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Chapter 379 - Chapter 379 Chapter 379 Boarding the Ship and Intrusion

Chapter 379: Chapter 379: Boarding the Ship and Intrusion Chapter 379: Chapter 379: Boarding the Ship and Intrusion Water City Venice, a miraculous city created by humans, a place concentrated with countless wisdom and culture, a dazzling pearl on the canals. Here, there are opera houses created by geniuses… uh, that’s actually in Sydney, and the architectural wonder, the Eiffel Tower… uh, that’s in France, and the world-famous Parthenon Temple… cough, anyway, Venice is a freakin’ awesome place because if I could write these three words during my senior year, maybe I would have passed the general humanities exam…

“Wow! Ah Jun, there are canals everywhere here, how would they set up a Carrefour?”

No need to say, this spirited and unique way of thinking, undoubtedly came from our own Qianqian, venturing for the first time to such a peculiar overseas city like Venice, this girl was brimming with vitality as if she was pumped with Helium-3.

Compared to her, Little Pandora was much more behaved, the little one was busy comparing heights with Visca, each holding a lollipop. Do they really need to compete over their height?

“Girl, can you see anything?”

Having confirmed that the super energetic girl practicing her thirteen Italian words was utterly unreliable, I shifted my gaze to Lin Xue, the only functioning “mobile radar” in the absence of those from the Roman Orthodox proactively showing up.

Dressed in an elegant long gown, wearing a wide-brimmed white sun hat, walking leisurely along the streets next to the Venice Canals, she looked like an heiress occasionally stepping out to unwind, Lin Xue always cared about her image in front of others. Hearing my question, our noble Miss just blinked gently and leaned over, “There are energy fluctuations all over the place; I have already marked each one of them. If Silvia isn’t in their hands, three rounds from the Satellite Cannon would suffice to deal with this powerful warship created by the Roman Orthodox.”

This girl is full of sly ideas.

According to the information provided by Lola, the optimal time to launch the Adriatic Sea Queen had been pinpointed to four days from now. Considering the ancient relics’ maximum movement speed and range, the Roman Church would have to get the entire Queen’s Fleet into international waters by tonight or tomorrow night at the latest. Time was extremely tight, but that was not an issue. Xyrin people were quite adept at blitzkrieg; our real headache was ensuring Silvia’s safety–our enemies were ruthless, especially when dealing with “heretics.”

It’s ridiculous, in front of Lola, we identify ourselves as “Angels,” but to not upset the delicate balance of power in this world when dealing with the Roman Orthodox, us “Angels” have to appear as heretics. Even the Fox Woman could only look skyward and sigh about this.

This is why I dislike politics, if not for that I might have actually passed my humanities exam back in senior high…

Although our main purpose here was dealing with the monkeys of the Roman Orthodox, since we were in Venice, and Qianqian, an ever-restless spirit, was with us, our enemy reconnaissance inevitably turned into a proper sightseeing tour. And Qianqian made a particularly meaningful remark: “Academy City lacks any exotic charm, might as well wander Venice for a crossover to another realm experience!”

That’s when it hit me,we are actually in another realm…

Regrettably, because the research institute couldn’t be left completely unattended, and we also had to watch for movements from Academy City, Big Sister couldn’t join us. Now, besides Qianqian and Miss Lin, only Little Pandora and Visca, the two little ones, were with me–four girls, two children, and the other two acting like children. I might be called ‘daddy,’ but I’m really not good with kids; nearly got tormented to the point of jumping through dimensions during this journey.

Especially since Qianqian, this ever-immature buddy, was actually fighting over candies with Visca! I was about to turn around and dive headfirst into the nearest pond…

But there’s still some good news. Among the five of us, though four were absolutely directionless, we didn’t end up lost without a guide. Miss Lin, though I hate to admit it, truly granted me a pleasant surprise this time. This heiress of a billion-dollar fortune had traveled almost all over the world before she was sixteen due to studying abroad or simply being dumped by her dad to study abroad. Her knowledge of foreign history and culture was exasperating in its depth, and Italy was one of her previous stops. Along the way, Lin Xue, like a real Venetian, narrated to us about each meaningful building we passed; she guided us through each nearby landmark more thoroughly than a professional guide. Honestly, when the elegantly dignified and extraordinarily articulate Lin Xue spoke fluent Italian to ask a local police officer for directions, I really thought…

This girl is a transmigrator…

Cough cough, I mean, my impression of her changed.

“Speaking of which, girl, I didn’t expect you to have sane moments.”

Walking casually on the cobblestone path by the shore, I suddenly said this, then added with a sigh, “But why can’t you be nice to me for once…”

“You’re smiling at every passerby A.”

The other party fell silent for less than two seconds, then muttered, “Because you’re as wooden as they come, smiling at you wastes glucose!”

So, I completely gave up on Lin Xue changing her ways in front of me.

