novelraw Chapter 361: Domain Expansion — Queen of Gunfire!
Chapter 361: Domain Expansion — Queen of Gunfire!
Boom!
"Ghost Ship?"
Palu's pupils contracted sharply.
Amidst the massive black lightning, the Ghost Ship pierced through like a sharp sword in raging waves, crashing directly into the colossal body of the Black Sea Mammoth.
In that moment, ice shards flew everywhere as the Black Sea Mammoth let out a piercing, mournful cry that echoed across the entire ice plain!
The enormous creature lost its balance from the impact, staggering several steps before collapsing heavily, shattering the surrounding ice layer and sending massive ice blocks flying!
Everyone retreated from the tremendous shockwave—whether Carol, the Azure Beast, or the Ice Demon Pirates—all were forced back hundreds of steps by the massive impact!
Only the Black Death Doctor, positioned high on a giant rock near the Witch's Coffin, remained completely unscathed, avoiding this shock entirely.
"This ship? It's the Black Hunter's new vessel, have they finally arrived?"
"This old man has been waiting for them at last."The Black Death Doctor stood at the high point, closing the book in his hand, his eyes flashing with indescribable excitement.
In this battle, although the Blackfin Crew and the Azure Beast had reached cooperation, there remained irreconcilable conflicts between them.
Both wanted the Ice Witch, wanted the countless treasures within the Witch's Coffin.
But their approaches were completely different.
The most critical point of divergence was that the Blackfin Crew advocated capturing the Black Hunter and the Witch alive.
Both Little Crow, who had been captured by the Black Hunter, and the Black Hunter himself were absolutely crucial.
Whereas in the Azure Beast's eyes, these two were merely powerful figures of this era, legends of this age.
But that was all they were.
Their lives and deaths didn't matter.
In the Azure Beast's view, those worthy of being killed by him should feel honored.
The Black Hunter's situation is quite troublesome... The Black Death Doctor sighed deeply.
Using ships to block pursuing giant beasts was a legendary tale of countless heroes in the Witch Sea.
But the Black Hunter's maneuver was like an egg striking a rock.
The Black Sea Mammoth was not a creature that could be defeated by a mere thirty-meter medium-sized ship!
The Black Sea Mammoth was the perfect experimental subject, created not only using Great Whale blood but also Titan potions from the Goldenfinch Kingdom's A-rank rift Titan world. It could be said to be one of the Blackfin Crew's most powerful trump cards.
Whether cannonballs or warships, before the mountain-like robust Black Sea Mammoth, they were nothing but fragile bubbles!
It was precisely by relying on the Black Sea Mammoth that the Blackfin Crew could advance irresistibly, bringing numerous islands of the Witch Sea under their control.
"But why hasn't the Black Sea Mammoth gotten up yet?"
"Black Sea Mammoth..."
"Black Sea Mammoth?"
The Black Death Doctor tightened his grip on the book, softly calling for the Black Sea Mammoth.
As the dust settled and the massive sounds gradually ceased, the Black Sea Mammoth lay on the ice plain, scalding black-brown blood continuously flowing from its three-meter-thick skin.
The blood stained this land crimson.
An extremely bold thought emerged in the Black Death Doctor's mind:
The Black Sea Mammoth seemed to have been killed by the Ghost Ship's collision...
Only then did the Black Death Doctor notice that although the overall color scheme hadn't changed much, the Black Hunter's Ghost Ship exuded an extremely eerie feeling.
The Ghost Ship was enveloped in ghostly green light, like a phantom vessel emerging from the abyss, without sails or oars, yet capable of racing across the mirror-like frozen sea at speeds defying reason.
Moreover, most crucially, after the collision, the green flames on the ship's body hadn't weakened but instead burned more fiercely.
In that instant, everyone—the Blackfin Crew members, the Ice Demon Pirates, and the Azure Beast who had been knocked into the Witch's Coffin—fell into brief silence.
Everyone unanimously chose to remain quiet.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
Amidst steady footsteps, a man wearing a captain's hat and heavy black hunter clothing stepped across the deck, passing through the raging green flames, looking down upon the combatants present.
