Chapter 250: Sky Full of Frost and Snow (Part 2)
After cleaning up most of the Demon Tooth Sharks that had leaped ashore, many people looked over when they didn’t hear the expected sounds. Upon seeing the “blown open” reef, they became somewhat puzzled. Without sound or explosion…
Just as everyone thought the cannon’s power was too great and had directly shattered the reef, bubbles began to rise from the surrounding sea. Looking towards the surface, many black shadows flickered, and vaguely, some behemoths seemed to be swimming. The ship also began to sway faintly.
“What’s meant to come will eventually come…”
Su Jiu closed his eyes gently, murmured softly, and smiled helplessly. His hands were slightly clasped, and white light flickered from his sleeves. He slowly pulled them apart, and a sword with dragon patterns was slightly revealed. White frost drifted faintly on it, and complex inscriptions crawled over the dragon patterns like earthworms.
As Su Jiu’s murmur ended, the entire ship violently shook. Wooden boxes on the ship collided and moved fiercely. Suddenly, massive objects “whooshed!” out of the water – huge tentacles, countless tentacles stood tall like utility poles, and the suckers on them were constantly writhing and contracting.
“Aaaagh… What is this?!” A student suddenly cried out in horror. In front of such behemoths, humans appeared exceptionally small.
“It seems these things and the reef just now are… is that reef alive?!” Not far from that student, Huang Wen tightly gripped her greatsword, back-to-back with another student of Battle General strength, and whispered.
“This is a Four-Patterned Giant Cuttlefish! And there’s more than one… these tentacles, at least ten or more – all students who can use energy shields, quickly use your energy shields to defend!”
Looking at the tentacles, the female teacher with red-rimmed glasses had an extremely grim expression, almost squeezing the words out from between her teeth. Her red long whip also dimmed slightly, and she immediately shouted around,
“That gray mist has hallucinogenic and hypnotic effects! Don’t inhale it! Students who are not Advanced Stage Warriors, shrink your encirclement. You will fight under my external energy protection as much as possible.”
Hearing the female teacher’s voice, the student hurriedly nodded in a panic, hastily using external energy. Students without external energy also obediently surrounded the female teacher to resist.
“Control room, quickly use the backup energy shield! Forget the main shield!” Seeing this, Mentor Lu Shu’s face darkened considerably, and he could no longer hold back, roaring towards the ship’s second floor behind him.
At this moment, without his shouting, students and teachers in the control room, having received Su Jiu’s warning, had already operated the water-blue shield. With a “Zzzzt!” sound from outside the ship, a shield emerged from the bottom of the cabin, slowly enveloping the ship from the bottom. Oh, and there were some really big guys around the ship.
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
Just as the ship was halfway through activating the shield, the tentacles transformed into giant shadows and flashed out from both sides of the ship, then swept across the sky and heavily smashed down, and the giant shadows forcefully pressed down the light wall forming the shield.
“Gurgle… gurgle…”
Following that, countless giant heads surfaced around the ship, gurgling and spitting water. Their lantern-like pupils locked onto everyone on the ship, emitting auras ranging from intermediate to high-rank Battle General.
It was indeed a school of Four-Patterned Giant Cuttlefish!
The next moment, the tentacles swept wildly across the ship, slowly approaching the control room on the second floor. They seemed to know that once the control room fell, these humans would be their delicacies.
“This is bad… quickly protect the control room! If that place is destroyed, our ship will be exposed in the Great Cuttlefish Sea Area without any protection.”
Looking at the tentacles that had already broken in, Mentor Lu Shu’s heart suddenly sank. He swept his gaze over the tentacles attempting to surround the second-floor control room, feeling a sense of dread. He then grabbed a long sword and prepared to charge forward.
Just as he was about to move, bursts of bubble explosions came from the surrounding sea. Then, countless fish, resembling pufferfish and all colored red, leaped out densely, impacting the deck. “Rumble!” They let out a huge explosion like high explosives.
Seeing the deck indented by the explosion in the smoke and the injured students, Mentor Lu Shu couldn’t bother with the control room. Sword shadows continuously flickered from his hands. The moon-arc shaped sword energy intercepted the fish in mid-air, causing them to explode. The strong gust of wind from the explosions made the ship unstable.
Mentor Lu Shu used the cuffs of his sleeves to block the strong wind, forcibly suppressing the ship with his external energy, and then stared intently at the two tentacles attacking the control room. He gritted his teeth and shouted towards Huang Wen,
“Quickly go protect the control room! These beasts seem to be premeditated! These are Demon Blast Puffers!”
Now it was no longer humans exploding fish, but fish exploding humans! If these fish weren’t stopped, these students wouldn’t be able to hold on.
“Okay!”
Hearing this, Huang Wen nodded forcefully and immediately leaped into the air. She glanced at Su Jiu, who stood isolated on the ship’s roof, then raised the giant sword with flames she held and fiercely slashed diagonally, instantly cutting off the two tentacles attacking the control room. She then spun and kicked, turning to the former and shouting, “Su Jiu, don’t just stand there blankly, it’s dangerous!”
