Witch, I Swear I’m Not a Deep Sea Ancient God!

Chapter 454: War Breaks Out!!

The Ice Witch raised an eyebrow:

"Good news first, or bad news?"

"Bad news."

Chen Qi drank the black tea, instantly feeling his tense nerves washed clean by a refreshing clarity.

Water Spirit Number Seven's skill at brewing black tea was getting higher and higher.

The Ice Witch frowned:

"According to observations from our lighthouse and the Disaster Messenger, currently, at the edge of the near sea, a large number of warships are gathering. The current count has already exceeded two thousand."

Two thousand ships... Chen Qi's eyes turned sharp.

The Ice Witch continued:

"Based on Hayer's observations, out on the open sea, the Black Blood Empire has deployed an even larger-scale army. At the same time, the Blackfin Crew has also researched a large number of monsters and possesses a group of death-fearing troops.""Currently, on the open sea, ships cannot stay for extended periods."

"They don't have time to wait for us to build a complete Noah's Wall, and we don't have extra time to develop either."

"The Black Blood Empire's major offensive against Moonstone City is about to begin."

The arrow is on the bowstring, it must be fired.

The armies of the Black Blood Empire and the Blackfin Crew are about to swarm out in full force!

Just what the Disaster Messenger observed alone was two thousand warships...

Chen Qi recalled the situation from his memories.

Flesh weapons based on black whale blood would greatly enhance the strength of ordinary soldiers.

Everyone who consumed the black blood would become a warrior who feared no death.

Add to that the hammer-affinity disaster outbreak in the Beiguo inland, severed support, and the fact that a large number of steam mechas couldn't be deployed to the battlefield.

Chen Qi stroked his chin.

In his original memories, Moonstone City was completely no match for the Blackfin Crew. After brief resistance, the entire Moonstone City was steamrolled, presenting a completely one-sided situation.

After the Black Blood Empire breached the city, the entire Moonstone City turned into a monster nest, becoming like an underground ruin, a chaotic dance of demons.

Whether pirates, navy, or civilians, all would become mincemeat in this meat grinder of a war!

The final result of the war had only one outcome: forging ultimate monsters like the Whale Father, the Blood Hunter, and the Blood Lion, who stepped onto the path to godhood.

Little Crow also died in this unprecedented catastrophe.

It could be said that the combined power of the Black Blood Empire and the Black Whale was pure, overwhelming domination.

However, the situation was different now...

First, although there wasn't yet a large-scale black whale antidote, they already had a prototype antidote that could counter flesh weapons made from black whale blood.

Second, there was the Ice Witch.

Currently, the Ice Witch's physical condition and combat power were both extremely strong.

Third, there was him.

Chen Qi's flock had already taken initial shape, enough to reverse the course of the battlefield.

Plus, he had already mastered abyssal weapons and possessed the ability to single-handedly kill the Blood Lion within a domain.

Moreover, the Blackfin Crew had lost several top commanders, and their current development could only be described as average.

"Finally here, huh."

Chen Qi downed the black tea in one gulp, his gaze sharp:

"So, Big White Hair, what's the good news?"

The Ice Witch folded her arms across her chest:

"On the Rift Sea, a large number of A-rank rifts have collapsed. These powers flow across the sea, and after being absorbed by sea beasts, more and more calamity-level sea beasts have appeared."

"Our Disaster Messenger has observed some special sea beasts, among them, especially the Ember Beast. If your Sea Shepherd could tame the Ember Beast..."

After speaking, the Ice Witch handed Chen Qi a compiled file on deep sea calamities.

"The Ember Beast?"

Chen Qi scanned the file, his gaze shaking slightly.

The Ice Witch said:

"Yes, in the past, the Deep Sea Hunters hunted this sea beast, but failed."

"Its situation is very special, only born at the end of the Dimensional Tide."

"And, I have a faint feeling that this sea beast carries some aura of a special rift."

The Ice Witch raised a finger:

"If you can capture it, it might be of great use!"

The Ember Beast... Chen Qi stroked his chin, a look of helplessness on his face.

He was far from as optimistic as the Ice Witch.

Both history and his memories indicated that the strength of this deep sea calamity was far beyond something as simple as a deep-sea titan.

Chen Qi vaguely remembered that this Ember Beast was tied to the final dungeon of the Witch Sea region.

Itself, it even dropped extremely special lamp-affinity rift unique items.

In the later stages, the entire Moonstone City was frantically searching for traces of the Ember Beast.

However, the Ember Beast's strength far exceeded imagination.

The Deep Sea Hunters' past defeat was no accident.

Its strength was even above that of a fifth-tier Blood Lion.

It was a calamity that could go head-to-head with fifth-tier Transcendents within a fifth-tier domain.

