Six-Armed Serpent Demon

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The mercenaries were also seasoned veterans, and Patrick had also laid out large amounts of burning oil and fire traps in various warehouses. Despite their desperate resistance, they inflicted considerable casualties on the city guards.

Patrick quietly raised his head and looked across at the warehouse area from above the ship's railing.

Explosions and fireballs rose one after another, while the shouts of battle were much weaker.

Patrick breathed a sigh of relief, but then felt as uncomfortable as if he'd swallowed a fly. He shouldn't have had to suffer such a huge loss.

This is a ship moored at the small dock opposite the warehouse district. After Patrick and Tusu used the "Anywhere Door" magic to teleport to the warehouse district command post, they immediately cast a second "Anywhere Door" to teleport here. Before that, he ordered Lana and the others to remain stationary on the two ships that were lying in ambush here.

【Everyone】

Patrick used his telepathy to sense the more than thirty reinforcements lying in ambush on both ships, while simultaneously incorporating a touch of alluring magic into his sensory perception.

The city guard's idiots may outnumber us, but they're now scattered throughout the warehouse district. Their armor is too heavy, their strength is depleted, their magic is exhausted, and their anger has been vented. Now it's our turn.

Everyone should remember this.

[Upon entering the warehouse area, maintain assault formation and do not disperse. I repeat: maintain assault formation and do not disperse.]

Kill them all.

Chapter 78 Fiery Dragon

With Patrick's order, rope ladders were lowered from the sterns of both boats facing out to sea.

The mercenaries on the ship quietly descended into the water via rope ladders, and after a string of bubbles rose to the surface, they approached the dock road and the entrance to the warehouse area across the road from underwater.

At that moment, the continuous explosions turned half of the warehouse area into an inferno.

In front of the warehouse gate, there were more than forty wounded soldiers who had just been discharged from the battlefield. They had all taken off their armor, revealing their battle-hardened bodies covered with new and old wounds. They were sitting or lying down inside and outside the warehouse gate, which was now missing its two large iron gates, receiving treatment from the military doctor.

A burly warrior sat on the edge of the iron gate, bearing several arrow wounds and injuries from being struck by heavy objects, as well as several old knife scars of unknown age.

While receiving first aid, the soldier asked another soldier who had just come out of the warehouse area, "What's it like inside? Who are those people?"

“Damn it,” another panted, “I recognized a dead man. He was a mercenary from the Eastern Front. He actually fought alongside me.”

“They’re all mercenaries, even the two who died in the dock office,” someone interjected, his body covered in burn scars, “These bastards who will do anything for whoever pays them, and they take money from everyone. In my opinion, they shouldn’t have been allowed into the city at all!”

The burly soldier didn't seem to care.

“Who cares who they are,” he grinned, cracking his knuckles. “It was exhilarating, a real battle.”

The man covered in burns laughed and said, "It's a good thing they didn't have armor, otherwise you would have been lying down saying this, or you might not have had the chance to say it at all."

The person who recognized the dead body glanced at the two boats on the opposite small dock and narrowed his eyes warily.

The person covered in burns asked him, "What happened?"

“The ship’s waterline,” the man who recognized the dead body said hesitantly, “seems to have risen.”

The burly soldier looked up at the sound: "That ship?"

Before anyone who recognized the dead man could answer, eight mantis mercenaries suddenly rose from the bow of the two boats. Each mantis had four hands, and in each hand held a repeating crossbow.

Patrick arranged for human mercenaries to be disguised as city guards at the entrance to the warehouse district, while the most combat-capable and easily identified alien mercenaries were all ambushed on the ship beforehand.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of arrows rained down on the heads of the many wounded soldiers!

Perhaps because he was a conspicuous target, the burly warrior was hit by no less than twenty arrows in the first moment, falling backward to the ground, his body riddled with arrows, looking just like a hedgehog.

The man who recognized the dead man was also lying on the ground. He had been wounded in the leg and was unable to dodge, and had also been hit by four arrows, one of which pierced his throat.

The burn victim reacted immediately, raising his armor to shield himself, which saved his life.

To be precise, he survived for less than twenty seconds.

After a volley of arrows, almost all the wounded soldiers and medics died, leaving only a few groaning and struggling for their lives on the ground.

The burned victim screamed at the top of his lungs: "Enemy—"

Before he could finish speaking, a thick, black iron chain flew over with a whooshing sound and snapped off the upper half of his head.

