Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 141 S-Rank Skill: Ragnarok
"Still chasing?"

The distance between the Dayun and the Rotten Whale is getting farther and farther, and they are almost across the Mediterranean Sea!

Shi Ming admired the Rot Whale's unwavering determination, but he also understood that the Formless Pure Ice was perhaps crucial to it, an irresistible temptation from the depths of its soul.

It's already midnight.

"The Eye of Intelligence, to Gather Intelligence."

Let's see what kind of intelligence the Eye of Intelligence can provide.

[Beep~ Beep~]

[Intelligence being compiled...]

[Searching. Confirming host's detailed coordinates... Search successful, intelligence summary in progress... Intelligence generated: Twilight Whale.]

The Eye of Intelligence did not disappoint Shi Ming.

As expected, they gave him the information he wanted.

Look at this sea monster, what on earth is it?

[The Twilight Whale, an S-class sea monster that begins its descent into decay from birth.]

The Twilight Whale exists in three states: uncorrupted, partially corrupted, and fully corrupted. The Twilight Whale cannot change its state on its own; it can only inevitably and irreversibly progress to the next state as time passes and its body decays.

Defeating it in different states and bathing in its blood will grant you different skills.

[Kill the enemy while they are not corrupted: Gain the skill "Pillar of Dawn"]

[Kill the enemy in a semi-corrupted state: Gain the skill "Ragnarok"]

[Kill in full corruption state: Gain the skill "Lightless Heat Death"]

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[Note 1: From the moment of its birth, the Twilight Whale begins to decay; its uncorrupted state is fleeting, making the skill "Pillar of Dawn" extremely difficult to obtain.]

[Note 2: The Formless Pure Ice has a fatal attraction for the Twilight Whale. By swallowing the Formless Pure Ice, the Twilight Whale can suppress the inherently decaying power within its body, preventing its life from heading towards death. Upon completely digesting the Formless Pure Ice, the Twilight Whale can evolve into a completely new and unknown state.]

No wonder.

After reading the intelligence, Shi Ming understood why this S-class sea beast had chased him for thousands of miles.

For the Twilight Whale, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The "Formless Pure Ice," buried in the polar veins for thousands of years without ever taking shape, was something it would have had no chance of obtaining before. Now, Shi Ming had not only brought it out but also upgraded it into a perfect crystal. How could it miss such a great opportunity?

The whale's description begins at dawn, then fades into dusk, and finally dies in the darkness of heat...

This whale reflects quite a lot.

The "Heat Death Without Light" should be the "Heat Death" ranked 34th on the Lighthouse's S-level skill ranking list. At the time, Shi Ming was amazed that such a power of cosmic extinction could appear in a sea monster. Wasn't this information a bit too outrageous?

In retrospect, it is likely that, like Ragnarok and the Titans' Descent, this was mostly symbolic.

It's impossible for the extinction of one whale to drag the entire universe down with it!
Even if it's just symbolic, the S-rank skill ranked 34th is definitely the strongest of the strong!
just,

Shi Ming shook his head.

The whale's body is still half intact, but it is completely decaying and will eventually decompose completely. It's unknown how many years it will take.

Like the skills [Lightless Heat Death] and [Pillar of Dawn], one exists in the endless future and the other in the unknown past. It is highly unlikely that humans will obtain them. In contrast, [Ragnarok] is the skill it possesses in this time period.

According to Shi Ming's speculation, if one were to bathe in its blood, there was a chance that one's body would exhibit a characteristic of being half rotten and half intact.

It might even inherit its fate and end up in the heat of darkness.

……

At this moment, forty nautical miles away.

The Twilight Whale bursts from the deep sea, its deafening roar casting a decaying hue over the star-shrouded ocean.

Roar!
It was furious.

It chased the fish for thousands of nautical miles, from the frigid icy seas to this warm water, where the temperature accelerated its decay and slowed its swimming speed.
But the prey gets further and further away.

It raged helplessly, unleashing its most powerful skill amidst the raging waves!
Twilight of the Gods!

In an instant, the moon turned a graveyard yellow, and the pale moonlight resembled the thick, yellow liquid from a bursting corpse, falling heavily from the sky.

Half of the Twilight Whale's body, like a whale bursting open, overflowed with an exaggerated and unimaginable yellow liquid. The overwhelming stench of decay filled the sea, and all creatures that came into contact with this powerful aura inevitably succumbed to corruption.

Sea fish turn into bones and fine powder in a short time, and even D-class and C-class sea creatures lurking in the deep sea inexplicably grow old, decay, and wither away.

Their remains sank into the mud at the bottom of the sea, giving birth to other new life.

This sea area has become a furnace of flesh and blood.

Shi Ming and the Dayun were too far away to directly perceive the skill, but silently, a series of illusions seemed to flash through Shi Ming's mind.

The corpses of countless creatures and the wreckage of ships piled together, rotting and sticking together to form a continent of corpses. Stars fell from the sky, and the viscous continent swayed and sank into the turbulent seabed, leaving only a deathly silence and eternal darkness in the world.

Fantasy?

What the hell?

He shook his head, banishing those images from his mind.

His binoculars gazed at the distant sea.

After its impotent rage and venting of its fury, the Twilight Whale once again dived into the deep sea, returning to where it had come from.

It gave up.

But Shi Ming did not relax. The Dayun continued to sail south until he confirmed from the Endless Sea Map that the corrupt sea monster had truly given up.

Shi Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

He looked at the map.

The Dayun has already crossed the Mediterranean Sea, but has not yet reached the Tropic of Cancer. The sea area where it is now is the world's largest desert before the apocalypse. It stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west, through the Pharaoh's country in the east, and all the way to the shore of the Red Sea.

The Sahara.

It is now called the Sea of ​​Yellow Sand.

Further south lies the famous Hot Sea, where the king-class drifting ship "Black Gold" is stationed in Sudan, reigning supreme over this sea.

Further south, near the equator, lies a death zone, the Boiling Sea.

The water temperature of the Boiling Sea is exceptionally high, reportedly reaching as high as 350 degrees Celsius. It is difficult for any ship or human to navigate here without protection. Even an S-class Awakened would need to be fully prepared to explore this place and would find it difficult to last more than a day.

Is the temperature of the Boiling Sea really that high?

"By the way,"

"Can the properties of formless pure ice, the Realm of Eternal Freeze, freeze even the Boiling Sea?"

Shi Ming smiled; he was very curious.

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While being pursued by the Twilight Whale, Shi Ming temporarily distanced himself from the Twelve Stars, but within the Twelve Stars, a raging storm was brewing today.

"What? Reinhardt is dead?"

The editor-in-chief of the Twelve Stars newspaper sat in his office, listening to his subordinates' reports.

In the era of wandering, newspapers were very popular with the public inside the king-class drifting ships that were comparable to small cities.

"He's dead, so he's dead. Hmm... If there aren't any other big news stories, he'll probably make the headlines."

"Heh, this guy's always wanted to be in the headlines, and now he's finally got his chance. The girls in cafes and bars are probably going to be heartbroken for a long time. Besides, the Smoke is a good ship; I wonder which faction it will end up in. If we dig into that, it could be big news!"

"What? The Smoke Ship has sunk?"

"More than one ship sank? Which one was it?"

"The Golden Mountain Envoy, the Thor, has also sunk?"

"Where are the three envoys?"

"The three envoys are dead too?!"

……

alright,

The newspaper has a week's worth of material.

The president of the Twelve Stars Newspaper will no longer have to worry about choosing topics in the near future.

(End of this chapter)