I Have a Sailing Game-Chapter 100: Mermaid
Rogel finds the name "Deep Sea Blood Touch" quite fitting and decides not to change it.
Secondly, he has a sense of his own naming skills.
Crunch, crunch—
Under Rogel’s control, Deep Sea Blood Touch begins to stretch, emitting the sound of bones, flesh, and shell rubbing and colliding.
Rogel looks around.
After the body size increase, the surrounding passageway entrances seem smaller, appearing somewhat narrow.
Only barely accommodating Deep Sea Blood Touch to pass through.
The Ice Crab King’s lair is at the end of one of the forked paths of three.
Rogel directly heads down another forked path.
He walks downward.
Along the way, some Poisonous Sea Cucumbers block the path. Rogel easily slices them apart with the Serrated Bone Blade, chewing them up and swallowing.
Deep Sea Blood Touch’s level at this point has reached Level 15, and the experience gained from these Poisonous Sea Cucumbers is minimal, just barely better than nothing.
Not long after, a Deep Sea Trunk appears in front of Rogel again.
This time, Rogel doesn’t need to painstakingly search for its weakness and attack it methodically.
Swish!
Several tentacles shoot out, firmly binding the Deep Sea Trunk on the rock wall.
The Deep Sea Trunk makes a strange figure while retracting its body, soon folding back into a small sausage shape.
But Rogel doesn’t care.
A strange power surges from within Deep Sea Blood Touch, spreading from the body to the tentacles, and finally bursting forth!
Six strong and powerful tentacles instantly release terrifying pressure.
Bang!
The Deep Sea Trunk is instantly squeezed to explosion, flesh and blood splattering everywhere.
[Your clone Deep Sea Blood Touch has killed a Deep Sea Trunk, gaining combat experience.]
"What status is this, sharing the same last name as my clone."
Rogel smirks.
Earlier, he didn’t even use skills, merely relying on the powerful explosive force of the tentacles to instantly kill the Deep Sea Trunk.
At this moment, the Blood Sucking Skin of Deep Sea Blood Touch seems to be breathing, devouring and absorbing all the blood in the sea, accepting all comers.
Its skin begins to turn dark red, as if red light is roaming beneath.
Rogel can feel the Blood Sucking Skin continuously providing stamina.
As long as there is fresh blood around, it can maintain high-intensity combat!
"However, the premise is in the water."
No choice, even if Deep Sea Blood Touch is strong, it can only dominate in water for now.
Perhaps in the future, with the right devouring target, it might grow wings.
There’s no need to force it on land.
After all, the main battlefield in this world is the ocean and sky.
During the thoughts, Deep Sea Blood Touch quickly arrives at the bottom of this fork.
Here is similarly a large space like a lair.
Rogel swims around and looks carefully but doesn’t find the treasure chest he wants.
Instead, he sees several strange plants that look like corals, but also like fruit trees with peculiar fruits hanging.
[Crystal Coral Tree]
[Type: Plant]
[Quality: Blue]
[Tier: Extraordinary]
[Explanation: Crystal Coral Tree only survives and bears fruit in cold underwater environments. Its fruits are widely useful.]
Rogel approaches a Crystal Coral Tree and picks a blue ice-crystal-like fruit from it.
[Crystal Tree Fruit]
[Type: Material/Food]
[Quality: Green]
[Special Effect: A fruit full of cold and freeze, ice-sweet and tasty, slightly poisonous, often used as potion material.]
Food?
Rogel raises an eyebrow.
If you say that, I’m not sleepy anymore.
He carefully looks at the Crystal Tree Fruit in the tentacle, then stuffs it into his mouth, chewing.
With a slight pop, the thin ice-layered peel shatters, and the cold, stimulating, subtly sweet taste invades his taste buds.
A refreshing sensation sweeps from the spine to the crown of the head.
"Cool!"
It’s undeniable that this thing offers an exceptionally novel experience.
[Your clone Deep Sea Blood Touch has eaten a Crystal Tree Fruit, current toxicity level 15%.]
Of course, while delicious, Crystal Tree Fruits are also slightly toxic.
"I can eat five more!"
"No, it should be 23, I have a clone and two bodies."
"Just not sure if the Dead Abandoned Heavy Cavalry has taste; without taste, it would be such a waste..."
Rogel thinks while extending his tentacle to pluck several Crystal Tree Fruits from the Crystal Coral Tree.
These things are remarkably refreshing in the summer.
Even more refreshing than the first sip of ice-cold cola.
"Let’s take some first, and leave the rest hanging."
"Let’s just plant the Crystal Coral Tree here."
Rogel has already noticed earlier.
The plants in the cave regrow fruit over time, so these fruits can be collected repeatedly.
But Rogel doesn’t know how long the shelf life of Crystal Tree Fruits is.
So, to avoid waste, he can only pick some for now.
"Let’s aim to finish exploring the second underwater cave level today."
Rogel stuffs another Crystal Tree Fruit into his mouth.
...
Underwater Cave, at the end of the second passage entrance.
This passage has no fork, but it’s filled with monsters.
Not only are there Deep Sea Trunks and small Ice Crabs from before, but some newly appeared fish-like monsters similar to lantern fish, although still very weak.
Evil Worms and Deep Sea Trunks even pop up occasionally.
However, in front of Deep Sea Blood Touch with its Dark Concealment Skill, these monsters are just waiting to be harvested, like cabbages ready for picking.
The level five Dark Concealment Skill makes these monsters almost discover him only when he’s right up in their face.
Rogel just swims over and delivers a cut.
Pure buffet style.
[Your clone Deep Sea Blood Touch has killed a Deep Sea Trunk, gaining combat experience.]
[Your clone Deep Sea Blood Touch has killed a Big Lantern Fish, gaining combat experience.]
[...]
Despite the joy of this grass cutting spree, the monsters aren’t too high-level, and after much killing, Deep Sea Blood Touch only leveled up once.
Yeah, just got some junk materials, only like mosquito legs.
After a sweep of slaughtering, Rogel reaches the end of this passage.
"There should be a treasure chest this time."
After searching, Rogel finds a large room behind a crack.
He smashes the stone wall, revealing a scene making one’s scalp tingle.
Blood, lumps of flesh, blocks of fat, chunks of flesh, various creatures’ severed limbs, an extremely strong scent of blood.
And several dying creatures tied to the wall with intestine-like ropes of flesh, unable to move.
One creature catches Rogel’s attention.
Were it not for her blood-red pulsing growths and her extremely mutated half-body, one could vaguely discern her upper half is human and lower half fish.
A mermaid!
Rogel is a bit shocked.
This creature of legends and delightful tales, now pierced by several bloody ropes through her shoulder blades, is cruelly bound to the wall, unable to move.
This mermaid seems to notice Rogel’s arrival, weakly lifting her head with effort.
A beautifully fair face with blond hair and blue eyes, despite being stained red in the blood-tainted seawater, still hard to hide her allure.
But horrifyingly, the beauty is split in half.
The other half is a severely grotesque and bloody mutated face.
[Help me...]
She pleads.
