470. Raiding the Demon God’s Warehouse
“Where did they suddenly pop out from?”
At that moment, the Qinghai Guild was in utter dismay at the sudden appearance of four ships.
The guild war had barely started, and it wasn’t even a scout, but the Diablo Guild appeared as if they already knew the Qinghai Guild’s location.
“Four ships of that quality. They really prepared well in just one month.”
“What should we do?”
“Why are you asking? They might be a little faster, but the fact remains that they’ve entered our territory. Nothing can beat us on the sea.”
“I’ll send out the troops immediately.”
“Don’t let your guard down. You know what the Master said, right?”
“I know.”
From the premature attack to the four unusually large ships.
There were many unexpected factors, but the Qinghai Guild was like a veteran who had experienced countless guild wars.
Even though the depth of the created sea was shallower than expected, they judged that it wouldn’t be a problem to fight and immediately dispatched warriors.
Warriors riding various sea monsters headed towards Diablo.
‘They seem to have prepared diligently in their own way, but….’
The commander leading the Qinghai Guild stared at the four ships with a stern expression.
To prepare to this extent in just one month. It’s certainly impressive, but it wasn’t the first time they had faced such an opponent.
Once the Qinghai Guild’s combat style became known, there were plenty of enemies who prepared ships to counter it.
However, the Qinghai Guild had defeated them all and climbed to this point.
No matter how much the opponent struggled, no one could defeat the Qinghai Guild on this sea.
“Team 1, charge.”
Whoosh!
The Mantine squad soared into the air.
Flying through the air with their distinctive wide wings, the warriors on top raised their harpoons. They had prepared anti-ship weapons, recognizing that the enemy had appeared on ships.
“Team 2, attack the lower part simultaneously.”
From below the ships, the Shark squad charged.
Without weapons, their strong ramming attacks were enough to break the ships’ outer hull.
Thud!
Even though it was quite a distance from the ships to the commander’s location, the impact sound was clearly audible.
It seemed like the enemy couldn’t react properly, and one ship must have already fallen, but the commander’s eyes widened.
“Evacuate! Create some distance!”
A semi-transparent barrier was erected around the enemy ships.
Through the magic circles shining on the ships’ outer hull, he could quickly recognize that it was a defensive magic enchanted on the ships.
‘It’s not a low-grade defense magic circle!’
If it were a low-grade magic circle, it would have been destroyed by a few harpoons from the Mantine squad. Their harpoons were not ordinary harpoons.
They had launched a full-scale attack with the intention of completely destroying the ships, so even if a mid-grade defense magic was deployed, it wouldn’t have been able to withstand it.
But…….
‘A high-grade defense magic circle!’
The defense magic circle around the ships was still intact even after taking that attack.
No, cracks had formed where the harpoons hit, and some were pierced by the tips of the harpoons.
The lower part, where the Shark squad rammed, was a mess, crumpled like shattered bulletproof glass.
However, the problem was that the defense magic was still maintained.
If it were a mid-grade magic circle, it would have been destroyed immediately by this full-scale attack.
‘High-grade defense magic enchanted on ships in just one month! Could it be that the Diablo Guild has an enchantment specialist mage?’
Even in Elheim, where magic had begun to develop in earnest, mages who could enchant high-grade defense magic were rare.
No, beyond being rare, even if they had the manpower, they would need various expensive and rare materials to enchant high-grade magic.
Enchanting the entire ship with high-grade magic that was already difficult to enchant on a single weapon?
This was beyond common sense, let alone carelessness.
– Evacuate… Kuagh!
“Damn it!”
Diablo did not miss this opportunity.
They discovered the weakness revealed after the attack, which was meant to defeat the enemy in one blow, and poured out various attacks.
“Patia, I’m counting on you!”
“I was already preparing!”
Whoosh!
Seawater soared high between the ships and the Qinghai Guild members.
It was to minimize damage to allies through water-based defense magic.
Unless they were Qinghai Guild members, they wouldn’t be able to break through that tidal current wall, and it would be difficult for ranged attacks to penetrate the tidal current wall and harm allies.
They had failed to attack and were almost counterattacked, but they had safely overcome the crisis.
Just as they were about to think so…….
– Player Choi Soo-chang uses ‘Kraken’s Hunt.’
Dozens of harpoons emerge from the center of the tidal current wall.
They wriggled as if they were alive, accurately targeting the vital points of the allies who were turning their backs and running away.
Thud!
– Keuheok!
– Keuaaagh!
The blue armor that the Qinghai Guild was proud of.
Although it was impressive to launch harpoons through the tidal current wall, they thought it would be difficult to pierce the armor because the power had been reduced while passing through the tidal current wall.
However, the flying harpoons easily ignored the blue armor and pierced the vital points of the allies.
“How!”
Moreover, the enemy’s counterattack was not the end.
A woman who rode the tidal current wall as if surfing—no, running on the surface of the tidal current wall—leaped using the momentum of the tidal current wall.
Then, she swept through the allies with her gleaming twin swords.
Her twin swords also ignored the blue armor and proved their ferocity as they were.
“Damn it! Then, Team 5! What happened to Team 5!”
The commander bit his lip and turned his head.
Although the frontal assault had failed, he still had one hidden attack left.
Team 5, the Angler squad, who sneaked into the depths of the sea to launch a surprise attack on the enemy.
The more chaotic the situation, the more power they exerted.
Just as the commander turned his head.
Splash-!!
