The boss of the crab art: a martial artist the Crab Men's sickness has taken whole. Raw red flesh and black veins, a domed crust on his back and head, eyes on stalks, long curved pincers down to the ground (the right one bigger), and what is left of his robe.

His attacks (slow to come, parryable)

• Sweep of the great pincer, flat in front of him (×1.0, several targets)
• Snap: both pincers raised wide open, then a lunge (×1.3, stuns)
• Slam: both pincers brought down to the ground (×1.5, knocks down) and a shock wave of 4.6 blocks
• Grab (1.5 to 5 blocks, every 11 s): the great pincer closes on what is in front of him. A normal guard does not stop it; a perfect parry as the pincer closes makes it miss; you can dodge it. What it catches is held between its jaws, lifted to his face, squeezed three times, then thrown some 8 blocks: it lands knocked down, and a wall it hits is blown into a small crater. Caught, a player can do nothing until he lands, and sees it as a film.
• Pincers from the deep (4 to 14 blocks, every 15 s): he plants both pincers in the ground and keeps them there, shaking, for the whole attack: the time to hit him. The ground cracks and the camera shakes, then two giant pincers, some 7 blocks tall, burst out on either side of his target. Each sweeps flat round its foot (jump over it), slams down to its side (knocks down), then leans in and pinches (throws up and stuns), and sinks back.
• Mist (within 12 blocks, every 25 s): he breathes a thick mist for 12 s, 11 blocks round him, or the whole cavern in his lair. Inside, you see 7 blocks at most. He vanishes into it (only his steps are heard) and, hidden, can only grab: he comes out of the mist catching you. He shows again when he attacks, is struck or the mist clears.
• Giant water ball (6 to 18 blocks, every 13 s): the crab man's, far bigger. A ball swells between his raised pincers to nearly 4 blocks across, four small ones circling it, and he hurls it. Where it bursts, everything within 4.5 blocks is hurt, thrown and slowed (Slowness II, 4 s). It can be guarded like a blow.

Rage: below half his health, once, he roars and two armored crabs come out of the ground. He breathes underwater and calls the crabs around him.

Loot

2 to 4 cod; killed by a player, 4 to 8 silver taels and a trident one time in ten. 60 experience, 30 Qi, and the first time +100 Qi and +30 Qi Max.

He waits in his lair, the Root Well, a cavern built once per world under the Jiangnan Waterlands. He will drop the crab art's scroll once that art exists. Also: spawn egg, or /summon murimblock:crab_king.