<h4>Chapter 487: The Hunting Begins</h4>


    Trantor: EndlessFantasy Trantion Editor: EndlessFantasy Trantion


    The first usage of Wizard Li’s artillery that contained characteristics distinctive to the foreign worldpletely depleted the gunpowder block that could only be produced by half a year of mining by several tens of thousands of tribesmen. Its cost was extremely huge.


    However, in Zhang Lisheng’s opinion, it was worthwhile to use the hardbor of several tens of thousands of Wizard Li tribesmen for 200 days in exchange of the annihtion of a group of sea monsters. In his heart, he even felt that this was a new era in the Hellfire Archipgo.


    For this reason, in the evening, an indigenous warrior, who temporarily served as a choresman, carried a wooden te filled with dishes cooked from the sea beast’s meat into the young man’s cabin, the smile on his face still had not disappeared.


    “Pundit, your dinner is served.” The warrior looked at Zhang Lisheng’s slightly absent-minded smiling expression and ced the wooden te in front of him. He bowed down and said admiringly, “This is the tender meat cut off from the sea monster’s head that was killed today. The cook has tried it and this is the most delicious part. Most of the sea monsters are poisoned to their deaths so only two of them can be eaten....”


    ‘Pundit’ was the fake identity Tugra racked his brain with toe up for Zhang Lisheng. It also meant the sage who brought ‘wisdom’ to the tribe.


    As for what ‘wisdom’ was, an ordinary Wizard Li tribesman naturally did not have the courage nor the brain to ask, while those who dared to ask were all native chiefs who knew about the young man’s real identity. Adding on to the fact that the Wizard Li tribe was currently in a period of rapid expansion and transformation, with new things constantly emerging around them, though the lies might not be perfect, it was still feasibly implemented.


    The warrior, who sent the dinner, was deceived by the lies because of his low status and this was why he was not too respectful and humble towards Zhang Lisheng.


    Of course, Zhang Lisheng would not take the impertinence of the ignorant person to his heart. He chowed down on the food and listened to the warrior rambling on about the preciousness of the sea monster, before asking, “How long do we have to wait to arrive at Scorpion Ind?”


    “Scorpion Ind?” The indigenous warrior showed a nk expression.


    “The huge ind the Wizard Li tribe is going to conquer this time. Can’t you tell that its shape looks a lot like a green-shelled mountain scorpion?”


    “I’ve never seen the sea chart so I don’t know what the shape is like,” the warrior shook his head and replied. “But I heard that the sailors said that if we don’t take any break, the battleships will be able to reach the destination tonight. However, it’s said that the dragon hawk warriors will be sent to the sea for scouting first so I’m afraid we can only dock by tomorrow.”


    A year before, the Wizard Li had managed to conquer 17 inds in one fell swoop. At that time, when Zhang Lisheng was calcting that he would be able to produce 15,000 chief warriors, who were sessfully transnted with the Gold Core fragments and produced sorcery, and 1.5 million elite warriors who possessed war partners, he had gratifyingly said that the tribe had finally had the ability to conquer a big ind. Thus, it could be seen that his next target was huge.


    In fact, in the Hellfire Archipgo that had a total area of 10 million square kilometersposing of several hundreds of inds scattered around the ocean, the ‘giant scorpion’ located in the southeast with its long tail protruding towards the Oasis Maind was indeed listed among the top three.


    Other than the two out of the three giant inds that had a triangr shape in the northern part of the Hellfire Archipgo that were slightly bigger than it, Scorpion Ind, that had a tail of more than 3,000 kilometers long, with itsrgest width at more than 1000 kilometers wide but not more than 50 kilometers wide at its thin area, and an area of more than 900,000 square kilometers, was the most striking and eye-catching ind in the iplete Shrimp World No. 2 satellite map Zhang Lisheng possessed.


    After chowing down his dinner rapidly, the young man endured the cold sea breeze and stood on the deck by the sea’s side. He looked at the distant giant ind lying quietly in the ocean through the misty night, unable to see the entire ind, with an exciting expression that had not appeared for a long time on his face.


    “960,000 square kilometers? That’s about the size of two Sichuans ced together. If this ind was found in the ancient Chinese era, I suppose it’d have been called as the ‘imperial capital’ already,” he muttered silently in the dark. “But it’s the god’s capital now in my hands. If I engulf it, my Witchcraft’s Gate of Death will definitely be able to make a breakthrough to Rank-11 Wizard, and I’d be able to further understand the mystery of gods...”


    “Mr. Lisheng, I rarely see you nervous,” When Zhang Lisheng was lost in his thoughts, he suddenly heard a slight hoarse female voice resonating from behind him. “Looks like the research carried out by the medical scientists in the Department of Defense was right. Going to a war does indeed cause a greater secretion of adrenaline.”


    “The study of such topic is to invent drugs to reduce the soldiers’ adrenaline secretion so that they can calm down before the battle.” Zhang Lisheng smiled without turning back. “Also, it’s to further enhance the soldiers’ adrenaline so that they would be crazy war machines that would not be afraid of pain. Am I right, Lieutenant Allison?”


