Chapter 362: Fight To The Death (2/2)

‘If Old Vanke knew, he would probably be giving me a hard time for being reckless,’ Leah thought.

But now was not the time for such stray thoughts.

Throwing away the excess thoughts in her mind, the girl took a deep breath and prepared herself mentally.

“Spread out!”

At Edward’s order, the Players who were gathered at the edge of Dark Sky promptly sped off in different directions, leaving Leah, the bait at the same spot. The shining monster did not even think-or was perhaps incapable of thinking at all-as it bore jaws down on Princess Leah and swallowed her.

“Attack! Draw its attention so it wouldn’t have the time to chew!” Edward then commanded.

Hence, the nearby Players promptly casted their variety of skills to beat up the Black Beak Turtle.

After all, protection and what not only last that long. With the monster’s size, one chew would crush most of Leah’s shields!

And just as Chomper became provoked by Edward and the others and began to chase them, Leah had managed to crawl past the tentacles and squeeze her way deep down its throat.

It was fortunate that her protection was strong enough to repel the tentacles and any pus. Otherwise, Leah was not sure if she could stay sane being in zero distance against all the gross fleshy bits and tentacles.

“Got it! I knew what I saw!”

There was no telling how long had passed when Leah finally escaped the tentacles.

All of her protective barriers were gone now, and the durability of most of her equipment were hanging by a thread due to Chomper’s digestive fluids and would break in any given moment.

Even so, she and Edward group’s effort did not go to waste: She had found the key inside the monster’s body.

It was a palm-size yellow-bronze key that resembled a doorknob, with rounds of exquisite patterns carved over it. A close look would reveal that the arcane text of the high elves was hidden in those patterns, indicating that the shining treasure was made by the high elves themselves.

But just as she was about to retrieve the treasure, a volley of infinite tentacles grew out inside Chomper’s body and streaked towards her!

As their ranks were too thick, the tentacles wrapped round and round over Leah’s body before she could evade or run.

Worse, the pus secreted by the tentacles would burn parts of her skin, leaving it pitch black while puffing out trails of white smoke.

Be that as it may, Princess Leah did not give up. She reached out with her hand as hard as she could-because dying means nothing as long as she could retrieve the key!

But it was no use. Her fingertip was just an inch away from the key, and now the tentacles were dragging her away, widening the gap.

It was a failure…

Was everyone’s effort going to waste again?

“No, it’s not over yet!” Even though half her face was missing, the girl suddenly wrung her wrist, with a whip sword showing up in her right hand, where missing flesh revealed the white bones underneath.

“This is my last…”

The sword blade extended, and the girl lashed it out as hard as she could like a whip, catching the key and pulling it to the girl.

Without further ado, the girl caught it with her mouth.

The girl only made a relieved smile when she saw (Quest item Steel Earth Key obtained] show up on her System Page, and soon vanished as endless sparkles.