Chapter 773: Hiding (1/2)

After taking a detour from the first large cluster of bubbles, Sam encountered many more living creatures in the area and he even saw some sea folks occasionally.

Most of the time he just hid from them without causing much trouble.

But soon he saw this transcendent level sea folk swimming in the water along with these corpses in the bubble and he is not alone.

There is a large octopus along with him that is following around and this octopus seemed to have a larger sensory field. No matter how much Sam tried to avoid and hide, this octopus led the sea folk to his direction and just when he thought he got them off his back and tried to escape in a different direction, he was greeted with them out of nowhere.

It turned out that the octopus is not just good at sensing others, it is also good at disguising.

This is a beast that Sam couldn't recognize which means, it might be a mutant of this realm that was relatively new.

It covered the whole pile of corpses, the sea folk and itself and disguised itself as a rock.

And that is not the only thing.

It actually spread ink in all the different directions faintly which is also the reason Sam took this one particular direction.

And now here he is, fooled easily. If only he knew something about this beast, he would have been more careful. Everything happened too suddenly.

In fact it is actually very surprising that Sam managed to stay hidden this long in enemy territory. That is only because he took advantage of the vastness of the sea to his advantage. Now he has to face the enemy who is stronger than himself and another beast that is at least as strong as him.

This is not exactly a favorable situation to him.

He doesn't know anything about what these sea folk are made of and how they are born.

From what he saw, the deeper he went the density of these people is not only increasing and he might find another cluster of these sea folk.

He wants to see their hierarchy, their living conditions and ways.

One thing he is sure is that the pods are not only responsible for their birth, they are also responsible for healing when they are injured critically and the flesh and corpses are major source of the nutrition.

He is going deeper to see if he can find a large base of the sea folk and a large city or something like that.

He would like to see someone who is behind the scenes and doing this. But it seems like it is harder than he thought.

After he dealt with the current problem, Sam has to find a way to move discreetly even if it means to slow down a bit.

While Sam is rapidly thinking to all the things that led to here and what he would do after this, a voice was heard in his head that stunned him for a second.

[Who are you? What are you doing here?]

Sam looked at him with a confused expression. He fought a dozen of these guys and no one talked to him or tried to communicate him.

Most of Sam's face is covered with the breathing equipment. Only his eyes are visible through the glass.

[You must be the human that is causing trouble to us. I thought you would have already been taken care of, but it seems like those guys are getting rusty and I have to take care of their problems.]

As the voice played out, the octopus started excreting the ink into the surroundings and Sam didn't just stay around. He came out of his daze and started sorting out the poison vials in his storage.

The first one he has to take is clearly the hydra poison he collected over days and the rest are the poison cocktails he created from the Naga Loka.

The sea folk raised his hand and the ink started condensing into a spear. Sam could guess what would happen if that spear impaled into him.

He would die in seconds. He wouldn't even survive a single shot.

So, he could only do one thing. His body started glowing with golden light and he activated light elemental fusion.

That is the only thing that has more speed than the water element in the water.

He didn't even do the partial fusion. He did the complete fusion and the sea folk is pretty relaxed. He didn't worry about Sam at all, which is worrying to Sam.