Mechanical Alchemist

Naval battles are best done with artillery.

Especially when there is a gap in equipment hardware between the two sides, the superior side can use artillery to defeat the enemy at a long distance, thereby minimizing combat losses.

Coincidentally, artillery control is a compulsory subject for students of the "Luying Royal War Academy".

The professional soldiers that Barrett brought to the Judgment Team were all students of the Royal Academy, and almost all of them were certified "senior gunners" and "special gunners".

So much so that the three battleships of the Dawn Regiment fired a salvo of hundreds of artillery pieces, and the shells seemed to be guided by precision, covering the five pirate ships including the "Pulsatilla" a few nautical miles away with a very small error.

This kind of firepower can directly sink the enemy in just a few rounds.

Don't even think about boarding.

And Su Lun also guessed that there must be masters on the enemy ship.

After all, the intelligence said that a heavy treasure was escorted on board the Pulsatilla.

Therefore, artillery is also the most suitable means of exploration.

It would be best if it could be solved with shells.

Before starting the war, Su Lun considered various possibilities.

He felt that after the firing, the enemy would most likely choose to flee. After all, after so many days of chasing, those pirate ships must have some special acceleration device.

But they never expected that the moment the cannon rang, the scene that shocked everyone in the Dawn Regiment happened.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

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The roar of artillery fire was deafening.

Su Lun stood on the deck, squinting his eyes slightly, watching the shells flying towards the local ships.

Some shells landed in the sea, blasting waves more than ten meters high; some hit the enemy's pirate ship, causing cracks in the sails, masts, and wooden hulls.

There are a total of five enemy ships, all of which are densely packed together, which was originally the best attack target.

But a strange scene happened before.

The shells were normal on all three of the ships, the breakdown that should have penetrated, the explosion that should have exploded.

But when they hit two of the ships, the shells were stopped by an invisible barrier, and blasted into the air with air explosion ripples visible to the naked eye!

Seeing this scene, everyone in the Liming Group was shocked.

Barrett seemed to recognize something, and immediately sent a warning: "No, there may be seventh-level professionals on the enemy ship!"

Su Lun's expression changed suddenly.

When he looked at the priestesses of the Temple of Agathaparton just now, he had a faint feeling that something was wrong.

Under normal circumstances, there are at most sixth-level professionals in this escort team, which is considered "top match".

It is possible to resist the attack of a hundred cannons, which is definitely not something a sixth-level professional can do!

Su Lun immediately realized that there might be someone with a sensitive identity on board the other party!

A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he immediately guessed something: "Could it be that "Princess Frost Moon" from Marfa, or some important person from the temple? "

If it was a great pirate of the North Sea Fleet, he would not hide it at all.

It is possible for the people of the temple.

But now in the entire Beihai, those who need to hide their whereabouts are accompanied by top experts, and the most likely one is that Princess Stiga!

With this thought, Su Lun immediately understood something in his heart, and thought: "A good method. The information about the escort of the 'Pulsatilla' was deliberately leaked, making people think it was a plan to divide the troops. It turned out that people were really mixed in the escort fleet!"

The Stiga princess successfully avoided the "God's Painter" Van Gogh with this hand.

The masters who wanted to assassinate her were all attracted by the Royal Mechanical Guard Corps, so that she could leave the city-state of Moros without anyone noticing.

But why is she here?

Su Lun faintly felt that the problem seemed a bit big.

I thought it was an ordinary interception, but I didn't expect to intercept a "big fish".

However, it doesn't matter what the reason is.

Meeting each other on a narrow road, there is only one war.

He directly ordered: "Continue shelling! Everyone is ready to fight!"

The current situation is that since we have met, no matter what the situation is, the enemy and them will not be soft on each other.

Listening to Su Lun's order, the second round of ammunition was quickly reloaded, and flames burst out of the muzzle in a short time.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

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The artillery fire exploded continuously.

Although Su Lun didn't see what the "sacrifice" was going to do, but since those people would rather be shot than run away, it meant that this sacrifice was very important and could not be interrupted.

