Fuma Keqing was out of the escort ship’s range; the cannonballs fell into the sea, creating frightening waves, the sound of splashing water, and the muffled roar of the cannonballs were incessant.
Liszt hammered on Fafna’s head with a burst of fury. Advance your ass, if Haywood hadn’t shown his face, we could still muddle through with some Necromancy stitching, and even if we were discovered to be a Demon, I could just abandon him and switch to an external member. How would the Church deal with this? He now has a great amount of strength to protect himself.
But once you reveal your true form, it’s all over—eight hundred thousand against six hundred thousand, the advantage is ours, and the whole world will know that a Dragon has appeared here.
However, after hammering her, it was Liszt’s finger joints that ached. Damn, this Dragon Lady’s head is pretty hard.
Of course, Fafna didn’t mean for her true form to fly over; Fen had warned her of that.
Fafna leaned on the ship’s railing, having already observed the sea surface—calm seas and gentle breezes today, it should be possible, otherwise her bragging would come back to bite her.
Her Ice Magic was not the conventional kind of Elemental Magic, but rather a Talent Magic inherent to her bloodline.
A single Red Crystal could power a Magic Energy Mechanical Arm for a month, such arms being used to lift large construction materials. The Red Crystal contained an immense amount of energy, and valuing it at two hundred Gold Dragons was not excessive.
And Fafna had already fully digested nearly twenty of these crystals, almost four thousand Gold Dragons in value.
Plus, she had received one-on-one instruction from the renowned masters of the Warlock Council’s Upper House, deepening her understanding of Magic.
"Duke of Thunder, assist me!"
Fafna called out the cryptic line.
Liszt was speechless. The Duke of Thunder wasn’t from his hometown and didn’t come over; sis, you’re shouting for the wrong person.
Immediately thereafter, everyone on the ship was flabbergasted—it could no longer be called a Magic Technique. The surge of elements was too violent, resembling the terrifying Breath of a fully grown ice dragon more than anything else.
The entire ship seemed to tilt slightly backward due to the reverse thrust, and the gorgeous blue Array Seal in Fafna’s palm didn’t release a mist, but countless strands of crystal blue silk as fine as thread from a spinning wheel. They burst forth in bundles, already forming a layer of ice twenty or thirty centimeters thick upon mere contact with the sea surface. Thɪs chapter is updatᴇd by novel⦿fire.net
As Fafna slowly swept her palm upwards, she froze an ice pathway wide enough for several people to cross side by side, more than a hundred meters long, an extravagant sight.
Although the day was calm, it was still ice floe, drifting under the current, albeit at a slow pace.
The ship’s crew stood agape, hearing and seeing the likes of which they’d never known. What sort of monster was this? Even the legendary Council Tower Masters couldn’t manage more than this, could they?
But the most shocked was Fen; he understood how much concentration this level of skill would require—it was simply beyond human capability.
No wonder... A Dragon.
The distance was still great; Fuma Keqing was out of range, and Fafna had to cast her Magic several more times in order to travel over the ice floes and reach the escort ship, all while withstanding the ship’s cannon fire.
Fafna cheered and celebrated, happily jumping up and clapping her hands.
"So you didn’t even know if it would work either!"
Liszt, still astonished by the sight of the ice floe below, realized they had to hurry. There was no telling how long the ice would hold.
All the key members stepped onto the ice.
Fisher also shed his cloak, launching into action in his combat shape; his legs, similar to those of a kangaroo, moved incredibly fast.
"What is that! So cool!"
Fafna’s eyes sparkled, "I want those tentacles on your back!"
"You really don’t want that!"
Liszt was too drained to retort, barely keeping his balance on the slowly moving ice.
Fisher led the way, with the Black Sail’s key members following close behind, along with the hired Female Archer, Violet, and Female Mage, Nishi, who also came along.
She had only one thought: the origin of this pirate gang was too frightening! In addition, Fisher had been turned into that thing, damn it! Would she end up like that as well if she defied Liszt?
Fafna’s energy was incredibly high, still employing the "Great Skill" beyond the reach of ordinary people, paving the way ahead.
The escort ship was still firing!
A cannonball was about to land on the frosty path.
It was still far from the escort ship, the thirty-two-pound cannon had an effective range of five hundred meters with maximum lethality. Beyond this distance, it wasn’t that there was no power, it could still obliterate a person, but the further it travelled, the less powerful it became.
With a great horizontal sweep of his Special Large Sword, Oct deflected the cannonball. On the comparatively smooth ice surface, he slid two meters away, leaving a dent on the massive sword resembling a door panel.
"This is not good, if we get hit within the effective range later on, I dare not think of the consequences."
Liszt ordered everyone to halt, how could human strength contend with cannons?
They could only place their hopes on the Junlin Sword now, he moved to the center of the team to support them from both front and back, using the Junlin Sword to block the cannonballs. He had never done this before, uncertain if it if could withstand the impact. Would the shadow block the cannonball or would the dissected steel’s inertia still be there, turning him into mush even if he did block it?
"This matter should be left to Lady Fafna."
Still using Ice Magic, she sourced material from the sea surface right where she was, a guiding technique taught by Fen called "Elemental Compression". Three spiraled water columns rose from the sea surface, converging towards the palm of Fafna’s hand, and finally solidifying into a three-meter long huge ice sword, resembling a door panel.
As it was concentrated using Magic Technique, its hardness was comparable to steel.
With Fafna’s human form, a small frame just over one meter seventy in height, wielding that oversized sword, she looked incredibly exaggerated.
Liszt was skeptical, Taylor’s life was at stake, and they continued into the effective firing range; now the lethality of the cannonball was at the total devastation level.
It was like playing baseball.
Clearly, the boost from the Red Crystal was holistic, not just Magic Power, but strength, and even reaction speed.
The investment of four thousand Golden Dragons was not without effect.
Under Ox’s training, even Fafna’s swordsmanship was improving. Her technique had reached at least a Gold Level, but as for strength, it far surpassed Hall-level.
With a diagonal upward strike by Fafna, in her seamstress-disguised form, she made contact with the cannonball.
The tremendous force of the impact caused the ice floe beneath Fafna to crack, leading other surrounding ice floes to sink along.
The seawater rose over Morison’s boots.
The others also secretly cursed their fate, falling into the sea in winter was a death sentence; they were not the Superman from the Aran Imperial Guard who could swim in the icy sea for seven days and nights without taking a breath.
Fafna returned the cannonball with a thump! It exploded against the hull of that escort ship, bursting the wooden planks of the ship’s wall into splinters.
They all quickly jumped onto the ice floe in front of Fafna.
Only at this moment did Liszt attune to a clear understanding of dragons as a species. It wasn’t yet fully mature nor its true form; if it got serious, it would be troublesome.
Soon the escort ship stopped firing, the situation on board seemed to have changed, the deck was completely occupied by Haywood, no one was stopping the Black Sail from boarding.
They climbed up the rope net and hurried onto the deck of the brand-new escort ship.
Haywood was still confronting the Sky Peak Pirate Group, he had reverted to his normal form, although he had Annihilation Element, it wasn’t necessary to waste it, as the tasks ahead were pretty significant.
Liszt surveyed the deck littered with corpses, the few surviving core members of the Sky Peak Pirate Group, and Captain Sky Peak, drenched in blood.
Rather, the fact that Captain Sky Peak was able to hold out under Haywood’s transformed state until they boarded was truly remarkable.