Meanwhile.
Deep in the sea, beneath the boundless azure waters, everything was peaceful and still.
Sea Soul Beasts of every kind swam and played in the water, schools of silver-scaled fish weaving back and forth like flowing rivers of stars.
Fluorescent jellyfish drifted slowly beneath their translucent bells. Now and then, several dolphin-like Soul Beasts chased one another in play, stirring up rings of tiny ripples.
Sunlight refracted down from the surface, passing through hundreds of feet of seawater to scatter mottled flecks of gold across the shallows above the Ocean Abyss.
Everything was quiet and serene, like an underwater paradise untouched by worldly strife.
But in the very next second, as they played...
A dark silver streak, shrouded in black death evil qi, shot through the water like an arrow.
Its speed was astonishing-outrageously fast.
The seawater was torn into a long hollow channel as he swept past. Before the walls of water on either side could close, the black death evil qi trailing behind him had utterly contaminated them.
In a single instant-
Black death evil qi spread, polluting the seawater.
Dark red poison mist poured madly from the Dark Silver Death Dragon's body, like ink dripping into clear water, only hundreds, thousands of times thicker. That black-red evil qi churned and spread through the deep sea, staining the water a horrifying dark red wherever it passed, laden with intense corrosion and an aura of destruction.
All those Sea Soul Beasts that had been playing moments earlier.
The instant they touched the black-red seawater, they died.
Schools of silver-scaled fish froze within the dark red, their bodies stiffening for a heartbeat...
Then their flesh dried out, shriveled, and fell away...
Leaving bare skeletons...
The fluorescent jellyfish's bells burst instantly, their gelatinous bodies dissolving into the seawater and leaving