#674 - Legendary Murloc Priest

Outside the Pearl Clan,

Li Si looked at the old merman in front of him, his tone mocking, but his heart remained as calm as ever.

Even a little surprised.

Because he discovered that the old merman in front of him seemed a bit strong.

Powerful mental strength gave Li Si a more acute perception. When Li Si came to this old merman, he vaguely felt a threat from him.

Is he the type that gets more cunning with age?

From Berian's memory, Li Si knew that Oneil, the 'Gluttonous Shark,' was a legendary priest. He originally thought it was nothing special, but now it seems it's not that simple.

Worthy of being the strongest of the Pearl Sea Shuo Luo mermen throughout the ages.

The 'Gluttonous Shark' Oneil in front of him posed some threat to Li Si, but it was just a threat.

At least, he wasn't a very powerful existence to Li Si, otherwise Li Si would have turned around and left immediately.

"I am Oneil Coral."

Facing Li Si's provocation, the old merman asked with an unchanged expression:

"You are not from the Pearl Clan, wanderer?"

"Why bother so much, old man!"

Li Si waved his hand impatiently, slammed the long knife in his hand into the reef under his feet, and looked down at Oneil with his arms folded, saying:

"That merman just now was your descendant, right? You actually just watched without taking action?"

Li Si noticed when Oneil appeared on this reef.

At that time, he thought Oneil would take action when he killed the merman army and captured Georgia, but the other party didn't intend to do anything at all.

For this reason, Li Si even captured Georgia and had the Pearl Clan torture him, but this guy was indifferent, which surprised Li Si.

"Yes, but you have already become a legend. You should know that with the long lifespan of a legend, the number of descendants is beyond your imagination."

Oneil nodded calmly, looked at Li Si, who had transformed into a burly merman, and said:

"Moreover, since he has offended you, you can deal with him however you want. The dignity of a legend must not be violated."

Feeling the implication in Oneil's words, Li Si said with a smile:

"What? Do you mean you want me to respect you?"

"This is just a little suggestion from an elder to a young man. Of course, you are also a legend. For legends, age doesn't have much meaning."

Oneil said calmly. Unlike other mermen, he didn't have a trace of ferocity, but instead gave Li Si a sense of wisdom that had washed away the lead.

Of course, this had no effect on Li Si.

Li Si had seen too many top experts who were much stronger than Oneil, and he wouldn't be affected by Oneil's words at all.

"That's good, you're quite understanding, old man!"

Li Si patted the hilt of his knife and said to Oneil:

"Georgia's debt has been settled, and I still have to settle your debt!"

"My name is Klaus. I heard that Matteo is dead. Was he with you before he died?"

"Are you Matteo's friend?"

Li Si twisted his neck, looking at Oneil with a smile on his ferocious face.

"If you don't tell me, then I'll beat you until you tell me!"

"Young man"

Oneil sighed. His intention was clearly to invite this legendary merman named Klaus to join the Pearl Sea Merman Tribe, but who would have thought that this guy actually wanted to fight him.

No!

Oneil reacted.

In the previous verbal confrontation, he could see that this Klaus didn't seem like an ignorant person.

Then this person deliberately wants to do this, just to fight him?

What's the purpose?

Oneil was a little puzzled, but Li Si was no longer prepared to continue communicating with him.

For Li Si, everything that needed to be said had already been said. Now he wanted to see what the situation was with this legendary merman.

At the same time, he also wanted to verify whether his disguise could hide from the merman legend in front of him.

If even the merman legend couldn't see through it, then there shouldn't be any problems with the Ocean Goddess Church.

After all, this is just a merman tribe. The Ocean Goddess Church shouldn't specially send a legend to stay here.

And the best way to test whether the disguise is effective is in battle. If the other party can't detect Li Si's true identity even in a fierce battle, then the risk of exposure later will be much smaller.

Moreover, this is also the only way for Li Si to establish a belief system in the merman tribe of the Pearl Sea.

Li Si didn't think that the other party would hand over the tribe's faith to him. The profession of legendary priest has abilities similar to that of a priest in some aspects, and can also use the power of faith. This is something Li Si can't avoid.

