The Era of Gods

With a battle cry, a large group of Fishmen, driven by the Nagas, bravely charged toward the predators they once would not dare to approach. They surrounded these large carnivorous fish as they charged in and, following up, the Nagas skillfully performed a wave of Salted Fish Charges, focusing their attacks to kill instantly.

There were about one hundred and fifty to sixty predators of various sizes around the tribal group, including the shark group. Aside from a few incredibly powerful ones, the strength of other predators wasn’t that great, and they might not even be a match for a single Naga warrior.

Caught off guard by the counter-charge, the predators were halved in an instant.

These lone fighters, how could they stand against an organized army?

Teams that were freed up joined the battle to besiege the shark group. Fishmen flooded in from all directions, enclosing them in a reverse siege. The sharks violently charged and smashed through the crowd of Fishmen, biting a Fishman in half and then spitting them out – not to eat, merely to kill.

At this time, Lin Xiao had set his sights on a shark leader that was bigger than the rest and was closing in with a small squad of Nagas amidst the crowd of Fishmen.

But just as he was about to make a move, a slight chaos erupted among the battling sharks, followed by the leader’s cries. To his surprise, the shark group began to break through and retreat.

Lin Xiao immediately realized that a very powerful predator must be approaching; otherwise, the sharks wouldn’t have fled with minimal losses.

He quickly scanned his surroundings and soon saw, in the depths of the clear sea, a very large serpentine figure rushing toward them. As the distance rapidly closed, he saw a giant sea snake covered in yellow and blue bands approaching.

This creature was no less than fifty or sixty meters long, with a diameter of three to four meters. It had a row of sharp bone spines on its back that looked to be dangerously venomous, glowing blue. Its thick body coiled up and then shot forward hundreds of meters in a swift motion, its mouth opening wide, more than five meters in diameter, and fiercely biting into a shark near one meter in length. Lin Xiao, with his keen eyes, saw the shark’s flesh under its skin immediately turn blue-black; the colossal creature was poisonous.

At the same time, a small hologram popped up before his eyes, displaying a virtual model of the Giant Sea Serpent – the powerful Sea Beast he was tasked to hunt.

As soon as the Giant Sea Snake appeared, other predators scattered as if their tails were on fire, with no thought of avenging their companions.

The Sea Snake did not pursue these predators but instead took the initiative to rush toward the Fishmen. Its thick body coiled and leaped out with its mouth open, striking like lightning. With the Fishmen’s abilities, they were simply unable to resist; a single bite would take out more than one Fishman.

Lin Xiao’s pupils flickered with a faint glow as he lifted his spear and roared:

“My children, kill it!”

The slogan reverberated thunderously, but he himself remained motionless and even quietly retreated a bit.

It’s a joke to confront such a huge and nimble beast head-on. If it suddenly attacked, even someone with the Agility of the Body of the Saint like him would probably not be able to react in time, and a single bite would mean certain death.

However, as formidable as this creature was, it was still a beast, not a transcendent being with Supernatural Powers. With tens of thousands of Fishmen and hundreds of Nagas, even ants can kill an elephant; there’s no reason they couldn’t surround and kill it.

Group after group of Fishmen rushed forward one after another. The Sea Snake swallowed some whole, and killed many with powerful bites or crushing blows. The Fishmen couldn’t even get close, while only the Nagas could use the extreme velocity of the Salted Fish Charge to burst forward, strike with their spears, and then quickly retreat.

But the Sea Snake was too fast in its response. Every time it lunged, it would catch and kill one or two Nagas in its wrath or just slap them aside with its tail. If it hit, it resulted in a gruesomely crushed body.

With each death, Lin Xiao’s heart ached, but since they were hunting such a Giant Beast, casualties were completely normal, and he was mentally prepared for it.

Groups of Fishmen and Naga warriors advanced courageously, only to be slain in droves. With a flick of the Giant Sea Serpent’s tail, the force of tens of thousands of pounds could mash a Fishman into a bloody pulp. Blood spread out, dyeing the once-clear waters red.

In less than ten minutes, there were over a thousand Fishmen dead without a corpse intact.

It wasn’t until the Nagas and the Grey Mist Fish People’s second wave of the Salted Fish Charge had cooled down that, under Lin Xiao’s command, they regrouped. Hundreds of shadows, like torpedoes, struck the slender Sea Serpent from all directions. Severely wounded, the Sea Serpent instantly sustained hundreds of additional injuries; its fifty to sixty-meter-long body was riddled with bloody holes, and the blood oozing out was blue tinged with red. The Fishmen and Nagas that were close began to show signs of poisoning.

Fortunately, the physical constitution of the Nagas was stronger than that of the Fishmen. As soon as they sensed something wrong, they turned and fled, leaving only the Fishmen to be viciously bitten by the wounded Sea Serpent in its rage.

After a furious fit of roaring like thunder, the Sea Serpent felt the pain and weakness of its injuries and twisted its body in an attempt to escape.

At this moment, how could Lin Xiao possibly let it leave? A large group of Nagas chased after it, keeping a distance.

It was also fortunate that the Sea Serpent had just been severely injured in that last outburst; its head and tail were both full of bloody holes, which severely impacted its speed. Otherwise, keeping up in its full state would have been a dream.

When the Giant Sea Serpent reached a spacious area of the seafloor, it suddenly turned and plunged deep into the ocean bed. Its massive body burrowed into the sand, flinging clouds of sediment into the water, shrouding a large expanse of the ocean floor.

With a wave of Lin Xiao’s hand, the team scattered and kept a close eye on the rapidly expanding turbid area.

This Giant Sea Serpent was somewhat intelligent.

But that was of little use. While it was busy creating chaos, a large group of Fishmen caught up and expanded the encirclement. Meanwhile, individual Fishmen were driven into the murky area. Sensing this, the Sea Serpent had to give up creating confusion, bursting out in one direction and swallowing a Naga before breaking out of the circle.

Lin Xiao’s pupils turned cold, and he said in a low voice to the guard behind him:

“Follow me!”

Leaning forward, his massive snake tail swung, propelling his body forward like a fish.

Nagas swim very fast in water, and his incarnation with the Advanced Swimming Skill was even faster, quickly catching up with his subordinates trailing far behind the Sea Serpent.

But he didn’t make a move rashly. Even a weakened Sea Serpent, measuring fifty to sixty meters, could easily kill him if it were to lash out suddenly.

He was waiting for his subordinates’ skills to cool down. The third wave of the Salted Fish Charge had the chance to finish off the creature.

He had marveled more than once at the power of the Salted Fish Charge. Such an abnormal skill, formed merely from merging several lower-level skill cards, was an incredible bargain.

Perhaps, if he accumulated enough cards in the final exams, he could trade some less useful ones with other students for skill cards, eventually merging them into a super-strong skill card.

There was no need to strengthen the Salted Fish Charge further. While strengthening it would make it more powerful, the skill cooldown would become longer, affecting its usability..