Cave Refuge

Dong Tianyu had always abided by the principle of preferring to kill three thousand mistakenly rather than letting a single target escape. Whenever he encountered an unfamiliar fleet, Dong Tianyu would personally use Divine Sense to conduct thorough inspections, to make sure no accident occurred.

Unfortunately, even with Dong Tianyu's diligent approach, he still hadn't found the target he was searching for.

Thankfully, when he left the base, Dong Tianyu had prepared to stay for a long time on this side, otherwise, he might have felt dejected from not finding the target for such a long period.

However, perseverance paid off, and after almost half a month, Dong Tianyu finally located the target fleet.

The reason Dong Tianyu was sure he had found the target fleet was that when he discovered the fleet, the Super Ability Awakeners aboard were engaged in combat with aquatic monsters.

These aquatic creatures were different from the usual aquatic life that appeared after the flood disaster. The creatures fighting the awakeners did not possess a mortal body made of flesh; rather, they resembled water-formed monsters.

To put it more plainly, these monsters bore a striking resemblance to water elements from traditional games in terms of their appearance.

However, unlike the gentle water elements often depicted in movies or games, the water elements attacking the fleet had quite peculiar facial features and their temperaments were extremely aggressive.

At that moment, the water elements emerged directly from the water surface near the bottom of the ship, and without the need for any tools, they climbed up the ship's hull to the deck and immediately started a fierce battle with the guards there.

The water elements that climbed onto the deck did not have any core inside them, nor did they have any clear weaknesses. Although even ordinary people could easily sever their limbs with sharp tools,

the water elements would regrow their severed limbs, at the expense of shrinking in size.

Not just limbs, but even heads or bodies sawed in half could be rapidly repaired by the water elements. Even if split into two, different sections of the bodies could easily regenerate into two water elements with the same appearance.

What nobody realized was that the water elements' mode of reproduction was actually through division.

Aside from the body of the water elements, the other severed limbs and heads that were cut off would instantly turn into a puddle of clear water upon separating from the body and spill onto the deck.

If one wished to completely annihilate the water elements, one had to utterly destroy their bodies. Otherwise, these elements could rely on their strong regenerative capabilities and reengage in battle.

As more and more water elements boarded the deck, the battle there grew increasingly intense, perhaps due to the bystander being clear-headed while those directly involved were too caught up.

Dong Tianyu noticed that the water elements that were thoroughly dismembered and killed did not leave behind any corpses, but simply turned back into a puddle of clear water.

As the battle intensified, the deck gradually filled with a mixture of blood and clear water.

Originally, the water elements, although not dying immediately after being dismembered several times, would find it incredibly slow to repair themselves.

However, with the increasing amounts of clear water on the deck, those incapacitated water elements that had fallen began to absorb the liquid on the ground, rapidly recovering from the injuries sustained in battle by absorbing the surrounding liquid.

With their wounds healing, those water elements that were initially unable to continue fighting reentered the battlefield.

Were it not for the fact that the water elements lacked ranged attack capabilities and had quite fragile defenses, relying on water elements' difficulty in dying and their ability to repeatedly return to the battlefield, ordinary people would find it very hard to devise a strategy against them.

Although at the beginning, the combat personnel on the deck, when faced with water elements climbing from underwater, could mostly achieve a crushing victory under a one-on-one premise,

as progressively more water elements climbed onto the deck, the combatants were forced to face one against five, and even one against ten.

However, even outnumbered, the guards, who were just ordinary people, were nearly crushing their opponents initially, though this situation did not last long.

While initially dominant, humans tire out, and the Spiritual Stones in the mechanical golems were also being heavily consumed. As the battle dragged on, the intensity of the water elements' attacks, once fierce, gradually weakened significantly.

"If firearms could be used, the members of the Guard Squad wouldn't have been so passive. The reason they didn't use firearms in this fight.

It wasn't that they didn't want to, nor that they couldn't; the most important reason was that the penetrating damage of bullets doesn't mean much to the Water Element.

At this time, the Water Element only feared spells other than Water System Magic; that is, any energy attacks other than Water System Magic could cause significant damage to it.

The Water Element is different from other carbon-based organisms that naturally have vital points; it doesn't have fatal vulnerabilities that every carbon-based life form has.

For this reason, when faced with piercing attacks, once the weapon left the body, their bodies would quickly repair themselves.

Therefore, attacks like arrows or firearms couldn't pose any fatal threat to Dong Tianyu.

Only blunt weapons or dismembering the Water Element could roughly prevent it from reviving.

It was precisely because of the Water Element's outrageous ability that as the battle dragged on, the scales of victory gradually tilted towards the Water Element.

Seeing the defense line formed by the guards on the deck gradually beginning to collapse, the superhumans like those using Awakened Potions slowly started to join the battle.

Although they didn't care about the life and death of ordinary people, they understood that if many ordinary people died in the battle, many basic tasks would face a manpower shortage.

If they didn't step in to help now, should a large number of civilians die, there would be no one to carry out those basic tasks within the fleet,

They just looked down on ordinary people, but that didn't mean they were foolish; they were very clear about the current situation.

That was why they stepped in immediately when the Guard Squad was about to fall apart and signaled those guards to stay away from the battlefield.

As the members of the Guard Squad retreated while fighting, the Awakeners finally actively joined the battle.

Among them, the most standout individual conjured a Longsword so hot it could warp space.

Whenever this Longsword touched a Water Element, any Water Element touched by the blade instantly vaporized into the air.

Besides him, there was an Awakener who turned the liquid in his hands into tiny Ice Needles.

When those tiny Ice Needles entered the Water Element's body, they would instantly block the senses of the attacked; unfortunately, the Water Element didn't have senses, so this effect was practically useless on it.

However, aside from that effect, the Ice Needles had another very important and practical effect.

That was, when the Ice Needles entered the Water Element's body, the attacked Water Element's body would gradually freeze.

When the Water Element turned into an ice sculpture, the nearest survivor would quickly destroy it, to avoid waiting for the Ice Needles to lose effect and the Water Element to revert to normal and rejoin the battle.

Aside from these two individuals who gave Dong Tianyu a notable impression during the fight, it's unknown if many Awakeners were dissatisfied with the abilities they acquired after awakening, so their participation in the following battle was rather perfunctory.

Even though these Awakeners' attitudes were perfunctory, with their participation, the scales of war tipped once more.

After the Awakeners cleared all the Water Elements from the deck and were proudly thinking this battle was over,

they failed to notice that the Water Elements had changed their attack targets, seemingly also directed by intelligent beings in the background."