Chapter 152: The thief side seems to be pushing. Completely pinned, and at this rate the Catamaran-type people will get done in (1)

While echoing a noisy brake sound, the truck stopped suddenly.

About rescue request signal flares terrestrial ships moving between cities launched in emergencies, adventurers were taught in guild training.

Responding to a rescue request was not an obligation, but if in a situation of being able to help, helping was recommended.

This was the same not only for guild adventurers but also residents of autonomous cities.

In the case of non-combatant residents, cooperating in a form of not participating in combat could be called common sense.

Only on the premise of not exposing one’s own life to danger.

"Yuri and the others protect the truck! Me and Tint will go check!"

"Got it!"

Yuri answered immediately and, to protect the truck, opened a hole for entering and exiting in the defensive barrier deployed together with Nora.

Of course with Nora cooperating too.

Kazui and Tint together released flashes from their bodies and both activated Aura Mail and Aura Speeder.

From the hole opened in the defensive barrier, the two leapt out.

Leaping all at once and riding a high branch of a forest tree, using the branches of the trees as footholds as is, with movement lighter than monkeys, Kazui and Tint went up the trees.

Then putting their faces out above the trees, they confirmed the sky and surrounding situation.

In the eastern sky, black smoke left by the signal flare remained like a small rain cloud.

Explosion sounds and shouts that seemed combat sounds also echoed from the east.

"Over there should be the wasteland that became the route with Delphinus!"

While looking east, Tint raised a voice.

"Even if a ship is being attacked it wouldn’t be strange!"

Delphinus was one of the autonomous cities near Aquila, to the northeast.

In distance from around here to Aquila, advancing the wasteland on the east side could be called the shortest distance.

But the wasteland was wild to the degree continuing to run by truck was impossible.

But terrestrial ships that did not question road surface state and had mutual cross-country ability calmly advanced even this degree of wasteland, so they made the shortest distance the route.

Kazui and Tint got down from the trees and landed, then started running east.

While continuing to run between the trees, explosion sounds and blast sounds, angry voices and shouts, sounds that seemed combat being performed, became clearly audible.

Around running five hundred meters, Kazui and Tint arrived at the east end of the forest.

Hiding their bodies behind tree trunks, Kazui and Tint probed the state of the wasteland.

The end of the forest was like a cliff, and beyond it a brown wasteland with no plants in sight spread.

The ground’s unevenness was intense, there were places swelling like hills, and everywhere there were large holes like craters and ground cracks, truly a state left wild.

In that wasteland, around three hundred meters away from Kazui and the others, two terrestrial ships had ceased and were in combat.

One was a blood-like bright red medium Dolphin-class, and the other a khaki small Porpoise-class.

Tint took portable binoculars from his pocket and observed the state of the battlefield.

Metal folding type, very similar to opera glasses.

Kazui’s side chanted a spell and quickly activated the magic skill Farsight.

Making his eyes glow white, same as Tint he looked at the battlefield.

Before Kazui also used binoculars, but having copied the Farsight skill, unless nighttime he had stopped using them now.

At night the eyes glowed, so depending on the case there were still times of relying on binoculars.

"A Catamaran-type cargo ship, a Cougar-type thief ship seems to be attacking."

Tint knowledgeable about terrestrial ships analyzed the situation.

Catamaran-type and Cougar-type were names of terrestrial ship models... hull type names.

Classification by size was class, and each class had various models... hull type terrestrial ships.

Most terrestrial ships were mass-produced by makers, so same-type ships of the same hull type existed.

Same-type ships, the name of the ship that first came on the market became the standard of the hull type name.

The word "type" attached to the ship’s name and became the hull type name.

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Catamaran-type was a twin-hull type terrestrial ship that connected two long thin terrestrial ships in parallel.

The hold was fairly wide, and on the deck connecting the two hulls a large amount of cargo could be loaded.

Despite being a medium Dolphin-class, it boasted a cargo load close to a large Whale-class.

Not as high in price as Whale-class, but able to load a large amount of cargo, so a popular hull type as a cargo ship.

In a state of not loading cargo it was not a slow ship, but in a state of loading a large amount of cargo speed did not come out.

Maneuverability and turning performance were bad, so overall it was held as an image of a sluggish, heavy terrestrial ship.

Cougar-type was Porpoise-class, and could be called the most major terrestrial ship.

Small, but cheap and easy to modify, so used in various forms.

On a hull like a thin rectangular plate, around the center of the starboard there was a bridge, and despite the hull being small a wide deck was secured.

That was why the freedom of modification and use was fairly high.

Catamaran-type and Cougar-type were over a hundred meters apart, but the hulls were connected by a dozen or so red light rays.

And from the Cougar-type hull dozens of red light rays extended to the ground.

The light rays were existences like firm cables shining created by magic.

"The Cougar-type fixing the hull with Magic Anchor, the Catamaran-type is caught by Magic Tractor..."

While looking at the starboard of the Catamaran-type raising black smoke and scattering glittering light, Tint continued.

"The hull seems to have caused some trouble and seems unable to move. Light is leaking too, so probably the magic power pipe was done in."

Magic Anchor was literally an anchor by magic, magic that fixed huge things such as terrestrial ships so they did not move.

Originally before mooring facilities such as ports were maintained, magic developed to stably berth terrestrial ships.

Magic Tractor was magic applying Magic Anchor, magic used when connecting terrestrial ships to each other and towing.

Originally used when in mountainous areas a terrestrial ship with low output was towed by a terrestrial ship possessing powerful output.

But there were cases of thief terrestrial ships using it to capture other terrestrial ships.

The thieves fixed the Cougar-type with Magic Anchor, captured the Catamaran-type with Magic Tractor, and stopped its movement.

The Catamaran-type side was in a state of stopping the jet flowers and having landed.

Receiving the thief side’s attack, the jet flowers on the starboard side temporarily caused trouble.

Only part of the pipe supplying magic power to the jet flowers was damaged, so the repair itself was an easy state.

That was why the Cougar-type had not released Magic Anchor.

The adventurers on the Catamaran-type ship tried to cut Magic Anchor.

But blocked by the thief side adventurers, a situation of not having cut completely.

Defensive barriers were only deployed to defend part of the hull and cargo.

The leeway to deploy a large defensive barrier that could protect the whole hull was already lost.