Chapter 270: Chapter 178 Dark Dragon Knight_2
Just as Lin Xun was ready to implement this seemingly viable plan... suddenly, he slapped his forehead.
He quickly browsed his inventory to inspect an item that hadn’t come into use since he received it.
[Light Moth’s Anti-Poison Core Crystal (Special Item): A crystal core conceived within a Light Moth. It has a colorful luster and possesses significant poison resistance. Carrying this item will massively boost your resistance to all toxins.]
This item, which enhances resistance to all toxins, was dropped after defeating the boss moth in the Blood Sun’s world.
The Anti-Poison Core Crystal had been collecting dust in his inventory till now; Lin Xun had nearly forgotten about its existence.
"Just to be safe, I should still test it out by switching to a different Shell before diving in," he thought.
Looking at his Shell inventory, the engineer and the Law Knight were both unavailable.
The next scapegoat...according to order of priority, was naturally the blacksmith.
[You have possessed the Shell, ’The Lost Blacksmith.’]
He selected the ’Light Moth’s Anti-Poison Core Crystal’.
[The ’Light Moth’s Anti-Poison Core Crystal’ you carry glows faintly; you realize that the toxic lake in front of you may not be a guaranteed deathtrap.]
[You step into the lake carefully...]
[The cold, dark lake water laps around your ankles, its toxins slowly seeping into your body...]
[You start to feel a slight tingling sensation on the surface of your foot, but it’s still within your tolerance.]
[Do you want to continue deeper into the lake?]
Lin Xun felt relieved and switched his Shell again.
[You have possessed the Shell of ’the Fallen Earth Giant.’]
[Due to your robust physique, you only feel a slight numbness in the soles of your feet and no other discomfort.]
[You step deeper into the lake, the cold water swiftly submerging your head, a chilling sensation engulfing your entire body.]
[With the ’Subspecies Sea Dragon Pearl’ you carry, you can breathe freely underwater.]
[The dark lake water around you continues to erode your body, a slight numbness surfaces on your skin but is still unable to harm you.]
[Do you want to dive into the lake?]
[You dive head-first into the pitch-black freezing lake, descending deeper below...]
[The lake water is as dense as thick ink, preventing you from seeing anything within the lake. The cold liquid is slowly sapping your body heat.]
[Your field of vision is completely dark, and you soon lose your sense of direction...]
[You can only rely on the buoyancy of the water to judge if you’re still descending.]
[...]
[As you dive deeper, the pressure from the depths of the lake weighs down on you. It feels as though countless hands are squeezing your body.]
[Gradually, the suffocating feeling in your chest makes you restless.]
[Do you want to continue descending?]
Lin Xun had been diving for over ten minutes, and the depth he had reached had already surpassed the limit of human capability. Were it the Mage’s Shell, it would have given out a long while ago. Only the Earth Giant could continue descending.
[You continue to dive deeper into the lake...]
[...]
[As you go deeper, the water pressure becomes increasingly intense, and you gradually feel that your limbs are no longer as strong as they were.]
[It’s almost as if you’re buried under a mountain, singlehandedly wrestling with its weight.]
[Do you want to continue descending?]
Lin Xun took a deep breath.
The more dangerous the place, the more significant the rewards. This bottomless underground lake might hold treasures at its bottom.
The longer the infernal game urges him to return, the deeper he wants to dive.
"So what if I expend some soul strength!"
With that in mind, he once again selected ’Yes’.
[You continue to dive deeper into the lake...]
[...]
[You start to feel a stabbing pain in your internal organs. The pain increases progressively, making you aware that you’ve reached your limit.]
[Just as you’re about to ascend, your outstretched hand brushing through the water suddenly makes contact with something solid!]
[You grope around, realizing that you’ve reached the bottom of the lake and are touching the silt.]
[Do you want to ascend or continue exploring?]
[You, yet to find a treasure, are clearly unwilling to return like this. You probe through the silt at the base of the lake, trying to find something useful.]
[...]
[Suddenly, you touch something hard, distinct from the relatively soft lake-bottom silt. The touch feels extremely solid.]
[It seems like this object is rather large, so you continue feeling around...]
[As your touch explores further, the size of this object...it shouldn’t be called size, but thickness. This object is incredibly thick...it appears to be a giant metal chain!]
[The chain was so thick that it would take over a dozen people to embrace it; on its surface, you feel countless mysterious characters engraved.]
[Do you want to follow the ’Unknown Metal Chain’?]
A metal chain at the bottom of the lake?
Lin Xun felt like he had stumbled upon something extraordinary.
This place wasn’t somewhere the scholar known as ’Maguire’ under president Multivision could’ve reached.
That meant the Ancient Abyss demon definitely wasn’t at the bottom of the lake.
[Enduring the extreme water pressure at the lake’s bottom, you feel along the huge chain, moving in one direction...]
[...]
Lin Xun waits silently for the text to display.
Every passing minute felt like an eternity.
Even though the cave overhead was massive, a single lap around the underground lake only took him few minutes.
It seemed that the area at the bottom of the lake was much larger than what was visible from above...
[As you continue to follow the chain, an unexpected light flashes before your eyes, and the immense water pressure around you abruptly disappears.]
