Chapter 526: The Combat Power of a Demigod
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Using his "Spirit Wine Glass," Hobert accelerated the extraction of Beyonder characteristics from the three enemies. To his surprise, the one he had just killed with a single punch was actually a "Reaper"!
He hadn't expected that after his Sequence 5 trap was discovered, he would be so easily defeated!
Then Hobert realized that it wasn't that the opponent was weak, but that the qualitative change of a demigod had created a large gap between him and Sequence 5.
This reminded him of when he encountered the "Demoness of Despair" in Backlund. Wasn't he also completely outmatched then! Fortunately, he had a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact at the time, or he would have been easily killed.
Hobert also recalled when he killed his first Sequence 5. He was very excited then, but from today on, killing a Sequence 5 was going to be a very easy thing.
After collecting the three Beyonder characteristics, Hobert continued to chase. With a "Distortion," he was already seven or eight meters away, and with another "Distortion," he was another seven or eight meters.
Unless the other party was sitting on a rocket, how could they possibly outrun Hobert?
After chasing for more than ten seconds, Hobert found that he had chased back to the pier again. It turned out that the other party had run a circle and returned to his ship!
At this time, the "Vice Admiral Dusk's" flagship, the Dawn Light, was operating at full power. It unexpectedly turned its head sharply against all reason, and after capsizing another pirate ship, quickly left the port.
Until this moment, the sails on the flagship showed no signs of being unfurled. The whole process was as if an invisible giant hand was pushing the giant ship away from the port.
Hobert flew low to catch up, and as he got closer to the giant ship, he was hit by a "Storm of Light."
"Disorder!" The attacks, like fragments of light spots, suddenly fell into directional chaos in the area ahead. The attacks that were originally aimed at Hobert scattered.
Some of these light fragments hit the sea, some hit the land not far away, and some bounced back and hit the giant ship itself.
Each fragment of light exploded with about the same power as a cannonball. For a time, the sound of explosions in the surrounding sea was constant, and the water mist that was set off submerged Hobert.
"Distortion!" Hobert, in the water mist, "Distorted" the giant ship's direction of advance, turning the departure to sea into entering the port. So the giant ship once again turned its bow 180 degrees against all reason and rushed towards Hobert.
The water mist dissipated, and Hobert, standing on the water, "Distorted" the buoyancy of the sea under his feet, and punched the giant ship fiercely: "Magnify!"
The giant ship, several tens of meters long, shook violently on the sea, as if it had collided with another ship, and almost lost its forward momentum.
Hobert was pushed back a distance by the giant ship. He did not expect that his full blow would only create a fist-sized hole in the giant ship!
This giant ship seemed to have some of the "Barrier" ability of a Sequence 5. Even a full blow from a demigod had limited destructive power.
Hobert adjusted his posture: "Magnify!"
He "Magnified" the low-flying ability of the "Ocean Pendant," and like a swift flying bird, leaped up onto the deck.
"Vice Admiral Dusk" Bulatov, wearing "Dawn Armor" and holding a "Dawn Greatsword," had been waiting on the ship for a long time.
After Hobert boarded the ship, the greatsword in Bulatov's hand shattered, and he once again used the "Storm of Light" against Hobert!
Of course, Bulatov could feel the gap between himself and the enemy, but what he had to do now was to delay as much time as possible. He had already informed the Feysac Empire's military of his situation through prayer.
In a few minutes, his own demigods would arrive to support him. He just needed to find a way to hold on for a while longer.
"Connection!" Hobert strengthened the Connection between the fragments of light flying towards him and the "Dawn Light" emanating from the ship.
To Bulatov's surprise, his "Storm of Light" all hit the ship's hull. Most of the sailors on the deck were killed or injured, including the flagship's boatswain.
Hobert drew his knife and rushed towards Bulatov: "Magnify!"
"Vice Admiral Dusk" quickly re-condensed the "Dawn Greatsword," but it was too late. He was cut through the "Dawn Armor" by Hobert and was knocked away by his great force, crashing heavily onto the ship's hull.
At this time, a corpse beside Hobert suddenly attacked him, the rapier in his hand pointing directly at Hobert's vital point.
However, Hobert was prepared. He had noticed when the "Storm of Light" exploded that this person had not been directly hit by the fragments of light, but he had fallen to the ground.
So when the other party suddenly attacked, Hobert didn't panic: "Exploit!"
He made the other party's "Cull" end prematurely, so when the other party's rapier stabbed over, Hobert easily deflected it with his black knife, and then kicked the other party in the chest: "Magnify!"
This "Reaper" didn't even have time to let the flames all over his body emerge and assume a defensive posture before being kicked away, knocking down the giant ship's main mast.
