Bang!
Just as the vice captain finished praying, another crash rang out.
The passenger ship immediately lurched violently to one side.
Roar!!
Watching the ship tilt, the turtle-shaped Sea King roared with excitement and charged at the bridge atop its deck.
Inside the bridge, the vice captain watched the Sea King looming larger and larger before him, his face pale with despair as he lamented to himself.
It's over...
At the very moment the vice captain fell into despair!
Just as the turtle-shaped Sea King was about to crash into the bridge!
A figure leaped from the deck and charged at the Sea King.
"Hmph!"
A cold snort rang out.
An invisible force stopped the turtle-shaped Sea King just half a meter from the bridge, leaving it unable to advance another inch.
The vice captain and the others stared at the enormous head outside the bridge window, with a figure floating in front of it.
Yes, floating, just like a god, standing in midair and looking down on all living beings!
Looking at the figure in the air, the vice captain murmured involuntarily.
"Could there really be a god? Did God hear my prayer and come to save us?"
As the vice captain spoke to himself, the Sea King saw that it could not destroy the bridge and pulled back, fixing its gaze on the tiny figure that had stopped its attack.
In fact, the figure was no god, but Ages, who had just eaten his fill and hurried to the deck.
When Ages arrived on deck, the first thing he saw was the Sea King about to crash into the bridge.
Ages acted on the spot, flying toward the Sea King and using gravitational repulsion to stop its charge.
As for how Ages could float, it was because he had changed gravity to pull upward, lifting him into the air.
At the moment when the captain and the others thought they were about to die, Ages appeared like a savior and saved them all, leaving them staring at him in shock.
Paying no attention to their stares, Ages stepped through the air and spoke to the people in the bridge.
"Don't come out, or your clothes might get dirty in a moment."
The passenger ship's captain and the others all had enormous question marks over their heads, unable to understand what Ages meant...
With that, Ages swung a fist at the turtle-shaped Sea King.
Roar!
Seeing Ages attack first, the turtle-shaped Sea King let out a mocking roar, then raised its head and charged at him.
Facing the turtle-shaped Sea King's charge, Ages showed no intention of stopping and continued rushing toward it.
Seeing Ages's tiny body charging straight at the head of a Sea King dozens of times larger than him, the passenger ship's captain and the others hurriedly shouted a warning.
"Be careful! That Sea King's skin is really tough! Even cannonballs can't hurt it!"
Although Ages heard their warning, he did not retreat. Instead, he accelerated toward the Sea King.
Seeing that Ages had not retreated and was still charging at it without hesitation, the turtle-shaped Sea King's eyes showed a trace of humanlike mockery as it prepared to speed up and ram him.
Unfortunately, the turtle-shaped Sea King had barely begun mocking him when it found its body suddenly growing heavier and heavier, until even it was struggling terribly under the weight.
Its charge abruptly slowed as well, until it stopped in place. At this point, let alone moving, the turtle-shaped Sea King could barely even raise its head.
And all of this was Ages's doing.
Ages was no fool. He would not be so reckless as to pit his own body head-on against a turtle-shaped Sea King that even cannonballs could not hurt.
So Ages waved a hand toward the Sea King, applying one force of gravity after another until it was under five or six times the normal gravity, leaving it unable to move.
"Hah!"
Ages clenched his fist and shouted as he struck at the turtle-shaped Sea King, which stood there like a wooden post.
Smack!
A crisp slapping sound rang out.
As Ages approached the turtle-shaped Sea King, he opened his tightly clenched fist and struck its body with his palm.
After landing the palm strike, Ages kicked the turtle-shaped Sea King and used the recoil to pull back.
After retreating several meters, Ages stopped and hovered in the air. He shook out his hand and gave the turtle-shaped Sea King a mysterious smile.
"Heh heh..."
For a moment, the scene fell silent...
Everyone in the bridge looked utterly bewildered. Ages's attack had seemed so fierce, so why had he merely given the Sea King a gentle slap when he got close? None of them understood what he was doing.
Had he come to save them or to make them laugh...?
Even the turtle-shaped Sea King looked baffled.
But then, seeing that Ages's attack had left it completely unharmed, the turtle-shaped Sea King showed a mocking, humanlike smile, seemingly saying to him:
Heh heh, what? You know my skin is tough, so you don't dare hit me? Why'd you slap me so gently? Are you trying to tickle me?
Faced with the Sea King's mocking smile, Ages's lips curved into a mysterious smile. Ignoring its mockery, he turned around and strolled through the air toward the bridge.
And as Ages slowly walked toward the bridge, one step at a time.
Gurgle~
A low, deep sound rang out.
The turtle-shaped Sea King's mocking expression suddenly gave way to pain.
Gurgle!!
Another low, deep sound rang out.
The turtle-shaped Sea King's face twisted, its pain growing more pronounced.
Gurgle!!!
Another low, deep sound rang out.
Roar!!!
The turtle-shaped Sea King immediately let out a piercing scream.
The gurgling sounds and the turtle-shaped Sea King's reactions seemed to take a long time, but in fact they happened in just a few seconds.
At that moment, the people in the bridge suddenly noticed something strange.
It seemed that every time Ages took a step, the low, deep gurgling sound rang out once.
Ages's footsteps were like a melody of death.
Like a reaper from hell, he walked forward, taking the turtle-shaped Sea King's life away step by step.