38. Funeral of the Sea
The night fades a little bit.
At 10:00 a ray of white fish appeared on the sea level in the sky.
Standing on a steep island reef, looking out at the entire island, there is a ridge northwest of the island, where you should be able to see the entire island.
After the sea tide fell, a large white beach was left in front of the palm forest. If you look down from the air, you will find that the beach surrounds the island like a silver collar. There are several coconut trees growing on the sand not far away. A group of barbarian slaves are sleeping soundly on the beach under the coconut trees.
The bonfire on the beach was left with only a layer of white carbon ash. A gust of wind blew, and the charcoal ash was swept up by the wind, and there was still a layer of dark red charcoal fire left on the bonfire.
Several shark skeletons that had been gnawed all over were randomly discarded on the beach, and a shark skull was swept far away by the waves.
The orc warriors were scattered around the beach, and they were leaning against the trunks, standing or sitting asleep.
Ying Li was wearing a linen dress with Helena, and Becky walked side by side with barefoot, leaving three rows of shallow footprints on the beach. They would squat down and pick up shells on the beach, and a fishy and salty smell came from the sea breeze.
The waves surged to the beach in the distance.
At this time, I found some silver lights surging from the white foam. The sound of "gulugulu" like drinking water came from a distance. I immediately became alert and looked at the distant coastline and found that more than twenty fishmen walked out of the sea. These fishmen had webbed feet like frogs. The legs did not look very long, but they looked very strong. They held fish bone knives in their hands, and a few fresh sea fish were hanging from the bone forks carried on their shoulders. They walked out of the sea with a "jiggling" all the way.
These fishmen have the body and head of fish, and also have limbs like humans, with primary wisdom, and belong to sub-ethnic races.
They are similar to amphibians. Although they can walk freely after leaving the water, due to the lack of protective film on the outermost layer of the skin, they will dehydrate and die if they are away from the water for too long. Many witch hunters in the Green Empire like to hunt fishmen, mainly because these fishmen living by the water like to collect pearls and gems. Fishmen itself is also a material to resist the monsters. Fishmen leather is very popular in the imperial capital magic market.
Kalancho jumped out of the awning, and she strode down to the beach, and used one hand to put the spider-man Commander's hard-skinned armor magic pattern on her body, and dragged her black and bright heavy sword with the other hand, leaving a deep mark on the beach.
The people of this group of fish did not realize that the danger was coming, and a fishman even tripped over a reef on the beach and fell firmly on the sand.
Some orc-set warriors responsible for guarding around the woods also discovered these uninvited guests. They quickly held the bulky moon blade axe and summoned people to follow Kalancho and rushed towards the fishmen who were trying to land.
These orc warriors had hunted and killed fishmen in the Vasqi plane, so they knew very well about the temperament of fishmen. They chose to go around from the left and right flanks and prepared to encircle the back of these fishmen. However, they did not expect that this group of carefree fish people saw Kalancho walking quickly with heavy swords from the front, and did not prepare for a battle posture, but raised the fish bone fork in their hands happily and shook the fresh fish in their hands.
When they found that no matter how they shook the fresh fish in their hands, Kalancho's steps on the opposite side did not stop. The fish people were a little panicked and threw the sea fish in their hands towards Kalancho. The fish people turned around and ran back to the sea. The orc warriors had no time to block the fish people's retreat, so they could only stand in the sea deep in the knees and look vigilantly at the fish people.
I originally thought that the fish people who fled back to the sea would run away without a trace, but I didn't expect that they did not leave too far, and they also emerged from the sea from time to time and swam around the sea, with a hateful look like "Catch me! You can't catch me no matter what!"
I didn't expect that there was a fishman tribe living on this island. The fishman in front of me were obviously a group of hunters, and their tribe should be nearby.
Thinking about it, since I came to this island, I naturally could not return empty-handed. When I thought of it, I jumped off the high reefs and asked Justus and Kalancho to lead people along the coastline to advance to both sides, looking for the fishman tribe hiding on the morning island. The fishman hunters who hid in the sea and us hid cats seemed to have not yet realized that they had caused big trouble to the tribe.
