novelraw Chapter 38 Not a Weakling, Naval Battle
Chapter 38 Not a Weakling, Naval Battle
One of them was a prisoner experiment of the Beacon of Prosperity who escaped after killing the old man and was always worried about the subsequent changes.
The other one, although he had taken control of a chamber of commerce early on to raise resources for himself and seemed to be doing alright... was constantly being plundered and harvested regularly by others.
Through such experiences, the two of them will unconsciously develop a unique understanding.
That is, within the wizarding community, they are not the strong, but the weak.
If news of the death of Wizard Lescent becomes public, and other wizards also come looking for his treasure, then they won't be much of a competitor in this matter.
Therefore, both of them acted secretly.
But the problem is...
"Crimson Wizard, even with you and me, we might not be considered strong enough in this wizarding world."
"But in any case, we're not exactly weak anymore—especially in this stormy sea."
Loon glanced at the Crimson Wizard, then his gaze fell on Andy, who was active in the vast ocean.
Both of them were already second-class wizard apprentices.
They also all possessed level zero attack spells.
In addition, there is Andy, a monster companion.
Even if they can't defeat the enemy, they can breathe underwater and escape from the seabed with Andy's help.
This combination, while not necessarily perfect in both offense and defense, certainly allows for easy back-and-forth maneuvering.
Therefore, they could have acted much bolder—at least they wouldn't have to be as secretive as they are now.
"yes."
"We are no longer weak." Hearing Lo'ang's words, the Crimson Wizard was stunned for a moment before suddenly coming to her senses.
"We should go find those pirates!"
The pirates in the Stormy Seas are all supported by the wizard Recent and are his slaves.
The wizard Lessonte didn't keep so many pirates out of sheer goodwill.
Just as the Scarlet Wizard ran a trading company to raise resources, the Wizard of Lessonte raised so many pirates, also for the purpose of plundering resources.
The pirates from all over would pile up the resources they plundered and send them to the wizard Recent's lair according to a fixed schedule.
The wizard Resent had been killed by them, and the items he carried became the spoils of war for Loon and his men.
There were no storage bags among the spoils.
In other words, the wizard Recent does not possess such a thing.
So how did the wizard Recent, who didn't have a storage bag, manage to carry the resources plundered by the pirates back to his lair?
The first possibility is that the pirates delivered the resources they plundered to a location designated by the wizard Recent, and then the wizard himself carried these things back to his lair.
Since the wizard Lescent didn't have a storage bag, it was inconvenient for him to move things—therefore, the place where the pirates offered resources was definitely not far from the wizard Lescent's lair.
The second possibility is that, for convenience, the wizard Lessont would personally have the pirates deliver resources to his lair, and then kill all of them to maintain secrecy.
Whether it's the former or the latter, it means that those pirates would have some knowledge of the wizard Lescent's lair.
Therefore, all the two of them needed to do was find a large enough group of pirates to extract information about the Lascent Wizard's lair from them, and then follow the clues to find it.
This is infinitely more efficient than searching island by island based on their own guesses.
As for whether the pirates, being numerous and talkative, might leak the news of Wizard Lesson's death, or even their own information...
To reiterate, she and Luo Ang are no longer considered weaklings.
They can withstand the consequences of exposure!
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There are many islands in the stormy sea area.
Different islands have different products.
The islands could only be reached by merchant ships traveling along fixed shipping routes.
Pirates in the seas lingered, traveled, and even patrolled the shipping lanes between different islands.
To find those pirates, all you need to do is travel back and forth along this shipping route.
When Loon and the Crimson Wizard appeared near a shipping lane, they saw a fierce battle taking place on that lane.
A group of pirates were plundering a fleet of merchant ships.
None of the sails on this fleet bore the mark of a wizard's apprentice—meaning that none of the ships in the entire fleet had the support of a wizard.
Therefore, the pirates blocking their way would not give them a way to escape.
Perhaps for this reason, this fleet of merchant ships resisted the pirates' attacks with exceptional ferocity.
Among the merchant ships, there were even knights who deliberately jumped onto the pirate ships, stepping on floating planks or pieces of merchant ships thrown on the sea.
At the rear of the column, several merchant ships, already cut off by pirates, were being salvaged, their crews seemingly willing to sink all their cargo rather than let it become pirate spoils—a display of extreme bravery.
Amidst the waves between the boats, sharks several meters long writhed and tore at the bodies of those who had fallen into the water, leaving trails of blood in the sea.
"It's a Bloodtooth Shark." The Crimson Wizard glanced at the flags hanging on the pirate ships.
The flag did not depict the mark of the wizard Lessonte, but a shark with its mouth wide open, its teeth deliberately painted blood red.
Bloodtooth shark, this is not a classification of shark.
It was the name of the pirate gang.
This is one of the largest and most ruthless pirate groups in the stormy seas.
Seeing the battle unfolding before her, the Crimson Wizard simply raised her hand and splashed it into the seawater in front of her.
The sharks that had been lurking and tearing at each other among the entangled fleet seemed to have received a command and scattered in all directions.
Upon seeing this, someone on the pirate ship immediately stood at the bow and blew a horn, hoping to call the sharks back.
But these sharks were originally stolen by the wizard Recent from the Scarlet Wizard and then distributed to the pirates.
With their superior control over the sharks from this angle, how could they possibly compare to the Scarlet Wizard's control over sharks?
In just a moment, the sharks scattered completely under the Scarlet Wizard's command.
Under this sudden change, the fierce fighting gradually came to a halt.
In the next instant, an even more shocking change appeared before everyone's eyes.
A colossal aquatic beast suddenly surfaced and swung its enormous tail—the two pirate ships were cleaved in two by the spray of water from the tail, splitting into four pieces.
In that instant, the entire battlefield fell completely silent.
Everyone realized one thing.
—A real wizard intervened in this 'naval battle'.
Following the huge fin that emerged from the water, everyone saw the Crimson Wizard and Loon swimming on the other side, riding on the shark.
"Renwell greets the two esteemed wizards."
The leader of the Bloodtooth Sharks also stood at the bow of the ship, saluted, and then shouted loudly.
"Your Excellency Wizard, all the pirates in the Stormy Seas are under the protection of a great man."
"That lord set the rules: we pirates will not plunder wizards' ships, but other wizards cannot attack us pirates either."