Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton

Chapter 687: Chapter 384: Surely, Pure Water Wouldn’t be Like This? _1
 

An… a… a lump?

“A… A… A slime?” Everyone exclaimed in surprise.

Out came a lump, like water, clear and free from any impurity… a slime?

Tsk, since when are slimes so clean? It definitely isn’t. Considering the Guardian God Emperor’s sword stuck in the ground, it should at least be something like the God of Truth and Law, not a damn slime!?

This blob of water seemed angry too, sputtering furiously, “Slime? YOU are the slime – your whole family are slimes! Have you all gone blind? I’m the Water God!”

Huh? That tone of speech… Everyone turned to look at Lightning.

Lightning hurriedly explained, “It’s not my problem, I have no idea who that is.”

“How dare you disrespect the Water God! Boil!” The drop of water pulsed with invisible waves, radiating toward Lightning.

Ange quickly sidestepped, placing himself between the water splat and Lightning.

Ange was unharmed; he’d successfully shielded Lightning from the wave-like attack.

“What the hell? What kind of attack is this?” Negris flew towards them, pushing one of its small claws into the attacking pulse.

Soon, the claw started to smoke and scale, before reducing to large water bubbles that flew off and wafted a distinct aroma – the claw was cooked.

“Ah! Ah! It’s cooked, it’s cooked! It hurts, it hurts!!” Negris clutched its fried claw and howled in pain.

With a swift smack to its head, Durken reprimanded, “You’re a Necromancer. What’s there to hurt?”

The little angel, also curious, inserted its small, milky hand into the pulsation. Sss! Pustules immediately formed over the pale skin.

“Argh” The little angel flew into a rage. Spreading its wings, it launched a beam of light in the blob’s direction, causing it to vanish.

Ange cocked his head and took a step forward, his scales rippling as he paused time around him.

All the creatures present became frozen in place, unable to even move a finger.

Numerous points of elemental energy tore into existence at Ange’s direction, momentarily overtaken by the frozen time. When the freeze ended, they all exploded in unison.

A giant vortex formed in front of Ange, forcefully draining every ounce of air from the surroundings, even the ‘water’ vaporized by the little angel.

As the vortex slowly dissipated, only the center ‘water’ globule remained, rocking left and right as though dizzy. It had also shrunk slightly in size compared to before.

“Whoa— it survived the angel’s blast and only vaporized? Damn, it’s a good thing Ange reacted quickly. It might have escaped! If it hid in a corner, who would notice a pool of water?” Negris said, realizing the gravity of the situation and feeling relieved at the same time.

Upon hearing this, everyone else caught on. They now understood the danger of having such an enigmatic entity lurking in the Resting Camp.

Durken spoke up, “Its pulses resemble boiling water elements. Ange’s body doesn’t contain water so can easily ignore the pulses, but you and the little angel contain water, so you developed bubbles.”

“Ouch ouch!” The little angel hopped around, waving its injured arm at Ange.

“Grr,” Ange grumbled at it, then reluctantly healed it. The Bronze Dragon hurriedly held out its claw to catch some of the healing holy light that was spilled over.

Thus, the blob of water was bound by Ange, swaying a while, until it finally spoke incredulously, “How… why have I become so weak? I’ve become so small!!!”

Toward the end of its sentence, its voice morphed back into pulses.

Ange promptly produced a piece of wood and perched it on top of the pulse. The wood contained some moisture, causing it to start smoking almost immediately. The heat rapidly climbed, evaporating all water inside.

After all the water in the wood evaporated, it turned into charcoal. It was dry and even, indicating that it was of high quality and produced little smoke when burnt.

Ange took out a stone, preparing to thrust it into the pulse too. By now, everyone could understand that he was performing an experiment.

The blob of water had caught on too. It retracted its pulses and roared, “What the hell are you doing?”

“Comparing. Start,” Ange replied.

The blob of water exploded into countless ice spikes. It looked like a pufferfish that had exploded.@@novelbin@@

As it declared earlier, it couldn’t understand why it had become so weak, so ‘small.’ Its anger lacked force, much like its feeble yells. But Ange easily crumbled all the ice spikes with a slight push.

“Let me go, let me go. I am Water God Tom. I rule over all the water in the world. I can evaporate everything! Evaporate, vapor… freeze! Fr… fr… freeze!!… why are you not reacting?” Water God Tom shifted from anger to confusion.

Ange removed his hat, revealing his skeletal figure, “No water.”

In reality, bones do contain some water, but not the kind that’s been metallized.

“Damn skeleton! You’re in the same gang as that rockhead. Damn it, damn it!” Water God Tom howled angrily.

“Yes, yes, we’re in the same gang. But why are you here? Do you know what this place is?” Negris asked.

