Constructing-Style Wizard

Chapter 775: 246. Dread Scale Nobles_3

However, after looking through the other party’s memory fragments, Noland Lee dispelled this idea.

The reason was simple. When the Fat Sea Demon returned to its territory, it needed to ride a Unihorn Sea Spirit Whale, which was controlled by the Wildtide Elder.

The “Tracking Mark” Noland Lee had placed on the Fat Sea Demon would most likely be discovered by the Wildtide Elder, who was comparable to a Tenth Ring Battle Wizard.

Considering that he had already somewhat alarmed the Wildtide Elder before, Noland Lee decided not to take any more risks in tracking the Sea Demon using mental magic.

If the Wildtide Elder had some secret measures against mental magic, Noland Lee would suffer more loss than gain.

From the perspective of playing it safe, eliminating the Fat Sea Demon and its slave soldiers in Treasure Sea No.149 was Noland Lee’s best choice.

After that, he could use underwater mechanos enchanted with “Pressure Relief” to collect the sunken Spoils of War.

Noland Lee was determined and stopped thinking, focusing on his Magic Vision with undivided attention.

He quickly counted the number of slave soldiers under the Fat Sea Demon.

A total of 213 Sea Demons. Apart from the Fat Sea Demon, the other 212 were all combat-specialized Furious Tide Warriors.

The Fat Sea Demon seemed unwilling to accept the fact that his trials had failed with so few soldiers left, so he waved his scepter and gave a speech, then issued a command through the conch.

All of the Furious Tide Warriors followed the Fat Sea Demon closely, coming to a location 30 meters below the water surface, entering an ambush state.

Noland Lee raised his eyebrows as he knew these guys were not giving up and still planned to ambush passing oceanic fleets.

Even if there are not enough Sea Demons, the Fat Sea Demon just wants to have a try to stop at least one ship.

This would be the Fat Sea Demon’s estimated action plan.

Noland Lee figured out the Fat Sea Demon’s thoughts.

He threw several “Tracking Marks” consecutively in the direction where the oceanic fleet was coming from.

After more than 10 continuous jumps of Magic Vision, Noland Lee found the oceanic fleet about 10 kilometers north of Treasure Sea Region No.149.

“Hiss… this is going to be a bit difficult,” Noland Lee stared at the fleet within his Magic Vision.

Due to the nearby Mist Threshold reaching as high as 80 kilometers per hour, the fleet’s sailing speed was extremely fast, almost at full speed on the dim sea.

It was also likely that the captain wanted to pass through the dangerous sea area quickly for this reason.

In any case, in no more than 10 minutes, this oceanic fleet would arrive at the ambush location of the Sea Demons.

Now, it was difficult for Noland Lee to eliminate all of the Sea Demons before the fleet arrived using his pre-set Plan D.

However, upon thinking about it, Noland Lee suddenly realized that he didn’t actually need to annihilate all of the Sea Demons.

What he came for wasn’t to put down the evil forces but the Sea Demons’ Soul Fragments and valuable materials on the Pirate Ship.

Aren’t these two things now lying at the bottom of the sea?

Noland Lee could simply take advantage of the Sea Demons’ distraction while they fight with the fleet and collect the Soul Fragments at the bottom of the sea first.

After all, Soul Fragments could only last half an hour.

Noland Lee adjusted his course of action.

He took out the pre-prepared underwater mechanos from his Magic Pouch.

These small, triangular fish-like creatures were agile and fast in the water.

Activated by Noland Lee, they whistled through the sea water and headed towards the direction of the Pirate Ship wreckage.

Of the 100 “Tracking Marks” Noland Lee used to destroy the Array Nodes, only a small number were destroyed due to damage to the ship’s hull, while the rest were still working properly.

While sensing the direction of the “Tracking Marks”, Noland Lee directed the Underwater Mechanism Elf to swim straight towards the location.

Since “Tracking Marks” do not emit light, Noland Lee could only wait for the Luminescent Array-equipped Underwater Mechanism Elf to arrive before he could see the sunken ship clearly.

The time passed as the oceanic fleet neared its ambush location and the Underwater Mechanism Elf hurried on its way.

Just as the oceanic fleet had just entered Treasure Sea No.149, Noland Lee’s Underwater Mechanism Elf found the location of the sunken ship.

The 10 pirate ships made of magic metal had their hulls shattered, fragmented, and inserted into the soft sea-bottom sand and stones, stirring up a large patch of blurry sea sand.