What the enemy wants to do is what the Dawn Mission wants to destroy!

What's more, even a seventh-level professional, it is absolutely impossible to resist for a long time under the salvo of artillery.

Obviously, it is impossible for the enemy to let the Dawn Regiment continue to bombard them.

At this moment, the black crows in the sky also began to quack.

Su Lun realized that there was danger approaching, and his eyes were like lightning, scanning everything on the sea.

Almost at the same time, Tani also hurriedly reported on the communicator: "Everyone, be careful, there is a huge sea monster attacking us in the sea! It seems to be the legendary 'Kraken'!"

"Kraken?"

Naturally, Su Lun has also heard of the legend of the "North Sea Giant Monster" that has been circulating in the North Sea.

It is said that there is a huge tentacle monster in the deep sea. It has a huge body as big as an island and can easily drag a large warship into the sea.

Su Lun's expression sank, and he yelled: "Leave the sea monster to me! Captain Barrett, Miss Qiantiao, Dr. Banks, beware of the enemy's seventh-level come and behead him."

Thousands of people responded one after another: "Good!"

When encountering top professionals, the regiment has already prepared plans.

The atmosphere on board was tense but orderly.

With that said, Su Lun jumped onto the side of the boat and looked into the sea.

With his eyesight, he could faintly see a huge black shadow swimming towards their battleship at high speed, and the waves on the sea surface also churned.

The timing was imminent, Su Lun's double surgeon pinched his seal, and said softly: "Replantation · solution!"

The eight-armed spider spear was exposed behind him, and the magician's mark was changed again, and dozens of glass jars appeared out of thin air.

As soon as the mouth of the glass jar was opened, mechanical octopuses clattered into the water.

In this battle, Su Lun didn't dare to be careless at all. He originally thought that so many mechanical octopuses would not be needed, but now they all threw them into the sea.

The tentacles of the mechanical octopus stretched more than ten to twenty meters, but compared with that giant in the sea, it was far behind.

But fortunately there are enough of them.

Fifty mechanical octopuses stepped into the water and entangled themselves.

And at this time, because the giant deep-sea monster was close to the surface of the sea, Su Lun could see its true appearance clearly.

This is really a super big octopus.

【North Sea Kraken Kraken】

Detailed explanation: The sixth-order overlord-level deep-sea giant monster; the blood of ancient mythology, a giant Titan sea beast; a body length of 180 meters and a weight of more than 370 tons; it has powerful tentacles and suction cups, and controls the power of water elements. Long-distance water blade jetting ability; slime is highly corrosive; the skin is flexible and has a force-attenuating domain layer, which allows it to resist most conventional physical attacks;

Looking at the identified information, Su Lun shrank his eyes slightly.

He had always wanted to find the big octopus that had been passed down from generation to generation by Roman fishermen, but he never expected to meet it here.

This giant sea monster is almost invincible in the sea. Just this sea monster can easily sink the three warships of the Dawn Regiment.

That huge body, even if the black sickle wanted to cut it, it couldn't cut it.

If there is no means of restraint, the Liming regiment will really suffer a big loss.

Unfortunately, there is Su Lun's mechanical octopus army.

Before the "Northern Sea Giant Monster" approached the three warships on the sea surface, the mechanical octopus army quickly swam over.

Even if Su Lun reacted so quickly, a tentacle more than 30 meters long and full of terrifying suckers rolled out of the sea. Unable to reach the ground and hit the sea, the huge waves raised almost didn't overturn a warship directly.

He used the spider spear to firmly control his body on the deck, and quickly controlled the mechanical octopus to surround and kill it.

In order to better control the mechanical octopus army, Su Lun has also studied the physiological structure of the octopus these days, and he is too familiar with the force exertion mode of this creature. They are all of the same species, and both are good at strangling attacks. Seven or eight mechanical octopuses wrapped around one tentacle, and in a blink of an eye, the huge end was wrapped tightly.

