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The rain poured down, and the dark sea resembled a boiling cauldron, with giant waves tossing the wreckage of the massive ship up and down like toys. Amidst the deafening roar of the world, the tiny black silhouette stood like a stabilizing pillar, firmly anchored to the broken half of the deck.

Little Black lowered its body, its once smooth black fur now standing on end, as if covered with a layer of steel needles. The silver rune on its forehead was no longer hidden, but instead burst forth with an unprecedentedly dazzling light. That light contained no warmth, only a chilling absolute annihilation.

"roar--!"

The storm on the sea surface seemed to freeze for a moment, and then the mountain-like sea monster let out a roar that shook the heavens and the earth. The sound was a mixture of the oppressive power of the deep sea and the shrieking of the void, causing visible ripples in the surrounding air.

"Little Black!"

Li Haotian lay prone on a slanted hatch steel plate, heavy rain pouring down his hair and into his collar, but his heavy sniper rifle remained as steady as a rock. His gaze pierced through the rain, fixed on the small black dot in mid-air.

He didn't stop him because he knew that only Xiao Hei had a chance to get close to the core.

Just as the monster roared, Little Black moved.

Without any warning, its limbs suddenly touched the wreckage, and its body instantly transformed into a silver streak of light, piercing straight towards the monster's core, which was faintly visible in the darkness, against the raging wind and rain.

This is not just a leap, but more like a cross-dimensional raid.

As Xiao Hei charged forward, the air around it was violently compressed, then rapidly expanded due to an instantaneous burst of extremely high temperature. The rainwater vaporized the moment it approached, and a white trail of steam appeared out of thin air in the sky above the sea, like a sharp blade slicing through a chaotic canvas.

The monster sensed the threat, and several massive tentacles, as thick as skyscrapers, lashed out at Xiao Hei from all directions with a whistling sound. It was pure physical force; each strike easily slammed into the sea, creating a deep abyss hundreds of meters wide.

However, that silver line seemed to possess eyes that could foresee the future.

Just as the tentacles were about to close, Xiao Hei made a defying-the-laws-of-physics-based leap in mid-air. It grazed the edge of a tentacle covered in suckers and barbs, its sharp claws lightly slicing across the tentacle.

There was no gushing blood, no flying flesh.

The small piece of tentacle flesh that was touched simply vanished into thin air.

It wasn't cut off, but erased. It was like erasing a piece of drawing paper with an eraser, leaving behind a blank black gap with edges so smooth they were chilling.

The ability of "Missing" revealed its most terrifying aspect in battle.

The monster winced in pain, a mad rage flashing in its countless compound eyes. It wildly lashed out with its remaining tentacles, like a thousand giant hands slamming into the water, creating towering waves that even drowned out the thunder. Countless white columns of water shot skyward from the sea, completely engulfing the small silver figure in a cage of water.

"Now!"

Li Haotian's pupils suddenly contracted, and his finger pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

The gunshot was drowned out by the sound of the tsunami, but the specially made armor-piercing explosive round, carrying Li Haotian's killing intent, accurately pierced through the heavy rain and fiercely penetrated the soft tissue connection point at the joint of the monster's tentacle.

That was the weak spot left by Xiao Hei when he "erased" the flesh and blood.

Without a hard chitinous shell to stop it, the bullet penetrated the monster's body without hindrance and then detonated deep inside the tentacles.

"Boom!"

A mass of dark green liquid mixed with bits of flesh exploded in mid-air, instantly severing a third of the thick tentacle, which drooped helplessly onto the sea surface, stirring up a cloud of water.

This shot not only interrupted the monster's attack but also tore open a gash in Xiao Hei's body.

As the mist dissipated, Xiao Hei's figure reappeared. It was not in good condition; the once bright silver patterns had dimmed somewhat, and its breathing had become rapid. The powerful "deficiency" ability had taken a heavy toll on its body, and even it could hardly maintain such a high-intensity output for an extended period.

But it did not back down.

Taking advantage of the monster's momentary convulsions in agony, it resumed its frenzied attack. Like a tireless grim reaper, it leaped and darted among the tentacles. Each flash tore away a piece of flesh from the monster; each pause left an unhealable, ethereal scar on its body.

The monster's core is getting closer.

It was a huge, fleshy tumor radiating a dark red light, suspended in the center of countless tentacles, like a beating heart, each beat radiating nauseating void energy in all directions.

"babble--"

Little Black let out a sharp screech, and suddenly bit its tongue, using the stimulation of the blood to forcefully squeeze out the potential within its body. The silver light around its body suddenly intensified, the light even surpassing the lightning on the sea surface.

It accelerated once more in the air, no longer a silver line, but a silver lightning bolt that tore through the sky, piercing straight into the dark red core.

The monster seemed to sense the final threat. Ignoring the excruciating pain from its severed limbs, it retracted all its tentacles inward, attempting to weave an impenetrable shield of death in front of itself to crush the tiny ant.

Faced with this overwhelming, despairing barrier, Li Haotian did not fire again. He knew that his weapon was no longer capable of penetrating that level of defense.

All he could do was infuse his own beliefs into that figure who was fighting alone.

"Go, Xiao Hei," Li Haotian murmured to himself.

At the critical moment, Xiao Hei's figure twisted strangely in mid-air. Instead of crashing into the tentacles, it caused a peculiar fluctuation in the space around its body.

The next moment, it disappeared from the spot.

When it reappeared, it had already penetrated the three layers of tentacles and appeared directly above the core!

That ability to traverse space regardless of distance is its instinct as a void creature, and it is also its last trump card at this moment.

Little Black extended its sharp claws and pressed them down hard on the huge red core.

"Sizzle sizzle—"

There was no explosion, no loud noise.

There was only a piercing sound, like a red-hot iron being thrown into ice. Silver light surged wildly into the red core, and the two completely different forces collided violently at that moment.

"Awooo—!!!"

The giant sea creature let out an extremely mournful howl, a sound that even shattered all the raindrops within several kilometers.

The core's surface began to rapidly turn black, as the "missing" power frantically devoured the monster's energy source. Large amounts of seawater evaporated instantly upon contact with this area, forming a thick white fog hundreds of meters thick, completely enveloping Xiao Hei and the monster.

In this chaotic fog, only flickering silver light could be seen, and the monster's irregular, violent convulsions seemed to be on the verge of collapse.

Li Haotian gritted his teeth, his gun never lowered. He knew that victory or defeat hinged on this moment.

If Xiao Hei can hold on and completely annihilate the core, the battle will be over. But if Xiao Hei runs out of power and is devoured by the massive void energy...

Just then, a blood-red beam of light suddenly shot out from the thick fog, soaring straight into the sky and tearing a hideous wound into the dark night sky.

As the light faded, Xiao Hei's figure fell from the mist, like a kite with a broken string, helplessly drifting towards the sea.

The mountain-like monster, though missing a large chunk from its core, revealing a dark void, was not dead. The originally dark red light now became even more violent, turning into an eerie purplish-black.

It was injured, but it also went completely berserk.

"Damn it!"

Li Haotian's pupils contracted sharply. Ignoring the weight of the sniper rifle, he hoisted it onto his shoulder and charged towards the edge of the deck. He had to catch Xiao Hei!

Just as Xiao Hei was about to fall into the sea, a huge tentacle swept across, carrying the momentum of destruction, and smashed into both the falling Xiao Hei and the frantically running Li Haotian.

The collision between the void and the ocean ultimately failed to determine a clear winner, instead pushing the situation to an even more desperate precipice.