Chapter 758 - 745: Fierce Battle
Chapter 758: Chapter 745: Fierce Battle
On the calm sea, a massive fleet sailed into the reef area that used to be the habitat of mermaids.
Sofia held onto the ship’s railing, listening quietly.
Aside from the sound of waves, there was only the flag representing the United Kingdom flapping in the wind.
"So peaceful, we haven’t even encountered a single bug."
Bella was wiping her sword blade with an old cloth. Hearing this, she looked up and glanced at the sea: "Isn’t it a good thing to have no bugs?"
Sofia looked worriedly at the fleet behind her: "I’m afraid Chis has gathered his Power to ambush us. The fleet is too large. I’m afraid I can’t protect it all..."
Suddenly, Sofia stopped mid-sentence, looking suspiciously toward the distance.
She suddenly inserted two fingers into her left eye socket, directly taking out her gemstone-like eyeball and then tossed it into the sky.
Several square frames spread from the eyeball, and the distant blurry scene was gradually zoomed in.
"What’s wrong?" Bella followed her gaze, but unfortunately, with her eyesight, she couldn’t see anything beyond the vast sea.
"Mermaids, Fishmen, Half-demons... Lots of Puki, and... a really big Puki!" Sofia’s tone became increasingly strange. If it weren’t for the presence of a panel, she would’ve wanted to wipe her eyeball to see if she was under an Illusion Technique, "How can there be Puki in the sea? What are they gathering there for?"
Sofia’s Priest, Samuel, and the Captain of the Guard also came over. Upon hearing such absurd information, they quickly decided to accelerate the fleet through the sea area.
However, just after the discussion was finished, they found Sofia staring blankly in that direction, forgetting to speak.
...
On the other side, Little Pig sitting on the enormous mushroom cap of No. 7 instinctively turned to look at the sky above the fleet’s direction.
She felt there was something bright and shiny in the sky.
Unfortunately, squinting her dragon eyes for a long time, she saw nothing.
Meanwhile, Lin Jun was completely unaware that a fleet was passing by in the distance. That area hadn’t reached the Fungal Mat, far beyond its reconnaissance limit of a thousand meters.
Lin Jun was now focused on bombing bugs!
It’s raining underwater, raining Puki.
One by one, cheap cannon fodder emitting [Corrosion Curse Level 10] sank slowly into the trench, lacking even tails.
As they slowly fell into the trench, they corroded Chis’s carefully cultivated Flesh Mat entirely.
But when attacked, they would Self-Destruct.
Even if killed instantly, making Self-Destruction impossible doesn’t matter. When a Puki is attacked, all surrounding Puki would chain Self-Destruct.
If ignored, these Puki would continue corroding downward.
At the same time, on the sea surface, the floating mushroom Fungal Mat continuously generated these cannon fodder Puki, drawing Magic Power from other regions, batch after batch, endlessly.
Facing Chis, who seemed intent on shrinking back, the Fungus Castle decisively chose the most favorable attrition warfare for its side — Lin Jun had plenty of Puki!
The muffled sounds of Self-Destruction came continuously from the depths of the trench. Realizing how the mushroom intended to deal with it, Chis had to change the plan.
In the darkness of the trench, several pale giant eyes slowly opened.
[Petrification Beam] shot from those giant eyes, sweeping across the Fungus Castle array with beams of gray-white light!
However, unlike the initial encounter where the Puki army experienced massive petrification, having to use Rock Armor Puki as cover to counter it, the soldiers now merely showed a layer of gray-white, with the petrification progress being slow.
[Magic Resistance Level 10]
Even soldiers under concentrated beam exposure needed at least a full minute to completely lose mobility.
But for the Fungus Castle, it wouldn’t give it that minute!
The Mushroom Cannon went first, with countless Magic Cannons exploding in front of the Evil Eye, causing ripples, blocked by the Evil Eye’s [Magic Shield].
But Norris and others’ Resonance Cannons followed closely, exceeding the Mushroom Cannon’s magical explosion, shattering the layer of shield like a soap bubble. The resulting waves drew in the extremely fragile Evil Eye’s body, turning it into pieces.
But this was just the beginning.
In the deep sea, several sharp-toothed tentacles suddenly stretched out, fiercely slapping in the middle of the Fungus Castle array.
The water churned, soldiers unable to dodge were flung away, and the Puki formation split open.
The Mushroom Cannon blasted those tentacles, creating blood holes but only damaging the skin, incapable of stopping their motion — the Tou Chi Beast, a top predator in the sea.
A large number of sea creatures surged alongside, some familiar, some unseen, swarming out from the trench’s depths, engaging in battle with the Fungus Castle soldiers.
