Chapter 466 - An Underwater Ambush (2/2)

At that moment, Bryant could see clearly what they were up against. It was a silver pomfret, but it was ten times the size of a normal silver pomfret. It was 30 feet long, and the compact scales across its body was a dark red color radiating with the light of magical runes.

“It’s a Magical Beast! There are two of them!” Bryant roared.

Floating in the air beside him, Vonhelon pointed his magic wand at the massive fish and screamed out a spell, “Vacuum Blade!”

Vacuum Blade

Level-8 Spatial Spell

Description: Creates an absolute vacuum by removing all air in a space with Mana. The resulting vacuum is incredibly sharp and can cut through any material in existence.

(Note: A secret spatial spell of the High Elves)

A thin film of silver light streaked through the air, and in a tenth of a second, it struck the silver pomfret!

Boom! The dark scales of the monster fish emanated a faint red light. Almost immediately, the Vacuum Blade was dispersed into the air, leaving the fish’s body basically unscathed. A second later, the fish fell to the water and dove back into the dark ocean depths.

Bryant witnessed all this with a look of amazement. “This is divine power! This is no ordinary Magical Beast, it’s a Divine Beast!”

Only with divine power was it able to completely nullify a spatial magic attack.

Just then, his silver leaf had caught up to the magical beast that was still rapidly diving into the ocean.

With a chink, the silver pomfret’s body also emanated the same dark right light to defend itself from Bryant’s attack. However, the silver leaf was more than ten times stronger than Vonhelon’s Vacuum Blade and was able to pierce through the fish’s defenses. It struck the fish’s body, leaving a wound that was half a foot deep on it.

But… the silver leaf was only able to go so far before it pulled back to regain its momentum in the water.

A wound half a foot deep was only a flesh wound on a fish of that size. With a flick of its tail, it began to accelerate once more to the surface. This time, it began gulping down the surviving crew members floating on the ocean surface.

“Help!”

“My leg, my leg!”

“Oh God, help me!”

The crew members floating on the sea were still disoriented after being hit by the initial shockwave. At that point, except for a few Magicians who had managed to keep themselves afloat in the air, the rest of the crew members were all still floating in the water, including the commanding officer of the fleet.

In the middle of the ocean, they were all powerless in the face of these monstrous silver pomfrets capable of sinking all their ships into the sea in mere seconds.

The other fish had also returned to the surface and began its indiscriminate slaughter of the remaining elves.

The seawater was instantly dyed red with the blood of their prey.

More than 30 High Elf Magicians floating in the air began casting their spells frantically at the silver pomfrets, but their assault was completely ineffective against them.

Out of all the High Elves in the fleet, only Bryant had managed to deal any damage to the fish, but even with his strongest spell, he was only able to leave a small wound on the fish’s body.

The faces of the Magicians in the air had all gone pale. They hurled their spells down at the fish in desperation, but their efforts were all futile. They could only watch on helplessly as their kin were horribly swallowed alive by the monster fish.

The number of High Elf crew members was drastically reduced in an instant.

“Prophet, what should we do now?” Vonhelon shouted. He was now at his wit’s end.

“We can only run at this point. I sense that this is only the beginning of an ambush. It’s too dangerous to stay here now!” Saying this, Bryant began flying straight for the continent.

He shouted back at the other Magicians, “Everybody, head for the continent, hurry! Hurry!”

They had not left the continent too far behind, which made it the only possible place to run to. If they were to head out any further into the ocean, they would surely be killed.

Watching the two monstrous fish on the ocean surface and their surviving compatriots still shouting for help from below, the other Magicians hesitated for a few seconds, then bit their lips and gave up all attempts to rescue them.

Looking away from the floundering crew members, one by one they flew behind Bryant and fled for the continent.

Just as they had flown for a couple 100 feet, a voice rumbled from the ocean surface. “Why are you all leaving, Magicians? You’ve only just got here.”

The voice was echoing off from every direction. There was no way to determine which direction it was coming from. It was as if the entire ocean below them was speaking to them.

Now that was a terrifying thought.

Even Bryant was stunned for a moment, and he then roared out, “Link, I know it’s you. If you want to kill me, just do it out in the open. Spare me the cowardice of an ambush!”

“Hahaha, Bryant, you really are funny. As a reward for your folly, I’ll kill you last.”

Vonhelon’s eyes widened as he looked about, desperately searching for the enemy, but only darkness greeted him. He roared again, “Who are you? Are you not Link?”

“Who I am matters not, what matters now is that all of you should die right here, right now!”

Suddenly a beam of dark red light shot out from the ocean. Unable to react quickly enough, one of the Magicians was pierced by the beam of light. Looking down, he saw that there was a gaping hole the size of a fist in his chest before he fell, wide-eyed, from the sky.

Bryant instantly lost all will to fight back upon seeing this. “This is divine magic! We can’t fight this, run now!”

Strictly speaking, all divine magic was beyond Level-19, but its power was considerably diluted due to being only supplied with power from the Mortal Realm. Still, divine magic was capable of overcoming any other spells in the Mortal Realm, including Legendary spells.

The enemy had managed to keep himself hidden. Even now, Bryant still could not find out where his opponent had hidden himself, and to top it all off, he was also capable of using divine magic. This was a fight none of them could win. Escaping was the only option.