Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 587 - 54 Catherine’s Preaching Power_1

Chapter 587: Chapter 54 Catherine’s Preaching Power_1

Accompanied by a colossal splash, the turbulent water was burst open as a blurred figure briskly emerged from the water, launching an attack on Lina standing at the bank. This sudden magical beast was also an insect-type magical beast, its body was less than two meters long, largely different in size from the insects they had previously encountered. This was a scorpion-type magical beast, its front wide and back narrow body was in a flat state squatting on the ground, six legs wrapped in a shell, the sharp ends of the legs stood on the ground like knives, easily punching deep holes in the ground. The scorpion had a pair of large pliers around seventy to eighty centimeters long on its shoulders, the pliers’ width was about half a meter, and when opened, could easily cut a person in two. The inside of the pliers were full of granular protrusions to increase friction, and once caught in it, escape was highly unlikely. At the end of the body, a tail the thickness of a grown man’s wrist was erected high, the hooked spike at the end gleaming dangerously. The scorpion was also covered with a thick shell that appeared milky white in color, with grey and white stripes across it.

Lina, who was retreating, reacted quickly. As soon as the sound of splashing was heard, she tumbled back several times to increase the distance from the bank, causing the scorpion’s pincers empty-handed. It was only then that she got a chance to look back and see what had happened, only to see a thick tail precisely nailed into the spot where she had tumbled a few seconds ago.

In the next instant, Catherine activated the Charge of Fearlessness, with her metallic Falcon Shield hitting the scorpion’s pincers head-on, making the giant scorpion stagger back a few steps with its six legs shaking before stabilizing its body.

"Rattle, Rattle," the back half of the scorpion’s body rose sharply, the tail with spiked hooks stood tall, the pincers opened and closed, making an intimidating sound. Every time the pincers closed, it caused a loud crisp sound, proving just how powerful this simple action was.

After Catherine blocked for her, Lina got up from her curled-up position, stepped backward and drew some distance, holding a war hammer and a spell book in her hands, and pointed her hand holding the spell book towards Catherine. A defensive shield that could absorb shock energy had been blessed on Catherine’s body. In the next moment, the sound of guns firing rang through; while Lina was beginning to tumble back, Vivian and Freya had begun to prepare for combat. In this dangerous environment, they must ensure that they can join the fight as soon as possible, so within three seconds, the support of the two long-range occupations had reached the forefront.

Due to the warm and humid environment, Freya and Vivian chose in unison to use Ice-attribute energy as their offensive method, which is the opposite of their surroundings. After all, these creatures had been living in this environment, and they were likely weak in resisting Cold Energy. Even top-tier Mages skilled in practical combat who are experienced adventurers must understand and take advantage of potential weaknesses in their enemies. If an upper-rank adventurer who casts magic does not have this perceptiveness and reaction speed, they would presumably have already lost the qualifications to adventure again in their dangerous life, and most would have lost their life too.

Emitting a chill, the energy balls were shot out from the gun barrel. The specially enhanced crystal energy gun fired energy balls with a diameter of half a meter, causing severe stinging pain on skin even just from being nearby. The energy balls instantaneously crossed several meters of space, the moment the gun fired, the energy ball had hit the scorpion’s body. Even though as an insect its reaction speed was much faster than humans, the scorpion still couldn’t dodge this perceived threat of an energy ball in time, only raising a pincer to protect its face before getting directly hit by the energy ball. The damage brought by the low temperature was enormous, a ghastly pale color spread visibly across its raised pincer at a visible rate, and continued to spread upwards along its limb.

This scorpion, which had been living in the warm underground river, had never encountered such temperatures, and its primitive brain couldn’t comprehend the swiftly numb signals being transmitted from its body, it didn’t understand what this numbing sensation was. However, even if it couldn’t understand what cold and freezing represented, the creature’s instincts gave it a sense of fear. Wisdom overcame appetite, the scorpion dragging its increasingly unfeeling pincer, on the one hand, swung its tail threateningly at its enemies, and on the other hand, was preparing slowly to retreat back into the dark river where it resided.

But, it suddenly found that it hadn’t moved at all. From its viewpoint, it was hard to see that a layer of frost had formed beneath it. Without knowing when, its six legs had been completely frozen, and the frost was secretly spreading upwards, now reaching its abdominal area.

The milky white scorpion suddenly felt an exhaustion in its body, and the whole body was gradually growing numb and stiff, even its reactions were getting slower and slower, as if time had been infinitely lengthened. In its perception, the prey in front seemed to be getting farther and farther, and the sounds they made were getting softer and softer, then, it fell into eternal darkness.

