novelraw Chapter 234: 10 World Alert Stele
Chapter 234: 10 World Alert Stele
Within the pristine seawater, the light from above the surface seemed to have acquired a physical form, transforming into strands of naked-eye-visible white silk spreading out, precisely illuminating these mysterious ruins hidden underwater for an unknown number of celestial years.
The Mother Goddess figure before Fisher was vague in posture, but her demeanor was captured with exceptional accuracy. That loving and peaceful gaze could be easily perceived even without facial features.
Since this Mother Goddess statue appeared here, which race these ruins belonged to was already evident...
This was a human creation, but the specific age of its construction was completely unknown; the only judgment that could be made was that the age of this place was extremely ancient.
And in front of that Mother Goddess statue, there also stood a massive black stone stele, about two meters tall. Looking from the front, the line of sight placed the stele exactly beneath the Mother Goddess's hanging palm.
Fisher's heartbeat slightly accelerated as he walked up to the stone tablet whose inscriptions were already blurred. He gently reached out and removed some of the seaweed covering it, revealing the seawater-corroded inscriptions upon it.
There was no text on it. Along the central axis, from top to bottom, there were consecutive horizontal parallel downward engravings, akin to an interminably long staircase extending all the way down from the celestial vault. Next to each tier of the stairs stood humanoid figures that were already nearly completely corroded, faintly representing certain organisms.
On the front of the stele, densely packed living beings stood beside the stairs, looking down at the beings on the lower stairs.
As his line of sight slowly descended, at the very bottom of those stairs, the distinct back of a kneeling human figure appeared in Fisher's eyes.
It was a miniature figure identical to a human's outer form, indistinguishable in gender. At this moment, it was devoutly prostrating at the very bottom of that staircase, reverently extending its hands high above its head, as if receiving some object, or perhaps praying or begging for mercy to something; its specific meaning was unclear.That almost completely corroded stone tablet seemed to possess a heavy historical weight at this precise moment. A fiery-eyed Fisher quickly recalled a vocabulary word he had heard before popping into his mind,
【World Alert Stele】
He still remembered when he met Eliog, she had once mentioned to him that ancient humans were extremely clear about the Rank of Life, and even specifically engraved this information onto stone tablets to record it; this was what she called the now-lost World Alert Stele.
Fisher originally intended to search for whether this kind of thing existed in some ruins after heading to the Northern Border, but he never expected to actually find such a thing in the ocean hundreds of meters deep!
Then, these consecutive horizontal engravings on it were the 【Rank of Life】 Eliog spoke of?
Just as he prepared to carefully count the number of Life Ranks on it, he instantly sensed some kind of danger approaching.
"Roar!"
The next second, a roar fully laden with fury transmitted from behind the Mother Goddess statue... The Siren suddenly scurried out from behind this dilapidated structure, barging about all the way, knocking over corals and stone blocks along the path. Finally, it also knocked down that loving Mother Goddess statue and the Alert Stele in front of Fisher, opening its bloody gaping mouth towards him.
"Fuck!"
Fisher's pupils shrank, helplessly watching the treasure he had painstakingly discovered being destroyed by this sea beast, a burst of rage instantly erupting from his heart.
While cursing under his breath, he abruptly raised the Fluid Sword in his hand. In the motion of his lifting the Fluid Sword, that quicksilver-like blade only showcased its flexible posture in the water, instantly dissipating within the water to transmute into the conformation of a colossal sword.
In the ocean, due to the seawater's resistance, utilizing the Fluid Sword could minimize the amplitude of slashing motions to the maximum extent. No wonder this stuff was exceedingly precious underwater.
Fisher's countenance was grim. Standing in place without dodging at all, just as the Siren was about to arrive, he gripped the sword with both hands and fiercely cleaved the edge of its massively opened gaping mouth.
"Roar!"
Upon this contact, the giant sword in Fisher's hands instantly sank into its musculature. Amidst spurts of green blood strands, the Fluid Sword ultimately lodged betwixt the crevices of its outermost teeth, ceasing further advancement.
