Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 105 Crisis! S-Rank Sea Beast: Twilight Whale!

The S-class awakening power was injected into the Endless Sea Map, and the Sun Shooting Ship hovered above the ice layer. Shi Ming stood on it, his gaze sweeping rapidly across the azure Endless Sea Map.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be quite serious!
It startled him!
The S-class sea monster that was originally located in the Greenland area is visibly moving rapidly! It seems to be sensing something and is approaching Shi Ming's current location!

The two sides are now only about 40 nautical miles apart!

"Fuck!!!"

"Why is it heading this way!"

"Is it because it sensed the aura of the Formless Pure Ice? That's probably the only reason!"

Head-to-head?
How can it be!

Shi Ming's two S-rank skills are both defensive, and "Desperate Measures" is currently on cooldown. He has absolutely no confidence against an S-rank sea monster.

Not to mention, the strength of S-class sea monsters varies drastically. The difference in strength between the top ten S-class sea monsters and the bottom-ranked S-class sea monsters is probably immeasurable! What if this mysterious S-class sea monster is one of those enormous, top-ranked monsters that could even swallow the entire Dayun ship whole in one gulp? Wouldn't that be suicidal?!
"run!"

No, it's a strategic retreat!

Compared to speed, Shi Ming didn't believe any sea monster could catch up with Sunshot when its special ability was activated.

Looking at the "Pure Ice Without Form" inside the cabin and feeling the suffocating cold, he couldn't care less about anything else at this critical moment; he had to put it away.

He gritted his teeth, activated the Xuanwu Shield, and forcibly withstood the extremely low temperature of the "Pure Ice Without Form," directly storing it in the system warehouse.

The reason why I was willing to waste my energy using the Xuanwu Shield to put away the Formless Pure Ice at this moment was twofold: firstly, I was worried that it would be the target of the S-class sea beast, and carrying it would make me a relentless target for the sea beast; secondly, its temperature was too low and it would forcibly freeze the surrounding seawater.

Once the seawater freezes, the Sun-Shooting Ship can operate in flight mode without fear, but the Great Transport Ship does not currently have an icebreaking mode and will inevitably run aground in the glacier, hindering its movement and making it difficult to escape the pursuit of the S-class sea monster.

"Stop the Calming Waves immediately! Head towards the Twelve Stars at top speed!"

"Yes!"

A nautical mile is a short distance; the Sun-Shooting Ship rendezvoused with the Yun-Yun in just a moment.
Fortunately, during his descent, the crew had already moved all of the Glacier Dragon's carcass onto the deck of the Grand Canal. Otherwise, in this critical moment, they would have had to abandon this Class A sea monster and prioritize evacuation.

He went up to the deck, took the helm himself, and with a roar, the Great Yun started up again and began to move with extremely high acceleration!
Since being upgraded to a gold ship, the speed of the Dayun has increased considerably.

But it still can't match the movement speed of that S-class sea monster on the map!

Shi Ming frowned as he looked at the black dots on the map of the endless sea.

The black spots became very dark.
This means that the sea monster has moved from the deep sea to the twilight layer or even the shallow waters!
It's getting faster and faster!

Moreover, its goal seems to be very clear: it is heading in the direction where Shi Ming is now!

"If you're not a brother, why are you, an S-class sea beast, chasing me hundreds of miles away when you've never even seen me before?"

"I've already put away the Formless Pure Ice! Didn't you sense that its aura has disappeared? Even if you come, you won't get it!"

Shi Ming thought to himself with a cold expression.

"At all costs, rapidly escalate to the fastest speed possible."

Seeing Shi Ming's attitude, the crew members were also uneasy. Even when facing A-level sea monsters, they had rarely seen their captain so prepared.

Roar……

Shi Ming heard the roar of a sea beast once again.

The sound didn't seem to come from the vocal cords; rather, it sounded like a high-frequency sound produced by the vibration of energy and seawater. Strangely, the other crew members couldn't hear it at all, so they were currently just confused.

Shi Ming stepped on the Sun-Shooting Blade, activated flight mode, and ascended into the air.

In flight mode, it can ascend to a maximum altitude of 100 meters.

It is equivalent to the height of a 30-story building in the old days.

However, being high up does not mean being safe. Many sea monsters have a wide range of long-range attacks, with 100 meters being within range. Being high up makes you more of an obvious target.

At this moment, Shi Ming was only using its height difference for observation and to detect enemy activity in the distance.

Dozens of nautical miles apart, the Sun-Shooting Ship, the size of a canoe, was not conspicuous in the air and was difficult for sea beasts to see. However, Shi Ming could use it to see very far. Moreover, his eyesight had become exaggerated after experiencing S-level awakening and using the flesh of blue trout. Combined with the high-powered telescope on the ship, he could easily detect anomalies in a large area of ​​nearby sea with the naked eye on a clear day.

