Chapter 588: The Broken Giant
Indeed, it is easy to recall the past when you are alone in a quiet place. Karl looked at the worn, dusty revolver, which had a special meaning for him as his "old friends". He had forgotten what the two revolches looked like when they were brand new, but he still remembered what had happened that day. It was also on that day that he began his confrontation with Kahlert.
In order not to let those thoughts interfere with his next judgment, Carl put all his thoughts behind him and took out the letter that Kelly had given him from his pocket. He couldn't remember the first time he had read this ordinary letter, just as every messenger's bag was filled with. Kelly's handwriting is terrible, but that doesn't stop it from being important.
It's just that he can't think of anything that the contents of the letter have to do with Adrian, the captain of the Black Shark. Kelly explicitly mentions the word Kahlert in her letter, which also means that she has a good chance of discovering information about Kahlert, and the source of the information is likely to be Adrian. However, Karl was not sure, because Kahlert was a stranger to the Aradians.
Kelly didn't go into too many details, and Carl thought that the importance of the matter forced her to talk to her in person. Although there is no possibility of leaks, if Kahlert knew that there were gunmen on the Arad continent who knew about them, I am afraid that it would be much more difficult to hinder their operations in Arad. But at the same time, Carl has another question, that is, how did Kahlert come to the continent of Arad?
Although he has witnessed the existence of the Arad continent with his own eyes, the so-called world below is still just a legend in the heavenly realm. Most people in the Celestial Realm believe that the world below is just a legend like the Silent City, and has nothing to do with reality. And Callert obviously confirmed through some channel that the world below does exist, as for the fact that they will target the Arad continent, Carl is not surprised, he knows Callert's guys, their ambitions are definitely not just as simple as the heavenly realm.
Karl didn't know much about Adrian's movements, only Maffeo and Schultz were close to him in the guild, and they didn't usually talk about Adrian, so in fact Karl didn't know much about him. He didn't know if he could trust him, and he wanted to try to trust Adrian by the fact that Maffeo trusted him, but he found that he couldn't. Only in the matter of Callert will he be truly serious and show several times more caution than before.
Carl folded the envelope and slipped it into the pocket of his trench coat. It's time for him to go, time is precious. Now that he had a rough grasp of the rules of this place, he walked to the edge of the cliff and stepped on the rope ladder to lead to the deeper cave, which naturally became smoother than before. He must concentrate his attention and absolutely not think about things outside the battle in battle.
The mutilated giants mentioned by Krent are indeed ugly monsters, reeking of corpses that appear inadvertently, and intimidate all humans who come near them with their rotting and massive bodies. Carl had never seen such ugly, disgusting monsters, they simply shouldn't exist in this world. However, the thought that this was the underground world of the Dark City made him relieved.
God knows where the dark elves got their hands on the human corpses, and used necromancy to stitch together their corpses into this ugly and disgusting thing in front of Cal's eyes. The most chilling thing is that every two pieces of corpse are stitched together with scraps of wire. If such an act were placed in a human town, it would be absolutely unforgivable. Controlled by necromancy, they are also mindless monsters, and the height of the two of them has an absolute power advantage.
Carl knew he couldn't go head-to-head with this kind of guy, and he had to find a way to get around its line of sight and attack from its blind spot. Depending on the size of the opponent, its mobility will be a big problem. However, the lava pools on this level of the cavern have the same four as the upper cavern, which greatly restricts Cal's space to move. And, to make matters worse, the red mutant Corpse Raiders emerge from the lava pool, which means that Carl will not only have to face a mutilated giant, but he will also have to watch out for the attacks of the Corpse Raiders.
He observed the distance between the lava pools, probably less than two meters or so, and although it was dangerous, a bold idea came to Carl's mind. As long as he can attract monsters to the desired location and he can successfully reach that place, he may be able to break the unfavorable situation. But the most important thing for now is to dodge the attack of the mutilated giant.
It only seemed to throw a punch with ease, but the incredible power came to his face, and Carl could feel the force invisibly hitting his chest, trying to tear himself apart completely. He resisted the pressure and dodged sideways to the giant's blind spot. But he couldn't attack the Crippled Giant, as the two Corpse Thieves were coming at him from the lava pool.
Karl used his physical skills to deal with the two corpse thieves who were approaching, while attracting the giant's attention. Physically juxtaposing the murderous Corpse Snatchers is a dangerous move, but Carl doesn't want to reload the revolver with a rare respite in such a fight, so he decides to take out the monsters with just one shot. Although he didn't know if the bullets would work against the giants, the corpse thieves couldn't be ignored either.
The giant's attack power is terrifying, any insignificant punch can smash the ground into a deep pit, Carl can't imagine what the consequences of being hit by a fist will be, he only hopes that that kind of thing will not happen to him. He dodged the robbers' attacks and moved towards the two pools of lava on one side.
Sure enough, these mindless monsters will not hesitate to pursue Carl, and this is exactly what Carl is aiming for. He had dazzled at least three of the Corpse Snatchers with his erratic pace, but as he had said before, their stamina and energy seemed to never run out.
Carl calculated the distance, jumped up with his feet, spun his body in the air and rolled one hundred and eighty degrees, heading straight for the clearing between the two lava pools. At a distance of less than two meters, if he landed the slightest deviation, he would fall into the hot lava. It looks more like a gamble, a costly one. But Carl won the bet, and he landed in the clearing without falling into the lava pool.
Even if the monsters weren't afraid of magma, they were a certain distance away from Karl, and it was impossible to attack Karl in the shortest possible time, and the slow-moving giant only turned around. Marcos smiled slightly, it was show time. A flurry of bullets erupted as Carl pulled the trigger continuously, and the bullets seemed to be flying in the air without a target, but such a dense barrage of bullets and the short gap between the monsters led to a frighteningly high hit rate in the field.
Karl was more concerned about the giant's reaction, and there was no doubt that what he saw made him happy and satisfied. The mutilated giant howls in pain under the onslaught of barrage, proving that the bullets have worked on it. As for the corpse robbers, they were directly drowned in the barrage of random shooting. When the bullets stopped flying, all they were left with were their collapsed, mutilated, rotting bodies.