Hobert abandoned the other party and "Distorted" the distance between himself and the "Vice Admiral Dusk": "Corrosion!"
On the entire deck, the people who were preparing to jump into the water to escape suddenly thought of the wealth they had hidden on the ship, or suddenly thought of the captain's wealth, and rushed into the cabins one after another.
The "Vice Admiral Dusk" was also affected by "Corrosion." His heart became very dark, and the dawn light on the entire ship suddenly went out.
He knew that it would be difficult for him to wait for the support of his own demigods. Since he couldn't live, no one else should think about living, so he removed all the defensive power of the ship.
Hobert stepped on Bulatov's chest and was about to kill him with a knife.
Thump~
With a muffled sound, the ship shook violently, and Hobert took a few steps back to maintain his balance.
It turned out that after the ship lost control, it slammed into the pier.
Amid the exclamations of the people on the shore, the giant ship finally stopped, but because the defensive power of the giant ship disappeared, a large hole was knocked out of the bow, and seawater was rapidly pouring into the cabins.
The violent vibration awakened Bulatov from the state of "Corrosion." The "Dawn Armor" on his body became solid again, and there was a solid "Barrier" on the outside.
With these two layers of protection, he could at least withstand three blows from the demigod in front of him!
Moreover, with these two layers of protection, his resistance to Beyonder abilities greatly increased!
But he underestimated the ability of a demigod too much. "Tamper!" Hobert "Tampered" the intensity of the surrounding light, fundamentally weakening Bulatov's ability.
This was an "Tampering" of the basic laws of nature, not aimed at Bulatov, so Bulatov's basic resistance did not play any role.
Then Hobert stabbed out with a knife: "Magnify!"
Bulatov's two layers of protection were pierced like fragile bubbles, and Hobert's knife directly pierced into his head.
With an unbelievable expression, the dawn light on Bulatov's body gradually weakened.
The "Reaper" who had been kicked away by Hobert earlier had already run to the edge of the deck, just as he was about to jump into the water to escape.
Hobert reached out to him: "Arrogance!"
So the "Reaper" arrogantly thought that he had a chance to defeat this demigod. After he threw a "Blazing White Spear" at Hobert, he used "Weakness Investigation" to look for the other party's weaknesses.
Hobert kicked a weapon on the deck towards the "Reaper" to test the ability of "Bestowal."
The "Reaper" immediately showed a very impatient performance. Before he could find the enemy's weakness, he rushed towards the other party.
Hobert concluded: First "Bestow," then use abilities such as "Charm." That was a technique to deal with demigod targets. When facing opponents below the demigod level, "Bestowal" itself has the ability to make the target impatient and irrational.
Hobert kicked the "Reaper's" leg and broke it, and then punched the other party unconscious.
At this moment, Archibald climbed onto the ship with two puppets: "You guys ran too fast. I finally caught up with you!"
Only then did Hobert notice that Bulatov's body was gone: "This 'Reaper' is yours!"
This "Reaper," as well as the "Dawn Paladin" just now, were the rewards he had promised Archibald when he hunted the six-legged imp before.
He came to the place where Bulatov had died just now. There was still a small pool of blood on the ground, proving that Hobert had indeed killed the other party just now.
Hobert began to look for "Connection," but he found that this blood had a lot of Connection with the entire ship!
Archibald saw Hobert's confusion and divined: "This ship will not sink, and the captain will not die!"
Hobert was stunned, marveling that the "Pirate Admiral's" ship was simply a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact.
The reason why it wasn't Grade 0 was because Hobert realized that the so-called "The ship will not sink, and the captain will not die" must have certain limitations. Otherwise, this ship would not appear on the sea, but would appear in the Feysac Empire's palace for their emperor to use.
Archibald divined again: "The captain is in the captain's room."
Hobert nodded and immediately entered the captain's room. Sure enough, he saw the more than two-meter-tall Bulatov sitting on a golden chair and smiling: "Unless you can sink the ship within two minutes, your raid will fail, because my reinforcements will be able to arrive by then."
The wound on his forehead had healed, and he looked as if he had never been injured.
Although there was a large hole in the bow, it would not sink for a while, and it might only run aground in the port, making it even more difficult for the giant ship to sink completely.
Hobert ignored the other party's words, but carefully observed the golden chair. He noticed that there was a knife mark on the back of the chair, which looked very much like it was caused by his black knife.
So, Hobert charged forward fiercely. Bulatov quickly dodged, but Hobert "distorted" the distance between them, quickly catching up and kicking "Vice Admiral Dusk" to the ground.
This time, Hobert twisted "Vice Admiral Dusk's" neck.
