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Chapter 118: Loch Ness !?
Chapter 118: Loch Ness !?
After they moved some distance away from the area, the water started bubbling up again.
Alex stopped in his steps. "The heck!" he mumbled.
He said this in a low voice, but it didn't escape the ears of Emily and the others.
Olivia moved closer to ask what Alex meant, but their eyes also widened in surprise.
Alex's hand was now holding a phone, showing what happened in the lake; they could see what they thought was a horn, but it was not really a horn.
The skin peeled off like a banana; inside it, there was something that looked like flesh, and from the tip of it, water was pouring out, the same water that filled the oasis.
When the water started drowning the weird horn, it started turning translucent, making it hidden from normal eyes. The scene was just so bizarre.
"What the hell is that, brother? It reminds me of something I don't want to remember," Emily said. The scene resembled something she had learned in biology class, and it wasn't pretty.
Olivia, on the other hand, had a different take on the matter.
"Alex, even though it cannot be seen now, it should still be there inside the water. Whatever is inside that bone-like skin seems squishy.
If you want to check, try attacking it.
At worst, it will just be destroyed. If it's really some kind of monster, it will at least suffer fatal damage."
Alex thought about it, then realized what Olivia said was true. He was also curious about what kind of creature it was and how it didn't show any life force energy at all.
Alex took out his Embershift hammer, grasping over it. Using his qi, he made the hammerhead turn red, like molten steel.
With a swift motion, Alex jumped, then spun his body, throwing the hammer toward the weird horn.
Swoosh... Splash!!!
The hammer pierced through the air, then hit the water's surface, which was still rising. The moment it contacted the water, a sizzling sound could be heard as part of the water started evaporating.
The water's body dampened the hammer's momentum, but it still kept moving at high speed. Bang! The moment it hit that area, the hammer crashed into an invisible barrier.
As the hammer was bonded with Alex, he could feel it meet resistance. Alex then poured more Qi into the hammer.
This was only possible because of their bond, and the hammer was not too far away from Alex. Flames ignited from the hammer, creating propulsion and pushing it forward even more.
A spiderweb of cracks started appearing on the barrier.
Crack, crack, crack. Prang! Like glass, it shattered into many pieces. The hammer hit the flesh inside the horn.
"RRRAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHH!!!" A harrowing scream filled with pain reverberated in the air.
The whole area started to vibrate as if something big was trying to come out from deep within the ground.
Alex used his qi to pull the hammer back to his hand. The group then moved away from the oasis back to the desert labyrinth.
As they did so, the whole area was rumbling, the valley crumbled down, and dust billowed up.
The water in the lake shot upward like being shot with a cannon, exploding in the air, turning into a downpour of rain in the area.
Alex's face turned grimmer as a new dot appeared in the oasis, and its life force was unlike anything Alex had ever seen before.
Based on it alone, Alex predicted it was far stronger than him.
If they compare it to MingYue's world, then this one should be as strong as a Golden Core cultivator, Feng Xue, in her prime. When the dust and rubble settled on the ground, the whole area became a big opening.
From it, a huge silhouette could be seen, showing only half its body with a long neck protruding out from it.
The body and neck alone were 30ft in length (around 9m).
The creature's head looked like a serpent, its skin brown, almost the same color as the sand in the desert.
If not for its form and eyes, Alex would think it was just a statue in the desert or even miss it completely.
The horn Alex and others had seen before was nestled on its forehead. It was now completely closed again by the bone-like skin.
But with one look, Alex knew it was wounded since the horn was deformed.
The creature's eyes were round and luminous, a sparkling pale amber in color. They locked onto Alex, flickering with murderous rage.
The creature roared once more, and mana started pouring out from its body. The surrounding sand around the monster started moving.
Looking at it, Alex cursed, "Fuck, a Loch Ness monster in the desert! Why has no one ever reported this before?"
"You and your curiosity!" Quartz protested, then added, "Now what? Run or fight?"
The sand around the creature already rose up like a huge wave of water in the ocean. It had already grown as tall as the monster.
Alex knew there was no way they could run from it. His eyes looked around the area, then he quickly ordered, "Come here."
His quick steps took them right behind a tall valley.
With Alex's order, they huddled together, with Quartz pointing her shield upward at an angle toward the cliff while the others prepared themselves to face it. Alex pointed his hammer toward the sand tsunami that grew even bigger.
Even though the cliff was tall, it was still nothing compared to the tsunami. It was like an adult looking down at a child.
Swoosh!!!! Crack! Bam!
The sand tsunami crashed toward the cliff and got close to them. At that moment, Alex used the secret technique ' flame thrower', which shoots flames through the sand.
He concentrated his qi but didn't have enough time to pour lifeforce into it.
The flame shot from his hammer toward the sand monstrosity, but it was like shooting water into sand; it had no use, barely slowing it down.