Chapter 466 - An Underwater Ambush (1/2)

Chapter 466: An Underwater Ambush

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

On the flagship of the Silver Storm Sparrows

Bryant had cooped himself up in his cabin ever since he returned.

There was something wrong with him as if everything in his body had all been used up. He simply leaned motionless against the edge of the bed in his cabin.

A while later, he took out his magical notebook for a read, which he would usually do to regain his composure.

However, this time, it seemed to not work on him as before.

As he stared at his notes, the only thing that popped up in his mind was the scene back on the rooftop. He could not stop thinking about the face of the young Magician, his words, his every action.

After a long while, he exhaled. “That year when I had just reached Legendary, I exuded the same vigor as he did, but it all ended when I met Fiona…”

There was no going back at this stage. The only thing left for him to do now was to walk this path to the end, and Link would have to die and be deprived of any chance of joining the High Elves if Bryant was to do so in comfort.

Bryant closed his notebook sharply, stood up and headed for the door to take in the sea breeze on the deck.

At the same time, there was a knock on the cabin door, and a voice spoke from outside, “May I come in Prophet?”

It was Magician Vonhelon. He was a High Elf noble with pure High Elvish blood running through his veins. Even though he called Bryant “Prophet,” he knew Vonhelon had never thought of him as an equal.

Of course, this was all trivial to him.

“Enter.” Bryant removed the rune lock from his door.

Vonhelon entered the cabin and closed the door behind him. He then spoke with a low voice, “Prophet, I must know, what is going on right now?”

Tonight, they had retreated from Ferde without any confrontation. This was humiliation of the highest order for both the Silver Storm Sparrows and the Magician Army. The ships’ crew and members of the Magician Army were all greatly aggravated by this.

Bryant did not even bother hiding the truth from him. “Link and the dragon race have formed an alliance. He is now married to the Red Dragon Queen.”

This alliance with the dragon race was the only element he could not ignore. Bryant did not doubt what Link had said. Scorched City was now filled with a massive number of Red Dragon Warriors, including a Red Dragon Elder. Surprised to see this at first, he later learned that it was due to the fact that Link had been proclaimed as a duke of the dragon race.

Vonhelon was simply dumbfounded at Bryant’s response. It was something no one in their wildest imaginations would have conceived, a bad joke that would elicit only a bitter laugh from anyone who heard it.

The High Elf Magician spread out his hands. “I didn’t think it would turn out like this. My apologies, Prophet, for having suspected you, but this is just outrageous!”

“If I had not seen the Red Dragon Elder back in Ferde, I would not have believed it myself… Still, if Link does not wish to give up the mining island, we may have to go to war over it. And our chance of coming out victorious from that war would be slim.”

“Surely you don’t mean to dispatch the Black Thorn?”

“Link knows about the Black Thorn, as well as the existence of the Double Shadows. I don’t know how he had all this information, but one thing I know for sure is that he is now more than prepared for any attempts on his life. The chance of success to kill him in his sleep with an assassin is also pretty small.”

Vonhelon was at a loss for words and fell silent for a long moment before he finally spoke with a troubled tone, “I guess we should leave it to the queen to decide how best to proceed from now on.”

There were only two options to choose at this stage: either they admitted their defeat, or they picked up their arms and fought to their bloody deaths, and Vonhelon knew that conceding was the best option they had right now.

In the 3000 years of High Elf history, this may be the first time that the Silver Storm Sparrows had retreated without a fight.

This was truly a huge blemish on their personal record.

Depressed, Vonhelon headed back for the door and was ready to leave, when all of a sudden, a deafening boom rocked the cabin window from outside.

Through the window, Vonhelon could see that a nearby Silver Storm Sparrow ship had been split in two by a black silhouette that had risen from the depths of the ocean.

The resulting shockwave hit the side of the ship that Vonhelon and Bryant were on, violently tipping the entire ship to the other side and sending both High Elves tumbling in the cabin.

While tumbling in mid-air, there was a flash of white light from Vonhelon’s body. He had cast Teleportation, and with a soft hum, his body had vanished from the cabin. There was another hum, and the High Elf reappeared a few 100 feet above the ship in the air.

Bryant’s body, on the other hand, had dissolved into mist. With a whoosh, he rushed out of the broken window and into the air outside.

As the two floated in the air, they saw the same black monstrous figure from the ocean depths slamming into the Silver Storm Sparrow ship which still had not regained its balance. With a deafening crash, the sturdy warship was also smashed into pieces.

In the midst of all this, the ship’s crew and Magicians on board were either dead, badly injured or had fled for their lives. Everything was in chaos, and the sea was stained red with High Elf blood.

With the second Silver Storm Sparrow ship destroyed, the black shadow headed straight for the third ship with unimaginable speed.

“Stop it!” shouted Bryant. At the same time, he began chanting out a spell, and a queer silver leaf shot out from his Legendary magic wand, Fiona, towards the black figure.

This was Bryant’s ace in the hole. Like a silver bolt of lightning, the leaf slashed across the black figure in the sea.

But he had not accounted for the thing’s reaction time. As soon as he cast his spell, the black figure had dodged it by sinking back to the ocean depths.

“It’s trying to flee! Realm Conversion!”

There was a blinding flash of light before Bryant’s eyes as the silver leaf turned translucent. It then pierced through the ocean’s surface in pursuit of its prey without even slowing down, as if the seawater had for the moment ceased to exist around the leaf.

Just when it looked as if the leaf was about to reach the black figure, all of a sudden, there was another ear-splitting shockwave from the ocean’s surface. The last Silver Storm Sparrow ship was demolished in an instant by another black shape that had pierced through the vessel’s bottom.

In no more than five seconds, all three Silver Storm Sparrow ships were completely obliterated.

Without losing its upward momentum, the huge black shadow rose up into the air from the ocean.