Chapter 66

After luring the decaying undead to a cabin at the back of the ship, Sheyan tossed away the drained corpses. Firmly holding his ground, he gave an icy chilling stare towards the huge creature.

That beast then picked up one of the corpses; holding it by the head and leg, it raised the corpse high above its head. Then like drying a wet towel, it forcefully twisted the corpse, and widened its mouth to receive the dripping blood. The sound of bones crushing and flesh twisting was chilling to the bones; a terrifyingly bloody sight to behold.

Blood no longer streamed from the two corpses that had already been drained dry by Sheyan. After squeezing the two bodies, the decaying undead remained unsatisfied by the blood quantity. Flinging away the body while roaring out in frenzy, it spun round and faced Sheyan!

At present, Sheyan was wielding an enormous shield he had found by chance, and coldly stared back at the decaying undead.

The decaying undead took a step forward. Then, it raised the gigantic hatchet and started rotating. Its action was like that of a shot put athlete! Inside this narrow cabin, a violent whizzing wind sound filled the air; this sort of feeling was like a sail being released at maximum, in the face of a huge wind. Following that, the gigantic hatchet burst forward!

Immediately, Sheyan went into a half squat stance. Thrusting the bottom of the shield into the ground, he then pressed his shoulder heavily against it! Although this shield was inconveniently heavy, it was used to guard against the spear attacks of calvaries and was close to 30 cm thick.

When the gigantic hatchet smashed against the shield, a booming loud pound followed by metal rattling sound resounded. The sound echoed throughout the ship, filtering through the walls as it grew softer. Pirates who were moving goods 20 plus meters away, turned pale from the suffocating sonorous sound; a buzzing sound remained ringing in their ears. It was like they were punched in the chest and retreated 7-8 steps back!

Naturally, Sheyan at the core of it was worse off. Blood leaked out from the corner of his lips as he stumbled backwards by several steps. A numb buzzing sound reverberated in his ears, causing a sharp matchless pain! However, his HP merely dropped by 30 points. He had already equipped the hidden title "Pirate ringleader", and after this his strength and physique had increased by 2 each, his strength had reached 13 points; equivalent to this gruesome beast!

Of course, after causing such discomfort to Sheyan, the recoil from throwing that gigantic hatchet was equally tremendous. If that decaying undead was a living being, both his hands would've been shredded and covered in blood. Instead, it was a painless immune abomination, and the only reaction was its soaring rage!

Roaring out loudly it started to spin round, before stepping forward and grabbing that gigantic hatchet to chop down once again! Similarly, this attack carried as much ferocity as the previous! Sheyan once again holded dearly onto his shield, and could clearly see a black dense liquid flowing out from the webbing of his filthy hands.

Right as the hatchet and shield was about to collide, Sheyan's eyes blazed with a fanatical rage. He instantly loosened both hands, and leapt to the ground!

"Clank!!..... Chunk!" A loud crashing sound followed by another chopping sound resounded. Against such immense force, this semi-cracked shield was blasted across cabin as it crashed randomly against the walls. Behind Sheyan, even a hole was blasted onto the wooden wall by the gigantic hatchet! Broken splinters shot out everywhere as some pieces even flew 10 metres out into the sea.

From afar, it was like this merchant ship had suffered another violent bombardment. On the ship's hull half a metre above the water, a clear two metre long and wide split could be seen.

Following that, a gust of fresh sea breeze blew into the previously dark and gloomy cabin, even blowing away the stench permeating out from the decaying undead.

With a groan, Sheyan used his strength to pluck out a metal shard, that had broken off from the shield and was now lodged into his thigh, as blood gushed out. The battlefield was indeed filled with accidental variables. When the shield had been chopped through, a broken shard had pierced deeply into Sheyan's thigh. This one accident resulted in a high 40 points of damage to Sheyan, and caused an additional 30 seconds loss of blood effect duration.

Upon catching the scent of fresh blood, the decaying undead instantly went wild. Using both hands to support the gigantic hatchet, it raised it up like a golf club and crazily hacked down!

Facing the imminent peril, Sheyan drew out his sabre in the nick of time to block! Instantly, his sabre bent upon impact and formed into a 'U' shape. Concurrently, Sheyan's left hand emitted a metalling brilliance as his vicious looking cobalt steel exoskeleton appeared. Even though he managed to fend off this insane blow, the cobalt steel exoskeleton was not a defensive equipment by nature; thus, Sheyan still suffered heavy damages.

