novelraw Chapter 227: Blooming Bloodflower
Chapter 227: Blooming Bloodflower
On the Mermaid, bursts of sinister laughter echoed continuously, mingling with the howling storm like the wails of demons.
“Oh wow, oh wow! Look at how lucky we are!”
“Big Mom, I like Black Hunter, and I also like that outfit! I like him! I want to think about tasting what he’s like.”
“Big Mom! Big Mom, I want Mad Wolf! I heard his chest hair is especially thick!”
“I heard the Flower Witch can grow flowers on her body. I want to plant a blue morning glory on top of her head!”
On the Mermaid, numerous burly and strong female pirates shouted loudly, their eyes gleaming with hunger.
Desires of money, lust, and sadistic pleasure flashed in their gazes.
They had already received the signal!
Now, the Flower Witch, Black Hunter, and the treasures of the Witch Trial Grounds were all on the Dagger!
In other words, the Dagger was currently a huge treasure trove!It was precisely because of this treasure that the Hunter Crew, dormant for a long time, sailed into this battlefield!
“Are we going in?”
On the Mermaid, the blue-haired Siren gently shook her coffee and elegantly asked.
The Siren was especially delighted.
Including Carol, the female pirates on the Mermaid all stood over 1.8 meters tall, and 80% had rock-solid muscles like boulders.
Besides them, there were also many other wanted criminals with bounties exceeding tens of millions on the high seas.
The Mermaid could be considered the strongest among the strong in the current Rift Sea.
What a strange coincidence... Carol blew on her blood-stained pistol:
“Quiet! Staying alive is very important now. If the Blood Blade Pirates catch up to us, and then the navy shows up, I believe they’d rather team up to kill us first, then divide the spoils.”
“The Witch’s treasure, the Witch’s relics… Sigh, treasure is always tempting. Just one signal, and these navy forces dare to join our playground.”
Carol adjusted her pirate hat and looked toward the distant Dagger with the interest of admiring a beautiful flower:
“Siren, if we engage the Dagger here, how long can we hold out before being caught?”
The Siren stroked her long hair and quietly replied:
“One and a half minutes. At most, only one and a half minutes. If it exceeds that time, the Blood Blade Pirates’ hounds will arrive.
So, Big Mom, are we going in?”
On the Mermaid, everyone drew their big knives like starving wolves.
By order, they were not allowed to kill Chen Qi or the Flower Witch.
In other words, their best combat method was to get close to the Dagger and then jump ship, making the little guys on the Dagger feel fear—the kind of terror from being brutally tortured without any way to fight back!
“You don’t have to go!”
Carol took off her coat, revealing her fit, sun-kissed skin, eliciting admiration from the crowd.
Carol paid great attention to her figure; even compared to the Siren, her body was considered graceful and fiery.
However, as Carol tightened her muscles, that graceful feeling quickly gave way to a domineering presence.
Flickering black runes spread across Carol’s body, snake-like veins and muscles bulging on her back.
Her arms revealed a color like reforged steel.
Complex mechanical patterns, scorching steam, and furnace-red hues began to appear on her arms.
“One and a half minutes. I alone am enough to capture Black Hunter and the Flower Witch…”
Big Mom was ready to personally go in!
Everyone on the Mermaid swallowed hard.
On the vast sea, Carol hadn’t unleashed her terror in a long time.
No one spoke; they silently accepted the order.
“Max speed! Head straight for the Dagger!”
Then, amidst the storm, Carol channeled her qi and shouted toward the distant Dagger:
“Stand still!”
With immense qi, Carol’s voice boomed like thunder, cutting through layers of heavy rain and striking the people on the Dagger.
Her crimson eyes had already locked onto Chen Qi and the Flower Witch!
Carol was a heavyweight boss... Chen Qi asked:
“Mad Wolf, according to the latest news, shouldn’t the ships waiting for us here be from the Blood Blade Pirates?”
Chen Qi reactivated Ember’s Binding.
Mad Wolf Fenrir continued:
“I know. Black Hunter, the Blood Blade Pirates’ warship is sprinting here... We need to hold out at least one and a half minutes!”
Hold out one and a half minutes... Chen Qi spat a mouthful of blood mist.
Carol was mid-tier, one of the strongest bosses in the Rift Sea.
In the original main storyline of the Flower Witch, Fen was supposed to fight Big Mom Carol...
The final result was the Flower Witch barely withstood Carol’s attack and survived, but at the cost of 95% of the crew on the Flower Witch’s ship dying horribly!
