Aqua
I end up hitting my next milestone after another couple weeks of hunting. At which point I receive my next skill at level two hundred and fifty.
A skill that is honestly not as good as the last skill.
All the skill lets me do is shapeshift a little. Transforming parts of my body into other things and changing to look like other people.
But the problem with the skill is that with my current Magical Strength, the skill is useless.
The only thing I can do with it is slightly alter my skin. Changing its texture and nothing more.
So the skill is gonna be going to waste for quite a while.
Once I raise my Magical Strength stat more though, it’ll be a lot more useful. Enough that I might even be able to use it for stealth. To transform and disguise myself as other things and people.
But for now it’s completely useless.
With that thought in mind I continue hunting some more until I reach level two hundred and fifty two, only to head back towards the closest Hunter’s City.
When I get to the city though, I find myself being called to the Guildmaster’s office. Where the Guildmaster tells me about a new quest.
“You want me to go to the Viridian Ocean?” I ask with a slight tilt of my head.
“Yes,” she says with a nod of her head. “The Hunter’s Guild from the Viridian Ocean has discovered an unusual signal originating from the ocean around the seven thousand eight hundred to seven thousand nine hundred meter depth on the ocean floor. And they would like to ask if you could take a look.”
“An unusual signal?” I ask as I frown at the topic. “Any idea what it’s from?”
“Normally there are three possibilities when this occurs,” the Guildmaster says while holding up three fingers. “The first is that someone lost a drone of some sort and it fell deeper into the ocean.” She pulls back one finger. “The second is that it’s a new metal releasing a strange signal.” She pulls back another finger, leaving just a single finger up. “Or it’s a new monster.”
Hmm.
“Alright,” I answer with a nod. “I’ll check it out.”
With that, the Guildmaster gives me the location for the quest and registers the quest under my hunter ID. Then I head back to my room at the inn for the night before doing my regular jobs the next morning and heading to the Viridian Ocean after that.
The Viridian Ocean is also dangerous, just like the Qualta Ocean. Except that instead of being full of electricity like the Qualta Ocean, the Viridian Ocean is tainted purple with poison flowing through it.
No one knows the exact source of the poison, but pretty much everyone assumes it comes from a very powerful monster at the ocean floor of the deepest location in the Viridian Ocean.
Especially since the poison becomes more and more condensed the deeper into the water you get.
As for what the poison itself does? It is pretty much just necrosis. And nothing more.
It directly attacks the cells in a creature’s body and kills them off at a pace equal to the amount of poison in the water around them.
Also, it doesn’t need to enter the body. It can attack from outside of the body too.
But the poison won’t really matter much to me. Not with my REGEN stat.
I glance at my current status.
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[REQUESTING STATUS: USER AQUA AZURANTH]
[STATUS RETRIEVED]
[Name: Aqua Azuranth]
[Level: 252]
[Mana: 2520/2520]
[Strength: 288(192)]
[Dexterity: 160]
[Constitution: 162]
[Magical Strength: 166]
[REGEN: 5245]
[MEN: 166]
[Free Points: 0]
[Traits: Physique of the Abyssal Kraken, Apex Predator of the Depths, Lifeblood of the Abyssal Kraken, World First Ranker, Scales of the Abyssal Kraken, Galaxy First Ranker, Special Core 1x, Mana Metabolism]
[Skills]
[END STATUS]
My REGEN stat is high enough that I regenerate at a speed over five hundred times the regular human. So I regenerate faster than the poison can hurt me. At least at the layers of the ocean I’ve been to before.
Although I’ve only passed through the ocean before. I’ve never hunted in it.
Overall, it just feels tingly when I pass through the ocean.
I’m sure it would actually hurt me if I go deep down in the water, but not at this depth.
With that in mind, I make my way over towards the Viridian Ocean. Following which I head to the coordinates pointed to me by the device the Guild gave me. One that points at the direction of the strange signal I’m tracking.
Of course, I make sure to accept my next sponsorship for equipment along the way. Improving my current gear to match my level at last.
The outfit itself is a lot like my previous sets of armor. Except that the light running through those lines is brighter now.
So the only real difference is that it is made of better material to match my level.
I also got a new harpoon. But this one is different from the last.
It’s actually able to transform back and forth between a harpoon form and a trident form.
Which is interesting.
I don’t really use my actual weapons very often nowadays though.
Mostly I just use my claw skill, my other skills, my physical strength, or just leave everything to my abyssal servants.
Especially since my weapons keep getting outdated rather quickly in terms of level efficiency.
I push through the ocean while heading deeper and deeper. Running into poisonous monsters one after another.
But I just have my abyssal servants deal with the poisonous monsters. What with them being immune to poison and all.
Which makes them rather convenient for this ocean.
Necrosis and other poisons don’t exactly work on the dead after all. I just have to focus on just my undead abyssal servants and it works fine.
Actually, even my non-undead ones are fine in poison. Since they’re made of mana manifested in a physical form. So they aren’t affected as much by the poison.
Although they are affected a bit at least.
I also make sure to get some practice with Abyss and Pressure of the Abyss while heading down there. But not enough to burn mana.
After all, if there’s a powerful monster down there causing the signal, then I need the mana to be able to fight it.
With that in mind, I continue heading down to the ocean floor before finally arriving at a large cave. Where the device says the signal is coming from.
As for the cave itself? It is leaking a gooey black poison into the water around it.
After a brief pause, I send an abyssal servant that isn’t undead into the black poison to test it. Only to find the black liquid beginning to dissolve the abyssal creature.
Acid?
A cave leaking acid into the surrounding waters with a strange signal coming from it.
So is it a monster after all?
I reach towards the poison before touching it myself with my finger to see how badly it’ll affect me. Only for it to barely outpace my regeneration.
Making my finger sizzle as it very, very slowly begins to melt.
It looks like the monster is probably around a little over my level judging by the fact that its poison can hurt me faster than I can regenerate. So I begin doing the thing I practiced doing.
Using Pressure of the Abyss before using Abyss to control the pressure and force it around my body as a very thin barrier.
While Hydrokinetic Wrath doesn’t have the mana efficiency for me to use like this, Abyss definitely does.
Abyss is just a much better skill in general.
And after setting up that barrier, I go ahead and enter the cave in search of whatever is letting out the signal. With my abyssal servants swimming alongside me.
The smaller ones that can fit in the caves, that is.
Here’s hoping it’s a monster that’ll give me some levels.
And maybe one that’ll give me an abyssal servant that can use poison.
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