Chapter 999: Net
The group continued to dive into the abyss, feeling the pressure of the water above their heads getting stronger and stronger, and the water around them getting hotter and hotter.
The closer you get to the ground, the more you can feel the geothermal heat contained in the rocks, which warms up the nearby waters.
Jeno didn't know how deep the abyss was, but he could roughly calculate the depth by feeling, and they had dived at least a few thousand meters.
After several hours, the merman troops finally reached the seabed in the abyss.
It was littered with the remains of gigantic fish, all of which had been stripped of their flesh and blood, leaving only an empty skeleton. These skeletons are very large, large enough for the sharks to burrow through their ribs into the belly of the fish. I don't know what the mermaids think, but for the Bilgewater people, the complete skeleton is the perfect building material, and they can move in with just a decoration.
"Should we wait here for them to find them, or should we go and find the pearls?" Nami looked at the silent sea around her, a little hesitant.
"Why are you looking for pearls?" Jeno had doubts.
"There must be monsters next to those glowing pearls, and they use the pearl's light as bait to set traps around them to hunt down those who are attracted by the light."
"That means they're also attracted to light, and maybe we can take advantage of that." Jeno subconsciously touched his chin to think, but he couldn't touch his chin through a thick layer of crystals.
"How?" Nami's small eyes were filled with big doubts.
Jeno's gaze fell on the nearby corpses, and thoughts followed.
If the light of the two Star Spirits wasn't enough to attract the Void Monsters in the darkness, then he would create more light sources.
The corpses were put to good use, and he used crystals to make closed containers from ready-made bones, which he then placed in the Eternal Flame. From a distance, these burning corpses in their bellies resemble large fluorescent fishes, constantly tickling the lurkers in the shadows.
A void creature swam silently waving its tentacles, like a harmless mass of seaweed, and only when ignorant life burrowed into the envelope of its long and chaotic tentacles did its ugly side be revealed.
It approached the fish-shaped torch made by Jeno and shrouded it with its tentacles, seemingly unafraid of the flames within.
"It seems that the Eternal Flame can only work if it is attached to this thing......"
The two starlings stood still and watched, but the octopus-like void creature was unaware of the two living people not far away, and Jeno guessed that their eyesight was not good, but they only had some ability to sense light.
Compared to Acacia, the void creatures in the abyss are somewhat primitive.
As the void creatures revealed their full appearance in the light, the mermaids began to agitate, and the wands in their hands began to be uncontrollable.
The mermaids are all mages, using water magic to fight, because dancing and swords underwater is against nature, which is very stupid. This wasn't against Leona, unless they had an unreasonable constitution like the Star Spirit, and could fight against the resistance of the water.
The restless magic finally spread out along the current, and was sensed by the void creatures, attracting it to approach like a merman army. Although it does not know what it will greet it, they themselves are the embodiment of fear and do not perceive it at all.
"Attack!" After getting into range, Nami commanded the troops to attack. At the same time, with a wave of the Tidecaller's wand, he summoned a thick stream of water to envelop it.
The sharks swung their wands in unison, condensing the water in front of them into flowing blades, splitting the sea water on both sides and attacking the monster.
Whew-
Dozens of sharp water blades brushed through the monster's body, slashing the chaotic tentacles into pieces.
A hundred-legged insect that dies but does not stiffen. Although these water blades slashed the monster into a single in the first place, they did not damage its core.
The strong heart beat violently under the clump of ugly flesh, emitting an evil purple light, and it opened its mouth wide, and although it didn't make any sound, there was an invisible layer of fear that spread like ripples.
"How so?" Nami was a little anxious, and what was in front of her made her a little incomprehensible.
Although she had seen these void creatures before, she had not tried to kill them, which caused her to not know enough about them. At that time, she just blindly wanted to hunt down the monsters, and she was thankful that she could return to the village with the pearls, so how dare she kill her?
At this moment, Kaisha, who had been silent, made a move.
She unleashed the energy stored in her shoulder pod, and the monster without tentacles was like a living target, and the spiral plasma cannon broke through the shell in one fell swoop, burrowing into its body and detonating its beating heart.
A hole was opened in the heart, and the carrion slowly sank as if it had lost its life, and the dark purple light fell silent.
"The heart is their only weakness, and only by breaking the heart can they be completely killed." Kai'Sa shared her ten years of hunting the Void with the mermen, and Jeno applauded it.
Only then did the sharks realize that they could not speculate on these strange things with common sense.
Kaisha's words were useful even to Diana, who had already fought the Void many times, and had always relied on her own abilities to crush the monster and use the Moonsilver Blade to dismantle the monster and inadvertently destroy the heart to kill it. As a result, the fighting became extremely difficult, and she was often wounded. If she had known about the weakness of these monsters earlier, and attacked the heart with the sword, the battle would have been solved quickly and neatly.
An unusual current swept over Nami's tail fin, and she read a sign of danger.
"They're coming! More monsters, ready to fight! Nami warned, and with a wave of her wand, she summoned a stream of water wrapped around the lantern in her hand, and swept it into the darkness not far away.
The light of the lantern's fire dispelled the darkness, revealing the horrors that lurked within—countless void creatures, wielding pale and hollow tentacles, entangled with each other like a giant fishing net, and the black pressed down on them.
"Oh no, we have that later." Kai'Sa felt a sharp pinprick in her skin, and she fired a plasma cannon behind her, and although the purple light was faint, it still illuminated the terrifying mass in the darkness.
Now, the tentacles have formed two huge nets from both sides, and the merman tribe is located at the very bottom of this narrow abyss, and there is no way to avoid it, but to try to break through by force.
"Cut them off, they must not be entangled!" Nami yells as she swings her wand and throws the Flowing Blade to slice the tentacle breaker.
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