The ice coffin that stored Princess Arreil was placed under the shade of trees. The ice coffin was made of glacier rocks. It was soaked in the sea for half a night without any sign of melting. Instead, a thick layer of ice condensed around the ice coffin, which made the ice coffin a little too heavy when it was dragged to the island. The crystal skull of the great wizard Zanpura put on the cover of the ice coffin, which looked like it was condensed with the ice coffin.
But she didn't see her staff that could absorb the power of lightning. If she had that staff, we probably wouldn't have to continue to spend it on this island now.
Although there was no sign of melting in this ice coffin, I was still sticking four "continuous frost magic rune boards" on the four walls of the ice coffin to ensure that the ice coffin will not melt.
Because there were traces of fishmen in the sea, although these fishmen were not very threatening to us, some snake venom was applied to the harpoons in their hands. The three girls Ying Li, who were scattered on the beach, returned to the pergola.
Princess Arreil and Ying Li established a soul contract. I asked Ying Li curiously: "Then how did you communicate with that Princess Arreil? Are you communicating in the sea of spirit?"
Ying Li smiled and said to me, "It's like this at the beginning. After the soul contract ceremony, she fell into a deep sleep. We didn't talk much, and we didn't know each other very well."
"What will you feel like if another soul is in your body?"
"I don't have any special feelings. Princess Arriel's soul stayed in the soul link contract array, which seems to have no effect on me for the time being. By the way, she doesn't seem to like humans very much!"
"It's normal not to like it. After all, when I was a child, I experienced that disfigurement incident, and anyone would leave a shadow in my heart." "By the way, Prince Hit's hint to us at the funeral was probably to warn us, but unfortunately we didn't realize it at that time."
At this time, a rustling sound suddenly appeared on the edge of the woods. Blowing pipes stretched out from the dense bushes, and a handful of thin and dense poison arrows were blown out towards the pergola. It was too sudden and we didn't even have any precautions. The poison arrows were the tough thorns of some kind of plant, and the force of the blow tube was not very large. The pergola was several meters away from the grove. Therefore, most of these poison arrows fell outside the pavilion. Even if some shot into the pavilion, most of them lost their strength and tugged on the railings crookedly, and some even fell on the floor.
Looking at the poisonous stings flying out of the bushes, I remembered that Kalancho led the orc-structured warriors around the woods to guard the orcs to search for the fishman camp along the beach. The barbarian slaves were still lying under the coconut tree and did not wake up. At this time, it was the guard post here that we were on the side of the guard post. I never thought that a group of indigenous fishman would sneak attack on the island.
Now I think of the twenty fishman hunters who appeared on the beach in a big shape, stood on the beach and shook the harpoons in their hands, shaking the fresh fish on it. It turned out that they wanted to lure the orc warriors away. When did these fishman learn to use their brains?
Katerina slid down the railings against the pergola, and hugged her waist and rushed into the trees against the rain of arrows.
Unexpectedly, the indigenous fishmen were much braver than I thought. They found that the poisonous arrows on the blowing pipe did not threaten us at all, so they rushed out of the bushes without hesitation, carrying fish bones and knifes and forks to us. There were countless tribal fishmen hidden in the huge bushes. They rushed towards our pergola like a swarm, and some rushed out of the bushes, rushing towards the barbarians lying soundly under the trees like black sea tides.
The tauren Ruka, under the coconut tree, discovered this first. He suddenly stood up from under the tree, held the "Ancient Oath" shield in one hand, and howled a roaring battle howl at the tide-like indigenous fish people.
“Moo…”
The deafening voice suddenly awakened the barbarian slaves under the coconut tree. After these barbarian slaves woke up from their sleep, they saw the poisonous arrows shot overwhelmed. The barbarian warriors picked up their weapons and didn't care about the tiny rain of arrows that were shooting. They rushed back at the fish people with barefoot barefoot, and the thorn-like poisonous arrows pierced the barbarian slaves one after another.
The muscles of these barbarian slaves are as hard as stones, and the stings can only hang on the surface of their skin. The barbarian slaves rushed into the fish crowd in two steps. In addition to a heavy crossbow, each of them now carries the moon blade axe with them. The thick moon blade axe slashed on the fish man, basically in different places.
