Heavenly Manifestation

Luo Jun breathed a sigh of relief.

There naturally weren't any exaggerated giant octopuses in the Main World, but since this guy could turn that giant tree into a treant after becoming deified, creating a giant octopus monster wasn't impossible either.

The monster might have been added temporarily, but the port's city defenses couldn't possibly have been completed overnight. This world seemed long prepared for the appearance of massive sea monsters. From his high vantage point, Luo Jun saw city defense installations everywhere. Faced with such a catastrophe, pedestrians on the streets were all evacuating toward the nearest shelters. Though panic was inevitable, there was no overall chaos. Their experience with evacuations was obvious, and their efficiency was extremely high.

No city in the Main World could achieve this.

The enormous monster and the civilians always prepared to evacuate reminded Luo Jun of a world.

[Natural disaster]!

That was right. The Calamity Gate in the Federation connected to a world like this.

This world's defining feature was the countless gigantic monsters hidden across its lands. These monsters would occasionally emerge, destroying cities and slaughtering civilians.

In such an environment, the cities of [Natural Disaster] were clearly militarized, with modifications for dealing with monster disasters visible everywhere.

But something was wrong. If this really was [Natural Disaster], and this giant octopus was a monster native to this world, then what exactly was the aura Luo Jun had sensed after that deification...?

Just as he was wondering, the wildly flailing tentacles suddenly began to convulse violently. Then, at a visible rate, they shriveled and withered. Moments later, they had become dry, decayed husks. A few blasts from the city defense cannons shattered them into segments that scattered across the harbor and sea.

This was...

Luo Jun could clearly sense the sea monster's