211 Ambush Part 2 (2/2)

Saleen was momentarily stunned before he understood. The road to Devil’s Horn had probably been cut off. ”Northeast, as far as possible.”

He did not want to die together with the people from Alchemy City. With a boat, they would not die. Both he and Lex had brought a large amount of food with them, since it had already become a habit of theirs. No matter how far out to sea they went, so long as there were not any storms, they would not be in too much danger. As for the magic beasts in the sea? They would think about them once they had steered clear of the danger in front of their eyes.

Amongst them, Sika and Daniel were the ones who were in the most danger. Without a boat, they could not survive. Saleen did not even need to breathe in water and he was not afraid of the cold. Nailisi was not, either. Lex had the ability to fly and she would definitely be able to find land before her magic scrolls were used up.

Daniel did not say too much. He knew that this was a matter of life and death, and since Lex had activated the alchemy engine, he had been steering them further out to sea.

”Save me!”

A head bobbed up from the sea. It was Andrew. Lex did not have any intentions of stopping, and Daniel decided to collide with him instead. With a bang, Andrew did not even have the time to react before he was struck by the boat and sank. Under such circumstances, Lex did not dare to let an outsider onto the boat, especially someone who had fought with Saleen.

The lifeboat had been prepared for escape purposes. If the hunting ship met with a powerful magic beast in the sea, there was a chance that it would sink and the speed of this boat needed to surpass at least that of most of the magic beasts in the sea. Revving the alchemy engine, the six motors to the two sides of the boat started revolving and cut a white line across the sea as it sped off towards the northwest.

As expected, there were not any ambushes in this direction, and as Saleen looked back, the magic illusion had already disappeared and a giant combat vessel had appeared on the surface of the sea, moving towards the oncoming armored vessel. The hunting ship had already begun to sink and Saleen took a deep breath before taking out a scroll and opening it.

White fog dispersed and surrounded the boat. Even though it could not hide their trail, even if someone found them, they could not accurately aim their magic stone artillery.

The combat vessel had no intentions of dealing with a lifeboat and Saleen’s boat quickly sped off without looking back. He did not think that the armored vessel from Alchemy City would be able to deal with the giant combat vessels. The enemy had been able to create such an enormous magic illusion, so there had to be at least three sorcerers on board.

The armored vessel was fairly sizable as well, but it was an alchemy ship that was prepared for hunting and did not have any weapons for naval warfare. Most of the people on board were swordsmen as well, and the strongest mage, Juno, was probably already dead.

The lifeboat was too small to install a magic compass, but luckily, Daniel was used to travelling by sea. Looking at the sun to determine their direction, they travelled hundreds of miles before a loud noise came from the alchemy engine and all of the motors stopped spinning.

The boat stopped moving and Saleen said, ”This place isn’t safe. The enemy has a magic compass, and so long as they send out a flying puppet, they will be able to track us down.”

Daniel looked at the alchemy engine that had stopped working and said despondently, ”This can only be opened with a special alchemy instrument. It will not work if we take it apart.”

”Lex, create four boat oars. ”Saleen looked in the direction that they had come from. The sea was vast, and there were no signs of the enemy. A seagull landed on the front of the boat and looked at them curiously.

Lex did not say much as she took out two massive beast leg bones from her god’s ring. She gave Sika and Nailisi a handsaw each before saying, ”Process them into oars, quick.”

She did not have any materials to create oars with her. Back in Dragon’s Tooth Town, she had only stolen some armor and had not been interested in materials at all. Daniel had no idea what Saleen was planning, and he did not dare to ask either way.

Nailisi and Sika started processing the magic beast leg bones while Lex walked towards the deck and scanned the area. She brought out some metal components and secured them to the two sides of the ship.

The fog had dissipated a long time ago, and as the sea breeze blew, Daniel shivered, a little cold. Saleen released a Chunlin spell for him before walking to the deck and watching Lex work.

”It was not targeting me,” Lex said as she strengthened the sides of the ship.

”I know, but we still need to be quick.”

”Help me.” Lex threw over a piece of paper with instructions and Saleen took a look before helping Lex secure the metal components. Before long, the magic beast leg bones had been processed and Lex took out two spears, piercing them into the leg bones. She then made a few holes on the leg bones and secured them to a metal pole.

Placing the metal pole into the holes at the two sides of the ship, the two oars were nearly complete. Daniel looked at the giant oars, a little dazed. How would they move them?

Lex laughed and Daniel understood instantly, looking at the fully constructed puppet which Lex had taken out and left on the deck. He was incredibly grateful. If there had not been any elemental mages, these puppets could not have been activated by magic nuclei and this method would not have worked.

Although the combat abilities of death mages were incredible, they did not have as much utility as an elemental mage.

The two fully constructed puppets were left on the deck. One of them rowed while the other sat behind it, waiting to take over. The fully constructed puppet was incredibly useful except for the fact that it expended magic nuclei too quickly. Luckily, rowing a boat was not anything too complicated, and Lex did not have to control the puppet all the time. The oars started moving rapidly and Daniel took a look before continuing to steer from the back.

The lifeboat was back in motion, but it was twice as slow as before. Looking at the setting sun, Saleen was starting to get worried. He said, ”Lex, do you have a map of the sea?”