The Steady Mage in the Pirate World

“The top is the top of the mountain.”

Following the voice of the voice, a little head appeared on the steps of the sacred mountain, peering towards the cave on the top of the mountain, "Strange, why didn't I see that big monster?"

"Luffy, please keep your voice down, don't alert that monster."

"I'm going to speak very quietly, okay?"

"This cave seems to be very narrow." Kuina looked at the inside of the cave from the entrance. "If we fight, there doesn't seem to be much room to hide."

"I think being narrow is not necessarily a bad thing," Sabo gestured with his hands, measuring the size of the cave. "We have no place to hide, and the monster can't hide either."

"Where is the monster? Where is the monster?" Luffy looked around.

"But this kind of place is not suitable for early detection," Ace frowned, "When we can find the monster, it will also find us."

"This is simple." Little Usopp rummaged in his bag twice and took out a video phone bug, "We can use this."

"Usopp, why do you bring a surveillance phone bug?"

"Be prepared, be prepared, be prepared," little Usopp answered honestly, stroking his head.

"You are really similar to the boss in this way." Sabo looked at Usopp with admiration.

"Then what do we do next?" Luffy asked.

"That's it." Little Usopp walked into the cave, looked around, and placed the surveillance phone bug in a safe corner. "Next, we just need to make a little noise here."

Before little Usopp finished speaking, these little guys heard a rumbling sound coming from the depths of the cave, and the sound was getting closer and closer.

"It seems there's no need for us to make any noise." Sabo shrugged, "Everyone, hide now."

In fact, there was no need for Sabo to remind him. When they heard the sound, several little guys had already acted quickly and hid from the top of the mountain to the mountainside.

"Hurry up, Usopp, turn on the surveillance camera, let's see what's going on with that monster."

"I'm doing it, don't rush me." Little Usopp took out another phone bug, dialed the number of the monitoring phone bug placed in the cave in advance, and saw the phone bug in the cave. The image was released.

"Holy shit" after seeing the monster in the image, little Usopp shouted the modal particle he learned from Kong Ming, "What the hell is this?"

The monster that appeared in the video phone bug was a big meat ball with dense thorns growing all over the outside. At first glance, it looked exactly like a sea urchin. And judging from the way the monster moves in the image, it moves exactly the same as a sea urchin, relying on the spines on its body that can move and retract freely.

"No wonder Uncle Jesus called it sea urchin," Ace sighed.

"Usopp, enlarge the image here." Sabo poked a certain part of the image with his hand.

"It'll be ready soon." Usopp pinched the phone bug skillfully, and after one operation, the area where Sabo pointed with his finger doubled in size.

"It's not enough, enlarge it a little more"

"Ok"

"That's it." Sabo looked at a certain part of the image carefully. "The attack power of this sea urchin doesn't seem to be very high. Look here, this is the mark left on the stone wall after it just retracted its spines."

"Indeed, the marks are very shallow." After Sabo's reminder, Kuina also saw it. "It's similar to the marks left by me swinging the sword with three points of force."

"But Kuina, your Wadou Ichimon should be sharper than this sea urchin's thorn, so you have to calculate an attack with at least six points of strength." Little Usopp pointed out Kuina's omission.

"But this sea urchin's spines attack very quickly," Ace pointed at the surveillance video and said, "Look, we can barely see the contraction and thrusting of its spines. We can only see the rapid movement of the spines. Sparks left by the collision of stone walls.”

"Yes, a monster with high agility but average strength," Sabo concluded.

"So you've been talking for a long time about how we should beat him." Luffy pointed out the key point of the problem sharply. "This kind of monster is covered in thorns. It will definitely hurt if you hit it with a fist. It would be great if we could pull out all the thorns on its body. Then we can beat it how we want."

"The speed of this monster is indeed very fast, but the problem is that the place it is in is too inappropriate." Ace swiped his hand on the monitor. "In such a narrow cave, it doesn't matter how fast it is. We You can completely withstand its attack, and then let Kuina cut off all its thorns one by one."

"No, no, no" Sabo grinned, and the missing tooth looked very cute. "I have a better idea, one that will allow us to get rid of it easily."

"What's the idea?" Guina asked.

"Look at the passage of this cave." Sabo knocked on the path of the cave with his hand. "As long as we turn the ground into mud temporarily, it will be a perfect trap. After the sea urchin's body sinks in, we will Turn mud into stone”

"It is indeed very simple." Guina said disdainfully, "With your mental power and magic power, you can release fossils into mud and mud into stone. How large an area can you cover? If you want to sink this sea urchin, you need to How much area should we build?”