After the Jero Plane War, the black iron weapon of this Nebru Spider-Man warrior became the standard for barbarian slaves and orc-constructed warriors.
I held up three ice shields for Caterina in the pergola. Caterina rushed into the bushes, and a heart-wrenching howl suddenly came from there.
There were constant fishmen jumping out of the surrounding trees. At first, I thought there were only a few hundred fishmen sneaking into the pergola, but then a large number of fishmen jumped out of the bushes. I realized that I was guided by the wrong guidance of inertial thinking and looked down on these fishmen too much.
At this time, there were at least thousands of fishmen jumping out of the bushes. They howled and rushed towards the pergola, instantly surrounding the pergola. Katerina's power was limited after all, and countless fishmen rushed out of the bushes, and with her own power, she could not stop them.
The fishmen rushed to the pavilion quickly, and they climbed up the pavilion along the wooden ladder, and some even climbed over the railing and jumped directly into the awning.
The four-type stone drum totem was forced to be turned on. Once the effect of the "petified skin" appeared, the sharp stings in the blow tube in the fishman's hand had no effect on us. Then, facing the rushing fishman, a ring of fire burst out from me, and all the fishman who rushed into the awning were pushed outside by a warm force.
A large fireball shot out from Ying Li's hand and exploded outside the pergola, and several fishmen were swallowed by the fireball.
Helena held two swords in front of Ying Li and me, while Becky was leaning against us. When behind us, occasionally fishmen rushed up, they both failed without hesitation.
There were too many fishmen rushing over from outside, surrounding the pergola. I decisively released the "Frost Nova" to confine the fish people to the spot. Then I unfolded a magic scroll, an ice wall appeared out of thin air, and then quickly exploded.
‘Ice Explosion’
Turning the surroundings of the awning into a world of ice and snow, the extreme cold air freezes the nearby fishman in place. Becky was wearing a "collapse glove" in his hand, and almost tore a fishman covered in frost and snow with one punch.
When the Tauren Ruka brought the barbarian slaves to the outside of the pergola, he quickly built a line of defense outside the pergola. Because the strength difference between us and the fish man was too great, we soon took the initiative in the battlefield. After the fish man dropped hundreds of corpses outside the pergola, he retreated into the bushes.
Katerina chased the fishman's butts with anger and quietly covered her with her death.
I casually shot out an "ice arrow" and shot a fishman climbing onto the roof of the pergola. The fishman looked at the ice arrow inserted into his chest in horror, and fell from the roof and fell into the pile of corpses below.
The barbarian slaves guarding around the pergola were more or less stinging, and some red spots appeared where they were stinged by the poisonous sting. The pain and itchyness made the barbarian slaves suffer.
Not long after, Kalancho and Justus, who went out to explore the fishman camp, returned one after another. They saw the mess on the pergola and the corpses of fishman on the ground, and were also shocked. They did not expect that these fishman would wait for them to leave and attack us with courage.
The orcs' warriors picked up a piece of the corpses of the fish man, and then peeled off the fish man's skin. The bodies without any flesh were thrown into the pit temporarily dug out on the beach. The fish man's leather was dried on the railings by the orcs' warriors. The drying crossbars were arranged into a matrix on the beach, and some broken fish man's skins were directly discarded.
This time, Kalancho brought back the information about the fishman camp. A large tribe with a population of tens of thousands was built on the shallows of the entire coastline. The thatched huts extended into the sea. When Kalancho led the orcs and the orcs to try to approach the fishman camp, several fishman wizards who could cast spells appeared in the camp. Under the layers of protection of the fishman warriors, these wizards walked out of the camp and set up a formation, as if they wanted to fight with Kalancho and the orcs.
Justus walked east along the coastline and found a river bay. There was also a stranded sea boat in the rushing bay. It looked quite old. The wooden boards on the sea boat were almost moldy and rotten, and there was nothing inside the boat. However, without a careful search, he saw the signal from the pergola and hurried back.
Chapter completed!