"So, such clear water, huh?" Not until the scorpion was completely frozen by Vivian’s magic, did Catherine turn back around, looking at Lina with a smile that contained anger, "You haven’t forgotten that lesson, huh?"

"I’m sorry, big sister." Lina bowed her head, speaking softly, "I was wrong."

"You didn’t do anything wrong, what could you have possibly done wrong?" Catherine said with a cold laugh, "You’re a Sage, aren’t you, with ever-growing experience, and adventure activities are something you’re very familiar with now, right? You think the experience summarized by predecessors doesn’t need to be adhered to anymore, right? You’ve been told never to approach the water’s edge without careful inspection if the situation is unclear, and you’ve learned a lesson from breaking this rule before. But now you’re stronger and feel great about yourself, so you can just trample on these rules, isn’t that so?"

"Cough, cough." Pannis gave a dry cough, hugging Ike’s shoulders and walking towards the outside of the cave, "Come come come, just now I saw a piece of stone outside, it looked like it had a very strange pattern, you come help me see what it is. Oh, by the way, Vivian, Freya, you’re both scholars, you might know something, come have a look together, there seems to be an stone insect growing inside the stone, it looks no different from a real one, come quick, come quick."

Lina surreptitiously sent Pannis a grateful look. Pannis grinned and waved, wearing a perverse expression that delighted at her predicament. As a result, his weird expression was spotted by Catherine, leading to fury in her eyes. Frightened by her wrathful gaze, Pannis hastily fled from the cavern, afraid that her anger would be directed towards him next.

The group didn’t actually take interest in the stones - they were either knowledgeable scholars or experienced explorers who were all familiar with the tales of things growing within such rocks, hence they found nothing unusual. Therefore, the foursome turned their headlamps and lay down at the mouth of the cave, peeping in sneakily.

Due to the nature of the cave, they couldn’t hear any sounds from within and could only see the two girls standing within the range of their head lamps and shoulder lamps. Catherine was continuously scolding, frequently waving her hand to emphasize her points, while the silver-haired girl kept her head down. Even though the two girls were of similar height, this made her seem more like a child - reluctantly accepting the scolding with a trace of feeling wronged and nodding periodically to show she was taking it seriously.

"Are they safe?" Freya voiced her concern, "That area hasn’t been explored yet, I’m worried there might be magical beasts lurking. Leaving the two of them there, wouldn’t that be dangerous?"

"So what do you think I’ve been watching? I’ve been observing the surroundings for them." Pannis’ eyes never left the two girls, one lecturing and the other being lectured. He replied without turning his head, "Do you think I’m just enjoying the sight of Lina’s embarrassment? You think too badly of me."

"Are you really not enjoying it?" Freya glanced sideways at Pannis, "I admit, you’re probably indeed watching over them. But if you could get rid of that smug smile on your face that makes me want to punch you, you might seem more convincing."

"Hahaha, how could that be? My expression is very serious." Pannis chuckled awkwardly while touching his mouth, "I am definitely observing their surroundings very seriously."

"By the way, Pannis." Vivian tugged at the hem of Pannis’ shirt and whispered, "I remember that some trained thieves can read people’s lips from afar. Can you do that?"

"Cough, cough, cough." Pannis coughed nervously and replied, "I, I’m not a thief, I haven’t had professional training, how could I do such a difficult task? Hahaha, absolutely impossible, hahaha."

"So stupid, I can’t bear to expose you." Freya sighed, covering her face and moaning.

Inside the mountain cave, Catherine’s terrifying sermon continued. All they could see was Lina wiping her cheeks as she nodded, it seemed like she had been scolded to tears. Eventually, Catherine sighed and patted Lina’s head. Lina immediately hugged Catherine’s arm, raised her head, and gave a ingratiating grin.

"It looks like it’s over, poor Lina." Pannis observed the two girls’ interaction, "Let’s get back."

"It’s her own fault for being so scary. If it wasn’t for the big sister’s reminder, she would have really been dragged down." Vivian and Freya also felt scared, Vivian pouted and said, "She deserved that lecture from big sister. Let’s see if she dares to do that again."

"Hey, girls, we’re back." Pannis returned to the cavern and waved at the two girls, pointing towards the river bank and said, "Instead of discussing past issues, let’s think about how we can cross this river." (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, feel free to leave a recommendation on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)