Although the mucus on the surface of the "Northern Sea Giant Monster" is highly corrosive, the runes and coating layers that Su Lun hand-painted on the mechanical octopus during this time also came in handy. In a short period of time, the enchanted coating of the mechanical octopus is not so easy to be corroded.

I don't want to be able to kill this behemoth, but at least I can trap it.

Just like that, before the giant siren could emerge from the sea, it was tossed in the sea by dozens of mechanical octopuses.

There were fierce battles under the surface of the sea, and stormy waves were also set off on the surface of the sea.

The three warships of the Dawn Regiment were swaying in the waves. Fortunately, the lieutenant commanders in the gun bay had enough experience in naval warfare, and the artillery never stopped.

Although the hit rate was a bit low, but with a round of hundreds of cannons, they could always hit a lot.

The high-precision characteristics of Marfa military artillery were also brought into full play in this war.

At this distance, the enemy can't organize any effective counterattack at all.

After just a few rounds of artillery fire, the enemy's five pirate ships, except for two that were intercepted by barriers, the other three had been damaged by the artillery, and slowly sank with burning flames.

Pirates falling into the water were everywhere on the sea, and the wailing and screaming were drowned in the waves.

Not only Su Lun and the others were caught off guard because they bumped into a "big fish" by mistake.

On the other hand, "Princess Frost Moon" Skadi and his party on the "Pulsatilla" were even more confused.

Inexplicably, three ships came, and it was enough to fire when they met, but now the "Northern Sea Monster" didn't even sink them?

The sound of shells breaking through the wind can be heard endlessly in the ears, and the sound of explosions rang out.

Seeing this scene, Princess Stiga's face became very serious, and asked: "What's going on, why didn't the 'Kraken' sink their sea ship!"

She was well aware of the strength of the giant monster of the deep sea. This kind of monster was almost invincible in the sea, and it was not something a few wooden boats could resist.

But now, it's useless?

A subordinate quickly reported: "Your Highness, those guys have a special method to control the sea monster. Judging from the situation, it seems to be some mechanical octopuses."

"Duke Raphael's people?!"

Hearing this, Princess Stiga's face was solemn.

Her first reaction was to assassinate.

The enemy has prepared "targeted" means, and it must have detailed intelligence.

It was only then that Stica realized that the danger prophesied refers to the present.

At this moment, Merdis, the "King of Thieves" also had a serious face, and said, "Your Highness, we don't have any advantage in the artillery battle, and it will definitely not work if we continue like this. I will find a way to kill them. Otherwise, our situation It's going to be very bad."

He was the one who released the energy barrier that blocked the shells. Without him, the two ships would have been sunk long ago.

As soon as these words came out, a priestess of the Agapanon Temple was shocked, and without regard to etiquette, she quickly interjected: "But the sacrifice has not been completed, and the 'Sea King' has not enjoyed the sacrifice, so we have given up all our previous efforts! And If the sea festival is interrupted in the middle, it will bring unforeseen and terrifying consequences to you and the whole Roman!"

Hearing this, Merdis snorted coldly with disdain: "I am employed by Emperor Marfa, not you Roman. What does your priest have to do with me?"

This said, the domineering power of the seventh-order powerhouse made people breathless.

Hearing this, the priestess looked anxious, but she didn't dare to speak again.

She could only turn her head to look at Princess Stika.

It's a pity that Princess Stiga had a gloomy face, but she didn't speak.

Because she knew very well in her heart that even if she was as strong as a seventh-level professional, it was absolutely impossible to carry the artillery attack for a long time.

To protect the two ships, not to mention that the spiritual power is consumed very quickly. If she really had to spend a lot of spiritual power on this kind of thing, then she would be in a very dangerous situation.

Although Stika also knew that the interruption of the sacrifice would be very bad, she guessed that it was an "assassination" against her.

Compared with life, what is more important can still be decided immediately.

Thinking of this, Stika said: "Mr. Merdis, be careful."

Merdis immediately understood, "Okay!"

Another meaning of these words is that you can't do anything, but protect me first.

Saying that, the "Top Ten Legendary Bounty Hunters" put away the domain barrier, stepped on the ground, and jumped onto the sea.