The salty sea breeze swept across the jagged reefs of the island, stirring up fine spray.

"You should rot in the coral reef, old guy!"

Li Si said with a smile, and the long knife in his hand slashed towards Oneil.

The whistling of the blade shattered the crest of the waves, and the thick blade made a wailing hum when it was swung, tearing through the salty and humid air.

Although Oneil was old, his reaction was not slow at all.

His withered claws took out an ancient silver conch horn. The horn was covered with ancient runes, and each pattern contained the power of the sea, faintly transmitting the ethereal sound of waves.

——

Ding~

[Limited Challenge Mission triggered!]

[Objective: Defeat Legendary Priest Oneil Coral!]

[Reward: Depends on the completion of the mission]——

In a breath, the battlefield terrain was being rewritten by the terrifying power of the legend.

The ancient guttural sounds chanted by Oneil summoned seven rotating water walls, surrounding his body to meet Li Si's attack.

Li Si's long knife shattered four barriers in a row like breaking an egg.

When the fifth water curtain exploded into a sky full of crystals in front of Oneil, his cyan-gray pupils suddenly contracted.

He didn't know when, a blue phantom-like water blade appeared in Li Si's left hand, skillfully bypassing his defensive magic from another direction and directly cutting into his left blind spot.

Very strong!

Oneil instantly had no intention of underestimating him.

An expert knows if there is one as soon as he makes a move.

What's more, the two of them are legendary powerhouses standing at the peak of transcendence. The first collision made them understand each other's strength.

"Tidal Binding!"

Oneil's hoarse incantation sounded, and dozens of huge tentacles formed from seawater suddenly rose from the surrounding sea, twisting and smashing towards Li Si's body.

Li Si grinned and spun around, the blade drawing a perfect crescent arc in the air. Most of the tentacles broke in response, but the remaining few entangled Li Si's scales.

Just as Li Si continued to use his long knife to chop down, the priest's tattered robe suddenly bulged, and three shells engraved with sea beast totems shot out from his body, shooting towards Li Si's throat.

"Dang~"

The trembling sound of metal collision echoed in the sky above the island.

Li Si staggered back a few steps. At the critical moment, he used the hilt of his knife to block and fly two strange shells, but the remaining one hit his body.

A new wound on his left abdomen was gushing out scarlet blood. With a casual wipe, the muscles at the wound wriggled and healed together, no longer bleeding.

Li Si's aura instantly became violent, and he instantly approached Oneil's body and launched a fierce attack.

But Li Si's heart was still very calm. In a simple exchange, he felt the strangeness of Oneil's strength.

The fighting methods of humans and elves are not very similar, because mermen basically live in the sea, so what they borrow most often is the power of the sea.

For example, the seawater tentacles summoned by Oneil just now contained considerable power and brought some small troubles to Li Si.

Li Si looked at the shell horn in Oneil's hand, his eyes a little dignified.

He could feel the special power contained in the horn, which should be the totem power offered by the priest profession through condensing the power of the clan's faith.

Compared to the spells used by mages, totem power, although also a type of spellcasting, is more strange, and the power characteristics it displays are basically closely related to the clan that worships the totem.

And the totem power of the Shuo Luo merman clan should be related to the sea?

A legendary priest has already been born, so a totem spirit should have been conceived, right?

Li Si raised his vigilance in his heart and continued to use his strength and speed advantages to stick to Anneil and attack.

Spiral blue lines were emerging from Oneil's skinny neck, which were the oldest battle lines of the deep sea clan.

What a trouble!

Oneil looked at Li Si, and now he couldn't maintain his previous calm mentality.

Is this legendary warrior Klaus really young?

In his feeling, the pressure that Klaus brought to him was even greater than that of Matteo. For a time, he was already a little stretched.

Originally, he was thinking about whether to let the water go and take the opportunity to invite Klaus to join the clan after showing his strength. Now it seems that he even has the danger of capsizing.

The strength that Klaus showed was quite comprehensive. Both strength and speed far exceeded him, which made him only barely parry the opponent's attack.

