At the edge of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, in an absolute abyss beyond the reach of sunlight, cold and crushing pressure ruled all. Yet this place was not lifeless; it concealed Earth's oldest and most powerful secrets.
At this moment, a primal, icy rage was awakening within the eternal darkness.
"Roar—!!!"
The silent roar was not transmitted through sound waves, but was a terrifying pressure that shook the soul directly, originating from the atomic core.
Its target was clear and singular: Connors, the being that had once shared some ancient bloodline with it, the loathsome counterpart of the same origin in its eyes.
Devour him, absorb his power and core, and become the one and only, invincible ultimate Titan!
And the Steel Fortress standing in its path, flickering with faint artificial light—"Neptune's Eye of Insight"—became the first obstacle on its path of vengeance.
The tiny, frail humans inside the fortress, who nevertheless dreamed of peering into and controlling the power of Titans, were no more than insignificant dust in its perception—or... appetizing snacks.
The colossal beast Osborn's massive body—its outline resembling a moving mountain beneath the refraction of the deep sea's bioluminescent organisms—began silently adjusting its course.
The beast did not roar—in the deep sea, sound was an inefficient weapon.
It relied on the surging power produced by the biological furnace within its body.
Powerful muscle groups drove limbs covered in specially bio-engineered streamlined carapace. At the same time, special glands at the base of its dorsal fin secreted nanoscale hydrophobic substances, forming a continuously renewing supercavitation membrane around its body.
This membrane greatly reduced friction with the seawater, allowing the behemoth, which weighed tens of thousands of tons, to move silently through the deep sea at a nearly ghostly speed utterly incompatible with its size, leaving