There was nothing unusual on the sea surface.

That S-class sea monster hasn't even set sail yet!
However, on the map, the black dot is only 30 nautical miles away from Shi Ming's current distance!

A gust of wind blew by. Shi Ming smelled a faint stench of decay.

It looks like a sea fish that has been dead for many days and has been fermenting.

The Sun-Shooting Ship maintained the same speed as the Great Transport at high altitude. Flight mode required a large amount of sea crystals, but Shi Ming no longer cared about this energy. He kept his eyes fixed on the distant location, not relaxing for a moment.

The stench in the air grew stronger and stronger.

This smell was different from the one Shi Ming had smelled on Turtle Island that day.

The rotting smell of Xuanwu is like the pus from a festering wound, not the deathly stench of death. Furthermore, the presence of the bloodthirsty moths cleaning it makes the smell very faint, almost imperceptible unless you sniff closely. But what Shi Ming is smelling now is the stench of a corpse that has been rotting for an unknown amount of time; it would make any ordinary person vomit!
We are still a long way from the twelve stars.

In areas far from King-class drifting ships, any S-class sea beast is a ruler of the sea, capable of moving freely even against General-class drifting ships. Furthermore, if a General-class drifting ship lacks multiple powerful Awakened individuals or is not agile enough, an S-class sea beast can easily manipulate the vessel, slaughtering everyone on board in various bizarre ways.

This is still a low-ranking S-class sea monster.

If it were to encounter a top-ranked vessel, such as the Leviathan ranked 25th, even an ordinary admiral-class drifting ship would likely be destroyed and its crew killed.

Of course, most of these powerful sea creatures live in the deep sea, and many people may never encounter one in their entire lives.

If you encounter it, your life can be considered over.

……

The stench of corpses grew stronger and stronger. The crew of the Dayun were all struggling to endure the olfactory discomfort and continued to steer the ship, while Shi Ming, high in the sky, had developed a certain resistance to it.

The sea was calm and still at this moment.

It wasn't dusk, yet it resembled the twilight of the gods.

Suddenly, towering waves surged in the sea twenty nautical miles away.

That sea monster that lurks in the deep sea has set sail!

An even stronger stench erupted in an instant, as if transporting the entire sea area to a desolate battlefield littered with corpses. Across the vast ocean, Shi Ming could clearly see a giant whale leaping out from beneath the sea! Its body was half rotten and half intact, like the two poles of yin and yang, forming a twisted balance.

The rotting half, with its overgrown, decaying flesh and splattered yellow fluid, was more than twenty nautical miles away. Through his binoculars, Shi Ming could even vaguely make out the bones and some of the writhing internal organs through the rotting flesh.
The intact half has smooth, delicate skin, as healthy as a newborn baby, without a single scar or wound.

The whale's body is about 230 meters long, resembling a large, giant ship.

S-class sea monster
The Whale of Twilight!

"Holy crap! It's rotten to this extent, how could it possibly be alive?"

"Whoever kills it will be disgusted during their awakening process... You can smell the stench from this distance, so if you soak in it up close, even an A-level Awakener would probably faint from the stench..."

He couldn't help but think to himself, "What am I complaining about?"

The rotting whale actually moves faster after it goes out to sea.

Large amounts of decaying flesh detached as the fish swam, then disappeared into the seawater, vanishing without a trace.

At this speed, it will probably collide with the Dayun in about ten minutes, and a fierce battle will be inevitable.

Shi Ming gripped the King Slayer sword tightly in his hand.

He lacked the confidence to defeat an S-class sea monster in its prime.
But no matter what, you must give it your all.

Of course, going all out does not mean holding out to the death; abandoning the Yunhao and retreating alone is only a last resort.

only……

The twilight whale seemed oblivious to Shi Ming and his ship, or perhaps it simply didn't consider these two tiny insects a threat.

It swam at top speed to the spot where Shi Ming had set sail, easily breaking through the hundreds of meters of glacier there. But then it seemed to have lost all its purpose, and swam back to the original location of the Eye of Extreme Cold. It looked up at the sky and roared a few times in a daze, spewing out a large amount of light yellow seawater.

Then it gradually began to sink.

The matter of life and death was thus reversed.

A gentle sea breeze swept by, greatly reducing the stench in the air, but the putrid smell lingered on the clothes.

Like a wild horse, the Dayun continued its retreat towards the Twelve Stars. Meanwhile, Shi Ming hovered high in the sky, looking at the endless sea map in his hand. He noticed that the black dot had faded from dark to light, and the half-rotten whale had already dived back into the deep sea, heading back to its original lair.

Call ~
Even with Shi Ming's composure, he took a deep breath.

This was the first time he had ever seen an S-class sea monster in its prime!
Even the mighty A-rank sea beast, the Glacier Dragon, looks like nothing more than a cub in its presence!
(End of this chapter)