LATEST UPDATES

Molting the Mortal Coil - Chapter 854

Published at 29th of March 2024 06:00:00 AM


Chapter 854: Turtle

If audio player doesn't work, press Stop then Play button again




Chapter 854: Turtle

Fortunately, the sea turtle was still incapacitated as he swam away at full speed. Using the Inner World he had experienced the turtles life extremely rapidly. This experience was already a very rapid process with many years only taking seconds to pass by. It was also to his favor that hed already lived many thousands of years upon the Inner World, which the turtle now had to live through. He wasnt worried about the turtle now knowing all his secrets because hed learned just how little it cared about anything other than being safe and filling its stomach. The turtle was very simple and cared only about the pursuits of other beasts. Even if it was actually quite intelligent in its later years because of the innate strength of its species, it still didnt care. It completely neglected introspection or thinking about the world around it. It was just plain lazy.

Sage reached the reef and swam between two large outcroppings, looking for a place to hide when the sea turtle finally came back to its senses. Its eyes seemed to turn red and it looked around rapidly before suddenly deciding on a direction and following flawlessly in Sages wake. Its normally cowardly and lazy behavior was tossed aside in favor of getting revenge upon its tormentor. It was minding its own business and had not had to face any hardship in hundreds of years. Its now immense size meant that as long as it didnt stray into the deeper parts of the sea nothing could threaten it anymore. Now this little creature had overwhelmed it with pain and then tortured it with the experiences of many strange and confusing lifetimes. Its head hurt not only from the painful attack, but from the amount of strange things that it was forced to see. Ñøv€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.

Sage found a hole in the reef that seemed to lead into a deep cavern and he didnt bother figuring out what lived inside before diving straight in. This entrance was nearly ten feet wide, but the sea turtles head was more than ten times wider. He swam in, on the lookout for other occupants. He was especially worried about this being the den of something like an eel with a ten foot wide body, one that might just open its mouth and rush outwards leaving him no room to do anything but get swallowed. Considering how rapidly he swam into this cavern it showed that hed much rather find himself in the belly of an eel than face the mountainous turtle outside.

The attempt to slow it down was barely effective and the distance between the two of them continued to shrink. Just as it was about to catch up, Sage released an even larger cloud of material this time. An almost neon green cloud spread out behind him, forming an area more than four times larger than the red one. The sea turtle was still riding on top of the current, but now it slowed slightly and then dipped down. The wave that was first pushing it, and was then carrying it along was now in front of it. The sea turtle rode in the center of the water column, using the wave in front as a battering ram to scatter the cloud before it caught up to its target.

Unlike the blood colored cloud, this green cloud was utterly immune to the wave of water. The Greenrose Miasma was not touched by the force of the water and only the sea turtles Water Law did anything. It smashed up against Sages Corruption Law that was reinforcing the spiritual poison. The tangible versus the intangible. The column of water passed right through the miasma and smashed into Sage, but the turtle swam right into the intangible cloud of poisonous miasma. Sage had used the liquid contact poison, Ruby Blood, to give the turtle a false sense of security before using the spiritual poison of the Greenrose Miasma as a trap.

Of course, the price for poisoning the sea turtle was for him to take its attack head on. The powerful rush of water smashed against him and he let it carry him away. If he tried to resist it would hit him even harder and the sea turtle would likely ram into him. Yet, even as weakened as the hit was, it still peeled off his Jade Mantle. Layer after layer of it crumbled away until the thin layer finally popped. His clothing was torn to shreds, the flowing garments werent very thick, but they were still from a qualified tailor. The magical tool was torn to shred and his body was left battered and bruised. From his waist the spider shaped belt buckle did its job, releasing silken threads to form a new outfit on his body. This new clothing didnt offer any protection other than for his modesty, but he had better things to worry about.




Please report us if you find any errors so we can fix it asap!


COMMENTS