Seeing this, the priestess at the side lost all color on her face: it's over.

The masters of the Dawn Regiment were all on the deck, keeping an eye on the situation of the enemy warships in the distance.

At this moment, everyone watched as the energy shields on the three ships suddenly disappeared, and a figure leaped onto the sea and was attacking them at high speed.

The observer on the mast immediately shouted: "The enemy is coming! Everyone be careful."

Su Lun gave an order: "Keep firing and sink those two ships!"

At the same time, Barrett, Chijo, and Dr. Banks jumped into the sea and rushed towards the figure.

The professional on the opposite side was wearing a black cloak. Although he couldn't see his face clearly, after he set off, there was a phantom of a monster with three heads of a sheep, a snake, and a lion behind him.

"The second solution of the mythical talent [A-044-Chimera]!"

Looking at the vision, Su Lun immediately recognized this talent, and even guessed the identity of the visitor.

This kind of talent is rare in the first place, the second solution, or the seventh level, so there can only be one person.

That is the "King of Thieves" Carlo Merdis, one of the "Top Ten Legendary Bounty Hunters"!

Su Lun felt bad, and immediately sent a warning to everyone through the communicator: "Be careful, that's Merdis, the "King of Thieves!" "

He really didn't expect that he would meet such a well-known top powerhouse in a robbery that he thought was ordinary.

Now the strength of the Dawn Regiment is not weak, but the high-end combat power is still a little bit worse.

Although it has the power to fight, if it is head-to-head, it will definitely suffer heavy losses.

But this legendary bounty hunter appeared here, and Su Lun was 100% sure that on the opposite boat was Marfa's Princess Frost Moon!

"No, the other party probably didn't understand what happened now. If Princess Frost Moon was on board, she would definitely think it was an assassination."

Suddenly, something came to Su Lun's mind, and a plan flashed across in an instant.

If that's the case, maybe you don't need to touch it head-on!

At this time, Su Lun held the black sickle in his left hand, and took out [Cronus' Bow of Time Curse] with his right hand.

He is very self-aware, and she can't help much in this level of battle. Only these two forbidden objects can pose a certain threat to the enemy.

The battle is imminent.

The "King of Thieves" Merdis watched the other party disembark and disembark three people, and first smiled contemptuously: "The domain isn't even cohesive, and it's not strong."

Without a cohesive domain, it means at most the sixth level.

This kind of enemy, three or five, is not a threat.

But the next second, when he looked at the golden body of the Rakshasa rising up behind Qiantiao, he was instantly stunned. As if he had seen a ghost, he blurted out: "San Jie [Rakshasa girl], this...how is this possible! There is actually someone in this world who has comprehended the talent of San Jie?"

Looking at the thunder clouds and the soaring sword energy gathered in the "Thunder Hell" in the sky, Merdis frowned. He found that he actually felt a little danger from a professional who was lower than himself?

At the same time, he turned his eyes to the man who turned into a giant ape, and recognized him: "Barrett the Beast, why did this guy appear here? "

And Dr. Banks' method was even more weird. As soon as he jumped into the sea, the huge sea seemed to be poisoned and became pitch black. On the large black water, seabirds fell one after another, and even the mosquitoes were all dead.

From this point of view, it seems that the case will be solved immediately.

On the boat in the distance, Princess Stiga also recognized Barrett, and immediately understood that these people in front of her were the "mysterious forces" that made noise in the city-state of Moros that night.

In an instant, several people collided together.

Even if it was one against three, Merdis would probably have the upper hand.

Once his "No Empty Domain" is activated, whether it is sword energy, poison, or power hammer, the damage to him is very limited.

Compared with the three people in front of him, he was more afraid of the guy on the distant boat with a bow and arrow and a sickle.

At this moment, Su Lun was standing at the bow of the boat, and had already drawn the [Bow of Time].

However, he did not aim at the "King of Thieves" Merdis, but aimed his bow at the cloaked man on the "Pulsatilla" in the distance.

