"Boom! Boom!" The sound of hitting the hull came again, and became more and more intensive.
Fortunately, although the battleship is old, it is well maintained and the hull is very strong. The monsters under the sea cannot penetrate the ship.
"It's the Sharptooth Reef Shark! Aim for the eyes! Get ready to fight!" McLeod shouted.
When the ship was attacked, all the adventurer teams took action. The strong ones filled the vacancies under the command of Melloud, while the weak ones stood in the back and stood by.
Except for the big man Lunt, Rogge and others were considered weak and were protected by McLeod's team.
The sharp-toothed reef shark seemed to have lost its patience in drilling the boat and retreated into the water.
"The monster escaped now?" Viscount Tang En sneered, "How powerful do you think it is? Is it worth hiring so many wastes? Our family bodyguards are enough..."
"Ah!!!" A short scream suddenly interrupted Tang En's nonsense, which was uttered by the family guard in his mouth.
Everyone looked at the sound, but there was no trace of the monster at the bow of the ship, only a corpse.
The guard's entire head and most of his shoulders were bitten off. Blood spurted out from the horrific section caused by the violent tearing, and his lower legs were still twitching slightly.
"Ouch!!!" Tang En, who had never seen such a bloody scene, vomited directly, covered his mouth and stumbled back to the room.
Melloud ignored him. The experienced adventurer stared at the sea intently. Suddenly, the corners of his eyes twitched and he shouted: "Here we come! Prepare to defend!"
The sharp-toothed reef sharks temporarily retreated just to charge more powerfully. One shark gained something, and the group of sharks followed suit. They jumped out of the sea almost at the same time, opening their bloody mouths to bite the living people on the boat!
With a shake of his left hand, McLeod cast out a large, sturdy net that enveloped the two reef sharks. The spear from his right hand thrust out boldly, piercing the eye socket of one of the reef sharks, straight into the brain!
Not only him, but all his team members also did this move, except that two of them were weaker and only caught a reef shark.
"Ah!!!" There was another long-sounding scream. I don't know who was killed, and everyone had no time to care.
McLeod's team struggled to drag the netted reef shark to the deck, handed it over to the adventurers on standby behind them, and then stood on both sides of the ship to defend it.
"About 20 reef sharks! Everyone, work harder and resist a few more waves!" McLeod encouraged.
"Little sister, don't be afraid. As long as this reef shark is out of the water, it is no different from a fish waiting to be slaughtered. It just looks fierce." The female member in front of Ofina was worried that the little girl was afraid of this ferocious monster, so she comforted her with words. road.
"Also, don't look around, especially where the screams are coming from."
The adventurers suffered some casualties from the first wave of sharks, and the scene was bloody. The female members were also worried that Ofina would not be able to bear it.
"I know, thank you sister!" Ofina responded sweetly, and while she wasn't paying attention, she stabbed the sword of light cleanly into the body of the reef shark in the big net.
Sharks don't roar. Reef sharks only twist and struggle in vain, then become quiet after a while.
Rogge also found the blind spots in everyone's field of vision and shot a few arrows.
The arrows shot by the advanced archers using the mid-level Jade Fire Bow of the Phoenix Lin level are extremely powerful, and with the bonus of penetrating arrows, the Reef Shark, which is only at the Strong Level and is not good at defense, has no way of resisting.
Several arrows were harvested, and Rogge quietly eliminated the reef sharks, relieving a lot of pressure on the McLeod team.
The sharp-toothed reef sharks attacked three more waves, and the number decreased. McLeod stabbed a reef shark through the head again, and the sea finally returned to calm.
McLeod and another strong man jumped into the sea to check whether the hull was damaged, while others continued to be vigilant.
After a while, the two of them emerged from the sea and held out their thumbs to indicate safety.
A group of brightly dressed adventurers with green faces relaxed instantly, slumped down on the deck and cried.
They are the other team that Count Caesar refers to as a team of losers. They are a really weak team. The strongest leader of the team was also dragged into the sea in the battle just now, and no bones were left.
"I saw the leader, he was bitten in two by a shark, wuwu..." A girl about the same age as Rogge held her chest and cried sadly.
"Why are you crying?" Tang En, who reappeared on the deck after being safe, started his performance again, "You have to die if you don't have the strength. You don't know how ferocious the Warcraft is? You really deserve it!"
The girl pursed her lips tightly and did not dare to speak. The leader of the group was killed in the battle. The remaining members were all junior professionals. If they wanted to go back alive, they had to rely on others.
Just thinking of the high-spirited look of the captain she admired before going to sea, the girl couldn't help but tremble and burst into tears.
Rogg happened to be near Tang En, pretending to pass by him casually, and stepped heavily on Tang En's feet using the footwork that Filia had taught him.
"Ah!" Tang En let out a scream, as brutal as a guard killed by a reef shark, "You bastard! You don't have eyesight!"
"Sorry, sorry, I was impatient at the moment." Rogge pretended to smile and left quickly. When he passed by the crying girl, he put a blanket on her, and then came to McLeod who was about to dismantle the sharp-toothed reef shark.
Rogge's force was just right. It didn't break Tang En's bones, but it was just extremely painful.
"Stop!" Tang En wanted to pester him, but Rogge ignored his call at all.
