"AAAAAH!!!"
The war cry, brimming with fury, seemed to contain some invisible energy, sending faint ripples through the air.
The tribal Priest's deep-blue tattoos seemed alive, glimmering faintly as they writhed and twisted up from his collar, spreading across nearly half his face.
His mixed Barbarian and Dwarf heritage gave Tie Ge the Dwarf's stout, powerful build, along with a Barbarian's ability to harness rage and invoke Heroic Spirit totems.
As he used a Combat Skill, a metallic sheen surfaced across his skin, making him seem as though he had truly been forged from solid iron. With a shoulder charge, he knocked an elite Four-Armed Murloc guard in front of him onto its back.
The heavy Great Hammer in his hands came crashing down with savage force, making even the ground tremble slightly.
Only when the corpse beneath him no longer had a recognizable face, its shattered skull fragments mixed with blue-white slime, dead beyond any doubt—
—did the fierce Warrior glare with his beastlike round eyes and let out a long breath through flaring nostrils.
Had the Shahua Mermen's Sacrifice Ritual succeeded?
Perhaps only halfway.
The massive commotion from the altar's direction had let him witness the harpoon Sea Fang hurled explode above the altar, and he had also seen the Bloodskin Shark Beast—a Monster radiating immense power, yet already wounded and incomplete from the very moment of its arrival.
Tie Ge did not know what status this Monster held among the Shahua Mermen, but he could sense that with the Shark Beast's appearance, the Shahua Mermen, who had gradually been losing ground beneath the Adventurers' counterattack, seemed to have found a pillar to rally around.
Their morale soared to the point of near madness.
The situation, which had still held room for recovery, was instantly dragged into the