The deep sea at night was pitch-black. Without powerful lights, nothing was visible to the naked eye.
Rus Wang no longer kept himself shrunk down. His enormous body swam beneath the ships, dozens of meters below them. (Note: Don't confuse the protagonist's height with his length.)
His body stretched for hundreds of meters, a silent testament to his strength in the depths.
As a water-element Elf from Seer, the ocean was Rus Wang's natural domain and the best place for him to fight.
With his nictitating membranes shielding his eyes from the seawater, he sensed the waves coming from deeper below with his Soul Power. Then Rus Wang slowly looked up at the warships above him.
Even battleships, with their enormous tonnage, began to rock in the rough waves. The destroyers were even less able to withstand them.
Rus Wang began controlling the water element, forcibly calming the waves within a five-kilometer radius as they battered the fleet.
Afterward, he contacted Irwin through their Mental Contract and had her tell the fleet why the waves had calmed.
Aboard the destroyer, after hours of tossing about, the crew finally felt the ship settle into smooth sailing. They also learned that His Majesty Rus Wang had quelled the sea's fury.
The Elf Captain slumped in the command chair, where his seat belt had strapped him tightly in place.
He looked over at the navigator, whose face was just as pale.
"Once we're back, I'm absolutely, absolutely increasing the tonnage of our kingdom's standard Long-range Destroyers to over fifteen thousand tons. Ugh—"
Then the captain grabbed a nearby sick bag and threw up.
It turned out that on Douluo Planet's seas, the Sun Moon Empire's 4,000-ton destroyers were no better than flatboats. The experience could only be described as utterly hopeless.
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