On his shoulder sat a water spirit burning with green fire, scanning everyone present with a fierce gaze.
Chen Qi lightly flicked his fingers, igniting the lantern in his hand:
"Good afternoon, everyone. Sorry about the ship—couldn't brake in time."
"Black Hunter! What do you think you're doing?"
Carol roared furiously.
Chen Qi silently scanned the battlefield before him.
Palu was uninjured, the Ice Demon Pirates were extremely weakened, the Azure Beast had minor injuries, and the Blackfin Crew's Black Sea Mammoth had actually managed to reach here...
Was it the effect of black whale blood? Chen Qi's lantern swayed in the wind.
Normally, creatures with low intelligence were highly susceptible to the Great Sea Coffin's influence in this area, easily becoming mutated.
As the famously renowned 'panacea', black whale blood could immunize against things beyond even pharmacists' imaginations.
And beneath the ice surface, Chen Qi could clearly sense there was more than one 'Black Sea Mammoth'.
Indeed, the Blackfin Crew's preparations this time exceeded his expectations!
Chen Qi stood amidst the raging green flames and said:
"Everyone, come on then. Let me see if the legendary Azure Beast and the Black Death Doctor's mammoth project are as powerful as the stories claim?"
The Black Death Doctor fell silent for a moment.
Meanwhile, the Azure Beast tilted its head, cautiously examining Chen Qi's ship.
Palu finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart:
"Arrived just in time."
Carol fell into brief silence.
The Black Hunter's eyes didn't even acknowledge her, even though she was dressed beautifully and had been the first to speak to him.
Chen Qi had actually ignored her completely!
Whoosh!
Carol accelerated instantly, appearing right in front of Chen Qi.
Crack! Crack!
Carol's red hair fluttered in the aftermath of the shockwaves:
"Black Hunter, let's have a pirate duel!"
"A duel?"
A flicker of confusion passed through Chen Qi's eyes.
He hadn't expected Carol to be the first one challenging him to fight.
Carol hadn't forgotten the humiliation the Black Hunter and the Witch had caused her.
She had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and now, this battle destined to be remembered in newspapers was undoubtedly the best chance to restore her dignity.
Then, Carol raised her head, a sinister gleam flashing in her eyes:
"Don't worry, I won't kill you. However, I'll lock you in the darkest room, then let you experience the feeling of hot wax poured all over your body, being trampled by high heels! You little dog!"
"As for Miss Witch, she'll be pounding on thick glass, crying tears as she watches me humiliate you to my heart's content..."
"And this scene will be featured in newspapers for everyone to see!"
"..."
What is she talking about? Chen Qi's eyelid twitched uncontrollably as he tried his best to remain calm.
What is Big Mom saying? There are so many people here! On the ship, Little Crow imagined that scene and her face burned bright red.
Though exaggerated, Big Mom wasn't lying.
All men defeated by Big Mom met terrible fates. Even if they acted like obedient kittens, trying everything to please her, they'd eventually be discarded like trash.
Tyrannical, toying with men, the Gunfire Queen—this was the pirate general.
Most abandoned men would end up like Captain Blackeye, developing lifelong fear of tall women!
And in the Witch Sea, there were hundreds of such handsome men.
Meanwhile, Fen's focus was rather peculiar.
Why would Big Mom Carol say "your little witch"?
Could it be that in the eyes of others across the sea, she and the Black Hunter already had that kind of relationship? What would her teacher think if they heard?
Fen hugged her chilled body, unable to stop her mind from wandering.
In a dark corner, the Tentacle Merchant turned her head, looking at Carol with great interest.
"Fen, give me the potion."
Chen Qi interrupted everyone's wandering thoughts, extending his hand.
"Okay."
Fen handed a tube of Frenzied Blood potion to Chen Qi.
Chen Qi opened his mouth and drank the potion.
Carol didn't hesitate either, her spiritual energy field erupting dramatically!
Furnace Body Forging Technique!
Hammer Spiritual Core!
Carol's spiritual energy and body continuously emitted wave after wave of immense heat!
