Chapter 86: The Giant’s Heart
With a smack, Richard hit Dewayne on the head and scolded, "Stop talking shit. There can’t be more than ten people on that Two-Masted Sloop. No matter how many weapons they have, they were all set up in advance. Once they leave their positions, their cannons and RPG launchers are just useless scrap metal."
Derek stood to the side, quietly taking a puff from his hookah, and said in a low voice, "Richard is right. No matter how fierce those guys are, they’ll eventually run out of ammo. There are three Eldritch giants around the island right now. Even if they kill all the giants, the ammo they have left will be very limited. As long as we play it carefully, their only outcome is defeat."
As he said this, Derek and Richard exchanged a look.
They could both see the caution in each other’s eyes.
Even though they had just managed to shut down the concerns of the other Captains, as the leaders of this group, they knew very well that the Survivors on the Two-Masted Sloop were not to be messed with.
Derek in particular was very wary of Kevin and the woman standing next to him, Eliana.
Suddenly, a strange thought popped into Derek’s head. "Richard, is it possible that the real leader of the Two-Masted Sloop is that man?"
Richard frowned. "That can’t be, right? That group already has Nova and Amelia, two Survivors who are in the top three of the ranking."
Derek waved his hand and analyzed, "We watched the fight on the deck of the Two-Masted Sloop all night. Luna and Amelia’s performance was disappointing. They didn’t show the strength that matches their ranking. Don’t you find that strange?"
Richard’s face darkened. "Are you saying someone is helping them boost their scores?"
As he said this, Richard’s face suddenly turned pale. "Could it be that man? If it is him, then his name must be on the ranking list."
Derek took a deep breath. "Let’s hope he’s not the man we’re worried about."
At the same time, back on the shoreline.
Kevin carried out seven full rounds of bombardment on the lamprey monster.
By now, the lamprey monster’s body was black as charcoal. Its skin had completely rotted away, and more than half of its body was showing exposed cartilage.
Even so, the lamprey monster was still writhing wildly.
Its giant mouth kept opening and closing, shooting out sharp teeth in all directions, attacking everything within three hundred meters without any discrimination.
Standing in the distance, Kevin watched this scene and said in a low voice, "That was close."
He had known all along that Eldritch giants had all kinds of abilities, so from the very beginning, Kevin never planned to get close to the lamprey monster.
He raised his right hand, and the Lance of Longinus appeared in his grip instantly.
Kevin weighed the lance in his hand, feeling a sense of control he had never felt before. "My strength is now at 17 points, way beyond the limit of a normal human. Let’s see how many hits you can take when I throw with full force."
Kevin swung his arm, and the Lance of Longinus shot forward like a streak of light, flying straight toward the lamprey monster.
With a thud.
The Lance of Longinus cut through the monster’s body as smoothly as a hot iron through butter, meeting no resistance at all.
This time, the lamprey monster let out a furious roar, more miserable than any before.
Its body twisted wildly, kicking up huge clouds of sand across the entire beach.
Seeing this, Kevin nodded with satisfaction.
He was now about five or six hundred meters away from the lamprey monster’s body.
The maximum throwing distance for a normal human is only about a hundred meters. That meant Kevin had thrown more than five times farther than a normal person could.
"It looks like this is the result of both my Strength and Agility stats working together," Kevin muttered to himself.
Kevin raised his arm again, and the Lance of Longinus reappeared in his hand.
Another throw.
The Lance of Longinus shone with a holy light and shot straight into the lamprey monster’s mouth.
This time, the lamprey monster was in serious trouble.
If its skin and outer soft tissues were damaged, it could still barely survive. But once its internal organs were hit, it had no chance of staying alive at all.
Kevin’s Lance of Longinus was exactly the kind of weapon that could destroy the lamprey monster’s internal organs.
Every time Kevin threw a Lance of Longinus, the monster’s internal organs took a certain amount of damage. And this kind of damage could not be resisted.
Finally, after Kevin fired seven Lances of Longinus in a row, the lamprey monster stopped moving completely.
Kevin stood still, staring coldly at the lamprey monster.
Soon, the hundreds-of-meters-long massive body began to shrink. Large amounts of yellow-brown liquid seeped out from the monster’s tissues.
The aura of a high-level Eldritch Entity instantly spread across the surrounding sea.
