Mechanical Alchemist

Chapter 574: Snake Sea Disaster

The dawn regiment traveled westward and crossed the territory of the three dragon birds.

During the period, there were also attacks by several groups of three-headed birds, but after the people of the dawn group hunted and killed thousands of them, those strange birds realized that these humans in front of them were not weak food, and there were a lot fewer people who came to die .

Subsequent voyages will be much smoother.

The sea breeze is blowing and the sun is warm.

There was a faint smell of blood on the deck after the battle. Everyone in Dawn was busy dealing with the traces and smells left by the previous battle, and also preparing for the next battle.

At this moment, Su Lun sat on the mast and looked into the distance.

Different from the past, at this moment he still wears a monocle on the eye socket of his right eye.

This is a cursed item that he rarely uses now—【Robert's Monocle】.

These glasses were originally used to cast real illusions, causing damage to the enemy's spirit.

But the rank is not too high, and it is not very useful in the battle of high-level professionals, so Su Lun rarely used it before.

But now he has developed another use for the glasses, which is to create illusions, and then release them like projections to confuse the enemy.

His current mental strength can completely ignore the cursed properties of this monocle, and he can construct almost perfect fantasy projections.

And right now, at a distance of one nautical mile in front of the Eternal Night as far as his eyes can see, there is a huge black-sail warship sailing unhurriedly there.

This is the phantom projection of the Eternal Night.

Although it is an illusion, the details of the ship, the busy people on the deck, and even the waves left by the ship on the sea are all very real.

Without special means of perception, it will definitely be misled.

The main body of the Eternal Night where Su Lun is located has activated the alchemy array of the stealth coating, and the light-absorbing coating absorbs sunlight, making it invisible.

It is unlikely that this method will hide the perception of the high-level magician.

But because the distance is very subtle, it is a very good insurance.

Now that Su Lun's mental power has skyrocketed, his soul perception can cover several kilometers nearby. This perception distance is beyond the reach of most eighth-level magisters.

So if the enemy wants to ambush and gets too close, Su Lun will find out in advance.

But if they look too far away, they will be misled by the illusion.

Su Lun is familiar with almost all the tactics of the Magic Legion of the Celestial Plane, and he feels that his illusion may have a miraculous effect.

The sky-high Hell Volcano is still at the end of the field of vision, and this is already the core area of ​​the Dragon Kingdom ruins.

The surrounding sea is no longer endless blue, but more and more islands have appeared.

On the sea chart, the Dawn Regiment has entered a highly dangerous area.

In the communicator, Tani is reporting the situation of their current route: "Everyone, be careful, we are going to enter the Parrot Islands ahead. There may be a hegemony sea monster [Titan anaconda] marked on the chart, be careful of foreign objects in the water near"

"okay!"

The team members heard it and made some targeted preparations one after another.

Fighting is a daily routine for everyone.

On the mast, Su Lun was looking into the distance, maintaining the illusion ahead.

The Liming regiment now has a mature command and operation system, so he doesn't need to worry about it.

But the more he sailed, the more he felt an inexplicable sense of crisis in his heart.

Su Lun didn't feel this illusion.

After realizing the law of death to his current level, he will be very sensitive to certain causal links that can lead to death.

His prediction of death far exceeds that of most professional prophets of the perception department.

But the current situation is that this sea area is already full of unknown risks, as long as you continue to sail, there will be dangers,

So he wasn't sure where that sense of crisis came from.

This situation is like walking on a thin ice surface. It is completely impossible to predict which step will fall into the ice cave, so one can only concentrate on it.

Uncle Crow on his shoulder was still quiet, which made Su Lun feel at ease.

Because the route was planned in advance, they are currently sailing on the Parrot Islands marked with a three-star (★★★) dangerous level on the chart.

Even if you encounter a monster attack, follow the danger level on the chart.

It is estimated to be below the ninth level.

Not too deadly.

However, without warning, a meteor-like bright light soared into the sky.

In a thousandth of an instant, the light bullet penetrated the phantom of the Eternal Night in front of it, and a huge wave hundreds of meters high exploded on the sea.

The light bullet was still engulfing the space, distorting and scorching hot, burning a big hole in the sea surface, and filling the sky with white mist.

The attack came too suddenly.

