“Ha, ha, the Random Name Magic Guild really lives up to its reputation as the number one in the Star Empire. Today has truly been an eye-opener, hahaha…” The captain of the Three-Headed Serpent Mercenary Group let out two awkward dry laughs, sheepishly lowered the battle axe in his hand, and when he looked at Ye Chui and his party again, a few traces of awe had quietly appeared in his gaze. The other mercenaries no longer dared to underestimate this group that looked utterly unreliable no matter how you saw them.
The few people who had been thrown off the large ship by Turtle Treasure earlier were now struggling in the water below. Zack hurriedly shouted at the mercenary who was standing there stunned, “What are you doing just standing there? Hurry and fish them out!”
Anxiety suddenly surged in his heart. He had just sent a flying fish message to notify the Undead Monk pirates. A fierce battle was definitely coming, yet he had clearly underestimated the strength of Ye Chui’s group. If it really came to a fight, even if Ye Chui and the others could not defeat the immortal Undead Monks, his mercenary group would still suffer heavy losses. For a moment he was filled with intense regret.
He should have first investigated the strength of these people before deciding to act!
Thinking of this, Zack involuntarily looked towards a distant part of the sea. He knew the Undead Monk legion was there, rapidly approaching.
Retracting his gaze, Zack decided to first find a way to stall Ye Chui. However, he discovered that Ye Chui was also looking in the direction of the Undead Monks, holding a strange black compass. Puzzled, Zack asked, “Almighty Great Emperor… may I ask what you are looking at?”
“The Undead Monks should be arriving soon,” Ye Chui replied with a faint smile.
Zack’s body shook violently, as if someone had suddenly poured a basin of ice water over him in the height of summer. His voice involuntarily carried a tremor, “Undead Monks? How could the Undead Monks… how could the Undead Monks come here… President Ye Chui, you must be joking.”
Bart and Evans also looked at Ye Chui curiously.
Ye Chui smiled at Zack and said, “Didn’t you summon them here with a flying fish message?”
These words instantly made the Three-Headed Serpent Mercenary Group, who had only just relaxed a little, tense up once more.
Zack quickly retreated several steps, gripped his battle axe tightly and said, “You already knew about the flying fish message!?”
“Mr Ye Chui, what exactly is going on?” Evans asked in surprise. He walked over to Ye Chui, waved a hand and threw off the black robe he wore, revealing the bizarre half-human, half-puppet body beneath. The Three-Headed Serpent mercenaries were seeing Evans’s appearance beneath the robe for the first time and looked shocked.
“From the very beginning, the Three-Headed Serpent Mercenary Group planned to betray you brothers and hand you over to the Undead Monks. After we boarded the ship, they immediately notified the Undead Monks to come here and planned to catch us all in one net,” Ye Chui explained calmly. He had already invaded Zack’s memory world and spent three hundred points to unlock one of Zack’s memory articles, thereby learning his entire plan.
Noticing the shocked expression on Zack’s face, Ye Chui smiled at him and said, “Didn’t you know? I am also a rather powerful spiritual magic mentor.”
“…”
If the Three-Headed Serpent mercenaries on this merchant ship had previously felt awe towards Ye Chui, now it was pure fear. The most terrifying part was that Ye Chui clearly knew the Undead Monks were coming, yet why was he still so calm?
Stari came excitedly to Ye Chui’s side, “The Undead Monks are coming? Then, then what will happen to Irabetha?”
“I think Irabetha should still be alive. Don’t worry, I will rescue her,” Ye Chui said with a smile, comforting Stari. They had originally planned to go looking for the Undead Monks anyway, and now the Undead Monks were conveniently coming to them. It could not have worked out better. In fact, Ye Chui even felt he should thank Zack for saving him a lot of trouble.
“You have already encountered the Undead Monks!?” Zack caught something from Stari’s words and asked in shock.
“Last night the Undead Monks attacked Pirate Bay. Mr Ye Chui repelled them, but they kidnapped my friend. Mr Ye Chui promised to help me get her back!” Stari answered.
“Re… repelled the Undead Monks… that’s impossible, they literally cannot be killed!” Zack exclaimed.
“But I can kill them,” Ye Chui said with a smile.
Bart and Evans exchanged a glance, then Bart voiced the question in his heart to Ye Chui, “You really only saw the ocean for the first time yesterday?”
In just one day you sank twice and even fought the Undead Monk legion?
Ye Chui smiled and nodded at Bart and Evans. He was about to deal directly with the Three-Headed Serpent Mercenary Group first, but at that moment the sailing merchant ship suddenly shook violently. Immediately afterwards, a scream came from below the hull.
Zack frowned slightly and hurriedly ran to the rail. Ye Chui and the others also walked over to the side of the ship with puzzled expressions and looked down.
A terrifying whirlpool had appeared on the sea beside the merchant ship at some unknown time. The mercenaries who had been thrown into the sea by Turtle Treasure earlier were struggling desperately to climb back onto the deck. A few unlucky ones were accidentally sucked into the whirlpool, flailing their arms and letting out screams.
“There’s something under the ship!” Debbie cried out in alarm.
Ye Chui frowned. He suddenly thought of something. When he looked at the map on his iPad, he found that the map had now turned red, the red colour almost covering the entire page!
A terrifying presence was lurking beneath the ship. The hostility it emitted was so overwhelming, or its body was so enormous, that the entire page of the magic guide book had turned red!
Something this terrifying… a sea demon beast? Or perhaps… Ye Chui thought of something and quickly took out his compass, his mind flashing to the Sea Angel.
