The bloody smell dispersed by the wind due to the broken arm further stimulated the sea snakes' animal desires. In an instant, sea serpents surrounded Ella's ship. With the moonlight, you can see the surge of sea snakes causing the sea to roll like a pan of oil.
Amid the man's continuous wailing, Ella trembled and shouted at Gan: "What on earth do you want to do!"
Gan's pupils dilated with excitement: "Of course it's a duel! A duel!"
A black shadow jumped from the water in the distance to the bow of the ship. Gan rushed over, cut the shadow in two in the air, and then skillfully shook it dry.
"Is this the first time the Shield Girl has seen Baslik? To deal with Baslik, you have to be fast. Just pull the weapon away and shake it dry before the poison spreads to your arm. Let's see who can kill Baslik. There are more Slicks, right? This way you won’t get hurt if you compete!”
"What's going on in your head to think this won't hurt you!"
Ella almost cried. But Snake would not give in because of the girl's cry, and neither would Gan.
More and more Basliks jumped out of the water, some fell back into the water, and some fell toward the boat. Gan held two daggers in both hands and used his extremely fast speed to rush to the bow and stern of the ship, slashing every Baslik that wanted to fall onto the ship back into the sea. Ella was dumbfounded by the flexible and swift movements, and she couldn't help but think: "Maybe he said that because he can get rid of all these sea snakes by himself?"
"Six...eight...thirteen! I am in the lead! But they are getting more and more excited. I can't run here alone! Shield girl, the direction of the bow is left to you! Be serious, if you let If they get on the boat, we will all be bitten to death!"
"Don't suddenly give me the task of guarding your back! Believe it or not, I'll stab you in the back? I really want to stab you right now!"
Ella shouted in collapse, grabbing an ax on the boat with both hands, and stumbled towards the bow.
The blood of the sea snake cut off by Gan was mixed into the sea water, making the remaining sea snakes even more violent. Almost at the same time, more than ten black shadows jumped into the air!
Ella turned blue with fright and took a big step back. She heard a few "pah pah pah pah" sounds, and six sea snakes fell into the boat. Ella had never seen such a battle before, so she threw down her ax and ran away.
As soon as the sea snakes got on the boat, they crawled towards the place where the smell of blood was the strongest - the man with a broken arm. The man was so frightened that he temporarily forgot about the pain of his broken arm. He randomly grabbed a wooden stick with his remaining left hand and drove the sea snake away with all his strength.
But that didn't serve any purpose.
More and more sea snakes jumped on the boat and surrounded the man from all directions. Inadvertently, the stick in the man's hand was bitten by a sea snake. The venom spread upwards along the stick, and the man was so frightened that he quickly threw the stick away. This time, he even lost his only weapon.
The sea snakes climbed up to the man's belly along his toes. He slapped them with his hands, and the sea snakes climbed up to his shoulders along his fingers. He was bitten several times in succession, and soon he was poisoned and fell on the boat.
The sea snakes continued to swarm up, and soon they were all over his body. They bit open the man's flesh, got into his belly and intestines, and greedily drank the blood inside.
"Be careful not to let too many Basliks run onto the ship. Otherwise, even if we kill them, the venom left on the ship will restrict our movements."
Gan issued such a "warm reminder" in this situation. At this time, he was swinging a dagger at the stern of the boat to cut the bodies of the sea snakes, without paying any attention to the situation on Ella's side.
Due to the corrosion of the venom, the man's body soon became nothing but a pool of blood and bones. The group of sea snakes coiled around the white bones, bathing in the blood with unfulfilled interest. Ella was horrified to find that gradually, more and more sea snakes were looking in her direction.
In the crisis, she recalled the advice Dan gave her on the first night she was caught in the pirate camp:
"Take up your shield and your sword."
Ella swallowed and suppressed the fear in her heart. She saw a small buckler beside her and quickly picked it up.
A sea snake crawled in front of her, stood up half of its body, and made a hissing sound. Different from ordinary sea snakes, Baslik's upper body is as flat as a cobra, with a snake's head, a chicken's mouth, and a small comb on its head.
The sea snake changed its position back and forth several times in front of Ella, and then at a certain moment, its entire body shot towards Ella like an unsheathed sword. Ella hurriedly used her shield to block her body, and with a "pop" sound, the sea snake was knocked unconscious by the shield. Ella took advantage of the situation and put the shield on the sea snake, raised her legs and stepped hard on the shield a few times.
"How are you? Are you scared? Let me tell you, I am not a shield girl! I am very good at fighting with a shield!"
Ella was jumping on her shield, shouting in confusion.
A stench came from under the shield. Ella shuddered and ran away from the shield.
I saw the venom slowly penetrated the shield from below and surged up. The wooden shield began to rot rapidly under the venom and could no longer be used.
"Please, I never heard that this venom can corrode wood! Our entire boat is made of wood!"
However, Gan, who was obsessed with killing, didn't hear Ella's words at all.
The smell of blood attracted more sea snakes and crawled toward Ella. Ella looked left and right and saw that there was nothing else that could be used as a shield, so she had to take off half of the seventeen pieces of clothing she was wearing.
"As long as you can't see it... you shouldn't be so scared."
She threw her clothes at the sea snakes and covered them with her clothes. Now, what squirmed in her eyes was not the sea snake, but the clothes. She took this opportunity to close her eyes and step on her clothes!
However, she overestimated her courage. As soon as she touched the clothes, the round touch of the snake's body scared her so much that she retracted her feet as if she was electrocuted. Before one foot could stand firm, the sea snake, enraged by being stepped on, had already emerged from under his clothes. Ella was so frightened that she quickly put her other foot back. This time, her body immediately lost her balance and fell backwards to the ground.
The sea snake climbed up her body, and the cold touch spread from the instep to the calf. Ella could no longer suppress the fear in her heart and screamed uncontrollably.
Gan turned his head when he heard the screams and saw the large number of sea snakes that had climbed onto the boat, and panic finally appeared on his face.
At this moment, a fiery red light suddenly passed by the ship.
The sea snakes seemed to be extremely afraid of this beam of light and jumped back from the ship into the sea. Another ray of light crossed the sea and flew past Ella's eyes - only then did Ella see clearly that it was a burning axe. The sea snakes began to flee in all directions, and at the same time, a sense of oppression that frightened and was familiar to Ella came from the shore - Hestein was looking at her and Gan seriously on the shore. He took the last throwing ax from his waist and threw it towards the other side of the ship. The flying ax flew halfway through the air, and suddenly ignited the same fire as before, driving the remaining sea snakes back into the deep sea.
Gan rowed the boat back to shore and kept giggling in front of Hestein, rubbing his head like a child whose prank had failed.
"Go back to the barracks immediately!"
Hestein glared at Gan and Ella and yelled angrily.
