The yers appeared in the Undead Frontier. Escorted by Dave, none of the undead moving in the settlement tried to attack his friends.


    "Follow me, it’s a couple of minutes walk to theke from here," Dave said to his party members.


    The yers followed after Dave on dunlord back. They reached the acidicke in a while after. The undead were still repairing the corroded boats on the shore. When Dave arrived, they turned and saluted him.


    "Captain," Dave called to the leading undead on the shore.


    "Yes,mander Kis’Shtiengbrah."


    "I brought some assistance for the task. Can we have a boat to use?" Dave asked.


    "I can lend you some rowboatsmander. Anythingrger will be too risky to use in the battle as it will be damaged."


    "I understand, anything is good," Dave replied.


    The undead captain waved for a few of his underlings to take the shored boat down theke.


    After the boat was floating, the captain turned to Dave and said, "You may start,mander."


    "Thanks," Dave thanked the captain and got on the boat. "Guys, let’s get this over with," Dave said, addressing his party.


    The yers got on the boat and sat adjacent to Dave, who took the rows and began rowing the boat into theke.


    "I never fought on a boat before. You think this will work?" Lone asked.


    "I have a n, don’t worry," Dave said.


    Dave kept rowing the boat into theke. After a while, the water bubbled near them.


    "We’ll start from here," Dave said. He stood up and opened the small bag on his waist.


    "Tiny, I promised you plenty of food before, now’s the time," Dave said.


    The ck slime wiggled in ecstasy at the mention of food.


    "I need a manticore, Tiny."


    Dave grabbed the slime and threw him in the air. The slime transformed into itsrger form and dropped like an anchor into the water, and thankfully he was big enough that half of his head remained above water.


    "He’s gonna drown!" Lone shouted.


    "Undead don’t drown, Lone. Don’t worry."


    "What about the acid in theke? It will melt Tiny," Mercy said. Dave didn’t think about that at first, so he leaned over the boat and put his hand on the acidicke. His hand sizzled for a bit. He lost 1 HP. Then nothing more.


    "Nope, the acid doesn’t work on undead either. Okay tiny, Manticore, get one out!" Dave called.


    Tiny raised his hand above water and summoned a golden sarcophagus. The sarcophagus opened and released a deathly ck aura that morphed into the shape of a giant half bull half scorpion creature in the air.


    The manticore dropped into theke, sending giant waves coursing through it. The waves almost tipped the rowboat over into theke.


    "Big guy, we need a ride!" Dave called to the manticore.


    The chimeric creature grabbed the rowboat and ced it on his back. Dave and his party left the boat and stood on the broad carapace back of the manticore. The creature was big enough that it looked like a giant moving fortress.


    Suddenly, the manticore crouched, until the stron of his carapace made contact with water. It folded its legs and raised its scorpion tail up. The manticore was actually capable of swimming.


    "Damn, this is like a Monster-boat." nkermented.


    "This is pleasantly unexpected," Fortress added.


    Tiny climbed on the manticore and joined the group.


    "Here you go guys," Dave said and shared his quest with everyone.


    "We need to kill these serpents, spread along the manticore’s back if you spot one tell me," Dave said.


    The yers spread and began inspecting theke as the manticore slowly made its way through it.


    After a few moments, nker shouted, "I see something!" he said.


    The rest of the yers ran toward nker, there were a lot of bubbles just a few meters away from the moving manticore.


    "How are we going to fight that if it’s underwater?" nker added.


    "We’ll drag it out," Lone said. She aimed an arrow at the bubbling spot in theke and shot it.


    The arrow broke through the water surface and prated something as a loud screeching sound echoed from under the water.


    Suddenly, a glistening chain of ice materialised from Lone’s arrow and extended right to where her arrow went through.


    "Everyone, help me pull it out," Lone said and pulled on the icy chain.


    The party dragged the chain, but it barely moved, whatever that was pinned to the other side was strong enough to fend off the strength of six yers with ease. Yet the hungry Tiny wasn’t having it. He moved toward the yers and grabbed at the chains. He yanked the chain and pulled from the water a mass of writhing, and wriggling snakes.


    The creature was like a group of snakes melded and fused together; they were white and had several heads. It screeched at the yers with all its leaders and spewed a torrent of yellow liquid.


    Dave jumped in front of the snake and took the poison ssh in his party’s stead. He was undead, and poison did not affect him.


    Dave inspected the serpent.


    ***


    ***


    Torab Serpent Juvenile


    Level: 250


    Tier: Ferocious


    Base damage: 20,000-40,000


    Danger Level: low


    HP: 250,000


    PD: 15,000


    MD:10,000


    Skills:


    [Poison Spit] Shoots a spray of poison that deals 20% serpent base damage and 30,000 poison damage over 20 seconds.


    [Strangle] wraps itself around a target, rendering them immobile. After 30 seconds of strangling, the Torab Serpent deals 20% of target’s max health in t damage.


    [Slippery Escape] When the Torab Serpent loses 80% of its max HP, it will attempt to escape in theke.


    Lore:


    A strange mutated serpent with a vague history. It was known that these creatures had never existed before in thiske, someone or something had ced these Torab Serpents in thiske to grow and raise them. But their caretaker had had long since forgotten their existence in this forsakenke, and so the serpents grew to gue theke with their poison.


    ***


    "This is an easy fight, we have to kill 200 of these, shouldn’t be hard guys," Dave said.


    Fortress equipped his shield and sword and charged the serpent. Dave switched to his gauntlets and attacked with a [Dragon Fist] chipping a third of the serpent’s HP in one hit.


    Mercy stabbed through one of the serpent’s head and destroyed the remaining HP bar.


    "Damn, that’s a lot of damage," nkermented, "You should learn from her, Skelly."


    Dave shook his head. This priest never knew when to keep quiet.


    "Uhm, guys," Fortress said.


    "Yeah?" Dave replied.


    "When theke bubbled, it meant that there was a snake under. So what does that mean?" Fortress said, pointing at a faraway spot in theke.


    Dave traced Fortress’s finger and noticed a change in theke’s water. There were bubbles, but there were so many of them that theke looked like it was boiling.


    "Shit, I think all the serpents had noticed the death of their friend, and they areing, ready up there’s a big fighting."