◈ 417. [STAGE 20] Ghost Fleet (2)
Most of the combat power of the ghost pirate corps comes from the ghost ship.
These cursed pirate ships, which can go anywhere as long as there is seawater, have both nimble maneuverability and ferocious destructive power.
In particular, the destructive power of the charging tactic, the so-called Chungkak (衝角), is incomprehensible.
More than 10 ghost ships rush in at once at a terrifying speed and crash into any defense line, breaking through and collapsing.
Neither warships on the sea nor fortresses on land can withstand either.
Corps Commander Bernard Fokker’s special skill [Stormy Sea] can make seawater rain from the sky.
By rushing the ghost ship over the sea, it collapses the enemy defense line.
Release ghost pirates and sea monsters through the collapsed gap to slaughter the enemies.
This is the basic tactic of the Ghost Pirate Corps.
… So how do you break this tactic?
The best course of action is, of course, to stop the ghost ship. Blocking their ships from afar so that they can’t even approach our defense line.
But blocking the ghost ships like this is not usually difficult.
Since the ghost ship itself was judged as a super-large monster, shallow defense facilities such as barricades and fences could be crushed and entered.
However, if it can be prevented with a human body, that is of course impossible.
After all, you need a wall to stop their advance.
So, there were two main strategies I used to deal with them in the game.
‘first. Sacrificing an outpost.’
If you hit them at the forward base, they will break through the wall of the forward base with a ghost ship and try hand-to-hand combat.
Here, step by step, getting rid of their hand-to-hand combat troops and burning the ghost ships one by one.
Most of the walls of the forward base were destroyed and in fact were in ruins, but it was a method that was mainly used because it was better than the collapse of the walls of the crossroads anyway.
However, the current outpost is in a mess because I haven’t been paid properly for half a year without me. It’s too risky to fight a defensive battle here.
Also, the destructive power of hand-to-hand combat by the ghost pirates is by no means low.
If you hit super-specialized guys from all sides in a melee, the damage on this side will also increase like a snowball.
That’s why I didn’t adopt a plan to hit them at the outpost.
‘second. Getting on the ships of the advancing guys and killing them.’
It was a strategy to select a character with characteristics such as flight or assault among allies and drop them on their ships.
When you get on their ghost ship, a ‘occupation war’ situation occurs, and if you occupy the key of the ship for a certain period of time, you can take away control of the ghost ship.
So, let them crash into the enemy’s ship, deliberately move it to rough terrain and run it aground… … It is a guerrilla tactic.
However, this method also has a lot of problems, and first of all, the stomach is no different from the belly of the guys.
Ghost pirates who enjoy hand-to-hand combat are teeming with them, and various marine monsters are waiting with their mouths open.
I have to put in a small number of people to organize the deck and steal the key… … It’s already difficult even with just words.
Moreover, it is very difficult to escape after running aground or running into each other.
In the game, I used to throw in the feeling of scratching the lottery, mainly hero characters in the 3rd and 4th groups or low-level new characters that are not often used even though they have flight characteristics.
And in nine cases out of ten they either fail or succeed and die with the ship.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been in the middle of a long time, so what is the tactic I chose this time… … Simple.
‘A ghost ship can move forward only when there is sea water.’
to put it the other way around.
‘If only seawater can be removed, they cannot advance.’
So, this is the tactic I prepared for the past week.
“It is the gin of drainage!”
It is not a drainage that carries water behind it, but a drainage that draws out stagnant water!
What the workers and soldiers painstakingly set up in the plains to the south of here were not fences, barricades, traps, or defenses… It was the drainage system.
when was it Was it the first time you used a public bath in this city?
There was something Lucas proudly said.
– Isn’t it the pride of the empire? After experiencing a lot of water shortages in the original body, I was able to use water resources. It’s the best in the whole world.
Lucas was proud.
The empire had all the technology needed to bring in and withdraw water.
Well, you can operate a bathhouse of that size, but the drainage technology is of course excellent.
Thanks to this, it was possible to install sufficient drainage facilities in the southern plains, albeit on a temporary basis, during the construction period of about a week.
One of the drainage facilities even made a device that teleports and discharges the water sucked into the black lake by applying a teleport gate.
No matter how much the enemy commander poured down rain showers from the sky with special skills like [Stormy Sea], all of it would be treated as sewage before the water collected on the floor through a large-scale drainage facility.
‘It’s not just this!’
I looked up at the sky.
In one sky, sea water is pouring with the effect of [Stormy Sea], but the sun is shining brightly in the middle sky.
This is the effect of [Goddess Blessing] that I activated during this stage.
Goddess Blessing – ‘Good Day in the Sunlight’.
It’s a literal effect. During the daytime today, the weather will be sunny without a single cloud.
The scorching sun in the early autumn of the southern region beats down all day long.
Not only does it reduce the effect of [Stormy Sea], which requires dark clouds to form, but the sun’s rays become so hot that the water on the floor evaporates quickly.
Is that all? Basically, intense sunlight is no different from a debuff to specters and ghosts.
There are few counters as good as sunny weather for these ghost pirates who invade during the day instead of at night.
‘Here again! It’s not just this!’
It’s a series of lines that seem like a lively informative introduction to some restaurant’s secrets, but anyway, the preparations aren’t over yet!
“Huh-!”
