I created a foundation

But this one in front of me...

It's completely beyond their comprehension.

This is no longer a "disaster".

This is a giant beast that only appears in myths and legends and is powerful enough to destroy the world.

On the screen, the assessment system representing the disaster level was flashing red light frantically.

Lines of code scroll rapidly, and the system is making judgments on this emerging threat based on the data sent back in real time.

Past disaster levels - from the lowest "祟" level, to the "害" level, "吓" level, to the "鬼" level that is enough to destroy a city, and the "虎" level that is enough to threaten the security of a country - flashed across the screen.

Eventually, all the characters disappeared.

Instead, a brand new, ancient Chinese character that had never appeared in this world, emitting an ominous dark golden light, slowly emerged in the center of the screen.

The strokes of that character were strict and solemn, carrying a terrifying pressure from the ancient times that made the soul tremble.

【dragon】..

Chapter 110: King of the Sea! Crusade Team, Attack!

The "Quinjet" fighter jet tore through the thick clouds at a speed exceeding the speed of sound and rushed towards the coordinates of the eye of the Pacific storm.

Inside the cabin, in stark contrast to the violent scene outside, there was an almost constant silence.

Lin Qing sat in the command seat at the front, his expression calm and his eyes deep, as if the lightning and thunder outside the window were just an ordinary scene.

Yukinoshita Yukino and Yukinoshita Haruno sat behind him on his left and right respectively.

The embarrassment and knot in the heart that had been pointed out by Lin Qing in the conference room were temporarily suppressed in the increasingly solemn atmosphere.

Yang Noi tried to speak several times to break the suffocating silence, but her gaze met Yukino's still icy profile, and her words died back. She could only look out the window, at the menacing dark clouds and dancing electric snakes, a sense of unease rising in her heart for no apparent reason.

Yukino lowered her eyelids slightly, her hands resting flat on her knees, like an ice sculpture. Only the occasional trembling of her eyelashes betrayed her inner restlessness.

She could clearly sense the despairingly huge chaotic atmosphere in the outside world, as well as an indescribable, primitive and violent life force field mixed in it.

Nico Robin sat behind Yukino. This historian from another world had a more solemn expression than anyone else. She instinctively hunched over her seat, her hands tightly gripping a tactical tablet, her knuckles turning slightly white from the strain.

Her hometown, O'Hara, was destroyed by the World Government's fear of exploring the history of the "blank century." And now, from the faint smell coming from the outside world, she smelled a palpitating scent related to that taboo history.

"President, we've entered the outer reaches of the target sea area. The weather radar is experiencing severe interference, making conventional optical search essentially ineffective."

The driver's voice came from the communicator, with a hint of barely perceptible tension.

"Switch to the high-altitude military satellite Sky Eye system and synchronize real-time images."

Lin Qing's voice was calm.

"Yes!"

On the main display screen in front of the cabin, the picture flickered and the snow-like interference stripes quickly faded away.

Instead, there is a deep blue sea shrouded in endless storms, viewed from space orbit.

Assisted by the Foundation's powerful computing power, the lens penetrated the layers of lead-gray cloud cover at astonishing speed, adjusting the resolution and focal length to the limit.

The core of the storm, the legendary calm "eye of the storm", appeared in the center of the screen.

However, it was not as peaceful as expected.

"what is that……"

Yang Nai subconsciously covered her mouth and let out a slight cry of surprise.

On the screen, the waters of the eye of the storm surged with an unnatural, almost boiling tumble. Massive waves, hundreds of meters high, surged, collided, and tore apart frantically around an indescribable "center point."

It seemed as if some ancient giant was about to awaken beneath that sea.

Everyone's breathing subconsciously slowed down at this moment.

Under the control of intelligent programs, satellite cameras began to try to capture the true appearance of the "center point" from different angles and different spectral bands.

A delay of a few seconds felt like centuries.

Suddenly, a frame of image that had been forcibly sharpened and deblurred by a supercomputer was frozen on the main screen.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

Inside the cabin, you could hear a pin drop.

It was a monster... that could not be classified by any existing biological theory on Earth, and could not be accurately described by any myth or legend known to mankind.

The first thing that catches your eye is its tall and majestic head, like an ancient warhorse.

The surface of its skull was covered in layers of thick, tough, blue-black scales, each one gleaming with a cold metallic sheen, as if forged from the dark iron of the abyss of hell. Its eyes were tightly closed, but the outline of its eye sockets alone was several times larger than the Quinjet itself.

Extending from its head to the back is its terrifying snake body that is long, winding, and has no end in sight, just like the mythical "Midnight Serpent" Jörmungandr.

The majority of the serpent's body remained hidden beneath the churning black waters, but the small section that emerged from the surface was larger than any other aircraft carrier ever built. With each of its slightest breaths and movements, the surrounding sea surface would rise up into a wall of water tens of meters high, then crash down with a thunderous roar and earth-shaking waves.

