"Mon... Monster!"
"Oh my god!"
"Run!"
"Dad!"
"Quick! Get over here!"
Wails of grief became the only sound in this shelter.
Fear.
Terror.
Panic.
Such emotions ruled everyone's hearts, sending people fleeing with screams as they scrambled over one another.
Looking at these tiny humans, the Deep Sea King felt neither sympathy nor pity.
All he had ever possessed was cruelty.
"Run?"
As though mocking something, the Deep Sea King's voice rang out all around them.
"Not a single one of you is getting away!"
As he spoke, the muscles across the Deep Sea King's enormous body swelled one after another, even his veins writhing.
What happened next was easy enough to imagine.
The Deep Sea King began hunting down the humans present.
The instant they turned to flee, the encroaching slaughter butchered them.
There was no such thing as luck.
Their cries lasted only a few short seconds.
When it was all over, only two things remained here.
Corpses.
And blood.
That was reality.
An irreversible reality.
It couldn't be helped.
Compared to the ruler from the sea, humans were simply too weak.
Even gathered in groups, even with overwhelming numbers, humanity still could not withstand a Nuclear Bomb.
Now, a threat comparable to nuclear bombs had appeared here.
It was a cold, merciless aberration devoid of even the slightest compassion.
Thus, the people here faced nothing but one-sided slaughter.
Unless someone stopped it all.
"Oh?"
With a hint of surprise in his voice, the Deep Sea King looked ahead with interest.
"You actually aren't running?"
That was right.
Before the Deep Sea King, there was still a group of people who had not fled.
These people were either strongly built or seemed to possess some fighting ability.
Faced with overwhelming power, their hands and feet trembled, their faces