Chapter 272 - 183: Wood-Eating Giant Sea Monster, Fallen Fire Knight

[Wood-Eating Giant Sea Monster]

[Tier: ?]

Seeing the information on this behemoth, every player present felt their heart skip a beat.

There was no need to look at the rest. Besides the Explanation, everything else was a question mark. It was clearly a High Tier monster that surpassed the Scorching Charcoal Tier.

"WHOOOO—"

The terrifying wail continued, causing a dull ache in their heads and making the Warfire tremble.

As the ripples in the Dark Boundary expanded, more of its body was revealed.

It was another giant clay pot, covered in Coral and barnacles. Countless compound eyes stared coldly at the battlefield, and every one of its extended tentacles was lined with sharp barbs.

Seeing this, the players present couldn’t help but gulp.

"Holy shit, how are we supposed to fight this?"

"This thing is obviously even stronger than Tasolomo!"

"Who cares? Faraway sent a message! Brothers, let’s hit this bastard with a full volley!"

"FIIIIRE! BOOM!"

Although the appearance of the Wood-Eating Giant Sea Monster startled many players, it only left them shocked. Scaring them out of their wits was clearly impossible. As players, the one thing they didn’t lack was guts.

So, the crowd of players quickly readjusted their positions. Seizing the opportunity while the Wood-Eating Giant Sea Monster had yet to fully enter, they unleashed a vicious barrage of all kinds of Magic and Arrows.

VWOOM—

However, the Wood-Eating Giant Sea Monster merely extended a single tentacle. The barbs on it fanned out, and a strange Warfire transformed into a terrifying, ethereal current, swallowing all the Magic like a black hole.

"Huh?"

Seeing this, the players were all dumbfounded.

But something even more shocking was yet to come.

Just after the Wood-Eating Giant Sea Monster nullified the players’ Attacks, it suddenly burst into a strange Warfire that coalesced into a giant, ethereal mouth.

The next moment, as this ethereal mouth opened, a hoarse and cold voice swiftly entered every player’s ears.

"Souls... from afar... abandon... your resistance..."

"My Master... of the Firewood... will grant... you... rebirth..."

When the players heard the words coming from the Wood-Eating Giant Sea Monster’s mouth, their pupils shrank in utter shock.

"Holy shit!" "What’s going on?!" "What the hell?" "This boss can speak English?!"

What shocked the crowd of players wasn’t the content of its words, but the language it used. It wasn’t any of the languages from the Spirit Candle World, but the one the players themselves commonly used!

You have to understand, when the players communicated with the NPCs and natives of this world, they weren’t using the same language; it was all being translated by the Spirit Candle Power.

But now, this enemy boss was actually using their own language to persuade them to surrender. One could only imagine the shocking effect.

"Damn, that’s a little scary. It’s just a game, but this boss feels so fucking real."

"For real. These native monsters have always spoken their local tongue. Hearing it suddenly say something like that actually did creep me out a bit."

"Huh? By the way, can we actually surrender? I’d kinda like to see what the Firewood Thief side is like."

"Hsss... You know, now that you mention it...!"

"..."

Faced with such a major event, the players naturally broke into a flurry of discussion. Some were even genuinely tempted, wanting to defect to the Firewood Thieves’ faction.

Of course, to put it bluntly, they just wanted to experience a different way of playing the game.

However, Luo Ge didn’t have the ability to create that kind of gameplay for them... at least, not yet.

Seeing this, Luo Ge’s brow furrowed slightly.

’They actually went out of their way to study the players’ language to persuade them to surrender. As expected, they came prepared...’

’But it’s still just wishful thinking!’

After a cold snort in his mind, an idea struck Luo Ge. He diverted a portion of his energy and focused it directly on the Dark Boundary of the battlefield.

VWOOM!

A ripple appeared behind the Wood-Eating Giant Sea Monster, which had been about to reveal the rest of its body.

The terrifying Dark Boundary instantly and silently devoured that part of its body.

It let out a pained wail.

From the wound on its shattered lower body, strange, dark-purple blood poured out. It GUSHED onto the great sea, covering its surface and releasing a hallucinatory Power.

The players could clearly sense that its Blood Volume had dropped by nearly half.

However, while using the Spirit Candle Power to heavily wound it had worked, it also caused openings to appear elsewhere. More giant clay pots appeared from within the Dark Boundary.

The Firewood Thieves had begun a new wave of deployment.

[The Wood-Eating Giant Sea Monster has been heavily wounded. Please eliminate it as soon as possible!]

[This monster may have a special drop!]

[Attention! The Firewood Thieves’ second wave is about to arrive! Kill every Firewood Thief; do not let them occupy the battlefield!]

Luo Ge couldn’t be bothered to lecture the players or make them grand promises.

Never mind that these Xiaojuncai were cultivated by him and made of Wax Oil.

Even if that weren’t the case, Luo Ge wasn’t worried about them defecting.

Because... no one understood players better than him!

"A special drop?!"

"What special drop???"

Just as he expected, upon seeing those two words, the little players’ eyes lit up and their ears perked up. They stared at the canned Sea Monster as if it were a peerless beauty, their gazes as hungry as a starving wolf’s.

The Wood-Eating Giant Sea Monster had been suddenly and heavily wounded, but it still hadn’t given up on persuading the players to surrender. Its ethereal mouth was still opening and closing.

"Souls... from afar... abandon... your resistance..."

But the players couldn’t care less about that.

"That was probably a scripted event! The thing lost more than half its health. We can definitely kill it!"