His feet were so painful that he couldn't walk. Tang En could only give up and stared at Rogge for a few seconds with a sinister look.
The common sharptooth reef shark is a small shark, less than one meter long, that mainly lives in offshore areas. The reef sharks that attacked the ship this time were each more than two meters long, and the largest ones were more than three meters long. They were obviously powerful monsters.
However, Melloud's team was stronger. According to Rogge's observation, there were 4 high-level warriors among the 6 people, and the remaining two were also at the peak of the intermediate level.
And they are all water magicians. Although their levels are not high, they are of great help in water battles.
According to the commission content, the corpses of the killed Warcraft belong to the killers. Of the twenty-eight sharp-toothed reef sharks, more than half were killed by Melloud's team.
Some of the ones Rogge shot were shot through the head due to the excessive penetration of the arrows, and the arrows disappeared. They looked just like those stabbed to death with spears, so they were all counted on the head of McLeod's team. superior.
Lunt actually killed two of them, and Filia had already taken out the magic core and showed it to Rogge calmly. Strong wind
Rogge saw clearly what the magic core looked like at just one glance.
The sharp-toothed reef shark's magic core should be gray-white as a whole, but the middle part is reddish-black, and the color becomes lighter as it gets further away from the core. The edge is only less than a knuckle long and still remains gray-white.
Compared with the magic cores of the giant horn cave monsters, the sharp-toothed reef shark seems to be more seriously infected, and is closer to the appearance of the red-black crystals that lead to the demonization of the monster.
"Uncle Mai, let me help you. I'm very skilled in handling this." Rogge also wanted to observe more magic cores and asked McLeod for help.
"Okay, I'll leave the few over there to you. Collect the magic cores, sharp teeth and bones, and throw the rest on the ship first." Melloud paused, observed Rogge's face, and continued He said, "Boy, I didn't expect you to be quite calm. Not bad."
"Despite our young age, we still have some strength." Rogge said with a smile.
Except for Sister Emily, all of them are high-level professionals. Their equipment is better than that of Melloud's team, and they indeed have a little bit of strength.
"Hey, don't be careless. Look at the leader of that team. He went up with confidence, but in the end he didn't even have a piece of meat left..." A sad sob interrupted McLeod, and the experienced adventurer said to himself Realizing that he had made a mistake, he quickly changed the subject, "Now that we've dealt with it, take some time to rest. This place is very bloody, so we can't delay for too long."
"good."
Rogge slowed down his handling of the shark slightly, even slower than McLeod, but he still received praise from him, "Not bad, so skilled. Have you done this before?"
"I cook in the team, so I can naturally handle these things faster."
"That's it, haha. It's a pity that shark meat cannot be eaten. Otherwise, I would like to have a taste of your craftsmanship!" McLeod said as he took out the magic core of a reef shark, wiped it clean and received it in the space. In the ring, the expression was normal.
Rogge paused, and he paid close attention to Melloud's reaction after seeing the magic core. Naturally, this was probably not the first time he saw an abnormal magic core.
Rogge's mind was racing and he decided to test it again.
"Eh? Why does the magic core of this reef shark look so strange? Is it originally like this?" Rogge pretended to be confused, took the magic core to check, and asked McLeod.
"Of course not." McLeod took out a gray-white magic core and showed it to Rogge. "Here, this is the original appearance of the sharp-toothed reef shark's magic core."
Rogge took a few glances and continued to ask: "Then what's going on with the red magic core?"
"I don't know. We have received several commissions recently, and the monster cores we defeated are basically like this. Moreover, those monsters are more aggressive than usual!"
"Uncle Mai, do you often move around Port Ipuni? When did the monsters here start to change?"
"Uh..." McLeod pinched his beard and thought for a while, "I remember that the earliest abnormal magic core was discovered in mid-February this year. At that time, the color of the magic core was not so heavy, it was just a little scarlet in the middle. It’s not that aggressive either.”
"Mid-February..." Rogge pondered.
"Something's wrong, isn't it? I feel like they are polluted by something! This sea area is getting more and more dangerous. Our team plans to rest for a while after this trip to check the situation. You should also be careful!" De kindly reminded, "However, these magic cores are more valuable than before, and they sell out very quickly, haha! We made a lot of money!"
When Rogge heard this, his heart moved slightly. The abnormal magic core was selling better. Could it be that someone was buying it on purpose?
Rogge asked again about the details of Melloud's initial encounter with the abnormal monster, and then said no more. He speeded up his hands to deal with the reef shark and left.
In the room of Roger's team.
Shadows flickered and Sonia appeared.
The assassin girl didn't show up at all when the monsters attacked. She concentrated on observing everyone on the ship and collecting intelligence.
Counting them and subtracting those who died in the battle, there were thirty-one adventurers left on the battleship, two nobles Xize and Tang En, six attendants, and six crew members, a total of forty-five people.
According to Sonia's observation, among the adventurer teams, except for the strongest team of Melloud and the weakest team with the dead leader, the other two teams are about the same strength. There is a senior professional who leads the team, and the rest are intermediate. Yes, nothing unusual.
Earl Caesar is a father who is anxious to meet his daughter, Viscount Down is a self-righteous nobleman, and the guards and crew are all normal.
What's abnormal seems to be Warcraft.