Would I be one of those crew members? Chen Qi’s cells sent mixed signals of excitement and fear; now he too had become Carol’s prey.
The massive Mermaid’s hull shone polished under the rain, deck lights flickering in the darkness.
The Mermaid’s engine roared at full power like an enraged giant beast, emitting deafening howls as it cut through massive waves, charging straight at the Dagger!
Engine speed increased!
The Mermaid was a top-tier ship, boasting extremely powerful short-term burst speed.
Accompanied by thunderclaps and towering waves!
The Mermaid was four times the size of the Dagger; the small Dagger appeared pitiful, weak, and helpless in front of it.
Under the moonlight, the Mermaid’s huge shadow loomed like a giant mountain over the Dagger.
The Mermaid had already closed in on the Dagger; it only needed one simple leap for the monster crew to jump onto the Dagger.
On the deck, everyone looked up, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.
“Mad Wolf! Mad Wolf!”
“Hunter, save me!”
“What should we do...”
A terrifying aura pressed down on them, paralyzing their actions.
They were like ants on the ground facing an enormous foot about to stomp down—filled with fear but powerless.
On the Dagger, Mad Wolf Fenrir was the first to react, roaring:
“Mr. Hunter, Miss Witch! Take the lifeboats! Escape immediately!”
A fourth-tier legend was a brutal dimensional crushing blow for them!
In the pouring rain, a black figure leapt from the Mermaid and, with immense qi, slammed down heavily.
“Activate the shield!!”
On the Dagger, Mad Wolf screamed hoarsely.
“Boring!”
In midair, Carol’s qi rapidly condensed in her hand, her eyes flashing with bloodlust before her fist, burning with immense steam, slammed down hard!
Boom!
Like a mountain crushing down!
The steel-reinforced Dagger was slammed violently into the sea! The entire shield shattered like glass in an instant!
Chen Qi’s eyes widened.
The qi of a fourth-tier legend intertwined!
Combined with the forbidden equipment Titan’s Hand from a fourth-tier Hammer Master, and the mechanical affinity and mechanical enhancements of the Hammer Transcendent, plus countless resource infusions!
That single punch was enough to shatter the warship’s steel-hard shield.
As a Hammer Transcendent who also wielded qi-flow’s imposing presence... Chen Qi couldn’t help but feel that even knowing the Flower Witch had a short-term method to deal with Carol, his body still trembled uncontrollably when facing Carol in person.
Spiritual energy, qi, strength, speed, agility, reaction...
All those enormous differences together were like the gap between an elephant and an ant.
“Hahahahaha!! That warm-up punch was exhilarating!”
In the thick smoke, Carol stood at the bow of the Dagger, looking down on everyone:
“Black Hunter, Flower Witch, if you obediently follow the Blackfin Crew, someday in the future, you can become as strong as me, treating ironclad ships like dirt.”
“Only the Blackfin Crew can lead you to defeat those stubborn and brutal land nobles. Only the Blackfin Crew can let you feel the glory beyond legend!”
Carol adjusted her pirate hat and silently extended her hand to Chen Qi:
“Gentlemen, this is my last kindness.”
Chen Qi stepped back slightly, looking at the sea, weighing his next plan.
If it were on land, he had no way to escape Carol’s grasp.
But this was the sea! As long as he swam toward the deep sea, constantly moving deeper, he could to some extent hinder Carol’s pursuit.
For most Hammer Transcendents, the sea was a typical disadvantageous battlefield.
Carol was no exception; compared to other legends, her close combat ability on the sea was not strong.
However, this was the final plan, the plan without the Flower Witch... Chen Qi silently took out Flesh Cleaver Bone Breaker.
Mad Wolf Fenrir picked up his nearly two-meter-long greatsword:
“Get lost! Big Mom!! Even if I die, I won’t be your slave beneath your feet!”
With a boom, his qi surged violently through his body, billowing over his muscles like wolf fur in the wind.
“Qi Transformation! White Wolf Moon!”
Behind Mad Wolf, a five-meter-tall white wolf figure gradually appeared, stirring a fierce storm!
The flowing qi made the entire Dagger feel like it was in the eye of a hurricane!
“Slash!”
Mad Wolf roared, charging at Carol with the crescent-moon-shaped powerful spiritual energy.
Bang!
However, facing Mad Wolf’s slash, Carol only gently pinched the blade, which was at least ten centimeters thick, between her thumb and forefinger like holding a paper.
