Reincarnation of the Strongest Healer

Chapter 1059: Sea Heart Shard

Some minutes had gone by since Xu Feng began exploring up ahead. To his dismay though, there were no enemies or anything to be discovered.

Everywhere he walked was either rundown or completely left in ruin.

’Were there no preserving elements here?’ He frowned.

By the time he nearly reached the limit of the hydro cannon range, he paused for a moment.

He was unsure if he stepped out of the range, an enemy would suddenly appear out of nowhere.

Having encountered Burpe, he no longer relied heavily on his perception in this sea dungeon.

Xu Feng turned around and stared at the warship from afar. Then he glanced back at his current platform. Needless to say, it was hard to not suspect the distance and the setup was purposely designed by the Divine World system to ensure players couldn’t use the warship to cheat.

”Whatever, it’s not like the warship can be used everywhere.” He wasn’t disappointed at losing a powerful weaponry.

After all, just like how there were many places with water, there were also many places with land.

How could he possibly use a warship on land?

Was he going to get players to drag the warship around?

That would be ridiculous!

Stepping out of the warship’s range, Xu Feng proceeded forward with vigilance.

Sometime later, he arrived at a platform that differentiated itself from the rest of the scenery.

In the middle of the platform which was half-cracked but unmistakably regal, stood an ancient Siren statue. Coral had grown around the base, but even now, its hand was outstretched as though shielding something.

A faint shimmer flickered in the statue’s palm.

Xu Feng eyed the Siren statue in silence. He recalled the statue’s appearance resembled a person in the mural reconstructed by Burpe.

”Is this the one who sealed one of the sea heart shards?” Curious, Xu Feng inspected the perimeter first. Walking straight toward the statue was oftentimes a trap that would trigger a fight or major detour event.

One should never be blinded by what’s on the front and neglect the sides.

As he circled around the perimeter and checked for any possibly hidden mechanism at the platform, he confirmed there was nothing else. The platform was a dead end passage as well, meaning only the Siren statue was present here with him.

During the inspection process, he wanted to check where the blueprint or the shard was located. But despite his effort, he found nothing.

”They better not expect me to fight some high level statue.” He pursed his lips and realized this might be the obstacle or final challenge in this dungeon for him to retrieve the items.

Taking a deep breath to steady his mind, Xu Feng prepared to set up numerous formations. Since there was no restriction to how many traps he could set, then he would definitely go all-out.

Resources were meant to be spent in a timely manner, and not be hoarded until the end of the day.

Honestly though, hoarding resources wasn’t a bad thing. But not knowing when to use the hoarded resources was a terrible thing.

What was the point of hoarding if you never used them and allowed it to rot in your inventory?

Time slowly passed by and Xu Feng heaved a sigh of relief. His eyes scanned the scenery which was completely filled with traps.

”Phew, I really went all in.” He placed his hands on his hips, satisfied with the traps that were prepared to counter any action. Although it took him quite a while and effort to set them up, the traps were all worth it.

With that being said and done, Xu Feng cautiously approached the Siren Statue.

As the distance between them closed, the Siren Statue began to react in a dim but subtle light.

And just like Xu Feng had predicted, it started to move, causing the debris around them to fall. The small debris dropping to the ground was quickly followed by an overwhelming pressure that threatened to squash him into mashes.

His legs were starting to give in and droplets of sweat formed near his forehead.

’How much pressure is it exuding?’ A bit alarmed, Xu Feng didn’t anticipate his resistance to be faltering at this moment. He even activated his Baptism buff and cast buffing spells to increase his attributes.

Yet it was still futile.

While Xu Feng struggled to resist the pressure, the Siren Statue stepped forward, and spread their stone arms wide open.

Soon, his eyes widened in disbelief.

”So that’s where the shard is at.” He smiled bitterly. The Sea Heart shard was inlaid on the Siren Statue’s chest, and mostly the source of empowering it to move.

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Name: Melora, the Weeping Sentinel

Level: 65

Type: Elite Dungeon Guardian - Construct

Health Points: 4,200,000

Attributes: Strength 410, Agility 375, Endurance 460, Intelligence 520, Vitality 495

Passive Ability - Sea Heart Resonance: Melora is empowered by a Sea Heart shard embedded in her chest. While active, she gains a stacking 2% damage reduction and magic amplification every 10 seconds (max 30%). When her HP falls below 25%, the shard releases a pulse that grants her 50% spell haste and shields her for 150,000 HP over 15 seconds.

—𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

After reading the system prompt which even included a passive ability, his expression darkened. When the system was willing to hand out such information for free like this, it usually meant two reasons.

One, the system believed the enemy was too overpowered and needed to assist the player. Or two, the system wanted to warn the player to retreat because their power was insignificant.

And for this particular case, Xu Feng reckoned it was the combination of these two reasons.

Currently, he was at level 48, a difference of 17 levels between them.

The difference in levels had already caused him to be at a disadvantage and stay weakened.

After all, the system designs were to prevent players from being able to deal high damage against enemies that were far above them in levels.

Naturally, the restriction was only for the players and not the external tools.

”No wonder the warship can’t reach here. I would have been breezing through this fight.” He chuckled in defeat.