novelraw Chapter 350: Beneath the Deep Sea — The Azure Monster!
Chapter 350: Beneath the Deep Sea — The Azure Monster!
Snowflakes fell.
An looked at the major news in the newspaper and couldn't help but smile slightly:
"The bounty has risen to one hundred million Shell Coins, truly amazing... as expected of him."
However, what exactly is Qi's current situation? Is he a monster himself, or was he bewitched by the witch... While feeling happy for Chen Qi, An was also equally curious.
Chen Qi's state in the newspaper was completely that of an extremely violent monster.
If I had known before, I would have tried to restrain him and interrogate him thoroughly.
Meeting now, hmm, it would most likely be completely reversed, and I might even be forced to eat extremely spicy food, and then... An stopped imagining, touched her buttocks, put away the newspaper, and looked toward the distant sea horizon.
As a beginner mentor, actually being surpassed by her disciple.
Her most urgent task was to go to the Book Tower and participate in the Book Saint's trial.
At this moment, the captain of the Lucky Seal wearing a seal hat walked over and asked:"Miss An, are you going to the Book Tower to take the Book Saint's exam?"
An nodded:
"Exactly."
The Lucky Seal captain couldn't help but sigh with emotion:
"Truly enviable. My daughter is also preparing to study architecture at White Pigeon University;
she wants to become a Hammer affinity builder to construct houses.
However, I still need to raise her university tuition. She's naturally dull-witted, and White Pigeon University's tuition is astronomical—I need at least three million for tuition."
An said softly:
"It's tough work, Captain."
"Ah, if not for my daughter, who would take such a dangerous job? You should know, not far from this route is Ice Stone Town, a place targeted by the Blackfin Crew and the Hunters, a forbidden land that might erupt with an A-grade rift..."
The Lucky Seal captain let out a long sigh.
"This job will go smoothly..."
An took a step on the deck, stood by the ship's side, leaned on the railing with her hand, propped her chin, and gazed at the distant sea.
Suddenly, the clouds in the distance thinned, and the waves became turbulent.
Could the legendary Ice Witch really be resurrected? An looked at the enormous glacier in the distance.
The legends of the Ice Witch were all about resisting terrifying sea disasters and world monsters.
If the news wasn't fabricated, the glacier before her eyes might be concealing the Ice Witch.
Soon, her teacher Rose, Qi, and the Blackfin Crew's pirate generals would engage in a large-scale war in this place.
Simultaneously, an unprecedented A-grade rift would descend here, polluting the entire Witch Sea!
As a well-traveled mage, An had only ever seen one A-grade rift in her life—'Magic Net.'
Even legends were merely fragile mortals within an A-grade rift.
I hope nothing happens to them... Just as An was about to withdraw her gaze, suddenly, a long beastly roar pierced into her marrow through her ears.
She turned her head.
Beneath the churning sea surface in the distance, a terrifying behemoth seemed to be hidden.
Sea monster?
An suddenly remembered the legends she'd heard since childhood:
The Great Glacier was the most dangerous place in the Rift Sea. At the seabed, there was a great white shark so massive it could swallow a hundred-meter ship in one bite.
As a key transportation route, despite the sea monster, merchant ships still traveled this route every year.
Until one day, a disaster occurred. A super-large passenger ship carrying a thousand people met with an accident, corpses littering the sea, and people built a huge cemetery in Ice Stone Town not far away.
From then on, this sea area was also called the Great Sea Coffin.
Boom! Boom!
Noisy sounds came from the ship. Passengers rushed to the railings, looking in terror at the distant sea surface.
The Lucky Seal immediately accelerated. However, before long, that massive entity closed the distance.
Boom! Boom!
An looked down and could only see a huge shadow beneath the sea surface.
The hundred-meter-long Lucky Seal was completely enveloped in the shadow!
It was like a giant underground worm, ready to burst forth at any moment.
The legendary sea-swallowing white shark... An's heart pounded wildly.
In that instant, she recalled many terrifying rumors.
In just the past thirty years, not to mention ordinary people, it fed on ships alone, and had devoured as many as four legends!
