The Era of Gods

Chapter 46: Lobster Man

Translator: 549690339

Well, still just daydreaming.

There wasn’t much to contemplate—going head-on would surely result in defeat, the only option was a stealth attack, killing a portion of the Fishmen first to gradually weaken the Big Tribe.

Once the Fishman Big Tribe was weakened to a certain extent, and his own Clan had leveled up, with the enemy weakened and his side strengthened to a certain degree, then with a final push, he could annihilate the Fishman tribe.

On the second day, Lin Xiao split all the Clan members into two groups: one to stay home and fish, the other led by him on a mission.

A total of three hundred Naga and twelve hundred Fishmen, after finishing their prayers at the central altar of the Temporary Tribe, left under his leadership into the vast ocean.

From previous scouting, they knew that the Fishman Big Tribe dispatched at least ten Fishman hunting parties from the tribe into the sea every day. Lin Xiao took his subordinates and headed straight for a certain direction in the sea. About ten kilometers from there was a small island bordered by a slightly smaller coral reef, teeming with large numbers of fish, a place where the Fishman Big Tribe routinely sent one or two fishing parties daily.

They made no attempt to hide, charging directly towards the small island.

Lin Xiao swam at a depth of about one meter below the surface. The azure sea was crystal clear, but looking downward revealed an unfathomable depth, and the vast sea always brought with it an unknown fear, as if some deep-sea Giant Beast might be lurking below, stealthily waiting to take a bite out of you.

Fortunately, the size of the group gave him enough courage. Plus, as the Leader and a Deity’s chosen Angel Envoy, he absolutely could not show any fear.

As Leader and Angel Envoy, he knew that any sense of fear would be magnified tenfold when transmitted to his kin, causing even greater terror among them, and possibly making them collapse within minutes.

After nearly half an hour, Lin Xiao surfaced and looked into the distance, vaguely seeing a shadow ahead—it was almost time to arrive.

Following the previous scouting, he led his subordinates in a different direction, circling around to avoid bumping head-on into the Fishmen’s fishing team.

Not long after turning, a Fishman on the left edge suddenly let out a loud cry. Lin Xiao immediately stopped and gestured for the main group to stay put while he headed over with a dozen Naga, spotting several large shadows in the distant waters, moving back and forth.

“Sharks?”

After a moment’s thought, he sent out a dozen Fishmen to act as bait.

No sooner had the Fishmen broken away from the group than the shadows quickly charged forward. The Fishmen screamed and fled back, and at this point Lin Xiao finally saw clearly that the shadows were indeed sharks of an unknown species, about seven to nine meters long, quite huge, almost comparable to a small Whale Shark.

They had likely detected them earlier, but the size and number of Lin Xiao’s group gave them pause from any rash actions.

Now that the Fishmen had left the group, they immediately rushed forward.

“Kill!”

Lin Xiao waved his Short Spear, and the multitude of Naga merpeople divided into two groups, charging left and right.

At this time, the six sharks each bit a Fishman in one bite, and with a fierce twist, their sharp teeth instantly split the small Fishmen in two, turning a small patch of the sea red with blood.

If they had fled immediately, they might have had a chance to escape, but they greedily swallowed the other half of the corpses. In this brief moment, the encirclement was completed. Lin Xiao snorted coldly, and with a fierce whip of his thick tail, like a javelin cutting through the water, he smashed head-on into one of the sharks.

“Bang!”

Ripples spread out in a circle from the point of impact underwater, as the tremendous force twirled the large shark to one side, two Short Spears plunged fully into its body.

The shark let out a silent, agonized roar as it opened its gaping maw to expel the half-eaten carcass and bloodied flesh it hadn’t swallowed, and its body bent to bite at the Naga clung to its neck.

However, Lin Xiao was well prepared and skillfully rotated his body to get on top of the shark. He violently pulled out the short spear, blood spraying in two two-meter-long columns in the seawater, quickly dispersing into the ocean.

With his tail coiled around the shark’s dorsal fin to stabilize his position, he raised both spears and plunged them down fiercely, one into each of the shark’s eyes.

“Bang, bang!”

Two inaudible soft sounds followed as both of the shark’s eyes burst, the spear tips piercing through its brain, causing it to struggle in a frenzied rage as it neared death.

Lin Xiao had already let go of the spears and sprung away from the shark’s body after the attack, leaving it to its death throes.

Compared to the prolonged suffering of this shark, the other five died much more swiftly. A group of Naga warriors employed the “Salted Fish Charge” skill simultaneously, bursting through the water like torpedoes. Each shark withstood the explosive assaults from twenty to thirty Nagas from all directions, leaving them riddled with holes and dead beyond all doubt.

Having slaughtered several sharks, Lin Xiao tossed their corpses into the Divine Realm to provide an extra meal for the fish within.

The ecosystem inside the Divine Realm was still fragile, so he dared not throw live sharks in there. The Divine Realm could handle it, but the fish in its seas wouldn’t withstand the constant predation of a gang of sharks.

The pack of sharks was but a minor episode; six Fishmen died, and none of the Naga warriors managed to accrue enough experience to level up from killing sharks.

Normally, if a Naga warrior killed a shark of this size, it would be sufficient to advance to a Level 2 Naga warrior. But now the experience was split between twenty to thirty Nagas for each shark, which wasn’t sufficient for leveling up.

As for him, having hunted down a shark single-handedly, he filled one-fifth of the experience needed to go from Level 2 to Level 3. Roughly four more sharks of the same size would enable him to reach Level 3, or perhaps, killing a few hundred Fishmen would suffice.

More than ten minutes later, they arrived in the seas not far from the small island and stopped.

He sent ten Fishmen to scout ahead while the rest stayed back to rest.

About ten minutes later, only one Fishman returned and immediately began gesturing and babbling frantically in front of him. After listening seriously, Lin Xiao’s face revealed a look of surprise.

The culprits behind the killing of the other nine Fishmen were not from the Fish people tribe but a group of Lobster Men, who probably mistook these ten Fishmen for Fishman Big Tribe members. As soon as they approached, they were ambushed by Lobster Men hiding in the seaweed. Fortunately, the one who swam slower wasn’t encircled and managed to escape.

A group of Lobster Men ambushed in the hunting grounds of the Fish people tribe.

This was quite intriguing.

Clearly, the Lobster Men were enemies of the Fishman Big Tribe, which seemed like a potential opportunity he could exploit to his advantage.

However, cooperation was not an option, as he was leading a group of Fishmen, and any attempt at collaboration with the Lobster Men would probably be met with hostility, mistaking them as allies of the Fishmen and launching an attack.

Lin Xiao wondered if he could use the Lobster Men as scapegoats to hunt the Fish people tribe and then shift the blame onto them?

The idea was feasible, and his mind worked quickly as he formulated a plan. He waved his hand, signaling the Fishman who had escaped to lead them towards the Fishman Big Tribe’s hunting grounds.

It wasn’t long before the Fishman stopped and pointed frantically to a bed of seagrass ahead that resembled an underwater forest, crying out loudly..