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Chapter 68 Paladin Bloodsail
A fanatical glint shone in their eyes!
After all, for pirates, working on an outstanding warship not only greatly increased their prestige, like having worked for a Fortune 500 company in the real world, a glorious resume, but also greatly improved their chances of survival. With such allure, how could their morale not be high?
At this time, the plan... had to be changed. Since they had decided to focus on seizing the ship, the distribution of forces should obviously be focused on that aspect. Taking advantage of the fact that Daiqisi's identity hadn't been exposed, Fang Senyan quickly changed the plan... having Reef oversee the overall situation, and concentrating all of his subordinates and hired Vikings together, disguising them as Daiqisi's Gypsy male slaves. It would be best if they could sneak onto the ship, but even if they couldn't, a direct assault was within their grasp.
Meanwhile, Fang Senyan and Mogansha, who had higher agility, went to the site where the Baradin Bloodsail was being forged. The two of them, one near and one far, could attack and defend, their task being to harass, delay, and snipe the enemy if the attempt to seize the ship was discovered. After all, they were the most suitable for this task in the entire team.
When Fang Senyan and the two approached the camp again, for some reason, they both felt a heavy feeling in their hearts. The distant screams and crazed shouts seemed to be fading into despair, and with each breath, it seemed that the air was conspiring with the ropes of death, coiling inside and outside their noses.
Suddenly, Fang Senyan felt a tremor under his feet, and his whole body seemed to stagger. The feeling was similar to an earthquake, but without the irresistible, immense power that came from the depths of the earth. Then, this tremor transmitted rhythmically. The two quickly moved forward and saw a shocking scene that was hard to believe!
It turned out that the elephant-headed, human-bodied totem beast had emerged from the concealing tent at some unknown time. It could move on its own, as if imbued with a soul. The light on its skin was very clear and penetrating, possessing a captivating, primal, and powerful charm.
In front of this totem beast, a stone platform had been placed at some unknown time. Above the platform, a blood-colored slab was suspended in the air. This huge monster was wielding a giant hammer in its hand, and forcefully smashing it down on the blood-colored slab in front of it!
Under the hammer's blows, the blood-colored slab, though suspended in the air, sparked violently, even to the point of being blinding!
The "earthquake"-like rumbling that Fang Senyan and the others felt under their feet was the impact caused by this forceful hammering.
No wonder these Gypsies had moved the construction of the Baradin Bloodsail to land. With such a commotion, not to mention a five-masted ship made of iron birch, even an aircraft carrier couldn't withstand such torment!
Every four or five hammer blows, the totem beast would use its trunk to scoop up the contents of a large basin next to it and chew on it vigorously. Upon closer inspection, the contents were a bloody mess, clearly human entrails. Those unlucky fellows who were screaming or laughing wildly had all become its sacrifices.
Above the totem beast's head, something like a transparent crystal coffin was suspended, filled with scorching, fiery red magma. Within the magma, a dark cyan object was submerged. Although this object appeared to have dissolved, leaving only a small portion, it was extremely familiar. It was precisely the Great Sea Egg that Fang Senyan had traded with "Jie Jie" before.
It could be clearly seen that after this Great Sea Egg was submerged in the fiery red magma, faint dark red streams of air, like human blood vessels, densely covered the totem beast's body, constantly pouring into its body, seemingly providing it with power.
Soon, Fang Senyan and the others discovered that the Baradin Bloodsail seemed to have imprisoned many souls. Countless hands could be seen stretching out from inside the bloodsail, frantically climbing, trying to escape from within. However, the elephant-headed, human-bodied totem beast would mercilessly smash them back in with a hammer blow.
At this moment, a shrill, blood-colored firework suddenly shot out from the distant bay. The firework had barely flown twenty meters before it suddenly extinguished, presumably shot down.
But it ultimately attracted attention here. Immediately, a Gypsy diviner next to the totem beast said with suspicion, "What's going on? This is the ship's high-level warning signal! Why is something happening?" Fang Senyan immediately knew that his subordinates' ship-seizing operation was progressing extremely smoothly. Otherwise, if the situation were urgent, they would be using those very backward matchlock guns, and would be too busy reloading them to even think about leaving behind mobile firepower to deal with the crisis. It was absolutely impossible for this firework used for warning to be shot down just twenty meters after being launched!
