Chapter 1096 Chapter 1094

What Lester said was certainly not an empty talk. The reason why the Empire postponed the trial of Brown Darkwill for more than three months was that it would take so long to prepare for the war mobilization.

After the reorganization, the Noxus Empire has thirteen large legions and can mobilize more than 800,000 troops at any time.

At present, the Empire has a total of 400,000 active troops, including more than 200,000 elite legions of the Empire, nearly 100,000 special forces, and more than 100,000 reserve legions. Such military strength is enough to sweep the entire Runeland, which is also Lester's confidence.

And now, as Lester's war declaration spreads to the entire Runeland, the Noxus Empire has entered a state of total war.

From this moment on, the Empire prohibits any form of banquets, dances and other extravagant behaviors. Lights are turned off after 9 o'clock in the evening. Young people of school age must participate in production activities or combat training organized by the Military Commission and be ready to enlist and go to the battlefield at any time.

At the same time, cash crops were changed to agricultural crops, salt, tobacco, alcohol, steel, cotton, sugar, medicine and coal became military controlled products, civilian factories began to transform into military factories, and the punishment of social harm and speculators was increased.

Everything in the empire was making way for war, and its only purpose was to eliminate all monsters and demons and defeat all enemies at once.

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Watcher's Sea,

On the route from Bilgewater Bay to Ionia Presidium, a large armed merchant ship flying the Noxian double-headed axe battle flag was sailing northeast,

The moist sea breeze blew in his face, and Drizzt comfortably held a tall wine glass and talked with a young girl in a long skirt about various interesting rumors about the Ionian continent with a relaxed look, making the girl giggle from time to time,

Looking at Drizzt who was talking and laughing from a distance, Graves sat on a bench alone and drank.

"Hey brother, drinking alone here, do you feel lonely?"

Suddenly, a bald middle-aged crew member moved another bench and sat next to Graves, holding a rum bottle in one hand and a wine glass in the other, looking at Graves who was in a bad mood meaningfully.

Graves glanced at the familiar guy and cursed him in a bad mood.

"Who the hell are you? What does it have to do with you whether I am lonely or not?"

The crew member was not angry, but patted Graves on the shoulder to comfort him, but was slapped away by Graves.

"I understand, I really understand, what you need now is another man to drink with you, right? Real men will always encounter difficulties, and this is the time when alcohol and another real man are most needed.

Come on, I'll buy you a drink."

It was not obvious that the white-faced and beardless middle-aged man in front of him had any bad intentions towards him. The depressed Graves glanced at the wine glass that had been drunk to the bottom, and nodded.

"Pour it."

"Okay, okay, come, let's have a drink."

Clinked glasses, then drank it all in one gulp.

The delicate, sweet brown wine slid into the esophagus, and the lower abdomen seemed to be on fire. The fragrant alcohol aroma made Graves feel a lot more relaxed.

"Although I don't know you, your rum tastes good."

The bald crewman proudly patted his exaggerated chest muscles, making a thumping sound.

"Of course, this wine is brewed by myself, using a unique secret recipe, and it also has the effect of aphrodisiac. I rarely invite people to drink."

Graves smiled disdainfully.

"Aphrodisiac? Real men need to drink aphrodisiac wine?"

"It seems you don't have much experience."

The bald crewman smiled and poured another glass for Graves.

"As a man, it is always easy to lose your body. You have to make up for it when you need it. Don't regret it when you need it. By the way, my name is Avni Kayo. What's your name, brother?"

Nodding slightly tipsy, Graves reported his name.

"Malcolm Graves."

Kayo glanced at Graves's strong body calmly, and his smile became even brighter.

"How did you think of going to Ionia, big brother?"

"I'm going to do some small business."

"Hehe, judging from your big-caliber shotgun, this business is not small. How can you make it without some ability?"

"That's right, no one can really eat my big shotgun. A fist can be stuffed into the hole alone."

"That's because I'm not very knowledgeable. In my opinion, a fist is really not a big deal..."

As they chatted, Graves and Kayo began to put their arms around each other, as if they were close friends. Perhaps because of the effect of the secret rum for free, Graves didn't feel anything wrong.

"Hey, handsome card magician, your friend seems a little dangerous."

