Chapter 457: Meteor, Consecutive Slash

Although Sahuagin were ferocious and bloodthirsty magical beasts in the eyes of human fishermen by the sea.

They did possess their own writing and language and had established their own civilization in the depths of the ocean.

To some extent, they could also be counted as a type of intelligent creature.

They mostly operated in small, scattered groups due to their own habits and customs.

With a Sahuagin priest as the leader, supplemented by multiple elite-level guards, and Merman cannon fodder existing as the base.

Simple, yet effective.

As a spellcaster, the Merman priest often had higher intelligence and judgment than its peers. Perhaps it didn't know how to perform complex tactics, but with the accumulation of experience, it could also command small-scale operations quite well.

Right now, facing the human adventurers who had broken into the ritual, the priest just gave a simple command, and the Mermen under its hand surrounded them, calling "Ga-lu."

It had experience in dealing with such lone human adventurers.

First, let the cannon fodder under its hand go up to test them. If the other party's strength was ordinary, then it went without saying, just kill them; and if it discovered that they were difficult characters with strong strength, even if its side had a numerical advantage, it would be difficult to break through, and it, who was in the rear, would have plenty of time to consider whether to continue fighting or retreat temporarily.

It could even be called cautious.

Even though the beach was open, any movement could be seen clearly, and the sea was right next to it, allowing for retreat at any time, the Merman priest still didn't forget to keep two elite-level guards by its side while greeting its subordinates to go forward, just in case of special situations.

And facts proved that it should have been overthinking.

When the Mermen surrounded the female adventurer with red hair in the distance, no special movement came from the jungle shrubs by the beach.

It seemed it was really just her alone.

The only thing slightly unexpected was that this adventurer's strength seemed much stronger than any he had encountered before.

The scorching airflow that could be felt from such a long distance, and the crimson sharp shadow that flashed in the air in the distance, made his heart tremble and rise, and he had already gradually developed the intention to retreat.

And just when the Merman priest was considering whether to continue fighting or let the Mermen under his hand retreat into the sea and then decide based on the specific situation.

A black shadow suddenly flashed in the corner of his eye.

He subconsciously looked up.

The scorching and dazzling sunlight became the best camouflage at this moment, causing the Merman priest's black fish eyes to subconsciously squint, making it difficult to immediately distinguish the figure moving rapidly in the air.

It took two seconds to discover that it was a short-tailed albatross with a body size far exceeding that of its peers.

It took another half a second to notice the pitch-black thing hanging under the other party.

And at this moment, amidst the empty sound of wings flapping, the albatross had already reached the top of his head.

Ang—

The deep and high-pitched wolf howl suddenly erupted, and the Merman priest only felt his heart tighten, and an unprecedented sense of danger emerged in his heart.

He gripped the conch shell in his hand subconsciously, and magic particles gathered rapidly.

But before the spell could even take shape, accompanied by the wolf howl echoing on the beach, the originally pitch-black and dull fish eyes were in a trance.

【Night Mother's Gaze】 quietly took effect, and fear spread.

At this moment, for some reason, it suddenly recalled the hunter shark that had almost bitten off half of its body when it was young, recalled the huge shadow that swam past in the lightless deep sea, gradually approaching it.

Fortunately, the trance was only for an instant.

The next moment, this Merman priest broke free from the fear and passed the perception check.

But it was just a blink of an eye of daze, which made it miss the best time to counter.

"Hum-thrum..."

Mixed with the long wolf howl, it was the shrill sound made when the air was torn apart.

Reflecting the azure sky, the short-tailed albatross's body suddenly lightened and rose upward.

From its belly, a snow-white feather fell off silently, floating and swaying in the air, about to fall.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew past, and the feather suddenly stagnated.

The pitch-black energy from below surged up, blowing the originally naturally falling white feather another long distance into the sky.

Ang—

The wolf howl rang out.

The pitch-black energy wind, like light and mist, scattered wildly backward, vaguely outlining the ferocious outline of the wolf beast inside; the illusory ink-colored afterimage was pulled very long, leaving a fading black-gray tail trace behind it.

It was almost a dive down. Unlike the solid appearance of the black wolf stepping on water before, Xia Nan, who was diving from the air, couldn't run and jump, and was surrounded by empty air, making it even harder to borrow force. He could only rely on the gravity actively applied by 【Gravity Control】 after letting go of Haian's body to explode his speed as much as possible and increase the power of 【Fang Hunting】.

This made the black wolf swooping down from the air almost unable to see a complete body structure, only vaguely condensing into a wolf head at the point of the sword, while the body behind it all turned into an illusory tail flow trailing backward.

Looking from afar, it was like a pitch-black meteor falling at high speed.

In the air was the noisy sound of sonic booms and wolf howls mixed together. Even if there was still a large distance, one could already feel those biting and sharp air currents.

It was hard to imagine what the Merman priest was thinking at this moment, looking at the "comet" falling straight down from above.

But it had to be admitted that its psychological quality was not bad, even if it was muscle memory, it didn't stand still on the spot.

Instead, it subconsciously bent its upper arms, trying to bring the two conch shells it was holding to its mouth, and one could faintly see the magic light gathering in its palms.

However, its movement had only just progressed halfway when a strange, heavy pressure was suddenly applied to its unprepared wrists.

The Merman priest only felt its wrists being pushed hard by some invisible thing toward the bottom.

It didn't cause any damage, but it interrupted its spellcasting in an instant.

"Hum."

It was the humming sound made by high-frequency energy vibration.

Dividing his mind to use 【Gravity Control】 again while falling to interrupt the enemy's spellcasting, while applying gravity to lock it in place, ensuring that the other party had no possibility of dodging.

How could Xia Nan waste such an opportunity.

Like an extremely weak flame, an ochre-red light suddenly lit up at the tip of the falling wolf tooth, and then burned rapidly, turning into an ochre-red flame light mixed in the pitch-black tail flow.

——【Gravity Etching】!

"Boom-bang!!!"

The red-black tail trace dragged from high altitude had not yet dissipated, and that comet resembling a wolf beast had already landed.

Like an explosion, the air waves spreading to the surroundings rolled up countless sand grains, the wolf howl stopped abruptly, leaving only layers of echoes in the air. ===== CHAPTER 458 =====