I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

“You’re kidding me… Three of them suddenly appeared…”

Snapped.

Before Ella could speak, a woman named Lola, carrying a wooden bow on her back, slapped Rhine's head down and spoke on his behalf.

"Sorry, sorry, our leader is always like this. Please forgive me if I'm offended. The leader has no ill intentions, he just likes talking to younger girls."

But the age range of preferences is already a crime, right?!

After complaining inwardly, Ella put on a forgiving smile.

"That's fine, but just to be safe, I'd like to ask you in advance. Mr. Rhine wouldn't do anything to my partner, right?"

"Of course, we can guarantee this. The leader will never touch the people he protects. This is the leader's principle. If anyone breaks it, we will chop off his hands as an apology."

“Eh…”

Ella couldn't help but marvel at the fact that he could say murderous words in a joking tone.

"Well, judging by your looks, you should be adventurers too, right? A combination of a pure healer and a magic caster? That's quite rare in the kingdoms. Without a vanguard, you'll definitely suffer in the future, okay?"

Laura looked at Ella and her group standing in the hall. Since none of them were carrying weapons and their clothes were rather gorgeous robes, Laura naturally mistook them for magic casters.

"Would you like to join us? Although the salary is not guaranteed, it is at least much better than a purely defensive duo."

Ella declined Laura's kindness with a wry smile.

"No... Although it's an attractive proposal, we have various problems on our side."

"Is that so? Well, there's nothing we can do. As a warning before we meet, I'd like to remind you to be careful of the vampires standing on the deck. They're Crimson Gold-class, and it'll definitely be troublesome if you mess with them. Also, if you run into trouble along the way, you can always call us. Of course, you'll need to pay for it. So, goodbye."

After waving to Ella, Laura grabbed Rhine by the back of the collar and turned to leave with the other adventurers. However, Rhine, who was being dragged, took this opportunity to wave at Ella with a very kind smile.

"Don't listen to little Lola~ We won't charge any fees."

"Shut up, you shameful idiot!"

boom.

With a muffled sound of flesh contact, Rhine was knocked unconscious by Laura's iron fist from above and quickly disappeared around the corner of the corridor.

Watching the White Fang adventurers leave, Kagamika's crimson eyes were filled with worry.

"Will that strike be okay?"

"I think it should be fine. They left without even having lunch."

"Maybe he feels it's too embarrassing for Mr. Rhine and doesn't want to stay on the second floor anymore..."

"That's right."

After sighing at Lotte's words, Ella continued to focus on the food she had only taken a few bites of.

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By two o'clock in the afternoon, all the cargo was finally loaded and unloaded. The kumis went into the cabin to rest, while the sailors raised the sails. With the captain's shout, the merchant ship slowly sailed away from the dock.

As for what kind of goods Captain Ross was selling, although Captain Ross himself said it was silk, according to the terrain search, there was actually a large amount of ore under the cabin, so it must be smuggling, but it had nothing to do with her, and Ella did not expose Captain Ross's plan.

"The reason they're paying three times the price to hire adventurers to travel by sea must be because the profits from smuggling are ridiculously high. Well, thanks to that, the environment is so good. It's really great."

Ella, standing on the bow deck, stretched lazily. Her companions, except Mitis, were tidying up the cabin. Only Ella, Mitis and the captain's daughter were standing on the deck.

"Watching the bow of the ship break the surface of the water and the scenery on both sides slowly moving backwards is definitely a must-see sight in life, assuming you don't feel seasick—but if you do feel seasick, that's another story."

"Lady Ella, how is it? My father's merchant ship."

A girl who looked about fourteen years old standing next to Ella asked. She was Captain Ross's only daughter. After learning that Ella was an adventurer, she had been pestering Ella, wanting to hear stories about adventure from her.

"This is the most comfortable merchant ship I've ever seen, but you should definitely remove the 'Sir' address. Captain Ross might get angry if he hears Lilia addressing an adventurer like that."

"Father will never say anything. Lady Ella is the first person who's willing to tell me adventurer stories. Before, those guys always cared about status and stuff like that."

“Hmm…”

Ella couldn't help but feel a little troubled. At first, she thought that as long as she told a very clichéd story about a brave man and a demon king, Lilia would find her boring and leave on her own initiative. However, she didn't expect Lilia to be the type who was interested in everything and kept pestering her. As for Mitis's whispered words, "Don't worry, you will be out soon, it doesn't matter if I tell you," Ella pretended not to hear.