Trist looked at the daughter of a wealthy businessman who suddenly shifted the topic to Graves, raised his eyebrows, but was startled in his heart.

"Miss, you are joking. What dangers can there be on a ship?"

Looking around, the daughter of a wealthy merchant lowered her voice and pretended to be intimate with Drizzt's ear.

"That brother is called Kayo. Brother Kayo is a famous amorous man on the ship. Because the captain does not allow sheep to be raised on the ship, you know, most of the time the crew has to rely on that brother to relieve boredom. I don't know how many people will be defeated when they get into the barrel.

I think your friend has been forced to drink. I am afraid that Brother Kayo will help him back to the cabin. It is uncertain whether he can come out normally at that time. "

After listening to the words of the rich merchant girl, Drizzt looked at the girl with a strange face.

"How do you know these things?"

The girl pursed her lips and smiled.

"Because it was me who summoned Brother Kayo on board~ If it weren't for Brother Kayo, I would be the one who suffered. I follow my father to run a ship. I can't always be on guard against thieves, right? But, if something can happen with a handsome guy like you~"

After talking for a while, Drizzt turned his head to look in the direction of Graves, his face changed slightly,

As the girl said, Graves was drunk and was being helped by Kayo to walk into the cabin,

Without bothering to say anything to the rich merchant girl with shining eyes, Drizzt stopped in front of Kayo and took Graves back from Kayo's arms.

"It seems that he is really drunk. My friend should not bother you. "

Kayo glanced at Drizzt and chuckled.

"We are all friends, why are we being so polite? I'll lend a hand. Let's help Brother Graves back together."

Just as Drizzt was about to refuse sternly, a cry of surprise came from the lookout tower.

"It's a ghost ship! There is a ghost ship 300 meters away from the right rudder!"

"What!? How could there be a ghost ship on this route?"

After such an interruption, Kayo didn't have the heart to do anything, so he shrugged and left Graves and Drizzt.

After checking Graves's condition and confirming that Kayo didn't put drugs in the wine, Drizzt breathed a sigh of relief and took Graves back to the cabin to settle down.

When Drizzt came out again, the crew members who were in a tense atmosphere just now had drawn their pistols and swords from their waists, and the gunners were pulling the fuse into the barrel, and they looked like they were on the verge of a fight.

"What's going on? "

Drizzt found the girl. She looked a little pale. She pointed to the dark gray fog coming from the northeast. She didn't say anything, as if she was really scared.

Drizzt frowned and looked at the gray and dilapidated ship that was looming in the dark gray fog.

"Could it be that there are really ghost ships in this world? Are ghost ships people or ghosts?"

"I, I don't know either."

"Bang!"

The cannon fired, and a solid cannonball smashed into the sea surface, but it was not fired by an armed merchant ship, which really scared everyone.

Drizzt looked at the crew members who were ready to fight and found that their faces were not much worse than the girl's.

"Fire! Sink them for me! Don't let them get close!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! "

The six large-caliber smoothbore cannons on the right side of the ship sprayed hot flames one after another, and the shells flew out of the barrels. Four of them hit the empty space, and the other two shells hit the bow of the ghost ship, exploding a piece of wood debris, and the other shell deviated to a higher place, breaking a mast without a sail.

From the results, it seems that breaking the mast is useless.

"Bang!"

The ghost ship fired again, only one shot, enough to make everyone breathless, because this time the ghost ship's shells successfully hit the right-hand part of the armed merchant ship near the stern, and the hard shipboard was instantly smashed into a big hole, and seawater began to pour into the ship.

No one knows how many shots the ghost ship will take before it sinks. If the armed merchant ship takes two more shots, everyone will have to go to the sea to feed the fish.

"Right-hand gunner reloads gunpowder! Fayez! Take a few people to repair the ship! Others! Load the muskets and prepare to design! Helmsman! Right full rudder! Left-hand gunner prepares to shoot! ”

There was always a bad feeling that if he stayed out of it, he would sink with the ship. Drizzt suddenly ran to the captain and said in a deep voice amid the captain's impatient expression.

"I am Drizzt, the mercenary who killed the Tyrant Octopus."

"Ah? It's you, that's great."

The captain was stunned for a moment and didn't bother to continue commanding the crew. He was overjoyed.

