How could it have happened so fast?
Watching his companion get whipped away by a tentacle and fall into the black water without the slightest chance to fight back, Lan En felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
For once, the usually decisive killer's mind went completely blank.
In fact, everyone on the ship seemed to react much the same way.
That was definitely no ordinary sea monster that had just appeared by chance.
It wasn't just its absurd size. From this distance, he had seen everything clearly. The unlucky man who'd taken the brunt of the attack had already been bent at an unnatural angle the moment he was flung away.
When he hit the water, he hadn't even let out a groan. He was unmistakably dead.
That had to be the power of a Divine creature!
And the mermaid who'd been flung away at the same time had suffered almost no real injuries. After hitting the water, she broke free and vanished in the blink of an eye.
It had been far kinder to the sea creatures. Was it really just like the legends—had Curse Abyss's blood drawn an attack from the Sea God?
Delanlai, that lunatic, might have secretly brought Curse Abyss aboard the ship, but surely he couldn't have drawn the Sea God to the area in advance, too?
From the moment the blood got on him to the moment they were attacked, not even half a minute had passed. That was way too fast!
"Lan En—"
His churning thoughts were finally interrupted by a scream.
The woman in the black mask had already rushed right up to him and yelled him back to his senses.
"What are you staring at?"
Her furious shout made Lan En's heart jolt, finally snapping him out of