Chapter 623 Flame Shield
On the sea, sharp noises appear frequently, which is the sound of heavy artillery shells breaking through the air. Shells dragged the flame wind, or shot flat or shot, chasing the Silver Hook across hundreds of meters of the sea. Every minute and second, the silver hook is always accompanied by the water column brought by the explosion. How could this poor pirate ship have experienced such a big battle? If it hadn't been for Franklin's hill-like figure given the sailors an incompetuable confidence, these ordinary pirates would have collapsed mentally and physically.
Although they are still able to run the boat now, everyone has no fighting spirit, and it is really difficult to say that they can't escape into the Whispers Strait.
W Whisperer Strait, with a total length of 2503 kilometers. During this period, there are many curves and the width of the water surface is limited, which can only accommodate the passage of a ship. And large ships like the Holy Indian Knights could not enter at all, otherwise the Pope's Hall would have dispatched these warships to bomb the roaring bay, and the pirates would not have survived until now.
If you can escape into the Whisperer Strait, you don't have to face such a net fishing attack, and you can also use the speed of curves and water flow to get rid of the Knights' warships. However, there is still a considerable distance from the Strait, otherwise the first officer would not recommend taking a rest on the nearby island. Because of the continuous rush, it is already night to get to the Whisperer Strait.
People who live at sea know that sailing at night is a dangerous thing, especially in the environment of the Whisperer's Strait. Complex curves will strand or even crash the ship at any time, so no one is willing to cross the strait at night if it is not necessary. It's just that they can't choose now, but the Knights bite very tightly. The warships lined up in the shape of geese array fired frequently, and shells fell on the Silver Hook. Franklin was trying his best to intercept, but he couldn't stand it alone. Gradually, the silver hook began to be shot. Fortunately, Franklin stopped the shells that fell to the mast or tail rudder and other important positions on the ship, otherwise the Silver Hook would have been sunk.
To Franklin's helplessness, the warships of the Holy Seal Knights always keep a certain distance from them. This distance is within the range of heavy artillery, and at the same time, it can't make Franklin forcibly board the ship and destroy it like last time. He can only defend passively. The Silver Hook is also equipped with gunpow firefighting guns, but it can't be compared with heavy guns in terms of range and power. It can be seen that the commander of the other side calculated all this and used the number of ships and the power of heavy artillery to drag Franklin's ship.
Following the heavy artillery, with the warship decks on both sides of the rear of the main ship, a griffin knight took up, and the armored forces of the Holy Seal Knights were also engaged in battle. Unlike the power armor of the Paladin, the Griffin Knight is not equipped with heavy weapons in order to have short-range flight capabilities. The griffin knight is generally equipped with light machine guns and miniature missiles. Light machine guns are often just a decoration. The real lethality of the griffin knight comes from a row of miniature missiles on the shoulders of the mecha, which are the real trump cards of the griffins knights.
Franklin also faced this second-generation mecha last time, but there were only four griffin knights at that time, but now there are more than 20!
The red energy light rolled in Franklin's eyes, and then two red high-energy beams shot straight out. First, a griffin knight was strangled, and then the light swept, creating four or five fireballs. But then, when the Griffin Knight was completely lift-off, Franklin's interception was not so easy. The griffin knight shuttled flexibly in the light.
The distance of hundreds of meters passed in an instant, and in this process, Franklin only shot down three or four more Griffin knights. The remaining ten flying armors have reached the sky above the Silver Hook, and the Griffin Knight's shoulder armor bounced off and raised a row of miniature missiles from the stomach. After locking the target, the miniature missile swung out, dragged out an extremely complicated smoke track in the air, dozens of missiles fired in unison, and suddenly fell like a kaleidoscope towards the silver hook.
Franklin shouted and grabbed his captain's throne. With a little force, he fixed the base on the deck with a wire and rose from the ground. Franklin threw the big chair directly out, which stopped more than a dozen miniature missiles in the front and turned into powder in the flames of the explosion. But many missiles have been fired. The giant gritted his steel teeth and squatted down to exert his strength. His whole body bounced up from the ship like a cannonball and faced the missile in mid-air.
He opened his whole body, grabbed or waved his hands, and abruptly stopped more than 20 miniature missiles. But seeing that fireballs kept exploding in mid-air, the explosive flames and shock waves shocked Franklin's bones that were about to fall off. But even if he uses himself as his shield, he still can't stop all the missiles. So the fish that leaked the net finally landed on the ship, and several fireballs immediately exploded on the silver hook.
For a while, the ship's navigation area on the left, the middle deck, and the rudder at the tail end were shot at the same time. In the flames of the explosion, sawdust flew everywhere, and several unlucky sailors either blew them to death or let the shock wave of the explosion fall into the water. Before the sailor who fell into the water could climb the boat, he dragged the fierce mutatic creatures underwater into the water. After a while, there was blood stains.
Franklin fell back on the ship, and the silver hook had stopped. A mast broke from the middle and slapped on the water with a sail. The pirate ship swayed left and right, the hull was damaged, and the cabin began to enter water, not far from sinking. However, the Holy Seal Knights still had no intention of stopping. Heavy artillery chased after them, and the giant had to intercept in vain, but could not stop the second destruction of the heavy artillery on the pirate ship.
