However,
at this critical moment of life and death,
Su Wen's expanding domain pierced through the Abyss's contamination, purifying every crew member corroded by Abyssal power, including the specially invited guests.
They were pulled back from the brink of Abyssal madness and regained their sanity.
Yet what that clarity brought was an even greater terror.
Because they saw the Nether God Grand Monarch's true form:
—A colossal wave writhing with countless tentacles and flickering with endless compound eyes.
Of course,
calling It a wave
might have been less accurate than calling It some twisted colony of molluscan lifeforms.
Faced with such deathly horror, whether crew members or Lorenz Riel's invited guests, everyone was overcome by unprecedented despair and silence.
They only knew they had come here to watch Lorenz Riel's infighting, never expecting that they were about to die here.
But in the next second,
the torrential rain froze.
The fictional torrent had completely come into contact with the Nether Surge's domain.
Countless detailed data analyses abruptly appeared before Su Wen's eyes. They came from the Laplace Prediction System, enhanced at the cost of a tremendous amount of World Influence.
But during that extremely brief clash,
Su Wen had already reached an obvious conclusion,
which was:
Even though he had inherited the Tier 5 Fictionalizer lineage under Hastur, Lord of the Deep Sea Starry Sky, he still had virtually no chance of defeating the monster outside the ship.
Their psionic intensity and Abyssal resistance were simply not on the same level.
Even if he was immune to Mental Pollution, that did not mean he could ignore kinetic or energy attacks.
If he possessed both, he would have long since gone to soak in the Deep Abyss.
And there was no way he could fully master the combat capabilities a Tier