Radiant Era Chapter 83-85

Chapter 83 Long Cheng

With so many people on the deck, including the strongest, the old captain Good Luck Valjean Qiao with the strength of peak Earth rank, yet no one saw clearly how the Easterner came aboard the s.h.i.+p. There was a height of two to three storeys to get to the deck from the surface of the sea while the distance to the small boat was also dozens of meters, yet everyone merely saw dozens shadows flashed and the man was already standing in front of Lin Qi.

A hazy purple halo slowly spread in all direction from the s.p.a.ce between the man's eyebrows. His messy clothes suddenly turned neat. The pieces of ice sticking to his Blue Fox leather cloak fell off one after another. The cloak that was a little messy quickly turned neat as if it was new.

The man who looked to be in dire straits just a moment ago, currently looked so clean and neat as if he was a prince who just took a bath and changed his clothes. However, that pride and arrogance on his face, that unrestrained and overbearing aura of his, not even a genuine prince was comparable to him.

What made Lin Qi particularly shocked was the b.l.o.o.d.y smell coming from underneath the surface of the man's body. It was as if his whole person had been soaked in blood for dozens of years. Even his breath carried a smell of blood. Standing in front of him, it was as if Lin Qi could hear the howl of countless vengeful spirits by his ears.

Enzo calmly took a step to the side, s.h.i.+elding Lin Qi.

Lin Qi's expression changed slightly. He took a step forward, forcefully pus.h.i.+ng Enzo two steps to the side using his shoulder. No kidding, Lin Qi couldn't let Enzo be his sword. Blackbeard taught him since he was young, brothers should suffer together, one shouldn't let one's own brother be one's sword.

The Easterner raised his sword-like brows and said with a hoa.r.s.e voice, "I mean no harm!"

Gazing around the deck, the Easterner's eyes suddenly brightened. His right hand made a grasping motion towards a Blue-Lined Snapper dozens of paces away that was just caught and five streams of purple mist shot out of his fingertips. The snapper that weighed nearly 50 kilograms flew to the front of him with a whistling sound.

The expressions of everyone on the deck simultaneously changed. What kind of bizarre skill was this? Grabbing something while separated by a distance of dozens of meters, Tie Chui and Tu Dao could also do it, but they could only do it with external help. Yet this Easterner, he grabbed the snapper without relying on any external object.

Lin Qi exhaled a mouth of cold air as if he was having a toothache. What kind of strength was this? He could grab a snapper with weight over 50 kilograms while separated by a distance of dozens of paces, then could he break a person's neck while separated by a distance of dozens of paces?

Something even more startling happened. The man's five fingers lightly slashed and the whole snapper was soundlessly split open. The skin, bones, meat, internal organs, everything was separated under the control of a bizarre strength. The Easterner cheerfully laughed. He grabbed a piece of fish meat as white as jade and stuffed it into his mouth. He casually chewed several times before swallowing it.

Lin Qi suspected whether the piece of fish meat that just entered his mouth was already starting to be digested because when the man just swallowed the piece of meat his complexion regained some color. A healthy blush gradually spread on his face. Even his head produced faint vapor.

"Too wonderful for words!" The Easterner laughed heartily. Under everyone's gazes that was dull as if they just met a ghost, he gorged himself on close to 25 kilograms of fish meat. Then only he gave a satisfied burp and stopped with incomparable happiness. Lin Qi looked at his belly in astonishment. No swelling could be seen on his belly. Where did all that meat go?

Within Black Tiger Family, even Tie Chui who had the biggest appet.i.te could only eat two roasted sheep legs in one meal. But if he were to eat 25 kilograms of cold and raw fish meat in one go, he wouldn't be able to. Yet the man ate to his heart's content as if the raw fish meat that was no different than ice cubes were the finest delicacy in the world.

Forcing a laugh, Lin Qi inquired using an extremely proficient Eastern language, "Mister, may I ask who you are?"

The Eastern man patted his hands and took out a white handkerchief to wipe the fish meat juice on his hands, then under Lin Qi's indignant gaze, he threw the handkerchief that was worth at least 50 gold coins in Hunchback Shop to the cold wind, letting it fluttered away.

"Long Cheng, the Long (dragon) in the phrase the dragon (Long) soars above the Nine Heavens, the Cheng (city/fortress) in impregnable fortress (Cheng)!" With both hands behind his back, the awfully handsome, arrogant, and tyrannical man raised his head and said in a loud voice, "Is this your s.h.i.+p? Not bad, although this is trash compared to our Imperial Whale Battles.h.i.+p, but for you group of barbarians to be able to build a s.h.i.+p like this is not bad!"

