Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 352 – Underwater City

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Lin Fan suddenly opened her eyes, and cigarette ash fell onto her black skirt.

“Level Seven?!”

No splash was made, not even a ripple on the water’s surface.

Lin Fan activated her [Spirit-Flesh Unity] talent, and her body instantly became ethereal, like a drop of ink merging into the bottomless Spirit Lake.

This feeling was strange.

There was no resistance from the water around her, no terrifying water pressure, and even her clothes remained dry.

“Good thing this talent is smart enough to consider clothing part of the body.”

Lin Fan glanced down at her elaborate black gothic gown, which still maintained its fluffy skirt in the water, as if she were walking through a vacuum.

If only her physical body could become ethereal and she had to take off her clothes and store them in her space, the image of a dignified Dragon Clan elder running around naked fighting would be too beautiful to behold.

As she continued to dive deeper, the light grew dimmer.

At three hundred meters deep, the surroundings were pitch black.

But for Lin Fan, who possessed peak Level Seven Mental Strength, such darkness simply didn’t exist.

Five hundred meters.

After passing through that pliable Psychic Barrier, the scene before her suddenly opened up.

“Whoa, there’s something here.”

Lin Fan floated in the water, looking at the scene below, and couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

This was no lake bottom—it was practically another world.

Giant glowing corals stood tall like towering ancient trees, illuminating the pitch-black waters as if it were daylight.

Countless fist-sized glowing jellyfish drifted through the coral clusters, like a sky full of floating lanterns.

And at the very center of it all, a massive crystal city lay quietly.

The city’s architectural style was unique, mostly built from giant seashells and some kind of translucent ore, full of exotic charm.

But at this moment, this beautiful city was facing a catastrophic disaster.

Boom—!

The water violently shook as a visible shockwave swept in all directions, shattering the surrounding coral clusters into pieces.

Above the city, a pale blue hemispherical barrier flickered on and off, emitting a strained buzzing sound.

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And outside the barrier, a monstrous fish over fifty meters long was ramming into it with wild abandon.

“This is… a Dunkleosteus?”

Lin Fan narrowed her eyes, looking at the beast.

She had seen this thing in a science popularization short video on a certain app before her rebirth.

Its head and neck were covered in thick bony armor, like wearing a giant metal helmet.

It had no teeth, replaced instead by four bone plates as sharp as guillotine blades. Every bite caused the surrounding water to produce sonic booms.

A Dunkleosteus?

“A big fellow at mid Level Seven—no wonder it’s pushed these natives to the brink.”

Lin Fan didn’t rush to act. Instead, she floated like a ghost at the edge of the battlefield, observing the defenders below with great interest.

Inside the barrier, densely packed aquatic warriors stood ready.

Interestingly, these warriors were divided into two completely distinct camps.

On the left were creatures with human upper bodies and fish tails for lower halves.

Regardless of gender, their appearances were absurdly attractive.

Especially the female merfolk—their chests covered only by two seashells, their long hair drifting like seaweed, their skin as white as snow, and their lower fish tails shimmering with iridescent scales.

“So this is the Merfolk? Every single one of them is top-tier in looks.”

Lin Fan’s gaze lingered on those mermaid sisters for two seconds, offering a high appraisal.

If these were made into Skin, even without any abilities, their looks alone would earn them an Excellent Grade.

On the right side, however, was a group with a completely different style.

They also had human upper bodies and fish tails, but these creatures looked a bit rough around the edges.

Their skin was a grayish-blue, covered in scars, their mouths full of fangs, and their backs bore fierce dorsal fins.

The Jiaoren.

Also known as the legendary deep-sea berserkers.

At this moment, these two races, who would normally glare at each other on sight, were standing back-to-back, jointly channeling their energy into the barrier.

At the very front of the formation, two figures hovered in the air.

A man and a woman.

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The man was the chieftain of the Jiaoren, his physique as massive as a small mountain, wielding a giant bone trident in his hand.

Peak Level Six.

And the woman…

Lin Fan’s gaze was instantly drawn to her.

She was an extraordinarily beautiful mermaid.

She had a cascade of ice-blue hair flowing like a waterfall, adorned with an exquisite coral crown atop her head.

