Deep-Sea Devourer

Along the edges of the Ashen's heavy Obsidian Armor, the ghostly green glow of deep-sea luminous moss swayed faintly in the viscous waters ten thousand meters below, illuminating one corner of the ancient ruins of God's Cliff, which had lain submerged for eight hundred years.

Yet just as the Ashen's searchlights attempted to tear through the darkness and draw closer to the core ruins, Tuka, who had been curled up in agony at Rain's feet, suddenly let out a piercing scream.

"It's awake! Captain Rain... retreat, quickly!"

Tuka's unfocused, deathly white eyes trembled wildly. His ten fingers scraped against the hard rock deck with a shrill grinding sound as terror drove them into the surface. He felt it—in the deepest fissure of this ten-thousand-meter abyssal plain, an ancient weapon of war that had slept for a full eight hundred years had been forcibly awakened by the Ashen's astonishing energy!

"That's the Deep-Sea Devourer that guarded the ruins eight hundred years ago... It's lived for eight hundred years! It's going to treat us as rebels invading the Great Kingdom and devour us completely!"

Rumble—!!

Almost the instant Tuka finished speaking, within the dark, lightless abyss directly ahead of the Ashen, a pair of terrifying giant eyes dozens of meters across suddenly burst open at the bottom of the trench. They glimmered with an icy blue light, carrying brutality and coldness that had spanned eight centuries.

It was a supermassive deep-sea beast, nearly as enormous as Zunesha of Zou in the New World. Its body was covered layer upon layer in ancient scales as heavy as rock, resembling a grotesque hybrid of an ancient mosasaur and an apocalyptic sea monster.

Just one violent sweep of its tail as it awakened unleashed a directed super-tsunami and a terrifying difference in water pressure through