733 A strong army from Cloudflow Part 3 (1/2)

Seeing that more than half of the troop-carrying vessels had sunk, the pan's turtle alchemical boat then revealed a small piece of tortoiseshell on the water surface. It sent death magic in all directions and turned the Cloudflow soldiers who were floating on the water into spirits.

It was easy transforming one into a spirit, but these soldiers were very jumpy and active. As a grade-8 spirit, the winged skeleton could only target a dozen people in one go. The winged skeleton did not want to over consume his mental strength. These spirits were all undead soldiers who acted on their instincts. They were grade-1 spirits and it would be taxing for the winged skeleton to control all of them. He simply allowed these soldiers to continue floating, before retracting his control over the undead soldiers.

Even though Cloudflow's army was slightly inferior, their sailors were first class soldiers. Since Metatrin City was located beside a coast, the winged skeleton was vigilant. He felt the urge to massacre his enemy.

Other than humans, there were many other intelligent creatures, but only humans possessed character and emotions. Many creatures only possessed intelligence, but they lacked other facets. Among the spirits, the winged skeleton was a rare presence, he already possessed emotions when he was at grade-6.

That was why the winged skeleton handled matters like a human and not like a spirit. In this aspect, the three kings were inferior to him.

The moment the winged skeleton felt the urge to kill, the remaining three diving warships stopped attacking the troop-carrying vessels and dived into the water. Prostrating atop the diving warships, the Cloudflow soldiers, who were using heavy weapons to attack the warships, became flustered. Even though they could dive, the heavy weapons in their hands weighed at least fifty or sixty pounds. Holding onto the weapons weighed the soldiers down.

Tossing their weapons aside, the Cloudflow soldiers floated up to the surface. The winged skeleton noticed that every troop-carrying vessel had deployed lifeboats. Each lifeboat contained a group of warriors who were protecting one or two mages.

Onboard the lifeboats, these mages did not forget to attack the diving warships. The nine diving warships were basically destroyed by these mages.

The winged skeleton spared these mages, ”They are all white-robed mages, it is not worthwhile to capture them. Even if these mages went to the Bone Castle, they won't be able to effect much change.” The largest function of such low grade mages was to assist soldiers. Without any soldiers, these mages would not be sent to the frontline.

Without the bone spirits, the winged skeleton was helpless against the troop-carrying vessels which had not been sunk. He could use level-8 magic to destroy them, but it was unnecessary to expose himself as the skeletal warships were already ten miles away.

The jade skeletons' warships drew closer slowly. The thirteen mini warships which were frightened by the winged skeleton had returned. They realized that the horrifying underwater attack had ended. In order to salvage the troop-carrying vessels, they had to take risks.

Three skeletal warships led the three squads, they launched an offensive from a distance of five miles. The magic stone cannons swiftly depleted magic nuclei, as the spirits onboard the warships gazed at the targets depicted on the magic compass coldly.

Even though the jade skeletons possessed intelligence and could think independently, they did not possess emotions like the winged skeleton. As for the other spirits, their gazes were even more unfeeling. These spirits only knew one thing, to follow orders.

As the skeletal warships came increasingly closer, the mini warships from Cloudflow were astounded. They had never heard of such a warship in the sea, ”When did these ships appear?”

When warships attacked one another, they would use trebuchets or magic stone cannons, with the exception of the Cloudflow people who used flying magic beasts to drop bags of flaming oil. There were even alchemical installations which could spurt flames, they could attack all targets within a range of five-hundred yards.

These flame-spitting alchemical appliances were more dangerous, only warships over one-hundred and eighty yards in length could wield them.

At the moment, the water was not yet too rough. Magic stone cannons flew across the sky. Most of them fell into the water as though they were rain droplets. The Cloudflow people swimming in the water were doomed, they would be killed immediately if they were hit. Some of the lifeboats were unlucky, they were sunk when the magic stone cannons struck them.

The mages onboard the lifeboats were enveloped by the soldiers, so none of them died.

The skeletal warships did not contain any human warehouses and did not need to carry any water or food. They could accommodate many more magic stone cannons. Newly created magic stone cannons were many times more accurate than trebuchets. The remaining troop-carrying vessels were gradually sunken under the dense attack conducted by the skeletal warships. There were more and more Cloudflow soldiers who fell overboard as the trebuchets mindlessly flung the stone cannons at the water surface.

A region of water spanning a dozen miles was dyed red by blood. Thirteen mini warships from Cloudflow approached the small skeletal warships head-on. The equipment used by the Cloudflow people was inferior to that of the skeletal warships, but their quality of soldiers was sufficiently high. After a few rounds of crossfire, the accuracy of the trebuchets almost matched up to the magic cannons.

More than twenty small skeletal warships were entangled with the mini warships from Cloudflow. The remaining skeletal warships kept firing magic stone cannons at the troop-carrying vessels.

The inertia, coupled with the elemental lethality of the magic stone cannons, caused the metal-armored troop-carrying vessels to be mottled with cavities. The Cloudflow people were dumbfounded, they had never come across an enemy which could fire such a dense arrangement of stone during a naval battle. Fancy the amount of magic nuclei consumed!

The winged skeleton had no time to consider the monetary loss now, ”Cloudflow's large warships are already within a twenty mile range, the troop-carrying vessels have to be extirpated within the next few minutes. Once Cloudflow's large warships arrive, I will not be able to do much otherwise.”