What makes people feel suffocated and desperate the most is the pair of wings on its back - no, to be precise, on both sides of its body, extending from the shoulder blades to the tail vertebrae, there are several pairs of giant flesh wings that cover the sky and the sun, like a combination of ancient pterosaurs and abyss bats.

At this moment, most of those flesh wings were folded on both sides of the body, with only the pair at the front slightly opened. The wingspan easily covered the entire eye of the storm, swallowing up all the light from the sky.

It seemed to be just quietly cruising on the sea surface, perhaps even still in some kind of sleeping or semi-awake state.

But its existence itself, and the aftermath it unconsciously caused, have already created a world-destroying natural disaster in this sea area that is enough to easily tear apart the steel fleet of modern civilization and subvert continental plates.

"..."

The moment Yukinoshita Yukino saw that scene, her pupils suddenly contracted to the extreme.

For the first time, her proudly icy expression cracked uncontrollably. A shudder of insignificance, emanating from the deepest recesses of her being, raced through her like an electric current.

She could feel that the proud bloodline of the ancient saber-toothed tiger in her body and the power of thunder bestowed upon her by the Thunder Fruit seemed so insignificant in front of this giant beast that had only revealed the tip of the iceberg.

Yukinoshita Haruno's face was already pale.

She subconsciously grasped the armrest of the chair beside her, her nails digging deep into the surface of the special alloy, but she felt no pain at all. Her mind was blank, completely filled with the horrific scene on the screen that exceeded the limits of human imagination.

She even had an absurd illusion - as if the "Quinjet" fighter they were riding at the moment, which represented the crystallization of human technology, was just a fragile matchbox that could be smashed by huge waves at any time.

Lin Qing was still sitting upright, his expression did not change at all, but in his deep eyes, there flashed an extremely rare and solemn light.

He could clearly sense the energy levels contained within the giant beast's body, as well as its vitality that was as vast and boundless as the stars.

【Dragon】level.

No, it might even be... beyond the conventional Dragon level.

At this moment, an extremely suppressed, dreamlike, hoarse and trembling female voice broke the suffocating silence.

"Impossible...this is impossible..."

Everyone suddenly came to their senses and looked in the direction of the sound.

Nico Robin, who was sitting in the back row, was staring at the frozen horror picture on the main screen.

Her body was shaking violently, and her originally intelligent and beautiful face was now filled with indescribable fear and shock, as well as a shudder and disbelief from the depths of her soul, as if she had seen the ultimate secret of the world being revealed.

Her lips trembled, as if she wanted to say something, but she was too excited to make a clear sound.

"Miss Robin?"

Yukino's voice was also a little dry.

Nico Robin took a deep breath and let it out slowly and painfully. Her eyes never left the screen, as if she wanted to engrave every detail of the giant beast into her soul.

After a long moment, she finally spoke, word for word, in a nearly exhausted, erratic voice that seemed ready to dissipate into the air. This was a name that would send despair down the spine of any being who knew its meaning:

"Extra-large..."

Every word seemed to be squeezed out from between teeth, full of heavy and suffocating weight.

"...Sea...King...kind."

As she finished speaking, for the first time, her eyes revealed real, almost devastating fear.

"It's a legendary creature... described only in fragments of a hundred years of blank historical texts... and is called... the absolute king of the ocean."

The shrill sound of an alarm shattered the tranquility of the Foundation headquarters.

Scarlet indicator lights flashed wildly in every corridor, like the pulsating veins of a dying beast.

"Warning! Dragon-level disaster target detected!"

"Repeat! Dragon-level disaster target detected!"

The cold electronic sound looped on the radio, and every byte hit everyone's heart like a hammer.

The blood instantly drained from the faces of the ordinary staff members, and they staggered as they carried out the evacuation procedures.

Even the battle-hardened field agents looked solemn at this moment, with cold sweat oozing from their palms.

【Dragon】level.

The word itself represents a terrifying force that can easily destroy a city and even threaten the survival of an entire civilization.

Kasumigaoka Utaha stood in front of the huge main screen, her fingertips tapping rapidly on the console, calling up satellite images and data analysis.

On the screen, an unimaginably huge shadow was moving across the vast Pacific Ocean.

It only creates a wave that is enough to trigger a tsunami.

"The target has been confirmed to be a super-giant sea king-like creature, initially estimated to be over three kilometers long. It is currently moving at high speed towards the Hawaiian Islands."

Shiyu's voice had a barely perceptible tremor, but she remained professional.

"Based on its movement speed and energy response, it is expected to arrive within three hours. Conventional weapons...are ineffective."

The command room fell into deathly silence.

Everyone's eyes were cast on the figure standing in front of the screen with his back to the crowd.

Lin Qing.

He was not a big man, but at this moment he was like an unshakable mountain, suppressing everyone's panic.

He looked quietly at the moving "continent" on the screen, without any unnecessary expression on his face.

It was as if it was not a disaster that could destroy the world, but just an ordinary landscape painting.