Chapter 47: Exchange between the God Realm
Kin and Natives of the Extra-dinsional Plane
Translator: 549690339
It’s quite magical how the Fishn have no language of their own, nor do they speak the common tongue; they only communicate with a primitive aquatic language akin to odd shrieks and cries. Yet, both he and the Naga understood their aning clearly—it was quite astonishing.
Lin Xiao followed the direction pointed by the Clan mbers. Seaweed rose from the ocean floor, dangling in the water, with brightly colored corals swaying in the currents below. Small Fishn, each a swirl of colors, darted between the seaweed strands and what looked like nori. Here and there, groups of small fish could be seen nibbling on long strands of seaweed, resembling colorful candied haw skewers hanging off the plant.
He didn’t see any Lobster n, but he could sll the lingering scent of blood in the nearby seawater and spotted a group of small fish frantically scavenging for scraps of flesh on the seafloor not far away.
“Attack!”
With the Short Spear in hand, he gestured in one direction, and without hesitation, the Naga and Fishn surged forward.
He wasn’t worried about running into an insurmountable obstacle; if the Sea Lobster n were that powerful, they would have attacked the Fish people tribe long ago instead of lying in ambush here.
A horde of Naga and Fishn surged forward, and the Lobster n hiding in the dimly lit seagrass and rugged ocean floor thought they had been discovered, bursting out of their hiding places.
“What a massive size!”
These Lobster n were covered in blue shells of varying hues—bluish and purple—about three and a half ters long, roughly the size of a tiger, and resembled enormous freshwater crayfish with multiple legs. A pair of small eyes on their aty stalks could rotate flexibly, and six tentacles on their heads waved energetically as their dark, massive claws snapped open and shut with seemingly powerful force.
They were almost the size of three Fishn stacked atop each other and slightly shorter than the Naga, but their fras appeared much more robust.
However…
Emmm…
Not to disrespect the adversary, but the appearance of the Lobster n didn’t make Lin Xiao think of enemies so much as a walking seafood feast.
At that mont, an idea popped into his head—should he capture so Lobster n to raise in the Divine Realm, perhaps to cook up a Lobster feast every now and then?
The Lobster n were fiercely aggressive, erging from their hiding spots with rapid flicks of their four small legs and tail fins resembling duck feet, charging through the water quite nimbly and then…
Shadowy figures whizzed by like javelins, knocking them forcefully out of the way, shattering their hard shells and sending flesh flying. Dazed, they floated towards the seafloor but quickly recovered, only to be ramd by another wave of shadows. And that was the end of it.
The individual combat power of these Lobster n was considerable, but they were few in number, just over a hundred, likely never having encountered Fishn capable of a charge before. A sudden, surprise onslaught left them completely bewildered.
Over a hundred Lobster n were butchered on the spot. Lin Xiao followed up on the attack, smashing one Lobster Man’s head with his spear, knocking down its protruding eyestalks and tendrils, killing it instantly.
He proved exceptionally brave and ferocious, leveraging his strength, which far surpassed that of his comrades, to kill seven Lobster n in quick succession. The remaining were overwheld by the teeming Naga and Fishn.
After the battle, one Naga and four Fishn had accumulated enough experience, and he spent 1,400 points of Faith value to promote them.
The Fishn are a low-level race; advancing from level zero to First Level requires a hundred points of Faith value, and without experience, a forced promotion would cost a thousand points, which is ten tis the Faith value.
Naga are an interdiate race; rising from Level 1 to Level 2 requires a thousand points of Faith value, and without experience, a forceful promotion demands a full ten thousand points of Faith value.
Having enough experience allows for rapid successive promotions, but without it, a forced promotion calls for a one-year interval in Divine Realm ti, and the required cooldown increases with higher levels.
The Fishn quickly cleaned up the battlefield, collecting the large chunks of carcasses; so shattered pieces of flesh were surreptitiously eaten by them.
To the Fishn, the taste of the Lobster n was incredibly delicious—a vigorous seafood that could be eaten raw directly.
A few Fishn brought over a more than three-ter-long Lobster Man, and Lin Xiao broke off one of the claws with his spear, smashed open its tough shell with a forceful punch, pried open the shell to reveal the translucent lobster at, scooped out a piece, and popped it into his mouth, finding it chewy, sweet, and utterly delicious.
He collected only about a dozen Lobster Man corpses into the Divine Realm, leaving the rest for his subordinates to share.
As they feasted on their large portions, they remained unaware of the vast shadow creeping stealthily towards them from the sea floor about a thousand ters to the south.
Not until a Fishman who had finished a small piece of lobster at and was cutting kelp to eat noticed a large group of Fishn stealthily approaching through the seagrass did Lin Xiao co to his senses, shouting loudly and ordering his subordinates to prepare for battle.
However, to his surprise, these Fishn did not imdiately launch an attack after discovering them but looked at the Grey Mist Fish People with curiosity.
Lin Xiao’s gaze flickered as he surveyed the surroundings, roughly estimating that there were probably two to three thousand of these Fishn, twice their number, but they might not win in a fight, after all, they had a large group of Nagas with them.
But since these Fishn did not make a move right away, he also did not act, preferring to watch and wait.
At this mont, several Fishn, who were larger than their peers and were likely leaders, swam forward, making a series of cacophonous sounds at the other Fishn:
A clever Fishman swam forward and responded with a flurry of chattering:
“￥&%&￥&…”
“*%￥&&*￥….”
To outsiders, it surely seed as if they were arguing, but in Lin Xiao’s ears, their conversation went like this:
“You’re not Fishn from around here, where do you co from?”
“We’ve co from a faraway place, we live nearby.”
“Have you encountered the evil Lobster n?”
“We defeated a group of Lobster n that ambushed us.”
“Did those evil Lobster n run away?”
“No, we killed them and ate them.”
“You are brave warriors!”
emmm….
The corner of Lin Xiao’s mouth twitched as he continued to listen to their unproductive conversation.
And then..
After a while, their conversation shifted from initial inquiries and communication to a friendly chat, and they seed to have beco quite familiar with each other.
Lin Xiao listened to their casual conversation without making a sound or interrupting.
He was quite curious to see whether his God Realm Kin and their counterparts from another extra-dinsional plane could spark a connection.
It seed that it wasn’t a given for them to fight upon eting; the species from his Divine Realm didn’t seem to be anything special in the eyes of the creatures from the Outland extra-dinsional plane; they weren’t treated differently and were regarded as a group of roaming Fishn.
It is worth ntioning that the Black Scale Nagas, who had rged with the bloodline mainly of Fishn, were not the sa species as the similar-looking Nagas. Strictly speaking, they belonged to a variant or evolutionary species of Fishn, and their race was still classified as Fishn.
Therefore, these Fishn, upon seeing the Black Scale Nagas who looked vastly different from themselves, did not show hostility as they would towards actual Nagas but felt a semblance of kinship instead..
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