Chapter 71: Change Posture and Try Again

  A night filled with blood and slaughter, in the birth of a new song, finally came to an end. But for Lin Taiping, who almost got pushed back, there were still many things waiting to be resolved, such as cleaning up the battlefield and clearing the manor, as well as dealing with dozens of pirates who had voluntarily delivered themselves to his doorstep.

  In fact, after the baptism of the fireball just now, a group of pirates had already been killed or injured, and those who were lucky enough to survive had lost their morale and fighting spirit. Before Turo could even rush up, they neatly knelt down with their heads in their hands and obediently handed over all their valuables.

  Compared to these guys, Shi Yan's situation was obviously much worse. This unlucky 8th rank fire mage had been bombarded by dozens of fireballs and was now half-charred, lying in a pool of blood and twitching convulsively. Perhaps even in his daze, he couldn't understand why someone could change so suddenly - one moment it was the undead skull, the next it directly transformed into the Deep Abyssal Flame Demon...

  "I'm also curious." Under Christine's puzzled gaze, Yege approached with a curious face and sniffed Lin Taiping all over, "It's really strange, you're clearly human, but why can you transform into other races? Maybe we should take off our clothes and examine carefully?"

  "Come on, your focus is on taking off clothes, right?" Lin Taiping directly spit out, flipping through the Shadow Crystal Ball brought back by the Dark Elves.

  A few minutes later, after looking at the battlefield photos with Kristen as the main character, he frowned slightly: "Hmm, it's not bad, but it seems to be missing something. If it's published in the evening paper like this, I'm worried that it won't attract readers' attention."

  "Is there?" Ye Ge's eyes widened in surprise, and a dozen or so dark elves also curiously gathered around. They looked left and right for a long time, but couldn't figure out what was wrong with these pictures.

  "Let me think. Let me think." Lin Taiping brought out those pictures again, looking at them one by one. After a few minutes of silence, he suddenly had an epiphany and exclaimed: "Wait, I know! We're still missing a picture that's impactful enough."

  What's "impact force"? The Dark Elves exchanged glances, adopting a posture of rapt attention, as if they were about to whip out their notebooks and start taking notes.

  "That's right, impact force." Lin Taiping pulled over the silly Kristen beside him and explained seriously, "In fact, we should take a picture like this - a black warship cannon sweeping across the sky, a battlefield rose covered in blood, red long hair flying all over the sky, a determined and brave gaze, and use a pirate who is screaming and flying backwards as the background..."

  It makes sense, more than a dozen dark elves nodded in agreement, just imagining it made them feel passionate and excited, believing that if published as the cover photo of next issue's evening paper, it would inevitably attract readers' attention.

  "But just the next moment, Ye Ge raised his hand in confusion and asked: 'But now that we've finished filming, how are we going to do additional shooting? And even if we can, where are we going to find a pirate to use as background?'"

  Very good, very powerful. Because of her words, the pirates who were originally rolling around on the ground in agony immediately pretended to be unconscious, silently reciting "I am air, I am air" a hundred times in their hearts.

  Unfortunately. The dead flame that was just knocked unconscious by the fireball struggled to wake up with a charred body, probably due to temporary amnesia. He held his head in pain, obviously still confused: "Damn it, where am I... huh, why are you looking at me with such strange eyes?"

  "What did you say? A group of pirates looked at him with sympathetic faces, and several guys couldn't help but burst into tears: "Sir, don't say we didn't warn you, you really shouldn't... be careful!"

  No sooner had the words fallen than a gust of wind whizzed by, and the bewildered dead flame barely had time to turn its head when it saw the black warship's cannon charging towards it. Then, accompanied by a dull roar, it let out another miserable cry as it soared into the air, flying backwards like a kite with a broken string.

  Snap! Almost at the same time, Lin Taiping timely activated the projection crystal to accurately record this scene and gave a thumbs up with satisfaction: "Good, this can be put on the front page. However, for the character interview, we also need to pair it with another photo, so please change your pose and do it again."

  Are you kidding me? Kristen was really fed up, and with a swift motion, she picked up the still-falling magic crystal cannon and swept it horizontally without looking back.

  And then, the barely revived Dead Flame was blown away once again, spitting out blood and breaking bones: Damn it! You bunch of lunatics, I swear on my soul that you will pay the most terrible price if Lord Joker finds out.

  Bang! Ye Ge's foot heavily stomped on his chest, blocking the rest of his words: "Shut up, if you want to be a background character, you need to have the awareness of being a background character. Don't say anything about being a clown, even if the entire circus comes over, they can't save you."

  The fragile sternum was thoroughly trampled, the dying man's distorted face let out a piercing scream, a mouthful of blood suddenly spurted out, turning into dense rain-like blood droplets that floated down.

  But just as the blood was about to fall, a loud rumbling sound suddenly erupted, and Turo, who was standing on the balcony, shouted: "Damn it! Come quickly and look at the harbor over there!"

  What? Kristen and Yege rushed onto the balcony, almost simultaneously.

  With the aid of a telescope, it can be clearly seen that the harbor is in chaos. Several merchant ships moored at the wharf are badly damaged and ablaze with fierce flames, apparently struck by something unknown. Terrified sailors and merchants flee in panic while soldiers rush to the scene in large numbers.

