National destiny: Starting with a coffin, building an aircraft carrier is broadcast live globally.

Although the audience has seen this move many times before.

But this time the visual effects are truly amazing.

[Holy crap! This is a forced demolition!]

[The house is nice, it's mine.]

[Hermit Crab: ? My house is that big?]

[That bare butt looks a little sad and a little funny at the same time, hahaha!]

[The First Unsolved Mystery of the Ocean Era...]

The playful banter in the live chat had no effect on the perilous sea surface.

After a brief moment of stunned silence, the ear-piercing scraping sound of the giant claws was painful to the eardrums.

"Be careful!"

Ignoring the pain, Ivan picked up the axe and hopped to the bow of the ship on one leg.

"Klaus, to the left!" Renyi shouted.

Klaus swerved without hesitation, the ghost ship deftly sidestepping the giant claw.

Even after the shock absorber layer dissipated the force, the ship still shook violently.

【Durability -12】

This feeble blow clearly couldn't quell its anger at being naked.

It abandoned its attack with its heavy, massive claws and instead used its several thick, segmented limbs to grip the gunwale.

"Click, click..."

Two sharp forelimbs sank deep into the deck of the ghost bone boat, causing the hull to tilt sharply as Renyi and Ivan dodged to the left and right respectively.

"Haha! Canned food delivered right to my door!"

Instead of panicking, Ivan burst into laughter and swung his hand axe with one hand, forcefully chopping at the joint of the limb in front of him!

Dark green sap splattered, and the thinner segment of the limb snapped off instantly.

Losing the support of one leg, the hermit crab nearly slipped back into the sea, and its hatred instantly turned to Ivan.

"Well done!"

The hermit crab swung its two huge claws, one on the left and one on the right.

Without hesitation, Ivan abandoned his standing position and pressed himself against the deck. The pincers whistled past his nose and smashed through the railing of the Ghost Bone Boat.

【Durability -28】

Klaus quickly adjusted the angle of the sails, using the wind to help the tilting hull avoid the other pincer.

After several unsuccessful attacks, the hermit crab moved its remaining seven legs together, and its huge body attempted to climb directly onto the deck, causing the entire ship to sink slightly under its weight.

【Durability -40】

However, this action also caused its belly, which had lost its outer shell protection, to emerge from the water!

This is the moment we've been waiting for!

"Ivan!"

Ivan, understanding perfectly, swung his axe again and chopped at the nearest segment of the leg.

This time he was smarter. He aimed at the gap in the joint and clamped it tightly, then pried it outwards. You could tell how much force he used from his muscular arms and flushed face.

The hermit crab, in pain, lifted its leg in an attempt to shake off the "attachment" on its leg.

One of the legs swept in any direction.

Instead of retreating, he advanced, seized the opportunity, and grabbed onto that leg. With the swinging of the limbs, he left the deck and hung in mid-air!

Holy crap!

Klaus's eyelids twitched, and he quickly turned the boat around to ram the hermit crab's underside, hoping to create a foothold for it.

No need for backup.

He suddenly released his grip mid-air, and using the momentum, he plummeted like a meteorite.

The sharp scissor sliced ​​open the hermit crab's soft abdomen from top to bottom, as if slicing through a giant water sac.

Pfft—!

Its eight legs twitched wildly, its body tilted backward, and the waves it created on the sea nearly capsized the ghost bone boat.

It was still thanks to Ivan, who had firmly pinned down one of the hermit crab's legs,

Only Klaus, who was holding onto Ivan's collar tightly, was able to avoid being pulled down.

You have defeated the Lv.4 Mutant Treasure Chest Hermit Crab.

[Gained 40 Evolution Points]

As Ren Yi stumbled and rolled on the deck, a notification sounded in his ear.

Meanwhile, Ivan and Klaus also received a notification.

[You helped defeat the Lv.4 Mutant Treasure Chest Hermit Crab and have earned 20 Evolution Points.]

The sea returned to calm, though the water had turned almost entirely dark green.

The hermit crab's bizarre and comical bald corpse was hanging from the side of the small boat with a leg stuck into the deck.

The ghost bone boat had two damaged sections of its hull.

The railing was broken in half, and the deck was covered with holes punctured by arthropods, a complete mess.

Ivan leaned against the ship's railing, his gaze complex as he watched Ren Yi wipe the juice off his knife.

He had never seen such a bizarre ability before.

How can you make a monster's "armor" disappear out of thin air?

This was beyond his understanding of sequences.

"What do we do with this?"

Ivan pointed to the hermit crab's carcass bobbing in the water, "It's so big, we can't haul it onto the boat!"

Moreover, with so much blood flowing out, if left unattended, it will quickly attract other predators.

"No need to drag it up."

I walked a little closer and placed my hand on the hermit crab's leg.

A flash of blue light, and the hermit crab corpse, bigger than a ship, vanished into thin air, just like the 'treasure chest' disappeared.

He turned to the burly, shocked bear-like man and explained:

"This is my sequence ability."

He pointed to the ghostly bone ship beneath his feet, "It breaks down everything it touches into materials, and then uses those materials to evolve the ship."

Decomposition, evolution?

It turned out to be the case.

Ivan always thought they had found some blueprints and then used Klaus's [Foundry] abilities to build the ship.

It now appears that the real core of the matter is this guy who calls himself a doctor.

However, this ability didn't seem to fit into any of the sequences he knew.

After hesitating for a while, Ivan blurted out, "Awesome!"

[Decomposition successful!]

[Rewards: Giant Claws*2, Active Carapaces*30, Crab Meat*50, Strong Abdominal Muscles*2, Crab Roe (Extra Large)*1]

[Special material detected: Strong abdominal muscles]

Having special materials means you can unlock or evolve new modules!

Open the evolution panel immediately.

[Evolvable Module: Bio-Buffer Layer (Lv.0) > Bio-Buffer Layer (Lv.1)]

[Evolutionary Requirements:]

【1. Active Chitin (30/30)】

【2. Strengthen your abdominal muscles (2/2)】

【3. Evolution Points (43/10)】

"evolution."

In the instant of arbitrary evolution, the swim bladder at the bottom of the boat, which had previously acted like a shock-absorbing sponge, began to wriggle and contract.

The active carapace is invisibly manipulated to adhere to the outer side in sequence, forming a more robust yet slightly elastic biological armor.

And those two strangely named "Strong Abs"

It fits rhythmically from bow to stern, fitting snugly into the sides of the keel.

This ship, which seemed to be a skeleton incarnate, now had its own muscles.

Ivan was dumbfounded.

Klaus curiously poked the newly grown 'muscles'.

[Evolution successful!]

【Biological Buffer Layer (LV.1)】

[Function: Absorbs 50% of wave impact and provides shock absorption protection when the hull is hit.]

[New Skill: Muscular Abs]

[Muscular Abs: Upon active activation, the ship's abdominal muscles will instantly tighten, reducing impact damage by an additional 30% for 1 minute. Cooldown: 3 hours.]

[Evaluation: Your ship has developed eight-pack abs; it's now better sculpted than 99% of the creatures on board. P.S.: Don't whistle at it, it'll get shy.]

"A muscular man with abs..."

I can't quite put my finger on this skill name.

And what is the underlying meaning of that system's evaluation?

What does it mean to be better sized than 99% of the creatures on board?

Physiologically speaking, every living being has abdominal muscles, okay?!