Chapter 740: Chapter 740: The Fish of Fear
There is one thing that needs to be mentioned.
The man who underwent the “Fear Fishman” mutation grew to over four meters in size. Because his body underwent multiple changes in a short period of time, his breathing became correspondingly rapid and heavy.
Hee… Hiss… Hee… Hiss…
The respirator emitted bursts of thick, vision-polluting, heavy breathing sounds.
Accompanied by this heavy breathing, slippery tentacles growing from the respirator lashed out randomly into the air.
[Pollution]
The effect of the domain.
Water stains continuously seeped out from the cracks in the cement floor.
Dead fish of unknown origin also appeared on the ground saturated by seawater.
These dead fish had mutated as if exposed to radiation, their scales falling off in large patches, and round bulging eyes grew out of the bare flesh.
This was the incidental effect of the polluted domain.
In terms of the intensity of the pollution, it had even surpassed the New Born-Demon… approaching infinitely the Mature Body of the Count.
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However, the four Dreamers here didn’t show the slightest fear.
“Prayer of the Purifier”
Knight Vino raised the flail in his hand.
A brilliant light radiated in all directions. The teammates covered by the light also heard the immaculately pure voice of the Saint Girl, immediately purifying the filth they had been tainted with (except Han Dong).
At the same time, the light continued to spread.
The seawater flowing on the ground, the corpses of the dead fish, all showed signs of purification evaporation.
The scales on the Fishman’s body, coupled with the continuous secretion of sticky fluid, resisted the onslaught of the light.
But they couldn’t avoid the blinding effect brought on by the light…hundreds of fish eyes hidden within the eye sockets were stimulated by the light and the visual transmission was interrupted, exposing a weakness.
At the same moment.
The two team leaders acted simultaneously.
A pure silver crossbow bolt, one and a half meters long and weighing several tens of kilograms, was loaded.
This was Han Dong’s first time seeing a heavy artillery marksman like Captain Diz.
The crossbow string was also made by perfectly fusing a certain creature’s tendon with a high-density soft metal, requiring a tremendous amount of strength to draw the string.
Directly, Captain Diz revealed fearsome muscles that in no way were inferior to those of an offensive knight.
Click, click, click~ The sound of winding gears.
With the process of drawing the string, the intricate clockwork structure in the body of the crossbow amplified the power from drawing the string.
Leap!
Only the target filled Captain Diz’s eyes.
Finding a fixed position in the air, he ‘set the cannon’ in the air with a floating trick.
Dropping his center of gravity, striding forward with his right foot…Shoot!
Whir!
As the silver arrow was released, it felt like the surrounding space was tremoring slightly. It was like a silver hawk, howling directly toward the target.
The Fear Fishman, subjected to the blindness effect, also sensed danger and fished a huge shell covered with dark stripes from his back to use as a shield.
Hit!
Crack, crack~~ The shell was completely shattered.
The power of the arrow only diminished slightly, continuing to pierce through the Fishman’s arm with immense power.
Snap, crackle~ Bones and tendons were severed one after another, completely breaching the tightest muscle and bone defenses.
This downward sloping heavy shot,
Directly knocked the Fishman backward, pinned forcefully to the ground by the heavy arrow.
The entire arm was torn to shreds.
The body tissues near the left chest were also destroyed by the arrow (The pure silver arrow soaked in holy water could effectively corrode the body of the demon)
The Fishman, in unbearable pain, was left to struggle crazily on the ground, causing the ground to vibrate slightly.
Just as Diz was getting ready to load another bolt,
A blood shadow flashed by.
Lucius took over.
Visible red blood wrapped around the unsheathed short sword, its momentum at its maximum.
“Crimson Judgment”
With Lucius’s downward swing,
A thick, sword-shaped blood light, about ten meters in height, rose directly in the area.
The target had been decapitated.
However…even so, this fishman still retained his vitality.
The severed head attempted to entangle and attack Lucius with the tentacles sprouting from its respirator.
The separated body violently struggled, actively tearing its right half, breaking free from the fixation of the crossbow bolt, and moved rapidly across the ground with the remaining part, crawling towards Captain Diz who had just landed.
