One Man Army

Chapter 139 [Episode 71] Pirate Ship 2

Sang Hyuk was able to visually confirm everything when the pirate ship came within 1 km.

However, the size of the pirate ship was unimportant for now. Sang Hyuk quickly focused on the pirates who were on board the pirate ship.

“Gah… they are 7th grade!”

Using Infinity Challenge, the sustainable effect of the title ‘There is no Impossibility’, it was possible to deduce enemy levels. Because when Sang Hyuk met an enemy with a higher level than himself, then level correction would be applied, so by comparing his current stats to his real stats, he was able to infer the enemy’s level.

The average level of the pirates was 85.

If the pirates are at this level, then the pirate ship in front of him was more likely to be a 7th grade pirate ship.

The 7th grade pirate ship had a similar strength to the 7th grade Sky Whale, but it was more difficult to deal with.

The best way was to not deal with it. He wanted to obliterate it with the Ragna Blade, but with Gye Baek and Dark Knight next to him, this was unreasonable.

And since they were not going to be able to avoid it, it was better for everyone to have experience in dealing with pirates when the opportunity presented itself.

“It looks like a 7th grade pirate ship. It’ll be stronger than you think, so stay sharp!”

Actually, Sang Hyuk had no problems dealing with pirates. The problem was Gye Baek and Dark Knight. Because they were still on Hagye’s level standards, so if they want to play at Middle Layer they have to develop themselves.

But even though Sang Hyuk did not say that, the two were already focused.

“First of all, one shot!”

Kirikkkk, Bum!

After predicting the expected path of the pirate ship, Gye Baek, who had been leading the moving pirate ship with the cannon and waiting for the optimal shot, fired the gun without hesitation the moment he was confident of the shot.

Kwagwagwang!

One shot of the Magic Cannon struck the pirate ship’s hull and exploded. It was obviously a powerful hit, but the pirate ship, which was several times stronger than the Sky-grade Ship, was still closing in.

Gye Baek, who saw it, realized that it was not the time for leisurely aiming.

“Ineffective?! I have to shoot it as many times as I can!”

Gye Baek, who made a quick decision, immediately began to rapid fire the cannon, aiming instinctively.

Kwagwagwang, kwagwagwagwagwang!

He instantly fired 10 shots. He hit only 7 out of 10, but the shot rate was awesome when he used open sights shooting. However, even though it was hit by 7 magic cannon shells, the ship was still coming in.

“Tsk, why is it so hard?”

Gye Baek frowned his face and quickly moved from the cannon and moved to the harpoon gun.

Before the pirate ship threw grappling hooks and grabbed the Ink Black Dragon, he had to fix his harpoon to the pirate ship first. This might seem to be irrelevant at first glance, but in fact it was critical.

Once anyone managed to grapple the other party first, he got the right to board. And after that , using the harpoon to lay the Ink Black Dragon alongside the Pirate Ship, the enemy was prevented from launching their own boarding equipment.

Normally, a pirate ship would throw about ten grappling hooks, so if they let the pirate ship throw the hooks first, in a blink of an eye the pirates would have 10 grapnels attached to the Ink Black Dragon.

Then, the battlefield would be on the Ink-Black Dragon, not on the pirate ship.

Because of that, Gye Baek had to make the first shot. So, not only could Sang Hyuk could board the other ship first, but Gye Baek could limit the number of allowed boarding routes to one.

Once they secured the only route between the two ships, Gye Baek and Dark Knight would be  able to defend against the pirates coming to Ink-Black Dragon more easily.

Gugugung.

The pirate ship crossed the Ink-Black Dragon’s bow. Now was the last chance to shoot the bow mounted harpoon gun. If Gye Baek missed this opportunity now, it was obvious that the first pirate grapnel would fly within 10 seconds.

“Now!”

Clank, Phiiiiiiiiing!

