Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 717: Go and invite Miss Aleister!
At this time, it is far from time for the passengers to go to bed.

Although there were not many people on the damp and dim deck, the bar in the cabin was bustling.

The lizardman dealer was shaking the dice, and a large group of people gathered around him; in the corner, there were some card or chess players who looked like masters, and behind them were some people who were watching the fun with their hands folded.

The stern-looking half-elf bartender was shaking the shaker in his hand at the same rhythmic frequency, and behind him were small oak barrels.

At the bar, travelers who had never met before had wine and supper in front of them. They chatted about their experiences or boasted with red faces.

The only regret is probably that there are no dancers...but it is very normal to have no dancers on the ship.

"Let me tell you," said a bearded man, blushing, "this new Pope is quite famous in Avalon..."

Just as people were listening to the gossip attentively.

Suddenly, a sudden impact from external force caused the ship to shake violently, interrupting the man's words.

The swaying lights in the cabin went out or flickered, and someone walked towards the card table drunkenly with a glass of wine in hand. However, due to the sudden shaking, he lost his balance and the dark beer with brown foam in his hand fell out of his hand, spilling on someone else's head and directly soaking the nearby card table.

"Hey, you—"

Dissatisfied voices suddenly arose, the crowd pushed and shoved hard, and the noise of quarreling suddenly became louder, drowning out the laughter and chatting.

The next moment, the ship began to shake violently again - but this time, it was not just a shake.

The ship suddenly tilted violently to one side, and the people and many small round stools and high chairs all slid to that side and piled up in the corner.

In an instant, there were screams of terror and confused rebukes. Due to the violent collision and shaking, the lights that had been safely handled all went out spontaneously, so the flames did not spread outward. The wine glasses on the table all slid to one side, tipped over, and shattered.

All of the liquor was mixed together and splashed over the travelers piled at one end of the room, emitting a not-so-pleasant, pungent smell.

Before people could react, the ship suddenly tilted violently to the other side.

With mixed screams, people rolled to the other side of the room. People kept bumping into each other or into tables and chairs. The tables and some of the chairs were fixed to the ship, but some of the chairs were movable. They slid, rolled, or even flew up and hit other people, causing a lot of damage.

Only the half-elf bartender grabbed the counter swiftly at the first moment... but even so, barrels of wine kept rolling out and hitting his back and legs. In the second round of tilt, some lucky passengers grabbed the tables fixed to the ground and barely avoided the flying human shells in the complete darkness.

"vomit……"

After the violent shaking, someone finally couldn't stop vomiting. In the completely dark environment, it was impossible to see who was vomiting or how far away they were.

The vomit mixed with the alcohol on the floor became a stronger emetic and lubricant, making it difficult for people to get up... not to mention escaping from the crowded crowd, the completely dark environment, and the messy layout of tables and chairs... without hurting others.

"Don't use fire to illuminate—"

In this bar, the first person to react was the bartender.

Then the ship began to roll to the other side again.

During the second round of shaking, the half-elf bartender screamed anxiously in a voice that was almost broken: "Don't light the fire--"

Fortunately, there were many priests on the ship sailing from the Theocracy to Star Antimony.

Hands were raised high one after another, and the light of illumination one after another lit up like lighthouses, effectively dispelling the fear in people's hearts.

With the help of the lights, some agile superhumans were finally able to see the layout of the room, and quickly opened the door and fled from the extremely smelly and chaotic bar. The rest of the people were also able to barely hold on to the tables and chairs fixed to the ground with the help of the lights, and the situation seemed to be a little better for a while.

——And the next moment, an extremely huge tentacle fell from the sky!

It suddenly shattered the deck above, and broken wood and metal mixed together and fell towards the terrified passengers!
Some of the stubble stuck to the ground, and some fell on people. This was not immediately fatal... but in the constantly shaking cabin, it was as dangerous as using a grater to peel fruits and vegetables.

"Sea monster—"

Some people were screaming, while others were fighting back - it was a lizardman warrior, who suddenly drew out the scimitar from his waist, and drew a bright blade!
It was a sharp slash that shone as brightly as moonlight, dazzling in the dark space.

——That is the third level of [Fierce Slash]!
If its power were to hit a person, it would be enough to cut a strong man in light armor in half at a distance of more than ten meters!
However, the slash landed on the tentacle, but couldn't even make it bleed.

