Deep Sea Hunter, but Deep Sea Titan

Laurentina sensed a slight abnormal sound wave; the modified deep-sea hunter possessed sufficient hearing to distinguish them.

"The power of an order ultimately has its limits."

"Our enemies in the sea will find us sooner or later, but even if they do, so what? They won't be able to shut us out using the same methods they used 60 years ago."

From the very beginning, Luo Ting was prepared to face a tsunami head-on, which is one of the reasons why he went through so much trouble to unlock the [Shan Hai Hui Juan] and [Creator God] skins.

"Tsunami".

"Order the punitive troops to temporarily halt boarding."

Lotin simply uttered those two words, and then instructed Grand Inquisitor Dario to convey the order to stop boarding.

The large contingent of Punishers, who were on guard around the launch site of the small boat, had apparently not yet noticed the strange phenomenon in the ocean. These highly motivated Punisher soldiers were simply wondering why the drones and other detection equipment had not detected the same tidal wave of monstrous fish that had struck the Eye of Iberia last time.

It was too quiet. Even though they had reached the ocean that had swallowed countless exploration and search teams, they hadn't encountered any monster activity.

Excitement, unease, and vigilance filled the air; the hard-won victory quickly turned into agony. The soldiers of the Punishment Army desperately wanted to find the enemy, but all their efforts were in vain.

Perhaps, they would feel more at ease if a horde of abominable sea monsters immediately crawled out and attacked them.

The oppressive feeling of an impending storm, carried on the pungent sea breeze, spread this unease throughout the entire coastline.

"Stop boarding! Stop boarding! Retreat temporarily!"

A communication came over the radio, and the communications soldier received a startling message: a tsunami with peaks exceeding 90 meters was rushing toward them.

The deep blue sea in the shallow waters suddenly turned white, and a long, bright wall of water appeared in front of it. The young generation of Iberians, who were trapped inland and had become unfamiliar with the sea, had no idea that this was the beginning of a tsunami.

The deafening roar reached Loting, and he could never forget the feeling. The sea unleashed its merciless fury, and a colossal monstrosity swept in, making even the 40-meter-tall bronze giant seem insignificant as it drifted with the current.

But this time is different; Nautilus will seek revenge on the sea that sank and forgot him.

Loting plunged the giant anchor into the sea, transforming the seabed and water into a form he could shape, pouring immense magical power into it. Ultimately, the ocean was just a vast body of water on this solid planet; Loting couldn't completely control this immense body of water, nor could he control a large group of them.

When the wave peaked, the sheer volume was overwhelming. The Punisher Army, which had established a beachhead, seemed to face annihilation. Rather than reciting the Iberian commandments, they chose to toss a coin and pray to the power of Nautilus.

There was a time when they also prayed to the holy city of Lateran in the same way.

The air currents were disrupted by enormous energy, and a storm swept across the once calm shallow sea. In the minds of many Iberians, this was nothing short of an apocalyptic scene of raging winds, torrential rain, and tsunamis.

Dark red energy flowed through the water, and Lotin's mana began to fluctuate again, as he guzzled down several mana potions.

Lotin's consumption was considerable, and the consumption of biomass by the large group was even greater. These hungry beasts could do the math. They even felt it was a loss to launch an offensive against the major city of Agor, so how could they not know that launching such a tsunami would make a lot of stored nutrients go to waste?

But they did it anyway.

"The power of Nautilus!"

On the beachhead about to be swallowed by the giant waves, the punitive troops were surprised to find that the wave crests, which were more than 90 meters high, had solidified into a wall, and the liquid waves remained still as if they had solidified into a solid.

“Nautilus is unlike those hypocritical Sarkaz; He will respond to our piety and offerings…”

Countless gold coins clattered to the ground; they would indeed become Lotin's power.

Saint Carmen watched the blocked tsunami from the beachhead. He did not stop the soldiers from saying things that would have been considered heretical in the past; his stance had long been clear.

"Your Highness..."

W originally thought that she had seen a lot of the world by following Luo Ting in Yan Kingdom. Before she could understand the vastness of the sea, she first witnessed its irritability and fickleness. Just when she was about to understand what the scene before her meant, the prince who tamed her showed her the great power to make natural disasters bow down and give way.

"It's just a tsunami, watch me push it back!"

The giant anchor trembled, and dark red energy was continuously injected into it. The control of the ocean currents was being fiercely contested, so terrifyingly huge whirlpools could be seen everywhere on the turbulent sea.

"The ocean is boundless."

Luo Ting didn't even know what language he used to say those four words. But the vast and boundless power of the sea had indeed fallen into his hands.

The Agorians, Iberians, Sarkaz, and Yan people present each heard the four deep and resonant words in their own languages, and then, the true miracle appeared before their eyes once again.