Carol lightly raised her head; her red wavy hair fluttered in the sea breeze:
“Puppy, what are you stirring up?”
“I...”
Mad Wolf Fenrir stared in disbelief.
He expected Big Mom to be stronger than him.
But he never imagined Big Mom was this much stronger!
A gunslinger specialized in ranged combat could so easily block his proud killing move.
At that moment, Carol’s figure suddenly flashed violently; she clenched her right fist like a bolt of lightning and smashed it fiercely toward Fenrir’s head.
Boom!
Without qi reinforcement, relying solely on pure strength, Fenrir was slammed deep into the steel deck pit.
The terrifying impact immediately caused numerous cracks and two twisted deformations on the deck.
Just one punch stopped the Dagger’s operation! Turning it into scrap iron adrift at sea!
“You motherfucker…”
Fenrir’s head was already crushed about a quarter, blood mixed with rain, staining the deck red.
With the captain’s collapse, the chaotic Dagger instantly fell into dead silence.
So brutal... Chen Qi frowned.
Big Mom Carol was a master of gunfighting techniques; even in close combat, she surpassed most third-tier Transcendents.
Suddenly, a bright red flower petal, carried by rain, landed on Chen Qi’s face.
“Qi, fall back, then stop thinking…”
The Flower Witch Fen silently stepped forward, dropping her staff.
Fen... Chen Qi quietly stepped back one pace.
Fen bit her left hand’s finger, then slowly stretched her right hand toward her face, grabbing the flower on her face and suddenly pulling hard.
The blood-stained flower stem was pulled out little by little from Fen’s face...
For those with Blood Blossom Disease, flowers were part of their life force.
And life force, in the cup and floral affinity school, could serve as fuel for Release techniques.
The Release fueled by life force could suppress legendary Transcendents for a short time.
This was also why the Flower Witch dared to walk on this sea.
“What is this???”
Carol blinked and tilted her head in curiosity.
The flower she pulled out gently floated away in the sea breeze, turning into petals dancing in the storm.
The Flower Witch softly chanted:
“Flower Release. Blooming Bloodflower.”
With the chant, flowers kept growing on the Flower Witch’s skin.
From white buds to white flowers, quickly turning blood red, then scattering as petals in the sea wind.
How many years of life... Chen Qi vaguely recalled that the Flower Witch’s Release technique not only consumed massive life force but also caused body weakness.
Fen kept pulling flowers from her skin.
With raindrops and sea breeze, bright red petals fell onto Carol’s face.
“Wait…”
Carol silently blinked.
Unconsciously, she was already standing in a storm of red petals!!!
“My senses…”
Carol suddenly realized, she did not dodge, and her senses were fading.
Even Release techniques had absolute rank suppression!
To Carol, the Release of third-tier Transcendents was at best a slightly stronger skill!
But now, she was unable to move. When touched by the flowers, indescribable pain pierced her skin!
Something was wrong! This was not an ordinary Release!!
Steam Engine! Hammer!
Carol’s right arm spewed scorching steam, opened like a claw, and lunged fiercely at Fen!
“Come here, little witch!”
“Who allowed you to play tricks?”
Carol grabbed Fen’s head and violently pulled it toward herself.
However, in the next moment, Fen in Carol’s hand turned into petals—bright red petals...
What!!
Illusion, a mental domain... Carol immediately drew a mental syringe and injected it into herself.
But the moment the needle pierced her skin, blood surged out, and a bright red flower bloomed on her skin.
Then, her skin quickly darkened, withered, and finally turned to earth!
Flowers growing from wounds, life force loss... Carol froze. Her confident eyes finally showed a trace of fear.
She felt her life permanently slipping away...
Illusion! Mental suppression! Plus flowers on wounds!!!
This was definitely not an ordinary Release!
The Witch’s Release... Carol’s eyes shifted from mockery to fury, and her gaze abruptly turned from Fen to Chen Qi!
Since she couldn’t catch Fen, she would catch Black Hunter first!
This was Blooming Bloodflower, the Witch’s Release technique... Chen Qi stretched out his hand, feeling the flowers in the wind.
At that moment, Fen silently appeared among the petals beside Chen Qi:
“Qi, I, I... only have ten seconds left, ten seconds... You must leave within ten seconds...”
Ten seconds? Leave?
With low growls from the monsters beneath their feet and the horn sounds of the Blood Blade Pirates in the distance...
Chen Qi raised his head, looked at the confused Carol ahead, and smiled slightly:
“Ten seconds is enough time for us to return victorious.”