novelAbuy Chapter 1920 1391: Board! Loyal Board!_2
Chapter 1920 1391: Board! Loyal Board!_2
"Chief Divine protect us! Kill! Kill the Evil Demon!...""Capture that Evil Demon Leader! Sacrifice to the Chief Divine!..."
"Almighty! Holy Mother! Silvira's Vice Ship! The natives have boarded! So many natives, so many natives! They've boarded the ship!... Ah! They're killing, killing the sailors! They're too many, they've reached the deck, they've reached the stern... They've surrounded Sir Silvira!..."
Amid the panicked shouts of old carpenter Ivo, Bruno suddenly turned his head, the moonlight shining on his face, which then showed fear. He saw, a hundred or two hundred meters away, Sir Silvira on the fleet's vice ship, wearing a half-body knight's breastplate, standing on the high stern...
Silvira held the Knight's Cross Sword, facing twenty boarding enemies, while the sailors had all fallen. He was just like the famous Portuguese knight, Martin Moniz, more than three hundred years ago, ready to die at the front door of the captain's cabin!
"May the Almighty protect us! Kill! Send the despicable ambushing barbarians to the Hell of Fire! Kill! The feathered helmet Greeks... Ah! I am a true Portuguese knight! I can fight one against a hundred!..."
Silvira swung his family heirloom Cross Heavy Sword, demonstrating the knight martial arts trained since childhood, fighting desperately and hopelessly. However, the space on the ship was too cramped, and he was completely surrounded by three boarding Kingdom's Warriors, forced only to barely defend.
These native warriors were burly in stature, not tall, but far fiercer than the natives on the island. They all held Bronze Short Spears, with Bronze Short Axes tucked at their waists, styled like Ancient Greek City-State Soldiers.
Yet, these native warriors wore strange feathered leather helmets instead of the Greeks' characteristic Illyrian Helmet. And their battle techniques clearly were not suited for the pitching sea battle, seemingly more for heavy land skirmishes! Still, they cooperated very well, and their numbers kept increasing!...
"Ah! Damn natives! You cannot defeat the warriors of the Almighty! Devotion is my shield, nothing can destroy it... Uh!!..."
Mere moments later, a swift Short Spear accurately pierced Silvira's calf, forcing him to bow his knee in pain, exposing a flaw on his side. Then, two spear shafts slammed him down, quickly disarming him of his Cross Sword! Further, several native warriors fiercely pounced, pulling out sisal ropes from their waists...
"Chief Divine protect us! Tie him up! Tie him up! Finally caught a big fish!... Haha! If we weren't capturing him alive, so many warriors would have already used Javelins to shoot you dead!..."
Kepili removed his feathered helmet, wiping sweat from his head. He picked up the "Iron Plate Demon" Cross Sword, noticed its sharp dual blades, eyebrows first raised, then facial expression showed joy. This Evil Demon Leader's martial arts were strong, wearing very solid "Iron Plate", wielding a formidable "Divine Weapon", killing three Taino Sailors as soon as he boarded! And the Kingdom's Warriors, for the boarding, only wore light Leather Armor, limiting them in the fight...
Fortunately, capturing this Evil Demon Leader provided the Chief Divine's sacrifices at last and captured a large ship! It truly was not in vain that they hurriedly traveled upon receiving news, hastening eight hundred miles in four days, abandoning all slow Oar-sail Ships, before catching up with these two Evil Demon Scouts' large ships!
In the night, they searched blindly in the dark for locations of the Evil Demons' large ships with no success even after scouring from dusk till midnight. Finding enemy ships at night was truly too challenging!... Until a faint flicker of firelight at the windward revealed its position, flashing briefly from the fleet's northwest!...
"Praise the Chief Divine! Captain, we killed ten Evil Demons, captured eight prisoners! We also found three Taino Tribe locked in the ship's hold, it seems the Evil Demons took them onboard!..."
"Chief Divine! Captain, there are three Thunderbolt Ritual Artifacts on the ship! And those short pipes that spew thunder, resilient Iron Blades..."
"Store them all properly! Not one piece missing!... And this Evil Demon Leader's Iron Plate, tanking several spears without issue... Strip it down for me! Yes!... "
"Search thoroughly! Look for any Evil Demons overboard! These eight prisoners make it a bit lacking for a sacrifice... With eighty, it would be more fitting! Where's the small boat behind? They barely row over after the fight is done here? ... Never mind! Let them spread out, look for any spoils of war to collect..."
Kepili gestured twice, inserting the Short Spear back behind, tightly gripping this "Evil Demon's Spoil." Though the scimitar was sharp, it felt awkward in use, never quite right. Only this sole Cross Sword felt good to wield, behaving like an obsidian club but more exceptionally sharp and firm!
"Chief Divine protect us! The other ship? Did they board and capture the ship as well?... Uh? Why are they still pursuing? Weren't they supposed to be close already?!..."
Night faded from the slaughter, dawn awoke from the bloodshed. Like the ancient Nava legend, blood made the sun rise, letting light shine upon the human world. Amid the gentle dawn, Kepili frowned, looking at the two ships still chasing each other some miles away. Watching their overlapping shadows, hearing the panicked cries and thunder, especially that thunderclap!
"Boom!!..."
The Evil Demons' large ship seemingly had an exceptionally loud thunderbolt ritual artifact, each firing louder than an ordinary cannon! And the Kingdom's large ship pursuing behind, after firing several rounds of cannon, finally launched the warriors' more skilled traditional weapon, fire-inducing gunpowder arrows!...
"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!..."
Blazing firelight streaked from the warriors' hands at the bow, shooting toward every part ahead. Their aim was unpredictable, mostly shooting into the sea, though a few struck the enemy ship over a hundred meters away, sparking flames that burned fiercely!
Yes, over a hundred meters away! At their closest, the two ships were within twenty to thirty meters, seeming ready to toss grappling ropes and seize each other. But the 8-pound cannon was ultimately an unforeseen "heavy gun" by the Kingdom! Even though this cannon only hit the large ship twice, it opened two leaking holes at the sailboat's waterline! Though the Taino carpenter onboard began repairs frantically, the chase speed undeniably slowed down...
And now, firing gunpowder arrows symbolized one thing! The Kingdom Longship pursuing had given up trying to capture the enemy ship, began to set the Evil Demons' large ship aflame, burning it into a maritime torch!
"Almighty protect us! Holy Mother protect us! Quick, adjust the sails further! Speed up! ... Haha, with these natives' sailing skills, they can't possibly catch us!... Uh?! What weapon is this? Archers' Fire Arrows? No... Greeks' Gunpowder Arrows?!..."
Captain Bruno's eyes suddenly widened, the dazzling gunpowder arrows trailing long paths, emitting piercing sounds, scattering like fireworks. This was an archaic gunpowder weapon largely unseen on Western Europe battlefields. Yet, in the current ship proximity, extremely lethal!
Because, these enemies' "shooting" fireworks always had some hitting the flagship's stern, causing fires too late to extinguish! Yet the flagship's 8-pound cannon and the gunpowder barrels around its cannon, were equally at the stern...
"Ah! Extinguish the fire quickly! Extinguish the fire quickly!... Fire's reaching the cannon... No!!"
"Boom!!!..."
Accompanied by a tremendously shocking thunderclap, the explosion wave swept across half the ship's stern! And amid the sailors' dying screams, the stern deck shattered. The heavy 8-pound cannon with fractured planking fell into the deep sea beneath the dawn!