Chapter 760 - 747: Returned to Its Original Owner Again
Chapter 760: Chapter 747: Returned to Its Original Owner Again
"Are you crazy? How could it grow so big in just two years?!"
The Flesh Pillar was already enormous. Lin Jun thought Chis had made himself into a long shape, but it turned out it was just a tentacle?
The central mass of flesh made even a gigantic Puki like Number Four seem small.
It simply rose from the sea, and the waves it stirred disrupted the formation of Fungus Castle’s army once more.
Beneath the skin of that flesh mass, there was a gigantic thing emitting a dark light.
The Sword Saint recognized it at a glance: "Abyss Core?"
"Is that an Abyss Core inside Chis?!" No wonder Lin Jun didn’t recognize it. Though he’d heard of it, this was the first time he saw an Abyss Core in operation.
Lin Jun seemed to understand why Chis was connected to the Abyss.
On the other side, although the flesh pillars weren’t as flexible as true tentacles to twist and attack, the beings fused onto them launched attacks under Chis’s command.
Meanwhile, on the surface of the flesh mass at Chis’s center, many membranes opened, unleashing Evil Eyes, Tou Chi Beasts, and numerous other types of insects.
Chis was laying everything on the line!
A portion targeted Fungus Castle’s army, while another part rushed toward the Hero’s ship.
In the direction of Chis’s attack, a scout Puki flew far ahead, finally spotting the ship.
Lin Jun’s gaze swept past Bella, landing on the panel of the blonde woman.
[Level: Level 71]
[Virtue of Mercy: Reduces the attack desire of surrounding creatures, heals the mind and body of allies over a wide area]
[Eye of the Star]
[Hero: Not restricted by racial level, can randomly choose a special title or skill (already used)]
As expected, she was the Hero.
Apart from the virtues and levelless skills, the skill bar also contained several archer-type skills Lin Jun had never seen, evidently rare skills gained through the Hero’s leveling mechanism.
Seeing the maniacal oncoming Chis, the ability of [Mercy] to dissipate attack desire didn’t seem effective!
Unlike a certain lazy individual, the strength Sophia displayed lived up to the Hero’s name, surpassing that of a typical Lord.
The silver-white longbow in her hand was almost used like a machine gun, exuding the presence of an entire longbow team, with formidable power.
Even the Evil Eye’s Magic Shield could barely withstand a single regular magic arrow before being shattered by the next one before the shield could be raised again.
The gigantic Tou Chi Beast was pierced into a porcupine by the rain of arrows, not to mention the smaller Chis, which were mostly killed with a single shot.
However, the weakness was also evident.
On Sophia’s panel, her magic power was visibly declining at an alarming rate, and even drinking a top-tier Magic Potion couldn’t replenish it fast enough to keep up with the high-intensity consumption.
At this rate, she wouldn’t be able to eliminate all the insects before her.
Sophia knew this too, so she allowed some of Chis to advance closer.
The priests and guards, along with Sophia, who were prepared, began to clear out these insects.
However, Chis wouldn’t be so easy to deal with. A Flesh Pillar embedded with many Demon Race spellcasters slowly moved in, and the controlled puppets unleashed various spells.
Though lacking magic staffs and being much more sluggish than real people, weakening the power of these spellcasters’ magic, their sheer number and variety made up for the shortfall.
Sophia’s hero squad could still hold on, but their ship couldn’t any longer.
The ship’s defense runes were forcibly shattered, and the hull began to take damage and flood.
Of course, Sophia and her team didn’t have to worry about the ship sinking, as it would be torn apart before it had a chance to sink.
Sophia tried attacking the central flesh mass of Chis directly, but Chis didn’t defend at all, and Sophia’s powerful hit only blasted apart some of the flesh.
To reach the Abyss Core within, they would need at least ten more attacks of such intensity.
Clearly, their ship wouldn’t last until then.
Just then, Bella, after slaying another Six Claw, rushed into the captain’s cabin.
When she emerged again, she was holding a decayed wooden handle.
Lin Jun, who was considering ways to save Bella alone, immediately noticed the item with a panel.
[Ocean Staff (Broken)]
"My other half of the staff!"
Bella held the wooden handle high, and the seawater surged immediately.
Spiral water columns enveloped countless insects, and then wound around Chis’s Flesh Pillars, restraining them tightly.
However, the broken Divine Artifact could only manage this much.
A mermaid linked by a fleshy conduit was held aloft by Chis outside the ship’s side: "You all are indeed formidable! You... are worthy of becoming one with me!"
Then yet another flesh pillar emerged, embedded with what was once the deep-sea overlord—a gigantic island crab.
Sophia and others looked grim, not just because of the dire situation before them, but more terrifying was the fact that this Chis could speak, indicating that its intelligence was higher than they had imagined.
Just as Sophia raised her bow to confront the incoming crab claw, a Puki stepped in the Moonlight.
Wherever the Puki went, nets of intersecting sword lines crisscrossed, sending the crab shell and flesh flying, and the gigantic crab claw was severed from its root, dropping straight into the sea.
This sight invigorated Bella: "Great! Let’s join forces and take this bug down..."
Before she could finish, the Moonlight brushed past Bella, leaving her hands empty—the Ocean Staff was gone!
Everything happened too quickly. The speed of the Sword Saint Puki stepping on the Moonlight was second only to Xiao Hai within Fungus Castle. Coupled with the fact that the Sword Saint Puki had just killed the island crab that Chis used to attack them, and given the current relations between the United Kingdom and Puki, even Bella, who doesn’t like Puki, regarded the Puki as an ally at this moment.
Then, the half Divine Artifact changed hands.
"Bring it back!" The furious Bella was so desperate that she threw her sword, but even the afterimage left by the Sword Saint couldn’t be touched.
During this time, the only one who could react was Sophia.
However, when facing the Sword Saint Puki stepping on Moonlight, Heroic Sophia instinctively opened the panel of the opponent while drawing her bow.
She was momentarily stunned by the absurdity of what she saw on the Puki’s panel, missing the best opportunity to stop the Sword Saint Puki.
Meanwhile, the Sword Saint never paused, and after snatching the Divine Artifact, evaded countless insect attacks and returned to the range of the floating fungal mat as quickly as possible.
Then, magic power gathered on the fungal mat beside him, and after a flash of light, another half of the Divine Artifact fell at his short feet.
The Sword Saint raised both halves of the Divine Artifact, aligned the broken ends, and gave a push!
[Divine Artifact: Ocean Staff]
The next moment, the entire ocean, with the Sword Saint Puki at the center, began to boil!
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Meanwhile, within the Tide Sanctuary, cracks began to expand on the sealing array maintained by the Divine Artifact that had been lost, while several Puki waited nearby.