Before entering, the trench was about a hundred meters wide, while its length was unknown. Now that he was at the bottom, he used Light to scan the area and found that the bottom of the trench was only about five hundred meters wide.
At first glance, there was nothing else apart from the strange native creatures. There wasn't even a single fish.
Angor looked around. The trench was long, and he didn't know which way to go. The current was also a bit messy. He couldn't even sense it if he wasn't paying attention. Angor stayed still for a while before he followed the weak current and swam toward a certain direction.
The further he swam, the wider the trench became. It looked like a trapezoid. Angor moved from the narrow part to the wider part of the trench.
Most of the creatures he saw were plankton, invertebrates, and arthropods. Among them, shrimps were the most common. Most of them hid in the sediments at the bottom of the sea, which was almost impossible to see. Only when he swam past them and carried away a large amount of rotten sediments, could he see them hiding in the water.
About half an hour later, Angor noticed that there was more and more oxygen in the water.
When the sediments at the bottom of the trench became thinner and wider, Angor finally saw the second man-made structure after entering the Sea of Purification.
It was a structure he didn't know what it was for. It looked like it was made of stone. The bottom of the structure was a triangular shape with two equal waists. It was about twenty meters tall. At the top of the triangle was a concentric circle with two harpoons placed in it.
"It doesn't look like it has a purpose. Or does it have some other meaning? "Angor swam closer and inspected it carefully.
The triangle at the bottom was made of countless broken stones, while the concentric circle at the top was made of large stones. The harpoons were placed inside the circle and could be taken out.
Angor took out the harpoons. They looked similar to Toad Skin's harpoons. They used fish bones as arrowheads, which were quite sharp.
"A weapon rack?" Angor shook his head. No one would be stupid enough to put a weapon rack out in the open. Even if it was a primitive tribe, weapons were still the most precious thing. They would definitely carry them with them.
Angor couldn't figure it out, so he left it behind and kept swimming forward.
This time, he swam another few thousand meters. He saw at least ten similar structures, which were all triangular structures with concentric circles on top of them.
"Or is it a tomb? Were these weapons used when he was alive, and then used as decorations after his death? " Next, he stopped in front of a strange structure and used his mana to blast away the broken stones underneath.
The inside of the rubble was still rubble, and there were no skeletons as he had imagined.
"It's not a grave or a weapon rack. Could it be the totem pole? " Many primitive tribes had their own totem poles. They would hang the heads of their enemies or their own tribesmen on them to intimidate their enemies.
As he pondered, he arrived at the next building.
When he saw a skull placed at the top of the concentric circles of the building, his eyes lit up.
It was the skull of an unknown beast. It didn't look like a fish, but more like a reptile on the ground. Based on the skull, he was pretty sure that the structure was a totem pole.
But since the totem pole already had the skull of an enemy hanging on it, Angor had another question. What was the enemy they were trying to intimidate?
If this building was built by the Toad Skin Monster, based on the strength of the previous Toad Skin Monster, it shouldn't be able to intimidate the arthropods and invertebrates in the trench, right?
Was it the owner of this skull? Or was there an even more dangerous enemy in the sea?
With that in mind, Angor came to a transparent barrier. The barrier had an energy signature that allowed him to see inside. For example, he didn't see any sediments on the ground. Someone must have cleaned this place up.
Angor reached his hand through the barrier.
When he entered, he found that there was no water inside. Instead, the air was filled with oxygen. Based on all the signs, Angor was sure that some intelligent lifeform once lived in this place.
However, he didn't see any light.
He activated Infinite Reticence and walked inside. Soon, he saw a dozen houses built with broken stones. At the same time, he also saw the end of the barrier.
The barrier didn't look big, but it was enough to cover a dozen houses. More than half of the houses were destroyed, which meant this place was abandoned. But judging from the traces, it didn't take long for the houses to be destroyed. It should have been around two years ago.
Angor scanned the houses with his spirit feelers. As he expected, there were no living creatures in them.
Through the spirit feelers, he could see the inside of the houses. They were empty, except for some seashells and corals.
Angor walked to the house in the center.
It was a domed house about ten meters in size. It was smaller than the Toad Skin's fortress, but it was the largest house in the entire place, and also the one with the least damage.
