Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 144 The Corrupted Lamp of Wishes
"Brothers, our Pure Crystal has arrived!"

"Charge! For the Son of the Sun!"

"Dismantle their ships!"

The land and oasis, like reflections in a water curtain, suddenly rippled and then shattered, along with the camels, cows, and mules in the oasis, disappearing like a mirage.

A menacing, dragon-decorated drifting ship emerged from the shimmering water.

The Gold-class drifting ship, Son of the Sun!
Hey.

Shi Ming could barely suppress the urge to smile.

Ship dismantling?

Let's see who's better at it.

And to be honest, you people are really impatient. There's still half a nautical mile to go, why are you in such a hurry?

You should know that fishing requires patience. A true angler can spend an entire day fishing by the river when he is only ten years old!

Seeing the sudden change, the crew members on the Dayun only changed their expressions but did not panic.

Instead, they accelerated and charged forward.

The captain is their source of confidence.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the Yellow Sand Sea should have been unbearably hot, with many crew members already wearing summer short sleeves, and some who weren't Awakened even shirtless, drenched in sweat. But suddenly, they noticed a chill in the air that didn't belong to this sea.

Huang Pao, who was standing next to Shi Ming and completely unprepared, shivered from the cold.

He knew the captain was about to unleash a powerful attack.

A chill suddenly spread, and with a splash, layers of ice crystals condensed in the seawater near the Dayun. As the golden ship's turbines and hull sped along, they crashed and shattered into dust, leaving the Dayun far behind.

The two boats were less than 200 meters apart.

The crew of the Son of the Sun roared like pirates.

They simply couldn't understand how this silver ship, which had been tricked into coming, could be so audacious.
Don't you recognize our illustrious reputation?

You still dare to run into me?
"Dismantle their ships!"

"Rob everything, then kick it aside!"

It's so noisy it's driving me crazy.

Shi Ming suddenly leaped up, appearing in a parabola more than 30 meters in the air. He conjured a huge frost hammer, a full eight meters long, in his hand and descended from the sky with the hammer, crashing down in a fierce arc directly in front of the Son of the Sun.

The Son of the Sun narrowly avoided the blow.

But that doesn't mean it escaped the attack.

The giant hammer crashed into the water, creating towering waves. The scorching waves were instantly frozen into ice, along with the Son of the Sun, who was also frozen into a lump of ice.

A tangible white chill emanated from Shi Ming's body.

I'm getting more and more adept at using the A-rank skill, Ice Annihilation.

All the crew members of the Son of the Sun seemed to have arrived at an endless icy sea they had never been before. Some were embedded in the ice, some had half their bodies frozen, and some narrowly avoided the impact of the icy water. At this moment, they were half-naked and shivering from the cold.

"Great!"

The sound of applause came from below the cabin.
A plain-looking man with dark brown skin, disheveled hair, wearing a jeweled crown and a gold necklace, slowly walked out of the cabin. He had a cigarette in his mouth and an inconspicuous old lamp-shaped ashtray in his hand.

He glanced at the ice formed by the towering waves and chuckled in surprise.

"An A-level Awakener? No wonder he dared to come to my Son of the Sun alone."

"Unfortunately, in these five years, I have already killed three A-level Awakened individuals. Their heads are all hanging in the cabin, which I occasionally play with and admire..."

"And you will be the fourth."

Three?

Bang!
Before he could finish speaking, an ice flower bloomed beneath the prince's feet, then exploded with a bang, scattering tiny ice shards like projectiles. The prince couldn't dodge in time, and his body was slashed and bloodied by the ice fragments.

The gold chain broke in the middle and fell heavily to the ground.

The weight of a few hundred grams made his body tense and his lips twitch.

Immediately following, with a low roar from Shi Ming, the ice formed from the raging waves shattered, creating a crimson array of ten thousand swords in the air, resembling a square formation of soldiers or drones. Like a dense barrage of bullets, it shot towards the smoking prince.

"Don't you lowly commoners know any manners?"