Her fish tail was not the ordinary multicolored kind, but a noble pure gold.

At this moment, she was raising a scepter embedded with a massive pearl, her face pale as she struggled to maintain the barrier’s operation.

“Another Epic Grade blank.”

Lin Fan licked his lips, a flicker of greed flashing through his eyes.

The Forest of Elves was truly a wonderful place—this was practically a luxury restaurant prepared just for him.

Crack!

Just then, the Dunkleosteus seemed to lose its patience.

Its massive tail whipped violently, and its colossal body shot forward like a cannonball, slamming into the barrier once again.

This time, it opened its terrifying maw, wide enough to swallow a bus whole.

Its four guillotine-like bone plates bit hard into the barrier’s luminous surface.

Sizzle—!

A teeth-grinding screech traveled through the water, spreading across the entire city.

The indestructible barrier was actually bitten into several cracks by sheer force!

“Hold the line! For the Holy City!”

The Jiaoren chieftain roared, swinging his trident fiercely. A deep-blue water blade pierced through the barrier, slashing hard across the Dunkleosteus’s eye.

But this monster’s defense was simply absurd.

The water blade, capable of cutting through steel, struck its thick skull and left only a white mark—it didn’t even break through.

“ROAR!”

The Dunkleosteus was enraged.

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Its dead fish eyes flashed with a vicious glint, and its massive body spun rapidly like a high-speed drill, grinding relentlessly against the crack in the barrier.

“Pfft!”

Hathaway, the mermaid queen, spat out a mouthful of blood, the light of the Staffs in her hand dimming instantly.

“Your Majesty!”

The surrounding mermaid guards cried out in terror.

“Don’t worry about me! Channel your energy!”

Hathaway wiped the blood from her lips, her gaze resolute.

Once the barrier shattered, the hundreds of her kin here would all become food for this monster.

“It’s screwed.”

Lin Fan shook his head from above, making his judgment.

The level suppression was too obvious.

A mid-Level Seven fighting two peak Level Sixes, and against a monster with maxed-out defense at that—this was simply not a fair fight.

That barrier could hold for at most two more minutes.

“Looks like I won’t have to wait much longer.”

Crack! Crack!

The cracks spread rapidly like a spiderweb.

The entire underwater city was plunged into despair.

Everyone looked up at the ever-widening breach above, and the blood-drenched maw drooling from beyond it.

It’s over.

That was the only thought in every aquatic being’s mind.

“Prepare for close combat!”

The merman chieftain roared his final battle cry with bloodshot eyes, “Even if we die, we’ll knock out two of its teeth!”

Yet just as that Dunkleosteus was about to shatter the last line of defense and charge in for a feast—

Its massive body suddenly froze.

That instinct of a top-tier predator told it that an extremely dangerous aura was approaching from above.

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It whipped its head around, its dead fish eyes staring into the dark waters above.

There, nothing.

But it felt as if something was standing at the very top of the food chain, coldly watching it.

“Oh? Found me?”

In the darkness, Lin Fan casually tossed away the melon seeds she hadn’t finished cracking.

Since she couldn’t stay hidden anymore, she might as well…

“Though it’s a bit early, it’s not too much of a loss.”

Lin Fan’s figure slowly materialized.

In the depths of this sea, the woman in the black gothic dress descended like a sudden reaper of death.

She flashed a disarmingly innocent smile at Hathaway and the merman chieftain below, who were both staring in stunned disbelief.

“Excuse me.”

“This fish, I’m taking it.”

“As for you all…”

Lin Fan pointed at the crumbling city below.

“If you don’t mind, I’ll take that too. Any objections?”

Five hundred meters beneath the lake.

There was no light here, only the cold, eerie glow reflected by luminous coral.

The ancient Dunkleosteus, over fifty meters in length, froze the instant it heard Lin Fan’s voice.

Its murky dead fish eyes locked onto the tiny figure in black above.

By its usual temperament, any creature daring to speak to it like that would have long since become part of its excrement.

But now, it didn’t move.

Because a fear rooted deep in its bloodline was violently assaulting its mind.

It was the instinctive trembling of the lesser before the greater.

Lord of All Spirits, activate!