Chapter 495 - Toad Skin
Angor dodged again and pressed his back against a stone wall. When the harpoon came, he moved aside so that the weapon would get stuck inside the wall.
He thought he was safe for a moment. But the thick wall that was about ten meters high was shattered by the harpoon, which then began to chase after Angor again.
“Leave me alone already!”
After gaining some distance, he ejected his soul. With a swift move, he materialized the sequence of gravity. It became a gravity water cannon and knocked into the harpoon.
He felt the extreme power displayed by his own attack. The original beam-like gravity power was dispersed by water and turned into a large-scale strike. It broke the harpoon into several parts while creating a giant explosion underwater.
Being in water amplified the great noise by several folds. From the center of the explosion, violent ripples surged around, breaking corals and stones, and creating a storm of debris.
Angor didn’t expect his attack to be so drastic. Even he himself was dragged into the aftermath.
Using the sequence of gravity again, he dragged his body to a safe distance. He couldn’t see the fortress at this spot—there was only more darkness.
The entrance of the fortress was located on top of it. Angor found a window and carefully inspected it. It seemed the “window” was made from a semi-transparent gel-like material. He gave the window a gentle poke and noticed that the material felt soft and stretchable.
He couldn’t see through the window, but he noticed something giving out yellow light inside like an oil lamp.
The door was left open. He swam through the entrance. He then kept going deeper into a sealed tube-like passage until he squeezed through another gel-like barrier shaped like an egg.
The egg was partially submerged in water, while the area above it was empty air. Angor moved upward through the egg and successfully entered the room.
He never thought such a habitat existed in this place. Whoever designed the tube passage he just traveled through meant to use pressure closure to keep water outside. And such an entrance was enough to suggest sapient being.
He looked around and realized that he was on the second floor of the building. A lit oil lamp sat on top of a coral stand not far from him. Its cold fire was releasing a pleasant fragrance into the room without causing any smoke or sharp smell.
He took a small tour around the room. Apart from the lamp and some seaweed that was meant to produce oxygen, he didn’t find anything else that could pique his interest.
There was a ladder hatch that allowed him to move to the lower floor.
The ground floor was a bigger chamber with a patch of corals placed on the ground, which made it looked like a colorful bed. Also, there were strange paintings and characters on the walls that resembled the primitive cave arts left behind by ancient human tribes.