"Not bad. Everything that should be here is here."
Looking at the dazzling variety of items, Drake directly took out a Coin Trough and stored the contents of the security chest into the Piggy Bank space.
His inventory had already been stuffed full of materials collected during the exploration.
Only the Piggy Bank still had so space left.
If Lili had been here, carrying all these items would definitely not have been a problem.
Unfortunately, she was not very suited to going out and exploring. Being a shop clerk was good enough.
The items in the security chest included one Seeking chanism and one Schematic.
The Seeking chanism could be charged, allowing it to point toward the direction of the next lab.
However, its accuracy was not high. He would need to consu energy repeatedly to gradually close in on the correct location.
The Schematic could be used to unlock so basic Draedon technology equipnt.
Drake already had an Encrypted Schematic — Planetoid in his possession.
However, that Schematic required a Decryption Computer to decode.
As for the Schematic — Sunken Sea he had just obtained from the security chest, it did not require decoding.
The mont he obtained it, Drake acquired the corresponding knowledge.
[You have unlocked the recipe for "Decryption Computer."]
[You have unlocked the recipes for "Gauss Dagger," "Pulse Pistol," "Starbuster Core," "Taser," and "Tracking Disk."]
The Decryption Computer was a necessary tool for decoding later Schematics.
The weapons unlocked afterward corresponded to the Warrior, Mage, Summoner, Ranger, and Rogue classes respectively.
Although the recipes for these weapons had been unlocked, crafting these Draedon weapons required Aerialite Bars.
Aerialite was an ore that only generated on floating islands, and at this point, it could not yet be mined.
Only after defeating the Perforators or the Hive Mind could it be excavated.
"At least I have a goal to work toward now."
After putting everything away, Drake looked toward Enju, who was leaning against the window and staring outside.
"We can more or less leave now… Enju, what are you looking at?"
"It feels like an aquarium here, big brother."
Enju said sowhat reluctantly.
Looking outside from inside the laboratory revealed an absolutely beautiful scene.
The Prism Shards on the inner side of the crystal caves emitted light, dyeing the seawater a glowing blue.
Gentle Ghost Bells and Eutrophic Rays drifted freely through the water.
Every now and then, slow-moving Prism-Backs would lazily swim past.
As long as they were not attacked first, they would not show hostility toward passing "visitors."
"If you want to look, you can watch a little longer."
Drake did not mind at all.
If he had brought a fishing rod, he could even make a hole in the lab floor and fish from here.
The greatest advantage of fishing in Terraria was that he basically would never co up empty-handed. He could even fish up all kinds of strange treasures.
"Mm…"
Hearing Drake's words, Enju nodded and looked back at the seascape before her.
However, her mind kept thinking about Drake.
Because her Gastrea Virus corrosion rate was too high, she had never had the chance to beco an Initiator.
Today, when she heard that soone wanted her as his Civil Security partner, her heart was half filled with joy and half filled with fear.
According to so things she had heard before, even if she beca an Initiator, she would only be treated as a consumable tool.
Not only would she have to fully obey her Promoter, she would also have to fight dangerous Gastrea.
Once a Gastrea injected more virus into her, she would face an excessive corrosion rate and lose control.
When that happened, she would have to undergo "forced disposal" — in other words, execution.
Faced with that kind of job, Enju Aihara naturally had no hope for her future life.
But judging from their ti together today… perhaps she had t a good master.
No, she should call him "big brother." now!
"…Huh?"
Suddenly, Enju rubbed her eyes and exclaid in surprise,
"Big Brother Drake, sothing huge suddenly appeared over there!"
"Where?!"
Drake, who had been organizing his inventory, imdiately shuddered and hurried to the glass wall of the laboratory.
In the direction Enju was pointing, an enormous clam the size of a van, glowing with blue light, was slowly opening its shell.
"Giant Clam!"
"I didn't expect it to deliver itself to !"
Seeing the giant clam before him, Drake imdiately pulled out the Superheated Plasma Cannon.
