Cave Refuge-Chapter 834 - 538

Touching the Mysterious Core that had appeared in his hand unknown when, Zachary pondered briefly and realized that the situation he had just experienced was not random.

The collision had been with only a small-sized ghost ship, accompanied by many iron cages; however, due to the constraints of power limits, only one deformed creature capable of moving freely had appeared.

If he had faced a medium or large-sized ghost ship instead, the number of deformed creatures emerging from the iron cages might not have been limited to just one.

If using ranged weapons for combat was considered expensive, then perhaps melee was more suitable for most survivors.

Up to now, Zachary knew of four different ways to destroy a ghost ship: destroy the inherent mysterious realm of the ghost ship, destroy the fusion mystic realm of the ghost ship, use ranged weapons from the Companion Spiritual Treasure to target the dust accumulating ghost ship, and use melee weapons from the Companion Spiritual Treasure to overpower and board the ghost ship, eliminating all creatures onboard.

If the first two methods were akin to instance dungeons in video games, then the remaining two methods resembled normal naval battle modes.

Since the method for obtaining dark green trick nuclei had not yet been disclosed, it was still uncertain when this mode of naval battle would become clear to everyone.

In fact, compared to game-like mysterious realms, the original naval battle mode was better suited for humans.

After all, the more participants there are, the more dangerous the mysterious realm becomes; the naval battle mode, which directly limits the power of monsters on board and does not restrict the strengths of the boarders, allows humans to flexibly arrange their combat strengths.

After thinking it through for a while, Zachary also realized something else: if it was the mysterious realm conquest mode, regardless of whether it was a small or large ghost ship, as long as one had the ability, it could actually be done solo.

However, in the case of a naval battle mode, unless one had overwhelming strength, it would be difficult for a single person to defeat the deformed creatures on the ghost ship.

With equal strengths, fewer numbers were more suited to using the Power Strange Environment method to destroy ghost ships, while larger numbers were better suited for using the naval battle mode to break through the mysterious core.

Of course, for Zachary, although there was only him on his Companion Spiritual Treasure now, the naval battle mode still suited him better.

After all, compared to using his brain to find rules and patterns in mysterious realms, Zachary preferred to combat using brute force.

Just as Zachary was delighted to find a battle mode suited for himself, he suddenly thought of something—if the Black Ghost Ship and the Dark Green Ghost Ship each had single-player mysterious realms, the naval battle mode should not differ much.

Then what would be the scenario of naval battles on the Blood-Colored Ghost Ship, since the previous two ghost ships had single-player mysterious realms while the Blood-Colored Ghost Ship had an online strange environment?

In fact, other issues were not that significant; the most important was that the Bloody Mysterious Realm belonged to the Slaughter Sacrifice Strange Environment. In the few Bloody Mysterious Realms Zachary had participated in, sacrifices of other competitors were necessary to achieve final victory and obtain the Mysterious Core.

If the naval battle mode of the Blood-Colored Ghost Ship was the same, then it would be a great help, not only to Zachary but also to other humans.

Not to mention, the Mysterious Realm mode required multiple participants, eventually yielding only one blood-colored mysterious core.

However, with the same number of people, if it was a naval battle mode, the number of mysterious cores obtained through destroying the ghost ship, even if not every Blood-Colored Ghost Ship yielded a blood-colored mysterious core, would definitely produce more than just one blood-colored mysterious core.

Reflecting on this, Zachary could hardly wait to find a Blood-Colored Ghost Ship and personally test this in actual combat to see what the situation would be like.

However, even though he was so eager at the moment, the most pressing issue was that Zachary no longer had any dark green trick nuclei on him.

Without the dark green trick nuclei, it meant his ranged weapon had become an ornament, losing its original function.

Just as Zachary was preparing to control his Companion Spiritual Treasure to dive into the deep sea to hunt for trick nuclei and obtain dark green trick nuclei, he suddenly thought of something.

He believed that not only in the entire world but even just in China, there were definitely others besides Zachary whose Companion Spiritual Treasures had evolved to the branching stage of selection, and surely some had chosen the submarine path just like him.

He also believed some had fed their Companion Spirits a significant amount of dark green trick nuclei, enabling their equipment levels in the Companion Spiritual Treasures to far surpass Zachary’s at this time.

But Zachary doubted that anyone else’s Companion Spiritual Treasure had both chosen the submarine branch and been fed so many dark green trick nuclei, elevating their internal equipment to such a high level as his.

The reason Zachary thought this was because, when he was preparing to dive earlier, he suddenly wondered what the underwater mode of naval battle would look like.

If the underwater naval battle mode wasn’t too complex, Zachary would definitely prefer to destroy ghost ships through the naval battle mode. Although entering the secret realm might provide some resources, Zachary no longer lacked materials, and efficiency and speed better suited his character.