My Stubborn Soul Card Follower-Chapter 518 - 408: Alice: I Think I Can Sail It (4K)

Chapter 518: Chapter 408: Alice: I Think I Can Sail It (4K)

Alice also thought it made a lot of sense.

"But it can still be operated." Alice pointed at the ship, looking as if she believed it could work.

Shen Sui’s mouth twitched slightly, not knowing what to say.

However, despite saying this, Alice still found the ship’s operation manual in the captain’s cabin, which naturally included ways to handle these alarms.

Yet...

Looking at the thousand-page-thick manual in her hands, Alice grimaced and said:

"Ugh... how about... I take the wheel, and Claude, you help troubleshoot?"

Shen Sui glanced at the hefty manual; let alone not recognizing its contents, even if he did, merely reading the index would take considerable time.

Memories of the struggles with high school science subjects flooded back to him.

Resolutely, he said, "Forget it, just keep charging forward."

"Huh? But you told me not to give up easily!" Alice’s eyes widened.

"I’m just a feeble and pathetic spirit like a candle in the wind, how could you treat a thousand-year-old man like this!" Shen Sui said, playing the age card.

Alice puffed up her cheeks instantly: "Why didn’t you call yourself a thousand-year-old man when flirting with Sister Qishala?"

"Whoa~!" Alice crouched down holding her head. Shen Sui did not indulge her, applying fatherly judgment directly.

Alice rubbed her head, muttering: "Didn’t you say you could only watch, how can you act in this world?"

Shen Sui held his forehead, thinking it seems she believes he can’t do anything to her in this world, mocking him so openly.

She didn’t consider that even if he literally couldn’t touch her in this world, wouldn’t he still be able to punish her back on the Dawn Continent?

Joking aside, the situation of this research vessel is indeed very critical now.

In fact, even if they understood the manual, it was clear they couldn’t fix all the fatal errors. After the last wave of impact, several more black tides had battered this lone ship on the sea.

The ship’s defense systems struggled to hold out, but they were already at their limit.

Alice also knew that if they didn’t quickly set up the Summoning Array, there wouldn’t be another opportunity.

So she dropped anchor and activated the positioning device, fixing the ship on the water like an ocean platform.

This was a very dangerous maneuver, especially in this turbulent sea.

Alice ran to the deck.

By this point, they were already a certain distance from the shore, where only a faint light from the camp could be seen.

Alice steered the ship far away mainly to prevent anyone from witnessing her summoning process, which might lead to unfavorable rumors about her. Alice planned to make this her stronghold, requiring a safe environment, and the public opinion environment needed to be accounted for as well.

Everyone are real people; it’s not that easy to fool them. If she performed the summoning array in front of others, they might call her a favored one of the Black Sea and attack her together.

She took out the Holy Authority Staff from her ring.

Full of magic power, the staff emitted a bright yellow light in the darkness, like a beacon guiding all sea creatures.

Unlike the investigate ship’s special lights that wouldn’t attract other beings, the staff’s brilliance signaled Alice’s presence to everyone like a code.

The terrifying sea beasts in the Black Sea, like sharks smelling blood, closed in from all directions.

They were very cautious, approaching the research vessel bit by bit.

Their shapes loomed beneath the surface, giving an immense sense of pressure.

Alice took a deep breath, chanting incantations while raising her staff, beginning to draw the summoning array above her head.

This was the classic Roland Deployment Method, a technique Alice learned from Roland Magic Academy for setting up magic arrays.

First, use magic power to draw a miniature array and connect it to the materials at hand.

At the instant the miniature array is completed, utilize magic power to instantly expand this array to its full size, at which point the connected materials will be drawn by magic to their appropriate positions.

This is an exceptionally efficient and fast method of setting up a magic array, transforming arrays that previously required considerable time to lay as traps or defenses, into genuine battlefield maneuvers.

Thus, in the past, the Dawn Continent saw mages specializing in combat with arrays, called Magic Array Masters.

Regrettably, with the decline of Roland Magic Academy, this labor-intensive deployment method gradually fell into obscurity, and Magic Array Masters vanished from history altogether.

Alice could master the Roland Deployment Method so fluently purely through repeated practice.

She had developed the habit of setting up a Guardian Array each time she entered a city, and after learning the Roland Deployment Method, she practiced even more zealously.

The biggest flaw of this deployment method is that it requires the practitioner to expend far more magic power than the original array would. However, for Alice, who possesses a large amount of Magic Potion, this isn’t a problem at all.

After completing the mini-array, Alice drank a bottle of Magic Potion, chugged another, then opened a third and held it in her mouth, while keeping another in her hand.

Tipping her head back, she initiated the critical deployment phase of the array.

Alice raised the staff with one hand, furrowing her brow. The magic-filled array expanded rapidly outward, like a stone dropping into water, centered on Alice.

The magic array used by Martina to summon the Master of the Deep Sea was not so simple to complete. Just as the initial stages of unfolding began, Alice’s magic power depleted, so she swallowed the potion in her mouth to replenish it.

Yet even so, at the final stages of the array’s descent onto the sea surface, Alice’s magic power ran out again.

Fortunately, she still had a bottle in her hand.

Steady in heart and hand, Alice opened the potion, poured it into her mouth, and her magic power surged once again.

With the final infusion of magic power, the completion of the summoning array’s setup was achieved.

Alice took a deep breath and released her hold on the array, letting it descend towards the sea.

The moment the array met the sea, the final element was fulfilled, and the originally white array immediately turned a spectral blue, entering an active state.

This sea seemed to have its own life.

It sensed the threat of the magic array and began to churn violently.

A formidable aura arrived with a terrifying storm, attempting to destroy this intruder inside it.

Beneath the sea, the massive sea beasts also felt the ocean’s fear, and they uneasily leapt out, roaring in anger.

Alice held her breath and focused, unperturbed by external distractions, steadily outputting magic power to maintain the magic array’s existence.

Boom!

The ship under her feet finally succumbed to the ocean’s counterattack and was torn to pieces.

Alice stood in mid-air, maintaining a floating state.

A ninth-level mage can remain airborne with their own power, and a Fire Magic User like Alice can even perform short-distance flight using flame. However, under normal circumstances, Alice wouldn’t use her power for flying.

The sea had broken its calmness.

But despite the ocean’s efforts, under the Holy Authority Staff’s power, the magic array still persisted stably.

Finally, an enormous tentacle shot out from the sea, slamming hard into the ocean.

This strike instantly shattered the ocean’s counterattack.

The agitatedly circling sea monsters fell silent.

An ominous aura emerged.

As if it was their nemesis.