Chapter 62 The Law of the Jungle

The golden-haired nun's corpse dangled from Suren's hand, swaying slightly in mid-air.

From the moment this arrogant figure appeared on the deck to the moment she became a corpse, it seemed like only a blink of an eye.

The Dawnbreaker's crew went from being stunned to shocked in an instant.

Although they didn't quite understand what had happened, they realized that it definitely wasn't that the enemy was weak.

It was that Suren was too strong!

Barrett, Wordsworth, and the other Seventh-tiers came back to their senses and belatedly realized the danger hidden beneath that dramatic scene. Cold sweat trickled down their foreheads.

Their first encounter with the legendary "power of time" had taken them to the edge of death.

This special high-level law was almost immune to any means of restraint. Even they couldn't understand it, let alone have any confidence in defeating it.

Such an enemy with such strange abilities, coupled with "Westsea King" Moloch, was indeed a combination that could have posed an extinction-level threat to the Dawnbreaker.

Too bad Suren was on board.

The enemy was killed at first sight. The crisis was resolved before it even had a chance to erupt.

Moloch, who was on the sea not far away, was stunned for a moment before roaring and continuing his charge.

Suren reaped the soul of the corpse. Without much explanation, he simply said, "Prepare for battle."

The Dawnbreaker's crew looked serious and instantly entered battle mode.

The sound of a sword being drawn rang out. Qian Tiao, her fighting spirit at its peak, had already drawn her sword, and her figure disappeared from the deck.

Moloch had the nickname "Eighth-tier Gatekeeper" in the Bounty Hunter Guild, and Qian Tiao naturally wanted to test herself against him.

There were few enemies of the same rank who could put pressure on her anymore. This Eighth-tier was just right!

Of course, she wouldn't have much chance of winning alone. Barrett let out a light shout and jumped down without hesitation.

Wordsworth's bat wings fluttered behind him, leaving an afterimage in place.

The three top fighters of the Dawnbreaker rushed towards Moloch, who was running wildly across the sea, and instantly engaged in a fierce battle.

The sea instantly churned with huge waves, the shockwaves rising higher and higher.

...

Ordinary people couldn't interfere in the battles between top professionals, but there were still more than twenty pirate ships watching covetously.

The Dawnbreaker's crew sharpened their knives, the Eternal Night's sails turned, and Tani controlled the huge ship's hull to carve a perfect arc on the waves dozens of meters high. Like a surfer, it immediately turned its course and counterattacked the twenty-odd pirate ships.

Even though they were still far apart, the cannons were already spitting flames.

For a time, the cannons roared.

The Dawnbreaker fought twenty against one without showing any weakness, like a tiger plunging into a pack of wolves.

The two sides charged head-on, and a fierce naval battle unfolded.

However, the difference in cannon technology between the two sides was too great. The pirate ships were completely suppressed by the Dawnbreaker.

They were at a disadvantage from the start.

After two rounds of artillery fire, another five or six pirate ships were severely damaged.

But the enemy's confidence was clearly not in their cannons. At the moment the cannon battle began, four or five of the twenty-odd pirate ships lit up with group magic shields.

Suren was also familiar with this configuration. It was a five-hundred-man mage corps.

Roughly estimated, there were about two to three thousand mages.

From the beginning of the battle, these guys also began to chant legion magic: [Great Tsunami Spell], [Great Gale Spell], [Great Thunder Spell]...

The sea instantly flashed with lightning and thunder, and the surging magical elements seemed to boil over.

The fighting power of the legion mages couldn't be underestimated. A five-hundred-man mage corps was enough to unleash legion magic that could threaten the lives of Eighth-tier professionals.

The gales, coupled with the tsunami, tossed the Eternal Night, a ship of that size, like a piece of paper, as if it were about to be blown over and sink at any moment. Thunderclouds flickered in the sky, and lightning magic had already gathered. Once it fell, it would inevitably cause widespread casualties.

How could Suren watch these guys inflict heavy damage on the Dawnbreaker?

Breaking them up was the best option!

In that instant, he teleported over and appeared directly on a pirate ship.

The mages weren't entirely unprepared.

When a stranger appeared on the ship, the air in the crowd instantly became sticky. This was a composite control-type spell, [Magic-Sealing Air Swamp].

