Abyss Sequence-Chapter 427 - 2: Depths

An armored vehicle swaggered through the dense forest, and whenever magical creatures encountered it, they all fled in panic.

The perception abilities of beasts were stronger than those of ordinary people, and magical creatures were even above common beasts.

Even a Hunter can learn a slight breath-sensing ability as they mature, let alone magical creatures. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Yan Luo didn’t need to do anything, just sitting quietly there, and the magical creatures would avoid him.

Watching the scene of magical creatures retreating one after another, Julia’s eyes widened in surprise.

How come she never knew that magical creatures were so much of bullies, fearing only strength?

Sasa, on the other hand, was somewhat frustrated, sighing, "This way, we can’t catch many magical creatures for experiments."

Although there was no experiment table in this armored vehicle, Sasa could completely conduct onsite dissection of magical creatures with the tools equipped on the exoskeleton armor.

She had heard of her ancestors, that the ancient Blue Star Civilization dissected the prototype of engravings from magical creatures, and since that was the case, she also wanted to try whether she could decompose the prototype of engravings from within them.

If possible, then Alfheim would become a treasure trove in another sense.

But now, all the magical creatures avoided them, not daring to get close to the armored vehicle.

Sasa observed through the cameras installed outside the armored vehicle and saw some giant magical creatures, which seemed to be at the City-breaking Level, retreat. She couldn’t help but feel a bit emotional.

It wasn’t long ago, probably just half a year ago, that Yan Luo would still be chased by City-breaking Level magical creatures, but now everything had turned around, and City-breaking Level magical creatures wouldn’t dare approach Yan Luo.

Yan Luo didn’t pay attention to Sasa’s lament, and he turned to Julia to ask, "Is this considered the depths of the Gass Forest?"

Julia looked out of the window a few times and shook her head, "Not yet, the sign of the forest depths is the significant increase in the number of Level 4 magical creatures; here, there are still many Level 2 and 3 creatures."

In the perception of the elves of Gass City, there was no specific range to the ’depths of the Gass Forest’, wherever the number of Level 4 magical creatures significantly increased, that area was considered the depths.

This range sometimes expands and sometimes contracts.

When the number of magical creatures above Level 4 in the forest becomes too many, the Deputy Corps Commander will lead the Lingge Corps into the forest to clear out the magical creatures, narrowing the ’forest depths’.

Hearing this, Yan Luo became a bit interested.

"You mean there are many Level 4 magical creatures in the forest depths?"

Julia nodded, "Everywhere!"

Yan Luo couldn’t help but smile, a slight curve lifting at his lips.

Now, he could absorb Magic Power very quickly; even if he ate a whole lethal-level magical creature, the Magic Power provided by it wouldn’t last long, approximately one to two hours could see it fully digested.

Only the Magic Power from a City-breaking Level magical creature could support him for a bit longer, but even that only for half a day.

A Catastrophe Level magical creature could allow him to digest for a longer period, except this level of creature is hard to find.

Since the depths of Gass Forest had many City-breaking Level creatures, then after this hunting expedition, his strength should increase some more.

At the very least, he could complete the ’human body synthesizing starch’ organ!

Thus, Yan Luo slammed down the accelerator pedal, causing the armored vehicle to speed up.

The speed was so fast that Sasa and Julia could hardly see the scenery outside the windows, everything outside became just blurry shadows and straight lines in their eyes.

Yan Luo adjusted the high-energy alert on the vehicle’s radar to the City-breaking Level, to know whether he had already reached the forest depths.

The alarm occasionally sounded because their current location was already very close to the forest depths, and the number of City-breaking Level magical creatures was slightly increasing.

The high-energy alert was very noisy, yet Sasa listened with eager anticipation.

She already knew what Yan Luo’s plan was——

Only after entering the forest depths would Yan Luo stop the car to go hunting magical creatures.

That would be the time she could begin her research on magical creatures.

Now, Sasa had also become a Samurai, and made so through Saint’s Marrow, enabling her to absorb Magic Power to strengthen herself.

Sasa had Magic Power adaptability, so after turning into a Samurai with the Saint’s Marrow and as her Magic Power adaptability recovered, she used the Saint’s Blood to grant herself the superpower to automatically absorb Magic Power, virtually half a ’Saint’.

