I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 158

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Chapter 158

Chapter 158: Stream Reaper Pirate Crew (1)

The Pirate Ship’s assault was not the conventional bombardment or artifact-enhanced attack one might expect. Instead, frost arrows came hurtling through the Midair of the Undersea Region—a sea of mana—as it froze in place.

Watching this, Dohyun smiled with amusement, igniting flames across both his arms and concentrating them into his fists.

Baeryujin’s seasonal technique—and now a new martial art in Dohyun’s possession.

The foundational first technique of the Eternal Flame Extinguishing Technique unfurled across Dohyun’s hands.

Eternal Flame Extinguishing Technique

First Technique: Eternal Flame

As eternal flames settled into Dohyun’s hands, he threw a light punch. It carried no weight, relying purely on speed—yet in that instant, an explosion erupted from the strike.

Whoooosh——

Boom———

The explosion detonated, sending shockwaves and flames rippling outward, melting the incoming frost arrows to nothing.

Though the attack had come with considerable force, Dohyun’s effortless incineration of it caused the Pirate Ship to fall silent.

I chuckled with amusement at the sight, and Hanalin and Jiyuchan, who had been waiting behind me, also began to loosen up their bodies lightly.

They knew well enough that combat would soon erupt.

Since I understood this as well, I waited patiently, and soon a heavy metallic chain sound rang out from the pirate ship as something descended.

Whoooosh—!

The chain sound resembled what one heard when deploying a homing anchor. And what descended from the pirate ship was a colossal steel anchor—massive and weighty, rivaling the ship’s own dimensions.

As the anchor crashed to the ground, a tremendous sound and tremor rippled outward in a single wave.

Boom—!

Rumble—!

The impact made the anchor’s tremendous weight abundantly clear. I gazed at the pirate ship with obvious covetousness.

Though I wasn’t certain how useful it would be, at least now that I had seen it, I could understand its potential clearly.

Having perceived everything, I grinned widely.

It seemed I had found a means of transportation without needing to run further—though I would need to negotiate this well with the ship’s owners. And if negotiations failed?

‘Well, that would simply be their misfortune, not my concern.’

Dohyun intensified the output of the First Technique: Eternal Flame channeled through both his hands, while Hanalin and Jiyuchan drew upon their mana reserves as well.

At that moment, five shadows burst forth from the anchored vessel.

Each shadow moved with the lithe grace and form of a feline, and sure enough—

When all five appeared before the Dohyun Party, their identities became unmistakable.

Feline humanoids.

As they descended and caught sight of the Dohyun Party, they spoke.

“Well, this is refreshing.”

“They don’t even know who we are.”

“What, they’re confident?”

“Kehehehe, there’s nothing quite like crushing those smug expressions.”

“Indeed.”

Were they renowned pirates?

Dohyun pondered this thought, then shouted the line he had been dying to deliver.

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Exactly ten minutes before the Dohyun Party’s vessel would encounter the pirate ship, five leopard-type Birdmen aboard the pirate vessel were lazily yawning with apparent boredom as they surveyed their surroundings.

All that was visible were numerous cliffs and reefs, along with the tediously monotonous expanse of the Seafloor itself.

For now, they appeared to be nothing more than oversized felines, yet anyone who had glimpsed their pirate flag would have surely fled in terror.

Countless villains were currently making their mark in Region C, but these particular ones had earned notoriety even among the pirate community itself.

As a pirate crew of the Leoparcan race—known as the Stream Reaper Pirate Crew and the Wave Harvesters—they ranked among the most formidable villains currently existing in Region C.

Thus, many would flee with their tails between their legs the moment they caught sight of that feline-and-skull pirate flag.

This was only natural, given their considerable strength and notorious brutality.

However, in this desolate place, there was nothing to plunder, so the helmsman—a massive jaguar-type Birdman who commanded the vessel—shouted irritably.

“Captain! Didn’t you say there was nothing around here!”

When Barcas—a jaguar-type Birdman among the Leoparcans who served as both helmsman and the Party’s tank given his massive frame—expressed his irritation in such a manner, Lian, a marble cat-type Birdman with somewhat distinctive markings and a rare specimen among the Leoparcans, who stood beside the helmsman surveying the surroundings with a telescope, spoke.

“Well, for now we’re lying low anyway. We might have to endure it even if there’s something around.”

As Lian spoke to placate Barcas, Shira, a snow leopard-type Birdman who was maintaining pristine white arrows beside him, snorted derisively.

“Hmph, and yet last time we came up empty, didn’t we? We picked a fight with a Party that didn’t even show up on the plunder radar.”

“No… the Plunder Radar doesn’t need to be active to kill something. We can just hunt them down, can’t we?”

“Lian’s right! We’ll grow stronger through hunting!”