Crack~
A table next to the golden chair shattered. The "Vice Admiral Dusk," who should have been dead without a doubt, broke free from Hobert and once again sat on the golden chair.
Hobert finally understood what was happening. He smiled and said, "It's not that you've been resurrected, it's just that this ship is taking the fatal attacks for you."
"Also, possibly influenced by your 'Hunter' pathway colleagues, you really like setting traps!"
"You deliberately sat on this chair just to make me think this chair is the key."
"The shattered table just now has proven that whatever on this ship or in the captain's cabin is taking the fatal blow for you. The golden chair is just like the table, nothing special!"
"This is clearly a trap you came up with on the spur of the moment! Just to stall for a little more time."
Bulatov was slightly stunned, not expecting the other party to find the pattern of his "resurrection" so quickly, and even expose his trap.
"Don't underestimate a 'Lawyer's' ability to summarize patterns and their logical abilities!" Hobert smiled. "I've already figured out how to kill you!"
Saying this, Hobert charged over again. Bulatov ran a few steps before being caught by Hobert once more.
However, this time Bulatov didn't give up resisting. Instead, he had a dagger in his hand, and fiercely stabbed at Hobert, hitting Hobert's chest!
"Distort!"
Almost at the same time, Hobert distorted the concept between himself and Bulatov. A hole immediately appeared in Bulatov's chest, and blood flowed freely.
Hobert had long discovered that this "Pirate Admiral" wasn't quite right, because even a Sequence 5 couldn't be caught so easily.
Therefore, Hobert judged that the reason the other party had been easily caught twice in a row was that he was brewing some kind of attack that could harm a demigod, so he had been on guard.
It's just that the other party's attack should be something like a "fatal attack" that couldn't be dodged.
Hobert snatched the dagger and "distorted" his injury, turning a serious injury into a minor one. The wound quickly stopped bleeding.
Then, he "magnified" Bulatov's injury, turning a serious injury into a fatal one. Bulatov once again looked like he was on his last breath.
This time, however, Hobert wasn't in a hurry to kill the "Vice Admiral Dusk." Instead, he grabbed him and left the captain's cabin, walking step by step towards the edge of the deck.
At this time, Archibald, who had successfully turned the "Reaper" into a marionette, was commanding the marionettes to attack the enemy sailors.
He glanced at Hobert and immediately understood that this "Vice Admiral Dusk" was about to be completely killed.
Bulatov seemed to realize something and began to struggle violently, but Hobert's hand was like an iron hoop, gripping his neck. No matter how he struggled, he couldn't break free.
Hobert jumped from the tall ship to the shore, and while leaving the giant ship, he said, "That's right, only on the ship can that ship take the fatal damage for you."
"If you leave the ship, the connection between you will be broken! It will no longer be able to take the damage for you!"
Hobert smiled and said, "That's why you went through such a big detour and returned to the ship. Logically speaking, your best choice would have been to jump into the sea, or continue to play cat and mouse with me in the dense forest."
Bulatov shouted, "I can take you to our base! There, I and my pirate crew have ten years of savings, with a total value of over 300,000 pounds!"
Because Hobert spoke in Loenese, his unit of measurement for property was pounds!
Hobert smiled, "That's the part that the Feysac Empire got, right! I don't believe a pirate has so much savings!"
He felt that the distance was about right, threw Bulatov on the ground, and stepped on him.
Bulatov was shocked, not expecting the other party to know his secrets. He quickly said again, "I know the location of the Spring of Immortality! I can take you there."
Hobert remained unmoved, "Last Monday afternoon, I just learned that the so-called 'Spring of Immortality' is actually a trap set by the 'King of Immortality,' Agalito."
Bulatov was completely desperate, not expecting the other party to even know this!
Hobert raised his knife and chopped off the other party's head with one strike!
This time, Bulatov's headless body twitched a few times and quickly died completely.
Hobert smiled, as if speaking to the corpse in front of him, and as if speaking to himself, "Never underestimate a lawyer's ability to summarize patterns and find loopholes."
At this moment, Hobert suddenly paused and looked towards the distant sea.
A fireball was flying towards them rapidly.
The enemy's demigod had arrived ahead of schedule!
Hobert once again "magnified" the "Glide" ability, quickly flew to the ship, and stood in front of Archibald.
Although Hobert had just been promoted, if the two cooperated well, it wouldn't be difficult to leave the other party behind as well.
Hobert released the seals on "1-101" and "1-107," preparing to face the enemy. However, the fireball drew a beautiful arc on the surface of the sea and flew away again.
Hobert was slightly stunned, but immediately understood. The other party should be a demigod of the "Hunter" pathway. He must have sensed the danger, so when he realized that "Vice Admiral Dusk" was probably beyond saving and didn't have the confidence to defeat the opponent, he flew away.
