Walker Of The Worlds

Chapter 2517  The Scared Aquatic Beasts

~SHUA~

Once the Illusory figures of the Atlanteans had disappeared, the large ice ʼtombʼ that Mei Nienzhen had created was also dispersed. The ice melted away and the water started to glow in the area again.

But the water was now incomparably colder than before. The aftermath of their battle had also scared away a lot of the Aquatic beasts that were living in the ruins of the Atlantean City. A few might have been caught in its crossfire but the rest that were far away retreated to the outer rim of the city.

Though a few intelligent ones among them were still hiding and watching everything that was happening. After all, to them the new ʼcreaturesʼ that had come to the the city werenʼt exactly seen by them before. Thus they were quite curious about them.

”Who are those beasts?” A Red Snapper fish beast asked the other fish beast that was hiding nearby in beast tongue.

”How would I know? Iʼve never even gone out of the area before.” A Sardine fish beast replied.

”Hmm… Two upper limbs and two lower limbs. Those strange scales of theirs that are loose and flop around along with those ʼweaponsʼ those must be humans.” An Octopus beast that looked rather old stated.

”Humans? Those are really humans?” a small crab asked as bubbles blew out of its mouth.

”They should be.” The Octopus confirmed. ”They do look like the old masters of the city but donʼt have the same kind of scales.” He said pointing to the large statue of the Atlantean.

”But how did they defeat those protectors? The last time a the Swordfish King tried it, he was killed in seconds.” A large lobster wondered.

”Theyʼre clearly very strong. Some of them are even stronger than the beast kings here.” A blue squid beast said spreading its tentacles and using it to sense the energy in water. ”Those two in particular are very strong.” The squid said pointing at Crown Prince Feng Shun and Mei Nienzhen.

”I get the white human but why the other one? He didnʼt do much.” An Isopod beast questioned.

”I can feel a faint power similar to the Eel Emperor from him. The power of lightning!” The squid answered.

”What!? Doesnʼt that mean he can kill everything here alone?” the aquatic beasts were shocked.

”Its his kin that is stopping him from using it perhaps.” The Octopus beast guessed. ”What about those two serpents?” a fat sun fish asked.

The other beasts had also seen the pair of serpents appearing in the city. While there were certainly Sea Serpents living in the city, this was the first time they were seeing such strange ones. ”I have no idea. But those two are terrifying!” A turtle stated. He seemed to have hole in its shell. The wound looked to be rather fresh, having been made very recently.

”Wait, they are the ones that attacked you?” The octopus beast asked.

”Yeah, that black serpent tore through my tough shell like it was kelp!” The turtle said in a terrified voice. ”Their aura is also fearsome. I feel like Iʼm facing Beast emperors when they were attacking others.”

”How are you alive then?” a crab asked.

”Because they werenʼt attacking me. I was sleeping in a hole on the coral shelf when they tore right through it and me!” The Turtle said feeling wronged.

This scared the other aquatic beasts a lot as they all knew how strong the turtleʼs shell was. They couldnʼt help but place themselves in his place and shiver. After all, the Turtle was only alive because it was long lived and had a lot of vitality. But if they were pierced through like this, they would have likely just died.

”Theyʼre accompanying the humans, so are they the serpentʼs slaves?” The sardine wondered.

”Perhaps…” The Octopus muttered.

The beasts continued to watch on from a distance as Lin Mu and his companions finished the surveying of the building.

”Weʼve finished, thereʼs no more offensive arrays left here.” Daoist Chu stated.

”Thatʼs good… Though I wouldʼve expected there to be more of them.” Lin Mu replied. ”The illusory Atlanteans were strong but just them alone wouldnʼt have been enough for a place this size.” He added.

The illusory Atlanteans would regenerate nonstop such that even if they had found out about the pearls being the nodes, they would have been unable to reach them in time. It was Mei Nienzhen holding them in place that allowed them to destroy the array finally.

But this still left some flaw in the security as it meant that large scale restrictive skills were effective against them. Lin Mu didnʼt think that the strong Atlanteans would keep a flaw like this.

”There were probably more formations, and offensive arrays but they seem to have weathered away after all this time.” Ziran said seeing some of the writing on the walls. ”I can barely read some of these and they were definitely runes but theyʼre written in their native script.” He added.

”You can actually read them?” Lin Mu was surprised.

”Barely. Some of their script shares similarities with the script of the Merpeople so they can be read. These are definitely the runes for it.” Ziran confirmed.

”Looks like time has made some things easier for us.” Crown Prince Feng Shun said with relief.

”Not yet, we still need to enter it. Xiao Yin and Xiao Yang werenʼt able to go in before so we have no idea whatʼs hiding in there.” Lin Mu stated.

”Yes, we should be careful.” Lady Kang agreed.

”Letʼs go in.” Lin Mu said and finally entered through the large archway.

This was actually one of the sixteen entrances that were present around the building, but only handful of them were still intact with the rest having collapsed long ago.

Upon entering Lin Mu and the group saw a ring shaped hall with several collapsed pillars. There were another set of gates there spread in an equal distance.