The gigantic tentacle didn't even break the skin, but instead fought back with great anger - the warrior was instantly positioned by the eyeless tentacle that fought back like a conditioned reflex, and slammed him into the wall!

Someone also had an idea. When the sea monster's tentacles retracted, he jumped high and grabbed the tip of the drooping tentacle, intending to use the force of the retraction to escape from the room directly!

His plan succeeded perfectly.

The sea monster really ignored him and took him away through the gap. The silver moonlight outside shone through the gap and fell into the cabin, appearing so bright.

But the next moment, the passengers in the cabin heard an extremely terrified and shrill roar: "So many, so many tentacles——"

His screams stopped abruptly.

Blood, as wet as drizzle, dripped from the cracks.

Because of this big hole, people can also hear what is happening outside.

"--fire!"

The captain's voice rang out.

Immediately afterwards, exciting artillery fire rang out one after another.

However, just after the first round of gunfire, the sea monster seemed to be enraged and shook the ship even harder, tearing the hull apart. From the deck, there were continuous sounds of tentacles smashing the deck and screams of the sailors.

Fear permeated the passengers like the smell of alcohol on the ground, making the vomiting more intense. Even the most tidy people no longer cared about maintaining their dignity at this time - they were all worried that the ship would be torn apart or overturned by the angry sea monster.

But at this moment, the captain's hurried voice suddenly came from outside:

"Professor Laxmi... please help me!"

"I know...but I can only hold out for a while."

Another voice that seemed a little cold but now seemed rational and reliable immediately sounded: "Go and invite Miss Crawley!"

"But, Dimitri..."

A frightened and hesitant young boy's voice sounded.

"I'm watching, nothing will happen - go now!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a dim yellow light drenched the ship.

The wine and vomit on the ground turned into a piece of yellow mud, and the smell instantly became much lighter, and the ground was no longer so slippery. And all the people in the cabin were fixed to the ground by a mysterious force at the same time, like mice stuck to a mousetrap... No matter how the ship shook, they would not slide around.

saved……

This voice emerged in people's minds at the same time.

In another room, the necromancer apprentices of the Spirit Tower breathed a sigh of relief and cheered excitedly: "Professor Laxmi has taken action!" "The professor will definitely be fine!"

"Maybe the professor can catch the sea monster..."

Outside, however, Professor Laxmi's expression was far more serious than they had imagined.

He half-knelt on the ground, stretched out his hands and pressed on the deck, the dim yellow light almost covered the entire ship. This made him sweat profusely... and the hemispherical dim yellow shield that emerged from his body also seemed so precarious under the attack of the sea monster.

……damn it!

He cursed the military intelligence department in his heart - there was a sea monster passing through this route, why didn't they warn them!
As a professor at the Spiritual Tower, he naturally knew the secrets of the Twilight Path...

Just as the Path of Authority was preceded by the Path of Power, the Path of Dusk also had a predecessor. Although he did not know the name of that path, he at least knew... that it was a path closely related to the deep sea.

All kinds of sea monsters and sirens from the deep sea come from that path. The templates for many monsters created by the beast path and the love path are based on them.

Dark, deep, terrifying...even, impossible to look directly at.

Just trying to decipher that power is enough to drive a person mad.

Because of this, even the Psychic Tower does not have a deep understanding of them.

...But Professor Laxmi has already guessed why this sea monster suddenly appeared.

It must have been the corpses soaked in preservation fluid that lured it over here!
Professor Laxmi considered the possibility that the bodies would be eaten by passing sharks, which was part of the original plan. Otherwise, it would be bad if the bodies were washed up on the shore and caught by fishermen.

However, this concentration of preservative solution is lethal to sharks.

After eating these carcasses, they will soon die from "twilight", and the carcasses will return to the sea and become nutrients for other fish.

But if there happens to be a sea monster nearby, the situation will be different -

For sea monsters on the same journey, both the corpses soaked in preservative fluid and the preservative fluid themselves are sweet nutrients.

This sea monster didn't look too big... It was relatively young among sea monsters, probably less than a thousand years old. It was shaking the ship now, not because it had any hostility towards them - otherwise, the sea monster would have had the means to destroy the ship directly.

