Long Yi was sleeping when he suddenly felt a blinding flash of light in front of his eyes. At first, he thought he was dreaming, but upon realizing something was wrong, he felt a sense of unease.
How could a dream be so real?
"Wake up, stop sleeping, you can't expect me, Lord Galot, to hold them off for you forever?"
Long Yi jolted awake, springing up from the ground.
When he saw the scene before him, he took a deep breath.
A slime, taller than a man, writhed and squirmed. With every movement, numerous sea monsters emerged from the slime, landing on the ground and scrambling to enter the temple.
Fortunately, Nia had mobilized the puppets to form an unbreakable wall outside the temple, preventing the sea monsters from infiltrating.
Seeing this, Long Yi no longer hesitated.
"Kid, move aside a little!"
"Don't burn my toys."
"I know!"
"Wildfire!"
A cluster of flames shot from Long Yi's fingertips, streaking towards the slime.
"Boom!"
The flames erupted into a raging inferno, but the fire was controllable. As Long Yi wished, it could be extinguished without causing any damage to the temple.
"Damn it! So many of them?!"
Although the flames were fierce and dealt significant damage to the sea monsters, their sheer numbers were overwhelming. The "Wildfire" technique consumed a great deal of spiritual energy. If Long Yi used it again, his spiritual energy would be depleted.
"Where's Wang Zihao? Stop sleeping!"
[I'm not sleeping! Tian Ximeng, you take Lu Shuishui's position. Lu Shuishui, you and Hai Ren go support Long Yi!]
[Received!]
"Are you planning to have Su Baiyi, a pure psychic, guard the west flank alone?"
Duan Chen watched Wang Zihao with interest.
He shook his head.
"Instructor, we've grown even when you weren't here. Su Baiyi is no longer just a psychic; she's now an offensive psychic."
"Oh?"
Duan Chen nodded.
"Good."
Despite the casual praise, Wang Zihao breathed a sigh of relief.
By the time Lu Shuishui and Hai Ren arrived, the situation had become a stalemate.
"Thousand Miles of Ice!"
Lu Shuishui didn't hesitate and unleashed her ultimate move!
Seeing this, Long Yi immediately withdrew his flames, allowing Lu Shuishui to fully unleash the power of "Thousand Miles of Ice."
"Crack crack crack crack—!"
Nia, seeing the opportunity, also acted.
"Paradise!"
The puppets charged forward, killing sea monster after sea monster.
One sea monster, through sheer luck, found a gap and made its way to the temple entrance.
A small flying insect emerged from Hai Ren's hollow eye sockets. It flew towards the sea monster and directly burrowed into its forehead.
"Urk—!"
The sea monster let out a pained wail.
Its internal organs were being devoured by the insect!
Before dying, it glared hatefully at Nia.
"Lord 05, you will regret this."
"What does that mean?"
Nia frowned.
Lu Shuishui and the other two had no time to ponder as the next wave of sea monsters followed closely.
"Boom!"
The group took turns fighting, and with the final use of "Wildfire," no more sea monsters managed to break through.
"It's not over yet."
Nia looked at the violently writhing slime.
"Gurgle—!"
A loud roar came from within the slime, followed by the emergence of a massive tentacle.
This tentacle was longer than all of them stacked together!
"Shit!"
Long Yi cursed.
Then, another tentacle appeared.
A total of eight tentacles completely filled the space in front of the temple entrance.
A head emerged from the slime.
No, rather than a head, it was a monstrous creation stitched together to resemble a human face.
This creature had the upper body of a human and the lower body of eight tentacles, which thrashed on the ground, spewing slime.
"All these sea monsters are so disgusting this time!"
Lu Shuishui rolled her eyes.
"I'm out of spiritual energy, you guys go!"
Long Yi gritted his teeth and stepped back.
"Thousand Miles of Ice!"
Nia took a deep breath.
"Control!"
With a wave of his hand, countless transparent threads appeared on his fingers, connected to the recently deceased sea monsters, making them move again.
"Is it… puppetry?"
Lu Shuishui couldn't help but be surprised.
"Something like that."
Nia's expression was unreadable. His army of sea monsters immediately charged towards the humanoid octopus.
"Bang!"
A tentacle swept out, throwing many of them back. Even Lu Shuishui's "Thousand Miles of Ice" couldn't last long.
"Oh dear…"
Hai Ren sighed helplessly.
"How about… I handle it?"
"Okay, how do you plan to do it?"
As Lu Shuishui pondered how to coordinate with her, Hai Ren had already charged forward.
"Hey!"
"Don't chase, just provide cover for her."
Nia glanced at the slime behind the humanoid octopus, which was beginning to spew out more sea monsters.
"Ice Shard Storm!"
Lu Shuishui gritted her teeth, and dense ice shards rained down from the sky, repelling the sea monsters attempting to approach Hai Ren.
Meanwhile, Hai Ren swiftly moved its arms, approaching the humanoid octopus.
"Gurgle gurgle—"
The humanoid head's mouth bulged, and then a large blob of slime was sprayed directly at Hai Ren.
"Are you disgusting or what?"
Hai Ren "moved" its limbs with disgust. Two insects emerged from its eye sockets and flew towards the humanoid octopus.
"Goo?"
It seemed to be judging what these two little things were.
The next second, the two insects flew directly into its eyes.
"Aaoo—!"
A deafening scream reverberated!
Hai Ren swiftly retreated, moving next to Lu Shuishui, who immediately crouched down. She didn't hesitate and lay down on Hai Ren's back.
"I'm exhausted…"
"What did you do?"
"Oh… I put two little things inside its body. From now on, you guys might have an easier time."
"Are… you sure?"
Long Yi looked at the nearly enraged humanoid octopus, his mouth twitching.
"Stop wasting time."
Galot's tone was grave.
"If you don't want your instructor to intervene, finish this quickly!"
"Let's continue!"
"Wildfire!"
"Spark!"
Flames flew towards the humanoid octopus one by one, exploding, making it impossible to defend against.
"Roar—!"
It thrashed its tentacles, forcing Long Yi and the others to dodge desperately.
Nia's short stature was an advantage; he could simply duck down without having to jump arduously.
As he lowered his head, he suddenly noticed a tentacle of the humanoid octopus flashing with a faint blue luminescence.
Nia didn't hesitate and shared his discovery with the other three.
"You want us to aim there?"
"Yes!"
"Try not to use 'Wildfire' and 'Thousand Miles of Ice' anymore. Just use 'Spark' and 'Ice Shard Storm', and focus your attacks there!"
"Received!"