Chapter 768: Into the Sea
Sam digested the information as he stared at the moon.
From what the Old beast casually said, there are four races in the Charbhum realm and they are humans, centaurs, sirens, and the Elves who ruled the territory.
But the information that the centaur's body gave him clearly made him realize that there is the fifth race.
The Blue Sea-Folk.
They are a special race and there is very little information about them in the centaur's head. But they rule the sea on this planet and they have absolute control over it. The deeper they go into the sea the more powerful beings they could encounter.
The Centaur seems to be a person of higher rank as there is some more information in his head.
The Sea-Folk don't reproduce like any other race. They don't have sex, gender, and intercourse. There are no men or women in their race. As for how they reproduce, it is still a mystery for normal soldiers
The Sea-Folk do not communicate with elves or humans. They don't talk the same language and they never tried to be friendly.
They are not active in the morning for some reason, but they are only passive when it comes to invasion and war on the land.
The soldiers have tried to go into the city many times in the daytime and even though the journey is smooth for a certain extent, they started their worst nightmare that came in the day.
The sea-folk acted like they are part of the water itself.
They easily destroyed the troops that came into the sea either by swimming or by the ships. Particularly swimming.
If the normal soldiers, whether they are humans or elves encountered the sea folk within the water, they couldn't handle them at all. It is not even a competition even with the water elemental powers, because the main problem is that they couldn't get a hold of the sea folk within the water and they have unlimited endurance.
The Sea folk will not attack to kill, they will use the water to make the person the opponent tired and suffocated. It would be hard for the people to get in the water and come up to take a second breath.
And when they reached that state, the seafolk would start to engage in close combat in which case they can easily win.
This is an extremely tough opponent. They have bodies, but they have high water elemental fusion rate and it is extremely fast which makes them invulnerable in water.
The long-range water attacks are useless and even other water-based attacks like ice and mist are easily deflected. As for the other elemental attacks, lightning has some effect, the fire has the obvious effect and the wind is the only thing that couldn't be died down by the water element in the sea, but that also doesn't damage them.
Even though the physical attacks are not extremely efficient and couldn't be landed easily, they are also the most effective once they landed.
These are some tough opponents. Sam is really interested in these creatures and how they operate. From the looks of it, they also have an extremely high affinity to form a contract with the underwater beasts so they are even more dangerous than they already are.
Their vulnerability of physical attacks can only be exploited when they are on the land. Sam could understand why the army could only stay defensive.
There is also another interesting thing Sam noticed. There is a time when some high-level people attacked the sea and some high-level sea folk attacked the land which only resulted in mutual losses and then there is another exploration team in the past that used some newly bred flowers that could be used as air storage.
It is a flower similar to an insect-eating flower, but they are genetically modified to act as air pockets that store a large amount of air which the diver used to cover the mouth and nose. They can breathe normally.
But even that only helped them for an hour or so in the deep sea and the flowers are not at all mass-producible and the price they had to pay is also extremely high.
They even sent some Consummates into the sea with those but nobody came back.
Sam is really intrigued by this. This is something he wants to explore. Anyway, the main confidence is that he is sure that he can escape in most of the situations.
He looked at the soldiers that are still on the beach, there is a small festive atmosphere amongst them.
But this is understandable. For years, the soldiers are fighting with these people every night. These are the most resilient and defensive fighters in the realm within the Pre-transcendent stage.
The centaur also has another memory in his mind which is a lot less significant.
There are four battlefields where elites of each cultivation realm from the Nascent stage cultivators to the Consummate level cultivators are assigned to.
They are trained to fight together and the best bunch, even if they are not the best individually, their collective efforts are very much useful in a large-scale battle of numbers.
The centaur was in the Nascent stage division which is a forest border within Planet 4. The beasts are mutants because of a special material in the surroundings which made them unable to control and the realm is fighting with it for a while.
The Pre-transcendent armies are sent here. The Seashore. He doesn't know the remaining two, but he is very interested in knowing them.
Sam disappeared from the spot and entered the divine dimension while the shadow mouse started carrying the crystal and moved towards the water.
It is very dangerous for the shadow mice to be near the seawater. But that is the only way for him to get in without anyone noticing.
The mouse stood on the beach and let the waves drag it into the sea.
As soon as the shadow mouse entered the shallow waters deep enough for Sam to completely submerge, he called the shadow mouse back into the divine dimension and let the divine dimension fall down and hit the bottom.
Sam carefully examined the shadow mouse and fed some medicine to it. This short interval of time already made the mouse swallow the seawater in, it wouldn't definitely survive in the sea for more than a few minutes.
After making sure the mouse is completely okay, Sam wore a breathing device. He didn't wear any of the diving equipment as he felt that the water elemental fusion is more useful to him than the gadgets in long run. The breathing device is more suitable for now.
He started swimming slowly and exited the shallow waters and entered the deep sea.
He tried to be close to the sea bed as much as possible afraid that he might alert the troops stationed at the beach while keeping an eye on the Sea Folk that could probably appear any second.
But the first thing he encountered is actually not the sea folk, rather the Crab beasts.
Sam recognized some of them and some of them seemed to be the mutated crabs that are not known throughout the world.
The crabs are of various colors, there are some white-colored, some blue and some with two colors together and finally the orange and red-colored.
The first reaction of the crabs is not to attack him, they started creating as much mess as they can and started attracting the surrounding creatures, the mud is being raised and the transparent water was gone.
At this moment, Sam could feel the creatures storming to this side.
By now, the crabs started attacking.
He started swimming around while he dodged and his body started secreting the poison. The hydra's poison. He doesn't want to get into a large fight with too much commotion and disturbance.
The poison is the most discreet method he could use.
Sam activated his water elemental fusion and since the hydra's poison is compatible with the water element, it is easy for him to merge the two and move around.
The surrounding water became completely poisoned. The poison he secreted is also not exactly single corrosive poison. He secreted all the poisons that can be secreted by him and the crabs soon stopped their incessant noise and even their attacks are starting to slow down.
Sam used this chance to deal with the incoming beasts. Most of them are shark type beasts along with some lobsters.
The battle went as silently as possible as the beasts themselves are not creating much commotion and when they entered the zone of poison they are slowing down even more. The water element has a special affinity to the poison and the water elemental beasts are reacting to it strongly.
Everything went smoothly as Sam collected most of the intact corpses and threw them into the divine dimension.
He is sure that at least some of the sea folk would have been attracted by the commotion, so he couldn't stay there any longer.
After cleaning up, he disappeared deeper into the water in a different direction.