Free Web NovelChapter 1008: Chapter 368: Made a Huge Blunder Right Off the Bat?
Time reversed slightly as Ree Shil had just entered the Instance.
At this time, he found himself in a rather strange place.
First and foremost, what met his eyes was an endless expanse of lake, with no shoreline in sight. freeweɓnovel.cøm
If it were just this, the place wouldn’t be considered strange.
The main oddity was the "ground," if it could even be called that, which was particularly bizarre.
It was made up of pillars of earth that extended up from the bottom of the lake.
The earth’s texture was as hard as iron, as if it had been compressed.
Each one was uniformly sized, just enough to support the weight of a single foot.
"Plum Blossom Piles?"
This was the first thing that came to mind for Ree Shil.
"Even such plants can grow in this environment."
He noticed plants akin to lotuses growing between the earthen pillars, along with other flowers and grasses taking root within.
Some roots were exposed or entwined around the pillars, making them appear like cross-sectional specimens of cylinders.
"Let’s check out the mission first."
As was his routine, he opened the Instance panel first.
"Hmm?"
What he found was a situation he had never encountered before.
The Instance Mission was, unexpectedly, blank.
"Is the mission hidden, or is there simply no mission?"
This was somewhat puzzling.
However, for Ree Shil, he thought this might be good news.
Because if there was no current mission, then he could spend a sufficient amount of time in the Instance.
It wasn’t a problem if something came up outside in the meantime, as he had drunk a Temporal Departure Potion before entering.
Since there was nothing specific to do, the best start would be to get familiar with this world.
Standing on the Plum Blossom Piles in the middle of the lake, and with no visible boundaries around, Ree Shil didn’t know which way to go.
He chose a direction at random and proceeded.
The Plum Blossom Piles on the lake surface were uneven in height and interspersed with greenery, which often obstructed his line of sight.
Moreover, the spacing between the piles was irregular, and occasionally he would come across rotten pillars, which would crumble as soon as he stepped on them. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
All in all, it wasn’t an easy environment to navigate.
This made Ree Shil wonder why this Instance required a card player level of Level 20.
Without a strong physique, just walking around in this terrain would be problematic.
Now look at him, leaping several pillars at a time with ease; it didn’t bother him at all.
[Ribbit Ribbit Ribbit!]
[Buzz Buzz Buzz!]
After about 30 minutes of walking, a jumbled noise came from up ahead.
Ree Shil paused slightly, hiding behind a green plant with broad leaves, and looked toward the source of the noise.
Then he saw the cause of the commotion.
About ten meters ahead was a large black-and-white spotted Green Frog.
Its feet were perched on four earth piles, and its mouth was wide open towards the sky.
The tongue inside moved back and forth like a nimble python, seemingly ready to lash out at any moment.
The spotted frog was clearly on the alert, and its focus was on a Giant Mosquito hovering in front of it, fluttering its wings.
The Giant Mosquito’s body also featured a black-and-white pattern, but unlike the frog’s dots, it had alternating stripes.
Naturally, frogs eating mosquitoes is a matter of course.
But what Ree Shil witnessed deviated from this norm.
Whoosh!
A few seconds after his gaze fixed on the scene, the frog’s tongue shot out like lightning, leaving a blur as it struck towards the Giant Mosquito.
But the mosquito’s reaction was incredibly swift; it dodged easily with a lateral move in the air.
The frog, undiscouraged by the miss, kept shooting out its tongue like a machine gun.
None of the strikes were successful; meanwhile, the dodging mosquito seemed to initiate a shadow clone technique, filling the air with its afterimages.
It wasn’t long before the frog began to show signs of fatigue.
The speed at which its tongue launched visibly slowed down.
And now was the Giant Mosquito’s time to counterattack.
Initially, Ree Shil thought the insect would use some sort of pecking attack, but it was nothing of the sort.
It tilted its body slightly, then, with a sudden thrust forward, a visible Air Force Cone projected towards the frog.
Such an unusual mode of attack was completely outside his notion of a mosquito.
And the defensive tactics of the frog were shocking as well; it conjured a semi-transparent barrier, like a Golden Bell Cover, blocking the attack.
"Is this the Kung Fu Kingdom, where even the animals and insects know kung fu?"
He marveled at the sight before him.
The situation was now at a stalemate; the frog couldn’t hit the mosquito, and the mosquito couldn’t break the frog’s defense.
What he had assumed would be a natural predation scene had turned into a prolonged battle.
About ten minutes later, following an intense struggle, the Giant Mosquito appeared to have the upper hand.
In Ree Shil’s view, it may have been due to the mosquito’s deeper "internal strength."
The frog’s cover shattered into fragments after withstanding yet another Air Force Cone attack.
Subsequently, it was penetrated by several cones and quickly lay lifeless.
The huge body slumped down, supported by a few wooden piles.
[Buzz Buzz Buzz Buzz!]
There was a sense of excitement in the buzzing of the Giant Mosquito’s wings.
It promptly flew down and landed on the frog’s back, then plunged its long, sharp proboscis straight into the frog’s flesh.
Ree Shil could see that with each suck from the Giant Mosquito, bulging pumps moved along its segmented proboscis towards its "mouth," while the frog’s body rapidly withered away.
After about 5 minutes, the mosquito’s previously shriveled abdomen became somewhat distended.