Legend had it that even the Deep Sea Hunters couldn't kill this monster.
The Ice Witch severely injured it, but because she couldn't dive into the deep sea, it was only a severe injury.
Bang!
The Lucky Seal captain's expression instantly twisted. He raised his hand and fired a shot into the sky.
"It's the legendary great sea monster!! Hunters, open fire!!!"
Instantly, the tourists on the ship panicked wildly. Some grabbed firearms, some jumped directly into the sea, some summoned large white pigeons, attempting to fly away from this place.
Boom!
They were given no time to react. The giant creature from the seabed opened its massive mouth and leaped out from the depths.
An's pupils dilated sharply. Before her eyes, blood-stained white giant teeth, like city walls, stood horizontally in front of her!
Boom!
The hundred-meter ship hull was instantly torn apart in the great shark's mouth. Steel and wood let out piercing wails under the immense brute force, like the final cries of countless lives.
The ship's lights flickered a few times in the darkness before extinguishing, like snuffed-out candle flames.
In just one second, the fragments of the "Lucky Seal," symbolizing luck, intertwined with the crew's blood, dyeing the sea red.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Amid the tremendous impact, An's body sank into the seabed, struggling to grasp her staff in the water.
She tried to cast spells to save herself, her fingers laboriously tracing familiar incantations, but in this boundless ocean, her spiritual energy was also diluted by the endless salt water.
Only more turbulent waves and the boundless agony of seawater flooding into her body responded to her, causing her to sink continuously.
Darkness and death were devouring her!
And ahead of her was that sea-swallowing white shark, its black-red giant eyes like crimson moons, staring at her in the deep sea!
What is that!?
An's pupils suddenly widened.
And in the center of that giant eye, there was also an azure blue humanoid monster, continuously emitting low beastly roars.
His body was like a coral reef riddled with holes, covered in burning azure blue flames, acting just like a thirsty beast, eating the transcendent weapons from the Lucky Seal crew members.
Crunch! Crunch!
Weapons and medicinal herbs rich in spiritual energy were continuously bitten and crushed by this monster, swallowed into its stomach.
And that huge white shark's eye remained motionless, staring at the Azure Beast burning with raging flames.
"What is that..."
An's entire body stiffened. Under the tremendous impact, she simply couldn't move in the short term.
But that terrifying power had already exceeded her imagination.
However, at that very moment, the azure beast slowly turned its neck.
The burning blue monster's pupils excitedly stared at her neck, emitting indistinct human sounds:
"Good... eat..."
Reflected in those pupils was the most primitive craving for spiritual energy!
An shuddered all over. Blood rich in spiritual energy flowed past her.
It was her blood!
Her right leg was pierced by ship fragments, and combined with previous injuries, had completely lost sensation, making it impossible to swim.
Cold, fear, unease, inability to breathe, spiritual energy disturbance, and death...
In that instant, An's eyes also couldn't help but tremble, sob, struggle, and spasm due to instinct:
"Save, save me..."
In the sea, her struggles didn't even create any ripples.
Soon, the Lucky Seal captain's bloody eyeball floated past her eyes.
In this sea area, absolutely no one could save her...
Her throat felt as if tightly choked by an invisible hand. Every futile struggle only brought more seawater rushing in. Her lungs felt as if they were being torn apart, the pressure in her chest growing heavier and heavier.
Air, in that moment, became the world's most precious treasure, yet she could only watch helplessly as it slipped away from her fingertips bit by bit.
An's mind was filled with the roar of water currents and her own rapid, irregular heartbeat. Her consciousness began to blur, everything before her eyes becoming illusory and distorted. Time seemed stretched, every second feeling like an eternity.
In that instant, she saw a blurry monster in the vast sea, clad in a black cloak and holding a lantern!
Death was approaching her!
I'm already dead, will never see the Book Saint again, never see my teacher, never see my father, never see Qi... An's lungs ruptured, blood flowing from her eyes.
She could only instinctively point her staff downward, preparing to rely on the tremendous impact force of the incantation to send herself back to the sea surface!
One last attempt!
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a warm, large bubble enveloped her head.