"Prepare to meet the enemy!"

When Ella was thinking about how to adapt her experience into a less outrageous story, a hobbit adventurer flying towards her attracted everyone's attention. The hobbit is a race with wings instead of hands, a bird's head and a human body, and is very suitable for serving as a scout.

Upon hearing the enemy attack, Ella immediately opened the terrain search - about 200 meters away from the merchant ship, there lived more than 30 monsters called "water lizards". Although the highest level lizard was less than level 9, due to the existence of the innate magic "water jet", it would wet the crew's clothes, which was very annoying.

——That's how it should be, but both the crew and the adventurers gathered on the deck in a hurry, holding their weapons tightly in their hands, with an expression of being ready for battle, which made Ella slightly surprised.

"What's wrong?"

"You're asking what's wrong, Lady Ella? Let's take shelter in the cabin first!"

Lilia, who had short blue hair, grabbed Ella's wrist and tried to take her off the deck. Her anxious expression showed that the water lizard was not as simple as Ella had imagined.

The one who explained it was Captain Ross, who had an extremely serious expression and was holding a fire staff.

"A single water lizard isn't a formidable foe, but if they swarm, their concentrated water column will damage the sails and hull. If we don't clear them out beforehand, the ship is very likely to sink. We'll leave this to the crew and other adventurers. Lady Ella, please rest in the cabin."

Since she was told to rest in the cabin, the implication was that she didn't need to take action at this level - each action would cost ten gold coins - but if she just left, she would miss out on understanding how to deal with the water lizard, so Ella chose to negotiate.

"I want to stay a little longer. This is my own will."

"Is it, is it Lady Ella's own will? I understand. Then please, Miss Vampire—"

"No, I want to stay here too."

Mitis shook her head and rejected Ross's suggestion.

The two Scarlet Gold-class were willing to stay on the deck. Captain Ross's expression relaxed a bit. After nodding slightly to Ella and the others, he ordered the sailors to forcibly bring his daughter to the cabin, and then began to direct the crew to load the artillery.

"Prepare to meet the enemy!"

Chapter 42 A difficult battle

Captain Ross seemed intent on attacking from a distance. The wooden boat slowly came to a stop about fifty meters from the water lizard. The sailors manned the only two cannons, while the magic casters and archers drew their staffs and bows. As for the warrior classes, who had only learned melee magic, they, under Captain Ross's command, held their round shields and stood in front of the rearguard.

The air was filled with a tense atmosphere, and it was going to be a tough battle no matter how you looked at it.

Affected by the atmosphere, Ella, who was originally just curious, also became nervous. She retreated to the side of the cabin where she would not interfere with the adventurers' battle and whispered to Mitis beside her.

"We're already fifty meters away. Shouldn't we just ignore the water lizards and drive right past them?"

The range of ordinary first-level magic will not exceed fifty meters at most. Only some extremely special magic can exceed this distance. Therefore, it is okay to ignore the water lizard and move forward directly.

"Even if Ella says so... I really want to answer, but I've never paid much attention to these insignificant little monsters before."

"Aren't you the Seal of Envy that controls monsters?"

"Even the Seal of Envy has its limits! After you have thousands of gem coins, will you still pick up iron coins that have fallen on the ground?"

"Hmm."

Ella paused at Mitis's description.

"makes sense……"

"Those guys discovered us!"

"Prepare to attack! We can't let those guys damage the hull!"

The so-called water lizard is a creature with green skin all over its body, and its appearance is very similar to that of a gecko. The individuals that Ella saw ranged in length from half a meter to one meter. When they discovered the passing merchant ship, the water lizards that were originally lying on the reef to bask in the sun suddenly turned their heads and collectively looked towards the wooden boat.

After a pause of about two seconds, there was some commotion among the water lizards - they looked like they were talking - and then they jumped into the water one after another, swinging their tails towards the merchant ship. It was worth noting that the water lizards did not seem to be monsters that would only rush to attack humans, but were very organized. They surrounded the wooden boat and then split into two teams and spread out to both sides of the hull.

"Stop them, damn it!"

"Shoot!"

Boom boom!

At the same time as the arrows broke through the air, the cannons were ignited. The huge smoke covered people's vision and made countless crew members cough. However, the effect was also very obvious. Two water lizards that did not have time to escape were affected by the aftermath of the shells and floated on the water without resistance.