Six towering water trolls crawled out of the water onto the dock road, walked to the collapsed iron gate, and brandished their spiked chains, smashing the heads of those still moving one by one. Yellowish-white brain tissue and blood dripped continuously from the spiked chains.

Patrick, who had been lying prone on the deck, stood up and looked at the warehouse gate from among the Mantis men, straightening his collar.

Three snake-men dressed as priests then climbed up from the deck and stood behind Patrick.

Their bodies are covered in grayish-green scales, somewhat resembling lizardmen, except they have heads like pythons and no legs on their lower bodies, like the six-armed snake demon, resembling giant snakes.

Two of the snake-men chanted incantations, causing the wounded soldiers' corpses to tremble violently.

Immediately afterward, a burly warrior, his face bluish-purple and eyes rolled back, rose from the ground, his body riddled with arrows. Next came the warrior who recognized the dead man.

Aside from the corpses whose heads were smashed by the water trolls and did not resurrect, Patrick added more than twenty zombie troops to his ranks.

Another snake-man chanted a spell, adding buff magic to the corpses manipulated by the two snake-men, including a bone explosion spell.

Patrick snapped his fingers.

Tusu obediently let him sit on his left shoulder, and then carried Patrick off the bow of the boat.

The mantis people quickly changed the magazines for their repeating crossbows, then nimbly leaped off the bow. Behind them followed three snake-man priests, Countess Lana, and about a dozen lizardmen wielding spears and round shields.

Thirty-odd people, no, now it should be said that more than sixty people, formed a small army with the zombies.

The strongest zombies were positioned on the front line as human shields, while lizardmen wielding spears concealed themselves behind the zombies as assault forces, sharing the second line with the snake-man priests who manipulated the corpses.

Then came the mantis men wielding light crossbows and Commander Patrick, with Lana and Tusu closely following beside Patrick. Another snake-man priest and ten other zombies were responsible for covering the rear of the entire legion.

【assault】

Patrick's voice echoed in the minds of all the alien mercenaries.

[Just keep attacking; even though they outnumber us ten to one, they are all doomed.]

Because our reinforcements will arrive soon.

The six-armed serpent demon, disguised as Squad Leader El, walked along the deserted dock road. At this moment, she, or rather he, had stripped a full suit of armor from a corpse near the dock office and changed into it; no one could tell that the person under the helmet had the face of Squad Leader El.

The demon inside the helmet was enraged and went berserk.

She had just gone to the pier to check. The pier was deserted; it had been delayed for nearly two hours, but the Porcupinefish still hadn't arrived!

Where is my Dragon Madness Lock?!

—They say he arrived at the same time as the Enser people's leader, the "God-King" Gilejin. Why hasn't he arrived yet?

Could the "Dragon Madness Lock" be in Gillekin's hands? During the interrogation of the deputy captain, he said something like "The Dragon Madness Lock will arrive with Gillekin." Could this mean that the "Dragon Madness Lock" will be brought by Gillekin personally?

She thought about it carefully and ruled out that possibility.

The Enser people have been caught in a pincer movement between the elementals and dragons, suffering heavy casualties. If they possessed a weapon of mass destruction like the Dragon Frenzy Lock, why didn't they use it during the war, instead sending it to the City of Flame?

It is clear that this thing was not in the hands of the Enser people; the fact that the two arrived at the same time was merely a coincidence.

—What else could it be? Was there a mistake in Boktura's arrangements? Or did the vice-captain give me false information?

—If I had known, I should have kept that bastard alive and skinned him alive every day!

The six-armed serpent demon reincarnated became increasingly enraged, eventually desiring only to kill in revenge—the demonic essence had not been entirely without influence on her personality.

She suddenly realized something was wrong, so she quickly took a deep breath to exhale all the anxiety in her heart.

Think about it carefully, there must be something I've overlooked!

—Yes, let's go through the whole incident from the beginning.

—The whole thing started with two demons.

The two demons once approached the Broncos gang, offering a high price to rent six warehouses belonging to the Beate family to store the Dragon Maniac Lock. However, the halflings refused.

A question suddenly popped into the mind of the six-armed serpent demon.

Why did the halfling Aprilton Bronk reject the Demon?

Is it because Aprilton Bronk doesn't love money?

how is this possible.