On the distant coastline, countless Eldritch Entities began swimming madly toward the island where Kevin was standing.
They had gone berserk!
From several kilometers away, two earth-shaking roars came through.
Even though Kevin was far away, a series of notifications rang in his ears.
[Sanity -1]
[Sanity -1]
[Sanity -1]
Kevin didn’t expect that even from this far away, those two Eldritch giants could still affect his Sanity.
But luckily, his [Lance of Condemnation] Talent wasn’t afraid of Sanity loss. Plus, he also had the [Cursed Wraith Songstress] Talent, which let him absorb the negative effects of curses and mental attacks around him at any time.
Soon, the ringing in his ears disappeared completely.
Even though the two Eldritch giants were still roaring, they could no longer affect Kevin’s Sanity.
Before the horde of Eldritch Entities on the sea could reach the shore, Kevin slowly walked over to the lamprey monster’s corpse.
He summoned five Normal Fish Fiends and ordered them to search through the monster’s body.
Soon, one of the Fish Fiends picked up a yellow-brown crystal ball and walked up to Kevin, kneeling down as if offering a treasure.
[Low-Quality Talent Source: A-Tier Eldritch Artifact. Crushing it can greatly increase a Survivor’s proficiency with their Talent, with a small chance of triggering a Talent evolution.]
Kevin took the [Low-Quality Talent Source] in his hand, and his heart was filled with joy.
In his previous life, even as a Captain, Kevin could only team up with other Survivor fleets to deal with storms and giant monster attacks.
Although they had killed more than ten Eldritch giants, Kevin had never received a Talent Source dropped by one.
And that was one of the reasons why he had never been able to evolve his Talent.
Thinking about this, Kevin put away the [Low-Quality Talent Source] and turned to look at the Two-Masted Sloop behind him.
A plan quickly formed in his mind.
He wanted to use the [Covenant of the Saint to get more Talent Sources.
As long as Kevin and his companions all evolved their Talents, they would surely become the strongest Survivor fleet on this terrifying sea.
After all, in his previous life, Kevin had spent years trying and still failed to evolve his Talent.
That alone showed how rare and valuable a Survivor with an evolved Talent really was.
Just as Kevin was thinking about what to do next, the mantis shrimp giant that had wiped out Oliver’s fleet had already appeared on the distant beach.
Its hundreds of giant legs sliced across the sand like blades, and its whole body rushed toward Kevin as fast as a train.
Before Kevin could move, the human faces on the mantis shrimp giant’s compound eyes suddenly opened.
One was crying, the other was laughing. They let out Eldritch whispers.
"Under your skin, inside every crack, is my face."
"I am inside your body, watching your rotten form."
"Fear. Tremble. Your flesh is the bait that feeds mad souls."
This was the first time Kevin had heard such clear cursed whispers.
His ears kept ringing with Sanity loss notifications. Even though the [Cursed Wraith Songstress] Talent was constantly absorbing the curses around him, Kevin’s Sanity was still dropping.
[Sanity -1]
[Sanity -1]
[Sanity -1]
Because of the [Lance of Condemnation] Talent, Kevin’s Sanity could never drop below zero, and he could never be twisted by mutation.
But if his Sanity got too low, Kevin would still go crazy and lose his calm.
And once he went crazy, he wouldn’t be able to carry out his next plan.
So Kevin immediately took out two bottles of [Tear of the Goddess]. He poured one over his body and drank the other one straight down.
As a large amount of holy power flooded into him, the negative curses inside his body quickly dissolved and disappeared.
The cursed whispers around his ears were also pushed back and resisted by the holy power inside him, no longer affecting him so strongly.
Taking this chance, Kevin stared hard at the mantis shrimp giant.
The big guy was now only about a kilometer away from Kevin.
Seeing this, Kevin showed a crazy smile on his face. "You like buzzing in my ear like a fly, don’t you? Then let me show you what real noise is."
As soon as he finished speaking, thousands of new drones equipped with RPG Launchers, Vulcan Cannons, and Military Armored Vehicle main guns rose high into the air from the RPG Launcher positions behind him.
Like a swarm of bees, they all rushed toward the mantis shrimp giant.
From less than five hundred meters away, the Vulcan Cannons started spinning and firing wildly. Shell casings scattered across the sand like they were free.
Rat-tat-tat-tat!
Rat-tat-tat-tat!