Chapter 119 : Dolphin Knight
Dolphin Knight
As everyone knows, there's no way a monster would just grow a fish spear out of its own body for no reason.
This is neither scientific nor logical.
So, the only possibility is that at some point, a human once tried to capture this dolphin-like monster. As for whether it was an NPC or a player, considering the server had just launched and judging by the rust on the harpoon, Cecilia determined that it was far more likely to be the work of an NPC than a player.
In the real world, Cecilia had seen similar news reports: Japanese fishermen, during certain seasons every year, would hunt dolphins and whales with harpoons and other tools—the blood dyeing the entire bay red. The scenes were unimaginably cruel, and when she saw a similar sight in the game, she couldn't help but draw some associations in her mind.
Could this dolphin-like monster have swum over from Japan's territory?
However, with her remaining oxygen almost depleted, Cecilia didn't have the luxury to think about it further.
She stared intently at the dolphin-shaped monster in front of her, expressionless, with a chill glimmering in her light blue eyes.
Because of the earlier collision, Cecilia was now very far away from the ice block—at least several dozen meters by estimate. At this point, it was almost impossible for her to swim over there on her own.
If she continued to do nothing, this aquatic monster—agile as a dragon in the water—would soon drag her down to the depths of the sea. Therefore, whether she wanted to or not, just to maintain her last shred of hope for survival, Cecilia had no choice but to fight back.
Still, even though she was going to attack, Cecilia for now did not want to kill the monster.
At the moment, she and the dolphin monster were already fifty or sixty meters deep. The light here was extremely dim, everything around was shrouded in darkness, and the water pressure was overwhelming—if not for her night vision, Cecilia would probably not even be able to make out her surroundings.
To get back to the surface before running out of oxygen, her only chance was to somehow make use of the monster in front of her.
Animals have sharp senses. Naturally, the dolphin monster could feel the human's provocation, and it grew even more enraged, swinging open its mouth full of razor-sharp teeth and lunging straight for Cecilia!
Cecilia remained calm and fearless, right fist clenched. Her petite frame was drawn taut like a tightly-strung bow, with a volcano-like power building up inside.
She waited, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Suddenly, the feeling of weightlessness intensified, and everything around her seemed to slow down.
Maybe it was a few seconds, or maybe just a blink—either way, the monster's gaping maw was right before her, and finally, Cecilia moved!
Her lips parted slightly in a silent roar, arm muscles tightening instantaneously until they felt as hard as steel. She drove an uppercut upward, landing it squarely on the dolphin monster's lower jaw!
Bang!
Critical!
-1238!
As everyone knows, all fluids have resistance—even air, let alone water. Even a bullet fired from a gun would have its speed and power drastically reduced underwater.
Yet under the resistance of dozens of meters of seawater, Cecilia's punch still produced a visible afterimage and dealt over a thousand points of dmg!
Dolphins are highly intelligent; this monster was no exception. Having survived such a long time, its intelligence was roughly equivalent to a human child of about seven or eight.
However, no matter how advanced its brain, it simply could not understand: Why could this human girl—already submerged for over a minute, enduring crushing pressures dozens of meters below the surface—still deliver such a powerful counterattack?
This punch was even fiercer than a hammerhead shark's charge, its power rivaling that of a humanoid shark!
The distance between them was so short, and Cecilia's attack so fast that it already surpassed the limits of human capability. The two-meter-long body of the dolphin monster couldn't dodge in time; it took the full force of Cecilia's uppercut to the jaw. The sound of cracking bone rang out, and the jaw was wracked with excruciating pain.
Within a second or two, Cecilia's punch knocked it completely senseless: its pointed head jerked upward, fierce eyes dazed and lost, as if contemplating the meaning of life and staring longingly at the distant water's surface.
However, while its head was thrown back, its powerful tailfin was still churning strongly, causing the dolphin monster to instantly change direction—rocketing upward toward the surface with a speed no less than when it had been diving deep!
Clinging tightly to one of the monster's fins, Cecilia was worried it might suddenly stop halfway, so she stoked the fire by drawing a silver table knife from behind her, squinting as she aimed and dug another slice into the monster's fin!
-594!
Wracked with pain, the dolphin monster let out a heart-wrenching wail, its tail accelerating again, and its ascent quickened to a new extreme.
By this point, it had completely given up any thought of shaking off Cecilia, as though it had seen through life itself; nothing seemed to matter anymore.
Right now, its only wish was to escape this terrifying human, to flee safely into the endless deep sea, vowing never again to attack any human who fell into the water for the rest of its life.
.........
On the shore, as the surface remained eerily calm, gu Yanxi and the other three had already become as anxious as ants on a hot pan.
"It's already been almost three minutes and Cecilia hasn't come up. I think this time... sigh..."
Dawn's Light glanced at the in-game clock, his expression heavy as he let out a long sigh.
"She's still in the water. Her current position isn't in Main City,"
Yuewu said quietly as she closed the friends list and gazed at the shimmering sea.
Since the server launched until now, at some point Cecilia had become a spiritual pillar for them, almost like a god.
No matter how tough the situation, no matter how powerful the monster, as long as the silver-haired, twin-tails girl in a maid outfit was there, she gave everyone boundless confidence and a sense of security. No matter how difficult the conditions, she could always overcome them with ease.
But today, for the first time, they realized even gods could bleed—could be swallowed mercilessly by the vast blue sea.
Maybe, just maybe, their guardian deity truly had fallen...
Little Persimmon Puppy wasn't feeling great either.
Although it was just dying once in the game—which happened everywhere in Kaloran continent every day—if Cecilia fell here, it would mean that the D-rank world boss right in front of them was totally out of reach for now.
Only Gu Yanxi still kept her eyes fixed on the sturdy chunk of ice floating dozens of meters away. Two seconds later, she finally made up her mind. Grasping her staff in one hand and picking up her long skirt with the other, she strode straight toward the endless sea.
She could swim. She was going to save her sister—or maybe her beloved—with her own hands!