; Captain Barrolick's words had piqued his interest.

At the same time, he asked Captain Barrolick to recount the scene of his encounter with the wizard once again.

"Sir, that was when I was young, when I was in a whaling crew. I was working on a whaling ship when a mysterious man came and asked the captain to rent the whaling ship for three months. His purpose was to find the starfish."

"But unfortunately, after three months of searching, we still couldn't find the Hundred-Eyed Starfish. At that time, the wizard seemed to be very regretful about not being able to find the Hundred-Eyed Starfish. I overheard him sighing and muttering to himself."

Just as Captain Barrorick was speaking, the Bloodbone Golem approached Richard, holding a ball of white, jelly-like substance.

"Huh!" Richard couldn't help but glance sideways.

Because this white jelly is clearly different from other parts of the starfish, if this is really the brain of the starfish, then it is indeed amazing, because the white jelly is emitting a faint fragrance.

Unlike other parts of a starfish, it doesn't have a strong fishy smell!

Richard thought for a moment about this special substance that might be edible, then cut off a piece and fed it to the seabirds circling overhead.

After finishing its meal, the seagull's eyes immediately brightened, and after letting out a few cries, it continued to circle above Richard's head, its meaning clear: it wanted to eat more!

Since it was proven to be non-toxic, Richard boldly cut off a small strip and put it in his mouth.

Suddenly, a very peculiar sensation began to spread from Richard's mouth!

tasty!

It has a slightly sweet taste!

A taste that's hard to describe!

A few seconds later, a strange heat began to flow from within the body into the mind!

Richard clearly felt a slight increase in his mental strength, but it wasn't enough to be displayed on the panel.

So Richard began to swallow it in succession.

After Richard ate nearly half a fist-sized piece of white jelly, the strange fever was almost gone when he took it again.

He knew he had developed a resistance to the brain of this starfish, and repeated use would no longer be effective.

At this moment, Richard brought up the Inspiration panel and took a look:

Name: Richard Clavel

[Attributes]: Strength 12.1, Agility 13.3, Constitution 12.6, Spirit 74.5 (69% Mist Transformation)

My mental strength, which hadn't improved for a long time, increased by about ten points, and the atomization level also increased from 62% to 69%. The effect was remarkable!

Moreover, Richard could clearly sense that this growth would continue for some time. Although the overall increase was only around 1%, at Richard's current level, each 1% required a significant amount of time.

Richard truly hadn't expected that after killing the Hundred-Eyed Starfish, he would have this unexpected gain.

Indeed, the vast and boundless ocean holds countless mysteries and is a true treasure trove!

"Stephena, would you like to try some?"

"Okay, Master!" Stephania, who had initially been extremely opposed to the white jelly taken from the brain of the Hundred-Eyed Starfish, was surprised to see her master eating it so happily.

My inner conflict has lessened considerably.

In addition, this white jelly has no peculiar smell but rather a refreshing fragrance, which is one of the reasons why Stephanie dared to try it.

Richard immediately gave the remaining half of the Hundred-Eyed Starfish Brain to Stephanie.

After trying a small piece, Stephania's beautiful eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but exclaim, "Master, I never expected it to taste like this! It's almost as delicious as golden horned frog eggs!"

"And it really does boost mental strength!"

(End of this chapter)