989 Hardness of Elementite Part 1 (1/2)

The small-sized warship barged into the storm, yet performed in a more stable manner than the Dragon Remains Combat Vessel. The howling gale and raging waves wrought by the Eye of the Storm had no effect on the ship whatsoever.

The divine runes on the ship's side shimmered, and the waves calmed as they were over ten meters away before they actually hit the ship itself. The young man wearing a black cape, who was a candidate for the seat of head warden, sat on the command deck and gazed forward. He could see the Eye of the Storm clearly through the crystal window. It appeared to be about five miles away.

Although he was yapping about being immensely unwilling to bring that thing back, there was no way that he would have left a mission unfinished, especially one that had been handed over to him by the head warden. He could have cursed about all manner of things at that moment, and no one would have dared report him to the head warden. However, if he were to simply give up pursuing the target, his position would have been threatened.

The Black Dungeon was an institution that regarded action as being of the utmost importance, more so than any other institution in the Holy See. As such, it requested little of its members, as long as they got everything that they had been tasked with doing done.

This way of going about matters made them far more lenient than the Tribunal itself. While the Black Dungeon served under the Tribunal in name, it was actually an entirely independent institution. As such, if someone from the Black Dungeon made any mistakes, only the head warden would have been allowed to punish them.

At the moment, there were two divine crossbows that had been installed at the front deck. These were rare pieced of divine equipment that could only be found in the Holy See.

Their ranges might have been inferior to the alchemy crossbows that were employed by mages, yet they possessed the potential to inflict a lot of damage nonetheless. As such, every single one of their large bolts was infused with divine spells, which were specially crafted to detonate when the bolt hit its target.

Thus, these bows' penetration and lateral damage potential far exceeded alchemy crossbows of the same class. It was for this reason that they were both difficult and costly to produce, and only the core armies of the Holy See were supplied with them, and even then, the bows were only gifted in small numbers.

At that moment, 12 holy masters appeared on the rear deck. They immediately surrounded a divine rune charm array and began chanting prayers.

These 12 black-robed holy masters had all come from the Tribunal, not the Black Dungeon. The Eye of the Storm had been crafted by the Black Dungeon for the Tribunal army, and it was about to be sent into battle before it had escaped. Hence, it was only natural for the Tribunal to grow anxious over the incident and send 12 powerful holy masters to pursue it.

The navy that the Tribunal was trying to build had been in development for almost a hundred years, but it was still inferior to Cloudflow armies. In fact, they were not even capable of moving into Sikeqinya! The Eye of the Storm was also something that was produced by the Tribunal as an act of sheer desperation.

Currently, the scene of the 12 holy masters chanting prayers around a divine rune charm array frightened the Eye of the Storm in the air immensely. It kept running around frantically, the small-sized warship at its tail.

It was clearly afraid of that young man. This was because, among all of those who created it, the young man held the key position, which meant that he knew a lot about its weaknesses.

However, as the 12 holy masters were surrounding the divine rune charm array at the rear deck and chanting, it made its confused souls shudder violently. It was already incapable of flight once the divine spell began.

Then, the Eye of the Storm, which was a mile in diameter, fell into the sea. The wind element outer shell of the monster had an incredibly high weight. Nailisi cursed like there was no tomorrow from inside the Dragon Remains Combat Vessel, which was currently underwater.

If that one-mile-long monster was dropped down from above, their ship would suffer an intense impact. After all, the Dragon Remains Combat Vessel was not the Pan Turtle Alchemy Shi. As such, it was difficult enough for the ship to even descend 100 meters underwater. Hence, they would surely sink if they were hit like that.

As the divine rune charm array was activated by the chanting of the 12 high-level holy masters, the powerful-looking ghost ship seemed to have been frozen in place as well. The entire surface of the sea surrounding it froze over, while beams of seawater shot out all around it, wrapping around the falling Eye of the Storm tightly.

The surrounding seawater was then sucked upwards, and the location where the Eye of the Storm and the ghost ship were seemed like an island that had just appeared out of nowhere upon the sea. This island-like apparition that was formed from seawater had countless white divine runes flying around it, which were compressing even more seawater and trapping the Eye of the Storm within them.

The Eye of the Storm was powerful, which wasn't surprising, as it was, after all, a piece of equipment that had been meticulously created by the Holy See. Although it possessed an almost human-like intellect, it had no way of going against divine spells, which was the very reason why it ran away in the first place.

If its enemies had not been so many powerful holy masters, it would have simply turned around and killed them. But, there was a safeguard built into the depths of its soul, and as such, it had no way of winning against holy masters, all of whom knew its innermost secrets.

At the moment, numerous divine runes flowed within the seawater that had trapped them and suppressed all of their abilities. The Eye of the Storm grew rather desperate as it continued trying to call for help, ”Help me! Help me!

Saleen was immensely frustrated that the Eye of the Storm was yelling with a voice instead of simply sending a message to his soul. Everyone in the Holy See would have heard the cry for help by now!

The large-scale divine spell that was cast by the holy masters had also affected the Dragon Remains Combat Vessel. The ghost ship was crushed outright when the Eye of the Storm crashed.

While the seawater was fixed in place by divine spells, the resulting powerful shockwave did not get negatively affected. Instead, it simply spread out to the surrounding waters.

As for the Dragon Remains Combat Vessel, it was right below where the monster had been and was thrown down to a depth of 250 meters, all with its defenses still operating at full power. The windows of the ship were broken, and seawater began gushing into the hold.

This would have been okay if it was any other normal day, where the ship was manned by a crew that consisted of nothing but spirits. Yet, at that time, the vessel had grand mages and a crew that consisted of soldiers, as well as over 200 people that they had rescued upon it.

Therefore, Saleen had to save these people, and as such, he had no choice but to leave the vessel with Nailisi. As the warship kept sinking deeper and deeper, Saleen took out his Magical Element Tower from a dimension stone.

He tried not to think too much about the danger that he was about to face. Despite his great mental power reserves, he knew that it would still cost him one-fourth of his mental powers to take out something so huge.