172 - Awakened Life, the Legendary Sea Ship (Part II)
The light of the flames touched the ground under his feet, and the tentacles extinguished it.
The whole cave was plunged into darkness again.
But the impact of the tentacle does not require a line of sight, not to mention, it does not have a line of sight at all.
But Veel needs!
He held Pease in one hand and a spear in the other.
Without light, in this pitch-black hole, the instantaneous parallax made Weir blind for a short time!
Thankfully, before that, Ver avoided falling rocks and falling tentacles. Jumped onto the dirt road opposite.
The tentacle wasn't aimed at him, because there was no way for a tentacle without sight to target him...... No, it's actually because the tentacles are so large, and both Veel and the stone feel the same way in terms of it.
Moreover, this tentacle ...... Or rather, the Kraken that came out of the reins was purely venting the anger that had accumulated over the years.
And then there's the fact that it's going to get out of this place and back into the ocean.
Or, it wants to return to the place where its other half of the soul body is...... In the underground temple on the other side of the fish-man village, the body of the kraken received the call of the soul.
But Ver also wanted to run out of the current underground in a puff of smoke, he didn't know what was happening, he only knew that the cave he was in now was already crumbling under the attack of this 'sudden' tentacle.
He ran forward, and in the darkness came to the place of the wicker-like arch...... Although Ver couldn't see anything in the darkness for a while, the light that suddenly appeared in the darkness could still see clearly.
The wicker-like arch suddenly lit up, along with the prophecy stone rune on Veel's arm!
Wear it through!
Wei Er was stunned for a moment, and the light behind the hair suddenly went out, and then the sound of shattering came from below.
"Below?"
Finding that the direction of the tremors had changed from the side to the bottom, Ver withdrew his spear and took out his torch, illuminating the surroundings with the light of the fire.
He found himself in a platform-like place, and behind him was a broken wicker-shaped arch.
And in the depths of the black hole below, there was the sound of tentacles hitting.
I actually passed an arch...... No, the portal is here!
But before Ver could think about it, the tentacle suddenly stretched out a lot more and slapped violently on the surrounding cave walls!
The soil and sand on the roof of the cave were constantly shaken off.
Vere found an upward passage at one part of the platform, and without much thought, ran inside.
Shortly after Wille ran in, the tip of a tentacle pierced the wind and slammed into the platform like a stone pillar.
The entire platform then shattered into pieces and fell into the depths of the black hole.
Veel ran through the passage with Pease and Ollie, "Hoohoo! Oh my God, my God......" There was a constant rumble behind him! Rumbling sound.
"Boreth, I hope you're okay!" While he was thinking, Vere saw the light, and a vigorous stride went up.
The eyes were open, and light filled Will's vision.
He rushed out of the entrance to the ruins of the tower.
But Ver did not dare to stop here, but glanced in the direction of the campfire, and saw that everything had been taken by Boreth.
Without any hesitation, the wind swished under his feet and rushed all the way out of the confines of the tower, towards a small high mound next to the swamp.
"It should be safe here...... Is that! Wille gasped and stood on the mound, and as soon as he looked up, he saw an unbelievable sight in the swamp.
At this moment, the Elder Fishman was on the ground, and with him were the fishmen who were standing there.
Their eyes were hollow, and they allowed the mire to swallow their bodies.
The three eyes on the Fish-Man Elder were long gone, replaced by ...... In other words, it was a withered and shrunken skin and head, and blind and pale eyes.
He seemed to look at Ver, as if those eyes were full of apologies, and then disappeared into the mire.
"Elder!" Will was about to run forward to pull the Elder out, but was knocked to the ground by a jolt, and he turned his head and looked over his shoulder.
The ruins of the tower behind him collapsed and disappeared in place.
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The priests of the Star Spirit did not place all their bets on a single seal.
The glowing currents, the raging waves, and the huge whirlpools around them were all designed by the Star Spirits to prevent the Kraken and other sea demons from breaking free from the seals and heading beyond the archipelago.
As Dinah, the High Priestess who sealed the place, said, "The archipelago will disappear forever from the world of the astral spirits, and the archipelago will seal the demons until the end of time." ”
Of course, it is not to erase the archipelago from the world, if the star spirit really has that kind of power, I am afraid that it will directly destroy the demon long ago.