He knew very well that the three of Barrett could last for a while, but they had absolutely no chance of winning.

If it drags on, the situation of their dawn group will only get worse.

The only advantage of the Dawn Regiment now is that the other party does not know their real situation.

"Keep bombarding! Sink them as soon as possible!"

"yes!"

Another good news is that the members of the Dawn Regiment were very strong. The artillery on the three battleships did not stop, and directly sank the last two battleships of the other enemy.

Su Lun didn't hesitate at all. After drawing the bow, he shot it with an arrow.

The "Arrow of Time" can ignore most defenses and hit the human body.

A guard standing in front of Princess Stiga was instantly drained of life by the light arrow and turned into a mummy.

Looking at the dead body beside her, Stika turned pale with fright. Where did she not recognize the well-known forbidden longbow of the Luying Military Intelligence Department—【Cronus' Bow Cursed by Time】?

What's more, what's even more frightening is that as soon as this arrow came, the second arrow came one after another!

A forbidden object could not have shocked Stika so much.

But the law of time, there is almost no way to resist it.

Seeing another of her subordinates die, the unknown in her heart turned into fear in an instant: "How is it possible, why hasn't that guy been cursed back?!"

And when she looked from a distance, the guy on the opposite deck had already drawn his longbow expressionlessly, ready to shoot the third arrow.

Calm almost numb.

To avoid the eyeliner of Lu Ying's spies, Princess Stiga cannot bring Mafa's masters by her side.

It is not easy to invite a "Legendary Hunter". The rest of the fourth-tier guards couldn't give her any sense of security at all at the moment.

Forbidden objects without curse backlash are just so unreasonable.

Su Lun also has [Master Archery Proficiency].

Even if the guards around Princess Nastika tried their best to avoid it, they couldn't avoid it.

Although Su Lun felt pain in his heart, he only killed two minions by consuming [Sands of Time], but he also fired two arrows in a row.

It was this unhesitating aura that frightened the people of Mafa, and made Merdis, the "King of Thieves", be wary.

The legendary bounty hunter didn't know that if he continued to entangle with the three of Barrett, Princess Stiga, whom he was protecting, would die on the spot.

This guy is also a group of tough ones. Rao Barrett and the three of them forcibly dragged him away from the sea ship, but after he blocked the combined attack of the three with one blow, the magician's seal condensed, and eight lights suddenly lit up under his feet Star formation method: "Flame Mysteries, One Finger of Holy Fire!"

Suddenly, a long sword emitting hot white light condensed in his hand, and he pointed at Su Lun.

Seeing the lightsaber pointing at him, Su Lun immediately felt his scalp tingle.

The murderous aura of a seventh-level professional can be clearly felt even a few miles away.

At the same time, he also understood that this guy was willing to accept Mafa's employment, and most likely he was going to the space ruins.

【A-044-Chimera】The talent has a super high affinity for the three laws of fire, space, and darkness.

That guy probably needs space materials too.

With the seventh-order technique, Su Lun would almost certainly die if he resisted.

But he didn't flinch in any way, like the "dead soldier" of the Luying Military Intelligence Department. The longbow in his hand was fully drawn, and another arrow was shot out.

The arrow of light once again took the life of a guard beside Princess Stiga.

At the same time, the condensed flame technique of the seventh-order law also appeared in front of Su Lun, and it was inevitable.

But at this moment, a tall alchemy golem teleported in front of him. The lightsaber pierced through the golem's abdomen, revealing a silver metallic luster. The "wound" was burned by the high-ranking law or the technique, and the healing was not fast.

The gargoyles at this stage are far from being able to stop the seventh-level professionals.

Su Lun's expression remained calm, he drew the longbow for the fourth time, and shot an arrow again.

This time, he killed another guard next to Stika.

There are only two "shields" around her.

Almost at the same time that Su Lun shot the arrow, another seventh-order spell "Shadow Magic Arrow" came towards him.

When the gargoyle is not restored, the defense will be greatly reduced.

This time, it may not be able to block it.

