Amid everyone's amazement, Lin Yuan himself was the calmest of all.
He had fought the Horned King Whale before. Although he had not won then, he still had a good sense of its strength.
This victory was entirely expected and caused no stir in him.
"Sure enough, I can now defeat a Main Sea Overlord even without firing Explore the Sea."
"You could say I'm free to roam the Main Sea as I please."
"As long as I don't run into a Deep Sea Behemoth, there's nothing to fear."
Lin Yuan raised his head and looked at the Crawler in the center of the island.
His gaze was steady, showing neither the fear of facing a powerful enemy nor the joy of defeating a Main Sea Overlord.
He knew the battle was far from over.
When the Horned King Whale phantom had been summoned just now, Lin Yuan had seen it clearly: the phantom had indeed been projected from the very core of the crystal.
This was good news. It proved that even though a Crawler had infiltrated Paradise, and even though the "Oathbreaker" had projected power into it from afar, Paradise's barrier was still working.
A Main Sea Overlord was the limit of what Paradise would tolerate.
Deep Sea Behemoths could not enter, apart from special creatures like the "Great King Puppet Octopus."
Even the Great King Puppet Octopus had to obey Paradise's rules, abandoning most of its puppets and reducing its overall strength to the Main Sea level before it could enter.
That meant Lin Yuan was still among the strongest combatants present, even though Explore the Sea currently had no Cannonball and could not fire.
But there was bad news too. Inside the crystal in the Crawler's hands, its core still contained a dense mass of indistinct