Chapter 380 A Brief Test of Skills

"Hey! Boss! There are two warforged over there! And there is also a mechanical griffin. Do you want to take advantage of them?"

On an airship near the port, a middle-aged man who looked like a rat looked at Carl and Hope and began to have evil thoughts.

The team he was in usually robbed everywhere as air pirates, and occasionally pretended to be adventurers to sell stolen goods.

Selling people is just a routine operation. In fact, as long as there is money to be made, they will do anything.

Things are rare and valuable. Warforged have always been quite popular in the slave market of the air elemental plane.

Looking at the two "weak" warforged, the boss of this team narrowed his eyes, then slapped his thigh and stood up from the wooden barrel.

"What do you mean by taking advantage of them! We are legal adventurers! Those two guys stole our mechanical griffin and destroyed our goods. We must catch them and make them sell themselves to pay off their debts!"

Said these words with his chest raised, and the bearded warrior drew out the scimitar at his waist with a smile.

His men reacted for two seconds, and then praised their boss's words.

The medium-sized airship turned in mid-air and rushed towards Carl and Hope.

"Carl, there is an airship following us. Could it be a spy sent by Lisanna's enemy?"

Holding the humanoid construct controlled by Carl, Hope was bored and paid attention to the movements around her, and the changes of the airship soon aroused her suspicion.

"Oh? What a coincidence? I just want to try the combat ability of this body. Most of the professional characteristics cannot be used on this body. I only have two injection positions left to use, and I don't know how much strength I can exert."

Carl also noticed the unusual movement of the airship and stopped the mechanical griffin directly, waiting for the other party to approach.

He and Hope did not carry any equipment this time, but their respective mechanical bodies were modified according to the standards of Mitris's prosthesis.

Even without too much magic enhancement, both of them can exert the strength of at least level 8 warriors.

Soon, the airship caught up.

The bearded warrior immediately waved his scimitar and shouted to his subordinates behind him: "Young men! Catch these two thieves! Sell them to the slave market to make up for our losses!"

Regardless of whether anyone around could hear it, after shouting this, two magic shots suddenly fired from the group, as if they wanted to directly shoot down Carl and the others.

Carl was almost in sync with the mechanical griffin under him at this time. Before the spell approached, he manipulated the mechanical griffin to perform a beautiful roll to avoid it.

Using psychic power to manipulate the thinking core of the wetware, the mechanical griffin rushed towards these semi-professional air pirates who slandered Carl and the others like a tiger into a flock of sheep.

Carl and Hope jumped and landed steadily on the deck.

"I'll be on the left and you'll be on the right!"

Carl said this to Hope beside him, crouched down, and suddenly jumped forward.

His leg joints had been deformed at this time, and the two spring-like structures made his movement speed amazingly increased.

A faint red light appeared on the two mechanical arms, and then purple electric light appeared.

This change immediately made the boss of the airship realize that something was wrong. He held the scimitar in front of him and shouted:

"This is a tricky idea! Beat them up first!"

The war terracotta slaves are certainly valuable, but this semi-professional air pirate can clearly tell which is more important, his life or gold coins.

Carl and Hope only made a slight move, and his team was in a mess. If such an enemy is still thinking about capturing them alive and intact, it will definitely cause them a lot of casualties.

The bearded man didn't think that after he died here, any of his brothers would be willing to spend 500 gold coins to revive him.

However, it was this shout that made Carl and Hope aim at him at the same time.

As a person who slept in the quilt, Hope was deeply influenced by Carl in many ways.

It has become an instinct to capture the thief first.

"Ah~Woo~"

With a roar, Hope's humanoid construct has turned into a mechanical black panther.

As it ran, its front paws split from the middle, revealing the sharp mantis blade inside.

The two air pirates blocking Hope's way were about to attack, but their weapons were cut off by two black rays as soon as they were swung out.

The broken sword blades flew out in a spiral, and their original owners covered their abdomens and fell to the ground with two thumps.

Seeing Hope so ferocious, the bearded air pirate was also a flexible master. As soon as Carl approached, he said in a hurry:

"Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding! Our adventure group encountered two war terracotta thieves before, and they stole a mechanical griffin and a lot of property that we just bought not long ago. We were wrong, wrong!"

After hearing the explanation of the bearded air pirate, Carl actually stopped.

He extinguished the electric light and red light on his hand, and took two steps forward with some hesitation.

Seeing this, the bearded sky pirate knelt down.

He explained with tears in his eyes, as if he really launched the attack because he had mistaken the war forged.

Hope did not come closer at this time, but wandered around the periphery of the battlefield.

The mechanical griffin and the sky pirates who were still able to fight also stopped, and the attention of the whole audience was focused on Carl and the bearded sky pirate.

Just as Carl lowered his head, as if thinking about whether to accept the apology, the bearded sky pirate who was kneeling on the ground suddenly jumped up and slashed Carl's neck with the scimitar in his hand with extraordinary precision.

His movements were extremely skillful. Without hundreds of times of practice, it would be impossible to achieve such smoothness and precision.

The faces of the sky pirates who had stopped had already revealed cruel expressions, but the next second, the bearded sky pirate's body suddenly flew up like a torn sackcloth.

Red light and lightning reappeared on Carl's mechanical arm, and his original posture of standing with his head down also turned into the action of performing the rising dragon fist.

Blood and a mouthful of teeth flew out of the bearded sky pirate's mouth. The huge impact on his chin made his eyes turn white and he lost consciousness directly.

"It's over!"

I don't know who in the crowd suddenly muttered this, and the semi-professional sky pirates who had originally had the strength to fight suddenly scattered like monkeys when the tree fell, and didn't care about anything else, and jumped down along both sides of the airship.

In the blink of an eye, only Carl, Hope, and the mechanical griffin that served as a mount were left on the huge deck.

"Well, most of these guys are warriors below level 8, and they are all champion warriors. Only two guys seem to be tricksters, but they seem to have died under Bobo's claws."

Soon, Hope finished picking up the bodies and threw them off the deck.

"Bobo? You even gave it a nickname?"

Hearing Hope's name for the mechanical griffin, Carl suddenly felt quite funny.

The staunch pragmatist from Zoram would not give a nickname to a mechanical griffin that he didn't know how long it would last.