A heavy cannon fell on the hull and was interrupted. In the sound of the explosion, a huge crack crossed the center of the hull of the Silver Hook. In the scream of first officer Jayne's fear, the silver hook split from both ends, and the front end of the hull immediately fell into the water because the bow decoration was too heavy, and several sailors were dropped.
Seeing this situation, Franklin can't help. He stood at the stern of the ship, but this part of the hull was gradually sinking. However, in the sky, the Griffin Knight still fired with a light machine gun. The bullets were not a great threat to Franklin, but they hit the hull with dense bullet holes to accelerate the infusion of seawater and make the ship sink faster.
Can we only get here? Franklin shouted in his heart, but he was unwilling. But he knew that even if he didn't want to, whether he fell into the sea or was captured back by the Holy Seal Knights, the ending would not make much difference. The former is buried in the belly of the fish, while the latter can only spend the rest of his life in the operating table and laboratory, which is even worse than death.
On the ship, Sine turned the ring in his hand and said to his adjutant, "It's time to invite our Mr. Beast to board the ship."
The adjutant nodded and roared at the flag bearer, "All move forward and surround the target!"
The flag bearer immediately conveyed the order through the movement of waving the flag and was leisurely waiting for the completion of the collection work, but at this time he felt awe-inspiring power emerging from the rear of the fleet. The power is rough, like a angular rock, with amazing oppression! The head of the delegation immediately jumped to the top of the ship, and suddenly people were shrouded in a huge shadow.
At the back of the fleet, a giant boat quietly appeared, which was several times the size of Sine's car. The head and tail are 100 meters long and 30 meters high, just like a small tanker. This giant boat is like a monster on the sea. It quietly turned out of an island behind the sea and bit the fleet of the Knights. The platoon guns on both sides of the giant ship have opened fire. This kind of artillery is not as powerful as heavy artillery, but it can fire at such a close distance, which also makes the warships of the Order scream bitterly. The griffin knights near the Silver Hook couldn't take care of Franklin. They turned around and flew back and attacked the sudden appearance of the giant.
On this huge boat, there are five tall masts, which are painted with a black turtle on the huge sail like a canopy. The tortoise shell is angular, the head expression is fierce, and the triangular eyes are awe-inspiring and murderous. Seeing this pattern, Sine's face became gloomy. He knows very well what this pattern represents in the archives of the Knights.
That is the symbol of the "Iron scale" one of the four pirate groups in the Roaring Bay. Since the Iron scale is here, how can its captain's "Shield of Fire" Dipola be different? Sure enough, after the pirate ship and the Knights' warship began to exchange fire, a burly man appeared on the deck on the right side of the ship. Dipola, the head of the Ironscale Pirates, has a Germanic ancestry, tall and ferocious and belligerent. It is an interdisciplinary ability of fire and fighting domain, and the weapon used is a tower shield covered with steel thorns.
As long as Dipola is willing, he can attach a layer of high-temperature flame to his tower shield so that the giant shield can attack and defend. In the hierarchy of the Pope's Hall, D'Pola and three other pirate leaders are dangerous figures second only to the three giants of the rebel army. Each of them has enough strength to match the head of the order, and he is a man who doesn't even want to provoke Sine easily.
"The lackeys in the Pope's Hall! Since you sent it to the door by yourself, I'm not polite. I'll accept your tooth sacrifice!" Divola roared loudly, and the sound resounded throughout the sea. With the power of galloping energy in the voice, some ordinary crew members fainted his voice on the warships closer to the Iron scales.
Dibola's hand hit the huge shield, and suddenly a bright orange flame entangled. The captain of the iron scale laughed and jumped high. Across the deck of the Iron scale, it hit a warship below with a mountain-like power like a meteor. In an instant, he collided with the warship, but the latter was damaged. The warship sank first, the waterline kept rising, and the sea almost flooded over the deck. Then he went up and clicked again, and it was hard to hit two pieces from Dibola from the interruption.
After destroying a ship in an instant, D'Pola flew out of the warship's cabin and fell to the deck of another warship. Many Holy Seal knights on the deck are ready for contact. As soon as they saw Dipola get on the ship, more than a dozen knights activated the energy shield and pulled out the high-frequency knife behind them and rushed to Dipola. They are also equipped with a Dragon Gun Type II machine gun, but the knights know that in the face of Dibola's opponents, the role of the machine gun is limited, and it is not as effective as high-frequency knife close attack.
More than a dozen knights drew knives and cut, and Dipoli was not afraid. The flame shield was set up to protect the whole body, and suddenly there was a dense crisp sound. More than a dozen high-frequency knives were cut on the flame shield. The knife wind made the flames dance wildly, but it could not leave even a trace on the huge shield that seemed to be made of rough iron. Dipola sneered, the huge shield swept across, and the sharp thorn on the shield was stuck in the knight's long knife. For a moment, they couldn't get out and were knocked out by the flame shield.
