Chương 94: Surrounded

SLAM!

SLAM!~

The five Thagda's unsheathed their most powerful claws and gave Dash the deadliest barrage of his life.

BASH!~SSSH~

BASH~

Thanks to the Sand Shell that covered him with highly compressed sand which also serves as another layer of defense, Dash managed to resist the impact of their claws and heavy tail slams.

Despite the corrosive effects of their poison imbued attacks, the sand's ability to reconstruct allowed Dash to retain his defensive layer in no time.

BASH!!~

BASH!~

"Faster brothers! His defense should give up soon!" The leading Thagda excitedly said.

"I am hungry! Can I eat the shell later?" The third one murmured.

"Keep hitting harder, this turtle should taste good!" The second one added.

"Focus brothers! Continue hitting the same spot! That turtle should come out soon."

The impact of their attacks created furious waves of poison mist scattering everywhere. With each impact of their heavy slams, an echo of a vibrating shell and an explosion of sand would splatter in all directions.

"Uggggh~ I can't use my powers yet. One single opening and I might die." With Dash inside the impregnable sand shell, it also goes to say that his attack options are currently unavailable.

With the relentless attacks of the Thagdas that desperately trying to wear his defense down, it might not take long enough for them to succeed in their motive. Until then, Dash is prepared to release that last blow of the blue fire inside him.

"Elric, where are you!" Dash thought in desperation.

***

~WOOOSH~

Somewhere in the southern area of the water realm, a speeding mermaid holding on to a dolphin covered in golden armor left a long streak of bluish line brought off by the extraordinary speed.

Her colorful surroundings blurred on her vision as she passes them at an overwhelming speed. Her eyes, panning the area non-stop hoping to get a glimpse of the only human in the water realm.

Ekkkekekeh~

Diana used her pet dolphin's echo-location senses to track Elric and until now, however, she had never found a single traces of the latter.

"Ouch! Sheesss. Can we slow down a little bit Dolphy?" Diana commanded her pet dolphin as she tried to stretch her reddish scally fingers that had been hanging tightly on the golden armor for quite some time now. Because of their incredible speed, she had to hold on tightly or she could end up being left behind. Little did she knew, her hands are now full of deep reddish bruises.

"We can rest for a while princess." The dolphin suggested in worry as he slowly decreased his speed.

"No, we must still hurry. These bruises are nothing. I do not know how long that fire barrier will last and the lives of our people are currently at stake. We need Elric's help as soon as possible before its too late." Diana said with determination emanated in her eyes.

A human on a dragon form, capable of wielding the mighty power of blue fire. The scene on how he cut the gigantic Coral Mountain Beast into two, left the greatest impression on her.

With such power, those intruding dragons should not stand a chance against him. The only problem is that he is just nowhere to be found.

"Princess, I think I found him!" Suddenly, The dolphin gave her the most awaited news after a while. Her eyes quickly lighten up upon hearing the news.

"Good job Dolphy!"

"Eeehkekeke~"

She praised the dolphin with a rub on the head and the latter gladly accepted the warm touch from the little princess mermaid.

Without hesitation, they changed direction towards southeast where a faint trace of Elric's energy has been detected by the Dolphin.

WOOOOOOOOSH~

They left a long white streak of bubbles with their renewed energy as they rushed their way towards Elric's possible location.

As they travel, Diana could not help but recall Elric's magnificent power as he took down Aghus.

A man covered in a magnificent fire in his Dragon form. She looked at the human in a dragon's body. The blinding silhouette of the salvation of her race.

***

"Uhmp!~"

While Diana is busy reminiscing Elric's epic performance on the last battle, the speeding dolphin suddenly stopped on its track, almost causing Diana to bump her head on the golden armor of her pet.

"Princess we have a problem." The dolphin said with a cautious tone.

"What is it, Dolphy?"

"It is my fault. I thought I felt a powerful essence of a creature deeper towards the south, I tried to follow it but I never realized that we have trespassed to the Deep Blue boundary."

Hearing the news, Diana could not help but shake in fright. Her eyes scanned the surroundings in wary while her hands held tightly at the Dolpy's golden armor.

"Can we go back? I think we really should." She quickly commanded.

"It is too late my princesses. They got us surrounded. We only have one choice to survive."

"What do you mean?"

The Deep Blue is a wide restricted area found in the southern part of the water realm. It was called deep blue because of the dark-blue atmosphere in the said area primarily caused by dark energy emission from a so-called Unholy Lord of the Water Realm. However, no one has seen what the Unholy Lord of the Water Realm looks like aside from the Late King Mahar who warned his people never to go near the Deep Blue area where the so-called Unholy Lord of the Water Realm lives.

In the deep blue area, the plants are dead and the supposed to be colorful corals are lying dead covered in plane dark dust. Once there, you could not help but feel a suffocating atmosphere. Like a creepy and dark haunted place, devoid of color and life.

The dark-gray sand spanned across towards the dark-blue horizon, littered by bones and corpses from dead whales, fishes of different species, and even fishmen armors can be found half-buried in the area.

There are also creepy shadows of unknown creatures, flashing from the distance. Bringing a terrifying sense of danger to any passerby. A faint creepy and echoing sound can be heard as well sending shivers to anyone hearing it.

Not even the courageous soldiers of the Water Kingdom are bold enough to come close in this place. But now, because of their reckless driving, they ended up in the cursed place.

While Diana and her pet Dolphy stood in the middle of a creepy area, a huge shadow of an unknown creature kept on circling them from a distance. Seemingly scouting them from afar. The dolphin had long known this and kept on guard as well.

"What do you mean we only have one choice?" Diana asked the dolphin.

"I have used my echolocation and just realized that we had been being followed for quite a while now. I was too focus searching ahead that they took advantage of my blindspot. Now, there are more than ten wild sharks following us and another nine on each side, covering our other exit route." The dolphin whispered slowly as he tried to remain calm as much as possible.