“It’s fine…”
Hearing Huang Wen’s voice, Su Jiu glanced over slightly, smiled faintly, but his gaze narrowed slightly as he looked with considerable seriousness towards the front of the ship. He took a deep breath, and his aura began to slowly climb.
A big guy was coming, possibly no weaker than the Giant Squid from before – but she was no longer the mere Warrior Class who could only assist Youyou with priest skills. So…
“Buzz!”
He gently flicked the sleeve of his charging “Drawing Slash,” and a dragon’s roar seemed to emanate. He opened his eyes again, a fighting spirit surging, and a confident smile appeared on Su Jiu’s face.
What’s there to fear in another battle!
“Then you take care of yourself!”
Seeing Su Jiu like this, Huang Wen felt a bit helpless. She glanced at another severed tentacle rushing towards them, then uttered a word, and the giant sword in her hand swung horizontally again, slicing the tentacle into a cross-section…
“Horizontal cut! Otherwise, the effect is not significant.”
Following that, another tentacle attacked. Huang Wen exchanged a glance with another Battle General level student, then said a sentence, and they turned into two fiery red figures and shot out.
The students of Chuan Yu University clashed with the tentacles. Fierce skills instantly erupted. Both sides fought with red eyes. Although these students had little combat experience, they were young and vigorous, fighting with a reckless style. For a time, they even forced the tentacles to retreat.
Later, two teachers from the control room joined the battlefield, and it seemed the situation was about to improve.
“Students who can’t hold on, please don’t force yourselves! Find a chance to rest inside the cabin!”
They fought like this for several minutes. Some who had not reached Advanced Stage Warrior felt dizzy. Mentor Lu Shu, seeing the decreasing number of explosions, urged them to go rest.
Just as the roots of the squids were mostly severed and the surrounding shields of the ship slowly rose, Mentor Lu Shu glanced at the mess on the ship, felt the dwindling energy within him, and chuckled bitterly as he sat down to rest.
Was it finally coming to an end?
“We survived!”
The students looked at the various monster limb fragments on the deck, embraced each other, wept, and shouted continuously, as if they had won victory.
“Is that behemoth going to make a move?”
At this moment, Bai Zhi, who was peeling flowers in a corner, sensing something, slowly stood up. A hint of solemnity appeared in her eyes, which usually held small flowers. She looked at Su Jiu standing against the wind on the ship’s roof and found that the latter was also looking at her with a faint smile. He slightly parted his lips.
“Help me stop the smoke from that big guy; they have no combat power left – I’ll give you two buckets of noodles later.” A clear and cold voice came from the ship’s roof.
“Always bossing people around!”
Hearing this voice, Bai Zhi pursed her lips, but still obediently extended her palm. A white flower bud appeared in her palm and began to spin. Petals slowly fell and drifted towards every corner of the ship.
“So many humans, daring to cross this King’s territory without any powerful protectors… Tsk, this is a rare delicacy.”
Just as everyone on the ship was preparing to rest, a dull, mocking voice suddenly sounded directly in front of the ship. It was as loud as heavenly thunder. Then, a mountain-like black shadow slowly appeared behind the reef.
“Whoosh—”
Within a few breaths, it arrived in front of the ship, instantly blocking out the sunlight. Its tentacles, thicker than those of the Giant Squids, forcefully pressed against the light wall beside the ship. Its eyes, the size of small rooms, scanned from above, carrying a fierce and bloodthirsty look, especially terrifying!
“Let you all die in your dreams! Hahaha!”
In addition, from the Giant Squid, which looked like a Cthulhu-esque evil god, black-grey mist emerged. As it slightly vibrated its massive body, a gust of wind arose, sweeping the black-grey mist towards the ship.
“A… Battle King Level Four-Patterned Giant Cuttlefish?”
Despair instantly filled Mentor Lu Shu’s face. The image of the Giant Squid reflected in his pupils, the sword in his hand trembled slightly. He slightly lowered his gaze to the surging black mist. The black mist touched the ship’s body and emitted a sizzling corrosive sound.
His face immediately became somewhat pale, and even his voice had a slight tremor: “This mist is not only hallucinogenic, but also corrosive… I shouldn’t have fired the cannon.”
Facing such a terrifying amount of black mist attack, almost everyone showed signs of despair. The teachers could only reluctantly conjure an energy shield capable of holding five people, but there were more than just these few students who had not reached Advanced Stage Warrior!
“Run towards the rest cabin!”
After all, they were not Mo University, where everyone could be like a dragon. Some students who were not protected quickly ran towards the ship’s cabin. As for those injured students who had re-emerged due to the cheers just now, they couldn’t run that fast and could only watch helplessly as the black mist surged towards them.
The students in the control room could only stare blankly as the mist attacked. The students responsible for operation were relatively weak and dared not go out.
“Myriad Illusions of Floating Life!” A clear shout rang out.
The sky-covering black mist seemed to be swallowing the entire ship. And just as the black mist was less than ten feet away from the ship’s control room, it suddenly stopped. White flower seas emerged around the ship, and a vortex appeared in the center of the flower sea. The petals were inlaid one by one, instantly constructing a sturdy wall!