That enormous sword stuck inside the Siren's mouth, propping against its upper and lower jaws, preventing it from closing its mouth. However, concurrently, Fisher was also carried by the titanic force of its swimming to fly backwards.
"Damned livestock!"
Fisher's feet stubbornly planted onto the ground, yet the floor was entirely sea sand, fundamentally impossible to gain footing. Even if his feet remained stationary, they could only leave two protracted scuff marks upon the soil.
Seeing that it was unable to close its mouth, the Siren proceeded to push Fisher to crash into the standing stone pillars beside them. Consecutively shattering several stone pillars, Fisher nevertheless gritted his teeth, refusing to let go, until the duo arrived at the precipice's margin. Fisher's feet finally stepped on empty air, being shoved by it into the profound abyss.
Sunlight gradually darkened; one person and one fish thus maintained this deadlocked state, frantically sinking within the seawater.
Amidst pitch blackness, the surrounding deep water's pressure grew increasingly absurd. The first to experience agony weren't Fisher's muscles, but his eardrums, subsequently followed by his optical organs. The torment originating from these two locations caused Fisher to inhale a gulp of seawater.
Descending any further would likely precipitate an accident; he remained incapable of enduring the deep water's pressure. He had to orchestrate a quick battle and quick decision.
Considering this, he tightly gripped the Fluid Sword within his hand, struggling to retreat from its giant mouth. Following immediately, he forcefully kicked off its lower lip, executing a half-circle rotation before it to land upon its cranium.
"Ah!!"
Arriving atop the Siren's head, the humanoid tentacles exclusively occupying its dorsum serially widened their oral cavities to bellow at him anew. However, this time Fisher wasn't panicked in the slightest, merely fiercely seizing the gigantic sword in his hand and hauling backward.
That colossal sword wedged central to the Siren's dental bones was yanked by Fisher following an altered directional vector. Prior to the countless tentacles proximately assaulting, it had already sliced upwards tracing along its labrum.
"Pfft!!"
At the superior extremity rounding the circular giant mouth, an enormous laceration violently hemorrhaged massive volumes compiling pure-green hematological fluidity correlating alongside Fisher's forward hauling targeting the gigantic sword. Nonetheless, Fisher endured that intense fishy odor, instantly withdrawing the sword raising it surmounting his cranium, aligning opposite its vertex to viciously penetrably plunge into it.
"Roar roar roar roar!!"
At the precise moment of penetration, the Siren began struggling crazily. Countless tentacles assaulted Fisher as if driven mad, intending to twist his head off.
But as the blade sank inch by inch into the Siren's skull, in the increasingly dark ocean, Fisher's expression became distinctly ferocious.
"Time to die, livestock!"
"Crack!"
The next moment, as he gritted his teeth and exerted force anew, a crisp popping sound violently erupted from the Siren's skull beneath the Fluid Sword. The resistance beneath the Fluid Sword's blade also instantly vanished, allowing the lethal weaponry to continue plunging downward, piercing its brain.
Concurrently, the apex bounding the fluid giant sword shifted congruent following Fisher's willpower, sprouting countless spreading slender quicksilver spikes, penetrating piercing the entirety encompassing the Siren's cranium transmitting from interior to exterior, morphing its cranium imitating a monumental spiked sphere.
"Roar!"
"Bang!"
A tremendous volume of blood mist explosively ruptured afresh. The myriad tentacles assaulting Fisher instantaneously lost their kinetic potency, reverting shape transcending from humanoid transforming backwards resuming soft tentacle configurations. The Siren's macroscopic physique similarly softened rendering completely motionless amidst the aquatic entity, sporting a gaping oral cavity listlessly persisting plummeting descending targeting the oceanic floor.
The Siren, an ocean demon having its cranium obliterated, thus perished in this manner.
Fisher laid prone atop the Siren's cranium, panting slightly. The efficiency concerning aquatic respiration fundamentally overwhelmingly fell short comparing against terrestrial parameters; combating a nominal couple rounds already induced sentiments of asphyxiation. Furthermore correlating alongside escalating extremity measuring depth, he practically commenced experiencing acoustic tinnitus manifesting inside his aural receptors...
