"Victor, we're also combat-type Awakeners. We can fight too!" Morse was back to his usual arrogant self, shouting loudly at Victor.
"Shut up!" Victor glared at him. In an instant, Morse felt a killing vibe and shut his mouth.
"You guys keep the ship steady. I'll try to find the weakness of the Serpent Demonfish," Victor ordered. Then he focused entirely on the Serpent Demonfish.
The Serpent Demonfish circled the ship for a while. Maybe it was getting impatient, so it kept coming up to the surface, trying to find a chance to pull Victor into the water.
Victor frowned. Right now, he and the Serpent Demonfish were in a delicate balance.
His skill, Earthsplitter Slash, was powerful, but it was weakened a lot in the water.
The Serpent Demonfish was the same. It was strong in water, but once it jumped out, Victor was confident he could kill it with one strike.
Even if the federal rescue team arrived, they would still be safe in the end.
But that was a shame. A group of combat-type Awakeners trapped in a lake by a lv3 Serpent Demonfish.
Victor didn't want to feel that shame, so he had already decided he had to kill the Serpent Demonfish.
"I have to upgrade Earthsplitter Slash one more time," Victor thought for a moment and made the decision.
Victor took a deep breath, opened his panel, and upgraded Earthsplitter Slash.
[Consumed 10,000 skill points. The skill has been upgraded. Earthsplitter Slash becomes Sky-Splitting Slash.]
"At my current physical condition, I can probably use Sky-Splitting Slash three times in a row," Victor estimated, feeling more confident.
Then he silently gathered his strength, waiting for the Serpent Demonfish to come up again.
After about thirty seconds, the Serpent Demonfish finally lifted its head again.
And this time, Victor wouldn't let the chance slip away.
He shouted, jumped into the air, and swung his sword at the Serpent Demonfish.
The sword shone with golden light, and the sharp blade cut through the air like a knife.
The Serpent Demonfish never expected Victor to attack, and it wasn't fast enough to dodge. It was hit hard on the head.
"Shiiii!" The Serpent Demonfish screamed in pain, and its green blood sprayed out all over the lake.
Victor quickly pulled his sword out and landed back on the boat.
Looking at the dead Serpent Demonfish floating on the lake, Victor sighed in relief.
At the same time, a message appeared in his mind.
[You have defeated one lv3 Serpent Demonfish. Gained 1000 experience points.]
[Your level is now lv2. You have 10 points to freely assign to your attributes.]
Victor thought to himself, "Ten free attribute points... right now, the most important for me should be mana and health."
After thinking, he chose to put five points into his mental attribute and five into his physical attribute.
According to the rule of base attributes * 10, Victor's health became 150, and his mana was 100.
After adding the points, Victor immediately felt his physical condition improved a lot.
"Victor, you're amazing!" Audrey suddenly hugged him from behind, not even caring that she got some Serpent Demonfish blood on her.
"Nothing much. Killing beasts is a warrior's duty," Victor said, while taking out a towel to wipe the blood off his sword.
"Let me help!" Audrey took out her pink handkerchief and helped Victor carefully clean the blood off the sword.
Victor was surprised for a moment, then smiled and said, "Thanks, Audrey."
Audrey looked up, her golden eyes fixed on Victor, and smiled sweetly. "Without you, we might have died."
Morse saw Victor and his goddess being so close, and his anger boiled over. He quickly changed the subject. "Let's go. Get the boat to the shore first."
He said that and grabbed the oar to start rowing.
But as he walked to the side of the boat, he suddenly felt a big shake. He fell hard to the ground.
At the same time, the originally calm lake began to create huge waves, and the clear water gradually turned black.
"What's going on?" Victor's face changed, realizing that things might not be going well.
Jason seemed to have noticed something. He trembled and pointed his finger toward the distance, saying to Victor, "Victor... look over there!"
Everyone followed where Jason was pointing, and they all showed fear.
Far away on the lake, a huge black shadow was swimming toward them.
The shadow was extremely large, almost covering a tenth of the lake.
"Oh my God, what is that monster!" Morse trembled as he got up, his face showing despair.
At that moment, Victor's phone rang. He picked it up and saw it was a call from the Federal Rescue Center.
He answered the phone, and a serious voice came through: "Are you currently at Moon Lake in Darkwood Park?"
Victor said, "Yes, we're in the middle of the lake."
"You might have trouble!" the voice continued. "Just now, the federal satellites detected a huge energy fluctuation in Moon Lake..."
The voice on the other end stopped for a moment and said in a voice that sounded almost disbelieving: "At first, I didn't believe it, but the truth is, there's an lv18 Serpent Demonfish in Moon Lake. For so many years, it has been hiding in the lake, and we never noticed its existence."
"18th level?" Victor was shocked in his heart and thought it was bad news.
An lv18 Serpent Demonfish was just one step away from evolving. It was one of the top-level beasts in the beginner class.
Victor had the phone on speaker, so the other seven people also heard what was being said.
Morse was the first to break down. He fell to his knees and cried out in pain, "Why? Why us!"
The others weren't as bad as Morse, but they all turned pale and looked hopeless.
"Victor... are we going to die?" Audrey tightly grabbed Victor's arm and asked with a trembling voice.
Victor took a deep breath and asked the phone, "How long until the help arrives?"
The voice on the other end immediately said, "Ten minutes. Deputy Grandmaster Kane from the Holy Knights' Order is already on his way. We hope you can..."
The voice on the other end suddenly stopped, and then the person said in desperation, "Oh my God, what was I thinking? You're just a group of lv1-level awakened people. How could you possibly stand up to a Serpent Demonfish?"
Victor didn't respond. He just stared seriously at the black shadow.
In fact, the shadow was almost surfacing now, and Victor could even see the scales that were exposed.
The color of the scales was exactly the same as the one Victor had just killed. Of course, he could easily figure out the connection between them.
But it wasn't his fault. Who would have thought there was an lv18 beast in the lake?
At that moment, the calm lake suddenly started to ripple, and a terrible sound came from the lake.
Everyone covered their ears and cried out in pain.
Victor felt bad too, but he could still barely handle it, because his mental attribute had now reached 105 points.
"We're going to die!"
"Someone help us, I don't want to die!"
"It hurts so much, why isn't the Holy Knights' Order here yet!"
They all fell to the ground, crying out in pain and begging for help. The boat was filled with the smell of death.
"I have no choice but to use this move!" Victor struggled to lift his sword, then made up his mind.
At this moment, he still had one last secret card left.
That was the hidden skill he had awakened earlier — Holy Light Dragonbane Slash!
Holy Light Dragonbane Slash was very powerful. It might be the only chance to beat the Serpent Demonfish.
"Victor, where are you going!" Audrey, as the Healer, had strong mental power, so she was still mostly awake.
"I'm going... to hunt demons!" Victor said coldly, then jumped off the side of the boat.
At that moment, Victor activated Holy Light Dragonbane Slash. A bright light appeared, lifting him high into the air.
The Serpent Demonfish in the lake seemed to sense something strange. With a huge wave, its head rose from the water. Its red eyes stared at Victor with deadly intent.
"Ancient Dragon, come out!" Victor took a deep breath and whispered.
Soon, a golden dragon appeared out of nowhere, breathing fire from its mouth. It circled around Victor.