At Lian and Barcas’s words, Shira shook his head as if utterly exasperated. He cursed them inwardly as brutes and ignored them.

Just then, Jerod—a black panther Birdman of the Leoparkan species who had been in the cabin—emerged and spoke.

“The Plunder Radar has activated.”

The Plunder Radar activating meant there was a Party with something rare nearby. The moment Jerod spoke, Lian, who had been peering through a telescope, hastily scanned the surroundings.

How long did she search?

From Barcas to even Shira, who pretended indifference, all waited with eager anticipation as Lian examined the area, and she finally answered.

“Found them! Oh? But this is interesting.”

“What’s interesting about it!”

At Lian’s words, Barcas grew heated and urged her on eagerly. Shira, pretending nonchalance while clearly impatient, looked at her, and she chuckled before answering.

“Humans. And it’s a three-person Party.”

“Humans?”

“A three-person Party?”

“How intriguing. So the feeble human race—those inferior creatures—have made it all the way here?”

Everyone could only nod at Jerod’s final remark. Humans—the human race—were uniformly weak creatures, after all.

While there had been some stronger specimens among the humans who came before, word had spread that this new batch of humans were all pathetically weak. From the Stream Reaper Pirate Crew’s perspective, there was no choice but to accept this assessment.

Just as the three of them seemed to lose interest and were growing dejected, and Jerod, the final black leopard beastman, was about to offer some explanation, the captain emerged from the cabin—Kaelus, a blue-furred beastman with shimmering azure fur and commander of this pirate crew—and spoke.

“The fact that they’ve come to such a treacherous place with merely a three-person Party is proof of their strength.”

“Ohhh!”

“The captain has awakened!?”

“Are they strong enough to rouse the captain?”

“Perhaps so?”

Everyone cheered as Captain Kaelus emerged. While all beastmen possessed a certain combative nature, those who engaged in piracy were particularly prone to it.

Among them, hunting the strong was one of their greatest pleasures, and the fact that Captain Kaelus had risen meant they had every reason to anticipate a worthy battle.

Seeing the captain emerge, Shira grinned with amusement and raised the bow and arrows he had been maintaining until just moments before.

And as Shira lifted his bow, Lian spoke with perfect naturalness.

“342.128.43.”

Shira nodded as if confirming coordinates through naturally spoken numbers, and a pristine white arrow that had been maintained until moments ago was nocked. Frost began to crystallize across its surface, and soon an extreme, biting cold that froze everything around it was infused into the arrow.

The other four, excluding Shira, watched with knowing smiles, and as Shira released the arrow, a frost-laden projectile shot forth, freezing the midair through which it traveled.

Whoooooosh——

Crackle, crackle, crackle———

The frost arrow, freezing everything along its trajectory, hurtled toward the three-person Party with a threatening presence all its own.

Had they been the weak, a single arrow like this would have decided their fate.

Watching with that thought in mind, everyone laughed upon seeing Dohyun casually shatter it with a flaming fist.

Even as his arrow was destroyed, Shira smiled and murmured to himself.

“Seems the captain was right—they’re no small fry.”

“Kahahaha! Now this is a hunt!”

“Combat! Combat!”

“It’s been far too long since we’ve had a proper hunt.”

Kaelus spoke, observing his excited crew.

“Drop anchor.”

At that cry, Jerod moved swiftly and dropped the anchor. The moment it struck ground, all five of them disembarked from the Pirate Ship in unison.

They had descended expecting to see how the Dohyun Party would react before striking, but the response differed from their imagination.

Though they numbered merely three, the fact that they did not flee upon witnessing our descent but instead gathered their strength to stand against us only deepened my fascination.

“Interesting.”

I heard that inferior, lower races like humanity operate in the Safe Zone located on the outskirts of Region C. Is that really the case? Even though all the Stream Rippers came out, there was no particular response.

There was no reaction whatsoever—no sign of recognition or fear.

Is that why?

“This is actually refreshing.”

“I suppose it’s possible you wouldn’t know about us.”

“What, is he confident?”

“Kekeke, crushing those faces is really fun, isn’t it.”

“For sure.”

While everyone was laughing with such bitter smiles, Dohyun spoke as he looked at those Pirates.

“Hand over everything you’ve got!”

“…?” “…?”

“…?” “…?” “…?” “…?” “…?”

At my words, Hanalin and Jiyuchan forgot they were about to enter combat entirely, staring at me as if I’d lost my mind. The enemy was equally dumbfounded.

They stood frozen in bewilderment, their own line stolen from them.

“Captain, isn’t that supposed to be our line?”

“…Are they pirates too?”

“What’s going on?”

“I… I’ve never heard anyone say something like that before….”

Watching his bewildered crew, Kaelus, their captain, cried out in exasperation.

“Kill them.”

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