The force of this collision is at least ten tons. Although these knights have energy shields, they consume all their energy almost in an instant. The energy shield offset most of the power, but the knight who directly wiped the flame shield was stained with flames, and the body was twisted and deformed by the strange power of Dipola. When they fell, they had turned into corpses.
The cabin suddenly burst, and a Paladin mecha rushed out. The mecha lifted a rotating cannon, and the driver shot as soon as he locked D'Pola. The machine gun made a dull noise, and the bullets plowed all the way across the warship deck and bombarded Dyola. Dibola rolled flexibly. When it bounced up, the flame shield rotated and flew out, cutting the waist of the Paladin's mecha with a round of flame.
The knight in the driving compartment widened his eyes, and the picture in his eyes suddenly tilted, but the paladin's mecha was cut in half by the fire shield. A bright line of fire appeared at the cut, and then it exploded into a fire, blowing up the mecha to pieces, and the knight in the driving compartment was not spared.
After receiving the flame shield, Dipola inhaled and roared and hit the shield heavily on the deck. The warship shook, and several lines of fire spread around the warship with Dibola's feet as the center, followed by a fire curtain like a knife, and cut the warship into several pieces!
The warship cracked, and Dipola stood on the wreckage of one of the hulls. A long rope came to Dipola, and the captain caught it with one hand. When the long rope retracted, Dipola was pulled back to the iron scale. In a blink of an eye, two warships were destroyed by one person, and the pirates on the ship shouted and attacked other warships harder. Diborah looked provocatively at Signe, but the latter jumped back to the deck with a silent face.
At this time, the adjutant asked, "Mun commander, do you want to call out the Knights of the Round Table?"
The most powerful fighter armor in the Pope's Hall, and the round table knight, which can only be driven by commander-level figures, is now fixed in the cabin of the ship. Although the battlefield of the Knights of the Round Table is mainly on land, there is no power in the sea. But to the surprise of the adjutant, Signe shook his head and said, "No, let them go for the time being."
"Where's the beast?"
"Don't worry about him, let's go!" There was anger in Sine's tone, and the adjutant did not dare to delay any longer. He quickly told the flag bearer the order.
Looking at Dibola on the iron scale, Sine said in a voice that he could only hear: "Is this your so-called chess piece? Sauron!"
The head of the 3rd Regiment remembered that when he reported to Sauron that there was a conflict between the beast and two warships more than a month ago, Sauron said after thinking for a moment: "From the waterway of this beast, he is going to Roar Bay. Sine, stop him as much as you can. But remember, don't kill him. If you are blocked by other pirates during the interception, you can retreat!"
"Why?" At that time, Sine was puzzled.
Sauron said lightly, "This question is beyond your authority, commander. In a word, just do what I say, I'm on my own!"
Signe was not stupid. After careful deliberation, he came to a conclusion that surprised him. Sauron must have arranged his chess pieces among the pirates, and from the whereabouts of the beast, the giant clearly wanted to roar in the bay. But what is he going to do in Roaring Bay? Sine then thought that Roaring Bay was not only the four pirate regiments, but also the base camp of the rebels, Ista.
There must be some connection between the beast, roaring across the sea and Ista. At that time, Signe thought of other creatures of the last era that were still controlled by the Pope's Hall. After the beast escaped, the Pope's Hall has awakened other beasts. All this was suddenly linked, so Signe saw the outline of the whole incident.
The beast that went to Ista undoubtedly wanted to take back its compatriots with the power of the rebels. Sauron must have figured this out, so on the one hand, he arranged his own pursuit, and on the other hand, he ordered his chess pieces to rescue the beast. In other words, Sauron is going to take this opportunity to infiltrate Ista, because the Pope's Hall has disappeared and the rebels are also looking for beasts!
Then all this becomes logical. But Sine didn't expect that Sauron was a big deal. The chess pieces he arranged turned out to be the iron scales of one of the four pirate groups, the shield of flames Dipola!
Franklin looked at the sea, and there was smoke everywhere on the other side of the sea. At least five warships were sunk, and there were many damaged knights and mechas. This time, the knights came aggressively, but came back in confusion. After witnessing the ship and the remaining warship disappear on the sea level, Franklin was relieved and knew that he had finally saved his life.
As for the gray-headed and gray-faced pirate ship that hit the Knights, it began to drive in this direction. Franklin didn't have time to pay attention to it. He took this opportunity to fish Jayne and two other sailors from the sea. The first mate and the sailors were pale. Although they temporarily recovered their lives, Franklin knew that they would not live long because they were directly exposed to the sea.
Jayne and the others also seemed to know their fate, and they all looked silent. At this time, a huge shadow enveloped them, and a bold voice came from the deck of the giant boat: "Get on the boat! If you don't want to soak in water."
Seeing that his feet were about to be immersed in the sea, Franklin sighed, carried Jayne and the others on his shoulders, and then jumped on the rope ladder hanging from the iron scale. Franklin boarded the ship again, and the Silver Hook had completely sunk into the sea and disappeared.