With a grin, Long Cheng indifferently said, "Prepare a s.p.a.cious room for me, I want your s.h.i.+p to take me to the nearest harbor. As long as you sent me ash.o.r.e, I will compensate you well."

With a twitch at the corner of his eyes, Long Cheng coldly snorted and said, "Your s.h.i.+p must have beautiful maids, right? Prepare four for me, one to do the laundry, one to make my bed, and two to prepare some soup for me. Right, anyone who stinks from working, don't approach my side of the s.h.i.+p. Three months ago, I fought with a Three-Headed Sea Dragon and suffered some minor injuries, I have to recuperate my strength!"

Before Lin Qi could open his mouth, Long Cheng already blurted out a string of orders. His words were extremely rude, making the sailors on the deck who understood Eastern language wished they could stab his body a thousand times! However, a moment ago, Long Cheng's fingertips shot out purple light, while another also shot out of the s.p.a.ce between his eyebrows. The experienced and knowledgeable sailors suddenly recalled a certain legendary existence. They held their harpoons tightly, yet no one dared to utter a word.

What did Long Cheng say? He fought with the Three-Headed Dragon, the hegemon of all magical beasts in the North Sea? s.h.i.+t, did he speak the truth?

Lin Qi looked at Long Cheng who just gave orders in such insufferably domineering way, spread his hands in a helpless manner while forcing a smile. "We have clean rooms, as for four beautiful maids… my apologies, if you wish for female fish, we have many, as for women, we don't even have one!"

Long Cheng looked at Lin Qi in astonishment, "There is no women on your s.h.i.+p? During long nights, how do you pa.s.s the time alongside this group of smelly coolies? Don't tell me you two men…. Hehe, hehe!"

Long Cheng laughed in a strange manner. Looking at how Lin Qi's expression turned strange, he smirked and said while shaking his head, "Fine, this is barbarians' place after all, what can I hope for? Fine, fine, I've received your favor after all, this favor, I shall remember!"

Strongly patting Lin Qi's shoulder, Long Cheng indifferently said, "Bring me to my room! Seeing your ident.i.ty as an Eastern descendant like me, I won't kill and take over this s.h.i.+p. Hehe!"

Laughing strangely, Long Cheng waved his hand towards the outside of the s.h.i.+p. A hint of purple qi whistled out, hitting a huge fish that just jumped out of the water one hundred meters away and exploding it into countless b.l.o.o.d.y chunks with a loud bang.

Lin Qi revealed a nearly flattering smile. "Honorable Mister Long Cheng, please, I shall clear the captain's bedroom for you, is that okay?"

At one side, Good Luck Valjean Qiao wrinkled his nose in anger.

Chapter 84 Slaughtering a Whale with a Flip of a Hand

On the fourth day at sea, in a rare moment, the cold wind from Odin Ice Origin temporarily stopped. Black clouds at the eastern sky gradually dissipated. Unexpectedly, a red sun rose from the sea. Red light illuminated the sea and the sky, even the huge icebergs were covered with a layer of red. Red icebergs floated on the sea like swaying pieces of clotted blood.

Lin Qi stood at the prow of the s.h.i.+p while carrying a sea pole with an internal organ of a Black-Lined Snapper hanging from it, fis.h.i.+ng for turtles. This area of the sea was already not far from the territory of the Single-Horned Wild Whale. A type of Green-Skinned Sea Turtles were the specialty of this area. Their bodies were huge while their meat delicious. They were a type of delicacy aristocratic families of the continent would look for. At the same time, they were Single-Horned Wild Whales' favourite food.

The reproductive ability of this kind of sea turtle was astonis.h.i.+ng and its growth rate was extremely quick. Someone once said that if not for Single-Horned Wild Whales crazily hunted these sea turtles for food, they would have already filled the entire ocean.

"Such a huge Green-Skinned Turtle, it must be worth at least three hundred gold coins on the continent!" While looking at the red sun in the east with a sea pole in his hand, Lin Qi shook his head and said with a sigh, "s.h.i.+t, the sun actually rose. This can't be a good omen, there must be a snowstorm in the following several days."

With a cloak of Blue Fox skin draping over his shoulders, Long Cheng, still with that arrogant face of his, was sitting on the head of the mermaid sculpture at the prow of the s.h.i.+p. He looked at Lin Qi in puzzlement. "Sunrise is a good this, what does it have to do with a snowstorm? Look, a clear and boundless sky, so blue as if brand new, such a good weather!"

