Earth’s Best Gamer

Chapter 147: Dreadful Soul Mask

“Master, I don’t think the Mirage Monsters can hold on much longer!”

Ruan Xiaoer opened his mouth again.

It was true that the Mirage Monsters couldn’t resist much longer. They were apparently on the losing side because they had lost a huge population earlier and their attack was useless against the turtles.

It seemed that their settlement would be demolished by the turtles soon!

If Ruan Xiaoer hadn’t noticed the anomalies on the surface of the sea and detected the battle, nobody would even know how the Mirage Monsters were destroyed!

It must be admitted that while the sea was more resourceful, it was much more dangerous too.

Those turtles were obviously Extraordinary creatures, and they were as sturdy as the Metal Men!

However, since the Metal Men had vulnerabilities too, it was impossible that those turtles didn’t have any.

“Chief Ruan, keep an eye for me. I need to test an item,” said Ji Ye.

Then, a mask that was completely transparent in the seawater quietly floated to the crystal palace.

Gulu!

The battlefield was so chaotic, and the Mirage Monsters were so focused on the turtles that were attacking their settlement that they didn’t notice the Soul Mask even though they were good at creating illusions. The mask quietly stuck to the shell of a Mirage Monster that was fighting a turtle and then melted into its body.

Then, a few seconds later, the Mirage Monster stiffened and sank down!

However, it didn’t really sink to the bottom because the turtle wouldn’t let go of it so easily but simply pressed forward by controlling the water currents. Then, it opened its bloody mouth and swallowed this Mirage Monster!

But only several seconds later, the turtle, which looked like an enlarged snapping turtle but felt much more aggressive, stopped moving too.

Another dozen seconds later, the white glow that represented spoils popped up!

[You have killed a Snapping Dragon Turtle (Extraordinary Rank-3 Elite). EXP received: 329!]

Gululu!

Bubbles popped up from the mouths of some Mirage Monsters in the crystal palace that had almost been razed by the Snapping Dragon Turtles.

It was the first turtle that had been killed since the beginning of the battle. Undoubtedly, the Mirage Monsters, who had been panicked and desperate, were filled with hope again!

Naturally, it completely escaped their attention that a completely transparent mask moved quietly below the body of the dead Snapping Dragon Turtle to the shell of another Mirage Monster that was in combat…

The Soul Mask was apparently much stealthier than most regular soul attacks.

In particular, the Mirage Monsters’ attention was all focused on the Snapping Dragon Turtles. They had no idea that the human beings who had taken advantage when they attacked the Sludge Monsters would sneak back to the battlefield when they were attacked by the Snapping Dragon Turtles!

Those Snapping Dragon Turtles, which presumably had dragon blood, could control water currents to some extent.

Maybe they could sense something when the mask moved in the water, but as monsters, they weren’t really smart enough.

When Ji Ye imprisoned a Mirage Monster’s soul by attaching the Soul Mask to it and made it pretend to be dead, a Snapping Dragon Turtle would dash forward and swallow the meat of the Mirage Monster without hesitation.

Then, it would die right after the Mirage Monster did!

The only thing that made Ji Ye slightly regretful was that once he chose to imprison a soul, the mask would turn black, so he could only detonate the Mirage Monsters’ and the Snapping Dragon Turtles’ souls while the mask was in their bodies, without being able to bring the souls back to feed the Soul Alpha Wolf.

In this one-for-one battle, the Mirage Monsters who were on the losing side gradually stabilized themselves, whereas the Snapping Dragon Turtles had fewer and fewer advantages.

Splash… Splash…

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The number of fighters in the battle declined. About ten minutes later, there was only one-third of the Mirage Monsters left, and only two Snapping Dragon Turtles in total!

“Chief, let’s go!

“You’ll take care of the Mirage Monsters. The Snapping Dragon Turtles are mine!”

At this moment, Ji Ye opened his mouth and asked Ruan Xiaoer, who already had enough of waiting, to join the battlefield.

He didn’t plan to finish off all the monsters on the battlefield with the Soul Mask.

One reason was that the Soul Mask, as a Transcendent item, was powerful but exhausting to use. Similar to the Mirage Dragon Pearl, he had to consume his mental strength to control this item, and blowing up the enemy’s souls so quickly was a huge burden on his mind.

Another reason was that it was Ruan Xiaoer who discovered the battle, so Ji Ye shouldn’t kill all the enemies. Also, there were only a dozen Mirage Monsters left as the only aliens in the water. Ruan Xiaoer should get a taste of them as a navy Commander!

As for the last two Snapping Dragon Turtles, while they were a major threat to the Mirage Monsters, Ji Ye had more than one way to cope with them.

Whoosh!

At first, he controlled the Black Serpent Sword to dart forward with the Flood Dragon Blood and pierced through one of the Snapping Dragon Turtles’ neck before it realized what was going on!

Next, his body left a white line behind in the water, and he appeared on the shell of the other turtle in the next moment. He then slapped the part where it just retreated its head into.

Crack!

The shell of the Snapping Dragon Turtle, which was hard enough to resist the consecutive hits from the Mirage Monsters’ sharp-edged round plates, cracked under Ji Ye’s slap, because the slap contained the power of both the Flood Dragon Blood and the Nine Yang Divine Art.

The Nine Yang Divine Art was actually more important because it could send the true qi out!

Pa!

The Snapping Dragon Turtle couldn’t take it anymore and craned its head, which had been fully reddened, out in the next moment!

That saved Ji Ye a lot of time. He simply slapped its head in his next attack.

Even though the Snapping Dragon Turtle had the head of a crocodile that was protected by hard scales like those on a dragon, it simply vomited a mouthful of steaming blood and died without any suspense under Ji Ye’s slap!

[You have killed a Snapping Dragon Turtle (Extraordinary Rank-4 Quasi Commander). EXP received: 403!]

It was actually a Quasi Commander instead of a low-level turtle.

After the notification of death popped up, the entire body of the Snapping Dragon Turtle, including its hard shell that Ji Ye failed to completely crush with a slap, its limbs, and its head began to turn into spoils and became what appeared to be the Topaz Pipa Scorpion at the beginning!