However, the enemy's first wave of support had already arrived, and the second wave of support might not be far away, so Hobert and Archibald no longer expanded their gains and began to clean up the battlefield.
While accelerating the extraction of Beyonder characteristics, Hobert also found a pirate who was injured and unable to escape, knocked him unconscious, and was going to use him for an experiment later.
Then, Hobert jumped to the shore, picked up Bulatov's Beyonder characteristic, and wrapped the other party's head in a cloak to take it away.
After initially cleaning up the battlefield, Hobert divided into two waves, first taking Archibald and his marionettes to a nearby island. Hobert went back twice, once to take away the captured pirate, and once to take away the "Vice Admiral Dusk's" boatswain and the head of the "Reaper" who was killed by Hobert in the forest.
After taking all the spoils to the nameless island, Hobert resealed the sealed items on his body before sending Archibald and the spoils back to Jeffery Territory in trips.
… …
The port where "Vice Admiral Dusk's" fleet was docked. About three minutes after Hobert and Archibald left, the fireball from before flew back.
The fireball landed on the shore, forming a burning humanoid figure. The flames dissipated, revealing a man with a stern face.
At the same time, a touch of twilight radiance came from the horizon, quickly streaking across the sky like a shooting star, and finally exploded on the giant ship. A large man over two meters tall, wearing battle-suitable bishop's robes, walked out from inside.
This wasn't his own ability, but he was "launched" from afar, with the target being this ship.
The two demigods looked at each other and respectively grabbed a sailor to ask about the situation just now.
Because Hobert's surprise attack was on Bulatov's flagship, the other pirate ships, except for one that was destroyed by the collision, all managed to escape.
Finally, the two demigods met in front of the giant ship. The one who came in the form of a fireball was "Iron-Blooded Knight" Grisha, and the one who came using the twilight radiance was "Demon Hunter" Orezka.
Orezka guessed, "A demigod from the Loen military?"
The Loen military and the Feynapotter military each have several demigods of the "Lawyer" pathway.
Grisha shook his head, "Doesn't seem like it."
If it were a demigod from the Loen military, he wouldn't be wearing a mask.
Moreover, the demigods of each country are numbered and watched by each other. If a Loen military demigod ran to the sea to kill people, Grisha would definitely get the news.
Grisha frowned and said, "Could it be a newly promoted demigod from the Loen military?"
He had such a guess because the three enemies (including Archibald's marionettes), although wearing Feynapotter-style clothes, spoke Loen.
And since it was a "group crime," there was likely an organization behind them.
The first thing the two demigods thought of regarding an organization hostile to the Feysac Empire was the Loen military.
But a new problem arose. Orezka asked, "How did they find Bulatov?"
One of the "Pirate Admiral's" greatest advantages was: it's difficult to find them on the vast sea!
Their flagships all have anti-divination designs. Even a demigod-level divination, without corresponding related items, simply cannot divine their location.
So, theoretically speaking, the demigods of various forces can relatively easily kill the "Pirate Admiral" in direct combat, but such things rarely happen.
In addition to the balance between the forces, another reason is that it is difficult for the demigods of other forces to find the "Pirate Admiral."
And it doesn't make much sense. Everyone knows that this is the Black Gloves. The death of one "Pirate Admiral" will be immediately replaced by another Sequence 5 pirate.
Since the murderer had a way to find Bulatov, it meant that the other party had rich channels. So, the two demigods once again thought of the Loen military.
Because today was the day Bulatov secretly met with the Feysac Empire's intelligence personnel, they guessed that the Loen military personnel might have intercepted this information and found Bulatov.
… …
Feynapotter Kingdom, Jeffery Territory.
Hobert sent Archibald back to the military camp again. From today onwards, Archibald had two more adjutants.
For Archibald, this wasn't just a simple increase in strength; it was also a form of recognition from the "Creator," bringing him closer to completely resolving the seal on his body.
During this time, Archibald continued to pray to the "Creator" every three days, asking the "Creator" to remove the corruption on his body. However, after that first time, Archibald had never seen the image of the "Creator" again.
It guessed that the subsequent removal of corruption was likely due to a "divine automatic response" mechanism, as the "Creator" couldn't possibly always pay attention to such trivial matters.
What it didn't know was that the great "Creator" hadn't found a suitable worker yet, so he had to handle everything himself, big or small.
The reason Hobert so frequently eliminated the corruption for Archibald was to establish the image of the "Creator" in Archibald's mind.
Since he was preparing to tame... ahem, preparing to subdue this extraordinary creature, he had to patiently establish his position in the other's mind.
Hobert remembered that this trick worked best when training dogs.
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