Chapter 579: Waterweed Giant

Through conversation, it was learned that Senior Arcanist Kelisi's investigation team is currently employed by the Arcane Union. The entire team, including himself, consists of seven people, each with their own expertise in searching for clues and traces; currently, the other six are working underwater. Thus, Xia Duo waited with them. As for Saide, the Senior Arcanist from the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce, he was also underwater at this time, collecting waterweed samples while ensuring he did not interfere with the Kelisi team's search and preservation of clues.

Just when Xia Duo thought the search would end soon, Ti Mo Xi's expression suddenly changed, "There is a situation underwater!"

At the same time, Kelisi also received a report from his subordinates, and his expression turned grave. Xia Duo hurriedly cast his gaze toward the surrounding water surface. Due to the obstruction of the water body, he could not distinguish exactly where the people were underwater without casting spells, which made him feel like there were situations everywhere!

Just then, a figure broke through the water not far away. After looking around, the person flew toward the large ship. Xia Duo had seen this person before; it was indeed Saide from the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce.

Following closely behind Saide was a transparent spherical Force Field flickering with intense Magic Aura, about four or five meters in diameter. It was filled with lake water, and inside the lake water, two fish-men covered in waterweeds were desperately pounding against the inner wall of the Force Sphere.

As soon as Saide flew onto the ship and set down the Force Sphere, he did not care that others were present. A new spell was quickly completed, and then an aura covered the Force Sphere. Under this special aura, the Force Sphere quickly shrank until it became a palm-sized Crystal Ball.

Saide put away the Crystal Ball, and before he could even speak, one after another, sounds of breaking water came from not far away. A total of six people, not one missing, all flew out of the water and headed toward the large ship.

And behind them, a behemoth covered in waterweeds was slowly emerging from the water—no, to be more precise, this was a waterweed giant. Its face and body were entirely composed of waterweeds, and several fish-men were hanging on its body.

These fish-men seemed to have entered a symbiosis with this waterweed giant, even able to treat this waterweed giant as an aquatic environment, moving back and forth within the giant's body, surfacing from the surface of the body one moment and sinking into the interior the next.

At this time, Mai Er Si had finally come out from the ship's cabin, followed by a person who looked like a steward, whose expression was very flustered. Seeing the waterweed giant, Mai Er Si trotted to Xia Duo's side, looked toward the front of the ship, and asked in a low voice, "Lord Xia Duo, what happened?"

"I don't know either; this waterweed giant just suddenly appeared," Xia Duo replied, but his eyes remained fixed on the waterweed giant that was surfacing.

Among the group of Mages on the ship, no one had ever seen such a situation. Even for Xia Duo, it was hard to imagine that waterweeds could actually form a humanoid creature—let's count it as a creature for now!

As soon as this waterweed giant surfaced, it was as if someone had interrupted its sleep, waving its arms and swimming toward the large ship. The further it advanced toward the ship, the more of its body was exposed above the water.

Watching the waterweed giant getting closer and closer, everyone on the ship

"No matter what it is, stop it first!" Ti Mo Xi took the initiative to speak, and at the same time, he had already begun preparing to cast a spell.

Seeing this, the others also took action one after another; of course, those taking action were mainly Saide and Kelisi.

Kelisi's subordinates, as well as Xia Duo and Mai Er Si, mostly added Protective Spells to themselves. In addition, Xia Duo also sent a Sending to the "Owen" to have them hurry away from the waterweed giant that had just appeared on the lake surface.

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In front of the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce's large ship, the waterweed giant waved its massive waterweed arms—it was hard to say whether they were strong or weak—and smashed them toward the large ship. The next moment, a slanted Force Wall blocked the path of the waterweed giant's arm.

The thick arm collided with the Force Wall, immediately scattering into pieces and sliding downward along the direction of the Force Wall's slant. But as it slid downward, the scattered waterweeds began to reassemble, forming a new arm.

This attack was ineffective. The waterweed giant ignored it completely and raised its arm again. Waiting for it was still a Force Wall, which, together with the previous one, formed a structure similar to an angle, blocking the ship's hull behind them.

The waterweed giant was outside the tip of the angle, constantly pounding against the Force Wall. Although it could never break through, it still pounded incessantly as if it had lost its mind.

Just then, Ti Mo Xi suddenly said, "It has no intellect. The fish-men on its body are its core of thought. Destroying the fish-men will make it quiet down!"

Upon hearing this, Xia Duo thought of the intelligent waterweed fish-men that had been killed earlier. Perhaps it was because those fish-men were missing that this waterweed giant had become so stupid.

"Palu, you guys attack!" Kelisi ordered his team members to begin attacking the fish-men.

Hearing the order, Palu and the others each took a Magic Wand from their Dimensional Bags, and then Magic Missiles whistled out. Mai Er Si also took out a Magic Wand and began to attack.

At this moment, it made Xia Duo clearly realize the disadvantage of his rapid leveling and advancement: his accumulation was too little. Of course, he knew about Magic Wands; they were similar to Magic Scrolls but could be used multiple times.

The biggest advantage was probably that they were faster than using Magic Scrolls, approaching the instant-casting of spells stored in the Magic Net, but almost no normal person would store all Magic Missiles in the Magic Net.

Therefore, possessing one or more Missile Wands could sometimes have miraculous effects.

At this time, since others had them and he did not, Xia Duo could only watch the others attack. As for casting spells himself, the Archmage and two Senior Arcanists hadn't died yet, so it was not his turn to step up! The fish-men swimming on the waterweed giant, although they looked eerie, were actually just ordinary fish-men. As long as they were hit, two Magic Missiles could blast them into two pieces.

However, just after two fish-men were killed, Archmage Ti Mo Xi reminded them again, "Destroying their bodies is useless. It's the head; the head is the core of this waterweed giant's thought!"

Thus, the target of the Magic Missile attacks changed to the constantly moving heads of the fish-men. But Xia Duo could be certain that these Mages definitely had not practiced hitting moving targets much in their daily lives.

It was not difficult to hit a target as large as a fish-man, as their movement speed within the waterweed giant's body was not actually that fast, but hitting the head was not that easy.

And even if they hit, it was hard to destroy the fish-men's brains without a few hits. The Mages soon realized this and finally stopped being lazy, turning to cast spells themselves.

The six people of Kelisi's investigation team worked in pairs, one binding and one attacking, which soon proved effective. The waterweed giant's movements became sluggish.

Xia Duo and Mai Er Si looked at each other and also took action. Xia Duo chose binding. The fish-men had no necks; as long as their bodies were fixed, the range of movement for their big heads would be very small. The truly troublesome part was the traction of the waterweeds composing the giant's body on the waterweeds on the fish-men.

For this, Xia Duo chose a 4th-ring Restriction Spell, a 4th-ring version upgraded from the 2nd-ring 【Imprisonment Sphere】. Moreover, because it was a Force Field spell, it also had miraculous effects when countering external traction.

Xia Duo could see that the people on Kelisi's team also mainly used Force Field spells. After all, just binding the fish-men was useless; their movement was not their own ability but the result of the combined action of the waterweeds on their bodies and the waterweeds composing the waterweed giant.

As for attacks, in the hands of these people who were at least Intermediate Mages, there were too many choices. Even just a 【Fireball】 could cook the fish-men's brains, thereby causing them to lose their support for the waterweed giant.

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