While shaking his head, Long Cheng heaved a long sigh and said, "Such a fine time, such a wonderful view, if there were several naked beauties as companies, how perfect must it be?"

'This guy is a d.a.m.ned pervert' Lin Qi cursed Long Cheng in his heart. He snorted unhappily and said, "Honorable Mister Long Cheng, this is North Sea, during winter it can't have sun. If it the snow kept falling and the wind kept howling, then this year's winter will pa.s.s safely, if the sun came out, then there would be a snowstorm for the following several days, an especially huge hurricane will be a disaster for the continent!"

Long Cheng looked at Lin Qi in astonishment. He spread his hands, then smiled and said, "Is that so? Is that truly so? This d.a.m.ned weather!"

Lin Qi shook his sea pole, then looked at Long Cheng in puzzlement. "So strange, you don't know anything about the sea, how could you row a small boat into the North Sea? Where did you come from?"

Long Cheng pursed his lips and sneered repeatedly before finally saying with gritted teeth, "Nothing, just a gamble between me and another person, that's all. Gambling whether I can cross the North Sea with a small boat during winter and reach the West Continent, then bring some stuff back!"

A gamble? To cross the North Sea with such a worn-out boat during winter? This Long Cheng must be too overconfident, right? Lin Qi smacked his lips before asking in an extremely thrilled manner, "Then where did you set off? I know the East has quite a few famous harbor, Quan City, Su City, Hang City, Hai City, Xiong City, those harbors are all several times bigger than our Dunerk!"

Long Cheng was silent for a while before saying with a little anger, "I set off in Xiong City. It is our northernmost harbor, I sailed four thousand kilometers northward into the North Sea, then another thousand to land on Odin Ice Origin. I carried the small boat while crossing Odin Ice Origin, killing along the way, then at a place called Great Viking Axe Gorge, I entered the sea once again."

"Great Viking Axe Gorge?" Lin Qi said in shock, "That is a dangerous place, oh, to be precise, that is the gathering place of bandits and ruffians!"

Long Cheng pursed his lips in a cruel smile. He glanced at Lin Qi and raised his head, then said with a sneer, "Right, there was a group of blind people who wanted to s.n.a.t.c.h that small boat of mine, so I ransacked Great Viking Axe Gorge. Of course, I didn't seize their wealth, I only wanted their lives."

Lin Qi opened his mouth wide. 'What kind of formidable character is this?' Great Viking Axe Gorge was a den of tigers and dragons even in the underworld of the West. Thousands of ruffians of different tribes and their relatives gathered there. It was an extremely important supply point of secret s.h.i.+pping route in the underworld and a major den of North Sea's pirates and smugglers.

One person single-handedly ransacked the entire Great Viking Axe Gorge? Lin Qi blankly asked, "You, how many people did you kill?"

Raising the corner of his mouth, Long Cheng raised his fingers while counting. He slowly said, "Killed around half, burn down half of the rest, while the other half escaped. I think around that amount, those who escaped all had strong vitality, those elderly, women and children should all be burn to death."

Sighing lightly, Long Cheng very helplessly said, "Originally, apart from killing, I was also about to do some raping, unfortunately the people there aren't so good-looking, even the women had hair all over their bodies, I really couldn't arouse any interest."

Shrugging his shoulders, Long Cheng sighed deeply and said, "Killing and burning, ransacking and **, these things should have gone smoothly, unfortunately after killing and burning, I didn't have time to do the other two things before a group of so-called Odin Holy Guards b.a.s.t.a.r.ds surrounded me. I fought with all my might, killed dozens of them and escaped. In the end I also ran into a Three-Headed Sea Dragon at sea, indeed extremely unlucky!"

Lin Qi closed his mouth. 'He is a pure pervert.' He was lazy to talk to a person like him anymore. Odin Holy Guards, religious madmen who, during the century Land Island War, made the most elite soldiers of the continent trembled in fear from hearing their name, dozens of them were actually killed by him? After that he could still fight with the hegemon of all magical beasts in the North Sea, the Three-Headed Sea Dragon, without dying?

Long Cheng sighed faintly and said, "Unfortunately, the strength of that Three-Headed Sea Dragon was really out of the ordinary. I was already lightly injured when fighting with Odin Holy Guards. In the end, after fighting with all my might and losing a great amount of strength, I also lost all my food and water. Without any other choice, I could only seal myself within an iceberg, to heal myself through hibernation. Anyway, looking at the direction, that iceberg will float towards the mainland!"

