Although Laboon's headbutt had sunk the Ironclad Pirates, blocked the descending route, and casually triggered a fairly sizable localized tsunami, it had truly been an extremely restrained little move for it.
Because when this Island Whale truly began to go berserk, the scene was a hundred times more terrifying than that little headbutt from before.
Its enormous body, whose length had to be measured in kilometers, suddenly erupted with overwhelming force. Carrying the crushing weight of millions of tons, it leaped from the sea and slammed toward the tiny figure on the coastal cliff.
A massive hollow immediately appeared in the ocean. Towering waves poured violently off Laboon's body, bringing with them a true storm and tsunami.
Seeing the whale's head lunging at him and blotting out the entire sky, the middle-aged man Garen had rescued from the pirate ship was instantly scared out of his wits.
Garen naturally would not stand there blankly awaiting death like the middle-aged man. As the one who had caused all this, he had long been prepared.
Before Laboon's enormous shadow covered him, Garen had already turned and begun to flee.
"Shave!"
His figure vanished from where he stood like a phantom, appearing dozens of meters away in the blink of an eye.
The middle-aged man Garen was carrying only felt as if a high-speed storm had viciously slapped him. His vision blurred, and he suddenly found himself somewhere else.
Before he could recover from the aftereffects of that high-speed movement, Garen dragged him into another burst of dizzying speed, with fierce winds whipping across his face.
Garen's tireless, data-based body gave him abilities completely unlike those of ordinary masters of physical combat.
Ordinary people around Garen's level simply could not endure the extreme strain that repeatedly using the Six Powers: Shave placed on