Gye Baek shot the harpoon aiming at the main-mast of the pirate ship. If the harpoon missed and could not properly connect the two ships, multiple pirate grapnel hooks would come in from the pirate ship’s broadside without fail.

Kwagwang, Dududuk!

Of course, Gye Baek was not the kind of person who would make such a mistake.

The harpoon he shot hit the main-mast of the pirate ship and stuck firmly.

A path connecting the Ink-Black Dragon to the pirate ship has been created. The initiative is on the Ink-Black Dragon’s side. This first boarding action guarantee ends in exactly 15 seconds from now.

15, 14, 13……

During the 15-second guaranteed period, the first boarding action could only be initiated from the Ink-Black Dragon to the pirate ship.

Sang Hyuk, who had been making his preparations, jumped into the pirate ship as soon as the count started, stepping on the gigantic anchoring chain of the harpoon.

At first glance, it seemed that there are more than 30 of pirates on the deck. If the Pirate Captain does not fall, then the pirates will respawn in multiple locations in the hull and come up on the deck, so it was meaningless to cut the pirates down.

In fact, when it comes to pirates, it was not a big problem for Sang Hyuk. Let’s said the average level was 85, it was only a mob that could be swept away in an instant with Sang Hyuk’s standard attack.

The important thing was the ‘Captain of the Pirates’, the boss of the pirate ship.

The Pirate Captain was a Named monster, of course. In terms of purely its ability only, it was not a very powerful named monster. Though the attack power is strong, its health is low, and it is a foe who can be caught more easily than you’d expect.

However, this was when it was encountered away from the pirate ship, but when it was aboard the pirate ship, it became a totally different monster.

It had a unique skill, ‘Captain does not die’, which was a passive ability, but the effect of this skill was really terrifying.

Even if the Captain’s health was 0 but the durability of the pirate ship remains, the pirate ship’s durability became Captain’s second health. In other words, Sang Hyuk has to reduce as much as possible of the durability of the Pirate Ship, to be able to kill the pirate captain completely.

The Pirate Captain was originally an almost immortal monster, and thanks to this passive skill, it gained a huge second life.

This is why Sang Hyuk had Gye Baek fire on the pirate ship as much as possible.

The more the durability of the pirate ship was reduced in advance, the easier it became.

Ttadak, Sang Hyuk, who was on the pirate ship’s deck, immediately gripped the Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King.

Swiiing, clank!

“It’s done when I go through the pirates and enter the Captain’s room, right?”

Sang Hyuk knew only the strategy he’d heard about attacking a pirate ship, but he had no actual experience from his previous life.

So, in the case of small difference in theory and practice, then he had to cope with it by adapting to the circumstances.

Shadow Knight quick draw ‘Flash Shadow Sword’!

Flash, at the moment the Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King executed an unbelievably  fast quick draw, Sang Hyuk was slashing in the middle of the pirates.

Sang Hyuk, who was slashing with terrifying speed, used the Ten Thousand Shadow Sword, one of the four core skills of the Shadow Knight.

Phaphaphaphaphaphat!

When Sang Hyuk wielded the Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King, thousands of shadow swords slashed in every direction from the Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King.

The basic attribute of Ten Thousand Shadow Sword was illusion. Naturally, the thousands of Shadow Swords have no physical power.

However, instead he injected crippling fear and terror into the enemy through the hallucination effect. This was a very good skill for NPCs and monsters, but not for players.

“Argh!”

“Khoorgg!”

The range of Ten Thousand Shadow Sword was within a radius of 40 meters, centered on Sang Hyuk, so almost all pirates hallucinated as if a thousand real sword passed through their bodies.

As a result, they became unable to do anything due to fear effects for four seconds.

Sang Hyuk has used the Ten Thousand Shadow Sword, which can be called wide area CC(crowd control), to buy more time to use his real skills.

“Huup!”

Sang Hyuk held the Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King and breathed lightly. Then he put a combination card into the Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King.