The air was like glue, sticking Suren firmly to the deck. The surrounding elements were also isolated, restricting spellcasting. Space was squeezed and restricted, making teleporting away a hundred times more difficult than coming.

This spell, which controlled both matter and magic, was enough to instantly kill most Seventh-tier professionals.

But Suren now knew the magic corps like the back of his hand. How could he not have anticipated such a scene?

A sharp glint flashed in his eyes. The spell was already formed the moment he landed. He let out a light shout, "Domain—Forbidden Zone of Life!"

In an instant, a terrifying aura swept across the entire pirate ship.

Suren didn't make any movements at all, but the pitch-black stream of light on his body rapidly spread out.

The warship wasn't big, and in the blink of an eye, it was completely covered.

Instantly, everyone on the pirate ship felt a strange force drawing away their life. Their auras plummeted, and the magic they had condensed in their hands was interrupted.

"Not good!"

Everyone was shocked, but it was already too late to react.

The lower the level of the mage, the more they felt their bodies were like punctured balloons, their qi, blood, and life rapidly draining away.

In just an instant, those mages who had wanted to control Suren and kill him watched helplessly as "age spots" appeared on their skin. Those spots rapidly grew larger and then connected into one piece. Finally, the entire skin quickly turned black and rotted, emitting a foul odor.

Low-level mages were unable to stop this loss of life. Their eyes were filled with horror and despair, and they lost their lives in the blink of an eye.

A few Sixth-tiers and the two Seventh-tier mage division commanders had three or four tenths of their vitality drained. They still had the strength to resist the fire ring, cast spells in reverse, and retreat violently, jumping out of the range of the strange domain.

[Forbidden Zone of Life] was a death domain condensed from various laws. Unless one could restrain the negative aura of this domain, the enemy wouldn't even have the qualifications to fight him.

This was why Seventh-tier was called the watershed of top professionals!

Just three breaths after Suren teleported over, he was the only one standing alone on the huge pirate ship.

The sea wind howled, and the waves surged.

Suren stood expressionlessly amidst the corpses strewn across the deck, motionless.

The shadowy Grim Reaper behind him billowed with black mist, as if he had truly come from hell to reap lives. His indifferent expression was full of indifference to his enemies.

Everyone on the battlefield saw this scene.

The magic shield on this pirate ship suddenly disappeared, and the people on the other pirate ships looked over, then happened to see this scene, and they were all horrified.

Six or seven hundred people had been killed silently?

Even the top battle between Qian Tiao and the other Seventh-tiers surrounding "Westsea King" Moloch didn't make people's hearts feel so cold.

Fear stemmed from the unknown.

At this moment, Suren, shrouded in the black domain, didn't look like a human being in everyone's eyes, but an indescribable "great horror."

This bizarre scene not only shocked the pirate ships but also stunned the Dawnbreaker crew on the Eternal Night in the distance!

If most of the Dawnbreaker's crew hadn't understood what was happening when Suren killed the paladin nun earlier,

Then they understood now.

One person...killed everyone on a ship in an instant?

What a terrifying domain!

What a powerful fighting force!

On the deck of the Eternal Night, Lolota, Tani, Dora... everyone was shocked.

Mr. Suren was actually so strong?!

Kitt even let out a strange cry, "Holy crap, what kind of domain is this? It's so evil!"

He had been saved before and had seen some of Suren's abilities. He had thought he had already overestimated him, estimating his fighting power to be around that of the "Top Ten Legendary Hunters."

But now that he had made a move, he realized that this guy's power was beyond his imagination.

That was a five-hundred-man mage corps...and they were killed just like that?

Was this really a Seventh-tier?

At the same time as being shocked, Kitt was also filled with excitement.

The Dawnbreaker's crew cheered excitedly, their morale high!

...

Suren's expression was indifferent. Once he entered battle mode, all he could think about was how to end the battle quickly.

After he killed the people on this ship, the mages on the other ships launched spells in unison.

"Crack" A lightning bolt as thick as a water tank struck down, instantly turning the ship and everyone on it into dust in the attack.

Suren's figure reappeared a hundred meters away.

Looking again, several more lightning bolts struck. He dodged again.

His [Teleportation] now had almost no casting interval, as smooth as breathing. Although lightning spells were fast, as long as he was careful, they wouldn't necessarily be able to do anything to him.

But Suren didn't try to teleport to the ships of the remaining mage corps.