Before reaching his fifth-tier complete form, Chen Qi had no confidence in being able to defeat the Ember Beast.

Besides that, the Ember Beast had another special characteristic.

Unlike ordinary deep sea beasts, it was like a giant ghost, inexplicably disappearing and inexplicably appearing.

In the early stages, its probability of appearing was extremely low.

Those who could encounter the Ember Beast were all people with unimaginably good luck.

To encounter the Ember Beast now, he would need unimaginable luck.

However, he wondered what would happen when the Ember's Touch faced his Deep Sea Affinity? Chen Qi thought for a moment and said:

"Thanks for the intel, Big White Hair."

The Ice Witch suppressed the smile at the corner of her mouth:

"Alright, Little Black Hair, stop hogging the rift workshop, someone can't work."

"Someone is still waiting for you outside."

"Oh, and don't call me Big White Hair!!"

"I thought you were used to it, Big White Hair."

Chen Qi looked at the Ice Witch again.

From any angle, the Ice Witch fit the nickname Big White Hair.

"..."

The Ice Witch didn't refute.

Hearing it so much, she inexplicably felt this nickname had a certain familiarity to it.

Chen Qi followed the Ice Witch out of the rift workshop, arriving at the Witch's Base dock.

He saw that the edges of the island were already covered with a dense array of five thousand massive cannons, a large-scale island barrier personally overseen by the Book Saint.

Even during the two days Chen Qi monopolized the rift, the Book Saint hadn't been idle.

And the five hundred exploration ships led by Palu were also docked at the port.

"Black Hunter, catch!"

Palu leaned against the ship's mast, tossing some special materials for feeding sea beasts to Chen Qi.

"Thanks."

Chen Qi caught the materials.

These days, the sea beast feed had almost entirely been provided by Palu's Exploration Fleet.

And Chen Qi noticed that Palu's entire aura had clearly changed.

He was already prepared to fight the Black Blood Empire's army.

Palu's luck had been quite extraordinary recently. Using only the lowest D-rank rift evaluation, he successfully farmed the dice-affinity rift unique item 'Observer's Dice' from an A-rank rift.

This was a divine artifact that could greatly increase the random probability of dice-affinity skills.

He was also currently one of the most promising legends on the open sea to advance to the fifth tier.

Chen Qi exchanged a few pleasantries with Palu.

And just then, an anxious voice came from behind.

"Qi! How is it, are you okay? Are you hurt?"

Fen patted Chen Qi's back disapprovingly!

Chen Qi actually went to the rift workshop with An behind her back!

The two of them!

This caused her to not see Qi for a full two days!

Two days!

Chen Qi turned around, tugging at the dissatisfied little black flower on top of Fen's head:

"I'm fine, how about you, Fen?"

As Chen Qi grew stronger and stronger, Fen had completely lost the ability to withstand his fierce attacks.

Even resisting a head-pat like this was difficult!

Don't tug my flower! This is connected to nerves, it has feeling! Fen's face flushed red, she gritted her teeth and said:

"I'm fine! Also, the inhibitor's effect is very good. Little Crow and I worked through the night and have already achieved great results."

From behind Fen came a girl's faint, tired voice:

"Yes, Qi..."

Chen Qi looked past Fen.

He saw Little Crow had tied a side ponytail and changed into a brand new set of pitch-black doctor's attire.

And her bloodshot eyes, tortured by illness, had finally regained some of their luster.

In her hands were two tubes of the latest Black Blood Poison antidote.

Little Crow handed the medicine to Chen Qi:

"These are two bottles of black whale blood antidote. If poisoned by the Black Blood Poison, you can use this potion to detoxify."

"However, achieving mass production will still take some time."

Chen Qi took the medicine.

Besides being ingested, the black blood itself could also be made into flesh weapons, causing considerable damage.

With these two bottles of antidote, he could fight more freely against enemies tainted with black blood.

"Cough... Qi, thank you for the knowledge book you sent. That book resolved many of my past doubts. Because of it, we were able to complete this miracle within two days."

Little Crow said while coughing.

Book... Chen Qi was momentarily stunned.

This should be the book made by extracting the Black Death Doctor's memories and knowledge.

At that moment, Fen, who had been having her little flower tugged by Chen Qi, shyly whispered:

"Qi, stop tugging my head, there are so many people here! This is disrespectful to this witch!"

Her teacher was right beside her!

So many people were watching!

Is that so? Chen Qi moved his hand away from Fen's head and also patted Little Crow's head:

"I just helped a little."

"Little Crow, you've worked hard."

Huh!

Fen's eyes widened in shock, staring blankly at the hand that had been on her head, now slowly placed on Little Crow's head!

He really stopped tugging!

Could she take back what she said now?