Advanced Combination Card Skill ‘flying sword skill’ (It refers to a technique or a state in which a sword that has fallen from a hand normally moves freely by itself and attacks the enemy under his control, independently.)

This card was created using the Wind Magic Card, the Sword Elemental Card, and the Magic Stone Card, which was a very expensive item.

Of course, normally it was too scary to be used, due to the high expense. Of course, if it was Sang Hyuk, who had a lot of financial power, it was a combination card that could be used without worries.

With this card, Sang Hyuk could fly his sword in the air for 16 minutes and then steer it according to his will. It was not that bad of a combination card, but the true power of this combination card was demonstrated when it was used in conjunction with other skills.

Shadow Knight core skill ‘Shadow Piercing’!

Sang Hyuk threw the Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King in the air while using ‘shadow piercing’. Then the Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King flew low, and pierced the shadows of the pirates who were struggling to escape the effects of fear.

Kwagwagwagwa!

Shadow Piercing was a technique that pierced through the shadow, not the enemy’s real body, but it caused a paralysis effect for a few seconds while damaging the real body.

Sang Hyuk used the Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King to pierce the shadows of all the pirates around him, just as if he had nailed their shadows in place.

“Kheoook!”

“Khaakk!”

The pirates, who were barely beginning to overcome their fear, were locked down, held in place by their own shadows.

From the very first, when Sang Hyuk jumped onto the pirates ship’s deck, the ordinary pirates were utterly unfit to be his opponents.

Because the Shadow Piercing has locked down the pirate crew, there was only one thing left.

The final Shadow Knight core skill, ‘The Shadow of the Grim Reaper’!

Sang Hyuk used ‘the Shadow of the Grim Reaper’, the most powerful soul skill that Shadow Knight possessed. Then the Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King, which was hovering  in the air, began to fly toward all the pirates who had blocked Sang Hyuk under his control.

Dudududududuk!

The Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King spun like the high-speed cutting blade of a lawn mower, slicing through all the pirate’s necks only in few seconds.

Starting with the Ten Thousand Shadow Sword, continued by Shadow Piercing, and finally the Shadow of the Grim Reaper, Sang Hyuk was able to exert a crushingly lethal force on a number of enemies below a certain level of power.

The pirates, whose heads were falling down, rolling around in front of Sang Hyuk, were such enemies.

There were only four pirates who survived among the 30 pirates on the deck.

Sang Hyuk, who decapitated with brutal efficiency all of the pirates on the deck in about 10 seconds, steered the flying Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King in the air and destroyed the door to the captain’s room.

Kwagwangwang!

He had to catch the pirate captain to sink the pirate ship.

“Both of you block anyone from getting on the Ink Black Dragon!”

Sang Hyuk looked back and shouted to Gye Baek and Dark Knight. Like roaches, it was possible that more pirates will pop out from some dark corner and go for the Ink Black Dragon.

Gye Baek and Dark Knight had to stop them.

It meant that Gye Baek and Dark Knight should defend the Ink Black Dragon until Sang Hyuk took down the pirate captain and sink the pirate ship.

‘I can trust both of you.’

Sang Hyuk trusted Gye Baek and Dark Knight and went straight into the pirate ship. When Sang Hyuk walked a few steps through the broken door, a huge pirate appeared in front of Sang Hyuk, different from ordinary pirates.

“Hahaha, where are you going?”

If you look at it, it was not an ordinary pirate. Of course, it was not the pirate captain. It is…..

“The middle boss.”

Since the pirate ship was a dungeon, there was of course a mid stage boss.

“Why are you swinging your sword….”

Clank, kwadudududuk!

The middle boss, who was likely to be the deck chief, could not even finish his sentence.

The Great Sword of the Weakened Shadow King has completely shattered the head of the middle boss, like a pumpkin hit by a fire axe.

Khukhukhukhung.

Sang Hyuk cut him down in one shot. He had no time to listen to a mere middle boss.

Chapter 139 [Episode 71] Pirate Ship 2 – End