Chapter 17 Luring the Enemy

After luring the corpse of the Rotten Soul into a cabin at the stern of the ship, Fang Senyan casually tossed over two corpses that were almost drained of blood. He then stood still, coldly watching the huge monster. It grabbed the head and legs of one of the corpses, lifting it high above its head. Then, like a twisted towel, it grotesquely contorted the body alive, opening its huge mouth to catch the pouring blood. The sound of the tearing and ripping was chilling, a scene of utter terror and gore.

But these two corpses had already been bled by Fang Senyan. The blood inside had either congealed or been drained long ago. The Rotten Soul twisted the two bodies repeatedly, but didn't get enough blood. It threw them away and roared, turning towards Fang Senyan across the cabin!

At this moment, Fang Senyan was holding a giant tower shield he had found, looking at it coldly.

The Rotten Soul stepped forward, wielding the giant axe in a spinning motion, similar to an athlete throwing a chain ball at the Olympics! A violent wind immediately roared in the narrow cabin. It felt like a sail full of wind being battered by a gale, making an unusually fierce sound. The giant axe was already whistling as it swept horizontally!

Fang Senyan lowered into a horse stance, slamming the tower shield onto the deck with a loud bang, then bracing it firmly with his shoulder! He had found this tower shield among the transported goods. Although heavy, it was used to protect against cavalry charges, and its thickness was nearly thirty centimeters. The howling giant axe struck the tower shield horizontally, immediately producing a loud and shocking crash. Even after being filtered and weakened by multiple layers of planks, the pirates carrying goods more than twenty meters away turned pale. Their ears buzzed as if they had been punched in the chest, forcing them to stumble back seven or eight steps!

Fang Senyan, who was taking the brunt of the attack, felt even worse. Blood spilled from the corners of his mouth, and he staggered back several steps, his ears ringing with excruciating pain! But his health only dropped by less than thirty points. This was because he had equipped the hidden title "Pirate Leader," and with Strength and Stamina +2, his Strength had reached 13 points, matching the monster! This allowed him to negate a large portion of the damage, but clear cracks had appeared on the shield. Obviously, if it blocked another strike, it would likely fall apart. This was the downside of using weapons found randomly in the world; they were extremely prone to damage.

Of course, while Fang Senyan was suffering so badly, the recoil from the giant axe was equally immense. If the Rotten Soul were a living person, its hands would be covered in blood, with wounds at least an inch long. But it was a monster without any sense of pain. It was only made more angry by Fang Senyan's attack! With a roar, it started spinning its body again, taking a step forward and swinging the giant axe straight down! This strike was even more powerful than the last. Fang Senyan, bracing the shield again, even clearly saw jets of filthy black liquid spraying from its hands!

Just as the axe and shield were about to collide, Fang Senyan's eyes suddenly seemed to burn with a fanatical and arrogant light! At this moment, he released his hands and simply dropped to the ground!

With a loud crash, accompanied by an indescribable cracking sound, the shield, already cracked, instantly shattered into pieces in the face of this powerful blow, flying in all directions. The ship's planking behind Fang Senyan was cleaved open by the giant axe with a splintering sound! Broken planks flew everywhere, even being flung out to sea more than ten meters away. From a distance, it really looked like a violent explosion had occurred inside the merchant ship. A two-meter-long, ghastly crack appeared in the ship's hull, less than half a meter from the waterline. A fresh sea breeze immediately blew into the originally dark and oppressive cabin, carrying away much of the indescribable stench from the Rotten Soul.

Fang Senyan groaned, forcefully pulling a sharp piece of shield shard from his thigh, causing blood to gush out. The battlefield was always full of unexpected factors. When the shield was shattered, a shard had flown and deeply pierced his thigh. This attack not only caused him 40 points of damage but also brought a bleeding effect lasting thirty seconds. Smelling the fresh blood, the Rotten Soul went even more insane, gripping the heavy axe with both hands and unleashing a crazy upward slash like hitting a golf ball!

At the critical moment, Fang Senyan drew the sailor's knife from his waist and blocked in front of him! The sailor's knife immediately bent into a U-shape, sheath and all, and flew out of his hand. But at the same time, a metallic luster appeared on Fang Senyan's left hand. The brutally shaped Cobalt Steel Alloy Exoskeleton emerged, barely managing to parry this crazy sweep. However, the Cobalt Steel Alloy Exoskeleton was primarily a weapon for attack rather than defense, so the remaining force still heavily injured Fang Senyan.