The deafening roar of the crashing waves cleaved through the sea, revealing the shimmering, fluorescent seabed exposed to the air. The ocean made way for Titan.

Across the ocean.

Loting did it; he cleaved the entire sea surface and used even more powerful energy to push the tsunami back.

Carmen was stunned for the second time. The first time was when he learned about the coastline changes from the meteorological department, but this time, he witnessed it with his own eyes.

The scene described in the ancient Iberian scriptures as the saint opening the sea is nothing more than this.

Chapter 231: Kill Everyone with Two Legs or Above

The cleaved sea returned to its tranquility. Apart from the sound of the seawater flowing back to its original place due to gravity, the area was as quiet as the terrible silence of 60 years ago.

Cheers were no longer enough for these punitive soldiers to express the shock they felt. Many simply stared blankly as the giant anchor cleaved the ocean and the towering tsunami, hundreds of meters high, was shattered.

"The road has been opened, and the Fool is right there."

After 60 years, the Eye of Iberia has finally shone again, and along with the light came a ravenous, filthy creature lurking in the abyss.

They are coming.

Thick, viscous shadows reappeared in the seawater, shimmering in the gaps of the luminous ripples.

The shadow vanished abruptly at the boundary between the ocean and the land. Immediately afterward, the white chitinous bone claws, coated with Nether Trace, emitted a ghostly glow and could also corrode the wounds of their prey.

A bewildered horde, a hungry horde, is now launching a fierce attack on the Eye of Iberia.

"Kill everyone with two legs or more!"

At this moment, the judges also rallied their allies with battle cries, and the giant self-propelled guns on the beachhead roared. Most of the Terrorfish's carapaces were not tough enough, so the Terrans' preferred high-yield Originium shells could blast these weakest Abyssal monsters into pieces.

Guns and swords were the foundation of Iberia's nation.

At the same time, the supreme arts of Iberia make the swordsmen here equally formidable, especially given that they have been blessed by the aura of several pieces of equipment from Nautilus.

Within the vast circular area centered on Lothing, these ravenous beasts were instantly burned to ashes by the passive effect of [Sunfire Aegis]. This item gains additional damage based on maximum health, and Lothing's health after being enlarged is a massive number that renders normal League of Legends health values ​​meaningless.

With the reforging effect of [Heart Steel], the range of [Sunfire Aegis] becomes quite wide. Within the prototype area of ​​several kilometers around, the high-damage, all-around AOE damage that is applied every second burns and evaporates the tides of the Terrorfish and the spreading Dark Shroud.

Lotin moved in the direction indicated by the light without any resistance. Large groups adapt to a certain threat through targeted evolution. Such evolutionary mutations require resources, such as thickening the shell, evolving special structures, or even relying on biological organs to construct energy fields.

However, the swarm cannot create its own nutrients out of thin air. When high-frequency, low-cost, wide-area damage like [Sunfire Aegis] inflicts damage on it, the swarm's biomass will be in a severely disadvantageous state of depletion.

Hunger can drive these twisted flesh to devour everything, and it can also make these abyssal monsters retreat due to weakness.

[Upgraded to level 15]

The long-awaited level-up notification sound. These mindless monsters provide pitifully little experience, and the current level-up requirements are a bottomless pit.

Even under these circumstances, Lotin still managed to reach level 15 by burning the sea monsters, which only proves that the number of sea monsters that died under the [Sunfire Shield] was already quite large. These dinosaurs may gradually become more heat-resistant, but they were still vaporized in an instant.

Pure numbers, pure enjoyment.

Realizing their efforts were futile, the horde considered a temporary retreat. They had already wasted too much biomass in the face of this "harmful environment" that had baffled them for 60 years. The shadows and smog were gradually dissipating, and the horde needed time to adapt to the passive "Sacrifice" effect of the [Sunfire Aegis].

After their futile assault proved pointless, their offensive finally slowed. The instinct for self-preservation prevented them from launching a large-scale attack on areas Lotin could protect before they had fully adapted to the [Sunfire Aegis].

The sea breeze pierced the mist, revealing a large, quiet ship, slumbering peacefully on the sea. It is a subject of the sea breeze, a distinguished guest of the times.

It was an era full of ideals, and people's spirit of exploration was fully reflected in it, as was their arrogance.

Judge Eleanor simply stared blankly at the scene before her.

The sea was pitch black, the light dim. Sixty years seemed to have stood still at the mast.

At this moment, Lotin deactivated his gigantic form and switched back to his default skin.

"This is... Stutifila, the 'Fool'..."

"A flagship teeming with scholars and soldiers, a royal palace on the sea where the fallen were laid to rest... and the accounts in books... are quite different."

From the magnificent ship, Elena saw a microcosm of an era, and an indescribable sense of historical weight enveloped her.