However, Su Lun recognized the origin of this magic at a glance, and shouted anxiously in his heart: "Demigod-level forbidden curse, [God's Light of Retribution]!"

That light beam turned out to be a demigod-level magic?

Su Lun himself may be able to teleport away from this near-light-speed forbidden spell, but the Eternal Night will definitely suffer a devastating blow.

Seeing the huge wave created by the magic in front of him, he was also very grateful in his heart: "It's so dangerous!"

The more powerful the magic, the preparation for singing is required, the longer it takes for the magic power to gather, and the process is not small. In order not to be discovered, the enemy must release it from a super long distance.

Fortunately, Su Lun had played with an illusion, otherwise the blow that hit the Eternal Night just now would have had disastrous consequences.

Seeing the fantasy of the ship ahead being pierced by a blow, the busy crew members on the Eternal Night froze their eyes and stopped their movements. The sound of swallowing saliva resounded in the air.

A death crisis that made one's scalp burst, only belatedly hit his heart.

Even the high-ranking warriors of Qiantiao's group suddenly changed their faces when they saw it.

Because of the blow just now, none of them can avoid it with absolute certainty.

However, it's not over yet!

Before everyone could react, swish, two beams of light bombs hit the same position.

Regardless of the cost, they released the forbidden spell three times. It seems that those guys on the plane of the gods want to completely eliminate the dawn group at once.

But it is also expected.

The shock wave caused by the forbidden spell set off huge waves in the sea, and the invisibility coating of the Eternal Night also showed a blurred outline in the shock wave.

Everyone in the dawn group did not dare to have any luck.

Because they know that after the enemy finds out that they haven't sunk them, there must be a backup!

In a very short period of time, the Dawn Regiment's staff group calculated the exact location of the magic release, and the battle channels immediately became noisy.

"The enemy is in the direction of eleven o'clock, and the distance is eight nautical miles!"

"The artillery on the left side of the ship is calibrated, covering salvos! The No. 3 main gun [T1 shock bomb] is loaded and fired! The near-anti-aircraft gun [magic jammer] fires continuously!"

"Turn the course and distance yourself"

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The Eternal Night reacted immediately, the battleship moved away from the direction of the magic release, and the artillery also spewed out tongues of fire.

In an instant, the sound of shells was deafening, and the shells flew all over the sky.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

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The sound of artillery fire became one piece.

Artillery has a longer range and higher firing efficiency than magic, which is also a sharp weapon against the magician army.

Keeping a distance is the best way to fight.

After a few rounds of artillery fire, a large-scale exploding mushroom cloud appeared in the coordinate sea area in the northwest in a blink of an eye.

And the magicians on the plane of the gods were obviously beyond their reach, and there were no magic fluctuations again.

Su Lun looked at the flames in the distance, his eyes narrowed, and he was not optimistic.

The enemy has no better ships than the Eternal Night, and it is unlikely that a large force will catch up.

If a small number of people came after them, the dawn group would not be afraid.

The enemy is clearly aware of this as well.

However, since they did it, they must have some other assurances.

This demigod-level forbidden spell is very strong, but definitely not all!

as expected.

At this moment, Tani issued a warning in the communicator: "Everyone be careful, the fish in the sea said that there are many monsters in the northwest!"

As soon as these words fell, there were dense soul fluctuations in Su Lun's perception.

He had guessed before that those people from the plane of the gods would control the monsters and attack them, but it was not surprising.

But when he sensed how dense the monster was, he had a slightly different expression: "Why are there so many?"

In the distance is a vast expanse of white water vapor, and the naked eye cannot clearly see what is on the sea.

But Su Lun clearly felt the dense waves of souls, as dense as a honeycomb, one next to another, countless.

However, to Su Lun's surprise, most of these soul fluctuations are very weak, probably at the level of a second or third rank monster.

"What kind of monster is it?"

Su Lun was very puzzled.

However, those monsters were even faster than the Eternal Night, and as they got closer, he also discovered that there were some powerful existences of the seventh and eighth ranks mixed in them.

It didn't take long for the monster to rush out of the mist. Su Lun took a closer look and found that it was a dense group of snakes.

Countless venomous snakes surged on the sea surface like a tide, overlapping, rolling, and wriggling. The blackness was so dense that it made one's hair stand on end.