Seeing that the camp immediately fell into chaos, a Gypsy priestess wearing a black veil suddenly stood out. With a flick of her hands, a five of spades and a five of clubs rubbed against each other on her fingertips, sparks flying, making an extremely ear-piercing sound, immediately shocking the whole audience. It seemed that she was the Trissy that Daiqisi had mentioned. She decisively said, "The forging of the Baradin Bloodsail is of utmost importance, and has reached a critical juncture, so it absolutely cannot be abandoned halfway! I will lead ten guards to stay behind, and the rest of you will immediately go and reinforce the ship! We will be finished here in at most ten minutes, and I will immediately bring the sacred beast to reinforce you after we are finished." With this woman's order, the rest of the people respectfully obeyed this "Lord Trissy's" instructions, obviously her status among the Gypsies was very high, and she could take charge of the overall situation.
After the black guy heard her words, he took out his Wasp pistol and began to tilt his head to aim at the woman's brow. Fang Senyan patted him on the shoulder and said meaningfully, "Don't rush, let's wait until the reinforcements have set off and run for a while before we act."
Mogansha immediately understood Fang Senyan's meaning. At this time, when this group of people returned to the rescue, they would inevitably be anxious, and the Gypsy priestess of spades who could preside over the overall situation was staying here. So, once something happened at the ritual of forging the Baradin Bloodsail here, most of the returning group would have differences of opinion. Some people would advocate continuing to return to rescue the ship, and some people would advocate returning to protect the sacred ritual.
If the enemy's internal opinions cannot be unified, and they hesitate, then it would be a sign of self-disorder and internal division!
At this time, Mogansha admired Fang Senyan even more. It was not difficult to understand the key to this, but to be able to calm down and think clearly about these things in this atmosphere, under the imminent threat of the enemy and giving himself great pressure, then it really required a very calm mind and strong psychological quality!
After the group of reinforcements hurried towards the sea, the entire camp became quiet. Only the sound of the totem beast hammering the Baradin Bloodsail would occasionally shake the earth. Suddenly, a sharp gunshot cut through the silence in the forest. Mogansha fired three shots in a row in an instant!
These three shots were actually aimed directly at the top of the head of this elephant-headed, human-bodied monster!
Yes! Mogansha was aiming at the transparent crystal coffin above its head. Once it was broken, and the magma and the Great Sea Egg were no longer mixed, it would be equivalent to directly cutting off the power that allowed this huge and terrifying statue to move in this world!
As soon as he attacked, he attacked the enemy's must-save and must-defend location, in order to directly make these people who stayed behind feel his powerful threat, thereby ignoring Fang Senyan's quietly sneaking in!
Mogansha chose the timing to fire extremely well, just when the monster was exhausted and was about to use its trunk to scoop up human entrails and devour them!
However, since learning that something had happened to the ship in the harbor, those who stayed behind had simultaneously raised their vigilance. As soon as Mogansha fired, Trissy immediately raised her hands. A five of spades flew out in the air with an extremely sharp whistling sound, arriving first and blocking in front of the crystal coffin. While rotating at high speed, it actually directly dissected the two bullets shot by Mogansha in half!!
But Mogansha's third bullet directly hit the surface of the crystal coffin. However, the crystal coffin looked extremely hard. Even so, the surface of the crystal coffin, with the point of impact as the center, spread out radiating cracks like spider webs! The fiery red magma inside churned for a while, and the totem beast below immediately let out an extremely shrill roar, and suddenly turned its head towards Mogansha's side!
Two indescribable rays of light shot out from the gemstone pupils of the totem beast, as if its gaze, directly aimed at the place where Mogansha was hiding and shot towards him.
In that instant, the black guy immediately felt a strong threat of death. Fortunately, before pulling the trigger, he had figured out that he would inevitably become the target of concentrated fire, so he did not confirm whether he had hit or not and directly leaped to the side!
The two rays of light shot out a condensed straight line under the raging fire, shot through the air, shot through the darkness, shot through the boulder where Mogansha was hiding, shot through the ground, wherever the light passed, from front to back, whether it was a person, a tree, a stone, all were pierced without any hindrance, and then a hissing melting sound came out, as if butter was being cut by a red-hot kitchen knife.
Even though Mogansha dodged quickly, he was still splashed by the firelight overflowing from the light. Although it was only a few sparks, it directly corroded and penetrated, and even the skin and flesh were burned with a squeak, and the intense pain instantly spread throughout his body. But it wasn't over yet, the ten Gypsy steel guards had already presented a semicircle formation in a well-trained manner and quickly surrounded him.!.