Chapter 487

It was completely normal for lakes to appear on the grasslands, so Lin Moyu didn't feel any surprise.

Lin Moyu even wondered if the monsters were inside the lake water.

However, what happened next completely overturned his imagination.

A vortex began to appear in the center of the lake, and the water inside vanished rapidly, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

This lake was not large, with a radius of only about thirty meters; it would not be an exaggeration to call it a pond.

After the water dried up, a huge monster crawled out.

The monster's appearance looked like an octopus from the sea; its entire body was cyan, and it had eight huge tentacles.

Each tentacle was over 20 meters long.

This octopus monster crawled rapidly across the grasslands, its body color changing simultaneously to blend in with the cyan grasslands, eventually disappearing completely.

This disappearance wasn't invisibility; rather, it had changed its own color to merge with the grasslands.

Not only was it difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, but even Lin Moyu's spiritual power struggled to isolate it from the grasslands.

It didn't just blend in with the grasslands by color; its aura did as well.

Lin Moyu suddenly felt a sense of hair-raising dread.

Lin Moyu wondered if he had already encountered such monsters while walking along, without even realizing it.

Without alerting it, Lin Moyu arrived at the location of the previous lake.

A deep pit had appeared here, a circular crater 30 meters in diameter and 5 meters deep.

The grass on the surface had vanished, revealing the scene beneath the grassland.

Only then did Lin Moyu realize that about a meter beneath the grass, there was actually a thick layer of ice.

The ice layer was very thick and bottomless.

"It was drinking water."

Lin Moyu realized that the monster from earlier had melted the ice layer and then drank the melted ice water.

After drinking the water, it left, the entire process without a single sound.

As the wind blew, Lin Moyu felt a sense of eeriness.

A grassland full of vitality, a grassland that reflects damage, a grassland that is incredibly tough.

Beneath it, there was actually a thick layer of ice.

"Could it be that this was an ocean in the past?"

"It just froze into ice, and then grass grew on top of it."

Lin Moyu felt that this was the only way to explain what he saw; otherwise, how could a water monster like an octopus, which lives in the ocean, appear here?

It was too illogical.

Just as he was thinking this, an explosion suddenly came from not far away.

The sound of the explosion carried a massive shockwave that swept in all directions.

Large swathes of the grassland were shaken, and countless blades of grass within a range of over a thousand meters were uprooted, shooting toward the direction of the explosion.

Lin Moyu witnessed a shocking scene once again.

Chapter 456: What a Pity, You Arrived a Step Too Late

The land, having lost its green grass, became bare.

It revealed soil that was slightly grayish-black.

The moment the grass left the ground, Lin Moyu saw densely packed monsters on the land.

There were the octopuses he had seen earlier, as well as crabs and some peculiar fish-like creatures with limbs.

Right before Lin Moyu's eyes, these monsters rapidly changed their body colors, merging with the land once again.

It took no more than two seconds.

Lin Moyu's gaze lingered on a spot less than five meters in front of him.

There was a crab-like monster right there.

With a body size exceeding ten meters and enormous pincers, it was clearly very powerful at a glance.

During the moment they changed color earlier, they had revealed a trace of their aura.

To Lin Moyu, it felt like these monsters were roughly the type of ordinary BOSSes, or perhaps even stronger.

Needless to say, their levels were at least in the 70s, or even 80.

"These monsters won't attack proactively…"

If this were anywhere else, at such a close distance, the monsters would have already launched an attack on him.

However, thinking back on it now, the Giant Leaf Dwarf Tree didn't seem to have proactively attacked him either.

Not until Mu Xianxian stepped on the vines…

What peculiar monsters.

Lin Moyu raised his altitude slightly and flew toward the direction.

The grass that had flown away earlier had already returned.

The land returned to its original state.

Usually, they were soft blades of grass, but once they left the ground, they became sharp swords.

Flying forward for a distance, Lin Moyu saw the two sides in battle.

"Human Professionals."

The two sides of the battle Lin Moyu saw.

A team of six human Professionals.

They were surrounding and attacking a monster, and the monster's appearance was exactly the same as the octopus monster he had seen earlier.

Lin Moyu landed a step earlier, stopping behind a slope, watching this battle like a bystander.

The octopus monster's eight tentacles danced wildly in the air, but they were all blocked by the human Professionals.

A Knight, a Healer, a Support controller, two Mages, and an Archer.

Every one of them was a top-tier Professional over level 70.

