Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 274 Psychic Crossbow
The sudden tremor froze the expressions on everyone's faces. If this was just a common underground shaking, it would not matter and the earthquake would pass soon.

But things didn't go in the direction everyone expected. Not only did the frequency of the vibrations get higher, but they were getting closer.

It felt like some kind of giant monster was charging straight towards where everyone was.

They all drew out the weapons they had just taken back and stared at the direction where the sound came from.

Just four or five seconds later, Nimia suddenly shouted:
"Everyone get down!"

Almost at the same time as everyone bent down, the left wall of the captain's room was smashed, and a huge streamlined monster broke through the wall and smashed into the wall on the other side.

The sound of the chitin walls and the flesh of the conch shell ship being torn apart came into everyone's ears, but no one could see clearly what it was. They only felt a huge black shadow flying over their heads, and then everyone was buried by the falling debris.

"Did anyone see what it was?"

"no!"

"Pull me out now!"

Draeger lifted a piece of the chitin ceiling that had fallen on him and reached out to pull the halfling priest out from under the collapsed debris.

The only person who was not buried was Alday. Any debris that fell on her was bounced off by the translucent shield.

She looked at the two large holes on the wall and thought:
"This mark looks like it was left by a shark lizard beast."

"That thing is not easy to deal with."

The dwarves' hometown is also underground, and Drerg is well aware of the horror of the shark lizard beasts.

This monster is like a great white shark that can move on land. It is one of the top predators. It digs caves at high speeds as easily as fish swim in water. Its huge head has an equally huge bloody mouth. When it launches a surprise attack from underground, it is big enough to swallow a person in one bite.

Moreover, shark lizard beasts do not like the meat of elves and dwarves very much. It may be because these two races have a long lifespan and shark lizard beasts think their meat is too old.

In contrast, halfling flesh is their favorite.

It just so happens that there is a halfling in this team.

Perrin immediately jumped up and said:
"What are you waiting for! Run!"

"We can't outrun it. The shark lizard moves much faster than us."

Alde knocked on the floor with her staff, and along with the sound, a wave spread out.

"The shark lizard passed through the conch shell and went outside."

"So, it let us go?"

"No, he was just playing a trick on us."

Shark-lizard beasts like to chase and play with their prey, and when the prey is exhausted and can no longer run, they will eat it in one bite.

It is unwise to fight a shark lizard face to face. Not only can its shell defend against attacks from many weapons, but even magic is not very effective against it.

Their large size combined with their powerful limbs make the shark lizards' most powerful ability, the death leap.

To put it simply, it's like a mountain falling down on your head. Suddenly, someone jumps out and presses down with a weight of several tons. Who can withstand it?

And even if you can hurt it, the shark lizard beast will burrow into the ground and run away when it sees that the situation is not right, so it is difficult to kill it with one blow. In this case, you will have a top predator following you on your next journey that may jump out from the ground at any time.

In other words, the shark lizard beast must be killed with one-shot kill.

As I said before, the wizard's mind works quickly. Alde immediately said:
"Let's go up to the deck."

The captain's room where everyone was was connected to the bridge of the Snail Shell, and outside the bridge was the front deck of the Snail Shell.

Several people ran out quickly, and Draeger smashed the glass of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the bridge with an axe. Soon everyone stood on the empty front deck.

Looking around at this time, you can vaguely see a constantly moving bulge on the ground. It is left by the shark lizard beast moving underground. It looks very much like a shark swimming around its prey.

"Found it, over there."

"what is that?"

It was a nautilus-shaped object, about as tall as a person, with a row of muscle tissue supports underneath, neatly placed on the front deck.

"The psychic crossbow of the conch shell ship is enough to destroy the shark lizard beast with one shot." Oldie ran over to check it out. When her fingers touched the pattern on the back of the conch shell, a square fist-shaped screen lit up. The screen showed the image of the position where the crossbow was facing, and there was even a crosshair.

This means that the crossbow still has energy, but we don’t know how many shots it can fire.

Usually, the psionic crossbow is controlled remotely by the illithids on the conch shell ship, but sometimes the illithids may not be able to free their hands, which requires the illithids' slaves to be able to control the crossbow and participate in the battle.

In other words, this thing can be remotely controlled or manually controlled.

The shark lizard beast has very keen perception, and if Alde wants to use magic to deal with it, she must use strong spells.

Powerful spells require a little time to prepare, and will leak out huge magical reactions when they are cast.

The shark lizard beast is not stupid. It will definitely run away if it realizes that it may not be able to hold on.

But the psychic crossbow is different. It makes no sound before it is fired, and even if the shark lizard beast notices it after it is fired, it is already too late.

After handing the psychic crossbow to Nimia, who had experience in using crossbows, Alde turned around and said:
"Now we need a bait that can lure the shark lizard beast over here."

Draeger and Perrin looked at each other, and finally Perrin raised his hands helplessly.

"Well, I'll go."

Shark-lizard beasts love halfling flesh the most, which is the perfect bait.

Draeger patted him on the shoulder and said:
"Although the time was short, I will never forget you."

"I'm not dead yet!"

A rope was tied to Perrin, who then jumped off the deck and stood there stamping his feet.

A shark lizard is very sensitive to ground vibrations, especially its favorite sound, the footsteps of halflings.

Establishing a visual connection with the Mystic Eye and watching the movements around her, Orde immediately saw that the shark-lizard beast that was originally circling the conch shell ship suddenly changed direction and headed towards Perrin.

"It's coming, get ready."

"I must get more money! Did you hear me? I want a raise!"

Perrin also felt the terrible vibrations of the shark lizard beast approaching him quickly, and it felt like his heart skipped a beat.

"Pull me up quickly!"

"Wait a minute, it's not time yet."

Through her secret eyes, Alde watched the shark-lizard beast getting closer and closer, and she had to wait for it to come out of the soil.

Just as the raised soil layer was about to hit Perrin who was stamping his feet on the spot, a loud bang was heard and a shark lizard beast crawled out from the ground, opening its bloody mouth towards Perrin.

"It's now!"

Draeger immediately pulled the rope up with all his might. At Perrin's scream, the shark lizard jumped up like a fish out of water, and its teeth were almost hooked on Perrin's boots.

Nimia, who had already taken aim, immediately pressed the button. The psychic crossbow emitted a sharp buzzing sound, followed by a piercing noise caused by a blue light wave breaking through the air.

The arrow-like spiritual power field hit the side of the shark lizard beast's head, and with the sound of breaking bones, it pierced through the shark lizard beast's head.

With the roar of a heavy object falling to the ground, Perrin was pulled up. He was panting due to nervousness. Looking back, he saw that the shark lizard beast was almost torn into two parts and was completely dead.

"Haha! I'll let you bite me!"

But just when he was happy for a moment, the conch shell ship made a strange squeaky noise, the front deck under his feet began to sway back and forth, and from not far away under his feet, he heard the sound of earth and rocks collapsing.

"Let me down! The conch is going to fall!"

The snail-shell ship made an emergency landing on the edge of an underground abyss, and the shark-lizard beast had just been circling around the snail-shell ship and digging holes, loosening the originally hard rock like an earthworm.

Everyone immediately rolled and crawled to jump under the snail-shell ship. When Derger, who was running at the end, jumped down, the broken snail-shell ship rolled down the slope into the bottomless abyss. It took a while before the loud noise of the crash and the flash of explosion in the darkness were heard.

"What a pity, there are still many things worth studying there."

Oldie stood on the edge of the cliff, shaking her head with regret.

But if she looked back at this moment, she would see the aurora that had just disappeared reappear, guiding her in the direction she was heading…
(End of this chapter)