Yesterday the Black Pearl had lost half its hull to the sea shark beasts. Later, when Ye Chui tried to repair and re-summon the Black Pearl, he found he could not. From this, Ye Chui concluded that the missing half of the Black Pearl had been sealed by something terrifying. In the entire ocean, the only thing capable of such a dreadful seal was the legendary Sea Angel.
That was also why Ye Chui’s compass could locate the Sea Angel’s position at any time.
Now, as the thought of the Sea Angel crossed Ye Chui’s mind, the needle on the compass suddenly began spinning wildly left and right, out of control.
This meant that the direction it pointed to was right beside him, so it could not lock on.
In other words, the terrifying apostle lurking beneath the merchant ship right now was none other than the Sea Angel!
“Sea Angel!” Ye Chui said in a low voice.
Hearing Ye Chui’s words, everyone else was shocked. “You’re saying the thing under the ship is the Sea Angel!?” Evans said with some fear. He had heard legends about the Sea Angel. Every time this terrifying creature appeared, it caused enormous disasters.
When the members of the Three-Headed Serpent Mercenary Group heard the name Sea Angel, it was as if the end of the world had come. Several of them collapsed straight to the deck, their faces filled with utter despair.
Zack’s face was deathly pale as he muttered under his breath, “No, this can’t be…”
“The Undead Monks know I’m very dangerous and they can’t deal with me, so they informed the Sea Angel and had the Sea Angel come to take care of us. You are the one who summoned this sea monster here,” Ye Chui said mockingly to Zack.
“President, what do we do now?” Green asked at that moment.
“We were planning to deal with the Sea Angel on this trip anyway. Now that it’s appeared here, it saves us the trouble of looking for it!” Ye Chui’s tone actually carried a hint of excitement.
Hearing this, Debbie, Leisha, Shiers, Guni, Shalumei, Green, and the Dragon Turtle Three Treasures all showed excited expressions. Yet this terrified everyone else. Even Bart and Evans, this pair who knew Ye Chui’s group acted without any limits, revealed expressions of extreme shock. Stari went “plop” and collapsed onto his backside on the deck.
The people he had accidentally recruited yesterday… just what kind of monsters were they…
Even when a Sea Angel appeared, they wanted to charge straight at it and said they were going to kill it?
Whoosh—
A huge tentacle like an octopus’s suddenly burst out of the sea and swept towards the merchant ship.
The Sea Angel had launched its attack on the ship!
…
Far away on the sea, dark clouds filled the sky. The clouds gradually spread over. Ghostly Undead Monk ships slowly sailed forward under the shadow of the clouds. Standing on an Undead Monk ship, one could see in the distance those blood-red tentacles rising from beneath the sea, continuously trying to coil around the merchant ship. The people on the ship were constantly trying to attack the tentacles.
Boom, boom. Continuous explosions came from that area of the sea. They were powerful explosive magics. One of the explosions directly severed a huge tentacle. The terrifying severed limb crashed heavily onto the sea, but this could not seriously injure the Sea Angel. It only succeeded in thoroughly enraging it. The Sea Angel’s terrifying body remained hidden beneath the sea, constantly stirring up earth-shaking disturbances.
“Ordinary merchant ships cannot last even a minute against a Sea Angel’s attack. It seems the Random Name Magic Guild really is powerful to be able to hold out this long against a Sea Angel,” Redbeard Undead Monk said with some awe as he stood at the decayed rail.
Beside him was the extremely weak-looking Irabetha.
Irabetha was not the person they were looking for who could lift their curse. However, Redbeard had not killed her. Instead, he had brought her down from the altar. Driven by some strange thinking, he wanted Irabetha to witness how he destroyed the Random Name Magic Guild. At this moment Irabetha was lying over the rail, her face pale, looking as if she might faint at any moment.
The pendant still hung around her neck.
Her almost powerless eyes opened slightly. She saw the merchant ship that was entangled with the terrifying sea monster. The distance was not small, yet Irabetha had excellent eyesight. Among the blurry little figures on the deck of that merchant ship, she vaguely recognised the most familiar one. Stari was on that ship!
Irabetha quietly shifted her body, straightening up a little. As a woman who had grown up in Pirate Bay and constantly dealt with all kinds of despicable pirates, although Irabetha was not a swordswoman, her physical condition was still extremely strong.
She had lost a lot of blood just now, but she was not as weak as she appeared.
At this moment she recalled a rumour everyone on the sea knew.
Wherever the Sea Angel appeared, the Nether Ship would certainly appear too.
Because the Nether Ship would eternally pursue the Sea Angel, using itself to seal the Sea Angel so it could not rampage freely.
If it was the Nether Ship…
Irabetha’s hand quietly grasped the pendant around her neck. Now she knew what this pendant represented. A bold plan surged into her mind.
“Stari, you idiot, every single time it’s me who has to save you…” she silently thought to herself. From childhood to adulthood, she and Stari had grown up together. Every time Stari was bullied by those unscrupulous pirates, it was always her who stepped in to help him. A spineless man, yet she could never let him go in her heart. She took a deep breath, then, while the Undead Monks around her were not paying attention, she gathered her strength and leapt from the Undead Monk ship into the vast sea!
The ghost ship was nearby. She needed to find the ghost ship. Legend said that anyone who tried to board the ghost ship would be killed by Captain Dalin’s resentment. Yet Irabetha was not afraid. The pendant in her hand was Captain Dalin’s relic. Captain Dalin would definitely recognise the pendant, and Stari was Captain Dalin’s grandson. If Irabetha told him that Stari was on the ship currently under attack by the Sea Angel, he would definitely go to save Stari!