Flying back a total of 5-6 metres from the impact, he spat out a mouthful of blood in midair before he quickly wiped away the blood. However, when Sheyan regained his footing, he again vomited a mouthful of blood; blood was even dripping out of his ears and nose, streaming down like a mini red serpent. His nightmare imprint then emotionlessly notified.

[ You suffered a vertical slash from the decaying undead, receiving a total of 97 - 25 points of damage. Your total damage received is 72 points! ]

[ You are currently in a state of excessive blood loss, draining 5 HP every 5 seconds, total duration of 30 seconds. Duration left: 13 seconds. ]

[ Your HP is left with (45 / 180 points)! (After battling with the spanish troops previously, although he had rested a little, when facing this decaying undead he was unable to restore his maximum potential) ]

[ Your HP is in a critical state, please rapidly replenish your physique or flee the danger zone. ]

Sheyan eyes flickered with a perilous glow. Still his expression remained fully confident. If the decaying undead had intelligence and rationality, then this would point to a complete disaster. Instead, the sorcerer had already lost control of it, and it was just a wild beast that followed its dense body rather than its head!

Once again, the decaying undead braced its shoulders and tensed its muscles strongly. The strength it utilized was so great that the stitches joining its body were distinctly stretched, as the pores of the stitches turned oval. Greenish black liquid leaked out as the decaying undead started spinning slowly. In the next second, it would once again step forward and swing out its gigantic hatchet.

At this crucial moment, Sheyan darted forward like a leopard, and charged forward swiftly for a few steps. Summoning strength from his entire body, he executed a flying kick and heavily stomped against the right condyles (Knee cap) of the decaying undead; the knee it was heavily relying on.

That black axe head swung two inches above Sheyan's face, bringing in a wild raging wind as it cut against Sheyan's hair. From the area beneath his stomping leg, Sheyan felt a distinct popping sound as though something had broke and became misaligned. Afterwards, a humongous figure flew backwards away from Sheyan. Staggering a few steps, its immense leg suddenly couldn't support its monumental weight! "Thump!" The decaying undead crashed into the previously chopped open hole, breaking it further as it fell into the sea!

3 moves! Although Sheyan only exchanged 3 moves with this humongous beast, Sheyan had exhausted his brain to painstakingly crystallize this scheme! Sheyan's first move of resistance was just to test out the killing power of the beast; calculating whether it was enough to perfectly execute his second part! Further agitating this beast, his second aim was to lure this beast into smashing up a hole at the side of the cabin. Furthermore, he willingly forced himself into a corner to set up a misinterpretation of that he was a prey with nowhere left to escape. Therefore, when executing its third move, the decaying undead was already fully convinced of his imminent victory, and utilized its full power to fiercely attack. In the end, the decaying undead could only pathetically fall into the sea empty handedly.

Actually, the reason why Sheyan was willing to take such a risk was because he knew that this beast had a trifling 4 points in agility and 3 points in perceptive sensing. In contrast, his personal agility had reached 8 points; twice the agility of this beast. Needless to say, his high perceptive sensing eclipsed it totally. If not, if the beast was faster than Sheyan, he would undoubtedly meet with a tragic conclusion!

Of course and more importantly, the master sorcerer that controlled the decaying undead had already fled. Otherwise, these crafty sorcerers with many tricks up their sleeves while employing the decaying undead, would cause even Ammand to be somewhat afraid. After losing its master, the combat capabilities of the brainless decaying undead had plunged by at least 50%!

Still, the decaying undead was obviously not so easily eliminated.

Sheyan's scheming objective was actually aimed at the gigantic hatchet. This tireless and immune to pain freak, when coupled with such a terrifying gigantic weapon, its battle power could not be simply measured in numbers but at least multiplied by several folds! Yet once this gigantic hatchet was eradicated, the horrifying undead creature would be like a tiger without its fangs; an archer without its bow, where its threat would no longer be that huge.

Thus, Sheyan had calculated this perfectly in his plot - the body of the decaying undead was made up of different body parts stitched together into a corrupted pile. Even if it couldn't swim, it would not drown to death as a decomposing corpse is lighter than water. Back in the real world, he learned that a dead corpse, once thrown into the water, would eventually float up after a period of time. However, if he added a gigantic heavy axe, the body would naturally submerge.

Thus, two conclusions would be left.

One, the decaying undead would be willing to submerge and refuses to let go of the hatchet. In that situation, it would no longer pose a threat.

Next, the decaying undead releases the hatchet and floats back up the water, before climbing back on board for revenge. This was the consequence that Sheyan favoured. Once that beast loses its precious weapon, and with its right leg broken beyond hope, although it couldn't feel pain, its movement would still be greatly impaired!