Chapter 360: Crossing the lake × striking first × shells
After reaching this conclusion, the team could not help picking up the pace.
Before daybreak, after confirming that there was no danger by the lake, the team arrived there and began building a boat to cross it.
The boat was fairly large. Joey and the others had also stripped some wood from the nearby Giant Trees to use on it. Although they were not quite sure what effects the branches of these Giant Trees had, the Shell Monsters had never approached them before. Perhaps the Giant Trees repelled the Shell Monsters with the same aversion the Shell Monsters inspired in the Black Dragon.
Besides, even if there was something wrong with the branches, they could destroy or discard them halfway across. That would not be difficult.
All in all, bringing them was better than leaving them behind.
They also tested the Giant Tree branches by having a Nen Beast carry them into the water.
They simply received no useful feedback. The erupting eyeballs did not care whether the Nen Beast was holding branches forcibly dragged into the water.
The team did not continue probing-or rather, provoking-the eyeballs in the lake. After all, stopping their rampage would consume considerable stamina and Nen, which would not benefit the operation ahead.
Before dawn, Cluck passed some information to Cheadle.
It concerned her research into the Shell Monsters. Just as Joey had thought, she really had obtained some and dissected them.
But the conclusion was not particularly good. Although these Shell Monsters looked like real living creatures, their essence was that of Nen Beasts constructed from Emission Nen.
Their true bodies were those thick, sturdy shells!
By releasing Life Energy or absorbing it from other living beings, the shells created special tentacled monsters capable