The cruel ecological environment of the Hellfire Archipelago made it impossible for every headman who could dictate the fate of the tribe to be a mediocre person. Upon hearing Sarudada's description, the eyes of all of the indigenous people in fur coats in the bark house lit up right away.
When the old Hellfire man saw that his words had attracted the attention of all the allies as he had expected, a spirited expression appeared on his face. Raising his voice, he said, "I've obtained a magical 'Crossbow Making Technique' from the mainlanders. I can shoot an arrow covered in flames higher than a three-headed eagle.
Right now, Darukot's ships have already dispersed to the nearby waters to investigate. As long as all the Alliance's Guardians can fight with all their might, even if the enemy's flying ship doesn't float over the land … "
While Sarudada was confidently stating his plan, he suddenly saw a strong indigenous woman, who looked exhausted and was wrapped in tattered leaves and old animal skins, staggering into the bark house with the help of two panicked choresmen. She was in a daze and her breath was weak. She was shouting incoherently, "Headman Salosan, Headman Salosan, the enemy is here …" Sarudada was very confident about his plan.
Battleships, battleships, steel battleships as huge as sea monsters, thousands, thousands of battleships, return, return, return … "
"What did you say? What warship …" One of the burly aborigine who was blind in one eye and had a wolf head tattoo on his face exclaimed as he stood up and charged at the woman. However, at this moment, the aborigine woman had already breathed her last.
When the native burly man saw that the messenger was dead, his body stiffened and became silent for a while. Without warning, he turned his head and cast a solemn and suspicious look at Sarudada. Under his gaze that seemed to be burning with flames, the Hellfire old man forced a smile unnaturally. "Don't panic, headman Sarudada. I know what you're thinking, but it's impossible for that to happen.
Think about it carefully. How could a ship as huge as a sea monster and made of steel float on the surface of the sea? Even if it could really float on the sea, how many people would need to paddle it and how big of a sail would it need to move forward?
If such a strange ship appears, it can still be explained as the sea spiritual monsters guarding the enemy tribe working together to create this strange thing with their sorcery in order to deter us. However, it's impossible for thousands of ships to appear … "
As he was speaking, another Hellfire warrior, who was covered in mud and looked extremely disheveled, suddenly barged into the bark house along with the guards. Kneeling on the ground, he wailed, "Oh, wise Sarudada! The enemy doesn't use flying ships but black iron ships to transport their soldiers!
Those ships are as huge as mountains and can run faster than mountain beasts on the sea without the help of wind. They can smash our wooden ships effortlessly! They're all dead! Everyone's dead! Only me! Only me … "
Sarudada thought that the one kneeling on the ground was the warrior leader that he valued. He was completely stunned. The spiritual monster with the head of a bear and the body of an ape suddenly stood up and asked the warrior who seemed to be in a trance, "When did they crash into your warship?"
"Last night, last night when the moon was still above our heads …"
Upon hearing such an answer, the eyes of the spiritual monster with a bear's head and ape's body narrowed right away. Turning around, he slowly walked back to the place where he had just landed and slumped down on the animal skin stall as he muttered.
It was almost noon now. Half a day had passed since last night. Combining with the words of the woman who delivered the letter just now, the enemy might have already crossed the tribal alliance's defense line by sea and had begun to annex the tribal habitats where only women and children were left.
The sudden change in the situation had become extremely bad. The bark house fell into a dead silence.
A few minutes later, a short indigenous headman who had a sharp aura between his brows suddenly roared and stood up. "Even if Hasatulu must perish, I'll die with it on the battlefield instead of staying in the tree house to wait for death …" Tearing the animal skin wrapped around his body, he dashed out of the tree house.
"As the Remodeler who has been worshiped by the tribe for 170 seasons, of course, I'll walk towards destruction together with the Tusang tribe …" Then, a spiritual monster whose body was covered with rough bark stood up with a deep gaze and walked out of the tree house without looking at anyone.
Just like this, even though they knew that they would be killed if they returned to help, the remaining tribal headmen or guardian spiritual monsters of Scorpion Island still led the tribal warriors to welcome their tragic fate that had already become a foregone conclusion, either crazily or calmly.
Even though they had fallen into a desperate situation, these brave leaders and their unyielding subordinates still brought a lot of trouble to the Wizard Li expeditionary army that had gained the upper hand in the battle. After paying the sacrifice of nearly 50,000 people, the Wizard Li tribe finally grasped the entire Scorpion Island, the third largest island in the Hellfire Archipelago. The number of Zhang Lisheng's believers had reached an unprecedented 40 million people.
Unfortunately, it was difficult to make a breakthrough in the Witchcraft's Gate of Death when it reached the high rank. The young man, who initially thought that he would definitely make a breakthrough after the battle of unifying Scorpion Island, realized that he was still a step away from being promoted to Rank-11 Wizard from Rank-10 Wizard.
Such an accident, coupled with the nautical chart that was far more detailed than the route that the Wizard Li had explored from the extinct Daruket tribe, the young man's greed and ambition made him unable to stop his pace of conquest.
