The hull groaned under the weight of the violent tremors, and everyone on the deck fell into a ball. Only Li Wen and Moria stabilized their bodies and stood firmly on the deck at the moment of the huge earthquake.
The turbid seawater, laden with smelly seaweed and indescribable rot, splashed on the deck like a torrential rain, bringing a biting coldness and a suffocating smell of putridity.
Li Wen clung to the slippery side of the boat, his hood was blown up by the strong wind, and his wet black hair clung to his cheeks. Her cold gaze penetrated the churning ink-colored water and captured the huge, twisted shadow deep in the bottom of the ship that exuded heart-stopping malice.
The edge of the shadow squirmed like a living thing, and countless thick tentacles glowing with green mucus were frantically wrapping around the Adventurer. Every contraction made the entire giant ship scream as it was on the verge of disintegration. What made Li Wen even more alarmed was that the aura exuded by the shadow - cold, dead, with an instinctive desire for the soul - was exactly the same as the Remnant Soul aura she felt under the Port Belen church and inside the Two-tailed Mermaid statue.
"It is the creation of Decay Lineage." Li Wen's voice penetrated the wind and rain, clear and cold, with an unquestionable tone.
"Fuck you!" Remington's roar was like thunder, covering up the roar of the storm. There was no fear in the eyes of this Calamity Path's "Wave Commander", only the fierceness of being completely enraged. He handed the helm of the ship to the biggest sailor around him and shouted, "Hold on! Don't let it tear the ship apart!"
Before he finished speaking, Remington stepped hard on the soaked deck, and rushed towards the side of the ship like a cannonball. He didn't hesitate at all, and didn't even take off the sword from his waist. He fit right through the surging waves and fell straight into the dark, churning sea water that exuded endless malice.
Plop!
The sound of falling water was instantly swallowed up by the storm.
Under the surface of the sea is another hellscape. The turbid seawater was like thick ink, and the visibility was extremely low, but Remington's eyes that had been fighting the ocean all year round were not affected by this. It only took him a moment to lock onto the behemoth entrenched at the bottom of the ship. It was a terrifying Sea Monster that was indescribable in words.
Its main body is like a squirming mountain of meat forcibly pieced together from countless rotting corpses and pale bones. Countless thick tentacles covered with suckers and flowing with dark green mucus extend from the mountain of meat, tightly entangled with the keel of the Adventurer. The tentacles were covered with large and small mouthparts, and they were frantically gnawing at the solid ship wood, making a tooth-wrenching "crunching" sound. Deeper, a huge, turbid, one-eye shining with scarlet light could be vaguely seen, staring fixedly at Remington who broke into its territory, full of greed and tyranny.
"Damn beast." Remington cursed in his heart, the air in his lungs being squeezed by the strong water pressure. But as "Wave Commander" of Stage Four, the ocean itself is an extension of his power. He is not struggling in the sea, but has returned to the battlefield that belongs to him.
He pushed his feet seemingly casually in the sea water, and a violent undercurrent was instantly generated under his feet, like a slap from an invisible giant palm. It not only offset the strong water pressure, but also gave him a speed far beyond that of ordinary people. He was like a fish swimming in the deep sea, ignoring the strong resistance of the viscous water and pounced straight towards the monster's one eye.
The monster sensed the threat, and the tentacles wrapped around the ship's hull suddenly released. It swung with the power to tear through the wind and waves and set off a tsunami, and lashed out at Remington. At the same time, the ferocious mouthparts on the tentacles opened one after another, spitting out dark green poisonous mist, which instantly dyed the surrounding seawater even more filthy. The strong corrosive mist made the seawater make a "sizzling" sound.
Facing this fatal strangulation, Remington's eyes flashed with fierce light. He did not choose to dodge, but rushed towards the drawn tentacles.
The moment the tentacles reached his body, the muscles in his arms tensed up, his fists clenched, and he blasted out at the incoming tentacles.
"Let me... open it!"
There was no gorgeous magical brilliance, only pure and extreme power that resonated with the ocean. The moment he blasted out his fists, the seawater within a few meters in front seemed to solidify instantly, and then was compressed and condensed inward by a terrifying huge force. The water was compressed to the extreme, and under the pull of Remington's fists, it turned into two high-speed rotating torrent drills visible to the naked eye.
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The torrent drill tore through the monster's tough skin without any hindrance and penetrated fiercely into its interior. The thick, smelly dark green blood and broken tissues instantly exploded in the filthy seawater.
"Ouch——" A sharp scream that penetrated the seawater and reached the soul vibrated in the seawater. The monster was in pain, the huge flesh mountain trembled violently, and the scarlet one-eye was full of pain and rage. The severely injured tentacles danced wildly, and the blood flowing from the wounds seemed to be highly corrosive, dyeing the surrounding seawater into a boiling poisonous pool.
But Remington is no longer where he was.
The moment he broke through the tentacle defense, his body trembled. The ocean current around him seemed to be an extension of his will. A strong horizontal undercurrent accurately supported his body, making him like a top in the water, avoiding the encirclement of other tentacles and the spraying poisonous mist by a hair. His figure is incredibly agile in the sea. Every time he kicks his feet or waves his hands, he accurately adjusts his direction with the help of the power of the sea water, which completely subverts ordinary people's understanding of underwater combat.
He was like a ghost in the deep sea, swimming around the painful monster at high speed, looking for an opportunity to strike a fatal blow. Every thrust was accompanied by a terrifying impact caused by the water being compressed to the extreme. Either a heavy punch hit the relatively fragile joint of the monster's tentacles, or the legs were swept out, driving the violent water to form a cutting blade.
On the sea, the Adventurer was still swaying painfully under the pull of wind, rain and the remaining tentacles of the monster. The sailors took out weapons to fight with these tentacles. The sound of banging and tearing at the bottom of the ship came dullly through the thick planks of the ship, accompanied by the sometimes painful and sometimes furious screams of the monster penetrating the sea water, making everyone on the deck tremble with fear.
Li Wen did not participate in the battle. Her gaze penetrated the rolling sea water and stared at the tangled shadows underwater.
Not long after, with a sound that tore through the waves and storms, a huge explosion cloud formed of thick dark green blood, broken carrion, and bone fragments, along with a devastating shock wave, violently spread from the depths of the ship's bottom.
Above the sea, a huge whirlpool filled with dark green filth suddenly appeared, shaking and pulling the Adventurer violently. A strong, disgusting rotten smell spewed out from the center of the whirlpool like substance, filling the entire sea surface.
Deep in the whirlpool, a strong figure broke through the filthy water, jumped up vigorously, grabbed the cable hanging from the side of the ship with one hand, and landed steadily on the violently shaking deck.
Remington was soaked all over, and his naked upper body was covered with small scratches and traces of corrosion, but there were no other scars. Even his chest did not rise and fall much, as if the previous fierce battle was just a warm-up for him.