Chapter 737: 235. Quite reasonable, right?
Chapter 737: 235. Quite reasonable, right?
Sound travels quickly through water, and its attenuation rate is much lower than when it propagates through air.
In order to ensure that the sound wave attack from the mechanos would not injure himself or the magic yacht, Noland Lee adjusted the direction of the High Sound Array, making it emit at a 30-degree angle in front.
A faint knocking sound came from some part of the ship’s hull, contrasting sharply with the silent cabin.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
Noland looked towards where the sound came from; it was a sea monster tapping the yacht’s outer armor, trying to test the reality of the invisible object.
Finding an invisible object floating in the same spot where the Tide Spy disappeared was enough to make the sea monsters link the two.
Noland wrote a few lines in his diary and handed it to Hadley Grant:
“Drop these dozen or so metal balls I have overboard as quickly as possible.”
Hadley nodded and reached for the metal balls on the tabletop with his right hand.
His palm turned into transparent liquid, extending almost fifteen streams and wrapping around the metal balls.
Hadley walked into the control room and placed the metal balls into the ventilation ducts on the walls with his liquid palm.
Noland activated the ‘Mental Beacon’ placed on the sound wave puppets.
Fifteen sound wave puppets, corresponding to fifteen beacons.
In Noland’s perception, they passed through the ducts inside the hull, reached the external armor below the hull, and left the hull from the pipe exit there.
Noland didn’t intend to waste time with the seven sea monsters outside.
As long as he triggered Passive Deconstruction, he could find the intelligence he wanted from the opponents’ panel information and memory fragments, without the need to capture and interrogate them alive.
Noland activated all fifteen sound wave puppets at the same time.
The mechanos split open in the water, exposing the High Sound Array and the temporarily installed Water Flow Array inside.
With a short and rapid water flow push, the puppets rushed towards the stunned sea monsters, emitting a deafening noise before they could react.
“Beep—————-!”
Seven sea monsters were startled by the sudden noise, their bodies quivering uniformly,
Immediately after…
“Bang~”
“Bang~”
“Bang~”
A series of muffled sounds of flesh and blood bursting echoed as all the sea monsters were forced out of their invisibility status.
They appeared in the dark seawater, becoming headless corpses spewing blood and bone dust.
“Ya! Ya! (Wow! They’re all dead! The villains are all dead!)”
Vipa, whose perception of the underwater environment was the strongest among the three, immediately let out an exclamation.
Hadley Grant’s reaction was slightly slower, but he quickly detected the sudden departure of life from the water’s turbulence and deep sea magic power.
“Good, it’s done,” Noland nodded slowly and said to Hadley: “Let’s set sail, Hadley. We head for the Suman Archipelago tonight. We’ll rest after we leave this area.”
Hadley snapped back to his senses: “No problem, I’ll handle the sailing.”
Hadley put away his magic wand and briskly walked to the control room.
In the Magic Vision of ‘Life and Death Tracking,’ Noland glanced at the soul fragments over the sea monster corpses.
There weren’t many fragments, around 50 to 100 points for each corpse.
Considering the urgency of the situation and that his ‘Soul Absorption’ ability was unconventional, Noland suppressed the urge to collect the soul fragments.
About ten seconds later, a deep engine roar came from the middle deck.
The magical engine switched from a dormant state to an operational state, supplying water energy to the Water Jet Magic Array.
Once the magic yacht started moving, it emerged from its invisibility status and headed for the sea surface at an upward angle.
The hull surfaced, and the external armor covering the portholes retracted into the interstitial layer of the ship.
Noland saw the starry sky and the sea surface.
The magic yacht turned its direction and accelerated towards the northwest.
Vipa, looking hesitant in Noland’s room, cast occasional glances at the light red Array pattern on the back of Noland’s left hand, clearly curious about the metal balls that made sharp noises earlier.
“Yaya, yaya…yaya? (Strange…there was nothing unusual about the sound…but why could it kill the sea monsters?)”
Facing the curious baby-like pink merfolk, Noland mysteriously shook his hand and wrote:
“This is a Wizard’s secret.”
Vipa opened her mouth wide, “Yao…(Oh, I won’t ask then.)”
She shrank back into her seashell, which carried her away from the room and back into her guestroom.
Using ‘Life and Death Tracking’ and ‘Mental Vision,’ Noland checked the situation above and below the water and saw no more sea monsters appearing, then began to examine the details of the deconstruction results just now.
The Energy Point reward was negligible compared to his current energy reserve.
The panel information of Tide Hunter and Tide Spy was very similar.
Both were human Dread Sail Wizards.
These people were sea patrol wizards of the Charnel Family.
Because they had practiced the ‘Deep Sea Scales’ meditation method, they could switch freely between human and sea monster forms.
The difference was that the Tide Spy was better at infiltrating, while the Tide Hunter focused on tracking.
From the content of the meditation method Noland had learned, when the meditation method level reached 120, the sea monster form would undergo differentiation.
There were three differentiation directions.
One was to maintain the original form, the second was to become the Tide Spy, and the third was to become the Tide Hunter.
When the meditation reached a higher level, new differentiation routes should appear.