"Do you have a way to deal with that ghost ship?"

"I'm not sure what it is, but I have an idea."

"You tell me, I will cooperate with you to the fullest!"

"Okay."

Drizzt handed over a teleportation card to the captain directly with a serious tone.

"This is a magic playing card that can teleport items. You can use a net to pile up a few barrels of gunpowder to press the teleportation card under the gunpowder barrel to draw out a fuse. It's best if it can burn for ten seconds.

After you light the gunpowder fuse, I will directly teleport the gunpowder barrel to blow up the ghost ship. Since the ghost ship can be damaged by ship cannons, it makes no sense that it won't be sunk by gunpowder. "

Taking the teleportation card, the captain nodded vigorously.

"Leave it to me, I will definitely do it."

After that, the captain called two people to go to the bottom of the cabin to move the explosive barrels, opened the cabin door, and saw Graves walking out with a double-barreled shotgun, Fate, with a slightly shaky step.

Without saying anything more to Graves, the three ran straight into the cabin and looked around. The atmosphere of the battlefield made Graves lose his drunkenness all of a sudden, and he trotted to meet up with Drizzt.

"What's going on?"

"There are pirates? But aren't we on a pirate ship disguised as a merchant ship? Pirates eating pirates?"

Drizzt pointed to the ghost ship that disappeared into the fog again.

"It's not pirates eating pirates, it's a ghost ship...Are you sober?"

"I woke up as soon as the cannons were fired here, how could I sleep well?"

The speed of the ghost ship once again exceeded the rolling fog and appeared in everyone's eyes,

This time, including Graves, everyone saw the zombies on the ship wearing various rotten cloth strips. The zombies held short-handled muskets, long-pole muskets and some rusty swords with tetanus virus in their hands. The bodies were wrapped with wriggling seaweed, and the heads were blue and pink as if they were parasitized by barnacles and corals.

The zombie sailors looked weak, but if you consider that the firearms in the zombies' hands were not fire sticks, the threat was not small at all.

"It's best not to let these monsters get close to the ship."

"Mr. Trist! The captain has prepared according to your instructions! All that's left is to light the fuse!"

A man ran out of the cabin. It was the guy who had just gone with the captain to move the gunpowder.

Trist responded and whispered to Graves.

"I'm afraid they don't trust me, so you go with him to light the fire. I'm going to activate the teleportation card. When you hear my whistle, light the fuse."

"Okay."

Graves didn't say much nonsense and ran down the cabin with the crew.

"Boom!"

The armed merchant ship failed to turn in time, and the right muzzle was hit hard. The ship's gun was directly broken into pieces. Then the ghost ship's shells, which were deflected by the ship's guns, directly hit the upper bodies of the two gunners into a ball of blood mist, leaving only the lower body intact, and fell on the ship's board with a plop.

The flying ship's iron filings swept countless people, which seriously hit the morale of the armed merchant ship.

"We have hit at least five shells! Why hasn't the ghost ship sunk yet?"

"Is it because the ghost ship can't be sunk at all? How can our shells deal with that kind of monster?"

"Where is the captain? Where did the captain go?"

"The captain is preparing explosives in the cabin, listen! We will survive! Reach land safely!"

When Drizzt had to stand up to maintain morale, the rich merchant girl ran out from nowhere and stood beside Drizzt.

"Everyone should believe in Mr. Drizzt! He is the heroic magician who defeated the Tyrannosaurus in the defense of Silver Snake Wharf! Another hero, Graves, is cooperating with Mr. Drizzt in the cabin! We will definitely defeat the ghost ship!"

When the morale was about to collapse, Drizzt and the girl sang in unison and gave the crew some confidence in fighting again.

"Mr. Drizzt! What should we do?"

"Use the weapons in your hands to meet the enemy! Leave the rest to me!"

Looking at the girl gratefully, Drizzt held the teleportation card in one hand and whistled with one hand to his mouth, and started to activate the teleportation card directly.

"If the magic fails, you will sink the ship directly!"

"Get out of here!"

In the cabin, one person had already run away, and Graves kicked away another crew member who was blocking him, and lit the fuse of the explosives with a match in the captain's self-destructive eyes.

"Trust him, we won't die!"