Chapter-79: red bolder fish
The reason is that they cannot breathe in water. So they cannot stand and wait in the passage. So they pushed the people that came early as they came out of the water. The crowd was pushed and someone fell into the water.
The land connected to the water is not slant like at the beach. It is more like a cliff rock with roughly cut edges. The water and land is 1 meter apart. The fall will not cause harm to the body but once a person falls the red fish that is guarding would swim over to attack.
The one that fell accidentally was targeted by the red fish. Before he can stabilize and use his sword the fish moved over to hit the person with its fat body. The man that was hit felt like he was hit by a bolder.
The man sprayed out blood and internal organs. Not only his mouth is bleeding but also blood from his eyes ears and nose. The fish did not stop and gave another strong hit moving quickly before the man could react.
In just a moment he felt like his bones are broken. He could not move or do anything. In the end he died there. Others did not even have the time to help him up. Visva saw all this but did not use the lightning spear.
If his lightning spear is used and the person that is already in weak state was electrocuted then he would die faster. The fish might not die but the man would die. Then these people would blame him and extort him.
Visva would not do this kind of thankless things stupidly. So he simply solved this matter by staying silent. Even if they asked him why he did not take action later he would simply say that he did not have much accuracy.
He showed his clumsiness before when shooting at the fishes. Now they would not trouble him for this matter. Visva sighed for the death of the man. The place became chaotic as more and more people came and more and more people are pushed to the edge.
They tried their best to hold on to others to stay on the land. But who would have thought that the edge is not a solid rock but loose soil. They all slipped and dragged down along with the soil. This made them become targets to the fish again.
They started to fight desperately while many died. Visva is not very interested in this fish. Making any move now is completely fruitless. So he let those people play as much as they want. In just few minutes more than 10 people died.
But the fish also received many wounds. It blood bar fell and finally died when someone poke it with a spear. The dungeon coins that are produced sank into the water. The water is filled with corpses and blood.
The blood is still flowing away but the corpses are there and the blood would leak out more and more. Few people entered the water with tears as they felt bad for the death of their family. Yes some groups are family members.
The dead people cannot come back to life but they cannot do anything. Soon after that the people dragged the body of the dead to the other side of the room. There is a small 3 meter wide land area here.
After this there is another water area with fishes and tunnel to the next room. This time there are two tunnels. Visva that looked at this did not move immediately. His target is only the protagonist.
Others can obtain anything but the protagonist should not get anything which is life threatening to him. The fish that killed so many people was dead. They caught it and started to dissect its body for various reasons.
There are some that are influenced by those cultivation novels thought that there is an inner pill inside the powerful monster. But they did not find anything. Instead it is a simple fish with most body having muscle.
It is called a red bolder fish. It has most muscles and is not very delicious to eat. But when hit by it, it would feel like you are hit by a bolder. This fish would not bite and it is not easy to kill because of its strong muscle most weapons cannot penetrate deep enough to kill it.
This is what Visva knows. Even for him if he wanted to shoot it with bow and arrows it would take a while with at least 20 arrows to kill it completely. The lightning strike can cause damage to this fish but it is still limited.
This is a high defense oriented fish. You can say that it is like a tank in the team of adventurers. Also it is not a simple tank but someone that can move and hit you hard like a bolder. All in all the fish is dead and those people can only move forward.
As the team moved to the other side, they stopped once again. This time they stopped because they saw the school of fish blocking their exit location of the room again. They did not have attack spells like Visva.
Some had poison but they dare not use it. Poison is always secret skill to be used for sneak attacks. They don't want to reveal it to others easily. So their eyes searched for Visva. Visva is still at the back landmass.
They urged Visva to help them clear the path. Visva like a good man slowly came over to kill the fishes to open the path. After all killing these fishes is very useful to him. Others don't know the benefits.
After the first attempt of someone trying to kill this fish but got bitten by many fishes they stopped trying to kill this fish. So Visva got free way to kill these fishes. He naturally used the bait of previously available fish and killed other fishes.
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