"Isn't this also you?" Sabo said with a smile.

"Is that enough if you add me? Don't you know how big an area Sabo can handle with the combined mana of the two of us?"

"Plus you, plus this." Sabo took out two mana scrolls from his bag, "That's enough."

"The scroll made by brother Kong Ming that turns mud into stone and fossils into mud." Kuina looked at Sabo in surprise, "How could you have such a thing? Brother Kong Ming is so partial?"

"Of course not," Sabo touched his nose, "This is the scroll that the boss gave us for practice when he built the underground maze."

"But wasn't that scroll meant to be used on the spot?"

"I thought it might be useful if I stayed. Plus, I couldn't cast these two spells at all, so I didn't use them at the time and saved them."

"No wonder you worked until midnight every day during that period." Kuina looked at Sabo with shocked eyes. "With your mental strength and mana at that time, you probably had to overdraw yourself to keep up with the progress of the project."

"Fortunately," Sabo grinned, "My eldest sister took me to a magical place where several meditation potions appear every day."

"It's great that you can have a magical place where meditation potion can appear on your own," Kuina said with envy, "Why didn't I discover that there is such a place in the Mage Tower?"

"Wait a minute," Ace who was standing next to him suddenly interjected, "Is the magical place you are talking about the last floor underground, next to the elemental pool, the locker of Boss Kong Ming?"

"That's where it is" Sabo said it felt wrong, but it was too late.

"So," Ace clenched his fists, "the reason why we have doubled our homework during this period is because you and the eldest sister steal the boss's meditation potion every day."

"It's not every day." Sabo looked at the four little guys who were gathered around with a horrified look. "Occasionally, I really only do it occasionally. It's every day for a big sister. It's a big sister's problem that you are given extra homework. It has nothing to do with me, what are you going to do?”

Before Sabo could finish his words, he heard a bang and he was kicked over. Then a female voice said angrily, "You have done bad things and you have to blame others. Brothers, beat me up."

Now that someone had started, the four little guys immediately swarmed up and beat Sabo.

"Wait a minute," Ace seemed to have thought of something after punching him a few times, "Why does the one who just spoke to me sound like a big sister?"

"It sounds similar to me." Guina also stopped.

"What?" Luffy said in surprise, "The person who spoke just now was not Kuina."

"Of course not me"

"Who are you?" Little Usopp asked.

A gust of cold wind blew by. After the few little guys looked at each other, they sat down in tacit understanding and began to seriously discuss how to deal with the sea urchin.

"With these two scrolls, things will be simple." Sabo, who had a few extra bags on his head, said honestly. "First, let's just find the middle part of the cave, and then wait for the sea urchin to rush over and attack us. When the time comes, use fossils to turn into mud to soften the ground, and then wait for the sea urchin to fall halfway, then use the method to turn mud into stone, so that the sea urchin will be fixed on the ground."

"Being a target," little Usopp said.

"In other words, we need to temporarily resist the sea urchin when it rushes over," Ace said seriously, "I think we need a bigger shield."

All eyes turned to Usopp.

"What are you looking at me for?" Usopp blinked at them with innocent eyes, "How could I still have a shield on me when I came out?"

"Che" Everyone looked at him with contempt.

"How about I carry it?" Luffy raised his little fist, "I am a rubber man now, and there is no way that sea urchin's spines can pierce my skin."

"No, it hurts to be stabbed." Ace touched Luffy's head with his hand, "Brother, I can do this. Sabo, give me your stick, Usopp. A roll of rope”

"Here" Sabo happily handed over his stick.

"Okay" Usopp also took out a roll of rope.

Ace skillfully used ropes to tie himself and Sabo's sticks into a cross, then used the ropes to skillfully stretch a general outline between the crosses, then dug some soil from the side and piled it into the outline, and then Signaling to Sabo, "Saab, turn mud into stone, turn this shield into stone."

"no problem"

"Ace, you are so smart."

"How smart is this?" Ace looked at where Sabo was chanting attentively, and then used Turn Mud into Stone to temporarily solidify the mud shield he made. "After this incident is over, I will ask the boss to customize my weapon. , a two-handed sword, a long sword, and a shield are all required.”

"But I still find it convenient to use my fists."

"Luffy, you are special"