The Sea Abyss Heavenly Venerable's mortal avatar made an explosive entrance.
With a body that size, there was no way it could keep a low profile. Murphy had already paid homage to this divine incarnation by the waters near the Origin, and the "divine domain" surrounding it, which forbade all life from approaching, still lingered vividly in his memory. If even a well-informed main-quest NPC could be shocked by such a sight, it was only natural that the outsiders would scream.
Ever since the Black Calamity began, players had been dealing with legendary deities. But honestly, most of them still had no clear idea of just how powerful the concept of a "deity" really was.
Though veteran players had experienced Old Su's descent upon Kafhoka, in that incident Old Su had played the part of a bullied, lonely old wolf—a backdrop for his family's XXN to stab him in the back. The old wolf god had never managed to display a deity's majesty.
That had given the players a false impression.
They thought the deities in this world weren't as "omnipotent" as they'd imagined.
It was true that the gods of the Warp couldn't be omniscient and omnipotent. The closest to that concept was probably the long-vanished Creator. Nevertheless, in the broadest sense, the power they possessed absolutely fit the idea of "divinity."
The Sea Abyss Heavenly Venerable's mortal avatar was proof enough.
Without exaggeration, even if Lord Ze's avatar were dropped into the players' world, it would pose an insurmountable problem. The part of its body above the sea alone was as large as a small island. At that size, any conventional weapon would be useless.
Even if they used a nuke, it was an open question whether it could pierce that absurd supernatural "divine domain."
And yet the