At this extremely critical moment, a pretty figure flashed out and stood in front of Su Lun.

She had no intention of dodging, and scattered the shadow arrow with a punch.

Su Lun looked relieved: "Has she finally made a move?"

Looking at it again, the person who made the move was naturally the masked Pandora.

Her alchemy body is invulnerable to any method under a certain level of law, and a seventh-level professional cannot harm her body. At least this kind of remote technique is still a bit short.

I saw a mysterious strong man with strange methods appear again.

That Princess Marfa finally changed her expression.

Where did she fail to understand that this must be a "political assassination".

This is a very professional assassination tactic.

A few people held Merdis down, and the bow master with [Cronus' Bow Cursed by Time] started killing people.

Now there is another person who can forcibly accept the seventh-order technique, and the safety of the archer is also guaranteed.

Princess Stiga felt that her situation had reached the point of life and death.

At the same time, Su Lun's fifth arrow had been pulled away and aimed at it again.

She was so frightened that Huarong turned pale, and she didn't care about anything else, and quickly said through the communicator: "Mr. Merdis, forget about those assassins, take me away quickly! There is something wrong with the priest, and the 'Haixu' is about to appear!"

It's not worth it to compete with a bunch of assassins.

Even if she could kill them all, it wasn't worth the risk for her body of gold.

In the distance, Merdis frowned when he heard the order.

He very much suspected that the mysterious woman who could take over his attack was not of a high rank, but had a strange body.

Maybe try again and you will know the result.

But the fact is that the situation does not allow him to delay any longer.

If he is not sure about killing the bow-drawer in a short time, Princess Stiga will be in danger.

What's more, the "Hai Ruins" cannot be underestimated.

A hint of unwillingness flashed across Merdis's eyes, but he also resolutely left the battlefield, turned around and ran in the direction of several sunken ships.

Then, under the shocked eyes of everyone in the Dawn Group, he took the Stiga princess and shredded a special scroll, and the figure flickered a few times before disappearing on the sea.

Su Lun was not surprised to see this.

He exhaled a long breath, and said to himself: "Finally left."

If they really want to win, their Dawn Regiment should have hit all the forces to surround and kill that "King of Thieves" Merdis.

The probability of losing both is high.

But Su Lun didn't want to see that ending.

So he has always shown a very decisive attitude towards killing that frost moon princess.

To bet on this situation.

The princess was even more resigned to her life.

It is bound to retreat first.

Pandora is willing to help, but at the last moment, Su Lun also has a great hope to kill Princess Frost Moon.

But he didn't.

Can't kill either.

Because Su Lun knew very well that they couldn't deal with Merdis, the "King of Thieves" for the time being.

Even if they could, the Dawn Regiment would suffer heavy losses.

On the contrary, keeping this princess can make that guy fearful.

Just like now.

A fierce battle ended suddenly, and everyone in the Dawn Regiment didn't seem to understand what happened.

Seeing that the enemy really disappeared on the sea, Chijo returned to the boat, wondering, "Why did that guy run away?"

Su Lun sighed slightly, and said: "That Princess Stiga probably thought that we were here to 'assassinate' her. I'm not sure if we have a backup, and I didn't dare to gamble with my life, so I ran away."

Chijo was very surprised, "Princess Marfa is on that boat?"

"yes."

As he said that, Su Lun also had a complicated expression.

I really didn't expect that there would be so many coincidences. After a robbery, I not only met a princess Marfa, but also a legendary hunter.

I don't seem to be very lucky.

However, the matter has come to this point, and there is nothing to say.

Su Lun looked at the bottom of the sea, and the mechanical octopus was still fighting with the giant North Sea monster. The fighting power of this big guy is indeed fierce. The mechanical octopus has lost several heads, but it is still full of energy.

He said, "Doctor, help me anesthetize that big guy at the bottom of the water."

Dr. Banks said, "Good!"

The rest of the Dawn Regiment also began to clean up the battlefield.

The people ran away, but the precious sacrifices and the treasures on the "Pulsatilla" did not run away.