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Chapter 517: The Whale's Back
Chapter 517: The Whale's Back
"Is there something huge down there?"
"Lindsey, you're not joking with us, are you?"
Lindsey's reminder caught everyone's attention.
Wah Wah Wah and Alarson also looked downward.
Although the seawater was pitch-black, a few rays of sunlight pierced through the clouds, revealing the massive silhouette beneath.
The creature's size was astonishing, and its ascent was equally impressive.
"There's really something down there!"
"Was Kruluru really killed?"
Wah Wah Wah and Alarson exclaimed in surprise. But immediately, the nearby seawater was pushed upwards by the colossal entity, causing the small boat beneath them to shake.
The water surged in all directions.
The boat began to retreat, following the dark waves.
Just as the boat beneath them started to rock...
Lindsey took a step forward and stomped down forcefully.
Thud! The boat's deck emitted a dull sound, and Lindsey's stomp caused the nearly capsized vessel to sink into the sea.
The water continued to flow.
The already slowing whirlpool disintegrated.
In the blink of an eye, a series of undulating hills emerged from the dark seawater.
More land, reefs, and shallows also appeared before their eyes.
An entire island had risen from the ocean depths!
Just a moment ago, Lindsey and his companions, who were previously drifting downstream, now found themselves stranded on the shore.
"This..."
Lindsey steadied himself on the boat's deck.
His first thought was of the two sea giants that Wah Wah Wah had mentioned earlier.
One of them was the deep-sea giant whale, Soloya.
In its usual slumber, it appeared as an island on the ocean's surface.
The large red mark floating up from the depths perfectly matched this scenario.
"Wah Wah Wah, Alarson, we..."
Lindsey opened his mouth to speak, but no response came from behind him.
In that instant, Lindsey realized that danger had arrived.
As he stood on the boat, a heavy and ancient aura quickly infiltrated his body, immediately clashing with his Life Essence.
This force was powerful and dominant, almost instantly suppressing Lindsey's essence, and it began to overwhelm him! "Huh?"
Lindsey looked down at his body, his pupils constricting.
In just a moment, his feet, invaded by this aura, had already turned to stone.
Lindsey turned his head again.
Wah Wah Wah and Alarson, who were just discussing battle plans with him, had instantly transformed into stone statues.
"Statues... Petrification?!"
Lindsey realized what was happening.
In the time it took for him to react, the petrification spread beyond his legs, rapidly extending towards his waist!
Within seconds, he too would be completely petrified like Wah Wah Wah and the others.
However, the petrification process couldn't advance even a millimeter further.
Because Lindsey, with lightning speed, had switched the magic emblem on the back of his hand.
[Emblem/Material: Mountain Emblem]
[After equipping, increases the user's resistance to petrification, dizziness, and physical attacks. Activating the active effect allows the wearer to pass through soil and rocks for 7 seconds and breathe underground. Can also be used as a material to craft other items.]
[Advanced Earth Emblem, a special item of higher value.]
"Phew..."
Lindsey breathed a sigh of relief.
He usually treated the [Mountain Emblem] as a tool for earth escape.
But the facts proved otherwise.
Items of higher value indeed possessed their true worth.
The powerful magic emblem immediately suppressed the petrification process.
Moreover, the increased resistance gradually reversed the petrification. Lindsey watched as his legs transformed from stone statues back into flesh and blood.
In just a few moments on the boat, his legs regained their freedom.
"Wah Wah Wah! Alarson?"
Lindsey didn't have time to examine his body.
He turned around and rushed to his two companions, activating both the Management and Puzzle modules.
[Human Male/Female—Affected by the power of the Abyssal Whale, they have turned into stone statues. Only by killing the Abyssal Whale can the petrification be reversed.]
"..."
Lindsey struggled to describe his current emotions.
He felt both tense and relieved.
Concerned about his companions' petrification, he was also relieved that the petrification could be reversed.
"Anyway, it's good that the petrification can be reversed."
"And it also avoids the total annihilation that would have happened if we had killed on sight."
Lindsey jumped down from the ship's top.
He originally planned to set off immediately to kill the Abyssal Whale.
However, after seeing the towering mountains and the massive island inhabited by strange plants, an unknown sense of crisis arose.
Lindsey turned back:
"No."
"I can't just leave you two here."
Lindsey immediately took action. He tried his Portable Bag, but even though they were petrified, Wah Wah Wah and Alarson still couldn't fit inside.
Lindsey had no choice but to open his shop and place the two in the backyard before closing the shop and setting off again.
"I'll kill that whale."
Lindsey recalled what Wah Wah Wah had told him.
In the popular stories of Thousand Sails City, the protagonist entered the whale's mouth, made their way to its stomach, and finally pierced its heart, ending the beast's life.
"So, do I have to replicate that?"
"Might as well be more direct and dig a vertical mine shaft."
Lindsey pondered seriously.
He opened the Map and expanded his reconnaissance range. This massive island indeed resembled a whale in shape.
"The whale's heart, 1/3 from the head to the tail, or 2/5?"
Lindsey's biological knowledge didn't include whales.
He had caught and dissected various fish and prepared delicious meals.
"But a whale is a mammal, right?"
"Is its body structure the same as ordinary fish?"
"..."
Lindsey decided to take action first.
He went to a location about 2/5 of the island's length and took out a hammer to start digging downward.
The island on the Abyssal Whale's body had some peculiarities but was still within the construction rules. With a few strikes, Lindsey quickly dug a vertical tunnel downward.
The soil on the surface of the Abyssal Whale's body.
Excluding the raised hills, the normal flat ground was only about three to four meters thick.
In just a few seconds, Lindsey dug through it from top to bottom.
Bang! With a muffled sound, Lindsey's Meteor Hammer bounced high, and he felt the sensation of the excavation rules failing:
"Good, I've found it."
Lindsey's face turned fierce as he thought of his two petrified companions. His fierce gaze turned into a cruel smile:
"Next, it's time to cause some chaos inside!"
Swish—
A red lava flow instantly lit up at the bottom of the pit.
Lindsey aimed at the rough skin beneath his feet and struck hard.
Whoosh! Instantly, high-pressure water gushed out from the torn wound.
Lindsey was pushed back by the force of the water, but he managed to steady himself. Still, his newly changed clothes were soaked through.
In that instant, the gushing water on the whale's back vanished.
Lindsey looked down again, and the wound he had just pierced had completely healed after the water surge.
Not even a scar remained!
"..."
"Such a strong self-healing ability?"
Lindsey furrowed his brows.
But before he could try again, his sharp hearing picked up on sounds coming from outside.
Several more 'bang, bang, bang' sounds were approaching.
Listening closely, it sounded like the footsteps of stone statues, hurried and approaching!
(End of Chapter)
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