Game World's Awakening Chapter 127: Hideous Mermaid

Elliot looked exhausted as he swam in a strange sea, slightly obscured and surrounded by seaweed that blocked his vision.

Still, sothing in front of him was shining: The Hideous rmaid.

This beast, the boss of this aquatic dungeon, is really a Horrifying rmaid; it looks like sothing out of a horror story.

Her face is that of a terrifying beast with a big mouth and many teeth, while her two eyes seem to be on her forehead. Her hair is slicked back from her strange face, floating in the water.

Its mouth is normally closed, but when it opens, it swallows a lot of water or spits it out with a powerful sea pressure that creates strange waves inside the sea.

These waves have the peculiarity of being disconcerting. If they hit you, you might be stunned for a second, allowing the rmaid to attack with its strange claws, which look like the teeth of a shark.

Elliot had been fighting this thing for a while, but it’s too hard to move.

During this ti, he hadn’t been able to kill anyone, and it’s not because he didn’t want to. He tried, but fighting underwater is too tricky. Even more so because most beasts inside are very fast and their movent is severely limited, because of the pressure of the place.

But now he encountered a beast that was not too fast, but it was the dungeon’s boss.

Thanks to the pressure of the place and the blows he was receiving, his stamina was going up, but he was not able to raise it. He was in the sa situation as at the beginning, with the peculiarity that now his body seed to be slowly adapting to this dungeon.

The problem was...

He had been here for more than 10 hours.

He struggled desperately to dodge the repeated waves this rmaid was throwing at him and gradually moved closer to her.

’She’s not strong; the problem is that she has a territorial advantage.’ He tried to swing his sword hard, but the pressure prevented him.

Still, his sword managed to move fast enough to split a wave in two, and with that, he made it to the front of her, for the first ti since he arrived here.

Excited, he quickly moved his sword back and forth as fast as he could. But it was a slow movent in the eyes of the rmaid.

She seed to smile at the sight of him attacking her like that and responded boldly, swinging her claws forward and creating a wave with her mouth.

She seed to want a head-on battle, but the wave hit Elliot imdiately, as it was precisely created inches away from him.

’Will it attack vitals?’ Elliot quickly brought his sword to his neck to protect himself, but after the initial daze, he felt his suit was slightly torn on the cheeks.

Blood imdiately spurted out, as his suit was not sturdy enough for this attack.

When he reacted, the rmaid had already moved away from him.

He frowned and put his hand to his cheek. Bleeding in the sea... it wasn’t the best thing that could happen to him.

Before, he had seen beasts like large sharks and other beasts that could sll blood for miles. His blood could attract them.

’Although they are not very powerful, avoiding unnecessary trouble is best. I can’t breathe underwater if they damage this suit.’ He thought and looked at the rmaid who had acted cunningly to win.

Perhaps she had judged that she could not on her own, so she would call the rest in this strange dungeon.

In the distance, they could both feel, from the water currents, that many beasts seed to be using strange magics with their sense of sll, and, because of that, many nearby seed to make the decision to approach.

Elliot imdiately drew a 2nd sword after noticing this.

He imdiately threw it against the rmaid, and it seed to erge propelled by all its strength, but the pressure of the water imdiately reduced its speed, though not completely.

With the reduced speed, the rmaid could see it clearly, then create a huge wave before her to stop it. Once again, she opened her mouth and filled it with water to make another wave aid at Elliot.

But when she looked towards him, he was no longer there.

A 2nd sword was flying towards her, so, on impulse, she threw the wave at that.

But then she had to wait a few seconds before she could activate her ability again.

The first sword soon hit the wave, and with the pressure, the sword was completely neutralized.

Seconds later, the sa thing happened to the second sword, but this one managed to pass through the wave to the other side, and it was not fully neutralized until the end.

These seconds were enough for the rmaid to be able to activate her ability again, so she opened her mouth wide, ready to launch her next attack.

