There was more to the "You're back..."
He had indeed returned, but the current situation was far from optimistic for Feng Chen. After all, he was actually on the seafloor near the Divine Land where he had originally left.
It was impossible to say he could not swim. The problem was Feng Chen's stamina. After training in SAO, it was impossible for him to convert all those data into real strength. Therefore, only part of him had truly been strengthened. First, exclude stamina—after all, Feng Chen was a lazy dog. As everyone knew, a lazy dog's stamina never changed. It was always a fixed value.
Moreover, this was thousands of kilometers beneath sea level, so he could forget about swimming back up.
(Although I could use Jizou Mitama's erosion to separate the seawater, I'd easily be discovered that way.)
As long as something exceeded the abilities and methods ordinary people could understand, Feng Chen would not use it. Judging by the time, it was summer now, and there would definitely be plenty of people at the beach. Someone would inevitably eat too much, take a picture, and upload it to the internet. By then, Feng Chen would surely attract the attention of Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, and even more factions.
Although this feeling was incredibly satisfying, it would become troublesome, wouldn't it?
"Are you here to offer yourself up?"
The monster before him was white all over, with fins, scales, and the like. It was easy to guess that it was a fish. However, it also had purple lines on its body, making its identity obvious.
It was a Honkai Beast—and a marine Honkai Beast, which were rarely seen under normal circumstances.
This Honkai Beast did not follow its instincts and destroy or slaughter. Instead, it made a rather friendly gesture toward