Before the others could fully process Nie Yun's arrogant declaration, a furious roar rang in everyone's ears, leaving their minds reeling.
"Roar!"
Sound naturally could not travel through space, yet this beastlike roar carried a trace of skill in manipulating mental power, like a weakened version of Mental Shock.
Nie Yun paused, then looked toward the Kalon fleet.
He could vaguely sense an extremely faint fluctuation of life in that direction.
The distance between the two sides was measured in millions of kilometers. For Nie Yun to sense even the slightest presence from that far away, the being's vitality had to be astonishing.
Just then, the Kalon fleet slowly parted, finally revealing the colossal creature at its center!
It was an enormous cosmic organism, more than two hundred kilometers long.
Its appearance resembled a whale from Earth, with metal bone spikes and fins of varying sizes covering its body. A gigantic mouth occupied almost half its bulk.
Numerous external armor plates and weapon systems were mounted on its body, bearing obvious signs of artificial modification.
Most bizarre of all, a humanoid barely over three meters tall stood on its forehead as though he had grown there, his entire lower body fused with the terrifying beast.
He was completely hairless, resembling a miniature giant version of a hairless Wulf.
Large masses of blood-red, wispy tissue, like capillaries, connected to the back of his head and his back. It was a horrifying sight.
"Kalon! A Leviathan!" Flint and several Pirate Crew leaders stared at the enormous creature with grave expressions, wariness flashing in their eyes.
Kalon had no Legendary Mecha, but among the leaders of the Seven Great Pirate Gangs, he was universally recognized as the strongest individual combatant, without exception!
That was because he had undergone inhuman biochemical modifications, fusing with