As if the mage next to the commander had just used the tidal current wall, a waterspout soared from the side of the ship that was Team 5’s target.
The waterspout, reminiscent of a giant crocodile, contained the shadows of blue armor and jet-black anglerfish.
“This can’t be…….”
After the waterspout subsided, the Angler squad, one of the Qinghai Guild’s prides, was floating on the sea, capsizing the ship.
And on top of the giant ray that the leader of Team 5 was riding, a huge man was clenching his thick fists and spreading his chest.
“Commander, this isn’t going to work.”
“……I see.”
“The water level was a bit lacking, so it was a bit ambiguous. I guess there’s no choice.”
“We’ll have to call Zenon.”
The atmosphere of the Qinghai Guild became even darker.
* * *
The result of the twin sisters’ ship and Seun’s enchantment was amazing.
It perfectly defended against the Qinghai Guild’s all-out attack and provided a great platform for a counterattack.
‘Still, Qinghai is not to be underestimated.’
The magic Seun used was not a mediocre defense magic.
– The Vault of Greed has been opened.
[Great Shield]
– An advanced defense magic that creates a barrier of mana to block enemy attacks.
Unlike the Reflector, a large magic defense magic he used recently, Great Shield is an effective defense magic for blocking enemy physical attacks.
Also, because it was manifested through the magic circle engraved on the entire ship, he could be confident that it was more durable than the Great Shield that Seun had urgently manifested.
‘It will take a long time to reuse.’
Such a Great Shield was in tatters after just one all-out attack.
The fortunate thing is that Choi Soo-chang and Yoo Seo-ah did not miss this opportunity and launched a great counterattack.
And…….
– Player Kang Han-cheol uses ‘End of War.’
Splash-!!
– The constellation, ‘Old Man Riding a Crocodile,’ is greatly satisfied with the contractor’s ability to handle the power of shockwaves even on the sea.
It was that Kang Han-cheol had successfully blocked the Qinghai Guild’s surprise attack.
“Master, all enemy troops are retreating!”
“Pursue them.”
“Understood!”
In another situation, he would have suspected a trap, but not now.
Seun’s vision, enhanced by Mamon’s treasure, captured the figure of the commander panicking in the distance.
He couldn’t miss this golden opportunity.
As Seun’s pursuit order was issued, the four ships moved forward vigorously.
“Haha, I’m glad it worked out well.”
“How did you do it?”
“Was it called the Qinghai Guild? I carefully observed them when I first met them and was able to understand the characteristics of their armor. I was also lucky enough to find the ore that makes up the armor at the auction house.”
“Are you talking about the ore that Park Jung-pil bought?”
“That’s right. Since they all seem to be refining their armor with Qinghai Stone, I found an ore that could exploit the weaknesses of Qinghai Stone.”
“Is that the weapon you supplied us with recently?”
“It’s an ore called Hae Gang Stone. It reacts to the cold emitted by Qinghai Stone and emits stronger strength and sharpness than usual.”
The counterattack of Choi Soo-chang and Yoo Seo-ah.
The reason why their attacks mercilessly pierced the Qinghai Guild’s armor was not simply because their strength was strong.
It was thanks to the weapons that Go Chang-seok had newly created by researching the characteristics of their armor.
Seun remembered that the Qinghai Guild, including ordinary guild members and executives, mostly wore that blue armor, so its power was bound to be strong.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“No. There’s not much I can do in naval battles, so I have to work hard on things like this, right? Haha.”
Kwaaa-
Before they had gone far, a tsunami of a height that surpassed the ship rose in front of them.
It was clearly a threatening tsunami, but he didn’t think the ship would capsize with this.
Perhaps this is…….
‘It must be to interfere with the pursuit.’
It was clear that the mage who had created the tidal current wall to interfere with Diablo’s counterattack had done it.
If they were deploying such large-scale magic to delay the advance here, it meant that there was definitely something in front of them.
Seun rotated the circle to suppress the waves in order to continue the pursuit.
– According to the mysteries of the Blue Tower, the stability of ‘Flash Flood’ is enhanced.
– According to the mysteries of the Red Tower, the range of ‘Flash Flood’ is expanded.
Kwaaa-!
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
The approaching waves are crushed by even bigger waves.
The waves created in front of Diablo’s battleship carried the four ships forward and swallowed the waves that were crashing down on them.
‘As expected, water magic works well on the sea.’
It wasn’t just the Qinghai Guild that was receiving geographical advantages.
Seun could also take advantage of the terrain through water magic, and Choi Soo-chang could use the advantage of the sea more strongly than anyone else.
“Hoo! Seun!”
“Yoo Seo-ah, you worked hard.”
“It’s okay. I can somehow keep up on the surface, but when I dive below, I can’t keep up with swimming.”
“That’s enough.”
Yoo Seo-ah, who had been running on the surface of the water using the Dengping Crossing [a martial arts technique for running on water], one of the footwork techniques she had learned from Seun, returned soaked in water while dealing with the Qinghai Guild.
Choi Soo-chang also returned to his seat only after defeating more than ten Qinghai Guild members.
As they moved forward, they saw the Qinghai Guild, who had nowhere else to run or no need to run anymore.
And…….
“Master! Ah, below! There are huge hostile creatures!”
“If it’s the stronghold we saw earlier…….”
“No! Multiple, multiple!”
Kwaaa-!!
The reason why the Qinghai Guild had fled here.
Just like the whale carrying the stronghold, huge sea monsters began to appear.