Chapter 495 The Purification Sea <TOC> Chapter 497 All Living Creatures
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Angel dodged again, but this time he chose to stand with his back against the rock wall. When the harpoon flew towards him, Angel swiftly moved, and the harpoon firmly embedded itself into the cliff.
Angel thought he was safe.
But in the next second, the entire rock wall, at least ten meters high, was shattered by the harpoon’s force. With the immense power, the harpoon’s target became Angel again.
“How annoying.” Angel dodged the attack once more and, without paying attention to the harpoon, directly used his mental ability.
The Gravity Lines materialized in an instant, and a gravity cannon carrying endless waves of water rushed towards the harpoon.
In the deep sea with immense water pressure, the power of Angel’s attack reached an incredible level. The gravity cannon, initially a point-to-point attack, transformed underwater into a face-to-face assault.
When the harpoon touched the gravity cannon with its frothy waves, it immediately exploded into pieces, creating a massive sound.
The sound waves in the deep sea were not as easily dissipated as in the air. It was like a hurricane, with the explosion at its center, spreading crazy ripples around. Corals, rocks, and dust were swept up and thrown in all directions.
Angel hadn’t expected such a significant effect from his attack, and the terrifying waves nearly engulfed him.
He immediately used the Gravity Lines to lift his body hundreds of meters away, distancing himself from the explosion, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He could no longer see the light of the fortress from his current position, and everything around him was pitch black.
However, even if he couldn’t see anything, he could still sense the changes in the deep-sea currents below.
Angel used a light spell to see the situation, but as soon as he used it, the first thing he saw was not the ocean current below, but a fifty-meter-long whale swimming quietly past him.
As it passed by, the whale glanced at Angel with its enormous eye and then continued forward without interest.
Although he could deal with this ordinary whale, Angel was still frightened and broke into a cold sweat. Imagine escaping in the deep sea where you can’t see anything, can’t tell directions, and when you finally think you’ve found a safe place, you turn on the light and find yourself surrounded by enormous sea creatures that are tens or even hundreds of times your size. The fear that arises is genuinely from the heart.
That’s how it is in the deep sea. Even if the creatures around you aren’t terrifying, the pressure they bring is far greater than anything else. That’s because, no matter where you go, you can’t escape the ocean’s grasp.
Faced with the vast, dark, and boundless deep sea, humans can clearly realize their insignificance. Loneliness, desolation, helplessness, and fear will follow.
The most important thing is to be wary of the unknown.
After the whale left, it did not cause a significant ocean current and leisurely swam towards the unknown distance.
Startled, Angel, who was not an ordinary human, quickly regained composure. No matter how vast and wide the ocean is, there is an end to it, and when facing the boundless world, infinite planes, and limitless universe, both the ocean and humans are so insignificant.
Angel used the light spell to examine the area below.
Although the range of the light spell was not extensive, Angel, as an extraordinary being, could see far as long as there was a light source.
He noticed that a whirlpool was gradually forming near the bottom of the ocean slope, but it was slowly disappearing under the deep pressure.
When the ocean current returned to normal and the sand dust settled back to the ocean floor, Angel cautiously descended.
As Angel was about to reach the ocean slope again, a creature with eyes flashing a faint green light charged at him rapidly.
Angel erected an ice wall, but it could not withstand the attacker and shattered at a visible speed. However, the ice wall bought him some time, and he sidestepped, casting a fear spell.
The fear spell combined with the Nightmare Domain’s aura turned the creature from fierce to weak and trembling.
Its green pupils were shrinking.
Angel faintly heard a very low-frequency sound, much lower than what ordinary humans could hear. If he hadn’t already been an extraordinary being, he would not have been able to perceive this frequency.
The sound had a clear long tone and pause, but Angel couldn’t understand it. It sounded like a rhythmic, chaotic cry of “ah, ah ah, ah ah ah.”
Was this the creature’s fear?
As Angel was pondering this, he discovered that the heart of the creature that attacked him had stopped beating…
Angel: “…So, it was scared to death?”
His fear spell, combined with the Nightmare Domain, could make people see their greatest fears as if they were real, even to the point of feeling injured by them. However, their physical bodies would not suffer any actual damage.
Could it be that the creature’s fear killed it in the nightmare, so it believed it was dead and then actually died?
Angel was speechless. It seemed that whatever this creature was afraid of, it was something that left no room for survival.
