The dungeon has been parasitized

Chapter 54 Pan Crab

Klein's seeds take root underwater to prevent them from being washed away by the surging downward current.

Meanwhile, the large crab at the bottom of the water was enjoying nibbling on Klein's small fish, completely unaware of Klein's tiny offspring.

Since you ate my little fish, you'd better compensate me with your own body.

Activate skill: Accelerate growth

Klein activated his skill on the saplings on the little fish, and several vines burst forth simultaneously, starting from the little fish near its mouth and wrapping around its two pincers of different sizes.

The big crab was startled and flailed its two pincers wildly...

It's no use, I've caught crabs before, as long as you tie their pincers—

pat.

The vine broke.

This was awkward... Unexpectedly, the outer end of the crab's pincers was exceptionally sharp, easily severing Klein's vines.

Moreover, its stone-like armor is incredibly hard; even when I tried to tighten it with vines, it didn't deform at all.

I wonder if it will get stuck and die when it changes its shell... Let's take a look at its weaknesses first.

Activate skill: Detect

Success rate: 64%

Launch successful.

Name: None

【Species: Devil Crab】

[Race: Rock Crab]

[Level: 29]

Age: 10

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[Health Volume: 3457/3458]

【Spirit: 35】

[Magic Power: 574/574]

【Strength: 124】

[Agility: 11]

【Intelligence: 12】

Individual Abilities:

Water gun: fires water bullets, water magic.

Whirlpool: The movement of water to create a vortex; water magic.

[Weakness: Joints lack a hard outer shell for protection.]

Rock crabs do indeed resemble rocks when they tuck their limbs in at the bottom of the water, but they are actually not very threatening... Perhaps we can just ignore them and go behind them to take a look?

The main problem is that its joints are all tucked under the armor, making it impossible to touch without spreading its limbs, let alone attack the joints.

Activate skill: Accelerate growth

Klein's seed sprouted from the bottom of the water, and the vines wound around the rock crab, growing towards its back.

"Gurgle gurgle..."

But just as it passed by, the rock crab suddenly opened and closed its mouth, exhaling bubbling bubbles that were aimed at Klein's vines.

not good……

Whoosh!

Just as Klein was about to retract the vines, a stream of bubbly water shot out from the rock crab's mouth and struck Klein's vines.

The vines were pierced directly by the water flow, breaking in two, and flowed downstream.

I'm just a piece of seaweed! Why are you attacking me for that?

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle..."

Immediately afterwards, the sound of bubbles rose from the rock crab's mouth again. Along with the bubbles it exhaled, a vortex swirled around it, pulling Klein's severed vines towards it.

The rock crab used its pincers to grab Klein's vine and brought it to its mouth to gnaw on.

Okay... so it's an omnivore.

These two skills are perfectly suited to its living habits. It doesn't even have to do anything itself; it attacks the prey with a water gun and then uses a vortex to pull the prey over.

Since that's the case, we have no choice but to confront them head-on.

Activate skill: Accelerate growth

Klein immediately sprouted several vines, each tipped with a hardened spike.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh...

But as the Klein vines grew, the rock crabs kept attacking them with water guns, and in the end only three remained.

Three are enough...accumulating power.

The vines contract backward, accumulating power like a spring.

emission!

Whoosh!

The vines suddenly shot out from the bottom of the water, but just as they were about to pierce the crab's face, the crab retracted its pincers, blocking its only weakness.

dong dong dong.

Several muffled thuds echoed underwater. Although Klein's vines had struck the rock crab, the thorns themselves were shattered by the impact, and the rock crab only lost a few pieces of seaweed on its body...

It's practically a rock. Although the force of the spear is reduced underwater, its hardness is just too high.

It tucks all its limbs away, and its soft joints are not exposed at all.

It seems... there's no way to deal with it. With my current abilities, I have no way to break through its defenses. If only I could expose its weakness... I've got it.

Klein's soul returned to the plantation, where Yanami was digging a pit with the steel tusks of a steel-tusked boar, with several fish lying nearby.

Klein reached out a vine and poked her waist.

"ah!"

Yanami was startled and her body reflexively jumped, then she looked at the culprit who had touched her.

"Ah, Klein, you're back."

"What are you doing?"

"Dig a hole."

As she spoke, she raised the steel teeth in her hand and waved them at Klein.

"Why are you digging a hole?"

"I heard that grilling fish involves putting charcoal in a pit, wrapping the meat in it, and then covering it with mud. I thought that would make the grilled fish taste amazing. Luckily, there's plenty of charcoal in the forest, so I wanted to try and see if I could grill fish like that."

"oh……"

That's really not wasteful...

"Klein, could you grow some big leaves? I want to use them to wrap up the fish."

"Okay, but you have to save me a fish."

When we get back, we'll try controlling the Shadow Wolf again to see how it tastes.

"no problem!"

Klein used accelerated growth to give Yanami several large leaves big enough to cover several layers of fish, and Yanami happily wrapped the fish up.

"Yana, are there any live fish left?"

Yes, I put it in the fish basket.

Klein found a few small fish that Yanami had left in the fish basket in the pond, presumably for her to eat next time.

Hmm...it's too small.

Klein thought about it for a while and decided to requisition them first and use them to catch a few more big fish.

Klein parasitized a few small fish and then led them to the intersection of the underwater passages, but this time they were heading to the swamp.

As before, they left seeds as they moved forward, this time with the current, so they were much faster. Before long, Klein's school of fish was swept out through a gap in a cliff.

Klein arrived at a murky body of water, the very swamp that had nearly cost him his life.

So it was washed down a cliff... I was searching for a way back underwater, no wonder I couldn't find it.

The gap isn't very high, only about a meter above the water surface, and the current is strong enough to allow small fish to swim upstream.

If it were a few meters higher, it might become a waterfall... But maybe it was already a waterfall, and the water level in the swamp just kept rising.

Klein's fish arrived at the swamp, and soon he sensed that something was wrong with it; it was clearly poisoned.

This swamp is truly treacherous. Klein brought several extra fish to see if any could adapt to the toxins, including some he had seen in the swamp before. Without exception, they all succumbed to the poison.

It seems that only fish that have adapted to the toxins exist in this swamp.

Before the small fish were completely poisoned and died, Klein, based on his memory, went to the location where the fishmen were fishing.