In the depths of the sea, even light could not pass unimpeded.
The deeper one went, the darker it became.
But now, there was no need to reach the seabed. The sea was already lightless.
The dark red seawater, stained by Scarlet Rot, had gathered into a vast Flower Bud.
All the Evil Spirit Orcas could see was profound darkness.
Light had been shut out.
Rot was spreading through every Evil Spirit Orca.
More than ninety percent of them had already been infected.
At the very center of the pod, the Evil Orca King decided the moment he had been waiting for had arrived!
If he struck now, while his kin were off guard, he could make two or three passes and devour them!
Hundreds of ten-thousand-year-old kin would be more than enough to push him a little further beyond the hundred-thousand-year threshold.
And if he could absorb that sinister power along the way, so much the better!
The Evil Orca King could hold back no longer. He bared his sharp teeth, a crazed grin spreading across his face!
He did not even know that scarlet was already reflected in his eyes.
He opened his cavernous maw, and the pressure difference sent seawater surging into it.
His powerful tail lashed hard as he swam against the pod's rotation, swallowing and tearing at his kin!
There was no time to chew! Swallow first!
A feast of his own kind did not come along often!
Under the horrified gazes of the Evil Spirit Orcas, the Evil Orca King opened wide and began to chomp, chomp, chomp.
After a few circuits, blood had stained this stretch of sea completely red.
The Evil Spirit Orcas went mad.
The entire pod lost its reason and began devouring one another.
Amid the chaos, the Evil Orca