Six-Armed Serpent Demon

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On the speedboat, quite a few people were pointing and commenting on the three-masted sailing ship.

Ivy Beatrice watched all this, only sneering inwardly.

The six-armed serpent demon didn't need to eat to obtain energy, but she still deliberately ate ten extra pieces of fried fish. Her appetite was always unusually good before and after each murder.

However, she stopped thinking about the pirates and started thinking about her future career path.

She has not yet used the soul of the Ottokan matriarch that she absorbed.

Although Ivy Beatrice is still pursuing the "Military Sword" path to professional swordsmanship, she knows full well that she is different from those who are purely "kitchen knife" wielders.

The six-armed serpent demon is not lacking in melee attack power.

With six arms, she also possesses the skill of "mastering multi-weapon attacks". In addition to being able to unleash four swords in a row with her main hand, each of her five supporting sword hands can unleash two swords, which means she can instantly slash fourteen times.

Her future enemies will likely not be limited to ordinary beings. We can exclude the "Mortal-Breaking Slash," which inflicts devastating damage on all mortals, and the "Hunting Mortals" technique, which increases attack power and swordsmanship accuracy. Even so, the "Punishment Stance" of the Iron Heart Style alone adds unimaginable destructive power to every strike she unleashes.

This far exceeds the level of lethality that can be achieved by the swordsmanship techniques honed through countless trials by orthodox swordsmen.

And this is not even her limit.

By continuing to refine and master the skills of using multiple weapons, progressing from "Advanced Multi-Weapon Attack" to "Perfect Multi-Weapon Attack," one can eventually unleash four consecutive sword strikes with each of the five off-hands, just like the main hand, achieving a total of twenty-four instant kills. If one follows the path of "Demon Ascension" to the eight-armed form, that would result in thirty-two sword strikes.

Therefore, she did not choose those killing moves or profound techniques. Instead, she mastered some techniques for parrying and defense. Once her swordsmanship had improved enough to master level nine profound techniques, she would then learn one or two devastating killing moves that could kill the enemy in one strike.

"magic…"

she muttered.

The best way to counter magic is still to learn more advanced spells. The "Iron Heart" spell, which dispels various effects, is insufficient. If one could master the "Anti-Magic Field" without needing magic scrolls, that would be ideal. With sufficient melee attack power and an incredibly strong physique, the "Anti-Magic Field" is no longer a defensive measure against the spellcaster, but a powerful offensive method.

So everything came full circle and returned to magic.

Ivy Beatrice absentmindedly poked at the fried fish with six forks from six different directions.

Her attention was focused on the black hole phenomenon in the spiritual world.

Perhaps because she was a legendary figure with a complete soul, even after being absorbed into the spiritual world of Ivy-Beate, the soul of the Dragon High Priestess, Matriarch Otukan, did not completely dissipate.

When Ivy-Beate touched the newly absorbed soul light, she discovered that it was actually a solidified, shrunken, headless Ottoman matriarch holding her own dragon head in her hands.

This made her feel a little embarrassed to continue.

Driven by Ivy Beate's mental will, the solidified soul of the Matriarch of Otucan let out a scream, disintegrating into countless tiny specks of light that plunged into the accretion disk of the black hole.

Instead of rushing to upgrade "Sword of the Army" to cleanse the "Nature Champion" left to her by Diraz, the six-armed serpent demon consumed the soul of the legendary high priest in exchange for a new legendary feat, "Advanced Spell Slot".

The legendary feat of "Advanced Spell Slots" is used by spellcasters to enhance their spellcasting abilities, allowing them to break through their existing magical foundation and go a step further, gaining the magic power to cast higher-level spells.

A massive surge of magic flooded Ivy Beatrice's mind.

She felt satisfied that, as a "mortal hunter," she could only cast level four magic at most, but now she could cast level five magic.

However, upon further examining her own spellcasting abilities, Ivy Beatrice's face darkened.

Becoming a "Mortal Hunter" grants automatic mastery of some arcane magic as one levels up, without the need for formal training. However, the highest level of arcane magic one can master is fourth-circle arcane magic, and there are only a limited number of them. Although she now possesses the ability to cast fifth-level magic through an "Advanced Spell Slot," she doesn't know a single fifth-circle arcane spell!

—Damn it, such a legendary soul, and all it got was this useless specialization. This is truly a double loss for the mistress and the demon!

The six-armed serpent demon bled from its heart, its face expressionless.

With six swift movements, he wielded his fork like the wind, and in an instant, he devoured the eleventh piece of fried fish on the plate, turning it into a pile of minced fish.

—If I had known, I would have used her "Sword of Military Path" to replace "Natural Champion"!

Even if we don't do that, we can switch to "high-level multi-weapon attack," which would at least allow this dead fish to eat five more of my forks!

Ivy Beatrice was furious when she suddenly noticed Green Bubble standing to the side, waiting for her evaluation.