And those Su Lun perceived to be powerful soul fluctuations, but they were snake-haired banshees!

According to myths and legends, Gorgons can control poisonous snakes, and their hair itself can turn into billions of poisonous snakes.

And this scene of hundreds of millions of snakes dispatched is also called "Snake Sea Natural Disaster"!

Like locusts crossing the border, where they pass, all life will be wiped out.

This is the frightening combat power that is said to be capable of killing gods.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Su Lun had seen yet another legendary disaster.

Everyone in the dawn group was also shocked.

"Why the hell are there so many snakes? It makes my skin crawl."

"Hey, am I dazzled, there seems to be a 'woman' among the snakes?"

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Su Lun heard that everyone didn't realize what it was, and wanted to remind him, but he didn't expect the Kaitou Kit to suddenly speak and screamed in the communicator: "That's a Gorgon! Be careful, don't look at those Gorgon eyes!"

This guy has suffered from the petrified light before, so he doesn't know how powerful this monster is.

And Tani's mother, Friedel, also issued a sharp warning immediately, and said in a slightly frightened tone: "Everyone be careful, you must keep your distance. Even if the top-level Gorgon doesn't look directly into its eyes , will be affected by the petrified light. To be able to control such a huge group of snakes, there must be an eighth-order gorgon in it!"

As the only person in the dawn group who has been petrified, how does she not know the danger?

It was the "Snake Sea Disaster" that destroyed the entire Naga tribe and dozens of intelligent tribes near Rainbow Island.

This snake plague was like a plague, leaving her with an indelible memory of terror.

Eighth order?

Even Su Lun frowned when he heard this.

The eighth-order Gorgon can almost be said to be the top creature of this plane.

But seeing the Gorgon, Su Lun was also a little puzzled.

He knew that people from the plane of the gods cooperated with the Gorgon, but before, in the outskirts of Eklunsa, the capital of the Silver Dragon King, a suspected eighth-level Gorgon was not killed by Helen who had completed the trial and turned into Medusa. dropped it?

What's going on here now?

What about Medusa Queen Helen and the Gorgon tribe?

The island marked with the Gorgon on the sea chart is about a day's voyage nearby. Because they were not sure about the risk, Su Lun and the others deliberately avoided that direction, but they encountered it unexpectedly.

But it's pointless to think about it right now.

Su Lun also closed his eyes, using Uncle Crow's shared vision to watch the tide of snakes chasing towards the Eternal Night.

In the communicator, Dora, the head of the mechanical group, also issued shelling instructions intensively according to the coordinates pointed out by Su Lunzhi: "The first and second layers of artillery continue to suppress firepower, and the third layer of artillery is filled with [alchemy scattered bombs] to cover and scatter! Fifteen degrees east by north, main gun No. 4 on deck, fire!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

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The firepower of the Eternal Night was fully fired, and all kinds of alchemy bombs poured out as if they didn't want money.

This kind of snake tide can also be regarded as a kind of legion war, the more the number, the less room for dodge.

You don't even need to deliberately aim, when the shells fall, bloody snakes will inevitably explode in the black snake tide on the sea.

Hundreds of artillery pieces can kill hundreds of thousands of low-level poisonous snakes per second.

However, the expression on Su Lun's face was not at all relaxed.

Through Black Crow's field of vision, he saw that even with such a dense fire coverage of the Dawn Regiment, the number of snake swarms chasing after them did not decrease at all, but increased instead.

And the low-level poisonous snakes are okay, just the number, even if they catch up, the problem is not too big.

The tricky part is the Gorgon hidden among the snakes.

Even if Su Lun reported the exact coordinates, the shells were fired precisely.

However, the alchemy shells of the main cannon that can severely injure the eighth-order were all petrified in the gray light surrounding the bodies of the Gorgons!

"The Gorgon's divine-level talent [Petrochemical Curse] is really unsolvable."

Seeing this, Su Lun frowned.

This is what he is worried about. Only one antidote to the petrification curse has been used up. It can't solve the petrification problem, and absolutely can't fight head-to-head with the Gorgon in melee.

And the tricky thing is, even now he doesn't understand the principle of this magical level "curse of petrification".

I can't understand it, and naturally I can't find a way to crack it.

