The Aria Chronicles 18 Pirate I

The speed of Airs.h.i.+p suddenly increased that it made many people lose their balance, It was a good thing I quickly found something to hold on to otherwise I would have felled on the floor as some people on the deck did.

Zup Zup…...

Just a few seconds after the Airs.h.i.+p sped up the runes sharted to appear all over the airs.h.i.+p and they started to glow brighter and brighter and a layer of energy started to envelop the whole airs.h.i.+p while all the door's leading to the deck started to close off one by one.

People begin to panic seeing Airs.h.i.+p going into the emergy mode suddenly and there could only be two reasons for it and both of them are bad.

The airs.h.i.+p only activates the emergency mode when it either attacked by the Beasts or Pirates.

If there had been the Beast, we would have seen it as the airs.h.i.+p and since there no Beast that means its pirates, just as I thought that I shuddered.

Pirates are more vicious than the beasts, they kill indiscriminately and looting, raping, killing, kidnapping is all very common to them.

Soon we saw three light dots coming toward us, one dot is big while two beside it seem smaller, as they got closer the dots got bigger till I was able to see the silhouette of them.

As expected they are pirates and they are speedily closing on us despite our Airs.h.i.+p's enhanced speed and that scared the h.e.l.l out of us.

There is one Frigate cla.s.s airs.h.i.+p while two tailing behind it are the Corvette cla.s.s all three of them seem to have their s.h.i.+elds activated and guns pointed at our airs.h.i.+p.

"Isn't this route supposed to be heavily patrolled!" one woman screamed hysterically.

Her hysteric screams had brought me to myself and I slowly moved toward the bar on the deck and hide behind it. There are quite a few smart people already behind it but there is enough s.p.a.ce for me to squeeze.

The bar counter is one of the safest places in the whole deck, the deck is a most lightly defensive area on the whole airs.h.i.+p as it was made for the pa.s.sengers to enjoy the scenery during the travel.

The material for the deck is quite exquisite but they aren't much defense-oriented, despite the defensive runic formation carved on them, they won't able to endure more than five cannon shots, I hope they won't target the deck.

The seconds pa.s.sed, the three dots got closer and closer, till every person on the airs.h.i.+p could see the three pirates airs.h.i.+ps with more clarity.

All three airs.h.i.+p colored in red and have black flag strung them which have the design of dagger buried in the skull, it looked quite frightening.

"Its dagger skull Pirates!" shouted a man beside me but there was fear but also some relief in his voice.

"Red skull pirates?" I question myself, never heard about this group of pirates before, well the oceans are vast and thousands of pirate roam in them and

But I didnt have to wait for long, hearing I didnt know about this group of pirates, the man beside started to tell me about them.

"Dagger Skull pirates like any other pirates are cruel and bloodthirsty and even ma.s.sacred the whole s.h.i.+ps but they have certain rules, as long as we do not put much resistance and gave them everything they need without any resistance, they will not do anything and will leave quietly," he said, hearing that I relaxed a little.

Bang Bang Bang Bang…...

"f.u.c.k!"

Just as he finished telling me about, the attack started and its not pirates that attacked first but we.

"f.u.c.k is the captain a d.a.m.ned idiot! They have fricking Frigate if you do not have a frigate to oppose, you f.u.c.king surrender." cursed a man beside me, not only he that many people started to curse at captain's choice to attack.

The frigate maybe four times smaller with tiny cannons compare to that on our airs.h.i.+p but frigate purely military airs.h.i.+p that packed destructive power, Its power could not be compared to the civilian airs.h.i.+p we are on.

Soon the barrage of cannons b.a.l.l.s had reached near three pirate s.h.i.+p but they had nimbly dodged and one or two cannonb.a.l.l.s that can not be dodged had managed by their s.h.i.+eld.

This is my first time seeing the aerial combat and it is very frightening but also very awe-worthy.