  "Wait a minute, look at the sea surface!" Just then, Kristen suddenly turned pale and adjusted her binoculars to gaze out towards the harbor.

  A few nautical miles away from the Ivory Island, on that deep blue sea surface shrouded in dark fog, something enormous seemed to be hiding, slowly revealing its true form amidst the sharp and piercing horn sounds.

  That is... That is...

  In an instant, in the midst of a raging sea gale, a pitch-black warship emerged like a ferocious beast from the dark fog, revealing its sinister and malevolent true appearance!

  The black hull stretched sixty meters, like a giant whale bursting forth in fury, the blood-red skull flag fluttering in the wind, as if a layer of bloody clouds had spread out above, with the sharp ramming beak at the bow. Suspended from it was an eerie and ugly devilish figurehead, emitting an aura that made people feel uneasy.

  Almost simultaneously, the port of Ivory Island launched a fierce attack as soon as it detected that the pirate ship was approaching. Dozens of magically fortified crystal cannons roared and fired, with dense crystal cannonballs shooting out like a stormy rain, creating huge waves several tens of meters high on the sea surface.

  In this intense bombardment, the black pirate ship also did not dare to approach recklessly, and could only hover back and forth at the edge of the port's attack range, barely maintaining the balance of the ship.

  But gradually, as it slowed down, the blood-colored devil's figurehead hanging from the bow of the ship suddenly burst out with a bright red glow like blood, covering hundreds of meters of sea surface around.

  It was strange that on this sea surface shrouded in bloody red light, a large number of fish quickly floated to the surface. These fish, as if hypnotized, densely swarmed towards the bow of the ship, and the closer they got to the bow, the more they were enveloped by the red light, their flesh gradually decreasing until they finally turned into bare white bones.

  In the end. The sea surface of hundreds of meters in diameter was filled with white fish bones, and there were no lack of ferocious and brutal sharks in between, forming a sharp contrast with it. Then, after the devilish ship's bow absorbed the blood and soul, it began to emit a red glow and gradually swelled up, eventually transforming into a giant statue over six meters high.

  The Dark God is above. What does that ship want to do?

  Witnessing such a bizarre scene, even the dark elves who were accustomed to evil turned slightly pale. Tulru suddenly let out a loud sneeze and rubbed his cow-like horns with a weird expression: "Moooo! That devilish ship's figurehead is emitting an aura... it makes me feel very uncomfortable, as if something is going to..."

  Boom! In that instant, the demonic ship's bow, which had inflated to its extreme, suddenly let out a sharp and long howl!

  In its enormous, ferocious mouth, a dozen or so gigantic fireballs as red as blood shot out, emitting black evil energy and rising into the air with a sharp, ear-piercing howl like the arrival of devils, rapidly shooting towards Ivory Island.

  These burning fireballs, like terrifying meteorites falling from the sky, continuously slammed into the harbor of the archipelago, several merchant ships that were caught off guard were blown to pieces. As the ground shook wildly, the scorching flames turned into a stormy rain, spreading frantically in all directions, engulfing and swallowing up all the surrounding ships.

  "The Dark God is upon us!" Turu's words caught in his throat, his eyes bulging out of their sockets. "I've seen a vengeful spirit, what kind of monster is that? It's even more terrifying than Kristin's magic crystal cannon."

  Only the devil knows what that is, but without a doubt, the attacking power of this pirate ship is simply astonishing, to the extent that just one strike has caused half the port to be engulfed in flames, with flying debris from ships everywhere, terrified crowds fleeing everywhere, and blood flowing everywhere.

  Fortunately, after this terrifying blow, the pirate ship also seemed to have exhausted its magic power. As the blood-colored bow gradually returned to its original state, it lowered its sails and slowly changed direction, gradually merging into the black fog under the dense counterattack of the crystal bullets.

  Just as the ship was about to disappear, a nervous and pathological laughter echoed through the entire Ivory Island with the help of amplification magic.

  "Tremble, despair, you fools of Ivory Island! Before long, I will flay every last one of you and make you writhe in agony at my feet... including that accursed yellow-skinned monkey!"

  A blood-curdling cackle echoed through the air, lingering for a long time before slowly fading away.

  The next moment, Tu Lu and the others suddenly turned their heads in unison, looking at Lin Taiping together. From a certain perspective, the pirate leader who had not shown up until now was indeed deeply affectionate towards someone.

  "What does it have to do with me?" Lin Taiping blinked innocently, indicating that he knew nothing.

  "What's it to you?" Like being stimulated, the dying flame suddenly opened its only eye, and a sharp, resentful smile rose up, "Yellow-skinned monkey, you're in big trouble. All stupid pigs who dare offend Mr. Clown will die..."

  Bang! The answer was a wolf-toothed club covered in reverse spikes, and Ye Ge's unceremonious retort.

  His head spinning with a splitting headache, the dead flame finally collapsed to the ground with a thud, and in his last blurry consciousness, he seemed to hear that Easterner lighting up a cigar, smiling all over his face as he raised his hand.

  "Shut up, you should worry about yourself first... Alright, it's time to loot the corpse for equipment!"

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