The sun is high

Elves and dwarves, humans and goblins.

But for any individual who has accepted Fan En's inherent knowledge and grown up under this system, it will be difficult for him to remain calm when seeing this kind of existence in front of him.

Although they had received a reminder from Shuge earlier, the description at the discourse level was not the same thing as the strange scene they actually witnessed. Before seeing the true appearance of the shadow with their own eyes, they could not understand the situation at all. No one could imagine that such strange things would appear under the sea that they are so familiar with.

People realized that the black shadow could never be some kind of sea reef.

Because the reef will not suddenly "grow" out from under the sea surface.

It can't be a whale, because no whale among Vanen has so many strange eyes on its back. Even those rare magical creatures and legendary sea monsters will never have such strange eyes. Characteristics that people hate.

However, this horrific discovery was just the beginning.

Xiuge could feel that the speed of his metal disc was accelerating bit by bit. Although the frequency of this increase in speed was very slow, it was enough to prove that danger was slowly approaching.

"Check the surrounding sea surface! Check the surrounding sea surface immediately! Use spotlights!"

The sailor officer on the Windless One was relatively calm after all. Although he witnessed an extremely weird scene, he quickly woke up from the shock. As this order was successfully conveyed, the Windless One Immediately, there were several slender beams of light shining towards the sea in the distance.

This kind of special crystal spotlight is actually very old. They are a remnant of the previous naval era. In the era when large-scale detection mysteries could not be loaded onto battleships, people often needed to use this primitive method to search. Night target.

At the moment, when all kinds of mysteries are being severely disrupted, this tool has become people's most important reliance.

Shuge never put down the telescope in his hand.

He stared intently at the target that appeared first, and saw this strange shadow several meters high floating slowly in the light. It seemed to be swimming, but the speed of swimming was obviously not as fast as that of the moving object. Compared with other ships, perhaps to hide itself, or perhaps to avoid the ship's route, this strange "reef" suddenly sank under the sea one minute after it appeared.

Along with this sinking movement, Xiuge saw some tentacle-like shadows twisting and swinging out from around it. The unique blurred light and shadow of the "Color of Life" accompanied the splashing water in the process. Soaring towards the mid-air.

During this process, Shuge, who was on the Windless One, clearly felt a tremor in the air, and Charron's Touch, which resided in Shuge's spiritual world, was also responding to this invisible tremor. After reacting, it began to twist continuously in its own grooves, and its form began to change from the original tentacles to the one covered with carapace and horn during battle.

Obviously, Charron's Touch feels a clear threat at this moment.

At the same time, all the ships in the fleet also adopted similar strategies to deal with this situation. At one time, more than a dozen light beams of varying thicknesses swept across the sea surface.

These crystal spotlights, jointly controlled by mage apprentices and sailors, can easily send light to the dark sea in the distance, and under their search, more bizarre and weird shadows gradually appear in everyone's field of vision.

One, two, three...

"It looks like we're surrounded... Damn it, what are these things?"

"The direction of the Silver Shield has also been discovered, and they have issued a warning signal."

The officer glanced at the magical light and shadow floating in the sky in the distance: "I guess they should have started aiming at the sea now."

"Oh no no no...are you planning to kill them directly?"

Hearing what the officer said, Scholar Legere, who was very enthusiastic about these unknown magical creatures, was a little unhappy. He looked over nervously: "With all due respect, everyone, I know they may bring us great harm." It's a big hassle, but again, it's an important opportunity for us to capture physical samples to advance further research."

The officers and soldiers on the Windless One ignored this statement. They were soldiers, not researchers, and this kind of problem had never been within their scope of thinking.

In their eyes, what they should really think about now is how to use the existing conditions to resolve all dangers that may threaten the fleet as soon as possible.

Shuge stretched out his hand to hold Le Geer down. He shook his head and said, "I know your thoughts very well, but now is definitely not the time to do these things."

"But Mr. Shuge, samples are very important, living samples are even more important! You are a mage, you should know what I am talking about, right?"

Shuge stared at Le Geer's ugly face for two seconds, and then he said in a deep voice: "It is precisely because I can understand what you said that you are not thrown into the solitary room now... What you want Samples, of course I will find a way to get them, but definitely not now.”

After saying that, Shuge patted Le Geer hard twice on the shoulder: "I guess you hate some people in Merlin Lehe. In this case, don't make any mistakes with them at this time. Things like that, pay attention to these enemies before us and don't underestimate the threat they may pose."

As if to confirm Xiuge's words, just a few seconds after his voice fell, a military mage apprentice rushed into the cabin, and he loudly shouted the latest discovery to everyone.

"Those colors, those colors on the sea are shrinking inward! The communication secret device on the ship has completely failed, and the detection secret device is experiencing magic overload. In order to prevent the secret device from being damaged and triggering a magic explosion, we are currently preparing to deactivate it!"

The officer frowned slightly: "Once it is deactivated, we will have no way to detect the attackers who try to approach the ship from underwater. Are we going to prepare for a 'board battle' with those monsters?"

Hearing this, the person in charge of the Legal Committee shook his head: "If the magic explosion occurs in the secret ritual, the damage will be great or small. We can't take this risk... Take emergency protection. Our magic crystal stock is sufficient. Sustain it for a long time.”

The concerns on both sides are different, but both are very reasonable.

Under this strange situation, the permanent protection ritual buried inside the ship's hull at the beginning of its construction has directly become the most important line of defense.

