Chapter 335: Chaos and Confusion on the Battlefield (2/2)

However, it had already been dead for some time, with its belly being torn apart by brute strength. Its dark red and white innards were dangling out and the whole scene stank pungently, with humming flies and squirming maggots making it appear even more revolting.

It was fortunate that Kristina had firsthand witnessed the carnage of battlefields and wasn’t spooked by the disgusting scene, and she merely frowned.

Her eyes are telling her something once again —the fish had its bowels split from the inside.

It appeared that the monster that attacked the pillbox had been hiding inside the fish stomach to cross the dangerous Kakatino inland sea and eventually reach this side of the shores.

“Look, commander!” The inspector regiment soldier who was pinching his nose pointed at inside of the fish’s stomach then.

Kristina looked towards it to find the flesh within carved full of letters.

With a closer look, once could notice that it was a rather short word being inscribed over and over again.

“It should be old elven from the morphology… Luckily, it’s not high elven arcane text or there’s no deciphering it.” The soldier carefully copied the word while murmuring in awe.

“So, the text can be deciphered?” Kristina asked him.

“More or less. We did manage to get our hands on many records of old elven text thanks to the empire’s partnership with the dark elves.” The solider whipped out pocket-sized notebook and began to cross-reference with the information he gathered beforehand. “Ruentner, Hayero, Kachumouth, Mitrayati…”

“What does it mean?” Kristina asked a little impatiently.

“In human, it’s ‘elf’s, synchronized, genuine, nation.” The soldier translated rather choppily.

However, before Kristina could press him any further, she suddenly noticed that the long-dead sardine eyes twitching abnormally, and abruptly began to thrash around with its massive body. It slammed heavily into the inspector division soldier, who coughed out a mouthful of blood as the blow knocked him into the sea.

The smell of bleed immediately drew a swarm of sea beast into a feeding frenzy, tearing the soldier into a million pieces before he could swim.

He’s not going to make it.“Zombification after it was killed? The changing is slow, but… damn it!”

Grimacing, Kristina waved, and a luminous silver staff appeared in her hand. “It seems that the monster that came to Valla this time is really troublesome…”

***

Meanwhile, outside Crookes.

Almost every Player couldn’t understand what happened-how did the Tunnel Eye Serpent which had been steamrolling into the city get bitten in two?

Still, from the Players’ perspective, it was clear that the Tunnel Eye Serpent’s HP bar was not emptied. After it was split in two down the middle, both sections were still twisting and turning.

Be that as it may, most of the Players’ eyes were no longer fixed on the Tunnel Eye Serpent. Instead, they were staring at the head of the gigantic beast poking out from the ground outside the city which was far more massive than the snake itself, and the undead elf who appeared out of nowhere and was now standing over the beast’s head.

Things were getting chaotic and confusing…