Chapter 1053 - 989: Preparing to Hijack the Slave Transport Ship
The so-called restlessness after stillness, Da Fei has been solo for too long, now he wants to form a team. Before, Da Fei just wanted to keep everything to himself, distrustful of players, not wanting anyone to know his big plans. But now, Da Fei’s life has a higher pursuit, and he has more confidence in his strength, so it’s time to do a wave "for the ideal."
Now the biggest issue is the time constraint, but after tasting the sweet success of robbing George, this issue evidently isn’t a problem anymore.
So, Da Fei hurriedly found Sona: "I’ve decided, after completing the liquor trade with the Lord of Thunder Spear, I’ll rob his slave transport ship. Do you have any information on the slave transport ship?"
Sona chuckled: "As expected of Lord Warrior, the reason I mentioned the slave transport ship is because a fleet will be coming from the Beastman Kingdom soon, perhaps currently on the way. The exact strength of their escort isn’t clear, but given the strength shown by the Lord when defeating me and George, even if the robbery fails, retreating safely wouldn’t be impossible. So, Lord, go ahead and fight!"
Seeing her strange smile, Da Fei’s eyebrow twitched, and he said seriously: "I have a question, I hope Miss Sona can tell me, I feel like you deliberately guided me to attack the City Lord of Thunder Spear, can you explain your intention? If your answer doesn’t satisfy me, I might hesitate to go all out."
Sona’s smile faded and she replied seriously: "Since the Lord has made up his mind, I’ll be straightforward. The City Lord of Thunder Spear’s power is too strong, whether it’s commercial monopoly or military pressure, is unfavorable for the long-term development of the Eastern Sea Domain, and it even vaguely threatens the interests of other Lords in the Empire. But the City Lord of Thunder Spear tributes to the Empire are very proper, so the Empire can’t sanction him, and thus we have to use external means to weaken him. For all other Lords, this is a delightful thing. So Lord, you needn’t worry about being besieged by other Lords."
Da Fei realized suddenly: "Am I the external means?"
Sona nodded: "Exactly. As George said the day before yesterday, the Empire will limit the terrestrial race wanderers’ fleet, to prevent the wanderer forces from becoming too large. Similarly, this management strategy also applies to Naga Lords from all over, but it’s extremely difficult to enforce this, and at the level of the City Lord of Thunder Spear, it’s impossible to execute, so we must rely on the Lord’s strength."
Da Fei responded: "So that’s it!"
Using someone else’s knife to kill, a rabbit dies and the dog is boiled? A familiar sense of immediacy of the proverb swept over! Indeed, being tricked and utilized, no wonder the supervisor assigned Sona to assist me so readily! At this moment, Da Fei suddenly felt very uncomfortable.
Sona continued, smiling: "Nevertheless, when choosing a robbery target, there’s none better than the City Lord of Thunder Spear. Therefore, it’s also a worthwhile thing for the Lord, why not go for it?"
Alright, even if it’s a trap, I should gleefully jump! Da Fei laughed heartily: "True, who told him to be so plump?"
After ending the conversation with Sona, Da Fei began preparing for the robbery of the slave transport ship. Firstly, he checked the system prompt messages from the past day.
——System Prompt: Your sailing time exceeds 14 days, you and your team heroes gain God-level Navigator Skill "Sailing Training" additional experience +30,000, your team gains extra growth potential!
——System Prompt: Your 3 follower city dancer citizens have successfully practiced "Meditation Skill" through rigorous battle environment trials, attributes improved!
Da Fei was overjoyed! The past day was unremarkable, the sailing experience was almost negligible, but even so, 3 people advanced again. This shows the training now is completely on track, no longer needing fierce battles to stimulate potential. That is, the growth of the dancers entirely depends on time, and that’s the desired outcome.
And now, it’s after 11:00 PM, in less than half an hour, another day will pass, and another batch of dancers will graduate, which made Da Fei anticipate even more.
Then it’s time to examine the new Divine Artifact, the Sea God’s Tears. From the effects of George’s use, this Artifact is just like Curse Armor. As long as there’s a battle, no matter how far the battlefield is, the domain can be triggered.
And George can sing and play over-the-horizon combat, which pushes the power of this artifact to the extreme. And having a regional surveillance capability, there’s no problem with over-the-horizon, it can be on the battlefield just like the Blood Eagle, in short, this Artifact’s crushing power is far beyond what mere melee Artifacts like Brutal Tooth or Flame Shield can compare!
Da Fei started to attempt the first special skill.
——System Prompt: You use the regional surveillance function of Light Tears, please designate an area with dark vision on the map. The farther the view, the more Mana or Magic Ball Mana Reserve you need to consume.
As the system prompt was issued, a circular frame appeared on Da Fei’s minimap. Da Fei then pointed the frame at some pitch-black area outside of the map’s view, the Magic Ball flashed, and the darkness inside the frame was instantly swept away, and then the scene of the area appeared in the Magic Ball, revealing a small reef island, and Da Fei’s Mana Value began to decrease.