But then, Elliot finally appeared from behind her with a third sword in hand. Despite the pressure, his speed was fast enough to cut off her head before she could attack.

This seed to create a strange whirlpool in front of Elliot. He felt dazed and tried to swim backwards quickly, but then, the whirlpool sucked him towards it, as the rmaid’s body fully transford into that whirlpool made of water and...

’A portal?’

Soon his mind was blank, and he saw the light again the next second. This ti, he looked at the trees, the distant city, and...

Anna.

It was then that he realized the dungeon had ended that way. The peculiarity of the portal creation at the end...

It had caused him to lose two C-Rank swords.

’Shit.’ He put a hand to his head and frowned.

’Will there be any beasts in there that can use those swords? Most of them don’t have hands... the rmaid maybe can?’

He was not worried about losing those two swords. Although they cost tens of millions of dollars, they were not indispensable.

He was rather worried about the next awakened ones to co.

He left those two swords as items there, aning they would be grabbed by the dungeon and its beasts when the boss was reborn again.

If the rmaid took them as her weapons, it would endanger the rest of the Awakened who entered later.

When she saw him leave, Anna smiled at first. But seeing him more worried than hurt, she approached.

"Did sothing happen?" she asked.

He looked at her and nodded after thinking things over.

"Two C-Rank swords were left inside." He replied.

"Ohh." She quickly understood his concern and looked at the dungeon once more. "Well, that will add so excitent to the future. There are rumors that aquatic beasts might evolve when they get items used by land races. So, leave it at that, accidents sotis happen for study." She smiled and turned away.

"Get up. We’ll need to talk about a few things before we continue."

Elliot had to nod as he watched her walk away and tried to get up, but then his body succumbed, and he fell to the ground.

"Ah."

Anna stopped and looked at him. "You can’t move?"

"No, " he smiled sheepishly. "I’m too exhausted. My muscles won’t move for a good while." He dropped to the ground and looked up at the sky.

Sohow, he didn’t seem sleepy. His mind had strengthened nicely. But his muscles were in their worst state in a long ti.

It didn’t matter what he did, for today he wouldn’t be able to get up anymore.

"Hahaha, looks like you’re finally getting hit by fatigue." She went over to lift him up and so carried him back to the city.

During this ti, they weren’t staying at Elliot’s apartnt. They were staying in so guild apartnts located in another guild’s territory.

Thanks to that, they were able to hide quite well.

When she laid him down on his bed, she sat down next to him.

"Just so you know, this first week only covers a month’s training and is the introduction to Resistance training. This is the hardest stat to cultivate, because it can break your spirit and consciousness, but it is also the most fruitful, because it can prevent your death."

"Underwater training is usually more intense, as is training on fire. But this serves as an introduction to what you will surely see if you aspire to win the World Championship. Rember, not all tournants are as simple as the one you just played or the Leveled Leagues."

"So take place inside a dungeon; others require you to fight beasts so powerful they could break your soul. There are no limits to what the System can do to make its players suffer."

"That is why this suffering is necessary, and it is the most indispensable for all awakened, even those who do not use Resistance."

Elliot listened patiently and nodded to her.

"I understand. Now cos the Strength, right?" he asked.

She nodded.

"Yes. But before that, I have a question for you."

"Which one is it?" Elliot moved his head slightly, the few things he could move right now, to look at her.

"You don’t have stat restrictions, right?" she asked directly.

Elliot frowned and sighed. "Mr. Steward told you?" he asked.

She looked at him in surprise. "Steward knows?" She asked.

"Hm? Wasn’t he the one who told you?"

Anna frowned slightly and looked thoughtful for several minutes.

No one could know what she was thinking until she stood up.

"Tonight, don’t leave here. Tomorrow morning, I’ll co and get you and bring you breakfast. The last week of training begins, and we’ll be training Strength. Sleep until I get back."

After that, and without giving him any explanations, she left the room.