The rays of light emitted by the Underwater Mechanism Elf penetrated through the slowly sinking sea sand and formed light columns in the murky sea water.

Countless severed limbs and debris drifted under the rays of light.

Noland Lee ignored the horrifying underwater scene.

He divided part of his attention to control the underwater mechanos in collecting soul fragments.

The belly of the underwater mechanos was embedded with “Soul-absorbing crystals”.

When the crystal was activated, grey soul fragments separated from the debris and converged towards the “Soul-absorbing crystal”.

Noland Lee nodded with satisfaction, multitasking while controlling 39 underwater mechanos for the salvaging work.

Apart from soul fragments, what Noland Lee cared about the most was the deep sea magic stones that supplied power to the magical engine.

With abundant deep sea magic power, Noland Lee could be at ease using deep sea spells, which could provide him with a new approach to fight sea monsters at sea.

Noland used the underwater mechanos to locate the power room of the pirate ship, and inside the twisted, deformed magic engine, he saw the deep sea magic stones emitting an abstruse deep green light.

He didn’t hesitate to collect these magic stones into the folding space of the underwater mechanos.

“There are over 300 deep-sea magic stones in the magic engine of one pirate ship, which are rich in 100 points of mana; two ships equal six hundred, and three ships are nine hundred.

“Hahaha, I’m getting rich. Now I have a source of mana for casting deep sea spells, so I don’t have to use my soul strength…”

Noland Lee, without distractions, completely collected the deep sea magic stones from the magic engines.

This deal was lucrative.

If it weren’t for the magic engines connected to the metal pipelines, and the engines being unable to fit into the folding spaces or magic pouches, Noland Lee would have taken them as well.

Now, it couldn’t be helped.

The carrying capacity of underwater mechanos was limited, so Noland Lee could only let the magic engines stay immersed here.

“Ah? Right, where did those growths that dragged the pirate ships to the bottom of the sea go?”

Noland blinked, only now remembering the inexplicably missing growths.

He controlled underwater mechanos and searched in several circles, but he never found the culprit behind the sunken ship.

Those ten growths should have been some kind of summoned creature.

Once their summoning duration was up, they disappeared on their own.

However, something felt wrong.

If they were summoned creatures, shouldn’t the fat sea demon have canceled the summoning in advance when he realized they would drag the ship to the bottom of the sea to avoid the accident?

But why didn’t the fat sea demon do that?

Noland Lee, with his questions, activated the “Tracking Mark” to observe the fat sea demon.

Using a “Mind View,” he saw ten demonized squids near the fat sea demon…

These squids had thin tentacles, fewer suckers, and seemed weak and powerless when floating in water.

They were a bit large, over ten meters long, and the widest part was estimated to be more than two meters, which was enough to wrap two or three Furious Tide Warriors with their tentacles.

As Noland saw these ten demonized squids, they were swinging their tentacles, entangling Furious Tide Warriors, and feeding the sea demons to their round mouths full of sharp teeth.

The crunching sound was continuous, accompanied by the spray of blood mist and the splash of bone fragments.

Enslaved by the sound of the conch from the fat sea demon, Furious Tide Warriors stood blankly on the spot, their eyes vacant, having no choice but to become food for the demonized squids.

Noland Lee watched the bloody scene of the squids feeding, then glanced at the oceanic fleet that was about to arrive at the ambush location, his eyebrows gradually furrowing.

After feeding, these ten squids grew rapidly in size.

They soon went from ten meters in length to thirty meters, then fifty meters, giving off a feeling of being gigantic sea creatures.

When the last Furious Tide Warrior on the scene was swallowed by the squids, the ten squids started writhing and convulsing, inflating in size, their tentacles rapidly elongating with more suckers emerging along with sharp, long fangs in the center.

In no time, a group of ferocious, cruel giant underwater squids appeared by the fat sea demon.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

They turned into shadows in the water, silently swimming towards the oceanic fleet.

The fat sea demon had a fierce look, excited as he watched his pets head for the battlefield.

From this demon’s inverted-triangle eyes, Noland Lee read a hint of regret.

If those 1,000 slaves had been alive, the size and strength of these ten squids would have been even greater.

Unfortunately, the squids only managed to eat more than 200 slaves.

Noland Lee rubbed his chin, looked at the fat sea demon following the demonized squids to the battlefield, and tried casting a “Psychic Bombardment”.

Considering the extraordinary background of this fat sea demon, Noland Lee was unwilling to let the magical guards of the oceanic fleet take its head.