1444 Getting into Trouble Part 2 (2/2)

The blow created a hole about the size of a bucket's diameter. As its brains oozed out of the hole, Rafel kept attacking its legs, all ten of them. She zipped around as the monster struggled before sinking helplessly to the seabed.

Saleen fired another seven-lightning icicle that punched through the monster's heart. Then he let Rafel retrieve its corpse.

The island continued to quake and shake. Monsters were bursting from the eggshells time and again, attacking anything nearby. Saleen fired the lightning icicles again, so long as high-level magic nuclei were embedded.

Those monsters, which embodied peculiar properties, came in all varieties; there were spirits among them, too.

Saleen had no idea what kind of creatures these beasts sprang from and wondered how they were able to procreate and mutate so fast.

The thing about those monsters was they were dim-witted and unable to control their powers. What they could do was suppress their power at level-12, based on native instinct. Once provoked by Saleen, they would attack with all their might. Their full powers were somewhere between level-14 and level-16.

Fortunately, their attacks were one-dimensional and Saleen had enough equipment to defend himself.

The crack at the center of the island grew increasingly large after killing over a dozen of these horrible creatures. More than two eggs were hatching…as the beings inside scurried out. Saleen found that so long as he kept his distance, they would not attack proactively even if they sensed someone's presence.

How cute...

But that thought was snuffed out as soon as it entered Saleen's mind. The island that had a palace on top of it. Someone walked out. Who was that someone standing atop that huge metal disk? It was Imposa.

Imposa's powers had risen to the pinnacle of level-11. Seeing Saleen, he rushed toward him followed by an aggressive, silver fish monster.

That silver fish had a flat body and a gigantic mouth. Imposa's metal tail stabbed the fish's back.

Saleen knew that the tail was a decisive weapon of Imposa's. If Saleen were hit, his Figure of Fate would be destroyed; there was no telling how long repairs would take.

Damn it, Imposa is baiting that monster my way!

While it was obvious that Saleen wanted to grab more of the monsters' bodies, the one coming at him was apparently an intelligent one. And it wasn't headed for him! It dived for another monster that had just emerged from its shell, bisecting it with a single bite. Crunching noises from the bite caused intense sound tremors.

Those monsters did not dare run away either. That's when Saleen realized that among the mass of huge eggs, the silver, aggressive fish he saw earlier was the only target Imposa was after. All the other eggs were just food for that fish.

What a harrowing scene! Imposa's tail began to fall off bit by bit from the monster fish's back, suggesting that the attack hadn't done much damage. The fish's level, or species, was definitely more terrifying than those monsters.

None of those monsters were intelligent, just that fish.

What Imposa did was akin to getting Saleen killed. What an outrage! In retaliation, Saleen fired a lightning icicle straight at him. His calculative abilities were such that he wouldn't have killed Imposa but kept him from turning around.

Now Imposa was the one who was scared. The metal disk beneath his feet disintegrated before he shot black water jets behind. He didn't care one whit if that monster was immune to poison, as that was the only way he could accelerate.

The silver fish monster took one look at Imposa's back before turning around to charge at yet another newly hatched monster before crunching loudly again.

Saleen told everyone around him to go up to the surface. Only he, Rafel, Nailisi and the Winged Skeleton stayed behind.

The Winged Skull's Reaper Scythe landed hard on a monster's body. In a second, all that monster's essences were sucked dry. The silver fish that had been munching on the monster noticed that the taste was becoming bland and erected scales all over it before bursting with light like those from ice crystals, hitting the Winged Skull.

The armor on the Winged Skull shattered and its bones cracked: It had been hit by the magic attack and shattered.

Nailisi then unleashed the Shackles of the Fallen, tying up the silver fish. Its skin unleashed layers of ice crystals, causing the chains to slide—a rare sight in itself—before the fish burst out of it and chomped on one of Imposa's legs.

That leg of his was a mechanical prosthetic, so who cared it was bitten off?! Undaunted, Imposa waved and cast a magic spell. Faint purple mist dissolved in the water and was sucked into the silver fish's gills.

Saleen was infuriated at what Imposa had done! And what exactly did he do? He cast a Berserk Potion!

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