Angor pushed the door open, and several arrows shot out from inside.
Angor tilted his head and dodged. He looked inside and saw an empty room. There was a trigger mechanism at the top of the room that could trigger the arrow.
Angor's ears twitched as soon as he stepped inside. He quickly turned around and looked at the door.
It was dark outside.
"Something's wrong." Angor frowned. As soon as he entered the house, he heard some rustling noises coming from behind.
He walked out and controlled the Light spell to move around. However, the range of the spell was too small, and he didn't see any suspicious creatures.
"Am I hallucinating?" Angor wondered. Was it because he was too paranoid in this narrow trench?
Whether it was just an illusion or not, Angor's heart tightened.
He entered the domed house again and didn't find anything useful. However, he saw a familiar mermaid totem on the ceiling. This must be the Toad Skin's settlement, but it was abandoned.
Angor also saw a long metal weapon with delicate carvings on it. Judging from the weapon, the Toad Skin must have mastered the art of smelting. However, there was no smelting place here, which meant this place wasn't the Toad Skin's main camp.
Angor also saw some special fabrics, which didn't look like something he would find in a barren trench.
As he pondered, his ears twitched again. He heard the rustling sound again.
He quickly jumped out of the house and checked his surroundings. Still, he didn't find anything strange. No. It wasn't that there was nothing strange here. It was just that it wasn't easy to find anything in the absolute darkness.
Angor circled around the settlement and didn't find anything else. He decided to leave. He kept looking down the trench to see if there were more Toad Skin settlements.
However, before he could go through the light barrier, two green lights suddenly appeared behind him. Without making any noise, they silently swam toward him.
Angor paused for a second and stomped on the ground. He did a somersault and landed behind the attackers.
The attackers were surprised. They didn't make any noise. How did they get discovered?
He cast Fear on the man, and the man began to tremble uncontrollably. Angor used Light to see the attacker's face.
It was a strange-looking reptile with a long beak and rodent teeth. It was about five to six meters long. Its head looked like a crocodile or a lizard, but its body was streamlined like a sea creature. Its two pairs of fins looked like cattail leaf fans, which were bigger than its slender body.
It was also flying in the air.
While Angor was observing, the creature's green eyes suddenly glowed red.
Angor's eyes widened. "Shit! It's immune to Fear!"
It was true that Fear could evoke one's greatest fear. Even if someone was smart enough to see through the illusion, they still couldn't avoid it. Only those who were too stupid and would go berserk when provoked would be immune to Fear.
Clearly, this unknown creature belonged to the latter category.
Its eyes were completely red, indicating that it had gone mad.
It roared and released a powerful shockwave, which made Angor dizzy for a moment. Next, it slammed into Angor's chest and left a huge wound on it.
The smell of blood made the creature even crazier. The monster's melee ability was probably at the peak of level-2. Angor's physical weakness was soon exposed under the frenzied attacks. It was easy for him to fall into a passive position when facing a close-range opponent who was extremely fast and whose attack frequency made it impossible for him to release illusions.
Angor had no choice but to roll on the ground to avoid the attacks.
After dodging several times, the creature lost its balance and rushed out of the cover. Angor finally had a chance to escape. He took out a Glowing Velvet Potion from his bracelet and drank it. At the same time, he finally had a chance to use Spirit Whisper.
The cover of the cover reflected a faint red light.
The reason why he noticed the strange creature was that he saw a faint green light behind the creature through the reflection of the cover. Now, he used the light again to determine the creature's location.
The creature was elusive, but it wasn't very intelligent.
After ejecting his soul, Angor was much faster than the creature. After several blinks, Angor arrived at the creature's blind spot. When the creature turned around to bite him, Angor fired a Gravity Cannon into its giant mouth.
There was a loud bang.
The Gravity Cannon penetrated the creature's body, which exploded from the inside and turned into pieces of flesh and blood that fell to the ground.
Angor sighed in relief. When he was about to check the creature's body, the ground suddenly trembled. A loud buzzing noise came from the other side of the trench.
Angor looked at the source of the noise but couldn't see anything.
The only thing he saw was an endless stream of water surging in the opposite direction.
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