“Brother, brother!” With two continuous trademark calls, Visca gently tugged at the hem of my garment from behind, “Visca is bored!”

That’s true, for this little one, besides lollipops, human civilization has little else to offer, so having walked through the sights of the water city, she feels like she’s digested half a pound of sugar…

“Let’s take a gondola ride!”

Lin Xue immediately pointed at a distinctively Venetian spear-shaped boat that had just docked at a nearby small pier.

“The real Venice is on the water, you haven’t truly been to Water City Venice if you haven’t ridden in a gondola!”

Listen to the expert–heck, all this while I thought that little boat was a floating stall for buying groceries…

With Lin Xue, the Venetian expert, leading us, we, the endlessly energetic saviors, roamed nearly half the water city, even making a special trip to the Sigh Bridge, which was initially not on the tour route. As Lin Xue mentioned, the real Venice is on the water. Only by cruising along the crisscrossed, spider-web-like canals can one truly understand this world-renowned aquatic fun city, which even once intimidated the entire gargantuan Roman Orthodox Church, holding onto some of its former glory till now. On the light and swift gondola, Lin Xue passionately detailed for us each historically significant site we passed–ancient docks, the city’s main canals now buried under bridges, old churches now changed into big plazas–and all the while, the young Venetian who was steering was left astounded; after docking in the evening, the unfortunate lad tied up the boat and ran off to find his middle school history teacher for a remedial lesson…

Then, we all collectively sneered at Miss Lin–she had been flipping through her data archives making a racket all along!

“Alright, relaxed and energized,” on a small bridge under the sunset, Qianqian cheerfully loosened up her body, the day’s tour merely relaxed the superwoman herself, “Now, let’s get down to business, Ah Jun, we just have to take on their flagship, right?”

I gave this finally-focused crazy girl a look: “Do you think after you activate your powers, how many survivors there will be?”

And then Qianqian deflated.

In the course of touring this city, Lin Xue had used her super-strong biological radar and future-sight, unaffected by any distractions, to mark every magic unit within thousands of kilometers. The Queen’s Fleet’s more than one hundred warships were twinkling on our little map, that’s the advantage of having a perspective cheat. We could design each sneaky move while our enemies were busy with covert actions. Except for Silvia’s exact location which Lin Xue couldn’t observe yet, the Roman Orthodox’s every move here was under our surveillance.

Lola’s intelligence was quite accurate, the activities of the Roman Orthodox seemed to be scheduled for late tonight, because deep underneath the distant high seas, something massive had already begun to move.

And there we were, in an inconspicuous corner of the street, with our camouflage force field unfolded waiting for the night to fall.

As the evening gradually darkened, the tourists and locals around had long since vanished without a trace, and the faint noises from afar also finally died down. Venice’s nighttime was quieter than we expected, an aspect of this tourist-famous aquatic city totally contrary to this era–it was unforeseen, of course, perhaps the Roman Orthodox had employed some “trickery,” given that tonight they planned to launch an aircraft carrier fleet right under the noses of the Venetians…

Around 10:30 p.m., when Qianqian, already frantic to the point of nearly clutching my neck and taking a playful bite, those guys finally started to stir.

A certain large-scale energy field swept across Pandora’s radar, and then all the life responses in the vicinity dropped by two energy levels

“This is something that can greatly dull people’s perceptions and put them in a state of mental trance,” Alaya’s voice echoed in my mind, the angel had almost made my Spirit Sea her home these past few days, “Lord Brother! They’re coming!”

Just as Alaya’s voice fell, I too heard a strange commotion coming from the widest canal ahead.

“Crack crack…”

The sound of hard objects scraping grew louder, the calm surface of the canal violently churned, and then, a massive white warship broke through the water with tremendous momentum!

It was the classic model of a medieval sailing warship, but it was entirely made of ice, glittering and majestic like a mountainous ice sculpture, grand yet delicate, even every rivet, every knot of the rope was ice carved with the most lifelike details, it was as if a warship from the Middle Ages had been magically transformed into a huge block of ice, watching that enormous Ice Cold Warship sail past, I really had to say–Roman Orthodox has been this nuts since the Middle Ages…

You’re telling me you need so many rivets on a block of ice?! What the hell are you nailing, dammit!

“Wow~~” Qianqian whispered, leaning over, “Ah Jun, how do you think this thing was hidden under the canal? Magic is really interesting, hey, I want to learn too!”

I rolled my eyes, “Just leave a way for the mages to make a living, Big Sister Superwoman!”

When the Ice Battleship finally fully emerged from the water, Lin Xue immediately tugged at my sleeve, leaned over, and said, “Protect me later.”

“You’re not planning to go up there, are you? Even the radar station is moving to the front line?”

Lin Xue fell silent for a moment, then said, “I sometimes want to fight myself.”

