Chapter 250 – Tentacle (1/2)

In the middle of the vast hall, the fountain that was ten-odd meters in diameter sprinkled water over twenty meters up in the air. The falling droplets reflected a variety of colors from the crystals around, looking beautiful and luxurious like a wonderland.

There were no other objects in the hall aside from the fountain, which made the party even more cautious. A place where Sallip had poured in tremendous effort to set up traps and mechanisms was certainly no simple place.

Hesitating a moment, Fatty summoned the crystal scorpion. Upon its appearance, the little fellow scurried around Fatty with waggly tail, looking extremely cute.

“Go.” Fatty pointed at the fountain. His scorpion was only level 10, so its level could be easily gained back even if it died.

In the past, Wheat had been the one in charge of this sort of mission. However, Wheat was now a temporary mount and couldn’t level up.

The Crystal Yao Scorpion skittered towards the fountain on its speedy little legs.

Fatty tightly fixed his eyes on the scorpion, who crawled all the way to the fountain without any incident.

“Am I too paranoid?” Fatty muttered to himself.

At another side, Han Shen also commanded his pet to crawl over. The pet also safely reached its destination.

“Go.” After exchanging glances with Han Shen, Fatty summoned Wheat and rode to the fountain.

The four players gathered next to the fountain.

“There’s nothing here.” Han Shen tried reaching out with his hand. Water splattered on his palm into several petals, reflecting the colors of the rainbow.

“Well, that’s strange.” Fatty circled around the fountain and thrust his hand into it as well. “Sallip wasted so much effort for such a useless fountain?”

“There are bones in the water.” Liu Lan pointed at the fountain pond.

It was hard to tell how deep the pond was, but everyone could vaguely make out a pile of bones underneath.

Rumble… The water suddenly swirled. One after another, pieces of bones floated up and bobbed about in the pond.

Some were stark white bones, while some still had rotten meat attached to them. Everyone felt their stomachs churn at the sight.

“The Celestial item shouldn’t be hidden there, right?” Han Shen peered into the pond, looking like he wanted to get to the depth of it.

“You can go down there and take a look,” suggested Xiao Jian.

Han Shen was actually tempted by the idea. However, after long and hard consideration, he decided against it.

“Something’s off,” Liu Lan carefully pondered. “Sallip must have been at least in his 5th or 6th class enhancement when he came here. A monster that could make him retreat, or beat him away to be exact, definitely isn’t simple. But why haven’t we seen any sign of it at all?”

“Maybe the monster is hiding under the fountain?” Everyone came to the same conclusion.

Rumble! The fountain water violently surged as if to verify their idea. A bucket-thick, over ten-meter-long tentacle, stretched out from underwater and swept at the party.

“Move back!” Fatty hurriedly smacked Wheat.

BOOM!

The tentacle viciously smashed on the floor. Instantly, the smooth surface ruptured into a roughly three-meter-wide and ten-meter-long crack.

As the group retreated, the tentacle reached out of the water further and further. In the end, it reached fifty meters in length, just enough to attack every corner of the hall.

Bam! A white light flashed as Fatty tossed Appraisal.

Terrible Wang Zhang’s Tentacle

Yao boss

Level: 60

Attack: 120 – 145

Defense: 130

HP: 10000

Notes: A tentacle of Terrible Wang Zhang.

A single tentacle is already a Yao boss?! Everyone gasped, appalled. What rank is this Terrible Wang Zhang monster then? A Celestial boss?

If it was, then they could just pack up and go home and forget about this Celestial item.

“No wonder Sallip didn’t dare to return here even after he ranked up.” Liu Lan wrinkled her brow.

“It seems that this place isn’t the center of the maze,” Fatty solemnly said.

“Yeah. From the looks of it, there should be several other halls like this one,” Xiao Jian concluded.

“What now?”

The four discussed for a bit and decided to keep going. They had come this far and were unwilling to give up just like that.

Whew! The tentacle swept at them again. Everyone quickly dodged. Without Cheng Xiong to heal them, they had to be on constant alert.

Bang! Bang! Every place that the tentacle hit instantly crumbled. The hall shook as if it was on the verge of collapse.

“Hah! Underworld Fire Blade!”

Han Shen moved so fast that his legs blurred as he slashed at the tentacle. Pitifully, he wasn’t so lucky this time as a MISS popped up.

“Deadly Poison.” Fatty attacked right after him. Another big MISS floated up.

“Windbreak Strike!” Xiao Jian’s sword skill connected and dealt a large amount of damage. However, it didn’t even amount to a sliver on the tentacle’s health bar.

As a knight, Liu Lan fared badly. It was impossible for her to tank without a priest’s constant healing. Also, her damage was much lower than the rest.

Bang! The tentacle made a sudden turn mid-air and smacked down. The force was so strong that it brought about a violent gale, piercing everyone’s eardrums.

Fatty closely followed the movement with his eyes. The moment that it struck down, he drew his Elemental Sword at lightning speed and gently tapped the tentacle.