Although her strengthening speed wasn’t as fast as Yan Luo’s, and her absorption after eating magical creatures wasn’t as efficient, it still sped up her advancement.

Therefore, Yan Luo would also share a portion of the magical creatures he hunted with Sasa.

She couldn’t yet digest the flesh of City-breaking Level creatures, but digesting their blood was no problem.

As long as the blood of a City-breaking Level creature was made into blood pudding, Sasa could accelerate her growth rate.

When Yan Luo was still weak, he did not have such fortune.

After driving for three hours, the high-energy alert finally rang incessantly inside the vehicle.

Yan Luo casually adjusted the high-energy alert setting to Catastrophe Level, then opened the car door and got out.

The Gass Forest had various terrains; now Yan Luo and the group found themselves in a swamp amid water pools all around.

There were many insects flying in the air, even more so among the trees.

Yan Luo scanned the surroundings, suddenly fixing his gaze on a distant pool, and the Magnetic Field power instantly activated, transforming into an invisible hand that slammed into the pool, forcing out an invisible frog. Then, Yan Luo grasped through the air, causing the massive frog to crash in front of him.

[Try to keep the body intact!]

Sasa’s voice came through the headset, and the punch Yan Luo was about to deliver to smash the frog’s head turned into a palm strike, which landed solidly on the frog’s head.

With a slap, a dent appeared on the frog’s head, fracturing the bones beneath the fatty skin that protected them.

The massive force also vibrated the frog’s brain through its skin, muscle, and bones, directly killing it without a chance to even croak.

Yan Luo withdrew his hand and took a deep breath, as the Magnetic Field power suddenly spread outward with him at the center, killing all the insects within a hundred-meter range.

The dense insects fell like black rain, which looked rather gross.

Sasa, suppressing her disgust, opened the car door and hurried to Yan Luo’s side, looking at the frog with slippery skin, then turned to Yan Luo, asking, "You’re not planning to eat it, are you?"

Yan Luo shook his head.

If he were in the Crimson Abyss, he might have eaten it because there would be no other options.

But here in Alfheim, with plenty of City-breaking Level creatures available, why would he have to eat a rather disgusting-looking frog?

Sasa giggled happily and retrieved a folding electric saw from the backpack of her exoskeleton.

Subsequently, Sasa began cutting up the frog’s body with this micro-sized Chain-saw Sword-like tool.

No choice, even in death, a City-breaking Level creature’s body remained remarkably tough, requiring an electric saw to cut through its muscles.

Breaking down the bones required cutting at the joints; otherwise, the saw won’t budge.

This was the power of the City-breaking Level.

If Sasa used the electric saw on Yan Luo, it wouldn’t even scratch his skin.

She couldn’t comprehend how Yan Luo, as a carbon-based life form, could have skin tough to that extent while still feeling soft and elastic to the touch.

It could only be said that Magic Power was truly impressive, enabling Yan Luo’s skin to maintain elasticity and softness despite being highly resistant.

In dissecting the frog-Demon, Sasa found yet another Demon within this magical creature’s body.

——A parasite!

As Sasa was dissecting the frog-Demon, the concealed parasite inside it suddenly launched an attack on her. Fortunately, Yan Luo reacted swiftly, grabbing the parasite Demon before it could harm Sasa.

"This parasite... doesn’t seem to be all that powerful!"

Sasa did not feel disgusted. Anyone who could feel nausea yet couldn’t overcome psychological barriers would not be able to become an expert in abyssal ecology.

Sasa took the captured parasite from Yan Luo’s hands, examining it curiously from all sides.

When Yan Luo had held it, the parasite was as silent as death, yet when it was in Sasa’s hands, it suddenly came alive, thrashing its body wildly, even attempting to bite Sasa.

Helpless, Sasa had to cut off its head to prevent it from biting into her exoskeleton armor.

Since the parasite could survive inside the frog-Demon, it likely could also bite through her exoskeleton.

Even after decapitation, the parasite remained lively, but once in Sasa’s hands, its best outcome was to die quickly.

Luckily, although the parasite fell into Sasa’s hands, it didn’t experience pain, which was indeed a fortunate thing.