Enter the Ruins

"...See... dawn... with your own eyes...?"

That question utterly shattered the last line of obsession in the super sea monster's heart.

A deathly silence spread through the Lightless Trench. Under the tense gaze of everyone aboard the Ashen, the colossal ancient beast sprawled before the ancient gate finally lowered its proud, broken head.

It let out a long, deep sigh filled with relief and exhaustion.

Then, amid the rumbling of deep-sea silt, its mountainous body slowly and laboriously shifted a hundred meters to one side.

The core entrance to God's Cliff, which it had blocked with its flesh and blood for a full eight hundred years—a massive Top Secret alloy gate several hundred meters tall, its surface carved with ancient Great Kingdom script and gear patterns—now lay completely exposed before the Rain Adventure Group!

With its one remaining eye, the beast looked deeply at Rain, who stood in the void. Then it obediently lowered itself, pressing its enormous head against the seafloor, without the slightest hint of hostility remaining.

"Zehahaha! This brat's mouth is almost as powerful as the Pirate King's Haki!"

In the training ground, Keen laughed wildly as he wiped the black blood from his body with Obsidian and clapped his hands.

Inside the cabin, Carina's eyes were already shining with excitement. She grabbed Tuka's head and vigorously ruffled his hair. "Great job, Tuka! With both force and persuasion, this place is practically our adventure group's backyard now!"

Rain extinguished the cigar in his hand, his black coat snapping in the deep-sea pressure vacuum layer. He cast a cold glance at the prostrating sea beast, then turned and fixed his dark-gray vertical pupils on the Top Secret gate before him, where faint ancient energy had begun to glow.

"Good work, Tuka."

Rain stepped forward, his low voice resounding