There were still nearly 900,000 people left in the expeditionary army of 1.5 million people. Even though the casualty rate was higher than the last time when the Wizard Li expanded, the remaining 60 islands with a total area of 1.2 million square kilometers in the sea area near Scorpion Island did not exceed 100,000 square kilometers. With the overwhelming military strength, there were still enough warriors for the conquest.
For this reason, when the battle of Scorpion Island had just ended, Zhang Lisheng was already planning which island in the nearby sea area he should annex first to open the prelude to the conquest of the archipelago.
After selecting the target, Zhang Lisheng understood that even though the Hellfire tribesmen were completely warlike 'war machines' compared to the Earthlings, the exhaustion that penetrated deep into their bones after a series of fierce battles was not something that could be overcome by willpower alone. If he really wanted to let the Wizard Li army embark on the expedition again, he would need at least more than ten days of rest. For this reason, Zhang Lisheng did not rashly go to war but quietly ordered the entire army to rest.
During the period when the expeditionary army was resting, the young man, who appeared to be one of the Shrimp World No. 2 explorers, could only carefully hide his identity and stay with the other explorers without showing any smugness.
Actually, with the faith of tens of millions of believers as his backing, he had the confidence to fight against any strong enemy in the Wizard Li territory. However, Someril, Alison, and the others had the two powerful civilizations of Atlantis and Earth behind them. Unless the truth was revealed as a last resort, Zhang Lisheng would naturally choose to feign ignorance with them.
On the morning of the third day after the battle of Scorpion Island ended, the sun rose and the bright sunlight shone down. Located above the Dragon Hawk Harbor at the tail of the giant scorpion, an oval airship that had expanded to a length of more than 1,000 meters and a width of more than 100 meters was slowly descending.
According to the specifications, this airship was four times larger than the largest airship that had ever appeared on Earth. The air sacs were woven from giant millispiders' silk that was unimaginably flexible and could never be ignited.
Below the air sacs, a rope that was also woven from giant millispiders' silk and more than ten unique tree fibers was firmly fastened to a fully-sealed pod that looked similar to a canoe but was several hundred times bigger. It was made of wood that was not heavy but was extremely tough and was made of the Hellfire Island's unique wood.
In front of a giant crystal window that seemed to be transparent on the ground floor of the double-decker pod that had an area of several thousand square meters, Zhang Lisheng looked down at the harbor that was getting bigger and bigger. Breathing a long sigh of relief, he smiled and said, "We've flown for a whole day and night and we've finally arrived at the Dragon Hawk Harbor, Lieutenant Alison."
"That's right, Dr., we've finally arrived." The beautiful black female officer beside the young man was not in a good mood. Looking at the military watch with complex functions on her wrist, she pondered and said, "The length of Scorpion Island from east to west is 6,200 kilometers. We've set off from the scorpion's head and used 25 hours to walk to the scorpion's tail.
In this case, according to the preliminary calculation, this giant airship that the Wizard Li tribesmen developed has a speed of more than 220 kilometers per hour. Its maximum load is estimated to be at least 250 tons, which is already equivalent to the load of ten B2 bombers … "
"Lieutenant Alison, you even know about airships?" Zhang Lisheng interrupted Alison's words in astonishment. "The federal intelligence officer is really knowledgeable. Even though I don't know about it, I still know that 220 kilometers per hour is considered a very high speed on the ground, but it's as slow as a tortoise for an aircraft flying in the sky.
Not to mention that the load of this airship is equivalent to ten bombers, even if it's equivalent to 100, 1,000, or 10,000 bombers, it still doesn't have any military value. Stop letting your imagination run wild.
Oh yeah, have you thought about whether you want to continue to follow the Wizard Li army when it goes out to battle next time? "
"I'm very conflicted, Doctor. For this reason, I plan to look at the value of those mainlanders before making a decision," Alison replied honestly. After getting along for a few months, even though the explorers of the Shrimp World No. 2 could not be said to have become friends with each other, their relationship had indeed become much closer.
At this time, the airship had already landed on the open space between the port and the indigenous city. A few minutes later, other than the two linguists, the remaining six Atlanteans and eight Earth explorers walked out of the pod.
Even though the conquest of Scorpion Island had just ended not long ago, the Dragon Hawk Harbor had already fallen into the hands of the Wizard Li for more than two months. The scenery here had long been filled with Wizard Li's style.
"This used to be a small fishing port, but now, it has become a magnificent port city. It's like magic!" In the warm spring weather, Harman shaded his eyes with his hand as he looked around at the endless harbor filled with steamships and the indigenous city built by the improved sturdy and wild giant bark houses. "I'm afraid even modern civilization would find it difficult to achieve this."
Upon hearing the CIA agent's admiration, Someril smiled and said, "Mr. Harman, there are hundreds of thousands of workers here who can work for 16 hours a day without any complaints.
There are tens of thousands of engineers who can drive their partners that are similar to modern construction machinery to carry out key work. It's not surprising that they can build such a big port in just two months. "
The instant the Atlantean woman's words left her mouth, several huge dragon hawks suddenly descended from the sky and landed in front of the explorers.
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