Unexpected

Adam and Yokgu both got up when they heard the priest, and Neith, who had been napping, also completely got out of the ground.

Yokgu flinched a little when he saw her ten meters frame, but he was far calmer than before. His fear hadn't completely disappeared, but he was capable of facing it now at least.

The three followed the priest to the pond, and saw that all the priests gathered around the pond, seemingly praying to Orui. The three stopped in front of the pond, and the priest said "You can go in."

The three turned their sight onto the pond, the water was purple and they couldn't see through it. Neith didn't even hesitate and jumped into the pond. Mysteriously though, the water didn't even splash, it was as if she had entered into a pond of slime instead of water.

As Adam and Yokgu were about to join her though, Neith cried out in Adam's mind 'Don't come in, it's poison! It's a trap!'

Adam hurriedly stopped his body from moving, and he saw Yokgu about to enter the pond. He had no time to tell him this was a trap, Neith had told him fast enough because speaking through the mind is many times faster than speaking.

Adam wiped out his leg and struck Yokgu, who was caught unprepared. Yokgu was sent flying backwards, but thankfully he hadn't touched the water.

Yokgu was stunned, but he was a Sovereign too, and thus had opened Three Gates. Although he had been caught unprepared and was unable to defend, he took out his axe in an instant and struck the ground, stopping himself from flying far away.

The Orc was about to attack Adam back when he saw something shocking. Adam had grabbed one of the priests by the neck and threw him into the pond. This shocked him deeply because the priests were considered very important in his culture, and harming one of them wasn't very different than spitting on the face of every Orc in the world.

But what followed was even more shocking. As the priest made contact with the 'Holy Water', the priest's body began dissolving as it morphed into an ugly looking lizard. Yokgu immediately understood he had been tricked, and looked at Adam thankfully.

The priests around the pond screeched with a sharp voice as they all began morphing into three meters long lizards one after another.

[Mirage Lizard] (Chieftain, Level 80)

HP: 320000/320000

[Mirage Lizard] (Chieftain, Level 90)

HP: 370000/370000

Fire condensed around Yokgu's axe and Adam's greatsword shone with a blue light as they prepared themselves to defend against the monsters.

But they suddenly covered their ears as they heard a loud screech. Neith, who was in the middle of the venomous pond, had used her sound wave attack. However, it was even more powerful than the last time she had used it. The lizards were immobilized and a few even had blood coming out of their ears.

Even after the sound wave attack was finished, she continued screeching, and both Adam and Yokgu could hear how angry she was. She stomped the ground and the surrounding fifty meters turned into a cone shaped whirlpool, at the center of which was a whirlpool.

The ground, which was made of earth and not sand, looked as easy to manipulate as sand, and the lizards tried their best to get out of the whirlpool, but they felt like every time they made a step forward, they would make two others backwards.

And it was only the beginning. Blades of earth appeared below the lizards and pierced through some, and lacerated the others.

The lizards were stuck between two dead ends. They were able to stop themselves from falling too much, but doing so would allow the earth blades to lacerate them to death. But if they dodged the earth blades, they would fall faster into the pool of venom.

On the side, Adam looked at Neith dumbfounded, he didn't think she would be able to take care of so many lizards at once. He looked at Yokgu next to him, and sighed seeing his ghastly face. Maybe his fear wouldn't disappear so quick after all.

Adam turned back toward Neith and couldn't help but be impressed by the skill. However, although the skill was very powerful and could affect a huge area, it also had an obvious weakness.

Neith couldn't move while she used the skill, so she either had to draw in all her enemies or she would would become a big target for her enemies.

And among the lizards, one of them stood out. It was five meters long, and it successfully climbed out of the whirlpool.

[Mirage Lizard] (Lord, Level 90)

HP: 1,300,000/1,500,000

The lizard looked ready to attack the vulnerable Neith, so Adam punched lightly Yokgu's shoulder and said "Let's help her and kill that lizard."

Yokgu nodded and the two of them jumped onto the Level 90 Lord. The lizard's right claw had turned invisible, but from the movement of it's arm Adam understood it was about to strike toward Neith, so he predicted where the claw would be and slashed out.

A flying slash flew out of his blade and hit the area just in front of the Lord, as if Adam had missed it. However, it stopped just in front of it, it had clashed with the invisible claw and stopped it from attacking.

The Lord looked at Adam annoyed and said "Go die already!" This was definitely a unique experience, to see a monster actually speak, Neith could communicate with her mind, but she couldn't speak yet.

Adam ignored what it said though and slashed out once again, forcing the Lord to once again strike to defend itself. It had barely countered the flying slash though that Yokgu appeared next to it, and his brought down his flaming axe onto the monster's neck.

Critical Hit! -550 000 HP! Burn!

The lizard cried out from the pain, the axe had cut half into its neck, almost reaching it's spine. Moreover, the flesh inside it's neck was was set afire, dealing even more damage. It wiped it's tail toward Yokgu, trying to break him into two, but Yokgu punched the incoming tail, stopping it.

At the same time, Adam appeared above the lizard and slashed down his sword into the ugly wound.

Critical Hit! 275 000 HP!

Critical Hit! 275 000 HP!

Critical Hit! 275 000 HP!

Critical Hit! 275 000 HP!

Adam's sword crushed the lizard's spine and exited the neck through the other end, completely severing the head from the body, and killing the lizards. The wound was ugly to look at, there was some burned flesh and some frozen flesh, and no blood spilled out because of the two elemental effects.

A few items dropped from the corpse, so Adam asked "Do you fancy anything?" However, even after a couple seconds all Adam could hear was the screeches from the dying lizards.

He looked up and saw Yokgu was looking at the scene next to them with a pale face, Neith had already killed almost all the lizards and there only remained about ten of them, who eventually fell into the purple venom.

Speaking of the venom, the light purple water had now become much darker because of all the monsters that had dissolved in it. Adam was a little worried at first about Neith since she had remained in the venom since the beginning of the fight, and although she had a great resistance to venom it applied to poisonous ones, and he didn't know how much she could resist against acids.

But from what he could see her resistance to acids was as high as poisons, so he was relieved. Adam used the tip of his sword to poke Yokgu's shoulder and said "Do you want anything?"

Yokgu briefly looked at the loot and shook his head. He was from a very powerful family and money wasn't a problem to him. And the equipments that dropped were Level 90, but they were only Rare at best so he had no interest in it.

So Adam pocketed the equipment as well as the materials that came from the boss. He then looked at Neith and saw she wasn't coming out, so he asked 'Won't you get out?'

Neith replied, with a less angered voice 'This venom is beneficial to me.' Adam nodded, at least the monsters were useful. All the lizards had dropped loot between Level 80 and 90, which could fetch a few coins, but all the items had also dissolved into the liquid.

Adam was about to ask how the liquid could be useful to her when he felt an overbearing presence appear. The three looked up into the sky and saw a figure had stopped above them. That figure released an extremely powerful pressure onto the three as he projected his killing intent.

This pressure was only inferior to the pressure he had felt when Henry had broken into the Fifth Gate back in the Goblin's Fortress thanks to his help. As such, it was obvious to Adam that this was a Hero, a powerful one at that, and he wanted to kill him.

A simple looking blade appeared in that man's hand, and as he raised it above him a red energy swirled around the sword, and created a red energy sword that extended for a hundred meters. The figure in black didn't say anything and brought his sword onto the three Bronze Realms.