Oric's Dirty Trick-CP0 Grossed to Death (23)

Pure Gold did indeed bring disaster to its owner. However, the so-called "disaster" was actually just a gigantic deep-sea anglerfish being attracted by Pure Gold's radiance.

It was a monster even larger than Zou, the giant elephant that was home to the Mink Tribe, and its name was Lantern Grandpa.

The giant elephant Zou carried an entire kingdom on its back, while the three stomachs in its belly each held an island!

The two island-sized turtles that pulled the Golden City, Guran Tesoro, forward were over a thousand kilometers long. Yet before Lantern Grandpa, they were at most the size of a human palm, and it could gobble them down in a few bites.

With that comparison, one could imagine how astonishingly enormous this giant beast was. It was even more incredible than Neptune, whom Ron had encountered in the Calm Belt back then!

It was precisely this unreasonable size that had earned Pure Gold the name of "disaster," turning it into a ghost story.

It had no intention of harming humans, because humans were not even enough to fill its stomach and were not on its menu. It would not deliberately swallow islands, either. Island-eating goldfish were rare oddities, and anglerfish could not digest soil.

However, all these ecological habits meant nothing before its enormous body.

Every owner would foolishly take out Pure Gold to show off or admire it. Then, as soon as its radiance was exposed, the giant beast would swim over and swallow it whole.

The owner's fate was clear. No amount of mourning would save him.

"I remember it isn't just Pure Gold. When Lantern Grandpa is sometimes closer to the surface, it attacks anything that glitters, leaving behind quite a few horrifying stories."

Inside the lounge, Ron slowly tapped the tabletop, thinking carefully.

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