He was sent flying five or six meters away, and the blood he spat out in mid-air left a trail of tragic crimson. When Fang Senyan got up again, he vomited another mouthful of blood, and even blood flowed from his ears and nostrils, like small red snakes winding down his skin. The Nightmare Imprint sent a merciless notification:

"You have suffered a sweeping attack from the Rotten Soul, taking 97 points of damage - 25 points. The actual damage you have taken is 72 points!"

"You are currently in a bleeding state, losing 5 health points every 5 seconds, lasting for thirty seconds. Remaining time: 13 seconds."

"Your health remaining (45 points/180 points)! " (Fang Senyan had fought with the Spanish sailors before, and although he had rested, he still couldn't recover to his best condition when facing the Rotten Soul)

"Your health is in danger, please quickly replenish your strength or escape from the dangerous situation."

A dangerous light flashed in Fang Senyan's eyes. His eyes were still full of confidence. If the Rotten Soul still had reason and wisdom, it would be genuinely wary. However, it had lost the control of the wizard at this time, and was merely a beast acting according to its physical instincts!

The Rotten Soul's thick arm muscles tensed again. The power it used was so great that the thick black threads stitching its body were clearly taut, pulling the needle holes into ovals, from which flowed black-green liquid. It slightly turned its body, and in the next second, it would step forward and sweep the giant axe out with all its might. But at this moment, Fang Senyan sprang up like a leopard, running a few steps, then leaning back with all his might, with his legs in front and his head behind, heavily kicking towards the Rotten Soul's advancing right ankle with a sliding tackle like in soccer!

The dark, heavy giant axe swept past two feet from Fang Senyan's face, and the violent wind it stirred up powerfully lifted the hair on Fang Senyan's forehead. Then Fang Senyan felt a clear "thud" sound from the place where his feet kicked, as if something hard and brittle had broken and dislocated. Immediately afterward, a huge figure lunged past Fang Senyan's head, rushing forward a few steps, then unable to stop! With a "crash," it crashed into the previously broken hole, and its momentum didn't diminish. With a "plop," it fell into the sea!

Three times! Although Fang Senyan had only exchanged blows with this giant monster three times, it was the culmination of Fang Senyan's painstaking planning! Fang Senyan's first hard block was not only to test the monster's lethality and assess whether he could withstand the second blow! There was also the intention of provoking the monster. The purpose of the second block was to lure the monster to actively destroy the ship's hull on the sea side. The reason for taking the monster's blow head-on was to paralyze it, giving it the illusion that "the prey has nowhere to escape," inducing it to strike with the intention of achieving success with one blow during the third attack, and it would be brought down into the sea by the huge inertia of the missed strike.

In addition, Fang Senyan dared to take such a risk because he saw that this monster only had a mere 4 points of Agility and 3 points of Perception. His Agility had reached a full eight points, exactly twice that of the monster, and Perception goes without saying. Otherwise, if the monster had reacted quickly and pressed its wrist slightly downward, Fang Senyan would have inevitably ended up dead on the spot!

Of course, more importantly, the voodoo black wizard who controlled the Rotten Soul had escaped. The latter's endless stream of terrifying witchcraft made even Armand afraid of the Rotten Soul. Without the wizard's control, the Rotten Soul's combat power had been reduced by at least five levels!

The Rotten Soul was certainly not so easily dealt with.

The purpose of Fang Senyan's layout was, of course, aimed at the giant axe that seemed to be integrated with it. The tireless and painless monster paired with this terrifying giant weapon increased its combat power so much that it couldn't be calculated using the 1+1=2 method. It was at least a 4x4 calculation! As long as he cut off this giant axe, this terrifying undead creature would be like a tiger without claws and fangs, and a general who shot arrows with unparalleled accuracy losing his bow. The remaining threat was not worth worrying about.

Fang Senyan had considered it very clearly in his prior calculations: The Rotten Soul's body was sewn together with organs from a large number of corpses, and it showed signs of decay. Therefore, even if it couldn't swim, it would definitely not drown--because a decaying corpse is lighter than water. In the real world, the corpses of people who drowned in water will float to the surface after a period of time--but adding that giant axe would inevitably cause it to sink.

So the result was nothing more than two:

First, the Rotten Soul would rather sink than give up the axe, then it would not be able to pose a threat to him.

Second, the Rotten Soul would give up the axe, float to the surface, and come back to settle the score with him. This was the scene Fang Senyan was most happy to see. This guy not only lost his handy weapon, but his right foot was also kicked off, even if this guy didn't know the pain, his movement speed would definitely be affected!

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