"Perhaps a young Iberian like you hasn't had much experience with such a means of transport. Even with Breogan's assistance, it was made so crudely."

Goredia strolled on the deck of the giant ship, whose craftsmanship was unparalleled on land, but in her eyes, as the ruler of the Agorians, it was still considered crude.

"Ah, I remember this place..."

Lotin stood beside a broken railing; the broken cable was severely corroded, but this was indeed his workplace.

"Mr. Nautilus, you seem a little nervous and unwell?"

The doctor was completely unaware of Luo Ting's past experiences. She desperately wanted to help Luo Ting more at this time, but she didn't dare to ask him directly or reopen this wound.

"A shameful betrayal. Sixty years ago, in the dead of night, I was on a salvage mission, wearing this brass diving suit."

"Back then, I certainly didn't have the strength to cleave the ocean like I do now. In this dark and deep sea, the only thing a salvage worker can rely on is the cable on his back."

“Countless monsters tried to drag me into the abyss, but the cable was cut before it could be taut.”

"The Fool did not give me a chance to share the hardships, and this poor salvage worker disappeared forever in this terrible silence."

Before becoming the system template, this heavy-duty diving suit, which was originally 4 meters high, was a model designed for extreme diving depths. It had poor visibility and was very inconvenient for movement.

Elena was puzzled. Wasn't the salvage worker standing right here? Why did he say that the salvage worker had disappeared?

"In its place came Nautilus, who terrified the seas."

Dario had already guessed the outcome from the beginning of the story. The person in front of him, wearing a 60-year-old brass diving suit, could no longer be simply defined as a "human".

"Honey......"

Laurentina rarely experienced the emotion of "pain" from Lotin, but she saw it now. Even though he was now powerful enough to make the horde retreat once again, he still felt phantom pain because of the scar from 60 years ago.

Laurentina, perched on Lotin's shoulders, nestled close to his helmet, offering comfort to her beloved.

"Do you want me to destroy this place completely?"

Having just tasted the benefits of this method, Skadi wanted to use the same approach to relieve her lover's pain, but Lotin said it wasn't the right time yet.

“Buoregan’s research findings should be recovered, and after that, I will put a final close to this tomb of the golden age.”

Loting quickly calmed himself down. His own strength was always the most reliable asset, and this was Loting's greatest source of confidence.

The companionship of his three close partners also soothed his wounds. He never succumbed to it or became a slave to hatred.

"This ship is so big, and it's been adrift at sea for over 60 years. How are we supposed to find it?"

Elena looked at the still-lit passageway; the excessive silence made her nervous.

“I know where it is, little bird of the courtroom…”

"This ship is where I used to live."

No maps, no navigation equipment, no need for the keen senses of a deep-sea hunter—Lotinbi knew the ship like the rest of the crew. The salvager returned to the ship that had abandoned him and ventured deep into its tranquil interior.

Chapter 232: I Must See the Body

To Loting's own surprise, the dampness and mold here were not serious, as if it had received some maintenance and cleaning.

As the bronze giant ventured deeper into the still-uncorrupted behemoth, the sound of his footsteps echoed intermittently.

It was a series of heavy, sticky footsteps.

In the ship's passageway, where there shouldn't be any living creatures, a shadow appeared, but it only lingered in the distance, not daring to approach at all.

"These bastards are all avoiding you. That's right, you just caused them such great losses."

The singularity weapons of the Agor fleet had once killed entire waves of converging Terrorfish, but Goredia clearly remembered that reports of resistance against the singularity weapons quickly came back from the front lines.

These tarantulas appear to have been scorched by some kind of simple high temperature, but if it were just high temperature, these cunning creatures should have adapted much faster.

Goredia could only tentatively assume that Lotin was surrounded by some kind of special energy field, and that he also had a way of identifying friend from foe.

"These bastards have become smarter; they are trying to hide their murderous intent, put themselves into hibernation, and blend into their environment."

This would slightly reduce the passive range of [Sunfire Aegis], but Lothing still has more AoE skills at his disposal, such as Nautilus's E skill.

"It's alright, I have plenty of ways to cleanse this filthy flesh and blood."

Loting could detect a few swarms of Terrorfish or Seafowl lingering a little further away, but they dared not approach him easily. Such a devastating loss had already caused the large group to take the initiative to guard against the burning of the [Sunfire Shield].

Along the way, Lotin did not encounter any substantial resistance, so Elena began to have the leisure to observe Lotin's entourage.

It was then that she noticed a woman dressed as a Sarkaz mercenary was carrying a gun.

According to Iberian law, it is a serious crime to bring firearms into the country without permission or to study firearms without authorization.

"Miss Sarkaz, is that a gun hanging on your waist?"

Elene tried three languages ​​before finally managing to get W to understand her in broken Sarkaz.