On top of the castle wall, Junior held out his wand with a spirit, and following her movements, the young wizards gathered their mana and raised the tips of their wands.
Hwaaak!
Then a strong wind blew away the pouring water droplets.
In this camp, there are wizards who can control the properties of wind and water.
It generates wind to evaporate raindrops, and nonetheless collects raindrops that try to advance by controlling the water attribute to retreat.
Even magically, it was to block the advance of the ‘seawater’.
The gust radiation artifact used in Stage 4 also assisted in this re-release after a long time.
Drainage facility solar attribute magic.
A triple filter prevented seawater from entering, and as a result, rainwater did not fill the southern plains at all.
What if there is no seawater at the bottom?
Kugung… … ! Kugu Palace!
The ghost ship cannot advance.
Our measures against the rainy season were meticulous, and in the end, all twelve of the eerie turquoise pirate ships had to stop in the southern plains.
And the stopped ghost ship
shouted, “Shoot! Let them all sink from the face of the earth!”
Kwakwang! Kwakwagwagwang!
This is a good prey for crossfire!
On the rotten and twisted hulls of the ghost ships, our side’s artillery fire exploded.
The ghost pirates swept away by the explosion could clearly be seen screaming and dying.
“Shoot! shoot! shoot! Spare, shoot! Until the gun barrel melts! Until all the ghosts reach Buddhahood! Shoot-!”
Unexpectedly, there is an interesting story among the records in the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty.
In the 17th year of King Seongjong’s reign (1486), rumors spread that a ghost was possessed in the house of a person named Jeong Chang-son, who had resigned from Yeonguijeong.
Then, the servants told King Seongjong
– Please defeat it with cannons.
In order to catch a ghost with strong yin energy with yang energy, he made a hot proposal to shoot a cannon at the former Young Ui-jeong’s house.
It was an unprecedented event because King Seongjong rejected it, but it seems to be a historical record that cannons were mobilized as one of the yangjin (禳鎭) to defeat ghosts in the Joseon Dynasty.
It’s a long story, but I’ll say it again.
“Cannons are said to have an instant effect on catching ghosts! This is a method that has been proven since the Joseon Dynasty!”
This is a very clever way!
A flower of fire bloomed beautifully on top of the immobilized ghost ship. The ghost ships let out bizarre cries and received the baptism of firepower from this side intact.
If it had been an ordinary ship, it would have been destroyed long ago with not even a drop of powder left.
But they are cursed ghost ships.
Aaaaaaaaa!
Kaaaaaagh!
The ghosts surrounding the ship scrambled to block and oxidize the shells instead, and the sea monsters also reduced the power of the explosion by using giant tentacle legs or sturdy carapaces.
Even though our crossroads were hit with crossfire several times, the ghost ships were enduring. I clicked my tongue in annoyance.
“They’re quite strong, these bastards… !”
“Lord.”
Then Lucas spoke cautiously to me.
“I report you. It is said that more water pours from the sky than the drainage system handles.”
“… !”
“We’re getting it right now, but at this rate, eventually the drainage system will be full and they’ll re-attack.”
I glanced at the open gate with the effect of [stormy sea] in the sky.
This side is also using a teleport gate to get the water out. It seems that the amount of seawater pumped from the gate over there is greater.
In any case, the game must be decided until the point at which the capacity of the drainage system reaches its limit.
“After all, it’s time attack again… !”
“Lord.”
Lucas gave me a faint smile as I gritted my teeth.
“How about executing the second stage operation one beat faster?”
“Hoo… .”
I glanced at Lucas.
“Are you confident?”
“of course. Just give me orders.”
Lucas lightly tapped the [sword given to him] that was worn around his waist.
“It was a car that made my body itchy.”
“good… .”
I rubbed my hands and smiled. and said
“Use the 2nd stage operation ‘Operation Dropship’ one beat faster!”
***
《Daejaaaaang! How long are you going to be
beaten up !
A subordinate pirate shouted at the captain.
“You should at least respond! Are you going to be beaten like an idiot?!”
《… .》
The corps commander, Bernard Fokker, was silently blowing a bottle.
Even though shells fell all over the place and the boat caught fire, there was a commotion, but he kept drinking. The pirate’s subordinate, whose costume had burst, tore off his head.
“If we do this, we will all die! Why are you staying still!”
“Shut up and wait.”
Poker calmly swallowed his drink and looked up at the seawater pouring from the sky.
“The sea is infinite. No matter what they do, they will eventually pave the way for us… … Wait for the right
wave to come
. ”
“Leader! Report! Ship number 1, ship number 12 has declared a mutiny! I can’t listen to
the boss anymore!” … What did you say when you didn’t listen to me?” “You’re saying
you can’t live without being beaten like this, so you’re going to fire back at the royal wall with our cannon?”
“Good. Let’s all take a look at how good that response is.
” … !
At the same time, ships number 1 and ship 12, located at both ends of the fleet, slowly turned the ship’s body.
Soon after, the two ghost ships turned the ship’s direction 90 degrees, aligned the cannons located on the side of the ship, aimed at the crossroads side of the castle, and fired.
Pop! Pop!
The cannonballs fired from the two ghost ships drew a parabolic arc and flew into the walls of the Crossroads.
The two subordinate pirates, who moved their heads along the parabola, shouted at the same time.
《Right-?!》