Our airs.h.i.+p kept launching attacks containing both physical sh.e.l.ls and energy sh.e.l.ls but pirate s.h.i.+ps nimbly dodged whatever attack we threw at them.

The attacks felt like colorful fireworks but they are extremely dangerous, from my position I could see glowing runes on the cannons as it keeps launching the energy type of attacks on the pirates but they were barely able to hit the pirate s.h.i.+p's and those attacks which were hit were able to hit, were easily defended by the s.h.i.+eld.

The pirate hadn't attacked yet, they were just purely following and defending. Their strategy is quite good, they want to deplete the energy of the pa.s.senger's s.h.i.+ps as much as possible, so when they attack they will quickly able to take down the s.h.i.+p.

It's quite risky but good plan, as this plan wholly depends on the ability of captain of the s.h.i.+p, if he had the confidence to dodge the cannon attacks then he may employ this tactic and clearly and seeing how expertly the pirates dodging, they seem very experienced.

I watched the fight with bated breath hoping some of the cannon shots may able to breach the pirate's s.h.i.+p and crash it on the ocean but nothing that sort happens.

Time pa.s.sed by and the fight had been going on for two hours but not the single cannon shots could be seen breaching the pirate's defenses, not only that, till now we had not received any reinforcement or run into any patrolling s.h.i.+ps.

They must have sent the emergency signal but no one had come to help. Looks like we are great trouble this time, normally pirates don't touch this route as it was heavily patrolled but the ocean is a very vast territory and even if this route is heavily patrolled, the patroling force could not be everywhere in this route.

The constant firing kept going for nearly three hours, every minute hundred shots would be fired from canons every minute. for three hours it didnt slow down a bit for a moment.

Bang Bang Bang….

Now, in nearly three hours the barrage of cannons finally slowed down a little and just that had happened, the pirated saw their chance and started attacking.

All cannons on the three pirates s.h.i.+p got activated and they started firing cannons.

Dhul Dhul….

Now both side are attacking each other but it is the pa.s.senger s.h.i.+p that suffering as it is a giant s.h.i.+p which had nearly no agility, it had become a very easy target for pirates to hit the pa.s.senger s.h.i.+p.

Bam bam….
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I can see the cannonb.a.l.l.s cras.h.i.+ng across the s.h.i.+eld of the airs.h.i.+p and it seemed to hold on for now but it won't be much longer as the pirates have fricking frigate cla.s.s s.h.i.+p.

'Gasp….. "s.h.i.+pbreaker!"

Suddenly I heard loud gasps and heard 's.h.i.+pbreaker' hearing that word all hairs on my body stood.

On the top of a frigate of pirates, about 5 meters long cannon started to appear and within a minute it fully resurfaced.

It's really is 's.h.i.+pbreaker', 'how are they able to get their hands on it, isn't it strictly regulated amongst the kingdom navies' I thought incredulously seeing the s.h.i.+pbreaker Cannon.

The s.h.i.+pbreaker also knew as s.h.i.+p hunters, they are large size cannons that could tear through any s.h.i.+eld. These cannons are heavily regulated, that even the kingdom that I lived in did not have more than ten of these cannon's and now this puny pirate crew able to acquire one. Things may not be as simple as they seem.

Looking at the s.h.i.+p breaker size, it seemed to be the smallest size s.h.i.+p breaker but it will still be able to tear s.h.i.+eld of this pa.s.senger s.h.i.+p.

The only weakness the s.h.i.+pbreaker has that if it is firing energy round then it takes some time to charge up and looking at the all the spiral of the cannon started to light up one by one and purple energy concentrating at end of its mouth, it is an energy type s.h.i.+pbreaker cannon.

s.h.i.+pbreaker cannon is different from the other cannons, it has a spiral mouth and the shot it released is not bigger than the thumb but the destruction it brought is tens of times bigger than other cannons could manage.

It will take three to seven minutes for that s.h.i.+p Breaker charge up depending on how older it's model is.

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