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Chapter 1052 The Mysterious Ghost Ship
Cutting off the head is enough to send most monsters to the west, but there are exceptions.

For example, a nine-headed Hydra-type monster, even if all its heads are chopped off with one knife, it can regenerate double the heads at the broken neck. Only by burning the wound with fire can the regeneration be stopped.

Of course, later players found a more creative, or even unethical, method, which was to sprinkle low-level healing potions on the broken neck of the Hydra. This kind of healing potion can only heal wounds, but cannot regenerate broken limbs, and is more effective than burning.

"Why, you have hybridized with Hydra!"

AA roared and turned around to slash with a knife. Even though his back was turned, he could perfectly grasp the timing of [Iai]. But when he saw what was behind him, even he couldn't help but jump in the corner of his eyes.

A golden human head grew out of Fafnir's broken neck, and the head was staring at him.

"Ah ...

Fafnir slapped the golden dragon head on the ground with one claw, and then the golden dragon head was crushed, melted, absorbed by Fafnir, and returned to Fafnir's body. Finally, in the rhythm of Fafnir's golden body, the roaring human head was replaced by the dragon head.

From AA's perspective, it looked like a dragon's head swallowing the human head into its belly, symbolizing that the human head that had lost its mind because of the gold was devoured by desire and turned into a monster.

Compared to this plot interpretation, AA noticed something else more fatal, which was the broken neck of Fafnir's dragon head.

Although it has a biological structure, it is made of gold.

What I saw before me was truly a [golden] dragon, made entirely of gold from the inside out.

“This is too much.”

AA's expression was a little stiff. Although he could still deal with Fafnir's attack, he didn't know how to start.

If the opponent is a magical golden life form, then the method used against biological creatures will be useless, and its health points will be meaningless. Only by hitting the core can it be completely destroyed.

"Damn it, if there's aqua regia, no, the aqua regia will also evaporate here."

AA chopped Fafnir's front paw with a knife, then twisted the ice blade, and a huge golden claw was dug out.

AA immediately caught the claw and put it in the warehouse.

[Ace Ace LV99-LV100]

【Rich man LV4-LV5】

"Upgraded!?"

AA's attention was distracted for a moment, which became a fatal flaw, and Fafnir's tail stabbed AA's back from behind.

"Sneak attack!?" AA drew his sword instantly, swung his large sword in the air and used the movement to dodge Fafnir's tail.

This tail was much thinner and longer than the ones I had seen before, and it pierced through the lava on the ground.

"Can't it be!" AA had a bad premonition, and Fafnir's unpredictable attack proved his premonition.

Simply put, this golden life form can extend its body at will like slime or rubber, and all previously recorded attack distances are invalid.

The tail, head, and arms can be extended at will, and can even be broken into a small Fafnir to continue attacking.

In the end, AA was outnumbered and in an abnormal state of continuous heavy metal poisoning, and was pierced through the body by Fafnir's tail.

The last resistance AA could make was to store the entire set of equipment in the warehouse to ensure that it would not fall after his death.

Without his armor, AA's skin immediately started burning, but he would not die from environmental damage.

Fafnir opened his mouth towards AA, and the gold solution gushed out, instantly submerging AA. Then Fafnir sucked up the gold solution again. When the last of the gold solution was sucked up, AA disappeared.

[Rhine Giant Fafnir LV300-LV310]

【YOU DIED】

After the familiar death prompt, there was no familiar resurrection countdown. This was a special death caused by being absorbed by a monster, so AA could get more information. In his vision, the world was set on fire and burning fiercely.

And in the flames, a huge ghost ship was looming.

How do we know that it is a ghost ship? Of course it is not simply judged by the classic ghost ship elements such as the tattered sails, dirty deck, and ghostly green flames.

is the setting.

After the blessed person dies, the soul flame can be rekindled in the bonfire, but in fact the blessed person still goes through the process of death and resurrection.

The soul flame produced after death is no different from the soul flame produced by other monsters. It will be crushed or affected by elements related to the undead.

If there is a setting that [you will be trapped here forever after death], then players will be able to see the scene of their souls being stranded or attracted before they die, among which the ghost ship is the most distinctive one.

AA approached the ghost ship, but before he could get a good look at it, he felt a sense of shattering, as if his soul was crushed.

Among the flying soul fragments, he vaguely saw a person with a suture scar on his mouth.

"Got you, Loki."

AA didn't know why he said that, but it was cool to say and should be scary for Loki.

……

AA slowly opened his eyes. He opened his eyes in the Decisive Fortress, and other players were already waiting for him.

Although he lost, he got enough important information. He would usually lose in a battle against a LV300 monster, not to mention AA or a one-on-one fight.

Players who have watched the normal battle all think that the winning rate in the battle against Fafnir in the Giant Volcano is too low, no matter how many people are involved.

This is also a T0 level monster that is limited to the Giant Volcano, and is much stronger than the Blizzard Dragon King.

Now they have to start thinking about how to lure Fafnir out from the depths of the Giant Volcano, at least not in the fifth level hot zone, which is too unfavorable.

Seeing that other players were actually discussing such unimportant matters as Fafnir, AA realized that the live broadcast was automatically cut off after death, and no one knew about the ghost ship afterwards.

AA immediately added this, and everyone's expression became a little solemn. Ghost ships often have a very troublesome factor, that is [the dead cannot leave the ghost ship].

A ghost ship is a group of monsters. When a conflict occurs with a ghost ship, once a player or NPC dies, the crew of the ghost ship will increase, and the level will skyrocket. The more people die, the higher the level, and the level increase is permanent.

This special mechanism of the ghost ship is permanent, which means that the ghost ship has been absorbing the souls of the dead for thousands of years or even longer.

The only good news is that death in the fourth-level hot zone will not trigger the CG of seeing the ghost ship, which means that the absorption range of the ghost ship is limited, only in the fifth-level hot zone.

But that's not small.

Everyone subconsciously looked in the direction of the Jinlunga Chasm, which looked like an extremely huge river that could accommodate many ships.

"Let's...get rid of Fafnir first."

(End of this chapter)