>>5217238“Die!” you snarl, going on the offensive. You focus the ones who's attacks managed to pierce into your ki first, driving your fists into and through the ones directly on either side of you. Then, faster than the rest can react, swing both arms forward, smashing those two bodies along with the other six caught between your arms together in a fine spray of blood and viscera. But you're not done yet, and spin a right backhanded fist towards the last few. Two manage to duck your attack, splashing harmlessly back into the sea below as your attack bisects or just splatters the rest. You then turn back to the rest of them below you, and spread your arms out. “Anyone else want to die?”
“RwlRwlRwlRwlRwl!!” the one next to that glowing spear shouts as it now bursts out of the water, wielding another spear. But as it draws the weapon overhead to thrust it at you, sparks begin dancing along the spear's stone head. Your eyes widen in shock, as this is clearly some sort of magic, and decide that you in fact don't want to test your armor against magic again. So as it tries swinging you reach out with your right hand, catching the weapon by the wooden haft and holding the point a good couple feet away from your body. “RwlRwlRwl?”
“No you.” you retort, snapping the spear with ease and then flipping it around in your hand, then swinging it down to skewer the beast through the top of it's head and throw it back down into the water. Upon seeing this the rest immediately scatter, swimming out into the deeper water with surprising speed.
“Ah-! H-Hey! Get back here!” Meloka shouts, sounding more indignant at them trying to flee than anything. Then with a snarl sends a half dozen of her Warding Eyes out after them, the eyes firing Death Beams down into the fleeing creatures for a good few seconds until they run out of power. Your wife then turns to you, confused. “Have you ever seen these things before? Because I haven't.”
“Me neither.” you reply, your earlier concerns resurfacing. “I'm going to go ahead and take the bodies on.”
“Wash yourself off first.” she says, then looks back into the red water by the shoreline. “Maybe a little further away from here.”
You both wash yourselves off away from the bloody water, Meloka getting dressed and heading out to re-gather the kids for supper while you use your telekinesis to grab the corpses and bring them to you, two of these strange creatures' and the Rak'Kari's, then focus your ki sense. After a moment's thought you find the crab-people's city, find one of the powerlevels that far outstrip the others, take a deep breath, and teleport with your Instant Transmission. Teleporting directly in front of one of the giant underwater predators, a Mindslayer. Because of course that's what it is.
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