Chapter 700 - 689: Big Fat Bug
Chapter 700: Chapter 689: Big Fat Bug
Above the vast ocean, a green mushroom cap floats on the surface, rising and falling with the waves.
This mushroom cap is exceptionally large, with a radius of three meters, but the body beneath it is only the size of an ordinary Puki.
If there is anything special about it, it would be the unusually numerous tentacles, as many as twelve, resembling those of a jellyfish.
Suddenly, the mushroom cap begins to contract, folding like an umbrella, turning into a soft pendant, with only the tip revealing a sharp blade.
Then, the mushroom cap contracts abruptly, and the twelve tentacles slide simultaneously, causing the Puki to surge a long distance forward.
Repeating this process, it accelerates to the limit, like an arrow gliding through the water, much faster than those sailing ships.
The next moment, the "arrow" hits the target.
In the empty water, a large splash of purple blood suddenly bursts out, mixed with quite a bit of shredded meat.
Immediately afterward, [Refraction Invisibility] fails, and a sea creature nearly the size of a whale appears, slowly sinking to the seabed.
With a single lethal strike, Lin Jun does not linger in battle but rather controls the jellyfish Puki to speed away into the distance.
This whale worm is merely a transport unit of Chis; besides its large size, it has little combat capability.
Lin Jun attacked it only because it was the best breakthrough point on this side, while in other directions, there are numerous combat-type Chis.
Seeing their ambush and encirclement discovered, Chis no longer hides its tracks, and a large number of bugs chase after the jellyfish Puki.
These bugs are varieties of Chis’s ocean species, of various kinds.
There are sand worms adept at digging into the seabed to hide, fan worms capable of sonic attacks, ones with flexible bodies and numerous joints, proficient in swift underwater movement.
None of them can catch up with the jellyfish Puki.
The naturally evolved ones have their limits, so how can they compare to Lin Jun’s speed-specialized Puki, gathering the strengths of many?
Lin Jun dispatched this reconnaissance-type jellyfish Puki primarily to collect some information after learning that there were still survivors on the Archipelago.
Unexpectedly, Chis has become bold enough to dare to attack the Puki proactively.
These bugs are still too wicked and belligerent. Clearly, Lin Jun did not provoke anything this time, merely spreading some fluorescent floating fungi on Chis’s territory, and yet it goes ahead and instigates a third war!
Not only is there trouble with the jellyfish cap here, but scattered battles also began at the edges of those fluorescent floating fungal mats.
To be precise, Chis has resorted to guerrilla warfare.
It rallies small bugs to swarm in, destroy, and devour the floating fungi.
Once a Battle Puki approaches, or Puki begins to be generated on the floating fungal mat, they withdraw from the mat and hide deep in the sea.
It seems that the previous battles have let Chis understand the extent of Lin Jun’s control over large groups of Puki, and they know that the fungal mat is the foundation of Puki’s combat.
In this vast ocean environment, protecting every patch of floating fungi comprehensively is unrealistic.
Chis exploits this, launching attacks continuously from all directions.
Lin Jun also began to use methods to counteract.
Lin Jun attempts to ambush with Puki or generate Puki in a semi-completed state before it lands.
Unfortunately, Chis’s Eye Worms possess excellent reconnaissance capabilities, not to mention the addition of fan worms now capable of sound wave detection.
Most ambushes were detected, and the occasional success only dealt with small, incomplete swarms, hardly a significant victory.
Lin Jun then poisoned the floating fungi with hallucinogens, corrosives, and neurotoxins... small bugs die instantly after a few bites.
However, Chis soon changed tactics, sending larger bugs to devour the floating fungi instead.
Their larger size and strong life force allow them to swim back to Chis’s territory before dying from poisoning.
For Chis, as long as the bodies can be recovered, there isn’t much loss.
Lin Jun then used the ability granted by the [Servant Maker] Title, performing aerial drops of giant Puki.
This effectively dealt Chis a heavy blow.
Once the giant Puki was created, it immediately stirred the surrounding water currents. Many Chis bugs could not escape the turbulence and were forced to retaliate, only to find the damage they dealt was less than the giant Puki’s regeneration speed.