The Eternal Night can only fight all the way and evacuate all the way.

While fighting, Tani issued another warning: "There are also a lot of monsters in our southwest direction!"

Su Lun looked again, and in the other direction of their retreat, there were also endless waves of snakes.

It looked like a premeditated interception.

The Liming regiment didn't dare to face it head-on, so they could only change their course to avoid being encircled.

However, it was this choice of turning the course that made Su Lun keenly aware of something wrong, and pondered in his heart: "It seems that these gorgons are driving us in a specific direction?"

This is a very common method whether it is legion tactics or hunting monsters in nature.

Stay in ambush in many ways and drive the prey to a specific direction.

Su Lun didn't think it was a coincidence.

He immediately used the communicator to inform: "Tani, the perception group, you should pay special attention to the perception and see if there is any danger ahead of our route."

There was an immediate response from the communicator: "Yes!"

After a while, a response came from the communication: "Mr. Su Lun, nothing unusual was found."

Even Tani and his mother's perception methods did not find anything.

However, this was not the case, but it made Su Lun feel more cautious.

But those snake-haired banshees seem to have nothing to fear, because if they don't follow their route to escape, then they have to deal with the snake tide head-on.

In such a situation, it can be said that even the ninth rank will have to die here.

Even for the Dawn Regiment, there is currently only one way to escape by teleportation.

But [Ouroboros Space-Time Circle] is an escape card, unless it is a last resort, Su Lun does not intend to expose the relevant abilities too much.

But looking at the current situation, there is probably some fatal danger waiting for them ahead.

For a while, Su Lun also had a difficult choice: "Could it be that there is a more dangerous existence ahead than the 'Snake Sea Natural Disaster'?"

He was also a little puzzled.

Just these snake-haired banshees and snakes are already the overlords of this sea area.

More powerful than them, what would it be?

However, not long after putting down the communicator, suddenly, a strong soul wave appeared in the soul perception.

It seems that some space secret method was used, and it was teleported to a distance of nearly 100 meters behind the Evernight.

"The seventh-order snake-haired banshee!"

Su Lun's expression froze.

Gorgon can teleport?

There is a high probability that it is the method of the magicians on the plane of gods.

In the field of vision shared by the black crow, the Gorgon moved over in an instant, and suddenly released a large-scale petrified light towards the Eternal Night with its head full of snake hair.

Although this distance is not enough for the Gorgon to petrify anyone who does not look directly into its eyes, but the moment the light shines, the entire Eternal Night slows down immediately as if "slow light" has been cast.

However, everyone in the Dawn Regiment was not slow to react.

It was the moment when the Gorgon released the petrified light, a streak of Frost Flower Sword Qi suddenly slashed out.

"Shua" sound of blood splashing everywhere.

The head full of ferocious snake hair was thrown into the sky.

A seventh-order snake-haired banshee has died.

But these snake-haired banshees are afraid that they don't know anything about human society, so naturally they don't know that someone from the dawn group can kill it with a sword.

To be so close is to die naturally.

But when Su Lun saw this, he was 100% sure that the purpose of these snake-haired banshees was to drive them to the southeast, the unknown sea area marked as "fog pattern" on the sea chart.

"We can't go on sailing any longer."

At this moment, Su Lun has made a decision in his heart.

Intuition told him that even if he exposed his hole cards, he must never continue sailing according to the enemy's plan.

Otherwise, if you procrastinate, you may encounter a more fatal blow than the [God's Light of Punishment] before.

However, just when he was about to let the crew activate the space alchemy array on the ship, and then take the Eternal Night into the small void to escape, suddenly, a strange voice came from the sea of ​​consciousness: "There is a sleeping sea in the sea to the southeast of you. Demon Setus, it will be awakened by the breath of human beings, and you will surely die if you go there."

Spirit message!

When Su Lun heard this, he immediately found the messenger according to the direction of spiritual power transmission.

Holding the black umbrella in his hand, and feeling it again, he immediately recognized the fire of the soul. It turned out to be the Queen of Medusa "Helen" who had some intersections before? !

Why is she here?

Why do you remind me?

Countless question marks popped up in Su Lun's mind.

But no matter what the other party's motives were, what Helen said was the same as what he had guessed.

The southeast is in mortal danger!