Qingpaopao trembled as she watched her carefully prepared fried fish being stabbed to pieces, her eyes reddening slightly.

"Huh? Ah, no, no, it's not that I think the fried fish is bad, look, I've already eaten ten pieces!" The six-armed snake demon was suddenly flustered. "It's just... it's just enlightenment! You know, enlightenment!"

Qingpaopao choked softly: "A...a sudden realization?"

“Yes, yes,” Ivy-Beate nodded repeatedly, “Just now, while eating the delicious fried fish, it was so delicious that I suddenly realized a very powerful sword technique, and then I got distracted and subconsciously used your fried fish to practice my sword. I’m so sorry!”

As Qingpaopao listened, she gradually stopped crying and started laughing.

"That move must be really powerful."

“That’s right,” the six-armed serpent demon said with certainty, “It’s decided. This move was learned after eating the eleventh piece of fried fish. From today onwards, it will be called Fried Fish Eleven!”

She picked up the plate and poured all the mashed bits of fried fish into her mouth, which finally calmed the bubbles down.

The six-armed serpent demon puffed out its hamster-like cheeks, chewing as it pondered its own thoughts.

Relying solely on the "Advanced Spell Slot" trick won't work; you need to learn more magic. However, "Mortal Hunters" only know a few spells, and they aren't a class that can learn many more spells.

Otherwise, after absorbing the soul fragments of the Red Dragon Lord who possessed legendary magic, the sheer number of spells and legendary magic she encountered would have been immense. Yet, despite seeing them all, she simply couldn't learn them, unable to use a single one. It was like returning from a treasure trove empty-handed.

She had been keeping the fragments of the red dragon's soul that granted him mastery of legendary magic, and she was reluctant to use them, but she had absolutely no idea how to use them.

So, should I use it to switch careers and become a wizard?

Come on, who knows how many more levels of wizards would be needed to learn "Anti-Magic Field"...

Just as she was fretting, a flash of inspiration struck her, and she suddenly remembered the scene she had witnessed when she came into contact with the red dragon's soul fragment.

The Red Dragon Lord plundered several temples of the Feathered Serpent and, based on the Feathered Serpent's followers, the "Rainbow Attendants," created his own follower class, the "Red Scale Attendant." They can master the domain abilities and magic of the three divine realms of evil, chaos, and fire, and can also know all priestly divine spells, casting them at will as if they were arcane arts for "mortal hunters."

—Well, to be honest, aside from that incredibly depressing name, their professional skills are actually quite good.

—Could it be that I'm really going to take that damn job as a "Red Scale Attendant"?

—Let's wait a bit longer. If I manage to salvage the red dragon's head and acquire its divinity, I could even create a "Client-Satisfied Scale Servant" or something similar—no, a "Client-Satisfied Scale Master" or something like that—it wouldn't be out of the question…

While the six-armed snake demon Ivy-Beate was lost in thought, Green Bubble gently touched the back of her hand.

"Hmm, what's wrong, Bubble?"

"The ship that came alongside us signaled with flags."

Qingpaopao was a little nervous. During this time, she had learned flag signals from the lizardman Chasang and was already a qualified lookout.

"They said they wanted to board the ship to see the captain."

Chapter 105 Major Surgery

To everyone else, the famous female pirate Irene was a tall, graceful, brown-skinned beauty.

However, this "everyone" does not include Ivy Beatrice.

When the Six-Armed Serpent Demon first saw Ilint, he thought of a martial arts novel he had read in his previous life, in which there was a deformed dwarf character named "Wei Wuya". Apart from the fact that Wei Wuya in the novel was in a wheelchair, the two were almost identical, both short and fat, with deformed heads.

That's the downside of the Demon's "Eye of Truth"—it doesn't give the dwarf illusionist any face at all.

Ilint, a shadow mage skilled in illusion, was one of the few in Blacksail Town qualified to sit around the long stone table, and the woman who once intended to cut off Ivy Beatrice's face. After signaling with flags, she swaggered onto the deck of the three-masted sailing ship, the Lookout, with twenty men.

However, her public display of her identity to board the ship surprised even Ivy Beatrice, who guessed her true intentions incorrectly. It had nothing to do with Black Sails Town's decision; it was entirely Ilint's own initiative.

This woman has a huge appetite.

If there are other skilled crew members on board, she will consider it a reconnaissance mission for everyone in Blacksail Town; if the ship is empty, then sorry, she will have to eat alone.

When she boarded the ship, Ilint was full of confidence; but after looking around, her legs trembled and she almost peed herself.

What a strange and utterly wicked ship this is!

The sailors who were doing the work were all blind men in shackles. The blind sailors were divided into groups of five to eight people each, with a one-eyed captain in charge of directing the blind men in their group to do the work.

Anyone with half a brain could see that everyone's eyes had been gouged out not long ago. And those one-eyed sailor captains, the remaining eyes on their faces were definitely not original parts; who in their right mind would have blood-red vertical pupils?

