Chapter 19
Splash! Splash! Splash!
Yongno did a flip turn near the cliff and quickly escaped from the school of blade fish aiming for his chest, head, and left leg. He trembled when he saw those creatures miss him and burrowed horrifyingly into the rock surface as if it was mud.
Come to think of it, they easily stabbed me when I was performing Body Strengthening!
If Yongno didn’t operate that skill, those fish would have penetrated through his arms and chest. While their blade-like nose couldn’t squarely pierce through the waterdrop turtle’s shell, they were still the tyrant of the deep sea who considered the mighty turtle as their game.
Splash! Splash!
Avoiding two other blade fish, Yongno bit his lips. The current situation was as tricky as it had been during the combat with the waterdrop turtle.
I can’t retreat…!
He felt like he was stepping backwards to avoid the arrow flying toward him. Truthfully, if an arrow was shot from far away, there was no reason he couldn’t avoid it. If an arrow was shot straight, he could dodge it by moving one step to the left or to the right by reading the wind’s direction. But what would happen if he tried to dodge the arrow by moving backward? It was simple, it would be a bull's eye. Unless he could move quicker than the arrow and go somewhere unreachable, it was impossible to completely avoid it since would still be within range of attack.
Yongno was in the same situation with the school of blade fish. No matter how far he retreated, if he couldn’t move faster than these creatures, he could never escape from them. Of course, he also had a time-consuming option of moving slowly in a zig-zag, but it would gradually drain his internal force since he had to focus on their movements and ascend to the surface from 1,000 meters deep while speeding up each moment.