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Chapter 1139: Nightmare at Sea: Barnacles
Is the mission before us a trial prepared by the ancestors of Arcadia, or is it just a coincidence?
Blaze felt that no matter which one it was, as long as the mission mentioned "good deeds", there was no reason not to do it as long as it was a good deed.

Not only him, but all the blessed people who have triggered the mission are planning to get off the boat and stroll around the island.

“Do you really want to care about this kind of thing?” Captain Babo laughed strangely when he saw that several people were about to get off the ship. “Do you really trust us pirates to stay here? We might abandon you to look for the Fountain of Youth the moment the vortex appears.”

"I don't underestimate your stupidity. Maybe you will really do such a thing, so don't underestimate us, okay?" Greenland raised his finger and pointed behind Captain Babo.

Captain Babo turned around and the ogre waved at him, revealing a mouthful of sharp white teeth.

"Don't leave us on the same ship with this monster!"

In the end, it was Audrey who stayed on the Dead Bear that stopped the pirates from running down screaming, but some of them still slid down the ropes. In their eyes, if there were no other blessed ones to check and balance, then what was the difference between the Dead Bear and the ogre's dinner plate? Audrey alone could not stop the ogre from eating people.

“Oh, there are more people willing to do small acts of kindness.”

Blaze landed on this suddenly emerged island, stepped on the ground with his feet and looked around.

The white volcanoes around are all volcanic barnacles, and the mission is a small act of kindness. Perhaps the island under our feet is actually a rather large creature, and is now being troubled by the volcanic barnacles that are parasitic on its body.

"I guess we need to destroy all these volcanic barnacles."

Blaze picked out his weapon. [Ares' Howl] was too destructive and might hurt giant creatures, so it would be better to use [Gungnir], a super strong stick.
The mission is very simple, you just need to destroy the volcanic barnacles, but the process is not easy.

Although the volcanic barnacles did not form a group of monsters, their numbers were astonishing. Some were as tall as small hills, while others were so dense that they were the size of pebbles and could cause people to suffer from claustrophobia.

The most dangerous are the pebble-sized volcanic barnacles, which actively attach themselves to hard substances.

Marika was used to wearing light armor, and the moment she landed on the island, the surrounding volcanic barnacles, which looked like small pebbles, instantly stood up and then attached to her at high speed.

Marika was quick to act and immediately took off the armor on her upper body, but the light armor on her legs was still parasitized by volcanic barnacles.

After the light armor was attached by the volcanic barnacles, it could not be put into the warehouse, and there was no way to take it off. What was even more frightening was that the volcanic barnacles continued to pile up, as if they were occupying a parasitic environment. When the leg armor was full, they slowly moved towards Marika's body.

"This good deed is too dangerous!" Blaze opened the warehouse, took out the discarded armor that he had failed to forge but was reluctant to throw away, and threw it next to Marika.

The new parasitic target appeared, and the volcanic barnacles immediately changed their direction. Blazer took the opportunity to sprint towards Marika at high speed, transformed into a silver werewolf, picked up Marika and carried her on his shoulders, and crushed all the barnacles on Marika's legs with his left hand.

But after crushing the barnacles, Blaze's expression became ugly. He immediately tore off Marika's leg armor and threw it away.

A large number of corrosion marks appeared on the bright silver leg armor, and these marks were still spreading, and would eventually corrode the leg armor completely.

The pirate who was halfway down the rope saw it and was immediately scared to death. He desperately urged his accomplices above to go back quickly. The ogres above had only eaten people before, but now they have changed their ways. The barnacles below seem to be the real cannibals.

"It's much more troublesome than I thought." Greenland tread lightly on the barnacle-covered island. Fortunately, she was not in the habit of wearing metal armor, otherwise she would have ended up like Marika.

She tried to take out an ordinary novice knight's sword. When she held it in her hand, the small barnacles around it did not react at all. But when she chopped it down and touched the barnacle island, the small barnacles were immediately activated and attached to the knight's sword.

The knight's sword is covered with granular barnacles, which looks very disgusting, but what is even more disgusting is the mechanism of volcanic barnacles found in Greenland.

Volcanic barnacles will prioritize metal as their target for parasitism. Not only will the parasitized items be unable to be retrieved from the warehouse, but they will also become heavier due to the weight of the barnacles.

If it was armor, the wearer would be pinned to the ground by the weight of the barnacles and unable to move until they were submerged in the barnacles. If it was a weapon, the weight balance of the entire weapon would be broken, making it unusable.

What’s even more terrible is that after being parasitized by barnacles, the host is already [dead].

Greenland took out another knight's sword and hit the knight's sword that was parasitized by barnacles. The barnacles were smashed to pieces, but countless signs of corrosion appeared on the knight's sword.

Compared to the slow corrosion of Marika's leg armor, the Novice Knight's sword rotted in an instant. The traces of corrosion were where the barnacles parasitized. The biological adhesive produced by the barnacles for parasitism would produce a super strong corrosion effect at the moment of the barnacle's death.

Greenland didn't want to test whether the corrosion effect was specific to metals.

The good news is that barnacles parasitize on the human body in a hidden state. They are only triggered when wearing metal armor. Normally, they will reproduce crazily on weapons and then prick the hands of the person holding the weapon.

If barnacles really parasitize indiscriminately, then they would be in big trouble for setting foot on this barnacle island.

However, this did not prevent Greenland from feeling uncomfortable standing on the barnacle island. The barnacles under her feet seemed to be able to drill into her flesh and blood at any time.

Melee weapons are definitely unusable, and it's difficult to control the damage from ranged weapons, so the only option left is magic.

It was very embarrassing that Blaze was not particularly good at this. The Fire Prayer would harm the host parasitized by the barnacles with the power of Amaterasu, and now the sun was hanging lazily in the sky, and the power of [Blind Eyes] was weakened.

Blaze carried Marika and looked towards Greenland for help. Greenland was so versatile, he must be good at magic.

Greenland laughed awkwardly. She knew magic, but most of the magic she knew was for harassment in close combat and did not focus on causing damage.

If the goal is to destroy all the barnacles on the barnacle island in front of you, that is impossible.

"Wait for me to send a distress signal."

(End of this chapter)