Chapter 424 Sea Battle
Fighting an enemy with elemental abilities in their area of expertise is undoubtedly unwise. Even though the young girl currently had a terrain advantage from being above, she couldn’t gain any advantage when clashing attacks from afar, and a large portion of the mist around her was dispelled by the blue-robed Divine Officer.
“Who is Poisonous Snake to you?” Suijinkuya, seeing Kazumi’s figure, stopped his attack for a moment and shouted at the black-robed person in front of him, whose demeanor and aura were completely different from his memories.
The response he received was an even fiercer barrage of energy arrows from the young girl. Kazumi could never understand the so-called villainous trait of controlling the weak. In her opinion, conversations like “that talkative person” were useless, only giving the opponent an opportunity to accumulate energy and deliver a fatal blow.
“Heh—”
Seeing that his question received no answer, Suijinkuya was not angered. The spiritual energy in his hand continued to erupt. With a roar, a more condensed water screen, compared to the hastily formed one before, appeared in front of him, solidly blocking Kazumi’s current wave of attacks.
In the next moment, he assumed a right-hand stance, and two water pillars shot up into the sky, transforming into two slender water snakes that coiled towards the fleshy mountain man fighting the Ocean Guard officers on the other side.
“Damn it.”
A classic curse erupted from the young girl’s small mouth beneath her cloak. The energy in her hands ferociously intensified its condensation, only to be met with no response, like a mud ox entering the sea. The fleshy mountain man’s thick legs were already entangled by the water snakes, and it was clear that his already not-so-flexible movements had become even more sluggish.
Watching Suijinkuya stand in place with his eyes closed, muttering incantations, Kazumi knew that the worst thing she feared had happened.
Originally, the young girl’s mission was just to stall Suijinkuya, who was a Psychic, during the fight. If possible, Kazumi wished she could have continued to have a friendly energy beam confrontation with him at the bow of the ship until the battle ended, as she had plenty of energy reserves with her Territory as a backup.
However, after only two rounds of engagement, Suijinkuya had noticed the probing nature of Kazumi’s attacks. Although he didn’t know what her reserves were for, he decisively erected a defensive barrier, leisurely helping the officers on the ship deal with nearby enemies before attending to Kazumi.
For them, the so-called one-on-one knightly honor was meaningless in the face of the safety and interests of the people. What they should truly do was to use righteous mobbing tactics to resolve the crisis quickly and efficiently.
Therefore, for Kazumi, this was truly not good news. Her strengthened energy attacks still couldn’t break through Suijinkuya’s water screen defense, and if she allowed him to unleash his long-prepared incantations, even with the fleshy mountain man’s defensive capabilities, he wouldn’t be killed by Psychic-based attacks, but her mission to stall him would likely be declared a failure right at the beginning.
With this thought, Kazumi no longer hesitated. A ghostly green gate opened before her, and she stepped into it without hesitation.
On the other side, Suijinkuya, who had been observing both sides, continued chanting, and the spiritual energy in his hands grew more and more concentrated.
But the moment his view switched, the black-robed person who had been on the cruise ship suddenly disappeared. The sense of crisis surged directly to the depths of his marrow, and his peripheral vision caught only a glimpse of a disgusting, bizarre green light. In the next moment, a giant black pillar smashed directly towards his location.
“Boom—”
The harsh sound of the Black Coffin contacting the steel deck echoed across the entire sea, and Suijinkuya’s figure scattered like glass. His distorted form slowly solidified nearby, his ruddy cheeks showing no signs of backlash from the interrupted spell.
“Just as I thought, it was to lure me here!”
As the smoke and dust gradually dispersed, Kazumi’s eyes, which had taken in the opponent’s state, grew colder.
Suijinkuya’s move was a perfect stratagem. His slow preparation of the spell was to lure her into making a move. If she hadn’t intervened to interrupt it, the spell, even with a certain amount of chanting time sacrificed, would have been released. This way, even if Kazumi didn’t take the bait, it would have been enough to cause trouble for the fleshy mountain man.
“Clang clang clang—”
Kazumi’s appearance could not escape the notice of the officers on the ship. The moment the young girl appeared, several dark muzzles were directly aimed at her and the triggers pulled.
Bright muzzle flashes erupted on the young girl’s arms, as if bullets had hit thick steel plates. Densely packed teeth on her pale arms formed a natural armor, and even specially made bullets couldn’t pierce Little Black’s arm guard.
With a counter-attack of an energy shock, she directly pushed a police officer standing in the distance into the sea. Although they had agreed not to take lives, if the opponent drowned in the sea, it wouldn’t count as her killing them, right? Moreover, this would also cause them to send people to rescue, which could tie up more personnel for a short period.
With the Death Energy from her other hand simultaneously unleashed, dark green arrows pierced the body of the water snake. Like a branding iron thrown into cold water, the two opposing energies instantly burned, finally dissipating into water vapor in the air.
“Thanks.”
Feeling the removal of the restraints on his legs, the fleshy mountain man grunted a thank you to Kazumi. He shed a few layers of the overgrown keratin on his hands, held them in his palm, and threw them like projectiles, directly knocking down several officers on Kazumi’s side. Then, with a roar, he once again engaged in battle with the combatants wielding melee weapons beside him.
Watching the fleshy mountain man help her create space, the expression on Kazumi’s face became unusually relaxed. It had been too long since she had fought alone like this. When had she ever encountered such a reliable teammate before? The young girl could now understand why the team atmosphere under [Spike] was so good. Although they all looked quite “villainous,” they were surprisingly normal people.
“You hidden evil energy user, do you know the consequences of what you’re doing?!”
Subconsciously tilting her head, Kazumi dodged the streaking water pillar with the help of Little Black’s pull. The young girl turned her head and saw Suijinkuya in the distance, his eyes filled with rage.
“None of my business.”
She replied inwardly without any emotional fluctuation, and a ghostly green light door opened in front of Kazumi, absorbing all of his attacks.
“It’s still a bit difficult to absorb attacks containing spiritual energy, isn’t it?”
Feeling the feedback from this experimental ability, Kazumi circulated her energy to calm the fluctuation caused by the spiritual energy entering her Territory. The ghostly gate opened again, and swarms of ghouls rushed towards Suijinkuya through this green portal.
“Hmph.”
Looking at the grotesque monsters emanating a disgusting aura before him, Suijinkuya let out a cold snort, and the spells in his hands descended heavily at that moment.
And behind him, a giant wave, churning with the force of the tide, suddenly rose higher, and a sky-high water curtain crashed down upon the entire bow of the ship.