Da Fei suddenly understood, this is just like Google surveillance, want to see where just click on the map! So useful, really useful!
Then Da Fei saw there were several huge crabs on the reef island, although they were neutral creatures, Da Fei discovered there was a prompt suggesting he could attack!
Oh my! What kind of attack can reach so far? Modern artillery? Da Fei immediately thought of Deirdre’s Curse Artifact, the only super divine thing that can disregard distance—use it!
Sure enough, the next moment, three delayed curse black lights descended from the sky, and the crabs were immediately slowed down by the dark clouds overhead!
Da Fei was stunned! As long as this magic ball opens the view, no matter how far the enemy is, as long as you have a means to attack the enemy, you can directly attack! Super divine, really super divine!
Excitedly, Da Fei tried another special skill, the Dark Domain.
——System Prompt: You have used the Dark Domain of Light Tears, please select an area in the view to release the special skill! This special skill will continuously consume a large amount of your Mana or the mana reserve in the magic ball, releasing Dark Magic in that area. The effects of Dark Divine Skill will receive a substantial boost and additional attributes, and after using the Dark Domain, you cannot use the Light Domain special skill.
Then, a much smaller black box appeared on Da Fei’s mini-map, and without a second thought, he immediately used it on the explored small island reef!
The magic ball emitted another flash of demon light, and a dark cloud pressed down on the small island reef, and the cursed crabs began losing life rapidly!
Da Fei was overjoyed! Originally, the curse spell only slowed down, reduced attack, and stamina, but wouldn’t directly reduce life. This direct life reduction was clearly the extra attribute added by the domain to the curse spell! With Light Tears combined with Curse Armor, it’s completely targeting and striking anywhere, super divine! Really too super divine, haha, wahahaha!
And as Da Fei laughed out loud, he suddenly realized his mana was also dropping rapidly! Oh my! Even with my thousand mana value, I can’t enjoy it for even a few seconds? Finally coming to his senses, Da Fei had no choice but to stop the domain and view. It seems the cost of being super divine is quite severe, it’s simply unaffordable under normal circumstances, and doing such things from afar is practically meaningless.
Da Fei had no choice but to study the second special skill, Mana Reserve. This is the core skill of the magic ball.
——System Prompt: You have used the Mana Reserve function of Light Tears, your current mana will be stored in the magic ball. The current reserve mana limit is 14800 points. (Note: The magic ball can only reserve the user’s own mana, the maximum reserve mana of the magic ball = user’s total basic magic knowledge value × 100, your basic magic is 4 points, basic knowledge is 144 points, reserve total is 14800 points.)
points of reserve mana! Current mana reserve progress 1/14.8K! (Note: K means "thousand")
Da Fei jumped up in shock! Oh my! This is more than 10 times my current mana value! So in future battles, it’ll be like using 10 times the mana to crush others! Compared to this attribute, the previous mana doubling Combined Divine Artifact Mana Source is simply insignificant! Even the mana reserve of the Sea Soul Staff isn’t as much as this magic ball!
It turns out this is the true core skill of this magic ball, just this one attribute is enough to rank as a Super Divine Artifact!
Da Fei finally understood why George would become a fugitive for it, even going into darkness to seek the other half of this set divine artifact! Da Fei simply couldn’t imagine, once finding that Heart of Darkness, how strong would this set become!
Haha, wahahaha! In any case, focus on the present and fight a good battle for the upcoming slave ship campaign.
Da Fei immediately held the magic ball in his arms, watching the mana value in the ball slowly rise from 1/14.8K to 10/14.8K, and after a few minutes, it rose to 100/14.8K!
Da Fei suddenly realized the mana reserve process was ridiculously slow! Meaning, to completely charge this full 14.8K mana would take who knows how many days? And during these days, I can only hold this ball, unable to do anything else?
Oh my! Is this the frustrating limitation of Super Divine Artifact for players? No choice, let’s endure it slowly, at least there’s plenty of time while sailing. In the future, try to use less reserve mana as much as possible.
Time passed bit by bit during the voyage, Da Fei’s main character still holding the ball to hatch mana. Then bored, he switched to Junxiang’s alt account to check the progress.
The alt account’s progress was astonishing. After waking up, construction for factories began in earnest. And the Rune Tower has nearly a hundred Birdman tied up! This is amazing!
Checking his friend messages, there was no movement at all. It means, the alt account has fully taken care of matters on its side. Good, this is best.
The Lighthouse Islands are already near, to prepare for an all-nighter tonight, Da Fei ordered some barbecue and beer for a midnight snack.
Then the system prompt dinged, another day has passed! This time, three more dancers learned the Healing Skill! It was indeed just a matter of time! Alright, hope everyone can learn skills before the action starts for the battle! (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets on Qidian (qidian.com), your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)