Long Cheng's words sounded too outrageous. Lin Qi frantically said, "Aren't you scared that you will be frozen alive inside the iceberg?"

Long Cheng started to laugh strangely. He strongly patted Lin Qi's shoulder, "This is called gambling your life! After all it is a gamble, isn't it? In any case, I ran into you guys, I haven't lose the gamble yet, have I?"

His voice hadn't died yet when ten meters ahead on the surface of the sea, an over two-meters-long green-skinned Sea Turtle suddenly jumped out of the sea. Behind it, an approximately four-meters-long golden horn tear out of the seawater. A huge Wild Whale covered in golden light rushed out of the water, opening its huge mouth covered with fangs to bite at the sea turtle.

Lin Qi's voice suddenly changed, "Single-Horned Wild Whale, whale-hunting p.r.o.ng, ready!"

With a wild laughter, Long Cheng's figure flashed. Along with ten flying shadows, he was already standing on the head of the huge Wild Whale ten meters away.

His right fist covered with a layer of dark purple qi, Long Cheng hissed, as if leaving an imprint on the huge head of the Wild Whale.

A long mournful howl, the huge whale's body twitched for a while before fell heavily back into the sea.

Such a huge whale quietly floated on the surface of the sea. It was already killed with one hand by Long Cheng.

Chapter 85 Partners in Crime

With a joyous whistle, the huge Sea Turtle which just avoided mortal danger dived into the sea with the fastest speed possible. The over thirty-meters-long body of the whale floated on the surface of the sea. It slapped the hull of the Big Maritime Windmill following the rise of the waves. Sea wind blew over, making Long Cheng's clothes flutter as he stood there on the body of the huge whale, practically looking like a G.o.d of war.

"This guy…." The smoking pipe Good Luck Valjean Qiao was holding with his mouth fell onto the deck. His fingers twitched and he was speechless for quite a while.

Not only the old captain, the over three hundred sailors of Big Maritime Windmill were also stupefied. One man, one fist, killed a Single-Horned Wild Whale. Is this the strength of a Heaven Knight? It can't be, not even a Heaven Knight could easily do this, right? Maybe a Great Heaven Knight of legend could? But Long Cheng clearly only possessed purple qi, he hadn't broken through to golden-purple color yet!

Yet another dozen shadows flashed past, and Long Cheng was back on the prow of the s.h.i.+p to sit on the head of the mermaid statue again. He knead his right wrist and said with a frown, "This thing is the Single-Horned Wild Whale that you guys want to hunt, right? It's actually quite interesting, its skin is very tough, I actually nearly sprain my wrist!"

Lin Qi blankly looked at the Single-Horned Wild Whale whose body was still covered in pale golden color and whose horn was glittering like real gold. He hoa.r.s.ely said, "This is not a Single-Horned Wild Whale, but an advanced Single-Horned Whale King. One Single-Horned Whale King was worth ten ordinary Single-Horned Wild Whale!"

Long Cheng's eyes suddenly brightened. He laughed heartily and said, "In other words, this huge fish is very expensive?"

Lin Qi nodded. His eyes already shone with bright golden light. He said with a powerful voice, "Very expensive, how can it not be? This thing is worth a sky-high price! This baby can't be sold according to market value, in an auction, even its saliva can fetch a sky-high price!"

Clapping his hands strongly, Lin Qi shouted, "Quickly bring it up, quick, quick! d.a.m.n it, this is a Single-Horned Whale King, with it, this time we already won big, we can directly return to Dunerk! s.h.i.+t, why can there be such good luck? This must be me, because of me, we saved a person's life, also ran into a Single-Horned Whale King!"

The sailors abruptly turned extremely excited. 'Right, this is a Single-Horned Whale King, an advanced Single-Horned Whale King!' Not including other parts of its body, even its excrement could fetch a sky-high price in an auction! Because its excrement was the best fertilizer, it became a rare ingredient required by a lot of alchemy masters. If fertilized using Single-Horned Whale King's excrement, the medicinal strength of a medicine could be strengthened by at least three fold.

Think about it, the bottle of Magic Fierce Medicine Lin Qi once drank gave him ten-fold strength. If all medicinal herbs of the Magic Fierce Medicine was fertilized using Single-Horned Whale King's excrement, then it could give him at least thirty-fold strength!

A thirty-fold strength was enough for Lin Qi to challenge a peak Earth Knight expert!