Sword Saint Puki danced across the battlefield under the moonlight, four tentacles wielding a longsword, leaving countless afterimages as they reaped the lives of the bugs.
No. 7 and No. 4 clumsily lunged at the equally clumsy Tou Chi Beasts. Both sides had tentacles, entangling, tearing, and strangling each other in a scene that was strangely "elegant".
The skill "Giant Creature" was originally extracted by Lin Jun from the Tou Chi Beasts, but through Lin Jun’s long-term training, it had far surpassed the original level.
In the current entanglement, the two obviously larger Pukis had the upper hand.
No. 4 ignored the Tou Chi Beast biting at its mushroom cap, its massive body pinning another down as its mycelium tentacles wrapped firmly around the opponent’s thick tentacles. Amidst No. 4’s gleeful cheers within the Fungal Network, the Tou Chi Beast’s tentacles were torn off one by one.
Purple blood spread from the breaks, staining the surrounding seawater a dark purple, even turning No. 4 into half a purple mushroom.
Just as No. 4 excitedly planned to finish off another Tou Chi Beast, a violent tremor shook from the depths of the trench.
Before No. 4 could figure out what it was, a gigantic flesh pillar, with a cross-section comparable to the Tou Chi Beast, surged upward, propelling the giant Puki out of the water!
"Wow, I’m flying..." Then it fell, crashing into the distance, triggering a tsunami.
No. 4 – silent.
Almost at the same time as No. 4’s crash, countless mermaids embedded in the evil pillar of flesh collectively opened their mouths.
The melodious and captivating "Charming Sound" chorus spread from the sinister pillar across the entire battlefield.
The Sword Saint staggered, skipping over the sea surface like a stone before stabilizing.
His "Sword Heart" could launch a fierce counterattack against spiritual attacks but was not completely immune.
This large-scale chorus affected even him inevitably.
As for the other soldiers of the Fungus Castle, they fared worse. As the chorus began, one after another, their fighting faces became dazed, weapons dropping, their eyes losing focus as if their souls were drawn away.
On the contrary, the bugs controlled by Chis were unaffected. They were, after all, manipulated puppets without their own consciousness.
This compatibility made it no surprise that Chis chose to fuse the mermaids into the flesh.
On the battlefield, the Pukis continued to attack autonomously under previous orders, but without the Puki Master’s command, their formation became increasingly chaotic. Continuing like this, the losses would be substantial.
Just then, a speech Puki emerged from the fungal mat beside the flesh pillar.
"Stupid bugs, we’ve been waiting for this pillar!"
Beyond Chis’s visual range, a Ji Divine Soldier with a spliced mark on its left arm was compressing and overlapping sea magic power into a massive energy sphere over thirty meters in diameter, dark purple at the center with a bright white edge.
Ultimate Resonance Cannon!
When the ball of light finally entered Chis’s perception range, the flesh pillar shuddered violently, trying to retract into the trench.
But like all gigantic things, speed was always its Achilles’ heel.
There was no sound; the sound was swallowed, consumed by the light sphere that suddenly expanded to its limit.
The middle section of the flesh pillar vanished in the light, the remaining upper portion falling powerlessly, crashing into the sea, raising a wave wall as high as a mountain, while the lower root section twisted in agony, retreating into the dark depths like a tail-trapped earthworm.
After all, it was the "Leviathan," capable of destroying giant dragons with one shot from the Ultimate Resonance Cannon, but it could only demolish half of the flesh pillar.
However, this dealt a severe blow to Chis indeed.
The explosion’s aftershocks stirred up tsunamis, overturning the entire battlefield. Their formation scattered, many soldiers swept away by the waves, Pukis tumbling in the water, but the bugs suffered even greater losses.
Little Pig watched the battlefield through the Fungal Network, sensing the moment: "All forces regroup, prepare to pursue..."
A tremor came again, but not as obvious as the first since the source wasn’t beneath the soldiers’ feet.
Xiao Hai’s golden eyes suddenly turned towards the Ji Divine Soldier’s direction: "Dragon..."
The seabed under the Ji Divine Soldier split open with a massive crack.
Mud surged, rocks splintered, and five giant dragons burst from the fissure, roaring as they sank their jaws into the Ji Divine Soldier trying to turn and fight.
Half of these dragons were connected to another flesh pillar, rugged flesh tubes inserted into their backs, merging with their bodies, throbbing with each movement of the dragons...
...
"What, what are those things?"
In the distance, even without Sofia’s eyes, Bella and Samuel watched the flesh pillar, which pierced the sky, then was blasted apart, only to have another emerge again.
Sofia’s face grew grimmer; she not only saw the flesh pillar but also, through it, the terrifying panel of the Heart of Chis...