"Bang~~~~~"
Suddenly, a slight tremor spread through the vessel, and the previously relaxed group immediately became vigilant, causing the air around them to solidify!
"What's going on?" Ai Jiangtu asked.
"The ship scraped something, lost a bit of paint, but it's not a big deal. Fortunately, the ship veered to the side, otherwise, the magical ship's bottom would have hit the sharp rocks," another pilot reported hastily after checking the situation.
Inside the cockpit, the pilot in the white uniform looked at Liu Meng with some surprise, re-examining the young fisherman from head to toe, and asked, "Young man, you're good. How did you know there were Dead Cone Bamboo Reefs ahead?"
If not for Liu Meng's warning earlier, this massive magical ship would have likely crashed. Once the magical ship was damaged, let alone eliminating the fiends, everyone on board would have been in grave danger.
Liu Meng had dropped out of school early, so it was difficult for him to explain the reef in detail. In fact, he made his judgments based on the movement of the seawater, the reflection of the sunlight, and his personal experience. This was a necessary skill for every fisherman, and he was more familiar with this sea area than anyone else.
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"We are quite far from land now. There are many desolate islands nearby, most only a few thousand square meters in size. After passing the two desolate islands ahead, we should be able to see our target!" Ai Jiangtu, indeed, came from a military academy, unlike the other relaxed and slow-paced team members. He and Nan Jue were almost constantly considering how to deal with the sea fiends.
According to the mission description, a sea fiend tribe resided here. Currently, no one knew each other's strength, nor whether they could deal with a tribe of fiends.
"Then we'll set up camp there. After deploying everything, we'll consider whether to release the Fiend Gathering Device!" Nan Jue said.
"Using the Fiend Gathering Device is not appropriate. We are not sure how many sea fiends there are. If there are thousands, we will be surrounded and killed!" Ai Jiangtu directly rejected the plan.
The purpose of the Fiend Gathering Device was simple: it was similar to an elemental detector. Once placed on the ground, it would quickly emit energy fluctuations, attracting most of the fiends within a certain radius.
Ai Jiangtu was indeed from the military; the Fiend Gathering Device was equipment only the military possessed!
Ai Jiangtu continued, "Since it's a tribe, let's not do something so risky. If a Commander-level appears, someone here will die!"
As the captain, Ai Jiangtu naturally wouldn't let everyone take extreme risks. Everyone listened to Ai Jiangtu's idea and had no objections.
They soon arrived at Rock Island. Everyone disembarked. Rock Island, as its name suggested, had nothing but rocks.
The entire island was quite spacious; a normal person could walk around it in at most one or two hours!
There were also many miscellaneous items on Rock Island: tattered tents, torn clothes, medicine boxes, and the like. These must have been left by the previous team that came to eliminate the fiends.
Jiang Yu observed very carefully and quickly found a mark on a rock, saying, "Look at this claw mark. The claws of this sea fiend must be at least this long!"
"Can you determine what kind of sea fiend it is?" Ai Jiangtu asked.
"Three claws, reddish. This kind of sea fiend is actually quite rare; at least it won't be in our fiend books, but I guess it should be a Crimson Ling Fiend!" Jiang Yu said with certainty.
Mu Tingying, with her brown hair, said, "We really haven't heard of this Crimson Ling Fiend. Before we fight them, we'd best figure out what abilities they possess and what deadly methods their higher forms have!"
Although Mu Tingying was a jealous woman, she still had some brains.
"To be honest, the specific abilities of this kind of sea fiend can only be found in the mission data. In short, one thing can be confirmed: they are not highly venomous, but their claws are quite sharp..." Jiang Yu explained.
After some analysis, everyone gained a general understanding of the Crimson Ling Fiend.
Just then, a small reddish fiend suddenly jumped out, accompanied by a reddish fiend three or four meters tall standing on a rock.
This creature had a pair of powerful, massive feet, and strangely shaped, sharp-looking annular fins on its waist. Its forelimbs were slender and long, and its three claws were as sharp and terrifying as three daggers with barbs!
Jiang Yu was also momentarily stunned. He was just about to describe it when an adult one appeared, and he hastily corrected himself, "That... that one standing up there is an adult!"
"Na na~~~~~"
The small Crimson Ling Fiend, surrounded by everyone, immediately cried out when it saw the large Crimson Ling Fiend, clearly calling for help.
Soon, more than a dozen figures appeared one after another from behind the tall rock, lining up in a row...
They were tall and strong, completely reddish, with their annular fins pulsating. Their half-protruding eyes stared down intently at this group of invaders!
The large Crimson Ling Fiend's waist fins began to pulsate, and it opened its fish-shaped mouth, then immediately began to attack the group.
"Their aura is strong!" Nan Jue said with a frown.
Anyone here encountering a dozen Servant-level creatures could solve most of them with just one spell, without needing to fear anything at all.
However... the Crimson Ling Fiend was not as simple as a Servant-level creature; adult Crimson Ling Fiends possessed War General Level strength.
Liu Meng was just an ordinary fisherman; he had never seen a true sea fiend. No matter how monstrous the villagers described the sea fiends, it was nothing compared to a row of these monsters standing before you.
War General Level fiends were inherently powerful, with extreme lethality to ordinary people. Liu Meng was already sitting on the ground, drenched in cold sweat from fear.
Lin Chen calmly watched all of this, with no intention of making a move, because Gong Yu, who wanted to show off, had already acted. Ever since the National Government Team assembled, Lin Chen had vaguely sensed some people's hostility, which ultimately stemmed from envy.
Lin Chen's relationship with Mu Ningxue and Jiang Shaoxu was almost public; they were virtually inseparable when out and about.
At Imperial Capital Academy, Mu Ningxue had many suitors, but such a goddess had fallen in love with a scumbag, which made those admirers unwilling to accept it.
Gong Yu was one of them. Lin Chen was purely an innocent bystander, of course, Lin Chen was not innocent at all, who made him a scumbag?
As Gong Yu made her move, everyone else also displayed their abilities, dealing with these War General Level sea fiends.
For ordinary Intermediate Mages, War General Level fiends might be deadly, but for these selected National Government Team members, facing these War General Level sea fiends was merely an appetizer.
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