He initially wanted to try communicating with it, but since it was dead, there was nothing he could do.
Angel shined the light spell on its corpse. It was a fish-spear-wielding monster that had emerged from the circular fortress at the bottom of the ocean. Its appearance was challenging to describe in words. It had two eyes and a mouth, and its nose consisted of three small holes. Its skin had the characteristics of a toad, slippery and secreting a strange lubricating fluid. Its skeleton was also bizarre, with an irregular sunflower-like skull full of edges and corners.
With six appendages, Angel felt that the one holding the harpoon might be a hand, but since they all looked the same, it could also be a hand and foot combined.
In addition, it had a tail like that of a tadpole.
It was because of these strange combinations that Angel didn’t know how to describe this creature.
It shouldn’t be a humanoid creature, but it used a harpoon, lived in a fortress-like structure, and should be considered intelligent, right?
Not knowing what to call it, Angel temporarily named it “Frogskin Monster.”
Angel had the intuition that this Frogskin Monster was a member of a vast intelligent group and was likely related to the secret of this Purification Sea. That is to say, the exit might have something to do with these Frogskin Monsters.
Angel trusted his intuition, but this Frogskin Monster was already dead, and there was no possibility of getting information through communication. The only option was to go to the fortress or try to find another Frogskin Monster.
Angel examined its body and quickly dissected it.
Its internal organs were strange, quite different from humans, and it even had gills at its neck. Its brain was quite large, so its development potential should also be significant.
However, Angel didn’t find anything extraordinary, except for the mucus seeping from its skin.
Angel didn’t know the purpose of this mucus, but he could sense slight energy fluctuations. However, this energy evaporated quickly, and by the time Angel was still examining it, it had almost completely evaporated, turning into a mundane substance.
Its blood was similar to that of humans, red. The fresh dissection attracted a few ferocious fish with hideous appearances to come and feed.
To avoid attracting powerful predators, Angel threw the Frogskin Monster’s body into the unknown and then descended to the slope.
After the previous turmoil, the slope was a bit messy. However, fortunately, the circular fortress was 100 meters away and was not affected.
Angel activated Boundless Silence and quickly arrived outside the circular fortress.
He didn’t know if there were any more Frogskin Monsters inside the fortress, nor did he know how the previous Frogskin Monster had discovered him, but Angel, just in case, fully activated Boundless Silence.
From the outside, the fortress was not large, with a height of about three or four meters. It was not very well-built, but the coral shells adorned it, giving the fortress a bit of charm.
Angel came to the fortress, and still, no Frogskin Monster rushed out.
Maybe this Frogskin Monster was solitary?
Angel looked around, and it was pitch black, with no other buildings besides this fortress.
It seemed that this Frogskin Monster was not only solitary but also isolated.
The entrance to the fortress was at the top.
Angel slowly floated up, reaching the dimly lit window and peered inside. The window was a four-paned window, covered with a semi-transparent gel-like membrane. Angel poked it with his finger, finding it tough and not easily broken.
The interior was not very clear, but Angel could see a glowing object, which looked like an oil lamp, emitting a dim yellow light.
Angel reached the top of the fortress, the door wide open. Following the current, he slowly descended inside.
After entering the fortress, Angel swam along the enclosed pipe for a while, and after going around in circles, he eventually emerged from a gel-like egg with much lower internal pressure than external pressure.
The design of this gel-like egg was half submerged in water and half exposed to air.
Angel pushed open the top of the gel-like egg and successfully entered the room.
Before entering the fortress, he had no idea that the interior was actually a waterless room. The entrance pipe was ingeniously designed, with high and low loops, and pressure considerations, ultimately creating this dry space.
Just by the entrance design, Angel estimated that it had already surpassed the stage of enlightenment.
Angel looked around, this was the second floor of the room, and the firelight he had seen outside the window earlier was coming from here.
It was an oil lamp placed on a coral stand, with a shell base, lit by a cold flame. The air not only had no smoke but also had a faint fragrance.
Angel walked around, and in addition to the coral stand and oil lamp, he could only see a type of seaweed specifically used for producing oxygen.
From the second floor to the first, there was an open ladder.
Angel climbed down the ladder to the first floor. It was even more spacious, with only a coral floor that looked like a bed.
However, Angel noticed something else: the walls of this room were filled with strange characters and somewhat humanoid primitive patterns.
Chapter 495 The Purification Sea <TOC> Chapter 497 All Living Creatures