Magic items are special apparatuses that seal completed spells. They have three characteristics: no need for chanting, no need for mana, and no need for casting time. Once triggered, they activate immediately—magic weapons that even an ordinary person can use!
The production cost and labor for magic items are the main reasons restricting their output. Substances stable enough to preserve magic are treasures themselves; even a piece the size of a fingernail can be worth tens of thousands of gold coins!
The most common medium for storing mana is magic gemstones. There are only two types of mining sites: the frontiers where stars are drawn and giant dragons’ caves. These are two types of lethal zones, where the characteristic of a lethal zone is a mortality rate as high as ninety percent for adventurers!
The rings on Arthur’s five fingers are magic items that use magic gemstones as storage media. The grade of magic a magic item can store depends on the size and quality of the medium. If a legendary holy stone the size of a fist were used as a magic medium, it could seal a God-grade spell!
Peng Peng did not dare to look down on Arthur. To be more precise, he did not dare to look down on Arthur’s magic items. Even he, having cultivated to the Diamond Grade, had only mastered one complete Hall of Fame Grade martial art. Everything else consisted of incomplete martial arts, with only a single remnant move of a Battle Grade martial art.
It was important to know that spells sealed within magic items were all complete magic formulas! There was no possibility of failure, and their power was at the peak of the proficiency range—Grandmaster Grade! They were complete spells meant almost entirely for destruction! If hit head-on by magic, Peng Peng—who focused only on offense and had no experience in reinforcement-type martial arts—feared he would be severely injured.
A Diamond Grade powerhouse was indeed very powerful. Ordinary swords could do nothing to them, and they possessed terrifying, monstrous strength. However, the ultimate goal of rising in rank was to learn more powerful martial arts and magic; techniques and arts were the greatest reliance of a cultivator!
Was it Hall of Fame Grade or Battle Grade? The three magic gemstone rings represented three spells. What kind of magic could they be?! Peng Peng only knew that the grade of spells sealed within magic gemstone rings would not exceed the Battle Grade.
Who exactly was he! Why could he get his hands on magic items? Was he a high noble with an incredible status?! Peng Peng was vigilant toward Arthur to the extreme, watching his every move, looking for an opportunity to launch his Master-level proficiency Hall of Fame Grade martial art to kill Arthur in one blow.
“Won’t you follow orders? Are you determined to stand in my way? Fine then, I will strike you down and step over your corpses to keep moving forward!” The magic gemstone ring on Arthur’s middle finger bloomed with dazzling brilliance, and strong magical fluctuations continuously rippled outward.
Wildfire Guiling was right in front of him, at a position where he could take her back. Yet a group of lowly pirates actually dared to stand before his eyes, obstructing his view.
Arthur’s pride did not allow such a thing to exist! He could still trigger magic three times. That was enough. He would kill all the pirates and bring Wildfire Guiling back to his side.
“Release! Three-Headed Dragon King’s Hellfire!”
As Arthur shouted in rage, a fire vortex whipped up beneath his feet. Splattering sparks gathered together, gradually forming a massive source of fire. The moment the crimson magic array flashed before Arthur, the flames transformed into the shape of three dragons, the sound of the explosion roaring like dragons’ cries!
“Scatter, quickly!” Peng Peng’s pupils constricted to the limit. He could feel that this was yet another Battle Grade spell. A Battle Grade spell at Grandmaster proficiency was something even he could not withstand!
Peng Peng shouted as he turned to run, getting as far away from Arthur as possible. In his heart, he cursed Arthur’s magic to miss, hoping it wouldn’t hit a single person!
“Fleeing in panic? In the end, you’re just trash that can’t achieve anything great.” Arthur clenched the fingers of his left hand into a fist, raised it behind him, and swung down forcefully. “Die, all of you, you dogs!”
The Three-Headed Dragon King’s Hellfire burned fiercely in the direction Arthur swung his fist. The speed of its expansion was surprisingly fast, catching up to the fleeing pirates in two or three seconds and swallowing them instantly, burning them to ashes in just a moment.
The fire’s momentum did not slow down. It continued to burn, quickly rushing out from the shore because its direction could not be changed. It swept through three pirate ships, incinerating both the people and the vessels completely, leaving a wave of fire dozens of meters long on the sea surface that refused to extinguish for a long time.
Peng Peng looked at this scene with lingering fear. If Arthur had aimed this spell at him, even his bones would have been burned to char. This strike was no small matter! The power of magic was stronger than martial arts—was it three times or five times? Looking at it now, it was probably over ten times!
Arthur snorted coldly. At this moment, there was no one left before him. He looked toward the pirate ship where his senses told him Wildfire Guiling was. That pirate ship was currently heading toward the gap in the steel wall that had been opened by cannonballs, already about to leave the transport ship!
“How could I let you do as you please!” Arthur raised his left hand again. The magic gemstone ring on his middle finger had become dim and lusterless; the magic stored within had been completely exhausted.
Only the rings on his thumb and ring finger could still trigger magic. Arthur knew exactly what spells were stored inside them.
