Online Game: Crazy Skeleton-Chapter 830 - 752 Curse Seal

Just as everything before Su Ran turned pitch-black, and panic began to set in, a system notification suddenly sounded, making him understand his current predicament.

"Ding! Because the player Skeleton has taken the Great White Shark’s teeth without permission, he has triggered a curse from the spirit of the Great White Shark. The Curse Seal has been activated, and the player Skeleton will be unable to move for ten hours!"

Curse Seal?

I swear, what the hell is this?! Picking up a tooth just gets you cursed?

Great White Shark, oh Great White Shark, you really screwed me over!

This is just torture!

If it weren’t for the mission reward being so generous, I would have just thrown in the towel!

However, after a brief moment of panic, Su Ran looked at the system prompt again and slowly regained his composure.

Unable to move for ten hours?

Hey, what kind of punishment is this?

With the Ice Crystal Bone Scythe, even staying underwater for a month would be easy and enjoyable!

To be honest, this Curse Seal has to be the lightest punishment I’ve ever seen...

Actually, it’s not the same for other players. If any other player were sealed by this curse, they would definitely die on the spot, because the effect of the Underwater Breathing potion only lasts for two hours, and they wouldn’t even be able to drink a potion once immobilized...

However.

At that moment, Su Ran’s pet space started to shake, and the little zombie actually crawled out from it.

"Eh?"

Su Ran’s expression changed, and he was puzzled. Why would this little thing pop out at a critical time if not to deliberately mess things up?

After struggling to crawl out of the pet space, the little zombie hid behind Su Ran’s ribs and started curiously examining the strange, black curtain.

"What’s this little guy doing out here? Trying to show off its presence?"

Su Ran thought with confusion, well, standing around bored for ten hours wasn’t so bad with Bounce around to keep him company!

But just as Su Ran was lost in his thoughts, the little zombie moved.

"Hiss—"

The little zombie assumed a bizarre pose, its abdominal cavity contracted and tensed, its mouth wide open as it began to suck in the surrounding air with great force.

This sudden suction caught Su Ran off guard, and the black curtain drew tighter and tighter, sealing all his orifices so thoroughly that, thankfully, he didn’t need to breathe; otherwise, with the little zombie’s meddling, he would have suffocated to death!

"This Bounce is purely causing trouble for its own sake, adding some difficulty for me on purpose..."

Su Ran, tightly bound by the curtain, felt extremely uncomfortable. He couldn’t even lower his head, and the encroaching darkness began to erode his sanity. Panicked, his thoughts were in disarray, and all he wanted was to grab the little zombie and rub its chubby cheeks until they were a mess, so it would stop causing chaos here!

At that moment, however, the taut black curtain, under the terrifying pulling force of the little zombie, began to tremble. Streams of black gas started to escape from the curtain and were sucked into the little zombie’s belly.

"Swish swish swish."

Waves of black gas surged towards the little zombie, which accepted them without protest, devouring everything so cleanly that soon, the large curtain no longer clung tightly to him but relaxed, showing many wrinkles, as if it was about to fall to the ground at any moment.

"Absorbing black gas? This is... dead energy!"

Su Ran finally realized that his pet Bounce had the passive skill [Evolution], which allowed it to consume dead energy to strengthen itself, and seeing the little zombie’s strange behavior, he would have to be brain-dead not to understand what was happening.

The remnant soul of the Great White Shark...

If this vast expanse of black gas was dead energy, then wasn’t the curtain that trapped him the undecayed skin of the Great White Shark after its death?!

Su Ran felt a wave of disgust and the urge to vomit upon recalling that his own body had been intimately clad in the age-old shark skin for so long. But then, as he glanced at his skeleton-only body, that feeling of disgust magically vanished in an instant.

"Burp~"

The little zombie, satisfied after absorbing the Great White Shark’s remnant soul, let out a hearty belch and patted his round belly before, without needing Su Ran’s permission, he tunneled back into the pet space to digest at his leisure.

"Splash."

The large hide collapsed powerlessly onto the ground, no longer supported by the remnant soul of the Great White Shark. It was only then that Su Ran’s vision returned to normal.

"Ding! Congratulations to the player Skeleton on defeating the remnant soul of the Great White Shark. With the Curse of the Wraith dispelled, the Seal is now broken!"

The system notification sound followed, relaxing the tension in Su Ran’s heart instantly. He couldn’t help but walk a few steps on the ocean floor, feeling wonderful as control over his body returned to him!

Lucky that the little zombie made its sudden entrance, otherwise, would he have been foolishly standing for ten hours, bored to death?

"Damn Great White Shark, even in death you can’t rest in peace, trying to trick me, your lord!"

Disturbed in his mind, Su Ran angrily stomped on the hide, and then said, "Wait until you’re merged into my bones, then we’ll settle our score!"

After muttering under his breath for a bit, Su Ran felt much better. Holding the shark skin in his hands, he immediately noticed how extraordinarily coarse it was, resembling old tree bark with no luster at all, inconceivably worlds apart from the skin of the ocean’s overlord, the Great White Shark.

Dragging the shark skin in front of him, Su Ran curiously examined its properties, wondering if the thing still had any value for collection.

[Shark Skin Devoid of Spiritual Essence] (Special)

Gold-level material, can be used to make cloth armor, boots, hats.

Note: After losing its spiritual essence, the quality of shark skin has dropped to the gold level.

"Damn it!"

Upon checking the attributes, Su Ran immediately felt pained.

"What a pity!"

Su Ran sighed secretly. Had he known this would happen, he would’ve endured those ten hours himself. How many epic-quality tailoring materials could have made? How much dark gold equipment?

If all of this were auctioned off, how much money would it fetch?!

Thinking this, Su Ran’s bone claws trembled slightly.

Little zombie, you wasteful thing!

Forget it, it’s already done. Don’t think about it; the more you think, the more blood drops from your heart...

Su Ran carelessly folded and stuffed the whole shark skin into his in-game inventory, out of sight, out of mind.

"Alright, the task is completed; time to go back!"

Su Ran had not a shred of nostalgia for the deep sea. He took out a Town Recall Scroll and directly crushed it to teleport home!

"Swish!"

As the white light dissipated, Su Ran appeared in his own territory. The transition from the oppressive deep sea environment to the wide and airy view atop the mountain left him slightly disoriented.

"Phew, there’s no place like home~!"

Su Ran sighed deeply with a heartfelt appreciation and looked towards the distant horizon. He had finally completed another daunting task, and his mood was incomparably refreshing. The hard work over this period had been worth it for the bountiful rewards!

"It’s time to meet Comrade Great White Shark~!"

The thought of the Great White Shark soon bowing down to him sent a jolt of excitement through Su Ran. He took out the Shadow Stone Controller and teleported away, vanishing from the mountaintop.