"Waa! (Cannot release spiritual energy!)"
A voice she couldn't understand came through.
An stopped struggling, staring blankly at the Azure Beast before her.
This monster seemed to have limited vision and fed on spiritual energy.
Life and death, separated by a thin line.
The instinct to survive had almost killed her...
Deepsea Water Spirit Number Three expanded in the sea, enveloping An within its body, then continuously carried An deeper down into the seabed, until reaching a place where the azure monster could not sense...
...
Rift Sea, a place far from human habitation and shipping routes, an underwater experimental base even Disaster Messenger Rose would find difficult to detect.
This underwater base was Black Death Doctor's lair, a secret known only to the highest levels of the Blackfin Crew and Sea God Pirates.
In the massive laboratory, various oddly shaped containers were arranged in an orderly manner, imprisoning unknown creatures from the deep sea. They were either fish emitting strange lights, or deep-sea behemoths with tentacles and sharp teeth.
And the Blackfin Crew's doctors, or rather those called "mad alchemists," wearing protective suits, shuttled among these creatures, conducting bone-chilling experiments, attempting to use this wave, along with research materials from the Navy and Sea God Pirates, to create even more terrifying biological weapons!
Boom! Boom!
And in the very center of the laboratory stood a huge glass sealed container fifty meters high. Inside the container was continuously twisting and changing black sludge!
This viscous black sludge constantly twisted and deformed, transforming into one terrifying beast after another. They had already transcended the category of sea beasts, sometimes turning into dragons, sometimes into white sharks, or even mermaids, and even enchanting dancers with tentacles.
An endless stream of black sludge continuously struck the glass tube, pounding against the thick glass!
Black Death Doctor sat in a chair, glanced at the pocket watch in his hand:
"Today, there's a passenger ship fully loaded with Book Tower mage promotion materials. What a pity, we didn't make a move..."
An indistinct voice came from inside the glass tube:
"My spirituality tells me that the A-grade rift at the Great Glacier has already awakened..."
Bang!
On the glass tube, a human figure slowly pressed against the glass. His face was indistinct, with six nearly doll-like arms:
"Doctor, you need to send someone to handle this matter."
Black Death Doctor looked at the blurry figure before him, his disease-ridden face twitching:
"The Dragon Tamer King was captured, Blood Demon Doctor is dead, Grand Mage General Looking at the News is handling matters in the White Tower Federation.
That water ghost and the other newly emerged legends are confronting the Blood Blade Pirates.
The Ferryman of the Underworld River doesn't obey our orders.
The people from the Black Blood Empire are our partners, but are completely uncontrollable. If the Ice Witch can aid their empire's conquest, they would unhesitatingly betray our cooperation."
After speaking, Black Death Doctor's diseased eyes stared fixedly at the blurry figure before him:
"And you, our blade, Blood Hunter, are undergoing this great evolution."
Black Death Doctor spread his hands and asked:
"Who will handle this matter? Who can handle this matter?"
The Black Hunter should have been theirs for the taking, but because the Blackfin Crew had made too many enemies, they simply couldn't spare personnel in the short term.
Blood Hunter didn't answer.
Black Death Doctor shook his head, changing the subject:
"In this most perfect blood, how do you feel, Blood Hunter?"
Blood Hunter gently touched the glass tube with his hand, releasing his spiritual energy.
Boom!
Instantly, a pure surge of spiritual energy emanated from the glass tube, like a roaring tsunami, spreading throughout the base.
This spiritual energy was vast, pure, and full of power!
Black Death Doctor's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, his spiritual energy itself directly suppressed.
Striking the soul directly!
This was no longer the power of a legend, but the power of a Saint!
Without the resources of an A-grade rift, relying solely on Blood Hunter's will, plus the Great Whale blood, they had created a Saint!
A flash of excited light appeared in Black Death Doctor's pupils:
"Unbelievable!"
Blood Hunter gently brushed past the black sludge:
"This black sludge has stabilized a lot. I'm full of power now, but miraculously, I'm also full of reason. Black Death Doctor, what made this black sludge stabilize?"
