Chương 648: Chapter 647: Burning Ship

It exploded out of me, spreading far and wide. As it did, it seemed to freeze the battle to a standstill, with many heads turning to me a moment later, looking at me with deep shock in their eyes. I understand what happened. I would be a fool if I didn't. I had awakened the aura. Saying I am shocked by it would be an understatement. The aura is a sign of potential, the strength of the will, while I am a middle-aged whore, with barely any potential.

I never thought I had a will as strong as a rock, much less that of steel. This self-doubt is why I'm having a hard time believing it, but it is the truth. The aura returned to me a second later, and I immediately moved toward my ship. My purpose hasn't changed. It is to save my girls. That's why—even after awakening my aura—I kept moving toward the ship. I had to save my girls. I poured my aura into my skills, but the moment I did, a fierce resistance hit me.

Like I am holding a heavy bottle of liquor with hands wet with oil and forcing it into the mouth of a person who has already drunk to the limit. When Carla awakened the aura, it shocked the girls, and they asked her many questions. One of them is how to utilize it in skills. There is only one answer to it: control. The better control one has of their aura, the greater the power they will be able to harness from it. When the girls asked. What if one doesn't have any control?

Then she replied that one should just push it with everything one has. That is what I am doing. It is far from efficient, but it is the only choice I have.

"Kill the whore!" A loud command rang out through the pirate ship, and the next moment, I saw tens of arrows coming toward me with several spells. Seeing this attack, my heart shuddered, but it didn't stop me. It might seem like suicide, but there is no other choice. I need to reach my girls, and if I have to cross a barrage of spells and arrows, I will do it. Still, I do not wish to get killed before I save my girls, and thus, I push the aura harder into my skills.

I funneled all the fear I was feeling for the girls and my safety, along with the blazing pain of the arrows buried in me. My desperate push created small crack-like openings. I pushed my aura through those openings with all my will. Immediately, I became faster than before, reaching speeds that surprised me. Even with the burst of speed, dodging every spell and arrow flying my way would be nearly impossible. But that didn't matter. I'd give it everything I had—because I had to. Hun!

I was thinking that when I saw the defensive shield spells appearing in front of me. I could see Hen's familiar defensive spells, but many others belonged to others. They all appeared in front of the spells and began to stop them. However, there were too many attacks, and the shields were not able to stop all of them. Clang, Clang, Clang! I put my shield forward and moved my sword as I began to defend against the attacks. However, my focus is on dodging them. Bam!

The lightning bolt crashed against my shield, and it pushed me back. If there hadn't been an aura covering me, it would have done a lot more to me. I stopped and moved forward. Dodging and defending the attacks. Stolen story; please report. Some of the people had jumped into the sea to protect me, but the pirates jumped in to stop them, not letting even a single one of them come toward me. I was closing the distance fast when the pirates pulled a move that ignited pure fury in my eyes.

They swerved their ship directly in front of me. At first, I braced for a relentless barrage of attacks, expecting spells and arrows to rain down like hellfire. But it didn't come—at least, not in the way I thought. Instead, they'd positioned themselves squarely between me and my ship. A bold move… and a stupid one. They'd made themselves a target. My ship wouldn't hold back. Still, the intensity of their assault did spike, and the shrinking distance only made dodging harder.

Every step closer turned the battlefield into a storm of chaos. It gave me less space to dodge their barrage of arrows and spells. Rip Rip! I was barely able to defend against their attacks—some of the arrows and the spells cut through me. The aura is powerful, but its strength lies in control. Currently, I have none. I am pushing the aura harder into my skills to get more power. With things getting difficult, I forced the aura even more.

Soon, there was barely fifty meters of distance between the pirate ship and me, but it was not my target. I need to reach my ship, and I moved left. I will need to go around, and it won't be easy. A second later, the pirates reacted, and a group of seven jumped into the turbulent sea and came toward me fast.

"You can forget about reaching your ship, whore!" said the bald, middle-aged leader as he came toward me. I didn't stop and moved toward them. Stopping isn't an option; I need to keep moving even if there is a group of pirates coming toward me. I am scared, but they should be more terrified. If they had some sense, they wouldn't have done what they did. Puch! I continued moving, and soon, there was only a meter distance between us when an arrow slipped past and lodged itself in my other leg.

