Chapter 289: Storm and Sea Monster

"It's a sea monster! Enemy attack! Everyone, prepare for battle!"

Carle shouted the alarm with the loudest voice he had ever used in his life. At the same time, three sharp arrows whistled past his ears, flying toward that massive tentacle.

Agasha jumped toward the main mast while firing arrows; she needed to find a high vantage point.

The arrows she fired erupted with blue light simultaneously. The tentacle struck by the arrows was immediately covered in a ghostly blue frost, and the speed of that once incredibly agile, massive tentacle slowed down instantly.

Soon, the sailors who heard Carle's orders in the cabins ran out one after another. Three more massive tentacles emerged from the raging seawater. One of them even coiled around a secondary mast, and the thick mast could be heard groaning with a 'creak, creak' sound under the entanglement of the tentacle.

The sea monster had almost entangled the entire ship with just four tentacles. Fear spread among the sailors, but those travelers who had previously given up and were just slacking off now acted as if they had seen a treasure, brandishing their weapons and charging forward.

【Abyssal Overlord】! A red bloodline entry! A direct descendant of the ancient Leviathan, every tentacle flows with boiling, savage power! A sea monster that can regenerate severed limbs is an almost impossible existence to kill!

【Lord of the Storm】! A purple entry! When an ancient sea monster appears, it is often accompanied by gale winds and torrential rain. In the domain of the storm, it is the king of the ocean!

【Shadow Ink Domain】! A purple entry! The ink sprayed by the sea monster forms a dark domain with a radius of ten nautical miles. In the sea monster's domain, enemies will be comprehensively weakened and eventually become the sea monster's rations!

【Tentacle Puppet】! A purple entry! The mucus secreted by the sea monster's tentacles contains the power to distort reality; it will transform the corpses of enemies into new tentacles!

【Void Molting】! A purple entry! When the core suffers a fatal wound, the entire body will shed like a sock! The old skin becomes a self-destructing decoy, and the new main body appears randomly in any water within three nautical miles—including your freshwater tank!

【Thousand-Eye Illusion】! A purple entry! The group of compound eyes on the inner side of the suction cups can project a thousand fragments of personality memories! A warrior might suddenly remember they were an abandoned illegitimate child, while a mage might 'recall' the truth of having mispronounced spells for half their life!

"Hahaha, everyone, charge! That guy is definitely the plot protagonist. We've been following him for so long, and we've finally encountered a big BOSS!"

"And it's a Tier 6 BOSS! If we manage to snatch just one of the six entries, we'll be rich! Hahaha, everyone, charge! Charge, let's farm the BOSS!"

Seeing those slacking losers they had previously despised charging forward bravely to fight the sea monster, the sailors on the ship felt their own fear dissipate by more than half, and they all raised their swords and blades to join the battle.

For a time, various spells and Battle Qi flew across the ship, causing blood and shredded meat from the sea monster's tentacles to splatter everywhere.

Facing the powerful sea monster, all the travelers had an inexplicable confidence. It seemed as if the protagonist could always defeat monsters, and the hero could always defeat the evil dragon, and they were the ones standing on the side of victory. No one believed their side would lose, as long as they were careful not to win the battle only to die themselves and fail to snatch the loot.

But soon, the sea monster's immense power and cruel methods made the travelers realize the situation.

After everyone worked together to destroy two of the sea monster's tentacles, accompanied by huge waves, the sea monster's body, which was almost as huge as the 'Golden King', completely surfaced. More than a dozen massive, constantly waving tentacles kept slapping and entangling the ship's hull.

Warriors were slapped to death, and mages were rolled up by tentacles and stuffed into that abyss-like mouth full of serrated teeth to be eaten. In just a few breaths, the two tentacles that everyone had worked together to break had actually regenerated, and those dead corpses had actually twisted into tentacles the size of a person, constantly slapping and chasing the sailors nearby.

More than half of the people on the ship had died, and looking at the monster again, it was almost the same as when it first appeared, only more violent!

Finally, immense fear crushed the travelers' hearts, and one by one, they cried out and became deserters.

But a ship is only so big; one must either jump into the sea or be hunted down by tentacle after tentacle, and jumping into the sea is no different from throwing oneself into a net to feed the sea monster.

Unlike the collapsing travelers, the sailors who had overcome their fear, although not as powerful as the travelers, relied on the desperate spirit cultivated on the sea to constantly stab insignificant wounds into the sea monster's massive tentacles. The bravest among them was Prince Carle, who led the charge; his usual knight's sword had been replaced at some point by a greatsword more convenient for fighting giant creatures.

"For the Kingdom of Lisi!"

"My blade shall never dull!"

"Accept your judgment!"

Accompanied by the silver-blue light of Battle Qi, Prince Carle's greatsword slashed a thick tentacle off the sea surface, while he himself was slapped away by another tentacle, falling far into the seawater.

As Carle fell into the water, a golden figure rushed out of the sea; it was Vivian, who had been struck by lightning.

Compared to her usual lively and spirited appearance, Vivian's golden long hair was now curled and drooping over her forehead, and her once beautiful face was also pitch black.

"You big jerk, that hurt like hell!" Vivian, in mid-air, held her long sword high, and golden Holy Light gathered, while golden light also flickered in the dark clouds above the sea monster's head. "Die, you bastard!"

"Boom!"

A greatsword manifested from golden light appeared out of thin air in the clouds and slammed fiercely into the sea monster's head.

The golden greatsword, carrying peerless impact force, slammed the sea monster deep into the seawater. The tentacles entangled on the ship broke off one after another, and the rear mast, which had long been teetering, finally could not withstand such immense force and collapsed with a crash.

On the observation deck, the points of brilliant green light that had originally wrapped around Agasha's bow and arrow dissipated after Vivian appeared. Looking at the impetuous Vivian, Agasha smiled helplessly and had no choice but to fire arrow after arrow to help the sailors clear the tentacles transformed from corpses.

"Monster! Where do you think you're going!"

Seeing the sea monster slammed into the sea by her own 'Holy Light: Judgment', Vivian did not intend to let this guy go. With a 'splash', she jumped into the seawater again to pursue it.

The 'Golden King', which had been cruel and intense just a moment ago, was now incredibly quiet. No one had expected that Vivian, who was so goofy on the ship, actually possessed such powerful strength. If they weren't mistaken, there were five entries above her head just now.

She was actually a Tier 5 expert.

No, wait, Miss Agasha on the observation deck was also a Tier 5 expert.

"Rumble! Rumble!"

Muffled sounds kept coming from the sea, and golden light kept flashing in the seawater!

Waves rose and clouds surged, indicating the intensity of the battle beneath the sea! ===== CHAPTER 290 =====