"So the Crawler was the core of the giant ship. He and the ship beneath him were one!"
As Lin Yuan watched, realization dawned on him.
No wonder the giant ship had displayed the traits of a living creature. It had been alive all along, a part of the Crawler.
But why were all the Crawlers Jazz faced in his paintings people nailed to crosses, with no ships?
No, thinking back, almost all of Jazz's battles with Crawlers took place on land. He never fought them at sea!
Could it be that Crawlers had to abandon the ships that were part of their bodies to come ashore, leaving them weakened?
And at sea, Crawlers were at their full strength, so even Jazz was unwilling to fight them there?
Of course, this did not mean all Crawlers were invincible at sea. Rather, Jazz's opponents must also have been high-level Crawlers on his own level, so naturally, he had to avoid fighting on their home ground.
Seen that way, the Skeleton King's strength was even more unfathomable, given how effortlessly he had driven the intact Crawler before them into such dire straits.
The Nether River summoning was terrifyingly powerful!
Without Lilia's Coffin, Lin Yuan reckoned using this move really would have been little different from blowing himself up.
Meanwhile, the Skeleton King's last slash did not seem to have injured the Crawler's human body. Although the ship had been split in two, the flesh within still pulsed vigorously.
The black, viscous liquid on the hull's surface kept surging, trying to reconnect the severed ship.
This Crawler certainly had tenacious vitality.
But with such a vast disparity in strength between the two sides, tenacious vitality alone was of little use.
The Skeleton King continued swinging his longsword, sending out crescent after crescent of