As for the arrows shot by the adventurers, they were all dodged by the water lizards without exception - as long as they dived underwater, the arrows would lose their power. Even if they were accidentally hit, their tough skin would not cause much damage.

"Wow... so that's how it is."

The first confrontation did not yield much success, and Ella couldn't help but feel a little worried. She initially thought that water lizards were the type that could only stay on the shore, and she never expected that they could fight in the water.

"Shouldn't we be thankful they don't use weapons? Otherwise, it would be disastrous if they dived underwater and attacked the bottom of the ship with weapons."

"Mitis, please don't say such horrible things."

As far as I know, the lizard warriors in "F.Wing" are set to be able to use weapons.

"Well, if we have the magic casters among the adventurers freeze the water surface, these water lizards won't be able to attack. Judging from their appearance, they probably can't use their innate magic in water."

Mitis pointed at the two long horns on the water lizards' heads, probably preparing a spell. The water lizards raised their heads above the water surface, and blue light patterns slowly gathered on the long horns. After about five seconds, water balls about half a meter in size appeared in everyone's sight one after another.

"Stop them! Don't let the magic start!"

“—‘Fireball’.”

“—Wind Blade.”

The magic caster among the adventurers finally finished chanting the spell, and various magic spells flew out in all directions, accurately hitting the water lizards that were unable to move because they were accumulating power.

“Ga-ga-ga!”

Although there were less than five spells flying out, each spell took away the consciousness of a water lizard - just one first-level spell was not enough to reduce the water lizard's HP to zero.

"Ah, ah, ah, I can't hold on for much longer like this."

Mitis waved her hand in the tone of a bystander. There were only more than twenty water lizards left. If they attacked the merchant ship from all directions, it would not take long for the merchant ship to be destroyed.

"No wonder you looked so nervous earlier. Generally speaking, a group of thirty water lizards can rival a merchant caravan, right? Well, if they were on land, the water lizards would be completely defeated."

"Raise your shield!"

Immediately after Mitis's words, Captain Ross's roar spread throughout the entire merchant ship. After about a second, the water lizard's magic was ready, and countless water bullets about the size of washbasins were ejected from the long horns on its head.

Bang bang bang.

The shields raised by the adventurers made the sound of blunt force impact. Due to the extraordinary impact of the water bullets, many adventurers' arms even began to tremble. Even the burly and powerful adventurers could not help but take a few steps back after being hit by five water bullets in a row, and finally fell on the deck.

"Magic Shield."

A stray bullet flew towards Ella and Mitis, and Ella subconsciously reached out and used magic to block it.

Snapped.

The water bullet, with a sound of breaking through the air, hit the magic shield and turned into a pool of liquid that spilled onto the ground.

"what……"

"Eh? Jinghua?"

Hearing a sound behind her, Ella turned around and saw Jinghua holding a round shield with a slightly panicked look on his face. Ella thought that he must have wanted to use the shield to block the water bullet for her just now.

“Instant…instant…”

"It's just a magic shield. It's perfectly fine to cast it instantly. Jinghua will be able to do it in the future."

"I always thought Ella didn't have any magical abilities... No, that's not right. Rather than that, what should we do now?!"

Looking around at the fallen adventurers on the deck, Jinghua's eyes were filled with anxiety, and even his hands holding the round shield began to tremble.

"Captain, we can't hold back!"

"Even if we can't stop it, we have to hold on until support arrives!"

A soldier running from the stern hurriedly reported to Captain Ross, but Captain Ross had no intention of providing support - to be more precise, he had no room for support - more than half of the water lizards gathered at the bow, and if the adventurers were mobilized to the rear at this time, the front would be lost as well.

As of now, the water lizards are attracted by the adventurers' attacks and only attack adventurers. Therefore, once the adventurers relax their counterattack, the water lizards are likely to shift their attack targets to the hull, and then everyone will become the water lizards' dinner.

"Hmm... This seems troublesome. Shall we go to the back?"

"Rather than slowly dealing with it, wouldn't it be better to just freeze the lizard with a freezing spell?"

"That would be too conspicuous, and the boat would be stuck in the water."

Taking out the Pestle of Heavenly Punishment from the storage, Ella waved at the bewildered Jinghua.

"Let's go to the stern."

"Eh? I, I want to come too?"

"Jinghua's current level is a bit tricky. If she wants to become a saint, well, she'll have to be at least level 20 to be convincing."