Those legion mages were already prepared, and going there would be somewhat risky.

Suren didn't intend to give those guys any chance.

With a wave of his hand, groups of extremely fast shadows swept past the water.

"Something's in the water!"

The people on the pirate ships also noticed something, but it was already too late.

Suddenly, they heard a series of harsh "crack" "crack" sounds of wood breaking.

With a whooshing sound like a fountain erupting, mechanical octopus tentacles burst out of the decks of several pirate ships.

The legion magic shield didn't wrap around the entire ship, but only the part above the water, to prevent cannon attacks.

And mechanical octopuses were the best means of breaking ships. This was a mechanical beast that the mages had never seen before.

Their powerful suction cups could firmly adhere to the hull, and the various ship-breaking tools on their mechanical arms could easily break through even ironclad ships. Not to mention these wooden warships?

Even elite warships with enchanted plating couldn't last long and were quickly broken into pieces.

Moreover, these octopus tentacles weren't the few-meter-long octopuses of the past, but giant octopuses with each tentacle dozens of meters long!

Since the last time he captured the [North Sea Kraken], Dr. Banks had cultivated a large number of giantized octopuses. Later, during the Battle of the Goldmine Island mines, Suren emptied the secret research base of Raphael the Archduke's mechanical beasts. He had enough materials, equipment, and technicians to create a large number of large mechanical octopuses.

Naval battle?

With these large mechanical octopuses, even without the Eternal Night, these enemies didn't have the qualifications for a naval battle in Suren's eyes.

He had now filled almost all the shortcomings of legion warfare.

In the blink of an eye, Suren's mechanical octopus legion had hundreds of octopuses stuck to those ten-odd pirate ships. The sound of wood breaking was endless, and countless mechanical tentacles emerged from the pirate ships.

The fighting power of the mage corps wasn't weak. Various spells rained down, killing some of the mechanical octopuses.

But Suren had too many of them, and he could completely support this level of attrition.

With the Eternal Night providing accurate artillery fire from a distance, in just a few rounds of artillery fire, the last few pirate ships that had fled into the distance were also sunk.

Once the warships were destroyed, the formations of the several five-hundred-man mage corps were also broken up. Mages floated in the water, and pirates who had fallen into the water were everywhere within a few square miles.

Next was melee combat.

A huge cross appeared in the sky, and countless transparent threads fell down.

Suren didn't release the puppet legion to kill the enemy with all their strength. These enemies, who had lost their warships, no longer posed much of a threat. After he disrupted the several mage corps, he left the rest to the Dawnbreaker's crew.

He had more important things to do.

Suren turned to look at Qian Tiao and the others, who were in the midst of a fierce battle.

Suren didn't want to miss the opportunity to fight an Eighth-tier professional head-on.

Although "Westsea King" Moloch was called the Eighth-tier Gatekeeper, he was a genuine Eighth-tier.

The Alchemist's Eighth-tier was the "Overlord Body Realm." This was an extremely powerful realm where domineering aura and domain were poured into the physical body, making it invincible and bringing critical strikes with every basic attack!

Moreover, Moloch himself was a [B-026-Stone Giant] Second Awakening talent user. His attack methods weren't strong among Eighth-tiers, but it was very difficult to kill him.

The comprehension of laws at this realm was at another level, and the pressure it brought was as sharp as a knife.

Suren and Qian Tiao were both very special Seventh-tiers, and such opponents were hard to come by.

There was also "Blood Duke" Wordsworth, an old vampire who had lived for hundreds of years, who also needed insight into advancing to the Eighth-tier.

And so, several Seventh-tiers of the Dawnbreaker ganged up on Moloch.

Although there were many dangerous moments, after they persevered, what was left for Moloch was the end of death.

...

From beginning to end, No. 19 didn't show up or make a move.

Suren didn't think there was any need for her to make a move at the moment.

It was best to keep trump cards hidden.

Finally, after the Dawnbreaker's crew had killed almost everyone on the sea, Suren's battle also came to an end.

The warships were completely destroyed, and with several teleportations, there was no escape. Moloch was finally outnumbered and killed on the spot.

The pirate king who had roamed the West Sea died in this unknown far west sea.