A sudden pang of sourness hit her heart, and she kind of wanted to retract her statement.

And just then, a huge scream came from the distance.

"Ahhhhhhh!"

"Ahhhhhhhhh!!!"

What kind of ghostly scream is that! Chen Qi was startled.

He saw a huge white pigeon flying from the sky.

And on this pigeon, a screaming little blonde descended from the heavens!

"Ahhhhhhh!!!"

Who's making such a loud noise, disturbing this Saint's sleep... The Book Saint, sunbathing on the dock, opened her weary eyes.

You have to understand, she endured a hundred lashes from the Ice Witch and four hundred lashes from Water Spirit Number Seven just to earn half a day of rest time!

Thud!

Little blonde Pelu's head slammed heavily onto the ground.

It's the miracle reporter Pelu... Chen Qi frowned.

Pelu was becoming more and more active.

Pelu, who had just head-butted the ground, ignored the skull-splitting headache, did a kip-up, stood up, and raised a newspaper high above her head:

"Everyone! Everyone! I have big news!!! Super big news!!!"

"Super, super big news!!!"

The ghostly wailing sound almost drew the gaze of everyone on the dock to Pelu.

Pelu's eyes shone:

"Everyone, you absolutely won't guess..."

"Get to the point."

The Ice Witch glanced at Pelu.

Pelu instantly felt a bone-chilling cold surge through her body, her high-pitched voice immediately dropping.

Pelu put away her dramatic antics and said softly:

"Everyone, according to the latest report from our Disaster Messenger."

"Over five thousand ships, one mobile city-state, and at least fifty thousand Black Blood soldiers are already marching towards the Damarro Islands and Moonstone City."

"In two hours, the Black Blood Empire's War Beasts will appear before us."

Pelu's brief words instantly sent a shock through everyone in the refuge. Unconsciously, they all looked towards the depths of the sea.

A black tsunami was about to crash down.

...

On the boiling sea, a dense array of black fleets covered everything within sight.

Even the vicious sea dragon groups couldn't help but speed up, fleeing from this terrifying army.

The Blood Lion stood at the top level of the mobile city-state 'War Ship', gazing into the distance.

Behind him were five thousand of the most elite Black Blood soldiers.

During these days, their Black Blood Empire had obtained unprecedented resources on this once barren sea.

Millions of Transcendent materials, tens of thousands of profession cards, thousands of profession cards, hundreds of forbidden weapons, dozens of Transcendent blueprints, five rift unique items...

However, whether it was the Book Tower, Beiguo, or Palu's Exploration Fleet, all obstructed their sweep!

And Beiguo's Noah's Wall was already completed, with the Ice Witch in the refuge.

Beiguo's true strength lay in the many large workshops like the Steam Hand Workshop.

Positional warfare was Beiguo's forte.

Once defensive structures were fully built, the consequences would be unimaginable.

At that moment, the Blood Lion's deputy, the Blood General, handed him a map:

"General Blood Lion, according to our intelligence."

"The Book Tower's Book Saint currently remains completely inactive, only occasionally handling Book Tower affairs."

"Based on our speculation, she should have been injured by the Black Blood Poison and is still recovering. The Book Tower cannot attack us from the flank."

"Good, very good~"

The Blood Lion licked his lips.

Currently, the known Saints in Moonstone City were the Invisible Hand Hayer, the Ice Witch, and the Black Hunter.

And they had three Saints: the Blood Lion, the Blood Hunter, and the Whale Father.

However, just yesterday, the Black Blood Empire had already dispatched the empire's flame disaster, the fifth-tier powerhouse 'Red Dragon' to the war!

Besides that, according to the information they collected, two more Saints would also withdraw from the front lines to join this war!

Including the Red Dragon, now, their number of Saints was also four against three!

Four against three!!

Just in terms of Saint numbers, they had already completely overwhelmed Moonstone City!

Not to mention, the Black Hunter was only a young fifth-tier Saint, still too green.

Then, the Blood General asked doubtfully:

"General Blood Lion, the Whale Father is unwilling to serve as the vanguard."

"How should we deal with the Ice Witch's refuge?"

Currently, the core of their army was undoubtedly Moonstone City.

Both the Blood Hunter and the Blood Lion would be reinvested in the battle for Moonstone City.

However, the Witch's Refuge was also undoubtedly an important strategic core.

The Blood Lion smiled slightly.

It was just a temporarily built refuge.

On the refuge the witch painstakingly built, at most, there was only the Black Hunter, one fifth-tier!!

And at that moment, from among the many Black Blood soldiers came a deep, powerful voice like a fire dragon:

"Blood Lion, leave the Black Hunter to me. It's been a long time since I've enjoyed the flesh of a Titan creature."