Ilint was horrified.

As she was about to step onto the bridge, Ilint took a deep breath, her initial thought of taking a chance had long since vanished.

No need to think about it.

The original treasure-hunting young master captain is definitely gone; the ship has fallen into the hands of an even more ruthless fellow.

My God, this guy is an absolutely wicked, tyrannical, and perverted monster!

To keep the crew from running away, he gouged out all of their eyes! Even the most vicious guy in Blacksail Town wouldn't do something so inhumane. What the hell is wrong with his brain?!

The reason why some people were sent to the town is also easy to explain: the lizardman boatswain with intact eyes and the Medusa treasure hunter must have surrendered early on, while the other beautiful snakeman and the vulture-headed monster were there to monitor them.

Thus, Ilint confirmed with trepidation that the new captain was extremely dangerous.

Sometimes life is like this: when you base your conclusions on a flawed premise and follow a flawed line of reasoning, you can often arrive at a conclusion that is fairly accurate.

She arrived at the captain's cabin and, taking the opportunity to tidy her clothes, re-examined all the spellcasting materials.

Then, with a solemn and tragic expression, he pushed open the door and entered.

At the same time, I silently prayed: Elemental Lord, protect me, Dragon, protect me, may I still have my eyeballs—

Huh? Uh?

Having mentally prepared herself to face the extremely wicked and tyrannical captain, Irint stared blankly, hardly believing her eyes.

On the desk in the captain's cabin lay a large, red-scaled body that had been disemboweled.

The ship's captain was standing next to the woman, raising his bloodied face to her with a smile.

"welcome."

The thin, small captain said sweetly.

After removing the bloodstains from her clothes and face, as well as the kitchen knife in her hand, she was an elementalist not yet ten years old. Her beautiful little face was full of innocence and cuteness, and she still had fluffy, light green hair.

Ilint stammered some polite words to Green Bubble, then ran out of the captain's cabin almost as if her life depended on it.

The six-armed serpent demon, Ivy Beate, crawled out from under the large captain's cabin bed and stretched with her six arms. She looked through the porthole at the small boats speeding past outside.

That woman shouldn't be coming back to cause trouble anytime soon.

Disguised as the captain, Qingpaopao cautiously asked, "Are we out of trouble?"

"It's not that easy. People who dare to kill and rob are quite bold. They were just startled by our sudden appearance. Once they calm down, they'll come up with other bad ideas."

Ivy Beatrice said nonchalantly.

“They used to think we were weak and easy to bully, but now they’ll realize we’re actually the same kind of people as them. It’s not as easy to double-cross them as they thought, so the chances of negotiation are higher. They might use the people in town as hostages to negotiate, asking me to give up some of the gold bricks, or even hoping we’ll join them. Who knows, that ugly woman might have other ideas, like hiding information or using us to weaken her opponents.”

In this world, there are always some people who are full of malice and always want to take advantage of others by virtue of their own advantages.

Neither Ivy Beate of Abel nor Chu Shixin of Earth in her previous life were fools. They could see through such trivial matters as easily as reading the lines on the palm of their hands, which is why she hated dealing with outsiders and relatives the most.

However, many things are easy to see through but difficult to deal with—you know exactly what's going on, but you just can't do anything about it.

So back on Earth, she chose to isolate herself, avoid social interaction, stay at home, and dump all the problems on her ex-boyfriend.

As a result, her ex-boyfriend became a problem, and she time-traveled.

If reincarnation taught her anything, it was that she had to take action.

When faced with difficulties and troubles, we must take action. Whether we succeed or fail, we must take action, and then take action again and again. We must always take action.

Because if you don't take action and instead cower in the face of trouble, bury your head in the sand, or become a doormat, you can only wait for others to act, and be humiliated, enslaved, or even destroyed.

It's not my fault that I met the wrong person.

But I must change, so that I can live a better life in the future.

She couldn't help but exclaim, "The joy of struggling with others is boundless!"

Qingpaopao asked blankly, "Ivy, what did you say?"

“It’s nothing,” she said, touching her bubbly hair. “There was once a great person who said some very insightful things. I didn’t understand them then, but now I have a new understanding.”

The six-armed snake demon Ivy-Beate thought carefully and used telepathy to communicate with the lizardman Chasang.

Tell me about your situation.

"My esteemed mistress, the timber has been found," said Chasan, the lizardman. "But the people of Blacksail Town won't cut down trees for us, nor will they transport it for us. Even if Medusa offered money, no one would take the job. Someone wants to keep us here."

The six-armed snake demon curled up the corners of his mouth.

—I knew it would be like this, otherwise my gold brick would have been wasted.

That's not what I need to know.

She asked the lizard man, Chasang, "You guys weren't idle last night, were you?"

Absolutely not!

Chasang, the lizard man, was practically swearing an oath to the heavens.