Even on the ice plain, everyone could feel that massive spiritual energy field.
Everyone present gasped in shock, their minds going blank.
This spiritual energy field wasn't mere intimidation—it was the precursor to a 'domain'!
Although newspapers had many introductions about domains, most people had only witnessed Palu's D20 domain!
Whether one mastered a domain was the most important dividing line between legends!
Once Carol's domain was unleashed, the Black Hunter and the Witch could only endure Big Mom's humiliation.
"Carol has finally completed that move..."
Palu couldn't help but show a flicker of concern.
Carol had high talent;
the reason she hadn't mastered a domain before the tides was because her spiritual core hadn't undergone sublimation.
But now, Carol was completely transformed from before.
Once her domain unfolded, it could cause devastating damage across ten thousand meters of land!
Even the deep-sea titan probably couldn't withstand her attacks!
Carol hummed a pirate tune as she stepped forward.
With each step she took, the air began filling with a oppressive, scorching atmosphere.
Then, she leisurely raised the flintlock in her hand, aiming it at Chen Qi's neck.
"Hammer Domain. Gunfire Queen!"
"Bang!"
A seemingly ordinary gunshot.
The bullet passed by Chen Qi's neck, tearing through the sky with flames and blood. As the bullet traced its path, the entire world seemed to be violently torn apart by a giant hand, changing drastically!
The white sky transformed into night.
The ice plain they stood on instantly became a wasteland filled with gunpowder smoke. Countless lawless individuals wandered across this dangerous battlefield, each holding extremely dangerous firearms.
A prompt appeared before Chen Qi's eyes.
【You have entered Carol's Hammer domain 'Gunfire Queen'.】
【Within the Gunfire Queen's domain, bullets can be infinitely replicated, and all bullet power is enhanced by 50%!】
Chen Qi raised his head, looking at the wasteland before him.
Carol's domain was centered around him.
The next moment, Carol twisted her hand, pulling a stack of backpack cards from her waist, whispering again:
"Hammer Release. Infinite Gun Array."
Then she violently threw out the thirty backpack cards in her hand.
Instantly, across the massive battlefield, Carol's thirty backpack cards flew into the air, continuously dropping firearms that floated mid-air.
Each backpack card contained over three hundred firearms, totaling an astonishing ten thousand guns!
In Beiguo, Carol had been continuously engaged in firearms trade.
With just ten Hammer affinity Transcendents, they could mass-produce large quantities of firearms continuously.
However, transcendent bullets had always been problematic.
Most hammer-affinity bullets produced by ordinary transcendents were merely slightly larger fireballs, hardly effective against other transcendents.
Only the spiral bullets produced by the Magic Bullet Family were true weapons!
Yet the Magic Bullet Family tightly controlled bullet prices, with spiral bullets being extremely expensive—a single bullet often costing up to fifty thousand Shell Coins.
But within the Gunfire Queen's domain, hammer power could infinitely replicate precious spiral bullets!
Each spiral bullet's power rivaled that of cannons!
This meant that in this domain, she didn't possess ten thousand guns, but ten thousand infinitely-ammunition penetrating cannons!
Her domain truly represented artillery bombardment, a rain of bullets!
She alone constituted an entire Sea God army!
Carol leaned her head forward slightly, blowing a breath toward Chen Qi's ear:
"Black Hunter, this might hurt a little!"
"You, and the crew behind you, better endure it~"
The next instant, ten thousand long guns formed a massive circular gun array in the air, with Chen Qi positioned precisely at the center of their muzzles.
She actually activated Release directly! Palu watched this scene, attempting to cast 'Curse Dice' to help Chen Qi.
However, Chen Qi was too far from him.
Madness! Absolute madness! The Black Death Doctor watched the scene unfold, exclaiming loudly:
"Stop! Carol, you can't kill the Black Hunter!"
Such ferocious firepower couldn't even be withstood by the Black Sea Mammoth!
No, not even Tiger Shark General's Great Shark Battleship could resist it!
This wasn't capturing the Black Hunter alive—this was attempting to kill both the Black Hunter and the Witch!
