These Familiars Are Strange

Eventually, the humans were completely overwhelmed by the manta rays that were sent out.

The manta rays that were newly born from the turtle were even stronger than the ones that had attacked before.

It seemed that the manta rays that had been in the castle before were ones that had lost a lot of their power after being left there for so long.

The manta rays that were newly born were more than three times stronger than the mantas rays from before.

After being attacked like this for a while, they just couldn't take it anymore.

In the end, there wasn't a single human that was left in that castle. The manta rays just weren't strong enough to completely overwhelm them to the point where they were killed.

So they were able to escape with the tokens.

Though it seemed that there were many that were unwilling with how blood dropped all over the place.

They didn't want to give up that easily as arrogant talented youths of the country.

Once all of the humans were gone, the manta rays flew back to the turtle head. Once the manta rays were out of the way, the turtle took a deep breath and sucked up the monsters that were in that part of the castle.

They didn't even bother resisting when they were sucked up like this. The looks on their faces was as if they had just given up on life as they were sucked up.

The Elite Monsters were the leaders of these monster races. So the moment that they were lost, the different monster races were like headless chicken.

They just couldn't do anything against the overwhelming power wielded by the turtle.

Once the turtle was done, the manta rays seemed like they had been released. They no longer circled around the head of the circle and moved back to the castle on its back.

It was hard to tell where they were going, but I had Wang Rong dangle me out the window just so I could see where they were going. I saw that there was a window that seemed to be releasing a glow that the manta rays entered.

It wasn't just a single window, it was several different windows that they split up and entered. There were a total of five windows that they entered.

It really was hard to see this all while being hung out the window, but I was able to find them in the end.

Each of the windows seemed to be close to the head and the limbs of the turtle.

Before I even landed on the ground, I was already moving.

Wang Rong and Iris had surprised looks, but they still followed me when I called for them.

The place that I was heading towards was the room with the closest glowing window. I wanted to see just what the glowing was coming from.

Though it was hard to find the room just based on the glowing that we saw outside. Eventually we were able to find that place because of a faint glow coming from the bottom of one of the doors.

If it wasn't for that, we might not have actually found the room.

It really was interesting how tight these doors were that they were able to hide this light.

It was even more shocking when we opened the door since the glow coming from the object in the center of the room really was intense. It was amazing that the door had been able to keep that glow suppressed.

But the main thing was the thing that the glow was coming from.

It was some sort of crystal that seemed to be connected to the ground.

When one looked at it closely, they could see that there was some kind of energy that was flowing from the ground into that crystal. It seemed that whatever this crystal was, it was taking in energy from the turtle.

At the same time, there were all these manta rays that were gathered around the crystal.

As they gathered around the crystal, they seemed to be taking energy from the crystal itself. It was as if this crystal was a source of energy that was powering the manta rays.

The manta rays didn't seem to notice us at first, but then they all suddenly turned to look at us.

The moment that they did, it was if they suddenly noticed that we were standing there by the door. Then right after that, the reaction that they had towards us was one that was filled with hostility.

It seemed that they recognized us as threats the moment that they saw us, so they immediately started attacking us.

The manta rays just suddenly gathered their wind energy around them.

These manta rays weren't the same ones that I had controlled with the Echo Bat previously, these were newly spawned manta rays that came from the turtle. So they didn't show a single trace of recognition towards us as they faced us.

But at the same time, it didn't seem like the Echo Bat's hypnosis was of any use at all towards these manta rays. It seemed that they were fully under the control of the turtle with the way that they ignored the Echo Bat.

Since they were charging at us, there really was no other choice but to send the ogres since they were the only ones that were still under my control.

"I should have taken control of more of them." A part of me said this with a trace of bitterness deep down.

The problem was that the ogres were actually weaker than the manta rays now.

The manta rays had been empowered by the turtle, so they were much stronger than before. Individually, the ogres just couldn't match the manta rays on their own and were being overpowered by them.

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But with the support from Wang Rong, Iris, and myself, we were able to take down the manta rays.

Only that came with a few losses…

However, that didn't matter at the moment.

For now, the most important thing was seeing what this glowing crystal was.