Of the five rings on his left hand, four sealed Battle Grade spells and one was Hall of Fame Grade. Meteor on the thumb, Unbreakable Shield on the index finger, Three-Headed Dragon King’s Hellfire on the middle finger, Power of Sacred Miracles on the ring finger, and Explosive Flame on the pinky. Among them, except for Explosive Flame, all were Battle Grade spells.
Arthur would never allow Wildfire Guiling to leave his side. It was too late to give chase by boat now; besides, he could not operate a ship by himself.
The only possibility he could achieve relied on the magic items on his thumb and ring finger—relying on Meteor and the Power of Sacred Miracles!
Meteor could summon a massive mountain stone to fall from the sky. Power of Sacred Miracles was a reinforcement-type spell that significantly strengthened the physical constitution! It could increase an army’s combat power several times over!
Arthur did indeed intend to kill all the pirates who had enraged him, but their numbers exceeded a thousand. Unless they all gathered together, his only remaining offensive spell, Meteor, would not be able to kill them all.
As for relying on a constitution boosted by the Power of Sacred Miracles to deal with a thousand people, that was an even more absurd idea. Even a strong man would be beaten to death by a thousand children, let alone the fact that some pirates were far more than just children. In his current situation of being alone and without help, this spell was the most useless.
Seeing the ship imprisoning Wildfire Guiling getting further and further from the shore, Arthur made up his mind. He would carry out his will to the end!
“Release! Meteor!” The ring on Arthur’s thumb bloomed with dazzling light. An intricate, earthy-yellow magic array appeared before him. The pirates’ faces all paled with panic as they began to run aimlessly and desperately again, fearing they would become the target of the spell.
“Meteor?! That’s a lethal thing!” Peng Peng’s hair stood on end when he heard Arthur’s voice. He had heard of Meteor. On a battlefield, a sudden drop of a large meteor with a radius of over ten meters could take away hundreds of lives in an instant!
Peng Peng quickly ordered his subordinates to scatter and flee. This command caused the pirates to run until not one was left. Arthur’s surroundings suddenly became empty.
One by one, the pirate ships raised their anchors and left the shore. The pirates on board had also witnessed Arthur’s prowess, and for a time, they could only think of escaping.
Peng Peng, however, was different. He thought of a countermeasure while running. Finally, he used sound transmission magic to contact the captains of the various pirate ships, ordering them to aim all their cannons at Arthur and fire together! To stop him from launching the spell as much as possible!
“Are you asking us to draw that guy’s aggro?! Do you want us to die?!” Peng Peng’s order was met with unanimous opposition from the captains. No one wanted to be the first one to step out, especially now when they had achieved a great victory; they wanted to stay alive to enjoy their hard-won success!
“This is a necessary sacrifice! Once Meteor is used up, that bastard will only have one spell left. As long as all his magic items are exhausted, he can only surrender!” Peng Peng responded, fuming with rage.
However, he was not a captain; he was merely the first mate on Molly’s ship. This joint raid by the major pirates was primarily driven by Molly’s deterrent power. The captains hesitated for a moment but ultimately conveyed their rejection.
Peng Peng was nearly driven mad with rage. His allies were all short-sighted fools. Just then, another wave of intense magical fluctuations surged. Knowing he shouldn’t be distracted, Peng Peng still couldn’t help but steal a glance.
All five rings on Arthur’s left hand had become dim. At the same time, a powerful aura erupted from his entire body. His vitality was actually approaching his own!
So his last spell was a reinforcement type! Peng Peng gradually stopped running, revealing a fierce gaze as he stared unblinkingly at Arthur’s every move.
Now that Arthur’s magic items were all used up, he had no more trump cards! As soon as he finished launching Meteor, Peng Peng would immediately rush forward to kill him! To completely eliminate this threat!
Peng Peng’s hatred for Arthur had reached its peak. Because of him, the withdrawal time had been delayed significantly. That damned noble! Just die!
However, when the Meteor truly descended, Peng Peng was stunned. Not just him—most of the pirates were also completely blindsided. The direction from which the meteor fell from the sky turned out to be that!
The meteor appeared out of thin air, carrying a terrifying might as it plummeted toward the sea!
Was Arthur’s target not the pirates on shore, but the pirate ships at sea?! For a moment, many pirates thought so, but the next scene proved their guess was dead wrong!
The meteor did not hit any of the pirate ships. It crashed straight into the ocean, triggering a colossal wave.
“Hahahaha! This landing point is truly hilarious…”
The pirates all laughed at the sight, mocking Arthur for being too careless in setting the meteor’s landing point, resulting in not a single person being killed.
“No! That’s not it! His target is!” Peng Peng was shocked. He had realized Arthur’s true intention.
The landing point of the meteor was precisely the sea near the steel wall. The towering wave born from its might quickly swept through the surroundings!
There was a pirate ship escorting a captured slave girl, heading toward the gap in the steel wall, transporting her out of the transport ship at maximum speed. It was currently closest to the location of the wave and was the first to be struck by the terrifying force, capsizing and being submerged by the seawater in an instant!
Peng Peng saw Arthur rush toward the shore and jump into the sea without hesitation, swimming toward the sunken ship at an amazing speed.
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