Somewhere in the ocean.
Here, illusory black smoke billowed from the surface of the sea.
As the smoke rose, it transformed into one face after another.
Some were human, while others belonged to different races. Regardless of their race, all the faces wore savage expressions, like evil ghosts.
Between the black sky and black sea illuminated by the smoke stood a Giant Warship. The pitch-black warship floated on the ocean, and octopuses with countless tentacles, along with other sea creatures, occasionally crawled in and out through the gaps in its broken deck.
Layer upon layer of heavy cannons lined both sides of the warship. Their barrels were covered with various shellfish and tangled with rotting seaweed.
At that moment, the sea was far from calm. The waves surged violently, and from high above, the smoke-shrouded surface looked like shattered black gemstones.
Countless fragmented waves intertwined, forming spiderweb-like patterns. The billowing waters heaved up black waves that crashed against the warship, shattering into billions of black droplets that sprayed in every direction.
Then, a patch of golden light faintly appeared on the distant sea.
From afar, it looked as if a golden reef had risen from the ocean.
However, after that golden reef was covered by a black wave, it never appeared again.
At that moment.
Beneath the surface, a golden figure appeared. It turned out to be a huge golden-yellow octopus.
This octopus had no eyes on its body. Instead, each of its sucker-covered tentacles ended in a huge eyeball.
The octopus swam toward the black warship, and the eyes at the ends of its tentacles reflected the warship's shadow beneath the sea.
The Giant Warship on the surface was actually a Giant Softshell Turtle beneath the water, one with crab claws.
The Giant Softshell Turtle was pitch-black all over.