Bait?

After another day without incident, the party finally spotted Skeleton Mountain in the distance, just as it was marked on the map.

The entire undersea mountain range looked like a gigantic human skull when viewed from above.

This was also a famous Whale Bone Mine known to many of the sea races, but very few people dared to come here.

Only sea folk on the verge of death would come here to try their luck.

Around Skeleton Mountain, Sea Magic Beasts were as numerous as the clownfish feeding on garbage beneath Black Coral City. There were hundreds, even thousands, as far as the eye could see.

The Water Ship silently stopped at the edge of a mountain peak.

Everyone silently gazed ahead.

Massive black shadows either crawled along the seafloor, sprawled across the mountains, or swam back and forth like dark clouds.

Some acted alone, while others moved in groups.

Even the lowest-ranked Sea Magic Beasts were legendary.

There were more than thirty Hero Sea Beasts.

Fortunately, there were no Demigod Sea Magic Beasts in sight.

These Sea Magic Beasts came in all sorts of shapes, but most resembled enlarged, swollen sea folk.

Some had the soft-bodied forms of squids, octopuses, or other tentacled sea creatures. Whenever they moved, they often cast a vast shadow.

Others had the forms of giant fish, each one looking like a giant whale.

Suddenly, a small mountain rose from the seafloor. Mud and sand slid away as a gigantic azure Sea Magic Crab, more than a kilometer long, stood up and began moving slowly sideways. Its two protruding Big Eyes turned toward them.

When the Sea Magic Crab passed a thousand-meter-tall undersea mountain, it lightly tapped it with one claw. The peak exploded, sending shattered rocks flying in both directions. In the blink of