"Don't you know this is negotiation time?"

The prince tore off his chain, and a faint water curtain quickly appeared in front of him, obscuring the ice shards that were shooting towards him.

The ice blade that Shi Ming had once again conjured was already embedded in the gaps in the steel plates of the drifting ship. He exerted force suddenly, and the aura of icy annihilation exploded beneath the deck, sending thick steel plates flying like pieces of wood swept up by a gale, raining down on the prince. "The villain dies from talking too much; I don't think you understand that at all!"
And your people just said they wanted to dismantle the ship?

A portion of the water curtain in front of the prince parted, and a mirage-like mist swept towards Shi Ming. Suddenly, a layer of ice scales grew all over Shi Ming's body, providing tight protection against the attack from the unknown aura.

A misty vapor spread through the air.

Slowly, a dreamlike realm formed, seemingly real yet illusory.

Rank A skill: Mirage Realm!

What's with all the fancy stuff?

I will only use force to break through magic!
Shi Ming leaped into the air again, and as he fell, his body carried immense force. Thick and sharp ice enveloped him, sharpening his features as he pierced the air!

It looks like the guillotine that severed the head of Louis XVI!

Hey!
The sharp greatsword ignored the changing illusions and plunged directly into the core control room of the Son of the Sun, then exploded. Tiny ice shards, like bullets bursting from within, riddled the Son of the Sun with holes!

Although it looks fine on the surface, it is already leaking.

Enraged, the prince hurled the most vile curses in Arabic.

Shi Ming turned a deaf ear.

When facing the enemy, he would never utter a single useless word.

The dense mirage enveloped the prince, temporarily protecting him from the exploding ice crystals. The prince then raised the ashtray in his hand, muttering incantations, and the ashtray's rim emitted a hazy light.

"Oh?"

"treasure?"

"Sorry, I thought it was an ashtray!"

Shi Ming's eyes swept over the old items.

The creative mind has been awakened.
New information appeared before his eyes.

[The lamp of wishes, now polluted.]

Level 9

A wishing star that fell from the sky transformed into a wondrous power and merged into an oil lamp, forming the Wish Lamp, ranked 41st on the list of wondrous items. It can grant its holder three wishes.

Unfortunately, the worldly desires of mortals have corrupted the pure power of wishes. Now, these desires are fulfilled in a distorted way, and rewards are demanded based on the principle of equivalent exchange.

Upgrade Required: 300 grams of Purification Essence.

41!

Shi Ming's eyes lit up!
This thing is destined for me!

The prince's babbling did not stop, and the mirage temporarily formed a cocoon, tightly enveloping him.

Shi Ming's right arm emitted a crimson light.

The ice-forged longsword was stained with dazzling blood patterns, shining like a rainbow piercing the sun!

Ten times the power!
The surging force tore through the cocoon, the prince's eyes snapped open, and the wick of the oil lamp glowed, creating an incredible magnetic field.

In the blink of an eye, the prince had completed a great deal of communication with the oil lamp—

My wish is: ..., ...

[...Unable to achieve!!!]

[It's difficult to find a loophole to distort the illusion. Please change your wish immediately, otherwise the genie lamp will be considered to have fulfilled its duty.]

My wish is to return to the ruins of my kingdom, with my ship.

Your wish can be fulfilled! The price is that you will randomly lose one of your less important organs!

Wow!

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Like a magic trick, the Son of the Sun suddenly disappeared, and the stone inscription that had been cleaved through the air fell into the water. The Crimson Ice Sword, under ten times the force, could not be withdrawn and hit the sea water. With a whoosh, it burst out with a giant wave more than ten meters high, and then quickly froze it into a shiny ice sculpture.

He was stunned for a moment.

No, you made that wish way too fast!

Also, is that ashtray in his hand Aladdin's lamp?
Just a couple of days ago the art style was about the Twelve Titans and Ragnarok, and now it's taken me from Norse mythology to Arabian mythology, huh?

(End of this chapter)