66 Chapter 66

 'Amphibian' seemed to refer to a group of creatures rather than the name of a particular creature. Lin discovered that there was a further term for this creature in her vocabulary.

Lava Boar.

What was that? What a strange name... This amphibian seemed to have evolved from some flesh-finned fishes. Although there were no records of its evolution, it was very similar to those fishes.

The Lava Boar was clearly a predator. It swung its tail and opened its huge jaws filled with sharp teeth to bite the Leviathan's tail.

The Leviathan only needed to accelerate to avoid it. The Lava Boar was not fast enough to catch up to the Leviathan, but Lin did not plan to escape just like that.

The Slaughterer that killed the Arrowstone had almost grown a new abdomen filled with poisonous needles. The Leviathan had created a new troop class with a high reusability rate, and unlike other troop classes, it actually came with a complete set of organs.

Lin had the Slaughterer swim in front of the Lava Boar. As expected, the Lava Boar was instantly attracted and bit the Slaughterer in half.

This strength was too strong... It seemed that it could not be used repeatedly. However, the Slaughterer's poisonous needles had already been shot out, so it did not have much longer to live.

However, to Lin's surprise, the Lava Boar did not seem to have any problems. It continued to devour the Slaughterer's remains until there was nothing left.

Strange, could it be that it was immune to poison?

Lin suddenly noticed that the Lava Boar's back began to glow a bright red. It was as bright as lava and very similar to the Slaughterer's abdomen.

Was that why it was called a Lava Boar? Could it also secrete a similar poison?

After the Lava Boar finished eating the Slaughterer, it turned around and swam away. It seemed to have lost interest in the Leviathan.

Lin immediately followed it. At the same time, she looked at the Leviathan's troop class list to see if there was any suitable troop class to deal with the Lava Boar.

The Leviathan had many troop classes. Lin did not know which one to use, so she randomly picked one. This troop class was called a Smasher and seemed to be used against heavy-armored targets. Even though the Lava Boar was not a heavy-armored type, it did not matter.

The Leviathan created more than ten Smasher. This troop class had an oval body and no carapace. It was only thirteen centimeters long and had a long, flat tail that swam around. Its head had a pair of appendages with hardened hammerheads at the end.

This attack style felt very similar to the previous aircraft carriers, but this one was so small, what kind of attack power could it have?

After taking a closer look at their internal structure, Lin discovered that these little things were not simple.

Lin ordered the Crushers to charge at the Lava Boar, but it ignored them at first. Then, Lin ordered one of the Crushers to approach the Lava Boar's back and swung out its forelimbs.

Pa …

In a split second, Lin's eyeballs could not even see the speed of the hammer. The force brought by the small hammer caused the skin of the lava mantis to burst open. The blood vessels and cells inside the lava mantis gushed out uncontrollably along with a strange red liquid. It seemed that the lava mantis had hidden the poison in the skin on its back.

'Flesh split open.' Lin found a funny word to describe this phenomenon.

The Lava Mantis felt the pain and turned its head abruptly. It opened its mouth and bit at the Shatterer. Countless sharp teeth and the pressure from its jaws crushed the Shatterer into pieces.

But at this time, the other Shatterers attacked together. They hit the belly, tail, and head of the Lava Boar, creating wounds on its body.

The Lava Boar wriggled its body in an attempt to escape. It no longer had the heart to fight, but Lin would not let it go. The Shatterers continued to pursue and hit the remaining parts of the Lava Boar's body. Some of them attacked the exposed muscles and other structures under the skin.

The Lava Boar was bleeding profusely under the continuous attacks. The muscles on its limbs were also destroyed. It had lost the ability to swim, and its twisted body sank to the bottom of the sea.

It felt very powerful … The Shatterers.

The Shatterers' attack style was very similar to the aircraft carriers, but their internal structure was different. They did not rely on the expansion and contraction of muscles like the aircraft carriers to strike with the hammer. Instead, they used a very complicated pressure system. To put it simply, the muscles at the back of the appendages used to squeeze the liquid to the front. Combined with the strength of the muscles and the three layers of hard shell on the hammer, they could cause great damage.