[You have stripped the soul of 'Moloch Bourbon']

[You have obtained a large number of 'Eighth-tier Earth Element Law Fragments', 'Eighth-tier Power Law Fragments']

[You have obtained 'some insights into the Overlord Body Realm']

[You have obtained some secrets about the West Sea Fleet...]

[Spirit +...]

Suren reaped the soul of this Eighth-tier professional, and his gains were quite substantial.

The Dawnbreaker's crew was also busy salvaging the spoils of war from the sea.

The result of war was that as long as you won, you would definitely make a fortune.

This wave ate up twenty-odd ships and thousands of mages, which was another great harvest.

Because they had deliberately chosen a battle area where the water wasn't too deep, the mechanical octopuses that had been killed were retrieved and put back into the war factory to be remade.

It could be said that the Dawnbreaker had obtained huge gains with minimal losses.

On the other hand, before the battle, the Dawnbreaker used a signal jammer to block communication signals in the nearby waters on a large scale.

The situation here most likely hadn't been transmitted back to the Ten Thousand Mage Corps' island camp.

Even if it had been transmitted, because the previous long-range artillery fire had destroyed most of the ships, those guys would have to be cautious about reinforcements.

The Dawnbreaker's current strength was no weaker than any pirate fleet in the Alchemy Plane. Without a few Eighth-tiers, coming here would be suicide.

Moreover, if they really couldn't win, Suren could completely teleport away.

There was almost no threat.

What was even more coincidental was that before their battle had ended, Suren discovered that a fierce battle had broken out again near the [Rainbow Well] island in the far distance.

Teleporting over to take a look, he saw that the Celestial Plane mages and a deep-sea kraken were having a lively fight.

This sea area wasn't human territory.

There were quite a few natives: dragons, gorgons, deep-sea krakens...

The previous artillery fire had been extremely loud, attracting monsters from the surrounding hundred miles. It seemed that the nearby area would be very lively recently.

However, the fighting power of the Ten Thousand Mage Corps was extremely strong, and there was a steady stream of people teleporting over. They weren't afraid of fighting a positional war.

Suren didn't watch for long before the kraken that had come to cause trouble was beheaded by the mage corps.

If they wanted to divert the disaster eastward, they had to consider it more carefully.

...

Not long after, the Eternal Night continued to sail on the sea.

Suren also teleported back.

On the deck, the crew was counting the gains from this battle: various magic wands, robes, crystal balls, magic codices... piled up like mountains.

It was also the first time the Dawnbreaker's crew had seen mages from another plane, and they were all very excited.

"Oh, these mages are so rich, much richer than those pirates! My God, there are piles of magic gems in just one storage ring..."

"Hahaha... High-level mages, like our high-level alchemists, need a lot of magic materials to help them cultivate, so it's normal for them to be rich. We're going to make a fortune this time."

"Oh, thanks to Mr. Suren. If he hadn't sunk those guys' pirate ships, we wouldn't have been able to leave them all behind with just our cannons."

"That's right, that's right! Mr. Suren is mighty!"

"..."

With this shout, the huge ship burst into an uproar.

Suren smiled and responded to the crew's exaggerated praise.

Then he and Qian Tiao, Barrett, and a few other high-level combatants gathered and held a short meeting on the deck.

Judging from the current situation, the situation in the Dragon Kingdom sea area was unclear, and rashly going to explore it wasn't a good choice.

Moreover, without solving the problem of the teleportation array, those guys from the Celestial Plane would become a huge hidden danger later on.

But after discussing it, they couldn't think of any good solutions.

Those mages had established defensive positions on the island, and even a Ninth-tier would have problems barging in. The Dawnbreaker's crew wouldn't have any chance of winning.

Just when everyone felt that they hadn't come up with any good plans, Suren thought of the Naga relic, the [Seven-Colored Conch], that he had found when he saved Kitt.

He looked up at Tani, one of the few half-grown boys who were eavesdropping on the mast, and asked, "Tani, can you use this conch?"

When Tani heard Suren calling him, he jumped down and stared at the conch. "Huh...this conch looks familiar."

Suren explained, "This is a Naga relic."

Tani's eyes lit up and said, "No wonder. I think I saw it when I was little."

He took the seven-colored conch and looked at it. He felt a strange familiarity and put it in his mouth, puffing out his cheeks and blowing.

When he blew, a melodious conch sound came out.

ps. I had writer's block, so I updated a little less.