But none of them were over level 80; after level 80, the aura on one's body would change.

Lin Moyu might not have understood before, but now he knew very clearly.

For classes like Knights and Healers, the Third Awakening at level 70 brought them stronger class skills.

Only the Support class would undergo significant changes after level 70.

Most Supports would awaken many crowd-control skills after level 70, giving them powerful battlefield control capabilities.

Before level 70, once Supports finished applying buffs, they basically had nothing to do and spent most of their time spacing out and watching the show.

But after level 70, because of the emergence of numerous crowd-control skills, Supports also became crowd-control classes.

When there were many monsters, they were responsible for large-scale crowd control.

When fighting a BOSS, they were responsible for interrupting the BOSS's skills.

Similarly, in teams above level 70, the Support also became an indispensable class.

Lin Moyu saw with his own eyes the Support in the team ahead, their staff emitting a burst of light that quickly landed on the octopus monster.

The octopus monster showed a momentary sluggishness.

The skill it had been preparing was also interrupted as a result.

Although the entire sluggish period lasted less than two seconds, the effect was very obvious.

It bought the Knight time to catch their breath and also allowed the Healer to perform a couple more heals.

After all, after level 70, the intensity of combat was far beyond what it had been before.

Two seconds was enough to do many things.

Lin Moyu did not go over directly; this group of people was not from the Shenxia Empire.

From their attire, Lin Moyu judged that the other party was from Eagle Country; they were Eagle Country Professionals.

Although there was no direct conflict between Eagle Country and the Shenxia Empire, things had never been great between them over the years.

When Professionals from both sides met in the wild, they rarely greeted each other, and the records of them coming to blows were not few.

There had even been a few times that resulted in casualties.

It was precisely because of this that Lin Moyu did not go up to greet them.

He just watched silently.

The octopus monster's strength was not much different from what he had expected; it should be an ordinary BOSS under level 80.

The six-person team from Eagle Country had tacit coordination, especially that Support, who was particularly outstanding.

He interrupted the octopus BOSS's skills precisely time and time again, greatly reducing the pressure on the Knight.

It also allowed the Mages and Archer in the back to stand and output damage to their heart's content, making the entire team's fight extremely relaxed.

However, Lin Moyu noticed that the Mages' output was somewhat timid.

They seemed afraid to use large-scale skills.

Lin Moyu understood that this was because of the damage reflection mechanism on the grasslands.

If the Mages used large-area skills, a large amount of the attacks would inevitably land on the grasslands.

It was likely that the reason thousands of blades of grass had flown away earlier was because a Mage had used a large-area skill.

Mages were the most powerful damage dealers; once they could not fight with full effort, it would inevitably lead to a decrease in efficiency.

After fighting for a full 30 minutes or so, they finally slew the octopus BOSS.

The Knight used a sword to dissect the octopus, taking out a water sphere from its body that was much larger than a human head.

Then he took out a few bottles and got the water from the water sphere into the bottles.

Lin Moyu did not understand what they were taking this water for.

At this moment, a whistling sound rang out in the air.

A large number of black dots appeared in the sky; a large group of people had arrived, numbering over a hundred.

Those who arrived were all Eagle Country Professionals, wearing the same attire; they should be from some guild in Eagle Country.

The leading Knight's aura was incredibly heavy; judging from the aura, Lin Moyu determined that this person should be over level 85, a top-tier Professional.

He was the highest-level person present.

He was wearing gorgeous equipment, and his gaze swept over the dead octopus, "Is the Purifying Water collected?"

Several Knights responded one after another, "It is collected."

They took out the water bottles they had collected one after another.

Only then did Lin Moyu know that the water obtained from the octopus BOSS was called Purifying Water.

Furthermore, this hundred-person team hadn't just killed one octopus monster; they had split up and killed quite a few octopus BOSSes in batches.

The Purifying Water that each octopus BOSS could provide was limited, only about five or six bottles.

Right now, they had at least over 100 bottles in their hands.

There was even a surplus after everyone received one bottle.

The leading Knight nodded, "Not bad, distribute one bottle to everyone. With it, we can greatly reduce the threat of the Venomous Flood Dragon. This time, our Eagle Guild must kill the Venomous Flood Dragon and wash away our shame."

Lin Moyu was slightly stunned; these guys were actually going to kill the Venomous Flood Dragon.

It looked like the Purifying Water in their hands should have the effect of detoxifying.