No wonder they were 'used against heavy armor'. But they were also very effective against non-heavy armor.

Now, with these powers, Lin easily obtained a prey. But in this era, it was not so easy to eat in peace. The blood and cells spurting out of the Lava Boar's wounds attracted some creatures to this place …

Sharks.

They had the best sense of smell. They could detect injured creatures from more than a thousand meters away, and there were more than a dozen of them. The Leviathan had no choice but to retreat. Lin felt that no matter how powerful the Leviathan's troops were, it would be difficult to deal with so many sharks.

This era was indeed different … When Lin was hunting, no creatures would come to steal her prey. But now, Lin was not worried that the sharks would steal the Lava Boar.

A shark approached the corpse of the Lava Boar. It opened its mouth and bit down. Suddenly, as if it was in great pain, it twisted its body and fled like crazy.

That was the Lava Boar's poison. It stored the poison in its skin. When the Shatterer broke the Lava Boar's skin, the poison was naturally released in large quantities.

Seeing this, the remaining sharks lost interest in the Lava Boar and swam away.

It seemed that they were quite intelligent. Lin thought that they would try every single one of them … That way, there would be no one to disturb Lin's meal.

The Leviathan itself did not seem to have any resistance to poison, but the Shatterer did. Just like how the Lava Boar was not afraid of the Shatterer's poison, the Shatterer could also eat the Lava Boar's flesh without worry.

Lin now understood why the Shatterer had a complete set of organs. Perhaps the Shatterer specialized in processing things that the Leviathan could not digest. It could also separate the nutrients and toxins inside and store the toxins in the needle-like cells in its abdomen.

How did the Leviathan evolve such a miraculous thing? This was too interesting …

Lin only looked at a small part of the Leviathan's life memories and troop information. It would be too boring to look at everything from the start. It would be more interesting to test out their abilities herself.

Lin created a few Shatterers and had them eat the Lava Boar's corpse. The Lava Boar's internal structure was quite complex. It had a spine just like its ancestor, the flatfish. This spine was much more developed, but Lin did not want to learn it.

It was more fun to continue testing out the Leviathan's new troop. Also, Lin should go up to the land and see how the oxygen situation was now.

Suddenly, Lin saw a large school of Helmetfish not far ahead. They formed a long line and swam in a direction.

That was the Helmetfish's breeding activity …

From Eyeball's memories, Lin knew what these Helmetfish were doing. These Helmetfish would go to a special area together to carry out an activity called 'spawning'.

This was also the reason why they could thrive in the sea where predators were so densely packed, even with their cumbersome headgear.

Lin knew where they were headed, so she followed.

The shadow of land appeared in front of the school of Helmetfish. They swam towards the center of the land, where a large fissure appeared.

In the fissure was a long and narrow waterway that led directly to the depths of the land. Lin knew that this waterway could be called a 'river'.

When the environment changed, it was not only the bottom of the sea that would break, but also the land. This way, the water in the sea would flow into the fissure on the land.

However, Lin felt that the water in this fissure called a 'river' did not flow from the sea, but from the land. This was because the water in here … was a little strange.

The Helmetfish swarmed into the river in large numbers. At the entrance of the river, dozens of sharks were lying in ambush. They seemed to have expected the Helmetfish to come here. This was indeed a rare feast.

The Helmetfish ignored the sharks and continued to rush into the river. Even if their companions were torn apart by the sharks, they continued to move forward. The sharks did not dare to chase after the Helmetfish that successfully entered the river.

The water in the river lacked something called 'salt', so if marine creatures entered the river, some very strange things would happen, such as organ explosion and so on.

Lin had never entered a river before. This knowledge was incidental.

The Helmetfish seemed to be able to change their body's circulatory system, so they could live in the river and the sea. But did the Leviathan have this ability?

Should she go in and try?

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