A Comprehensive Network: An Endless Adventure Begins as a Wanderer

When Cheng Yi opened his eyes again, he was standing on a gray-white sandy beach.

Daylight had broken. Thick clouds hung in the sky, casting a pale, gray veil of sunlight.

Cheng Yi unleashed his Observation Haki and peered towards the nearby group of reefs.

There were more than a dozen fishmen behind the reef, and more than twenty more were soaking in the bay. Further away, an even stronger aura was moving toward the shore.

The Fishman Tidecaller.

Cheng Yi put on the Shadow Spirit Cloak and crouched down as he crept towards the group of reefs.

But just as he reached the edge of the reef, the water in the bay suddenly burst open.

The seawater surged, and a deep blue figure rose from the murky water. It was a size larger than an ordinary fish-man, with deep blue skin and dark red fin membranes. Its dorsal fin was higher and sharper.

In its left hand it held a bone staff wrapped with seaweed, with a white pearl embedded at the top, inside which something seemed to be pulsating.

Leader, the Murloc Tidecaller.

It climbed onto the reef and pointed its bone staff toward the beach.

That was precisely where Cheng Yi was located.

All the fishmen became restless.

Thirty or forty gray-green figures surged toward Cheng Yi simultaneously from behind the reefs, in the sea, and on the shallows.

Cheng Yi drew the First Blood Short Sword. A flash of blood appeared on the short sword, and a dark red halo danced on the blade.

You have activated the skill: Blood Blade.

Cheng Yi felt a sharp pain in his internal organs, and his life points dropped by 10%.

He looked at the merman Tidecaller, who was being protected behind the merfolk and chanting something, and grinned with a pained, somewhat ferocious smile.

To shoot a man, shoot a horse first; to capture a thief, capture the king first!

Can I still make the mage cast spells?

A misty fog suddenly rose from the beach.

The next instant, Cheng Yi passed through the bustling horde of murlocs and appeared behind the murloc Tidecaller.

Deceitful in the cloud.

He vanished from the mist and reappeared, his short sword already piercing the back of the murloc Tidecaller's neck.

The murloc Tidecaller's body stiffened abruptly. The white pearl at the tip of his staff flashed briefly before dimming again.

It tried to sing something, but its throat had been pierced, and it could only make a "hoarse" sound.

A dark red aura danced on the blade, and the blood of the Murloc Tidecaller gushed from the wound.

A warm current flowed upstream along the blade, seeping into Cheng Yi's palm. The warm sensation spread from his palm throughout his body.

【HP: 100%】

It's fully restored now?

Cheng Yi was momentarily speechless.

[You have killed Murloc Tidecaller Pipa (Level 3/Murloc/Boss), and you have gained 150 Universal Experience.]

Stepping on the still-warm corpse of the Murloc Tidecaller, Pipa, Cheng Yi grinned maliciously at the momentarily bewildered Murlocs...

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You have completed the daily dungeon: Murloc Bay (Hard difficulty)

[Dungeon clear requirements met, data being compiled]

Your assessment of this dungeon run: A monster slaughter without any major incidents.

You have gained 600 general experience points and 300 Crossnet Disaster Coins.

You have obtained 2 Broken Treasure Chests of the Murloc Warrior

After discovering that the murlocs in the normal difficulty dungeon posed no threat to him, Cheng Yi quickly proceeded to the hard difficulty Murloc Bay.

As for the changes, Cheng Yi only felt that the fish-men's scales had become smoother and tougher.

Looking at the time, there was still some time before noon. Cheng Yi decided to finish the elite difficulty dungeon in one go.

It was the familiar beach again. Cheng Yi looked at the old fish standing on the rocks in the distance. A flash of blood appeared on his sword, and he used the same trick again.

The mist appeared behind the Murloc Tidecaller.

But this time it's a little different.

Instead of chanting its never-released spell as it had done before, the Murloc Tidecaller raised its staff high into the sky.

Cheng Yi, who had just appeared behind the Murloc Tidecaller, clearly saw the anomaly.

The pearls inlaid on the staff were no longer the harmless white ones, but a blue-purple color that crackled with electric light.

Gan!

Why would a murloc like you play Thunderlord's Decree?

So that's why you call it "Pip-Pap"?

Cheng Yi wanted to avoid it, but it was too late.

The blue-purple lightning arrived in an instant.

A bolt of lightning, as thick as a thumb, struck Cheng Yi directly in the chest.

Cheng Yi felt as if he had been struck in the chest by a red-hot iron hammer, and he flew backward.

An electric current spread from his chest to his limbs, causing muscle spasms.

He fell onto the beach, his back plunging into the shallow water.

【HP: 54%】

Even with the lightning resistance granted by Cloud Deception, this lightning bolt still took away 36% of Cheng Yi's health when he was already half-injured!

Cheng Yi gritted his teeth and climbed out of the water. He looked up at the merman Tidecaller.

The blue-purple electric light at the tip of the staff lit up again.

Cheng Yi didn't give it a second chance. He disappeared from the beach.

This time, he didn't teleport behind the Tidecaller, but to its side.

First Blood's short sword pierced straight towards the Tidecaller's vulnerable neck.

But the Murloc Tidecaller, who was prepared, reacted much faster than before. It dodged to the side, swept its staff across, and slammed the staff into Cheng Yi's right shoulder.

Cheng Yi's right arm went numb, and he almost dropped the short sword.

He gritted his teeth, pulled a throwing knife from his scabbard with his left hand, and hurled it at the face of the merman Tidecaller at close range.

The throwing knife pierced the Tidecaller's left eye. It let out a sharp screech, and the lightning on its staff dimmed for a moment, but quickly brightened again.

Instead of drawing his throwing knife, the Murloc Tidecaller aimed his staff at Cheng Yi, and blue-purple lightning once again gathered at the tip of the staff.

Cheng Yi vanished from his original spot and teleported directly above Pipa's head.

Using the momentum of its fall, the short sword plunged deep into the Tidecaller's head. Its body swayed twice, and the staff slipped from its grasp.

[You have killed Murloc Tidecaller Pipa (Level 3/Murloc/Elite Boss/Lightning Enhancement), and you have gained 300 Universal Experience.]

Cheng Yi drew his short sword and took two steps back. He glanced at his health, which had recovered to 70%, and his expression softened.

The fishmen gave Cheng Yi no time to catch his breath; they pounced on him frantically.

The number of murlocs on elite difficulty had increased significantly, and Cheng Yi lost count of how many he had killed. He only felt the number of murloc corpses increasing, and the beach beneath his feet becoming increasingly slippery. Blood mingled with seawater, staining the sand a dark red.

Finally, the last merman turned to run away, and Cheng Yi chased after him, plunging his short sword into the back of its head.

The beach was quiet.

Cheng Yi stood amidst the corpses, panting heavily.

The dark red aura on the short sword had faded; the one-minute duration of Blood Blade had long since expired. He glanced down at his health: 39%.

Cheng Yi staggered to the splattered corpse and picked up the treasure chest that had been dropped.

You have obtained the Murloc Tidecaller Elite Chest *1