Ultimately, only a few Chis with the strongest swimming abilities or relatively large sizes managed to escape, suffering heavy losses.
Chis remained quiet for several days.
In these days, the range of floating fungi expanded even further.
And as the floating fungi extend, the extra magic power from photosynthesis at the center is guided by Lin Jun towards the edges, accelerating the expansion speed of the fungal mat.
Whenever the floating fungi extend to an area, the Puki would methodically clear the Chis leftover lumps of flesh from the sea.
For their homeland, Chis had no choice but to bravely step forward once again.
And they got brutally beaten again by the aerial giant Puki.
But this time, they didn’t back down but rather heroically launched another attack on the floating fungi in other directions.
Then they realized—an aerial drop of giant Puki has a time interval.
Soon, based on the interval between the giant Puki’s appearances, Chis figured out that the cooldown period of this ability is approximately ten sunrises and sunsets.
So, the war turned into Chis’s large groups intensively destroying floating fungi during the [Servant Maker] cooldown.
Once [Servant Maker] was ready, Chis switched to small swarms to prevent floating fungi from continuing to spread, occasionally gathering a slightly larger group of bugs to lure Lin Jun into using skills.
In short, under Chis’s intense suppression, the expansion progress of the sea’s fluorescent floating fungi fell into a dynamic stalemate.
However, the total area is still slowly increasing, just not as rapidly as initially.
Lin Jun is not particularly anxious about this.
After all, the confrontation with Chis involves only part of Lin Jun’s power.
Once the northern battle concludes and Lin Jun transfers a portion of the Puki Masters over, collaborating with the assimilated Fishmen, this fragile balance will be broken.
By then, if Chis doesn’t have other cards, it will be disassembled obediently!
Of course, although not urgent, it’s truly annoying.
Now the ocean is filled with bugs everywhere, with normal marine life being scarce.
The jellyfish cap barely gets to sunbathe before being discovered and surrounded by Chis again, leaving its internal magic power never fully charged.
Luckily, its endurance is long and error tolerance high, allowing it to avoid capture until now.
Regarding the floating fungal mats, Chis timidly backs down before the aerial giant Puki.
Yet, outside the fungal mat range, when facing a lone jellyfish Puki, Chis strikes heavily, as if they wouldn’t stop unless they consumed the jellyfish Puki.
Laughable, as if they can catch it by chasing like this.
Slow-moving dumb bugs.
BOOM——
A muffled sound suddenly emanates from underwater.
The sound is so low, like the heartbeat of the deep sea. The jellyfish Puki maintains its high-speed swimming posture, its tentacles trailing long tracks behind, while Lin Jun’s attention dives below. There’s a trench there. An abyssal, bottomless fissure spans across the seabed, with steep rock walls on both sides nearly vertical. Occasionally, bubbles rise from the depths, a series, swaying as they ascend, swelling larger as they rise until they burst beneath the jellyfish Puki, forming ripples.
Earthquake?
Lin Jun’s mind turns rapidly.
Or an underwater volcanic eruption?
The next second, Lin Jun knows the answer.
A massive pillar suddenly rises from the trench’s depths!
The object shoves through the seawater, creating turbulent undercurrents and countless fragmented bubbles, charging straight towards the jellyfish Puki.
Its speed isn’t fast, but it’s too massive. So big there’s no time to evade!
As the distance narrows, the true identity of the pillar is revealed!
A gigantic tube, its inner walls densely lined with tiny sharp teeth, layered and slanted inward, with each tooth slightly wriggling, akin to countless hungry mouths.
Not a pillar.
A mouth?
And on the panel.
[Race: Chis - Heart]
[Level: Level 78]
[Skills: Leviathan, Spiritual Integration Level 10... Spiritual Diffusion Level 8, Spiritual Magic Level 8...]
[Title: Gluttony of the Seven Sins (All Things as Food)]
The "pillar" envelops the jellyfish Puki, then contracts inward!
Jellyfish Puki — killed in action.
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