That's the meaning of that sentence.
The stars can never come close, and the demons can never come out. If these two points are satisfied, isn't the archipelago really 'disappearing' into the world of the astral spirits?
For a demon in the ocean, if there is no obstacle, then the entire sea is a thoroughfare. If the surrounding waves could pass, then the bloodthirsty demon of the tiger shark must have swam out in search of prey, how could it be trapped in the island?
But this seal in the sea is not impossible to avoid, it requires the legendary ship of the sea, and the only channel that can lead beyond the sea, the channel through the whirlpool. As long as you can return to the sea in the form of a kraken, you will be able to wander out of the current when the channel appears!
And the Kraken has worked hard for countless years for this way, breaking out of the seal through the sacrifice of the fish-man, until waiting for the arrival of Boris, until Weir unlocks the seal on Pig-Man Island, and until Hierro blows up the tiger shark.
In order to get out of this island perfectly, in order to prevent Boris and his party from breaking the seal as soon as possible, the Kraken used up all the hole cards on Fish-Man Island.
As long as they can break their own seals before they break the seal of the sea ship, and they swim out of the whirlpool along the course, who is their opponent in the sea? Maybe he will be defeated again like he did back then, but how many people are there in Weier's party? Five people! It's not even a fraction of the number of star spirits that captured him at that time.
But there is a key problem here, that is, it can't get into the place where it seals itself, it has to let someone else unlock the seal of the route, and moreover, after breaking its own seal!
If they first unlocked the seal of the ship and then left, while their own body was still sealed underground, wouldn't it be a hundred turns of empty power to make wedding dresses for others?
Everything was perfect, but the 'snake venom antidote' that Weir found was much more than the Kraken expected.
It's not that the Kraken can't lift the snake venom from Ollie's body, but Ollie is the key to helping him break his seal "one step ahead".
If Ver had brought back a simple antidote to snake venom, the Kraken would have been able to control Ollie as unwittingly as the Fish-Man Elder had been.
Then let them control Ollie while they are looking for the seal of the ship, and pull out the scepter that Dina left there to seal them!
But the bottle of antidote that Wille gave Ollie...... The possession curse he had placed on Ollie was lifted!
At that time, the kraken screamed in his heart that it was not good, and the foreshadowing that he had worked so hard to get was cracked like this? This is not what Lorenzo said! There is no way to lift the curse that is said to be good?!
But then Wille left Ollie and Pease in the village, both of them wanted to see the secret of the seal, but before they could get the potion from their magic power and forcibly control Ollie and Pease again, the two little guys in the house actually avoided the fishman's sight and ran away from the house!
Before the twists and turns were over, the Kraken actually saw Ollie and Pease in the swamp, and originally wanted to control the two, but was rescued by a mysterious force.
That mysterious power came out of nowhere, it seemed to come from the land of the archipelago, and it seemed to come from the chest of the child named Pease, and teleported Ollie and Pease away in an instant.
The dark stake did not succeed in making it hard, so there was a confrontation between Elder Fishman and Boris Hierro.
At least, they couldn't be allowed to break the seal so quickly, and the Kraken knew how easy it was for a high priest to find the seal.
But as Boris said, the Kraken cannot enter the place where it is sealed, it will be assimilated by the seal and returned to the body.
It had no choice but to give its power to the fishmen to surround and intercept Boris and Hierro.
And unconsciously walked to the fishman near the altar hall where he sealed himself, because his body contained too much kraken power, he was sucked into the seal by the obelisk and turned into energy.
This is also the reason why Veel fights all the way, but the fish-man fights less and less.
But a balance was eventually upset by Vere...... He tries to save Pease, who was injured by the shark people, and the fishmen's pursuit and the fight between the fish shark people make Ver miss the opportunity to meet Boreth.
Finally, by mistake, the Kraken's seal was ...... Unraveled!
And the exorcism of the Kraken, who has been sleeping in this archipelago for countless years, has finally escaped from the seal!
Everything seems to have gotten out of control since the beginning of the Will's medicine, but it has finally returned to the result that the Kraken had in mind!