Black Death Doctor frowned, biting his black nails:
"Research notes from a crow doctor. Her notes recorded much knowledge about deep sea monsters. This knowledge gave me many inspirations...
Unfortunately, she was unfortunately captured. For further experiments, we're still lacking some things."
Captured!
Boom! Blood Hunter's eyes flashed with boundless crimson, fiercely striking the glass!
The glass wall, thicker than a city wall, cracked with huge fissures.
Boom!
His massive Blade aura suddenly erupted! The entire experimental base shook violently!
Just this aura alone caused searing scars to appear on Black Death Doctor's neck, and his heartbeat doubled!
Dark black blood dripped onto the ground.
"Hahaha!"
Black Death Doctor couldn't help but laugh wildly, clapping his hands:
"This is no longer the power of a Saint! If we could have more complete theories, a more perfect experimental subject, a more genius researcher...
If Little Crow were here, if the Black Hunter were here! Perhaps, before the Great Sea Disaster descends, Blood Hunter, you could surpass the Saint and display divine power!"
After a moment of excitement, there was dead silence.
Unfortunately, whether it was the experimental subject Black Hunter, or Little Crow, they simply couldn't muster sufficient forces for a campaign in the short term.
If Blood Hunter hadn't become the experimental subject, it would only take half an hour to travel, one minute to capture, and the Black Hunter and the witch would already be lying on his operating table.
Black Death Doctor sighed:
"Blood Hunter, unfortunately, you still need time to reach perfection..."
Blood Hunter in the glass tube slowly moved his hand away from the glass, saying coldly:
"The Whale Father said, at any cost, we must capture the Black Hunter before the Great Sea Disaster, even if it means heavily hiring bounty hunters..."
Us pirates hiring bounty hunters for kidnapping? Black Death Doctor was momentarily at a loss for words.
The Blackfin Crew had made too many enemies, resulting in a severe manpower shortage.
If only there were strong individuals joining them now... Black Death Doctor thought silently.
Suddenly, a slightly seductive female voice came through.
"You two, long time no see. This underwater base's defenses are still weak, huh~"
"Hmm?"
Black Death Doctor turned around.
Beside an experimental tank, a red-haired woman with a hot figure twirled a short gun in her hand, smiling slightly.
She wore a thin, crop-top white shirt, her chest exposing a large area of enticing snow-white skin. The corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, carrying a hint of a smile. Simultaneously, on her exposed neck and collarbone, numerous blue burns could be seen!
"Big Mom... Carol!"
Black Death Doctor struggled to maintain a calm expression.
This monster who made all handsome men in the Witch Sea tremble was indeed still alive.
From the previous contact with the frenzied Azure Beast, Black Death Doctor had vaguely sensed this.
Black Death Doctor asked:
"Your body..."
Carol placed the pistol right in the center of her chest, saying coldly:
"These days, I have experienced unprecedented pain, endured unprecedented humiliation, and also witnessed truly powerful strength."
Black Death Doctor asked:
"That power, is it the power of the Azure Beast?"
Carol's face flushed red:
"Yes. As the tides grow larger, my master's power and rationality are gradually returning. He just needs to reclaim what was taken from him by the Ice Witch, and he can conquer death, becoming the guardian deity of the sea.
And he gave me unprecedented power! An unprecedented, wonderful experience!"
Black Death Doctor's pupils suddenly contracted.
The intensity of the spiritual energy field blooming from Carol's body now was twice what it was before!
This meant her spiritual energy had sublimated, and she had mastered either domain or summoning techniques!
Black Death Doctor vaguely guessed Carol's purpose:
"What do you want to do?"
Carol said quietly:
"Find someone to take revenge on. I want the witch and the hunter's butts to taste my big gun."
After speaking, she flicked her fingers lightly, scattering the Black Hunter and the witch's bounty lists into the air.
Bang!
Blue fire illuminated the laboratory. The heads of the witch and hunter on the bounty lists, along with Black Death Doctor's ear, were instantly shot through.
Drip! Drip!
Blood fell onto the ear on the ground.
When did she fire? Black Death Doctor's eyeballs shifted left, looking at his bleeding ear with a look of astonishment.