Pretending To Be A Boss

"Seven percent, not as high as the Great Tengu's eleven percent, this must be a disaster-class creature."

The Dragon-Horned Shark was a creature even Tang Xian did not recognize.

It had not been explored by humans, nor recorded on the steles of the Pyramid.

Tang Xian pondered for a while and soon understood.

The Sea Demon was most likely the only apocalypse-class creature still alive, though only in body.

Tang Xian still remembered the voice in his sea of consciousness; if that voice belonged to the Sea Demon, it would mean the Sea Demon had died.

And its massive body was the source of its power, which it entrusted to its seven servants to manage.

That was Tang Xian's deduction.

"Judging from what's mentioned on the stele, the ocean must be regarded as a very dangerous place by the Orderlies, so it's normal that there are species not recorded on the stele."

Observing the stomach of the Dragon-Horned Shark, Tang Xian committed all its characteristics to memory, planning to document them in his notes when he returned to the Forest Sea, thereby completing the mining area's creature compendium.

Unfortunately, he couldn't see its external shape.

But in the depths of the sea, it was unlikely one could see anything clearly anyway.

Gastric juices continued to drip. A disaster-class creature had swallowed a disaster-class boss creature. Although the Great Tengu was already on its last breath, even in its prime, it couldn't possibly be a match for the Dragon-Horned Shark in the sea.

Tang Xian now realized, judging by the rate of corrosion from the Great Tengu, he must not have been unconscious for long.

Free from the pressure of the seawater, even though the gases inside the fish belly were foul-smelling and scarce, Tang Xian still felt gratitude for the fish.

Worse than death was the prospect of being alive yet helplessly waiting for time to pass in the endless deep sea and darkness.

If not for the Dragon-Horned Shark, Tang Xian guessed he might have succumbed to oxygen deprivation and sunk into an eternal slumber.

Acid landed on Tang Xian, and he quietly began to build resistance. Seven percent max health damage was far less lethal than the Great Tengu's eleven percent.

Tang Xian did not attempt to increase the damage.

The Dragon-Horned Shark was like a battleship right now, and he couldn't sink his own ship just to increase damage against a certain creature.

At that moment, new information came from the sea of consciousness.

[Successfully killed an adult Great Tengu, acquired ability: Eclipse]

[Eclipse: Can forcibly absorb all light within a large radius, creating utmost darkness.]

[Initial favorability of canine creatures -5]

[Initial prestige with canine creatures +90]

[Total initial prestige with canine creatures exceeds one hundred, achievement unlocked: Dogs' Dread]

[Dogs' Dread: Except for a few mad dogs, the rest of the canine creatures will involuntarily be overwhelmed with fear at your sight, their will to fight completely gone.]

Tang Xian smiled.

In the Pyramid World, foxes were actually considered part of the canine family.

But in the mining area, according to Shi Wenbin's "Foxology," the three-tailed and six-tailed foxes no longer fall under the canine classification; they have completely independent characteristics.

Considering the innate fondness Tang Xiaojiu and Qing JiuYu have for him, this great scholar's viewpoint appeared to be correct.

Tang Xian stopped thinking about these trivial matters; gaining a new skill was cause for celebration.

But he couldn't be happy for long, as soon another drop of acid fell...

[Warning, incoming damage is eleven percent of maximum health]

[Successfully resisted damage from the stomach acid of the Ghost King Fish]

[Acquired one point of resistance to the Ghost King Fish's damage.]

After finally maxing out his resistance to the Dragon-Horned Shark, a creature he had never seen before, he suddenly faced a Ghost King Fish?

Tang Xian looked at the damaged body of the Dragon-Horned Shark; what he saw this time... was a creature several times larger than the Dragon-Horned Shark.

Disaster-class boss creature, the Ghost King Fish.

Yet another creature unknown to Tang Xian, who faintly considered a certain possibility.

He was currently experiencing intense tremors.

The vibrations, coming closer, had flipped him into the air several times.

At the highest point, Tang Xian saw the enormous stomach of the Ghost King Fish.

Then he fell back into the stomach of the Dragon-Horned Shark.

These tremors convinced Tang Xian—

He was witnessing a big fish eat little fish, little fish eat shrimp scenario.

Only here, the smallest shrimp was the Dragon-Horned Shark, nearly six hundred meters in length, comparable to the Zudun Giant.
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He was curious... into which great fish's mouth he would ultimately fall.