Ahem, nice breeze."
Weed said through his crooked smile.
Since the maximum capacity of the medium-size ship has been reached, its speed was clearly slower.
"We have to quickly escape from this encirclement."
Golden Bird continually goes back and forth doing recons in order to inform Weed on the enemies' location.
They were moving forward into the wide sea. They were trying their hardest to slip past their enemies, determined to see the end of the Unfreezing River and escape. However, their enemies had better mobility.
"It's time to use the preparations we've made for this day......"
Weed gave the numerous living sculptures with beaks and with wings a certain job.
"I want you to go to the nearby ice field, there you will see some places that have cracks. I want you to break that ice off from the main land. Be careful with those things."
The job was to recover the large amount of japtem acquired from monster hunting in Jigolaths.
The living sculptures used their beaks or other tools to chisel the the side of the ravine. Sacks of japtem came out left and right, and they quickly gathered them all.
If you would look at Yellowy you could see such a pathetic sight.
"I'm glad I can’t fly."
Weed was happy with his investments on the living sculptures, they will be working for him forever.
Working 5 days a week with no or annual or monthly bonuses and other business benefits.
Yellowy tried asking for a leave, when the time of his cow calves were born, but he was denied and was made to work around the clock.
Paternity leave is also banned!
Constantly being threatened to be eaten and made to work underground in the mines was the worst possible working condition.
He had buried the japtem in the ice at the river banks anticipating this to happen.
“To pass up on my precious items …”
Weed said with such sadness that his face crinkled.
Sorrow filled Weed's heart as he looked at the cinematic scene of the Jigolaths landscape and remembered Nada Sōsō(film), he pretended to yawn as tears started to come out.
Weed decided to be honest with his emotions right now.
"Each drop of my tears costs 800 gold, no more like 8,000 gold. No matter what the situation I will never give a discount!"
By no means are this tears not his true feelings.
"Accumulated stress could cause gastrointestinal disease to occur. You can never know when your habitual intake of food will be like having small blades inside your stomach.
To help fight stress of losing that much money, I better buy some antidepressants so that I won't die!"
The ship was pushing towards the sea. Weed who was looking at the direction of Jigolaths saw a massive fleet appear.
The Battleships from both Haven Kingdom’s fleet and the United Pirates’ fleet appeared.
"A bit sooner than I expected. But I don’t have to wait for them!."
Tower sculptures presented the most brilliant play of the year without better knowledge of actual events.
Weed released the Sculptural Transformation from the appearance of Griffith as it has lost its meaning.
He took off the specially made clothes that he made through sewing, to look like him.
When he gets back to Morata he can sell these clothes, so the clothes needs to be kept clean.
Once he turns into a lich, there could be some unwanted alterations done on the clothes as the result of the transformation.
The power of the undead is an ever growing concern, But it is absolutely needed if he wanted to take command of all those Ghost Ships.
"Sculptural Transformation!"
Weed turns into the sculpture of a Lich that he is holding. This makes his appearance much older.
Jubyeoneseoneun Weed floated in midair, he was at least 30 centimeters from the ground, he was covered by a swirling black aura on his body.
Anyone witnessing such a dazzling scene will most likely gulp down their saliva as they feel the massive overpowering presence of his lich form.
- Sculptural Transformation has been used.
As the sculpture has been carved by the Sculptor with enormous affection they now resemble each other!
-The body has now changed to that of a lich so a number of equipment have become unusable and are recommended to switch them. You can not wear mithril or divine equipment and it may be necessary to obtain new equipment based on the species type.
-As a result of the transformation wisdom and intelligence has increased significantly.
Stamina limitations disappear.
When you use the skill of necromancer you will gain 25% additional effects.
Levitation is done spontaneously.
Magic power has increased drastically.
Due to the effects of high art stat you have transformed into an Undead Summoner.
Death Aura has been triggered.
Except for leadership and charisma all the other stats are reduced. The Luck stat is reduced to the lowest.
Health and Mana will increase dramatically.
Life Drain and Mana Drain can be used at 20% efficiency but is unusable in the sunlight. It can be used to recover health and mana. You are now fatally weak to divine power. This form will remain until Sculptural Transformation is removed.
-Warning! As the side effects of using Sculptural Transformation into a Lich all activities done in this form may be taken as actions against humanity.
Complete Lich Variation: 19.3%
-by using Sculptural Transformation into a Lich you've increased sculptural understanding by 1 level.
Look closely at the really awesome Lich!
"But I’m still only at the lower levels."
Weed took a glance at his transformed look and was satisfied with the change.
He had transformed into an absurdly average skeleton lich.
I am lower leveled compared to Lich Shire and he was insufficient when compared to the higher level Lich Bar Khan.
But now, I do have the necromancer ability Death Aura and by practicing the dark arts I have now amplified undead summoning in exchange for their deaths.
One of the disadvantages of the Death Aura is that its range is small. He would need a better way to satisfy this condition.
"I don’t need to wear high heels in order to get some height."
Because he was floating 30 cm from the ground his eyes sparkled, as his point of view has improved.
Liches are strong at night nevertheless he was able to move well during daytime.
"Hmmm."
On the other hand, Drinpelt's fleet was still chasing them while crossing adverse circumstances.
“They are going to catch up to us in 5 minutes”.
Keeping in mind the speed of the opponent's boat, calculating how much time it would take for them to be within magical range.
Weed's sailboat barely escapes the magical shot as flames whizzed by.
It was while passing by them in the sailboat hauling the japtem, Weed heard.
“Here”
“We are here”
“Weed-nim, we have been waiting for you. Please give us a ride. This way!”
Far from the river there were three humanoid figures, shaking and shivering they weren't looking for trouble. But they found it.
The group was walking past the glacier area, somehow trying their best to stay alive.
Hoping that Weed will come this way when leaving the river.