172 The Underwater Temple (2/2)

Remulos quickly swam in Riddicks direction and recast Water Breathing on his master and arrived just in time to see a pair of murky eyes that quickly left its hiding and started swimming frantically.

A chase! WOOHOO best trip ever

Riddick followed the eyes without any inhibitions while Remulos hurry to keep up with the pace and left light spheres floating in the water as bread crumbs for the other members of the group.

The deeper they went, the less light from the sun went through and this reduced the ability of any individual to see ahead so the light sphere's were incredibly important.

The murky yellow eyes belong to a giant octopus that took off without even trying to fight them in the direction of the cliffs on the left side at a very fast speed.

Riddick lick his lips and followed closely after his prey with giant leaps for nearly 5 minutes until he saw it disappeared behind a piece of stone that was about 20 ft tall. Riddick immediately jump on top of the stone to look at the other side but what he saw made him jump backwards, it was the Giant Claw of a Chinese dragon that was really close to his face about to strike him down.

The Distress was felt by Remulos that sped up towards his master and stop right beside Riddick that was sitting on the stone in his human form.The claw was part of a massive stone statue of a chinese dragon and when they look around, the stone they were sitting on was the head of the sea dragon that had fallen to the ground.

Behind the statue of the dragon stood the entrance to a temple that seen to be carve in the face of a glacier and had a couple of decorations in the shape of items and there were four of them, one was a weapon in the shape of a Scythe, the second was a bead necklaces with 9 beads, a mask with a flame motif and finally a gourd.

Riddick stood in front of the entrance looking at the carvings, when the rest of the group arrived and started surveying the statue.

”Sister!” said Xiao.

”Sister?”

”She is one of the Celestial Beast created by the Spirit of the Realm but I don't feel her presence” Xiao communicated through their soul connection with Rahz and took off towards the inside without waiting for the team.

”Wait!”

Xiao walked through the door and into a hallway big enough to accommodate the sea dragon from the statue.Inside, there were creatures about 10ft tall that had tentacles as arms but displayed Humanoid Characteristics with murky eyes and a dark ink circulated around them like an aura.

They were third tier Krakens and were the evolved form of the Giant Octopus that the team had been fighting in the opened sea.A Kraken could be considered the progenitors of the octopus in other words their ancestors and there was always a possibility of a Giant Octopus becoming one but increasing their level was not enough, it was also necessary to purify their bloodline.

The fact that there were Kraken in the hallway could easily be explained by who the owner of the temple was, Demons used the blood of higher level demons to promote their own bloodline but in the case of the celestial beast, the pure energy from the Spirit of the Realm that was available to them would strengthen the bloodline of the sea creatures that live close by.

The moment that Xiao's Sister broke out of the temple and the magical screen was released all the mutated creatures that had been inside the magical screen smelled freedom and left for the open sea.

Xiao didn't want to take long with the small fry and attack with extreme force becoming 2 electric tigers that rushed towards the Krakens, the water became a conductor for the attack increasing its range.

Buzzz!

The light went out and all that was left from the two sentinels were two burned bodies.Xiao kept running along and finally arrived at a huge set of doors made out of stone that were already wide open, in a frantic state he passed through them and could immediately feel a weaken magical screen that kept some of the water out but now it was failing and the whole room had a water level of about 5 ft from the ground.The doors opened up into a cave like rock that in turn open into a big room and a Levanthus (Kraken with purer Bloodline) close to the Fourth Tier stood in the middle, while unintelligible sounds came out of the mouth of a young octopus with murky yellow eyes.