“I am Water God Tom! As long as there’s water, I can get there!” Tom roared back, but it sounded weak and plaintive considering his bounded, minuscule form.

However, its words made Negris and the rest look heavy. The Resting Palace is an independent dimension. If this Water God Tom has a special way to get in here, does that mean that the Resting Palace is not as safe as we thought?

“You can go anywhere there’s water, then why are you here? Why don’t you run? Just a sword of stone pins you down, and you dare call yourself a Water God? More like a Slime.” Lightning carefully peeked out from behind Ange, sputtering saliva.

When this clump of water shot out vibrations earlier, it didn’t react in time. Luckily, Ange blocked it. After seeing what happened to Little Angel and Bronze Dragon, it was scared stiff.

Kvada, if it was scaled up to a pile of bubbles, wouldn’t it die of pain? Curse it to death.

Ange felt this blob of water struggling. Looking closely, it seemed to be shrinking in another direction, with Lightning’s saliva scattered in the air.

Could it be disgusted by Lightning’s saliva? A question mark popped up in Ange’s mind.

If there’s a question, then let’s verify it. Ange reached out, accurately grabbing Lightning’s wagging tongue, pulled a large part of it out of his mouth, gathered a huge blob of saliva with a spell, and slowly moved it towards Tom.

Tom’s struggle instantly intensified. It howled in rage, “Go away! Go away! Don’t come here, don’t come here! Ahhh!”

Tom sent out ripples, forcefully evaporating the blob of saliva.

Everyone quickly understood, exchanged glances, and excitement spread across their faces.

Lightning was the most excited of them all, “Can I pee on it?!”

“No, no, go away, don’t come here, go away, don’t come here! I Surrender! I promise, I’d do anything. Just keep that foul horse away!!” Tom’s initial fear turned into panic, and then he screamed.

“Your name.”

“Tom, Water God Tom.”

“How did you get here?”

“I can resonate with the Water Element to move my consciousness to any place with water.”

“Hiss — can you go anywhere? Even enclosed spaces and dimensions?”

“…”

“Lightning, get ready to pee!”

“No! Don’t! Don’t come here, don’t come here, I’ll tell, I’ll tell! I need to sense pure water in the place.”

“So can you sense the water outside right now? There should be water outside this space, and there should also be water inside this dead horse’s body, can’t you transfer to it?” Negris asked curiously.

“Impure, I won’t go.” Tom said with disgust.

Durken suddenly asked, “Could it be that polluted water affects your ability? If you’re just disgusted, why be afraid of getting a little dirty just to survive and escape?”

Seeming to have been seen through by Durken, Tom fell silent.

“Why did you come in here then? And why were you pinned to the ground?” Negris continued to ask.

Hesitating for a moment, Tom said, “The God of Arbitration sent me here. He said that if I could open the Resting Palace, he would give me a lot of pure water.”

“I didn’t expect that just as I sneaked in and approached this palace, a large stone statue moved. It stomped on the ground, knocking me into the air, and with a swing of its sword, it sliced me into this palace, and then I couldn’t get out.”

“The large statue chased me around, hacking at me everywhere. There was no water element in it, so it ignored my power. In the end, somehow, I got stabbed by the sword.”

With a resigned attitude, Water God Tom finished speaking without waiting for further questions.

The God of Arbitration? Could it be that it just sneaked in? But the Guardian God Emperor’s soul was completely dissipated, surely it has been paused for many years already.

“When did the God of Arbitration ask you to sneak in?” Negris asked.

“During the War of the Undead, when Locke was called away by the Blazing Angel and Strength Angel, Feiti was lured away by the God of Arbitration and the God of Light and Darkness, and when the Great Sage was blocked in the Land of Fallen.” As Tom spoke, his gaze swept over everyone.

When his gaze landed on Feiti and Harvey, he hesitated and asked, “Locke and Feiti?”

When it landed on the Great Sage, he hesitated again, “Great Sage?”

“You’re all alive. Could it be, did the Light lose?”

Tom obviously didn’t recognize Locke and Feiti. He only recognized Harvey as Locke because of the Mourning Skeleton. Now everyone understood.

“Tom, do you not know how much time has passed? Didn’t you sense anything when you were pinned? The Light lost, disastrously. They even had their power stolen by us. Ange, show him your ring.”

Ange brought out the Ring of Balance.

“The… The… The Ring of Balance? The Light lost?” The proof was undeniable, and Tom could not deny it.

“Also, the pure water you mentioned, it wouldn’t happen to be this kind of water, would it?” Negris had someone bring a bucket of water, and then Ange cast Purification, turning it into Holy Water.

“If you’re referring to this water, actually, we could also give you a lot of pure water, as long as you behave.”