These Familiars Are Strange

At the same time, it also helped to explain why the turtle had suddenly awakened.

Since the intruders on its back, the monsters that filled this dungeon had been gathered as food, it naturally reacted to the death of the Elite Monsters.

Those Elite Monsters could be considered the main course.

That was why the castle had suddenly shaken when the giant flying shark was killed.

The ones that died before weren't enough to alert it, but the death of the third Elite Monster meant that more than half of the Elite Monsters in the dungeon were dead.

As for the second and third tremors, those came from the other Elite Monsters being slain.

There were still the Fire God Team and the Shining Bolts Team that were walking around in the dungeon. It wasn't as if they would remain idle, they would still move against the Elite Monsters that were here.

They were more than capable of killing those Elite Monsters.

The turtle head had been chewing for a while, but then it suddenly turned to look at another part of the castle that was flying away.

The same thing happened where it started taking a deep breath and drew in all of the monsters from that part of the castle.

Looking at that part, it seemed like it seemed familiar.

"Clank kacha."

All of the living armour suddenly collapsed to the ground and a bitter smile appeared on my lips when I saw that.

I knew it seemed familiar and I had been correct. It had been the place where the gnomes had been. That was the place where their workshop was.

So now that the gnomes had been sucked up by the turtle, that meant that there was no one left to control these sets of living armour.

A third of my army collapsed just like this…

But then there was another group that suddenly disappeared from my army.

It was the flying manta rays that suddenly left our group.

It was a sudden change that overcame them as their eyes started to glow. There was this blue glow that came over their eyes and completely enveloped it.

Once that glow completely filled their eyes, the manta rays headed towards the windows. Without any explanation or warning, they flew out those windows towards the turtle head.

The Echo Bat reacted right away when the manta rays wanted to fly away, but it seemed that it didn't have an effect. Even though the Echo Bat tried to control the manta rays to stop them, they just completely ignored the Echo Bat.

This seemed to be some kind of innate suppression on the manta rays, one that was impossible to overcome with hypnosis. Or at least it was impossible for the current level of the Echo Bat.

I patted the Echo Bat on its head when it looked depressed after failing to control the manta rays to comfort it, but my eyes were still on the manta rays.

Looking at them closely, I could see that they were flying right at the turtle head. However, it didn't seem like the manta rays were planning on attacking the turtle head.

After reaching the turtle head, the manta rays flew around it for a bit before suddenly going towards the next part of the castle that the turtle head turned towards.

The turtle head didn't immediately start using the suction force on that part of the castle. Instead, the manta rays were sent out at that part of the castle.

They flew in through the windows and attacked the humans that were there. It didn't seem like they cared about the monsters that were there at all, it seemed that they only cared about the humans.

The turtle seemed to have recognized that the humans were the ones that it couldn't suck up, so it was sending out these manta rays to deal with the humans ahead of time.

Once they were dead, it would be easy to suck them up.

The humans didn't seem afraid of the manta rays at first, but then they realized that they were completely mistaken about these manta rays.

It was clear that they had met the manta rays before as they moved in a certain way to deal with the manta rays. But these manta rays moved in a completely different way from what they expected.

The manta rays seemed like they were far more coordinated than before with the way that they moved.

It was even more coordinated than the way that they moved when they were under me.

It was as if there was some kind of innate instinct that was awakened in the manta rays.

"So they were the originals." I couldn't help muttering under my breath when I saw this.

It was even further proved by the shaking of the castle when the giant flying shark had been killed.

That giant flying shark must have been the guardian of this turtle.

Even though the manta rays caught them off guard, the manta rays just weren't able to completely overwhelm the humans. The humans seemed more than capable of repelling the manta rays.

Seeing this, the turtle suddenly opened its mouth and everyone prepared for the suction force to come out.

But it never came.

Instead, there were a bunch of manta rays that suddenly came out of the mouth of the turtle. These were the same manta rays that had been attacking the humans, but there seemed to be even more of them.

So in the first place, the manta rays came from the turtle.

In a sense, they could be considered the turtle's children.

But it was more accurate to say that they were a part of the turtle itself. After all, they came right from the insides of the turtle.

It was more that they were the internal defense system of the turtle.

They were like its white blood cells that attacked any intruders that attacked the turtle.

And right now, the target of these white blood cells were the humans.