520 A reprimanding process (1/2)
Apart from his range superiority, Mogensha wouldn’t be fighting alone. He was still covered by a human meat shield named Reef. Thus, Sheyan’s goal was very simply – to engage in an exceedingly lengthened long range combat with the opposing contestants!
”The outcome of a battle, should be already decided from the beginning. If not, the battle shouldn’t be fought.”
For some unknown reason, that sudden phrase popped up in Sheyan’s mind.
In actual fact, Sheyan truly held an invincible position right from the start of this battle; because if any mishaps were to occur, like the opposition occupying superiority in terms of long range bombardment, the Hill Maiden could easily speed up and blatantly flee!
Very quickly, the gap between both parties gradually diminished to 800 metres. With both sides being equally susceptible to the bumpy seas, the accuracy of two artillery cannons placed at the ships’ bow/stern would be fairly ‘impressive’ at 3%.
Under normal circumstances, a ship would have to steer to its broadside before opening fire with multitudes of cannon; in order to inflict severe wreckages to the opposition, thus curbing the horrendous accuracy with quantity. Instead, with both ships uniformly sailing forward with high speed, a scenario as such would be simply impossible.
Following the diminishing gap of both parties, Sheyan suddenly whispered several words into Mogensha’s ear. Mogensha firstly revealed an amazed countenance, before an enlightened one as he smile mischievously while nodding.
As the long range battle commenced, the contestants failed to perceive the sinister intentions of Sheyan! Contestants who possessed long range assaulting capabilities unleashed their abilities one after another, while Mogensha retaliated with steady burst of fires.
Yet strangely after 10 seconds of their firefight, shield Reef who was blocking the front had already released several muffled groans. Instead, none of the opposing contestants had seemingly been shot.
While the contestants were laughing and jeering at Mogensha’s clumsy shooting skills, they suddenly heard blood-curdling screams from behind. As it turns out, Mogensha had been targeting his shots against the sailors on board! One could fathom how deliberate Sheyan’s thought process was; attempting to slay contestants spanning across the vast ocean while being protected by the 40% damage reduction and near-death state, wasn’t realistic at all. Annihilating the opponents for the benefits of their blood keys, would be excruciatingly difficult for such a confrontation
Instead in the perspective of those pursuing contestants, they probably weren’t proficient with the technicalities of maritime voyage. Hence, with the demise of their piloting pirates, their desire to freely sail the seas would be gravely impaired.
That was why Sheyan had notified Mogensha to obliterate those storyline pirates! Besides, hiring pirates was an exceedingly costly and strenuous affair. By withering away their pirate manpower, it was equivalently to plundering their energy and wealth. By weakening the engine of the opposition, it would become increasingly difficult to vie against the trio. In this manner, external pressure faced by the trio when accomplishing their mission would be comparatively lessened.
Not a single sails operating pirate was left after Mongensha consecutively gunned down 7 of those pirates. Pondering about their painful future, the contestants bawled in frantic imitation as they began aiming at the pirate crew of Sheyan’s ship.
Yet sadly, why would Sheyan allow them that liberty?
Earlier on, Sheyan had already ordered most of the sails to be fastened in an evasive position, while he was unafraid of getting shot, would personally operate the main sails. But in this manner, though the ship’s efficiency and speed would be impacted negatively.
Nevertheless, the pursuing ships no longer dared to employ skilled pirates to operate their sails, with the amount of individuals managing the sails naturally plunging substantially. Thus, both sides remained on even grounds.
Furthermore after the Hill Maiden’s restructuring, her cannon ports had all been scraped off. In their place, were twenty rowing positions! Therefore, the disparity between the propelling impetuous of both ships became greater with such circumstances. If Sheyan wished to throw them off, it would be as easy as a matter of seconds.
Witnessing themselves falling into the opponent’s snare, the pursuing contestants were all incomparably enraged; as they commenced crazed assaults against Sheyan’s ship. A contestant in particular even spared no efforts in raising a guided missile launcher, analogous to the FIM-92 Stinger, and unleashed it towards the trio!