The monster had dragged her to the bottom of the sea. At the thought of her...
"No... Mom wouldn't... Mom..."
Juanjuan murmured as tears streamed down her cheeks. The adjutant beside her could not help but feel
the same pain. The commander had not cried in years. In front of others, to maintain her authority, she
had never shown weakness to anyone.
But today...
BOOM!
The adjutant had just begun to recall more when a thunderclap out of a clear sky cut him off. In that instant, it lit up
the world.
Red lightning slammed into the sea, throwing up waves thousands of meters high. The thunder drowned out
every other sound in the world. For that instant,
nothing existed but the red lightning!
The sea surface visibly warped. The immense energy had twisted gravity itself! As though pushed by an invisible
force, the water opened into a vast
hollow, and the red lightning plunged beneath the surface in the blink of an eye.
Everyone stared at the enormous hollow, more than a thousand meters wide. The shifting water pushed their ships
away. Even satellite images
clearly showed the great hole in the sea!
Yet for nearly two minutes afterward, there was no sound. Everyone's hearing had recovered, but they still had no idea
what to make of the scene
before them. Then the woman's voice came again.
"God Descent mode, activate."
What happened next lay beyond everything anyone present believed possible!
A hand several kilometers wide burst from beneath the sea. Everyone clearly saw what rested
on its palm: an octopus
smaller than a hand.
"Stunned" could no longer describe what they felt. No one was even surprised anymore. Their minds could not process
what was happening, and every face had gone calm as they watched the enormous hand