Single Wish: Rise Of The Omniscient Paragon

399  398: Aquatic Stone Beasts? ( Twelfth Bonus Chapter)

Ever since the apocalypse began on New Earth, Corey had seen a lot of strange scenes that one would have never seen on a normal day.

He had faced corpses possessed by ghost like entities- Revenants.

He had seen a titanic abomination that sent shivers down his spine.

He had seen a sea that was so hot that it turned all that touched it to stone.

He had seeen a pile of skulls come together to form a disgusting abomination.

He had seen quite a lot of things, and if he was told to rank all that he had seen in terms of strangeness, he would have ranked the titanic abomination he encountered in the black sea first.

However, what he was currently seeing was about to change his ranking of strangeness.

Approximately twenty meters from him and Selene was a sea of stone-like beasts. These stone-like beasts were aquatic and Corey could even see fishes that looked like stones and were still.

Corey could also see some octopi, crabs, and even some sharks, but all of them were made out of stones.

"What in the great fuckery is this?"

Selene could not help but exclaim with a tone filled with shock, bafflement, and also wariness.

Corey did not answer, but his Eyes of Dreams and Nightmares had changed to his Eyes of Omniscience from the moment this strange scene came into his view.

He observed the aquatic animals that seemed to be like statues, and his Eyes of Omniscience brightened as he infused more mental energy and mana into his eyes.

However, despite doing this, all that he was able to see was little… extremely little.

Corey frowned, "I'm not completely sure, but I think these things are alive."

"They're alive?" Selene exclaimed with a deep frown as her innermost worries came to pass.

Corey shook his head slightly, "I'm not completely sure. I might be wrong, but I perceived a very faint energy in them."

Selene looked at the aquatic beasts and frowned with a tinge of worry on her face, "So… what are we going to do now?"

Corey gave no reply and stared at the aquatic stone beasts in the distance.

When he tried to analyze the aquatic stone beasts, the only thing he was able to see with his Eyes of Omniscience was that there was an extremely faint and tiny flowing energy in the bodies of the aquatic stone beasts.

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One could choose to ignore this extremely faint energy, however, Corey knew he could not since the scene before them was extremely strange.

From what he could see, there were at least five thousand aquatic beasts in front of them. That was a lot of aquatic stone beasts.

'Apart from the fact that its completely strange and baffling for fishes and aquatic beasts to be in the desert, the fact that I cannot estimate their power levels and the fact that I also find it extremely difficult to see through the stone of the aquatic beasts is also worrying.'

Corey furrowed his brows. His biggest worry was if the aquatic stone beasts had the ability to move.

Although he wasn't sure about the power levels of the aquatic stone beasts, facing five thousand enemies was not going to be easy even if they were tier 1 or tier 0.

Even an ant could bring down an elephant.

'What's worse would be if each of them were as powerful as a tier 3, tier 4 or even higher.'

"Master?"

Selene's voice flowed into his ears, and he looked at her.

"Let's try to find another path. We'll try and see if we go around the aquatic stone beasts."

Selene's eyes brightened in relief. A part of her was worried that Corey would still decide to go forward and walk in the midst of the aquatic stone beasts.

Although the aquatic stone beasts were not moving, Selene knew that if they suddenly started moving while they in their midst, she and Corey could die depending on the strength of the aquatic stone beasts.

'Luckily for me, I have a smart and cautious master.' Selene thought with a relieved smile.

Corey saw this, but he said nothing. He turned to his right, and said, "Let's go."

Selene followed, and the two of them kept on walking while making sure to keep at least a twenty meter distance from the aquatic stone beasts.

This continued for exactly twenty four hours, and the expressions of both Selene and Corey had changed from one of calmness and wariness to graveness and a tinge of fear. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

They had alternated between walking and jogging as they tried to find a path that would allow them to go around the aquatic stone beasts, however, after moving for exactly twenty four hours, they came to a horrifying realization.

The aquatic stone beasts they had previously thought to have a number of five thousand or ten thousand was completely wrong. In the past 24 hours, they had not stopped seeing a single aquatic stone beast. And both Corey and Selene knew what this meant… There were hundreds of thousands of aquatic stone beasts. Maybe even a million aquatic stone beasts or more than a million aquatic stone beasts.

They had not gone deeper and were just seeing the first row of aquatic stone beasts. The thought of countless more aquatic stone beasts filled Selene and even Corey with fear.

What sort of desert were they in?

"Master… Can't we go back? Is the object you're looking for that important?"

Selene and Corey sat opposite each other on two rocks they had stumbled upon. Their faces contained visible seriousness and graveness as they both stared at the ground.

After Selene spoke, Corey glanced at her, then his gaze shifted to the sky.

Another oddity about where they were was that despite twenty four hours having gone by, it had not gotten dark even once.

'I guess it's not surprising that the laws of this shattered dimension are different from New Earth.'

Corey released a soft sigh, and then he looked at Selene.

"The object is very important to me."

Selene's expression changed slightly, and she could not help but become slightly restless. With Corey's answer, she already knew what Corey's next course of action would be.

"Although it's very important to me, it's not important to you… You can leave if you want to."

"Huh?" Selene looked at Corey in surprise. She tried to figure out if Corey was joking or if there was another meaning to his words like- If you go, I would kill you or punish you later on.

"Why are you looking at me like that. I'm not an unreasonable person, so don't be surprised." Corey stood, and then he looked at Selene.

"Just make sure not to die on your way out of here, and find an ancient stone too."

Corey was just about to leave, but Selene's voice drifted into his ear.

"I'll follow you."

Corey turned and looked at her with raised brows.

"Why the change of mind?"

Selene shrugged, "Since The Clown said that we can't die, I figured I should at least follow you. Who knows, I might find a treasure for myself if I follow you and we survive… My father always told me that in our world, with danger comes opportunity… And I intend on seizing that opportunity."

Corey stared at her for a moment, and then his lips curled up slightly.

"Good."

Corey turned in the direction of the sea of aquatic stone beasts, and then with a soft exhale, he took a step forward.

"Let's go."

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