More importantly, even if his attacks landed on the opponent, they didn't seem to have any effect. There was no way to affect the opponent's state, just like the previous tentacle and shell attacks.

Moreover, the opponent's aura seemed to be becoming more and more fierce and ferocious with the progress of the battle, which had already made Oneil a little frightened.

He can't drag it on any longer!

Feeling that something was wrong, Oneil no longer hesitated, relying on the blue water shield to eat Li Si's knife hard, and flashed away to temporarily escape Li Si's attack range.

"Witness the gift of the ocean!"

The moment the conch horn resisted Oneil, the distant horn sounded, and twelve coral totem pillars appeared around Oneil, bursting out with dazzling blue light.

Li Si did not take the opportunity to attack, but raised his long knife and cautiously looked at Oneil in front of him.

It's not that there is invincibility when transforming, but a very strange power suddenly erupted from Oneil, making Li Si a little frightened, and incidentally a little curious.

Is this... totem power?

This was the first time Li Si had faced a priest profession after being reborn. The priest profession can only be mastered by some special transcendent races, the most famous of which are orcs.

And now, Oneil's body is undoubtedly undergoing a similar change.

Crack~ crack~ crack~ bang!

Oneil's hunched spine made a tooth-aching explosion, the muscles under his skin swelled like boiling magma, the skin originally wrapped in cyan-gray scales began to crack, revealing the dark red, raw beef-like fresh muscle underneath, and the muscles proliferated and swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye, like thousands of mating sea snakes twisting frantically under the skin.

The left scapula took the lead in piercing the flesh and blood, growing violently into three crab claw joints covered with barnacles. The blue-black shell spread along the arm, and the fingertips fused into two sawtooth blades the size of doors.

At the same time, the right arm was like being cut and reshaped by an invisible carving knife, the forearm bone pierced the skin and turned into a three-foot-long forest white bone blade, the blade surface was covered with reverse-growing barbs, and a pearl-colored eyeball opened at the end of each barb.

Oneil's original tattered robe was stretched into a sky full of scraps of cloth, and the newly born tortoise shell pattern was spreading from his chest to his whole body. Coral-like tentacles grew on the edges of the dark blue armor plates, and whenever the muscles contracted, phosphorescent water mist would spew out from the armor plate gaps.

And his lower body grew violently in sections, giving birth to seven octopus tentacles covered with suction cups, and the end of each tentacle was inlaid with sharp cones formed from totem pillar fragments.

Except for his head, the remaining parts of Oneil's body had changed, and the characteristics of countless sea beasts were integrated into his body.

Tsk~

Li Si smacked his tongue a little, not because he was afraid of Oneil, who had turned into a muscle fusion giant, but because he was a little surprised at the strangeness of the priest's ability.

Good fellow, what's going on with Oneil's fused totem spirit, why is it so strange?

"Come again!"

Oneil roared darkly, and his huge body pounced towards Li Si.

Feeling the terrifying aura of Oneil after completing the transformation, Li Si did not blindly go up directly, but retreated and dodged.

Li Si felt a little physically uncomfortable with Oneil's appearance, so let's observe it first.

The situation of the entire battlefield completely changed with Oneil's eruption.

Oneil, who was suppressed by Li Si just now, is now chasing Li Si to attack instead, but the special flesh that wriggles on that huge body is indeed a bit disgusting.

Although temporarily at a disadvantage, Li Si was not in a hurry.

After Oneil's totem spirit possessed him, his strength did become much stronger, and even Li Si didn't dare to collide with him directly, but relatively speaking, his speed did not increase significantly, and Li Si still had room to maneuver.

Li Si could feel the crazy aura emanating from Oneil now. He remembered that in his previous life, many priests would be affected by the totem spirit after being possessed by the totem power.

Because of this, Oneil basically didn't use magic now, but had been fighting with his powerful body.

Then let's do this!

Li Si made up his mind.

Dodging the octopus tentacles that Oneil slashed over to the left, Li Si did not continue to dodge this time, but took the initiative to approach Oneil.

A trace of doubt appeared in Oneil's eyes, but he subconsciously stretched out his left pincer to grab Li Si.

Chih~

A cyan-black crab claw flew into the sky!