Chapter 1177 - 582: Descent

Unlike those academicians, although Uek is the commander of this large fishman army, it has not actually received any high-level arcane education.

It can be said to be from the wild road. Showing spellcaster talent in childhood, after simple training, it was incorporated into a medium-small community, crawling and fighting in the sea, finally developing to today.

The tortuous and savage growth experience may not let it have any achievement in the arcane field, but it endowed this fishman priest with extremely rich spell combat experience.

This moment, it is clearer than ever.

The adventurers seem to be under great pressure, urgently need to take measures to suppress, but the fundamental goal of its side is to complete this long-planned sacrificial ritual.

All else is secondary.

As the ritual is about to be completed, after the [Slow Technique], most of the adventurers are entangled with the Sha Hua Fishmen and cannot escape.

Its attention naturally focuses on those few adventurers who have the possibility to destroy the ritual.

"Dila——"

The melodious lute sound originally echoing above the coast abruptly stopped.

Half-elven Alton, hiding at the back of the battlefield, was suddenly ambushed from the flanking by a fishman commander with two elite guards.

Though not hurt due to Ellison’s cover, could no longer peacefully hide at the rear playing the lute to provide benefits to teammates, forced to draw weapons for melee combat with the enemy.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Radiating scorching heat, three orange-red flames shot out from a conch-shaped casting tool of a fishman priest on the sea.

Originally taking advantage of height, hovering in the air waiting for opportunities, the short-tailed albatross was completely locked on, shaking form amidst the wide wings in attempt to dodge, yet still grazed by one ray on the wing.

Like a runaway airplane, trailing a wisp of black smoke rising due to high temperature from behind, it fell gracefully from the sky, magic radiance flickering, stumbling to the ground, transforming into Druid Hai Yin with a pale face and visible burn marks on the shoulder.

"Buzz!"

Regarding Xia Nan, who had shown threat earlier, priest Uek personally made a move.

The previous two rounds of testing let this combat-experienced fishman priest know the combat style of this black-haired adventurer.

——Fast speed, high mobility, outstanding perception, resistant to spiritual control magic.

In this case, it could not use similar [Human Immobilization Spells] that have been validated.

Hulahula——

The magic radiance falling towards Xia Nan’s position from the bone-white staff in hand, still falling in midair, suddenly transformed into a large sticky web enveloping Xia Nan entirely.

——2nd Ring·Magic System·Spider Web Skill!

The spell effect is simple, summoning a giant spider web, controlling the subject in it.

Uek’s choice was quite pragmatic.

Since you have immunity to spiritual control magic, it avoided testing whether it’s an outstanding perception attribute or some specialty, directly avoiding the relevant field, imposing physical restriction.

The spell changed rapidly, almost unable to identify its type before landing, with the web’s coverage range being vast.

Just beheaded a fishman elite guard chasing the opportunity, the sticky web covered Xia Nan from above.

Obviously not the fragile type seen in daily life, where a chicken feather duster casually sweeps the corner and it completely collapses.

Xia Nan felt like covered in some strong adhesive, the flexible webs sticking to the body’s surface, limiting basic movements.

Due to performance previously receiving focus, almost the same time the web landed on him, a pink magic radiance flashed from nearby seawater, blasting on Xia Nan bound by the web.

——2nd Ring·Enchantment System·Tasha’s Mind Whip!

The spell effect is to perform a mental strike on one enemy within attack range; if immunity fails, suffers mental damage and enters a short rigid state, unable to act; if immunity succeeds, avoids control effects but still endures some mental damage.

Apparently, the few fishman priests hidden beneath the sea had decent coordination during combat, but lacked the keen observation ability of their commander.

The bad news: the spell’s immunity attribute is "Intelligence".

The good news: it still belongs to "spiritual control" type, triggering the [Gaze into the Abyss] specialty.

The specialty triggered first, avoiding Xia Nan from awkwardly using his intelligence attribute for immunity checks.

Successfully resisted, counter-damage triggered.

Bubbles surged, a painful fishman screech echoed from underwater.

Meanwhile, [Tasha’s Mind Whip]’s own mental damage also landed on Xia Nan.

Like needles pierced into the skull, intense pain seemed to tear the entire brain apart, sharp noise roiling and reverberating in the mind.

Fortunately, as there was [Gaze into the Abyss] providing immunity, [Tasha’s Mind Whip]’s damage was somewhat mitigated due to the successful check, not fully endured by Xia Nan.

Eyes momentarily blurred, biting teeth to hardly rely on perseverance to endure the pain.

However, with two spells taking effect in succession, in just a few seconds, a fishman commander had already rushed forward angrily waving its fish spear.