Whether it is long-range casting, creating whirlpools and tsunamis, or directly freezing them, it can be done.

Or it could just use its tentacles to smash the ship...which wouldn't be difficult for it.

Now it smashed the same hole in the ship and then shook the ship desperately - in the simple brain of the sea monster, this was actually an attempt to squeeze more "noose potion" out of it.

It obviously didn't understand what a "ship" was, but instead saw it as another strange sea monster. After all, there are all kinds of sea monsters, and it's not strange to have a wooden shell on the outside.

Therefore, the sea monster regarded the dripping noose potion as the ship's body fluids or excrement... and now, according to its habit of hunting other sea monsters, it planned to shake it up and pour out the body fluids... or "terrify the ship" and excrete more excrement.

But sea monsters cannot communicate, they are real monsters - that's the trouble.

After their powers were transformed into the Dusk Path, they were like the Transcendents of the Power Path in the past, who lost half a level and were far weaker than other Transcendents of the same power level...

There is only one possible situation that could bring such pressure to Professor Laxmi, who is close to the peak of the fourth energy level.

——This seemingly younger sea monster is actually a powerful enemy from the fifth energy level!
Even if its power is weakened by half, it is still not an enemy that Professor Laxmi can reach...

On this ship, there can only be one... or a group of fifth-level extraordinary people.

That was "Aleister" and her housekeeper.

Now we can only hope that she is willing to take action... If she doesn't take action, the ship may fall apart!
Not to mention how many people will be eaten by the angry sea monster for not achieving their goal - even if they survive from the sea monster's mouth by chance, they still have a whole night's journey to Xingtan!

Swimming for about eight hours while holding onto a driftwood... and without getting lost and taking the shortest distance. This can only be done by a third-level extraordinary person.

At this moment, something else suddenly emerged from the ocean.

——That is the "head" of the sea monster.

It looks like a huge reef, and on it there is a beautiful girl wearing a "white gauze skirt" wet by water.

She clasped her hands together as if she was praying, and after leaving the water, she began to sing a melodious song.

Professor Laxmi finally identified the species of this sea monster -

——This is the "Bride of the Sea"!
It looks like a girl trapped in the ocean, but this is actually just a predatory camouflage. Its real head is actually under the "reef", and the reef is actually just its "hat".

If anyone was tempted by the beauty or came closer out of curiosity after hearing the singing, they would be torn to pieces in an instant by the tentacles lurking beneath the sea!

It is well known that sea monsters are monsters that prey on souls. For them, extraordinary people and other extraordinary lives are the real food. Ordinary fish can only fill their stomachs, but cannot soothe their anxious souls.

If the hero is killed by a sea monster, he will not be able to go to the dream world to become an apostle... although this actually has little to do with most people.

Because in reality, most people will just be recycled and used as materials for new souls. However, many people believe in "reincarnation" and desire eternal life in the dream world, so people are also afraid of these sea monsters. Even heroes who make a living by hunting monsters rarely go to the deep sea to hunt.

When Professor Laxmi heard the song, he felt something was wrong.

Almost instantly, he felt a strong urge to sleep. This was because Dusk Path was resistant to mental abnormalities, otherwise he would have fallen asleep like those sailors.

In an instant, only two people were left conscious on the deck.

One was him, and the other was the captain who was struggling to hold on. The captain tried to plug his ears, but found it was useless, and he gradually knelt down and curled up into a ball.

"This is the power of the path of corruption and self-beauty—"

Professor Laxmi couldn't help but say, "This is a song that directly affects the soul... There is no use blocking it."

"--Yeah."

At this moment, a cold and reserved childish voice sounded: "I don't think so."

The next moment, the singing sea monster suddenly let out a sharp scream.

As if it had seen something terrifying, it immediately loosened its tentacles that were wrapped around the boat... and attempted to escape in a panic!

And in an instant, a scorching flame rose from the ground -

Night turned into day in an instant.

The towering flames lit up the sky!
Several lasers instantly cut the sea monster into several pieces!

But at this moment, strangely... the sea monster was suddenly no longer afraid, and turned around angrily to fight back.

And then, an incomparably huge flame condensed into a pillar and came crashing down - directly landing on the head of the sea monster!

(End of this chapter)