"Are you crazy! It can grow this big in two years?!"
The pillar of flesh and blood was already big enough; Lin Jun thought Keith had shaped itself into a long strip, but it turns out these were just tentacles?
The meatball in the center made even a super-sized Giant Puchi like Number Four look tiny in comparison.
Merely rising from the sea, the massive waves it kicked up disrupted the Mushroom Fortress army's formation once again.
And beneath the skin of that meatball, there was a massive thing emitting black light.
The Sword Saint recognized that thing at a glance: "An Abyss Core?"
"That thing inside Keith is an Abyss Core?!" You couldn't blame Lin Jun for not recognizing it; although he had heard of it, this was his first time seeing a functioning Abyss Core.
Lin Jun seemed to understand why Keith would be connected to the Abyss.
On the other side, although those meat pillars couldn't twist and attack flexibly like true tentacles, the fused entities on them successively launched attacks under Keith's command.
At the same time, on the surface of the meatball in Keith's center, many valves opened up, and evil eyes, tentacle-toothed beasts, as well as a massive number of other types of bugs swarmed out. Keith was going all in!
One portion attacked the Mushroom Fortress army, while the other portion charged toward the female Hero's ship.
Following the direction of Keith's attack, a reconnaissance Puchi in the sky flew a long way before finally finding that ship.
Lin Jun's gaze swept past Bella and landed on the blonde woman's status panel.
[Level: LV71]
[Virtue of Compassion: Reduces the attacking desire of surrounding creatures, heals the bodies and minds of allied teammates in a large area]
[Eye of the Stars]
[Hero: Not restricted by race or level, can randomly draw a special title or skill (Already Used)]
A Hero, as expected.
Besides the Virtue and unranked skills, there were several archer-type skills in the skill bar that Lin Jun had never seen before. Clearly, they were all rare skills obtained using the Hero's level-up skill selection mechanism.
Looking at those Keith bugs pouncing madly, [Compassion]'s ability to eliminate attacking desire didn't seem to be working!
Unlike a certain slothful guy, the strength Sophia displayed could be said to truly live up to the name of a Hero; her power far exceeded that of an ordinary Lord.
The silvery-white longbow in her hand was almost used like a machine gun by her. A single person shot with the momentum of an entire longbow squad, and the power was impressive. Even with just ordinary magic arrows, the evil eye's magic shield could only barely block one, and then, before it could prop up the shield again, it would be shot and killed by a second arrow.
The massive tentacle-toothed beasts were also turned into hedgehogs amidst the rain of arrows, let alone the other small Keith bugs, which were practically killed with one arrow each.
However, the weakness was also very obvious.
On Sophia's status panel, her mana was continuously dropping at a visible speed. Even if she chugged top-tier mana potions, the speed of digestion and replenishment wasn't enough to make up for this high-intensity consumption.
At the very least, she couldn't finish off the quantity of bugs before her.
Sophia was also clear on this, so she had to let a portion of Keith bugs rush close.
And the already prepared priest, guards, and Bella began to clear out this portion of the bugs.
However, Keith wouldn't be dealt with so easily. A pillar of flesh and blood embedded with many Demon-kin spellcasters slowly moved close, and those controlled puppets cast various magic spells.
Although they lacked staffs, and flesh puppets were much more sluggish than living people—making the power of these spellcasters' magic much weaker—the massive quantity and variety made up for the flaw.
Sophia's Hero party could still hold on, but their ship could no longer hold on.
The ship's defensive runes were forcibly shattered, and the hull began to take damage and leak water.
Of course, Sophia and the others didn't need to worry about the ship sinking, because before it sank, this ship would be completely torn to pieces.
Sophia also tried to directly attack the meatball at Keith's center. However, Keith didn't defend at all, and Sophia's immensely powerful strike only blasted apart a little bit of flesh and blood.
To attack the Abyss Core inside it, she would need to use at least a dozen more attacks of this intensity.
Clearly, their ship couldn't last until then.
Right at this moment, after Bella slew another six-claw bug, she turned around and rushed into the captain's cabin.
When she came out again, she already held a decayed wooden handle in her hand.
Lin Jun, who was originally considering whether to think of a way to save Bella separately, immediately noticed this item with a status panel.
[Ocean Scepter (Fragment)]
"My other half of the scepter!"
He saw Bella raise the wooden handle high, and the seawater immediately churned up.
Spiral water pillars swept countless bugs into them. Immediately after, the water pillars wrapped around Keith's pillar of flesh and blood, restricting it tightly. However, the incomplete divine artifact could only achieve this much.
A mermaid connected to a meat tube was hoisted outside the ship's rail by Keith: "You all, are truly formidable! You are worthy of fusing into one with me!" Closely following, another meat pillar popped up, embedding a former deep-sea overlord—a massive Island Crab.
Sophia and the others had ugly expressions. Not only because of the predicament before their eyes, but more terrifyingly, this Keith could actually speak, indicating its intelligence was even higher than everyone previously imagined.
Just as Sophia raised her bow to deal with the descending crab claws, a Puchi arrived, treading on moonlight.
Wherever the Puchi passed, sword nets crisscrossed, crab shell and flesh splattered and flew, and that giant crab claw even snapped from the root, falling straight into the sea.
Seeing this scene, Bella's spirits lifted: "Good! Let's join forces like this to deal with this bug..."
Before her words finished, the moonlight swept past Bella's side. She only felt a sudden emptiness in her hand—the Ocean Scepter was gone!
Everything happened too fast. The Sword Saint Puchi's speed treading on the moonlight was second only to Little Black in the Mushroom Fortress. Add to that the fact that the Sword Saint Puchi had just killed the Island Crab Keith used to attack them, and the current status of relations between humans and Puchis in the United Kingdom... Even Bella, who disliked Puchis, treated the Puchi before her eyes as a comrade-in-arms on the same side at this moment.
And then, that half of the divine artifact changed owners.
"Give it back to me!" The angry Bella was so anxious she even threw her sword out, but couldn't even touch the afterimage left by the Sword Saint.
During this period, the only one who could react was Sophia alone.
However, facing the Sword Saint Puchi who arrived treading on moonlight, the Hero Sophia, while drawing her bow, still habitually opened the other party's status panel. Subsequently, because the content she saw on this Puchi's panel was too outrageous, she was temporarily stunned in place, missing the best opportunity to stop the Sword Saint Puchi.
On the other side, the Sword Saint didn't stop for a moment. After snatching the divine artifact, he dodged the attacks of countless bugs and returned to the range of the floating mushroom fungal mat at the fastest speed.
Subsequently, mana gathered on the fungal mat beside him. After a flash of light, the other half of the divine artifact landed by his short legs.
The Sword Saint held the two halves of the divine artifact high, aimed them at the break, and jammed them together!
[Divine Artifact: Ocean Scepter]
The next moment, the entire ocean, with the Sword Saint Puchi as the center, boiled over!
Meanwhile, in the Tidal Sanctuary, the sealing array that lost the divine artifact's maintenance gradually expanded its cracks, while several Puchis waited nearby.
(End of Chapter)
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