"He'll endure it."
Carol stepped back, gently placing the gun muzzle to her red lips, blowing a breath, softly mimicking:
"Bang!"
Instantly, the circular gun array aimed at Chen Qi and fired violently, thousands of spiral bullets bursting forth, creating countless spirals!
The bullets generated spiraling tidal waves, the entire sky seemingly covered by infinite storms!
Everyone looked up in terror, as if in the next moment they would witness the Black Hunter's ship turning to dust.
And at this moment, the Black Hunter showed no movement, not even attempting to dodge.
Activating her domain right from the start... Chen Qi took a deep breath, silently drawing the long knife from his waist.
The moment he drew the blade from his waist, an inconspicuous tiny rift slowly opened.
"Blade Ice Domain, Rift Slash."
Instantly, the entire world was dyed with a deathly blue hue.
The temperature throughout the space dropped again, reaching an astonishing minus one hundred degrees Celsius.
And all the high-speed bullets charging toward Chen Qi stopped mid-air.
The expressions of terror, excitement, and anticipation on everyone's faces instantly froze solid. The entire ice plain seemed to transform into a massive open-air wax museum.
"???"
Carol blinked, looking utterly bewildered as she surprisingly discovered the entire world had fallen into stagnation.
Time freezing? The Black Hunter's domain! Carol stood completely stunned. Her thoughts hadn't stopped, but her movements seemed slowed down fifty times.
The Black Hunter's domain... A flicker of confusion passed through Carol's eyes.
She had anticipated the Black Hunter would use a domain.
But she was confident her Gunfire Queen surpassed the Black Hunter's domain!
Logically, their domains should counteract each other. Yet the domain Chen Qi manifested completely suppressed hers!
Wait!
Carol suddenly realized that the domain Chen Qi was executing had extremely high compatibility with the Great Sea Coffin itself.
In that brief instant, Carol's mind raced rapidly. However, no matter how much she thought, she couldn't move!
She was like a soul trapped in a puppet, able to see the outside world, able to see others' humiliation, but incapable of doing anything!
The entire world's time had slowed, and the Black Hunter was the only person who could move in this slowed world!
This was the Black Hunter's domain! Carol's pupils slowly contracted.
She watched as Chen Qi gently used his fingers to move aside the bullets near his face, one after another.
Then, Chen Qi leisurely walked to stand before Carol, grasping her head.
Like picking up a kitten, he casually tossed her, placing Carol at the center of the bullet formation.
Rift Slash Lv3... Chen Qi looked back, calmly gazing at Carol.
Thanks to the materials provided by the Tentacle Merchant, his ice affinity comprehension had reached a remarkable intermediate level.
Combined with the Great Sea Coffin's inherent environment, he could now execute the highest level of Rift Slash.
And the highest level Rift Slash, enhanced by the Great Sea Coffin's extreme cold environment, could easily control everyone within the Great Sea Coffin.
To deal with the currently inflated Carol, he didn't even need to draw his blade.
In this slowed flow, Carol's expression gradually shifted from confidence to fear, bit by bit.
Finally, with her considerable speed, she slowly managed to utter a single word:
"Save..."
Save me! Azure Beast! Carol screamed repeatedly in her mind.
In her thoughts, she had called for help a thousand times!
However, her body had only moved half a meter.
In frozen time, movement—even defense—was possible if one was fast enough. But clearly, Carol didn't possess such capability.
In the distance, the Azure Beast was adapting to the freeze, walking toward him step by step like an injured beast.
"Everyone's too slow..."
After confirming Fen and Little Crow were in safe positions, Chen Qi silently snapped his fingers.
Instantly, the azure world shattered, the frozen space ceased, and countless bullet spirals bombarded the Ghost Ship, striking Carol's body, creating an unprecedented spiral storm!
"Lady Carol..."
A worshipper of Carol among the Blackfin Crew cried out in disbelief.
Under everyone's stunned gazes, the sky-shaking shockwaves shattered their eardrums.
Chen Qi paid no attention to the explosion behind him, using the shockwave to leap down and land beside Palu.