    “I don’t know, maybe for both reasons, I guess,” Allison thought for a moment and replied honestly as she strolled up to Zhang Lisheng’s side. The sea breeze caressed he ck girl’s hair while her skin hid her entire face in the darkness, leaving behind only a pair of bright eyes. “Mr. Lisheng, you know, you’re a very strange man. I felt that you were a ‘mutant’ mixed among the ordinary civilians when I first saw you...”


    “If you’re trying to test me, you can save your effort, Lieutenant Allison,” Zhang Lisheng suddenly shrugged and interrupted the ck female officer. “I’m a Chinese martial artist. Even though I don’t have a powerful supernatural power like the Anteans, I can still control my emotions well.”


    As he was speaking, he suddenly heard a series of loud wind pping sounds getting nearer from the sky, which was closely followed by a gush of wet salty wind. Countless ck shadows flew across the young man’s head andnded on the decks of various warships of the Wizard Li fleet.


    “It’s unbelievable that these Wizard Li tribesmen canunch such arge-scalending operation, but they don’t even have a singlending craft. Do you think these big-bird riding warriors found a harbor that could amodate such a huge fleet to disembark millions of warriors?” Seizing this opportunity to avoid the awkward topic that Zhang Lisheng mentioned just now, Allison asked with her head raised.


    “The terrain in the Hellfire Archipgo is special. It should not be hard for them to find a suitablending harbor...” Zhang Lisheng replied casually. Actually, his words were not entirely true. In fact, as long as the Wizard Li fleet could find a harbor that could allow several dozens of warships to dock and randomly annihte a Hellfire tribe near the coast to build their totem pole, he could then gather his divine power to allow all warriors to disembark safely.


    The dragon hawk warriors of Wizard Li did not go find a harbor in Scorpion Ind that could amodate thousands of warships and millions of warriors to disembark but instead, they went to find their first ‘prey’ whom they could hunt.


    The moment Zhang Lisheng thought of this, a ferocious smile, that had not appeared for a long time, crept upon the young man as he looked at the sea in the middle of the cold wind that was getting stronger. At the same time, the iron ship under his feet slowly moved towards the giant ind in the distance, at a very slow speed but silently.


    “The fleet has set sail again, Lieutenant Allison. I want to go back to the cabin to calm myself down and prepare for the war,” Zhang Lisheng said in a low voice and turned to walk to his own cabin.


    “Good luck, Mr. Lisheng,” Looking at the back of his figure that was striding away, Allison took a deep breath and suddenly replied.


    “Thank you.” The young man turned and showed a victory sign with his fingers before disappearing behind the iron door.


    In the dark night, the Wizard Li fleet did not light any light and just silently sailed in the sea, reaching a small tattered wooden port at the long tail of the Scorpion Ind lying in the Hellfire sea region, with its head at the west and tail at the east.


    The port was located in an open natural harbor but had only used one percent of the harbor tribe. There were several dozens of canoe-like wooden fishing boats moored at the port. The boats had masts and the masts were hung with sail that was sewn from animal hides that had its hair removed.


    In the gship’s steering cabin of Wizard Li’s fleet, Bansaru looked at the shore using a night-vision telescope and showed a contemptuous look on his solemn expression as he muttered, “Poor barbarians. I can’t believe that they actually use tree vines and beast’s fur to act as the wooden boat’s mast. It’s your honor to be able to assimte with our Wizard Li tribesmen using iron and blood.”


    The young captain hadpletely forgotten how he would have been amazed if he saw such fishing boats many years ago before he had seen the sea, and how his tone hadpletely be simr to the mainders that he hated to his core. He raised his arm persistently and shouted in a lowered voice, “With the authority given by Wizard Li’s ultimate faith, the only overlord and the supreme god, I order the first 100 battleships arranged in the foremost formation to dock one after another!”


    The conquering battle of Scorpion Ind gradually unfolded with this order. The frontmost warships in the Wizard Li fleet sailed towards the unguarded ports, this included the battleship of which the Shrimp World No. 2 explorers were on.


    At this thrilling and exciting moment, the 16 explorers had long since woken up. However, in order to not hinder the Wizard Li warriors to prepare for thending, they could only gather at one corner of the deck.


    Even though the outer ind’s war of conquestst time had added more than ten types of partners to the Wizard Li tribe, and that nearly half of them had war attributes, there was none that was more powerful than the giant millispiders after they had tested it out in actualbat. For this reason, other than the dragon hawk warriors, no new soldier type was added to the tribe yet. Because of this, most of the mounts of the Wizard Li warriors were still the purple-colored spiders.


    Looking at the native warriors wearing heavy metal armor, whose face was covered in bloody red as they held long spears and sabers in their hands, sitting on the back of the giant spiders standing on the deck with their sharp slender eight legs by her side, even Someril, who was usually calm andposed, could not help but had an ufortable expression on her face.


    She was not afraid but was just feeling a little ufortable towards the huge number of giant bugs around her.


    However, most Earthlings did not possess such courage of the Anteans. Even though they understood that the big bugs in front of them would not harm themselves, the FBI and CIA intelligence officers still could not help but break out in cold sweat, feeling tongue-tied at once.