Above The Sky
Chapter 228 - 228 216 Crocodragon Brain Marrow Crystal 14

228: Chapter 216: Crocodragon Brain Marrow Crystal (1/4) 228: Chapter 216: Crocodragon Brain Marrow Crystal (1/4) The battle didn’t last more than two minutes; the sea fog was still churning, the silt had yet to settle, and the Shaman with the Crocodragon were already dead.

The behemoth’s body was still twitching, even violently struggling.

But Ian didn’t look back, for the enemy’s death was already a foregone conclusion.

If no one else interfered, its ultimate fate would have been to become a whales’ fall in the deep sea, starting a new ecological system in these depths.

However, its most probable end would be, after the battle, to be reclaimed by Harrison Port to serve as the feat upon which Ian was knighted as a knight.

This was not easy.

The fight was extremely dangerous, with life and death hanging in the balance in an instant.

If it weren’t for him being a dual inheritance, and his defense strong enough to take a direct hit in his flesh and blood form, bouncing back the opponent’s attack and revealing a flaw, the outcome would have been uncertain.

“I owe it to the fact that I severely wounded this behemoth with a single shot years ago, and the battlefield is in the deep sea, my home turf.

Otherwise, with its power at its peak on the land in those days, the Source Quality mobilization wouldn’t have been a beat slower, resulting in its defenses being broken through by my Heavy Abyss Iron Sword.”

Now, holding the Crocodragon’s huge Brain Marrow Crystal in his hands, Ian felt dizzy, his eyes seeing stars, still not recovered from the recent fight: “Moreover, there were errors between the coordination of the Crocodragon and the Great Shaman…

If the Great Shaman was still in his clearest moment of wisdom from six years ago, I might not have succeeded.”

This battle with the Great Shaman and the Crocodragon, was truly a fight where the brave win in dire straits—the Great Shaman wanted to capture Yisen Gard alive, to fully deal with me, and didn’t want to be severely injured to save strength for the upcoming battle with Viscount Grant, which bought him many concerns, unlike my single-minded determination to kill the Magical Beast before me.

Of course, the battle can be reviewed later in safety, using the records on the Silver Chip.

Now there are many things to do.

Currently, Ian, holding a Brain Marrow Crystal that’s about the size of his own head, sensing the unparalleled rich fluctuation of the Earth Element Source Quality, couldn’t help but heave a sigh: “Although the Crocodragon still has some valuable materials, only this one qualifies as a material for my ‘Rock Cast Knight’ at the Second Energy Level, the others are lacking.”

The light golden Brain Marrow Crystal was the nerve center of the Swamp Crocodragon…

The pale yellow elemental inscriptions spread throughout the Crocodragon’s body, along with traces of Elemental Crystals between its scales and shell, all originate from and converge back to this Brain Marrow Crystal.

In other words, it’s the source of the Swamp Crocodragon’s Sublimation Power—truly the core in every sense!

And only materials of such caliber from Magical Beasts could serve as the Prime Material of Magic Medicine for the Unmovable Fortress Series Inheritance.

“The rest of the materials, what a waste, but surviving is what matters most…”

Murmuring to himself, Ian looked up and saw not far away, a vast purple fog in the sea was still rolling.

The Ironclad Shark was desperately fleeing, while a Soaring Surge Gargantuan Eel, twenty times its size, was furiously chasing after Shasha, swearing to swallow the Shark whole!

A bit closer, Master Gossay Eason and his apprentice, having consumed the Underwater Breathing Elixir, along with an Elf Pirate who presumably had some sort of water attribute inheritance that also allowed underwater breathing, were hiding in a crevice at the sea bed.

They had just poked their heads out to assess the situation.

“Let’s hurry.”

Ian waved to Yisen and the others, then pointed upwards.

His meaning was clear even without words: “We surface to the shallow waters!”

The others saw the signal.

Although they were still unclear as to how Ian could have disposed of a Second Energy Level Magical Beast within two minutes while piloting an Armor Suit, they knew that Ian being able to deal with it was better than not being able to!

So everyone struggled to rise up.

The weight of a Sublimator was mostly much heavier than that of a normal person since many of the originally lightweight organs and flesh in their bodies had gradually been replaced by the Sublimation Organs, integrating more functions and being tougher, which clearly meant a higher density than the tissues of an ordinary human body.

Therefore, trying to rise to the surface was indeed a difficult task.

Fortunately, just a moment ago, Master Gossay had already taken this situation into consideration and had injected a dose of treatment medicine into the Elf Pirates, which enabled this Sublimator of the True Form of the water attribute to have the strength to bring the other two to the surface with him.

Not carry them?

Not rise?

Ridiculous!

Andor wasn’t an imbecile; this was a hard-won chance to make a good impression and fight for survival.

He was not blind and remembered how that White Folks kid was able to accelerate himself to match the speed of an Armor Suit on his own!

Right, and let’s not forget about the Ironclad Shark!

The other party only needed him temporarily; it didn’t mean that he was the only one who could bring everyone back to the shore!

So even though he was gasping for air and badly injured, Andor risked the chaos of his Source Quality and the prospect of becoming a cripple, unleashing his final strength to safely get everyone to the surface.

It must be said that the Ironclad Shark had done its best—using its speed advantage in the water to outpace the Gargantuan Eel by a hair, it succeeded in delaying the Tenglan Giant Eel for several minutes, giving Ian enough time to operate the Armor Suit for two charges, catching the opponent’s weakness for a fatal strike.

Taking advantage of the time bought by Shasha, everyone successfully retreated to the shallows…

During the ascent, Master Gossay consumed more than five bottles of emergency medicine, risking a serious illness soon after, forcibly boosting his Source Quality and summoning a gust of wind to bring everyone up to the skies.

For a moment, everyone was gently lifted by a tender wind dozens of meters up in mid-air, temporarily escaping the perilous depths of the sea.

The storm still raged on.

The thunder over the Southern Sea had now gradually stabilized, which didn’t mean it was gone, but the incessant lightning had constructed an immense magical ring above the firmament—a ring of azure inscriptions, sometimes hidden and sometimes visible, amidst endless dark clouds.

This magical ring with three concentric circles had a ‘person’-shaped fork that evenly divided it, with a dense core of nearly pure cyan semi-transparent lightning at its center.

The lightning emanating from the ring swept across the sky, illuminating the darkness for a moment, making the layers of clouds appear like inverted mountain peaks weighing heavily on everyone’s hearts.

Supported by the wild wind summoned by Master Gossay and gazing at the nearly materialized mystical phenomenon overhead, Ian furrowed his brows tightly.

“Labyrinth…”

He pondered in confusion, “What exactly is a Labyrinth?”

“Why does the birth of a Labyrinth cause such mystical celestial phenomena?”

And just as everyone was suspended in the violent storm, a silver-white shark fin suddenly surfaced above the sea.

Then, tracing an S-shaped trajectory, this shark fin sped across the ocean at high speed.