It sent fiery pain all over my body and nearly made me stumble. I bore through the pain and kept moving forward, dodging and defending against the incoming attack.

"Kill the whore!" roared the bald leader and moved toward me with his group. Whosh! As he did, liquor appeared in my mouth, and I breathed with a Long Breath and Powerful Breath before lighting up with the Flint. The fire is extremely potent, and if not for me, pouring aura into Minor Fire Resistance. I would have been terrified. The fire bloomed out, and their mages reacted immediately. The shield and protective spells appeared around them. I could see the confidence in their eyes.

I don't know whether these pirates are stupid or if some skill is affecting them. They had seen their leader burned to ashes not long ago, and they are still coming confidently at me. The fire touched the wall of the shield and began burning immediately. It made the confidence in their eyes crumble, and they took steps back, but it was already too late. Whoosh! It took all but a second for the shields to burn when I released another breath, which went at them while they tried to run in terror.

The pirates on the ship provided support with defensive spells, but as I said, it was already too late.

"Ahhhh!" They screamed as they burned while I moved past them. Not sparing them even another glance. I could see the pirates that were about to jump from the ship stop in their tracks, but a moment later, the intensified barrage came toward me. Puch! Puch! Another two arrows lodged themselves in me. Making me grit my teeth tighter as torturous pain filled me. It also made me understand that pirates wouldn't let me go to my ship.

One of these times, an arrow will lodge itself into my head, sending me to the underworld. Puch! The closer I got, the more intense the attacks became. I needed to push my aura into my skills harder and harder for greater speed. I need speed to dodge these attacks; without it, I will have turned into a porcupine. However, even with it, I am having difficulty dodging and defending against this attack. One of which went past my eyes, giving me a small cut above my eye.

If it had been a little closer, it would have pierced my eyes and killed me. There is only one way I could stop this: to burn the whole thing. Burn the pirate ship. As I thought about it, I turned toward the ship but understood it wouldn't be easy. Even the most powerful liquor in my arsenal isn't enough to burn the damn thing.

'I hope this won't kill me,' I thought as the four drops of alcohol my body produced merged with the liquor I had in my mouth. I am already using my most powerful liquor; it is powerful enough to burn Grade IV spells, but that is not enough. The ship has various protection enchantments. There are also skills attached to it and spells. I need something powerful to deal with it. The moment those drops entered the liquor in my mouth, I felt a powerful reaction.

The liquor is magically dense, and the drops have an effect on them. I know, I didn't have time. If I didn't push it out of my mouth, the next second. It will be me who will burn to death. I pushed my aura into my skills and breathed out the liquor with Power Breath and Long Breath. The liquor came out with force like never before. I felt like I was shooting a cannonball from my mouth instead of unstable liquor. As it came out, I lit up with Flint before activating Wide Plume and pushing a massive aura into it.

A massive plume of dense blue fire erupted before me, towering and roaring with raw power. To my amazement, it was over three times larger than the biggest one I'd ever conjured. It is burning me despite pushing more aura into Minor Fire Resistance, but I did not care about it, seeing the massive plume, which is now moving fast toward the pirate ship. I could see the alarm appearing in their eyes as they threw spell after spell at the plume, but not a single one could stop it.

It burned through them, moving closer and closer to the ship. Hun! It had almost reached it when a large water shield appeared in front of it Grade IV spells. This ship didn't have a High Mage. I turned toward the pirate ship at a distance; there was a High-Mage there, and they had made a move to protect it. Unfortunately, it will not work. As I had thought, the fire engulfed the shield, vaporizing it at a visible pace until nothing remained.

I could see the terror in the pirates' eyes as Plume moved toward their ship before crashing hard against it. Bam! The ship shook as the plume crashed against it. For a moment, there was nothing; the skills attached to the vessel held it back, but only for an instant. As the moment passed, the plume incinerated the skills and covered the ship in the blazing fire. Burning it.