Single-Horned Whale King was no longer an ordinary sea beast. I could be worth gold coins of the same weight. With this thing, this time the sailors of Big Maritime Windmill would be rewarded with at least two hundred gold coins each, enough for them to enjoy life for a long time.

Following a soft ringing sound of the spell formation, a ten by ten area on the deck opened up. An oddly-shaped machine rose from under the deck. It was a magic-powered loading equipment produced . As long as it was filled with enough magic crystal, it could move heavy objects that men couldn't move.

Several iron chains hung from the loading equipment. Dozens sailors jumped into the ice-cold seawater and tied the iron chains firmly around the body of the Single-Horned Whale King. The entire Big Maritime Windmill trembled violently. The magic-powered furnace at the bottom part of the hold of the s.h.i.+p rumbled and the iron chains on the loading equipment made a 'ka-chang' sound. The huge Single-Horned Whale King was forcibly pulled out of the surface of the sea, but the draft line of the Big Maritime Windmill also abruptly sank for around 17 centimeters.

Lin Qi joyfully looked at the Single-Horned Whale King that was worth thousands. He shouted, "Uncle Valjean Qiao, remember to write down on the s.h.i.+p's logbook, for the sake of hunting this Single-Horned Whale King, we used 36 whale-hunting p.r.o.ngs in total!"

Long Cheng who had been smiling at the busy sailors suddenly slapped Lin Qi's shoulder. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Magic-powered whale-hunting p.r.o.ngs? You mean, that kind of powerful arrows that cost thousands of gold coins to produce?"

Lin Qi impatiently looked at Long Cheng. With a Whale King that was worth thousands before him, how could he be in the mood to respond to this man? He groaned and said, "That's it, but it's a whale-hunting p.r.o.ng, not an arrow!"

Long Cheng nodded thoughtfully. He stroke his chin, tilted his head while looking at Lin Qi, and said, "The money made from selling this big fish, I want half, no problem right? Oh, when I was besieged by that group of Odin Holy Guards, I lost my purse, I'm penniless now."

Lin Qi who just sank into a feverish mode trembled from head to foot. He turned his head and bellowed, "Impossible! Half? In your dreams!"

Long Cheng pouted. He coldly snorted and said, "Then, how many people are needed to control this s.h.i.+p to return to the mainland? I will kill everyone on this s.h.i.+p, then this s.h.i.+p along with this big fish will be mine. What do you think?"

Lin Qi's face abruptly paled. He suddenly realized how terrifying this person was. A freak who could kill a Single-Horned Whale King with one fist. He even doubted whether his own father could handle him. After hesitating for a while, Lin Qi's thirst for money surpa.s.sed his fear of death. He gritted his teeth and said, "Twenty percent, you see, we saved your life, otherwise could you really float along with the iceberg and reach the mainland?"

Long Cheng wrinkled his brows and sighed deeply before saying, "A real man clearly differentiate between grat.i.tudes and grievances, forty percent! You see, I'm someone who likes to have fun, but I can't do it without money. After reaching that Dunerk you mentioned, the first thing I want to do is to look for several beautiful young ladies to connect with my feelings, how can I do it without money?"

Lin Qi unhappily bellowed, "Don't you like killing and burning, ransacking and **? If you had no money, you can… use violence?" The faces of Dunerk's well-known beautiful young ladies flashed through Lin Qi's mind, fine, no one had a friendly relations.h.i.+p with him. He didn't need to worry for their lives.

Compared with their chast.i.ty, Lin Qi care more about gold coins.

"You little b.a.s.t.a.r.d!" Long Cheng pouted. He looked down and mulled it over for a while, then shook his head and said, "To be honest, I don't necessarily need to use violence. Just like that time when I was on the way to the imperial capital, I don't know how many old and young women threw themselves at me. My charm is enough to entice those beautiful young ladies to give their virginity to me. Then, just thirty percent, no less. A real man can't go one day without money!"

Lin Qi still hesitated, thirty percent was still a huge amount.

Long Cheng knitted his brows. He slowly said, "I'm the one who killed this big fish after all, right? If you don't give me thirty percent of the money, I'll just ransacked the entire Dunerk. Oh, at most, seeing that you saved my life, I'll just let your family off."

A terrifying sight of Dunerk on fire suddenly appear in Lin Qi's mind. He smacked his lips, his small feeling for his hometown finally surpa.s.sed his thirst for money for the time being.

"Fine, deal!" Lin Qi and Long Cheng did a high-five.

The two people looked at each other with golden light flickering in their eyes and suddenly felt a kind of sympathy with each other.