CH 391

391: Mershark (Drafted 2/21)

The path under the water was dark because the light was weak, but it was navigable thanks to the light items the people in front were using. They didn’t see their hoped for exit. It was a long path without an end in sight.

Feng Wu and Zo were in the back of the group.

“Look ahead!”

“What is it?”

They looked forward only to see a huge shell at the bottom of the stream bed. On it, was a beautiful woman with a fin on her lower body. She looked at them from a partially reclined position with a crooked mouth full of fangs. Clearly she was not a kind person.

There was a hint of eagerness in her eyes, as though she was staring at delicious food, and from time to time, she would flick her fangs with her tongue. No matter how you looked at it, the image was just too strange.

“This. . . is this a mershark?” Someone asked uncertainly.

Mersharks were one type of merpeople.

Merpeople had a powerful sound attack, but luckily they were docile and timid with a tendency to hide from humans. They were peace loving creatures that didn’t take the initiative to attack, but at the same time it was difficult for humans to attack them as well.

Mershark belonged to one of the stronger sea people groups. They were closer to humans, with a body of half fish/half human, and a mouth filled with serrated teeth. They were hostile, war-like creatures who loved to kill and were nearly unbeatable in water battles because of their ability to control water.

But mersharks and merpeople didn’t like to appear in front of humans. The two groups hid away so well, people had never been able to find them.

So for a mershark to appear in front of them now was really shocking.

This was a mershark’s natural battle ground. The odds of winning against one in an underwater fight was so abysmally small it may as well be zero.

“Hiss. . . ” The female mershark made a hissing sound through her jagged teeth. Bloodthirst flashed in her eyes.

“Everyone! Perpare for battle! This is a mershark!”

The woman sneered. She flipped her palm and suddenly two whirlpools appeared in the water. Its fast rotation sucked in those closest to it without giving them the chance to resist.

“Ah! Help!”

“Save me!”

“What’s going on?! I can’t get out!”

No matter how hard they tried, those sucked in couldn’t escape the tug of the whirlpool; they kept spinning in circles.

The woman raised her hand gently and created several large water columns. The columns moved as though they were sentient and attacked the people not engaged with the whirlpool.

People avoided the water columns as best they could. The columns, if they were to be hit by one, would certainly be very damaging, if not lethal.

Who were the lucky ones? The ones caught in the whirlpool or the ones avoiding the water columns?

The answer came soon enough.

The two vortexes moved to the side of the mershark. Then she reached out and grabbed a random person from inside. Before the guy could even resist, she’d already dug into his chest with her long nails and yanked out his heart with her hand. He only had time to let out a scream before dying.

Bright red blood flowed out of his chest and dyed the water near him a hazy red.

The mershark ate the heart in two bites. The joyful expression on her face made you think she was eating some kind of tasty world delicacy.

People watching swallowed nervously at the scene. Legends spoke of how brutal and fierce mersharks were; but they had thought legends were just legends. They knew the reality now.

They may as well be food. She didn’t view them as a threat whatsoever.

Impressive! Feng Wu’s eyes lit up but then dimmed. What to do if she couldn’t beat it though? She could see the mershark with a fishtail was very powerful. It wasn’t something she could beat. What to do? Feng Wu thought with some annoyance.

“Don’t be afraid Xiao Wu. See the shell bed there? You can use it like a boat to escape. Just find a way to lure her away from it.” A soldier, who was part of the labor involved in sealing the cave, came out and let his existence be known.

Yeah, easy to say. Both White Lotus and Rui Baby rolled their eyes.

Baby Rui was at ease resting on Feng Wu’s small wrist and had no interest in the fierce battle. But if Feng Wu were in danger, of course he would take action. Other people though, he didn’t care about at all.

“What were you thinking putting something so powerful in there? How is Xiao Wu going to get out?!” A cute, beautiful maid yelled as she angrily pointed at the man in charge of the construction.

The general smiled bitterly. “Really, you can’t blame me for that. How would I know things would be like this now?”

The spirits all thought about it. It was true, you really couldn’t blame anyone for it. It wasn’t like any one of them could have predicted the future.

But what should they do now? The mershark was too powerful for Feng Wu to beat. With her small arms and legs, it would be too difficult for her to get out.

“Did you do anything else?” Someone remembered the general liked to get insurance.

The general said in embarrassment, “Haha. I also asked my soldiers to put a corpse demon upstream.”

Even if you had beaten him to death, had he known then what he knew now, he would never have done such a troublesome thing.

“A corpse demon?! It’s not the one that massacred all those villages is it?”

All those who knew the possible origins of the corpse demon covered their mouths in shock.

Dangerous demons ran rampant and had shared the same living space with humans at that time. Back then, humans were much weaker and so had gathered together on the continent, but despite having the highest density in population on the continent, they did not have the advantage over other races.