"Enju, prepare for battle… Will you be all right?"
"I'll do my best, big brother!"
Having finally gotten a chance to show what she could do, Enju quickly entered combat mode.
Her weapon was the Sahara Slicers Drake had given her.
This weapon required agile movent to fully display its effect.
As soone carrying rabbit-type Gastrea genes, Enju's mobility was beyond doubt.
"It will keep summoning small enemies. You handle those smaller clams."
Before entering the seawater, Drake gave his instructions at the laboratory entrance.
"As for the big one, leave it to ."
"Always pay attention above your head. It may suddenly attack you from there."
The Giant Clam was not particularly difficult to challenge.
After all, it was not an especially powerful enemy, rely a mini-boss.
It had only two attack patterns.
One was to close its shell, gaining high defense while summoning smaller enemies.
The other was to suddenly teleport above the enemy's head and launch a crushing attack like Mount Tai falling from the sky.
Both of these attack patterns were easy to handle.
The hardest part of the entire challenge process was actually finding the mini-boss's location.
The tranquility of the Sunken Sea was shattered by the laser fired from the Superheated Plasma Cannon.
Drake was currently wearing the Victide set.
Although he had lost the magic bonuses from the Jungle armor, he had already raised his mana to 200 through Mana Crystals.
Even without that additional 60 maximum mana, it did not matter much.
On the contrary, the underwater mobility provided by the Victide set was far more important right now.
Enraged by the continuous attacks, the magical pearl inside the Giant Clam began to glow.
That pearl was its source of power, the final afterglow of the ancient ocean nation of Ilris.
In an instant, a large number of bubbles descended from above Drake's head.
That was the warning sign before the Giant Clam's crushing attack.
"I've been waiting for that!"
The corners of Drake's mouth lifted slightly. At so point, a hideous shield had appeared in his hand.
The shield's shape resembled an eyeball, but its center was split open into a huge bloody maw.
[Shield of Cthulhu — Rainbow: Provides 2 defense. Grants the "dash" ability. Avoids damage while dashing.]
This was one of the spoils from defeating the Eye of Cthulhu, and it was the most important reward.
Even if he gave up all the other drops, Drake absolutely had to keep this accessory.
Because its effect was just too good.
A dash ability with built-in invincibility fras was practically a divine skill for one-on-one fights.
Using the dash, Drake instantly moved several ters away from his original position.
The Giant Clam's massive body crashed down, stirring up the silt and Eutrophic Sand on the seabed.
The next mont, two phase-laser spheres pierced through the sand-filled water and exploded inside the Giant Clam.
Off to the side, Enju was also working hard to clear out the small enemies that had appeared alongside the Giant Clam.
If those little clams were ignored, they would also open their shells and fire bullet patterns at Drake.
Because of Enju's contract skill, Drake had specifically given her his Cloud in a Bottle, granting her the ability to double jump.
Attacks enhanced by double-jump bonuses were quite powerful, allowing her to kill a small enemy almost every ti she struck.
With Enju's help, Drake did not need to worry about small enemies interfering with him. He could focus entirely on wearing down the Giant Clam's health.
In less than five minutes, the enormous clam was killed by Drake, and the magical light throughout its body gradually dimd.
Many materials dropped from its shell, mixed with one or two particularly eye-catching items.
Drake swam over and placed everything before him into the Piggy Bank.
Although the inventory he had just organized was thrown into chaos again, this was a happy problem to have.
"Co to think of it, I rember that after killing the Giant Clam, an NPC called the Sea King is supposed to co out of it…"
Just as Drake was feeling puzzled, several notifications suddenly appeared before his eyes.
[You have unlocked the "Sea King" function!]
[This function cannot be assigned and can only be held by you.]
Until now, Drake had always been the one assigning functions to his contractees.
He had not expected that he himself would actually gain a function.
However…
Why did the Sea King function sound like he had beco so kind of womanizer?
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