The subsequent instance, he delicately released the Siren's cadaver, preparing floating ascendantly.
However casting his vision downward, he surprisingly discovered within the lower expanses comprising pitch ebony, faintly manifesting indistinctively situated upon the adjoining stone wall arose a nominal multitude emitting fluorescent optical objects.
Directing his optical focus specifically exploring the entities, those extraordinarily represented individual colossal aquatic fungi. Those giant fungi phenomenally flourished synonymous resembling towering towering giant trees sprouting upon these oceanic floor's overhanging precipices alongside sheer cliffs.
Those substantial fluorescent fungi ostensibly mapped associating certain deep-sea specific species. Regardless Fisher perpetually maintained absolute historical ignorance encountering such peculiarly outsized fungi; consequently his visual gaze inherently lingered additional fractional chronologies.
Paradoxically the ensuing moment, originating traversing the altitudinal locational spectrum corresponding towards those fungi, seemingly absorbing the phenomenal acoustic disturbances produced accompanying the combative engagement intervening the Siren and Fisher, astoundingly manifested living entities organically swimming exiting originating beneath those colossal fungal umbrella caps.
"Wu'ah! Ta tulu... ta tulu!"
Scrutinizing precisely, Fisher's cardiac pulsations accelerated additionally marginally.
As a matter of fact, those shockingly materialized constituting individual entities he possessed zero historical encounters observing – semi-transparent humanoid demi-human species radiating feeble white fluorescence!
Those demi-human species' facial appearances additionally sensory organ characteristics unequivocally manifested profoundly delicate beauty, yet lacking capillary foliage adorning their craniums, rather embodying an agglomeration manifesting dissipation spreading outwards, flawlessly mimicking a jellyfish cranium-like supple semi-transparent fleshy organ.
Concurrently, their holistic corporal statures maintained supple alongside exquisite beauty, harboring an intertwined pair delineating slender elegant upper limbs, clad encompassing intricately magnificent garments fabricated utilizing particular unidentified underwater silk textiles; situated beneath those garments, resided slender elongated tentacles bearing semblance mimicking lower appendages.
Their semi-transparent beautiful visages scrutinized struck with panic as that colossal Siren emitting fishy stench plummeted plunging descending traversing targeting their homestead. Additionally a minor minority dwelling populating the paramount apex pinnacle belonging those fungi—several "Jellyfish-men"—seemingly detected the "chief culprit" currently swimming ascendently, whereupon they hastily extended out manual digits pointing characterizing Fisher, concurrently continuously omitting a hushed whispering acoustic sound notifying informing comrades situated downward.
"Ji ji... Ya jimu sulikasi!"
Sensing individual cognizance apparently committing an unrighteous deed, Fisher witnessing this spectacle abruptly felt somewhat guilty-hearted, explicitly specifically acknowledging a multitude spanning Jellyfish-men powerlessly witnessing helplessly peering observing such a titanic massive Siren cadaver's ferocious carcass settling descending dropping anchoring directly upon their residential entryway feeling struck with panic experiencing consternation...
He paused for a beat intending retracing backwards, nevertheless the agony plaguing his aural receptors however augmented noticeably approaching bordering excruciating unbearability; practically devoid viable alternatives he solely silently intellectually internally transmitted a vocalization extending profound apologies targeting those innocent Jellyfish-man breed, thereafter subsequently unequivocally ascending targeting traversing the aquatic surface completely neglecting backwards optical glances.
The innumerable myriad Jellyfish-men residing beneath observing apprehending this spectacle consequently proportionately augmented furious resentment, sequentially propping their slender waists scrutinizing examining Fisher perpetually distancing altitude-wise continuously babbling incessantly emitting linguistic dialects circumventing his comprehension, purportedly presumably likely manifesting gratitude thanking Fisher assisting rendering elimination stripping away hazardous predators plaguing this regional sector right...
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