"Here they came!!"
Gray mist churned across the sea as Lin Qiye stood at the bow and spoke in a low voice.
Roars rang out one after another from the distant waters—some shrill and piercing, some earth-shaking, some eerie and sinister... He looked out, and the outlines of Lovecraftian Deities emerging from the mist numbered neither more nor less than nine!
Those terrifying Lovecraftian auras and the ceaseless roars utterly terrified Ling Lin behind Lin Qiye.
Her face drained of color as she spoke:
"Commander, have we fallen into a trap?"
Lin Qiye did not answer. Instead, he said directly, "Take the other Phoenix Squad members and hide in the cabin! Hurry!"
"Commander, we can fight too!"
"In a battle of this scale, joining in would be no different from throwing your lives away... Go! That's an order!"
Seeing this, Ling Lin said no more. She was now the new captain of Phoenix Squad and had to shoulder a captain's responsibility. Gritting her teeth, she charged through the surging waves to the stern of the Explorer Ship and brought all the Phoenix Squad members into the cabin.
With the appearance of those nine Lovecraftian Deities, the entire sea went berserk. Massive waves rocked the three Explorer Ships until they nearly capsized, while fishy seawater lashed down onto the decks like rain, clattering loudly.
"Looks like the real brutal battle has only just begun..." Shen Qingzhu walked to Lin Qiye's side, watching the Lovecraftian Gods steadily approach as he spoke slowly.
"I thought this plan had failed... I didn't expect An Qingyu to still give us a surprise."
Lin Qiye turned toward the distance. Amid the hazy fog, a Figure in black wearing a hood stood ghostlike atop a frozen sheet of ice, silently watching in their direction.
Destroying Olympus had