Chapter 150: The Machete and the Spear (I)
Fioni noticed what had happened to Lothar, who had seen his first contact with the human fall into the trap of his kind, but was powerless to stop it. The number of krakens besieging him is second only to that of Fettis, and these shark-toothed krakens look at him with no secret hatred that wants to tear him to pieces. Fioni was puzzled by what had happened to make the hunters so angry, he had been imprisoned by humans for so long, and the changes in the ocean had not yet reached his ears with the sound of the waves. Still, the shapeshifters were quick to determine that he could not allow them to kill Lothar, and Fioni wielded his scimitar to keep his enemies out of his reach.
"Jacquia, spare that human, I'm the one you're looking for!" Fioni shouted, hoping to change or delay Lothar's fate, and he did. The Phosphorus Torch shook slightly, and the Siren besieging Fioni made way for him to face the torch-wielding huntress. Lothar, with a spear stuck in each side, knelt at the huntress's feet with her head bowed, unable to grip her weapon so powerlessly that she let her tomahawk tarnish as it fell to the sand. However, the Siren's cry only slightly delayed what was about to happen.
The huntress looked at Fioni, holding a torch in her left hand and a long-handled weapon in her right hand that symbolized the hunting leader of the sharktooth tribe, "He killed the sons of the shark father, and killed our people, and there was nothing to atone for him." As the words fell, the weapon with the heat of the submarine volcano plunged unhindered into Lothar's chest, the overheated tip so that no extra blood splattered out of the wound, only the foul smell of burnt meat began to permeate. "Poof!" the body, which had many names before, fell to the ground with the three spears drawn, and in many cases, the world does not give heroic deaths, and the deaths it can give are often sudden and swift.
So, Lothar Montenegro, is he dead? At least from the eyes of others present, yes. Witnessing the death of the tarantula, Fioni calmed down, and he no longer shook the scimitar in his hand in vain, because he knew that with the habit of shark-toothed people, his opponent would be Jaquia himself. It was not an opponent that could be defeated by momentum or luck, and he had to use all his physical strength, skill, and mental factors to survive the huntress's revenge.
"How did you find here?" was probably the question everyone in the team wanted to ask, and it stands to reason that the Great Cavity created by the Thunder Giant's corpse should not have another entrance, and that entrance should not be controlled by the Kraken. Because if the Krakens knew how to find the giant's corpse through the other entrances, they wouldn't have to waste so much effort attacking Heartbreaker's Bay. Taking a step back, even if they did master the other entrances, how did they find the team in this huge space at this time and launch a surprise attack?
Jaquia didn't give a direct answer, but her gaze was on the sharktooth scimitar in Fioni's hand. The shapeshifter's heart contracted suddenly, and he immediately understood what stupidity he had done. With the relationship between the shark tooth tribe and their companion shark group, he dared to steal this weapon made of shark teeth so openly. Remorse and anger rarely dominated Fioni's mind, but he still did not give up, so he asked again, "Even if you can find me, how did you get in?"
"You can only blame your bad luck, betrayer. If it had been before, I wouldn't have ventured here even if I found your tracks. But now, I, no, we, have nothing left to lose. I don't know how you brought these damned earthly creatures down the abyss, but it's okay, you're the first sacrifice on our path to revenge. Jaquia's tone was grim, very different from the huntress Fioni remembered. In the mindset of the shapeshifters, even if they are deceived and defeated, Jaquia is a respectable hunter, and she will not treat her prey with such an attitude. All he could think of was that something had changed her.
It was another piece of information from the Huntress that told Fioni where the shark teeth had come from, the abyss. In the waters around Heartless Bay, the term is only used to refer to a location where there is another name among the elderly Krakens, the Lightless Gulf. It is said that those who die in that deep ditch will never be able to escape, and they will never be able to return to their destination, but can only wander in the deep ditch forever. It has always been regarded as the harshest execution ground for shark teeth and scorching waves, and the Kraken who has committed the unpardonable sin of the race will be thrown into the abyss with their limbs cut off. But there are always two sides to the legend, and some old people have said that the deep ditch of the light is sealed with the sworn enemies of the Sirens, and in ancient times, the Shark Tooth and the Fierce Waves and other Kraken tribes who once lived here worked together to force these enemies into the abyss, and the priests of each tribe asked their gods for help to seal those things forever in the waters that the sun could not illuminate. The only way to break the seal is for the Kraken to willingly unleash their mortal enemies.
"You're in the deep ravine, why? whatever is there, what's in it for you?" Fioni questioned, if he had only thought it was reasonable for Jaquia and her people to attack Heartless Bay in order to prevent the Thunder Giant's resurrection, now he only thought that these people seemed to be completely insane.
"Who says there's no good?" the huntress handed the torch to the people beside her, her expression gradually turning sad, "If there are demons out there that can slaughter everything, I will not hesitate to free them, even if it costs my soul! No, it's not nothing, maybe Father Shark is guiding us on the right path, because your accomplices, aren't they here?"
The dark red tip of the spear left an arc-like trajectory in the darkness, heading straight for the chest of the shapeshifter! Fortunately, Fioni was already on guard, and when the tip of the spear approached him, he had already completed the sideways movement with a backward step, and the scimitar in his hand struck lightly on the tip of the gun, preventing the opponent from continuing to attack.
In all fairness, Fioni didn't want to fall out with the Sharktooth Siren here, in this situation, and although they did fight each other before, they didn't have a reason to do so now. But Lothar's body was not far away, and the anger in the shapeshifter's heart didn't allow him to think of other ways to solve it, "If that's what you want, I'll do what you want!" Fioni followed up as his opponent retracted the tip of his spear, hoping to use the difference in weapons to deal with Jaquia at close range.
However, how could the shark-toothed number one hunter be idle? In the face of Fioni who was rushing towards him, Jaquia also took a step forward without fear, and the spear in his hand was no longer withdrawn, but turned into a stick and tried to hit the ribs of the shapeshifter! Fioni was indeed hit by this blow, but fortunately, the huntress hastily changed her trick so that she could not pour too much strength into this blow, and after the ribs were not lightly tapped, Fiogini instinctively jumped to the side, and Jacquia did not continue to pursue. Between this advance and retreat, the situation of the battle changed back to the way it began.