This protective ritual integrated with the hull itself is stable enough and will not be easily disturbed or destroyed. As long as it can stably provide a sufficient amount of magic crystals, it can continue to cause continuous damage to foreign objects approaching the hull. Sexual magic damage.

As an old-fashioned cruise ship, the Windless One also had this permanent ritual installed at the beginning of its construction - under special circumstances, it is the most effective method to repel enemies who approach and board the ship. .

Soon, all the passengers on the Windless One felt a slight tremor, and then they saw a large number of complicated magic lines emerging from various structures in the hull.

However, in just ten seconds, these magical patterns that can bring a strong sense of security completely covered the entire hull of the Windless One. A large amount of stable magic began to spread outwards, affecting everything around the hull. Existence begins to exert a lasting impact.

Unlike the Windless One, the two armored ships responsible for the defense and the remaining three small escort gunboats did not adopt this defensive measure.

The commanders on these military ships are all calm and proud soldiers. The common sense and experience engraved in their blood allow them to immediately start mobilizing the weapons installed on the ships.

For a time, under the guidance of various crystal spotlights, the small naval gun first found its target.

Among the strange colors that shrink at an extremely fast speed on the sea surface, many weird and huge "reefs" appeared. They directly exposed themselves to the light of the crystal spotlights, and strange-shaped tentacles emerged from their Swinging out from the side of the body.

It seems that they are not afraid of these bright lights at all, let alone those naval guns that have completed their aim.

Xiuge and the rest of the military mages came to the deck of the Windless One. After previous preparations, all the redundant facilities here had been completely dismantled. Several small crystal cannons were set up near the edge of the deck. stand up.

In addition, Shuge also saw many new firearms that were imitated from the Kalfan heavy machine gun of the Kingdom of Votel. They looked more bulky than the heavy machine guns in Shuge's impression, and even had additional A massive metal base used to secure weapons.

Xiuge saw very obvious magic crystal marks on the ammunition boxes placed nearby. Obviously, these heavy big guys were not the "heavy machine guns" he expected, but some kind of weapon combined with powerful crystal bullets. Terrible weapon.

Through the light of the Windless One's emergency protection ceremony, Xiuge saw that the shadows on the distant sea had completed their gathering. They were like predators gathering near a school of fish, following that " The shrinking light and shadow of "Color of Life" approached the ship.

Faced with this very obvious intention, the sailors on the armed ship naturally would not sit still and wait for death. Soon, a bright red warning color flew high into the sky, followed by a series of deafening sounds.

The moment the cannon sounded, the mist of the messenger in the mirror poured directly into Shuge's eyes. With the help of magic vision, Shuge saw several deadly magic paths spreading out in the night, and the sea was calm. The magical environment was torn apart on the spot by this sudden impact.

The first to fire were the two small escort gunboats located at the edge of the fleet. The naval guns they equipped were of the conventional type. The power of their single shells was similar to that of the standard crystal cannon on land, and they were very good at triggering magic explosions.

The target they aimed at was the "sea reef" where the two groups were completely gathered together and could not distinguish each other.

Under the magical guidance of the accompanying mage, the gunners accurately hit their targets.

Xiuge saw that the "sea reefs" that originally appeared as pastel colors in the magic vision were directly blown to pieces in the violent magic explosion. All kinds of strange-shaped meat pieces were thrown into the air in the violent impact, and all kinds of Unrecognizable tissues and structures fly freely.

The "Haijiao" who were approaching the fleet stopped their movements instantly.

In Xiuge's field of vision, the lights and shadows of the "Color of Life" that were approaching suddenly stopped moving.

It seems that whether it is the "Color of Life" that is endowed with special will and scattered in the sea water, or the "sea reefs" that have grown to a huge size and are trying to approach the fleet, they are all violently affected by that moment. was shocked by the magic explosion.

Xiuge saw that the lights and shadows representing the power of the "community" began to fluctuate violently. The form and pattern of this fluctuation made Xiuge feel very familiar - it would appear when discussions and meetings were held within the Destiny Roots group. similar situation.

"It seems that they probably didn't expect that they would encounter such a level of attack in front of today's Van En Civilization... Can this be considered good news?"

Shuge was observing and thinking.

Next to them, the soldiers who were also observing the sea cheered loudly. In their view, as long as these monsters were made of flesh and blood and could use weapons to kill, they were not worth fearing at all.

The commanders and gunners on the armored ships and frigates obviously thought so too.

Soon, magic signals symbolizing the continuation of the attack began to fly, and a more violent bombardment broke out. This time, two armored ships including Silver Shield also joined the attack.

As the giant magic crystal cannon used to target enemy ships roared, a huge gap appeared in the "Color of Life" encirclement that had originally surrounded the fleet.

The successive blows seemed to have dealt an extremely serious blow to these "communities" with evil intentions. The "reefs" that were originally grouped together began to quickly sink into the water or disperse. In the process, their real bodies The structure was finally exposed.

Shuge was surprised to find that these "reefs" protruding out of the water were actually sarcoids growing on the bodies of huge fish.

Just like the parrotfish before, these large fish that are controlled and assimilated by the will of the "community" and the "Color of Life" are endowed with extremely exaggerated vitality.

Their already huge bodies became extremely exaggerated under the guidance of this external force, and on their backs, there appeared sarcoids with a large number of twisting tentacles attached.

This is a manifestation of the "will of the community" and an important means they used to conquer targets in the long past.

But now, faced with this unfamiliar resistance that exceeded their expectations, the will of the "swarm" controlled its body and dived quickly under the sea.