"D20+18+6+5+4+1+3-5=48, hit."
"D20+18+6+5+4+1+3-5=47, hit."
It was a shame he hadn't scored a critical hit.
But it wasn't a big deal.
The difference wasn't that great, after all.
As Lin Yun swung down with all his strength,
"16D6+8D6+13D6+26+5+20+3=222." It flashed eight times.
Yet when the axe struck, it seemed to have no effect at all. The ghost floating in front of Lin Yun looked utterly bewildered. He didn't feel as if he'd sustained so much as a scratch.
But... almost at the same time, inside the Castle Ship below, Earl What's-His-Name had just released a Great Vortex to trap Lin Yun's Gork's Hammer, then sent two lackeys over to test the waters.
He was a vampire wearing full-body armor that looked as though it were made from some kind of horned creature. It had a slight finlike appearance, with two large barbs jutting from his shoulders. He wore a typical red pirate hat covered in spikes and held a halberd.
Though, if you looked at him closely... he didn't really look like a vampire. He seemed more like a Norscan.
But just then,
a tremendous slash suddenly appeared across his body, cleaving him clean in half in the blink of an eye.
If he weren't a vampire, if he weren't at least a vampire of the Manfred Family, and a descendant of Mann,
that blow might really have killed him.
He was completely dumbfounded, with no idea what had happened.
Soul Piercing Strike.
This was an eighth-level Mianxian Style martial technique, and a very peculiar one.
What was so special about hitting a bull through a mountain?
This technique let him transmit a deadly attack against an enemy through a magical bond between a familiar and its master, or some other similar connection.
When this technique hit, it dealt an additional