Free Web NovelChapter 393: Chapter 291: Transforming into a Torrent, First Battle Against a Fifth-Tier
Su Ze had just considered hunting the Tier Five aberration when, before he could even approach it, the beast came for him first.
A large mass of Coral Insects suddenly split off from the Coral Monster currently locked in combat with the Dongli Saint Envoy. At the same time, more Coral Insects flew out of the sea, quickly assembling into a hundred-meter-tall Coral Giant that blocked Su Ze’s path.
Perhaps Su Ze had killed too many aberrations, drawing the Coral Monster’s attention and prompting it to detach a portion of its Coral Insects to deal with him.
The Coral Monster was a massive entity formed from countless Coral Insect aberrations, capable of splitting into innumerable individual bodies.
At Tier Four, the Coral Monster could transform into a colossal Coral Island. Now, at Tier Five, it could only be even larger.
’What I’m seeing is probably just a small part of it. The vast majority of its low-tier Coral Insects are likely still hidden beneath the waves, not taking part in the fight.’
’After all, in a high-level battle against a Venerable Powerhouse, the low-tier Coral Insects would just be cannon fodder.’
Su Ze estimated that this newly formed Coral Giant probably wasn’t Tier Five, but it was definitely Tier Four. It might even contain more than one Tier Four Coral Insect.
The hundred-meter-tall Coral Giant towered over the sixty-meter-tall Su Ze by more than a head.
But strength wasn’t determined by size alone.
The surrounding Dongli soldiers and aberrations alike all retreated, clearing a space for the two behemoths to fight.
Su Ze unleashed a Rhino Charge and surged toward the Coral Giant. The sixty-meter-plus giant’s charge was so earth-shatteringly powerful that the entire beach trembled.
BOOM!
Su Ze slammed violently into the Coral Giant, the impact nearly blasting it apart. However, the Coral Giant immediately counterattacked, countless tentacles shooting out and plunging into Su Ze’s body.
The tentacles began to frantically drain every form of energy from Su Ze’s body while simultaneously injecting venom.
However, Su Ze’s body was currently in a liquid state. After sucking for some time, the Coral Insects only managed to make him shrink slightly.
As for the toxins, they were as conspicuous inside his body as a few drops of ink in a basin of clear water.
Before the toxins could spread, Su Ze expelled them completely, along with the contaminated portion of his liquid body.
While he was at it, he used his Impact Cannon skill to absorb all of the expelled toxins, storing a charge for a Poison Cannon.
Then, Su Ze discharged a blast of electricity. Unleashing his Thunder God Body at full power, he instantaneously released all his stored electrical energy. With a series of sharp CRACKLES, the scent of something charring began to emanate from the Coral Giant.
This single electric shock annihilated all the low-level Coral Insects within the Coral Giant.
CLATTER...
Dead Coral Insects rained down from the Coral Giant’s body. The original hundred-meter giant instantly shrank to fifty meters, making it a head shorter than Su Ze.
Meanwhile, Su Ze’s Bloodthirsty skill absorbed a massive amount of flesh and blood energy from the dead Coral Insects, instantly replenishing all the electricity he had just consumed and repairing all the damage and attrition his body had sustained.
To Su Ze’s surprise, the amount of golden energy within these Coral Insects was quite substantial—significantly more than in other aberrations!
After this "purification," the Coral Giant was smaller and far weaker. Su Ze kicked it to the ground and activated his Gravity Domain, pinning it down with immense gravitational force.
But even in its shrunken state, the Coral Giant was still a powerhouse among Tier Four aberrations. The Gravity Domain alone wasn’t enough to completely restrain it; it merely slowed its movements to a crawl, as if it were trapped in a quagmire.
Su Ze deliberately kept the Coral Giant alive, wanting to see if he could lure out more Coral Insects. He knew their swarms were vast and numerous.
He’d discovered that killing Coral Insects was an extremely efficient choice. They were fast to kill, plentiful, and the golden energy they contained surpassed that of ordinary aberrations.
Through the recent battle, Su Ze had also identified a weakness in his Bloodthirsty skill: he needed to keep killing to maintain its effect, and the maximum interval between kills was only ten seconds.
’This means that if I want to use the power boost from Bloodthirsty to challenge a strong enemy, I have to finish the fight in under ten seconds.’
’Or, I’d have to kill something else mid-fight to refresh the effect.’ fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
’Of course, the Coral Monster is an exception. It’s made of countless individual Coral Insects. As long as I can keep killing its constituent parts, I can maintain the Bloodthirsty effect indefinitely.’
Su Ze turned to face the sea, where vast swarms of aberrations were storming the shore.
BOOM!
He fired his Impact Cannon, unleashing the Poison Cannon charge he had just stored.
The highly corrosive and paralyzing toxins, released after intense compression, were amplified by the Impact Cannon. The cannon’s power was boosted by Su Ze’s size—the larger he was, the stronger the blast. frёeωebɳovel.com
The blast instantly pulverized a large number of aberrations into a bloody pulp. Those with thick hides that survived the initial impact were still contaminated by the poison, and even those hit by the shockwave were afflicted.
For a moment, the horde of shrimp soldiers, crab generals, and fish demons shrieked in bizarre, horrifying agony.
Many of the poisoned aberrations would die in the moments that followed. Each death would provide Su Ze with a continuous stream of flesh-and-blood energy, like a steady recharge.
Su Ze turned back to the Coral Giant, which was still struggling to escape his gravitational restraints. He saw new Coral Insects constantly flying out of the ocean and merging into its body, causing the giant’s form to swell once more.