“You with a combat ability of only 5 definitely can’t go,” I flatly refused, “Where have you seen a Prophet going into battle swinging a Brick! Just stay with Visca and don’t move around!”

Lin Xue paused and then muttered in a strange tone, “You’re concerned… uh, okay, let it go this time, I’ll maintain mental contact with you at all times, ensuring the perspective cheat is never disconnected.”

Was it my imagination, or did the girl blush just now?

“Visca, make sure you protect Lin Xue, be on standby at all times–don’t pout! I’ll buy you candy when we get back.”

And then my General was bribed by candy…

Under Pandora’s camouflage energy field, Qianqian and I followed the Ice Escort Ship with ease, and after it broke through the last stone bridge at the sea exit and entered the high seas, we landed safely on its deck without any incident.

Touching the crystal beside my hand, which had the texture of wood but was crystal clear, Qianqian showed a slightly surprised expression.

These things didn’t seem to be real ice.

Alaya, an expert in this field, immediately saw the secret of the Ice Battleship, “These are just water in the form of ice, using the magic power to add the attributes of ‘solidity, stability’ directly to the water, but ignoring the temperature difference, creating a crystal extremely similar to ice but with a temperature no different from ordinary river water. Therefore, this entire warship constantly requires the flow of magic power to maintain its form, the design is rough, but cleverly draws the necessary magic power from the ocean below, that’s how it hasn’t disintegrated.”

Magic is truly miraculous, trampling even the laws of physics–does that mean this ice ship stays intact because it’s constantly maintained by magic power, so that the “ice blocks” on it can keep their stable form?

In that case, any one of us could easily defeat this thing–though we don’t necessarily need to restrain ourselves to destroy it effortlessly.

Since the Roman Catholics have put Venice entirely “under hypnosis” using some magic technique, even such massive commotion hasn’t disturbed the city at all. The magnificent Ice Battleship, driven by magic power, quietly entered the estuary and then gradually moved away from the city’s port.

Shortly after, we felt even more energy fluctuations erupting around us. Thanks to Alaya’s introduction, we already knew that this was the special magic required to keep the Ice Battleships stable. Honestly, I was almost impulsively ready to completely obliterate this fleet in that moment!

On the small map Lin Xue sent us, the blinking red dots totaled over a hundred–more than a hundred huge battleships crafted from ice blocks emerged next to us, making for a truly spectacular scene!

It felt like scattering a handful of fish food into a fish pond…

“The largest battleship ahead should be the flagship of the Queen’s Fleet,” Qianqian said, gazing at the floating iceberg-like thing in the distance, shading her eyes with her hand, “Aside from its size, there doesn’t seem to be anything special about it.”

Do you think there would be a halo next to the flagship or a bubble stating “boss”?

While we were calculating how to approach the flagship more conveniently and quickly, a sudden burst of talking and the footsteps of about four or five people approached from behind. We immediately stood still, and several Roman Catholics in full priest robes, their faces completely covered by hoods, walked through the cabin door behind us.

However, due to the effect of the stealth force field, they were completely unaware of the intruders so close to them and continued chatting as they walked away.

“Ah Jun, Ah Jun,” Qianqian got excited again, “This really feels a bit like a stealth action game! It’s fun!”

… How can this girl’s attitude always be so unexpectedly calm?

After this routine patrol by the Roman Catholics left, we encountered several more patrols. Although the stealth force field protected us, repeatedly running into enemies still startled me every time. Without bug devices and just relying on me and Qianqian as rookies playing stealth games, even the Vatican would have known our actions by now…

“Damn, literary works are really bullshit,” I grumbled after parting ways with another group of Patrol Soldiers ABC, “How can the protagonists there not encounter any enemies within a hundred and ten meters?”

“They’re using cheats,” Lin Xue suddenly chimed in, “Wood, I have some not-so-good news for you, it seems I’ve detected another type of magic fluctuation approaching your side, and there are quite a few of them.”

“What?” I was shocked; more people coming to crash the fight?

Lin Xue sounded pretty frustrated: “Not enemies, but people who will annoy you–they’re about to show up; you’ll see for yourself.”

I felt it too–the peculiar energy fluctuation was approaching, apparently of a magical nature, but different from any of the magic factions we had encountered so far.

Before I could even start guessing, the water outside the ship’s hull splashed loudly, and then a nimble figure leaped onto the deck lightning-fast in the night and landed silently not far away.

A man, wearing a very baggy T-shirt and a pair of stylish casual pants, earrings, messy hair, a rebellious look in his eyes, and a copper-plated iron chain exposed around his neck, looked like the type you’d find handcuffed to a radiator at a street police station–well, we should say a delinquent here. This delinquent-looking man had jumped onto the deck of the Ice Battleship, carrying a bizarrely shaped weapon on his shoulder. The blade twisted and coiled on the hilt like uncontrolled flames.

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