Versatile Mage: One innate talent for each system

Chapter 345 The Abyss of the World, the Mariana Trench

Jiang Yuan remained calm as he looked at the Bermuda Emperor, who was prostrate in submission.

This ocean also harbors the unknown roof of the world, just like the giant beast beneath Mount Everest.

Having finally risen above the emperor, I should eliminate them all, completely control the human world, and become a true god among men.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan's fingertip condensed into a drop of water, which fell from the sky onto the sea.

"Ding-dong-"

When the water droplets that had formed on my fingertips fell into the sea, they created a golden ripple in the waves.

The moment it falls into the sea, it transforms into countless tiny specks of light, drifting with the ocean currents into the deepest trenches.

Jiang Yuan closed his eyes, and heard countless tiny sounds around him.

There was the rustling sound of shells rubbing against rocks, the airflow of air as the giant mouth opened and closed, and the pattering sound of some kind of viscous liquid dripping.
These sounds intertwined, sketching a grotesque picture in his mind.

The Bermuda Emperor's eyes darted around uneasily.

It could feel the immense pressure contained within that drop of water, heavier than the water pressure at the deepest part of the ocean, making it instinctively want to curl up.

When Jiang Yuan's gaze swept over, it immediately tensed its wrists and lowered its head even further.

There is a power in Jiang Yuan that is more terrifying than the darkness of the deep sea, as if a single thought could turn it and the ocean into dust.

When Jiang Yuan opened his eyes, the entire Mariana Trench was already reflected in his vision.

The bottom of the ravine there is not a flat seabed, but a rift valley cleaved open by a giant axe. The rock walls on both sides are full of bottomless caves, with pale purple mist swirling around the entrances. The mist contains tiny phosphorescent particles that, upon closer inspection, are actually tiny teeth.

In the center of the rift valley, three black "mountains" lie quietly, each several times larger than the Bermuda Emperor. Their surfaces are covered with layers of scales, the edges of which gleam with a metallic sheen. Occasionally, water flows over them, reflecting light that seems to reveal millions of eyes opening on the seabed.

Jiang Yuan had thought before that there was a high possibility that unknown demons were hiding in the Mariana Trench, after all, it was a forbidden place that humans could not reach, and even exploration was impossible.

In retrospect, our initial guess was entirely correct, and perhaps even too simplistic.

There are actually multiple rooftops of the world sleeping in the Mariana Trench!

This inevitably reminded Jiang Yuan of the extremely cold ice caves in Antarctica that have existed for hundreds of millions of years, perhaps similar to the Mariana Trench.
Jiang Yuan shook his head slightly, no longer thinking about Antarctica. He would naturally go to Antarctica after everything in the ocean was resolved.

Before going anywhere else, it's essential to visit the Mariana Trench.

Jiang Yuan looked at the Bermuda Emperor and ordered, "Clear the way and take me to the Mariana Trench."

The concept of the Mariana Trench naturally doesn't exist among demons. His words entered the Bermuda Emperor's mind directly through his mental power, making it easy for him to understand that it's the deepest trench in the ocean, and he even marked its location.

In an instant, the Bermuda Emperor shot out like an arrow, its tentacles creating a water wall hundreds of meters high on the sea surface.

Jiang Yuan stood firmly in the center of its head, his robes fluttering in the gale, yet he was always shrouded in an invisible barrier, so that not even a drop of seawater could wet his clothes.

The seas along the way began to boil, and hordes of demons were terrified and fled in all directions.

The speed of the Bermuda Emperor is soon far faster than the speed of sound.

The further south you go, the deeper the color of the sea becomes.

At first it was dark blue, then it turned into almost black indigo, and finally even the sunlight was completely swallowed up. As far as the eye could see, there was only thick darkness in the ocean.

The Bermuda King gradually slowed down, its compound eyes fixed on the darkness ahead, its tentacles trembling slightly, and even the crystals on its back began to emit a piercing buzz. The next moment, the Bermuda King let out a roar that shook the deep sea, and dozens of its tentacles plunged into the depths of the water, their suckers gripping the seabed rock layer tightly.

The dark yellow crystal on its back suddenly burst forth with a blinding light, which, like an invisible command, caused the surrounding seawater to go into a frenzy.

The ocean current, which was originally flowing downwards, suddenly reversed, and millions of tons of seawater were pulled upwards by the tendrils.

Looking up, one sees the vast sea converging into a flowing sky in an inverted posture.

The azure sea became a new sky, and the snow-white waves transformed into rolling clouds, even lifting the demons of the deep sea into the air.

Sunlight pierced through this inverted ocean, refracting into rainbow bands of light and illuminating the darkness below as if it were daytime.

Under the light, the full view of the Mariana Trench is gradually being revealed.

The rift valley, cleaved open by the giant axe, was no longer hidden by the sea. The rock walls on both sides, like the ribs of a giant beast stripped of its outer garment, grotesquely pierced the sky.

Three black "mountains" in the center of the rift valley are completely exposed to the air. Their massive bodies have pressed three deep ravines into the seabed, and they look like they have been sleeping here for who knows how many years.

Jiang Yuan gazed at the three silent, black mountains in the center of the rift valley.

The first to make a sound was the mountain on the left.

The layers of scales covering the mountain suddenly trembled all at once, and the cold metallic light at the edges suddenly surged, as if countless bronze mirrors were simultaneously turning towards the sky.

A crisp "crack" came from the bottom of the mountain. A crack spread upwards along the gaps in the scales, and a thick, ink-like liquid seeped out from the dark gaps, dripping and creating smoking craters on the seabed.

Immediately afterwards, the entire mountain range began to rise.

It was not a slow awakening, but a savage awakening that shook the heavens and the earth.

The seabed beneath it crumbled like a biscuit, and its tens of thousands of meters long body rose from the rift valley, revealing countless compound eyes hidden beneath its scales.

The eyes did not open all at once, but instead lit up with a ghostly green light from head to tail, as if someone had lit a string of lanterns that stretched across the sky in the darkness.

"Roar--"

The emperor's head slowly rose, revealing seven spiral horns on its head, with ice-blue crystals condensed at the tips of the horns.

The mountains on the right awoke almost simultaneously.

It did not roar, nor did it display its ferocity; the stone layers that had covered its surface for countless years began to crumble away.

With each layer of stone that lands, a tentacle resembling a fish grows out.

When the last layer of stone fell away, the exposed body was made up of countless metal rings strung together, with a red glow like magma flowing between the rings.

The last to awaken was the largest mountain in the center of the rift valley.

Its signs of awakening were the most bizarre, as if an invisible hand were lifting the night from its body.

The exposed body seemed to be formed from millions of gray-black insects, but upon closer inspection, it also resembled mist.

This emperor has no fixed form; only the crimson dot in its center remains constant.

The three people on the roof of the world all looked towards the source of the river.

(End of this chapter)