“Lucius, the respirator!!”
With Han Dong’s reminder-
Lucius quickly issued a horizontal chop strike… all the tentacles that attacked him were completely severed by the blood sword.
Clang! The sound of metal impact.
But upon colliding with the respirator, a barrage of sparks and a large amount of blood emerged. He was unable to sever it with a single sword…
“Die!”
Lucius was suddenly enraged, and a bright blood light overflowed from his pupils.
His momentum skyrocketed, and a terrifying blood demon shadow even emerged behind him… The power of the sword, the additional strength, and the level all increased.
Whoosh!
The conch respirator was severed from the sword’s slash and thrown into the air.
A strong sense of suffocation came suddenly.
Every breath felt like sucking in ‘death’.
In just ten seconds, the fear fishman, whose strength was close to a mature demon, died completely.
The skull shriveled up, and a large amount of pale fish’s eye rolled out from the eye sockets.
The terrifying remains that crawled toward Captain Diz also thudded to the ground. Sizzle sizzle sizzle… its vitality rapidly vanished like steam.
A putrid smell of seawater and various dead fish bodies flowed out from their trunk wounds.
“Holy Flame”
At this time, Knight Vino who had retrieved the chain whip in her hand started to clean up the battlefield, burning everything filthy to ashes.
…It seemed like the killing of the fear fishman was a joint effort by the three of them.
In reality, there was an added scene only Lucius saw in the middle of it all.
When Han Dong reminded him about the respirator, he suddenly appeared at the position of the fishman’s head through a ‘tentacle touch spatial transfer’, and used a metal syringe to extract the essence fluid inside.
Whether it was for collection of cell essence, research on fishman cells, or Nicole’s requirements, all of it was necessary.
Other than this action-
During this battle, Han Dong only observed and played a supporting role the entire time, positioning himself as a ‘scout’ as much as possible.
Watching the dead fish on the ground that was about to be burned to ashes, Captain Diz evaluated in a straightforward manner: “The pollution intensity and vitality both exceed that of a newly born demon… The following actions must be carefully executed.”
The intensity of the fear fishman was actually within the acceptable range.
What Captain Diz could not understand was the [Dream].
Everyone knew that they were dreaming, but it was just too real.
Not only was the surrounding environment, air purity, and the accuracy of all kinds of senses…
Even their own abilities were perfectly replicated in the dream, and everyone’s consciousness was successfully connected to the same [Dream Frequency].
During the previous battle, when Captain Diz exercised various abilities, he did not feel any dissonance; there was no difference from reality.
If one would pinpoint a difference, it would be the “Respirator (Conch)” worn on everyone’s faces.
Based on what just happened-
If the respirator was removed, the individual would die quickly.
This kind of death might be a mental death, it might symbolize the end of the dream and return to the surface, or it might really cause the individual to die.
At this moment, Han Dong stepped forward to answer the question.
“The Royal National Knight Regiment- [Library- Head Office]- Reading Room No. 3 has a book called “Land of Illusory Dreams in the Deep Sea,” which I stumbled upon when reading science books.
The author is a knight who retired because of psychological trauma and had contact with the sea during expedition activities.
He left a sentence on the first page of the book-
[Is dreaming and waking up the same thing?]
According to the content of the knight’s work, he seems to have had a perfect and unforgettable ‘beautiful life’ in the deep sea area, to such an extent that he has difficulty accepting his knight identity, accepting the Holy City and the contemporary apocalypse.
He is often troubled by dreams and reality and cannot go to battle anymore.
According to his description, the deep sea seems to have a ‘multiple’ structure. Each layer is made up of both reality and dreams… Dreams are reality, and reality is also a dream.
Everyone treats this place as a real space and deeply investigates.”
Han Dong’s statement above was all bluff.
He had never read this book at all. It was a story made up on the spot based on the real dream concept he heard from Dumps and Nicole’s statement about the dream of the deep sea.
It was only to make everyone focus on the investigation and not pay attention to the issue of dreams and reality.
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