Because the smuggled goods that the Bronco gang placed in the Beate warehouse were of extraordinary value?

Less likely.

She went to check, and all she found were ordinary liquors and other smuggled goods; there wasn't even any magical aura.

So the only possible answer is... Aprilton Bronk rejected the Demon because he didn't want to get into trouble.

She took a breath.

Her emerald green eyes opened again.

—April Bronco didn't want to get into trouble and turned down the Magic.

—April Bronck knew that what the Demon had sent was big trouble.

—Does Appleton Bronk know that it's the Dragon Maniac Lock, and what's behind it?

—If that's the case, will Aprilton Bronk do more to completely eliminate this big problem?

The explosion and flames in the Fire Harbor warehouse district alarmed all districts of the City of Flame.

But all of this has nothing to do with Badblood Gululos.

As usual, after reviewing the various profit reports of the Bronco Gang, he went to patrol and inspect the casino lobby below the casino hotel. The soundproofing of the gambling lobby was quite good; the explosions from the lower city couldn't reach it at all.

At this moment, Gurulos stood by the pillar, greedily staring at a beautiful woman in front of a gambling table, plotting how to get his hands on her.

However, the master's telepathic connection suddenly entered his mind.

Give me the records of Aprilton Broncos from the dimensional bag I gave you.

Without a word, Gurulos turned and left the casino lobby, heading straight for the top floor.

The dragon-blooded bad blood arrived at his lounge, took out Aprilton-Brown's notebook from his dimensional bag, placed it respectfully on his lounge desk, then respectfully left the lounge, gently closing the door behind him, standing at the lounge entrance like a loyal guard.

The next second, the imposter squad leader, El, appeared out of thin air in the lounge.

After discovering the treasure in the Ottokan family's sanctuary, the six-armed serpent demon no longer needs to worry about the limited number of times she can teleport magic each day, as she has a brand-new "Anywhere Door" wand that she can use to her heart's content.

Although this magic cannot match the six-armed serpent demon's spell-like ability "Advanced Teleportation" in terms of distance, it is still effective in terms of both cost and volume.

The six-armed serpent demon sat down behind Gululos's desk, quickly glanced through the notebook, and found a record next to Aprilton-Brown's entry about a meeting with two demons.

"The shark merchant has been notified, as has the pufferfish."

She telepathically sensed from Gulus: "Who is the 'Shark Merchant'?"

They are smugglers at sea.

"Gulus answered."

They occasionally dabble in piracy, smuggling goods that are actually pirate loot. However, the city of Flame Earth is very strict with pirates, so after robbing a merchant ship, they feed everyone to sharks, then sink the ship to destroy all evidence, so no one knows they were pirates and they won't be wanted by the city. That's why they also call themselves "Shark Merchants."

The six-armed snake demon frowned.

So the truth is that the two Zionist devils went to Aprilton-Brown to negotiate about the warehouse, but Aprilton tricked them into revealing the truth that the "Dragon Madness Lock" was transported by the Porcupine.

Aprilton refused the demon and then revealed the whereabouts of the Porcupine to the shark merchant.

The fact that the Prickly Porcupine has not arrived at port for so long indicates that it has already been visited by shark traders at sea, and perhaps the people on board have already ended up in the stomachs of sharks, and the ship is already lying on the seabed.

This possibility is very high.

The imposter El gently bit his lower lip inside his helmet. If anyone else saw this feminine gesture, the paladin squad leader's reputation would be completely ruined.

If that's the case, where is the "Dragon Madness Lock"? Did it also sink into the sea along with the ship that was scuttled?

— It's unlikely.

She or he thought.

Smugglers who also act as pirates don't care about your messy affairs; they'll only become pirates for you if you can consume the loot. Aprilton must have paid a heavy price to persuade the shark merchant to rob the Porcupine.

—Besides, smugglers have no use for the "Dragon Madness Lock," and Aprilton is unlikely to allow it to drift around outside.

So, is Aprilton Bronk, the halfling gang leader, really so kind as to pay out of his own pocket to fix the "Dragon Madness Lock" for the sake of the city's prosperity and peace?

He must be doing something for someone else.

The six-armed serpent demon said to himself.

Aprilton-Brown was solving the city's problems to serve his powerful backer. Only by offering the "Dragon's Madness Lock" to the higher-ups of the City of Flames could his great achievement be realized.

Who is the Bronx's backer?

She asked Gurulos.