Chapter 172: Morkai Temple

Szczesny and Jorginho fell into the Sea of Storms and immediately felt their bodies filled with power.

As higher-sequence Beyonders of the ocean, "Navigators" gain all-around enhancements upon the sea.

Jorginho rushed toward a smaller Kraken alone, his pitch-black eyes glowing with a cerulean light.

The "Navigator," with greatly increased observation and memory, outlined the Kraken's trajectory through the ocean in his mind.

The Fenrisians watched in surprise as the figure descending from the sky moved like a fish in the sea, rushing toward the Kraken with Rapid speed.

The tentacles that lunged from beneath the sea surface were all easily dodged by him one by one.

A sturdy Fenrisian wearing a spiked Mask and holding a large axe muttered in astonishment.

"Someone can actually dodge the Kraken's tentacle attacks!"

The "Navigator" sensed the fluctuations underwater, his brain calculating rapidly to avoid the tentacle attacks.

After changing direction dozens of times in succession, he rushed to within three hundred meters of the Kraken.

The "Navigator" raised his hands and slammed them onto the sea surface; the splashed seawater was compressed by Spirituality into several javelins and shot toward the Kraken.

After advancing to "Navigator," Jorginho could also use some water-related spells to a limited extent.

Still unskilled, the water spears he condensed varied in length and thickness.

The long ones were over a meter, but only as thick as an ordinary person's finger.

The short ones were about half a meter, with a diameter like a person's clenched fist.

Several water spears struck the Kraken's head.

The Kraken, in great pain, let out a hiss, its massive body tilting and crashing into the cold seawater.

"Power of the Storm!"

Amidst the exclamations of the Fenrisians, Jorginho leaped onto the Kraken's head; he pressed the Runic Rune on his Power Sword, and a dazzling blue force field surrounded the blade.

Blood gushed like a fountain, and the massive head fell into the sea.

The Fenrisians looked in Shock at the tall figure on the Kraken; someone could actually kill a Kraken alone.

While they were stunned, the person who had killed the Kraken alone shouted to them in unskilled Juvik.

"Don't just stand there like fools, get on the boat."

As Jorginho spoke, he boarded a Dragon Boat made from sea dragon materials.

Just as he gathered the Fenrisians and occupied the Dragon Boat, Szczesny also directed the many Order Shadow of the "Tyrant" pathway to begin surrounding and killing the Iron-Scaled Kraken.

He divided the twenty-six Beyonders into five teams, each led by a "Fury of the People."

"Team One, lure the enemy from a distance!"

Six Order Shadow immediately rushed up; the "Fury of the People" activated their runes, and their Power Fist, shining with blue light, smashed heavily onto the incoming tentacles.

With all their strength gathered into a "Wrathful Strike," sparks flew from the iron scales.

Although they failed to break the defense, the Kraken's tentacles were knocked away.

At the same time, five "Sailors," like fish, dodged the attacks of the tentacles.

"Team Two, lure the enemy at close range!"

Five Order Shadow rushed toward the Kraken's head, baiting its fangs to strike at them.

Szczesny noticed the Kraken had lost its Balance due to the lunge and immediately issued an order.

"Teams Three, Four, and Five, attack!"

The Fenrisians who had climbed onto the Dragon Boat saw the black-armored Warriors descending from the sky, using methods similar to theirs to hunt the Iron-Scaled Kraken, but their actions were more efficient and their coordination more tacit.

The five teams took turns luring the enemy. Every counterattack by the Iron-Scaled Kraken returned without success.

The attacks of the black-armored Warriors always struck the places where the Iron-Scaled Kraken had been wounded.

Seeing that the battle was decided, Ninglu ordered the Gunship to fly toward Kraken Spire.

After the Gunship landed on the island, he stepped off the deck.

Ninglu's black eyes were filled with spiritual light, and he couldn't help but sigh.

"Treasure!"

He immediately took action, his figure flashing as he moved quickly to transport the items; the huge skeletal remains and the long, narrow fangs were all moved back to the "Kingdom of Disorder."

Ninglu discovered that some of them had dim spiritual light and could not be used as Potion Material.

But they were not useless; they could be used as Spiritual Material to forge Magical Item.

【I remember that before Huang Laohan and I arrived, Leman Russ hunted the largest Kraken in the Sea of Storms—the Gorgon.

After he returned to the Imperium, the beak of the sea monster was forged into a sword that could easily split the icebergs of Fenris in two.

Some of the beaks that cannot be used as Potion Material can be used to forge weapons, especially suitable for Beyonders of the "Tyrant" pathway.】

While Ninglu was scavenging the sea monster remains at Kraken Spire, Szczesny organized the Beyonders to hunt the Iron-Scaled Kraken.

He called the orbital fleet, and the Techmarine brought attendants to process the remains of the two Krakens.

Szczesny and Jorginho rescued the surviving Fenrisians from the sea and selected four Dragon Boats in better condition from the ships to form two fleets.

At the same time, Ninglu walked toward the ancient megalithic ruins atop Kraken Spire—the Morkai Temple.

Morkai is the Wolf of Death worshipped by the Fenrisians, representing Death and the dead.

Ninglu remembered that the future Space Wolves, believing Morkai to be a companion of Leman Russ, called the recruit trial the Morkai Trial.

Recruits must follow in the footsteps of Leman Russ, go alone into the icy wilderness, and face Death itself—Morkai—before returning alive to become Space Wolves.

The Primarch arrived before the temple, and before he had even stepped inside, he suddenly felt his hair stand on end.

Ninglu stopped cautiously; he knew that even the Fenrisians did not know when this temple was built or why it was built.

But what was important to the tribes was that this abandoned temple was the location of a large amount of treasure left over from a past era.

Ninglu used "Warp Insight" to look at the temple in front of him, and the magnificent, rugged, and solemn temple in his sight immediately changed its appearance.

The gate of the temple seemed to turn into a gate of hell, and in the invisible Darkness, one after another, indescribable eyes stared out at the outside world in dense numbers.

【Fenrisians have entered it to hunt for treasure, so there shouldn't be anything inside that would make even me feel threatened.

Yet I feel it is very dangerous inside now; could it be because I am not a Fenrisian, and am being repelled by the temple?

Furthermore, those Krakens on the verge of Death certainly didn't refrain from destroying the temple because they cherished historical artifacts.】

Ninglu walked a circle around the temple and discovered that the temple walls were carved with numerous mysterious runes; they were tentacles, densely covering the entire outer wall of the temple.

Ninglu stared at those tentacles, as if he had realized something.

【Across the vast Fenris, before the Krakens die, they all travel thousands of miles to come here to wait for Death; could it be just because this is permanent land that occasionally surfaces above the sea?

According to the logic that the dead hate having their peace disturbed, this is unreasonable.

There must be some kind of mysterious power attracting them to Morkai Temple; that would be reasonable.】

A flash of inspiration struck Ninglu's mind, and he suddenly had a guess.

【The dying Krakens are attracted by some mysterious power in the temple and come here to wait for Death; then it is not a coincidence, but an inevitability.】

The Primarch stood before the great gate, sensing the danger within.

【Very dangerous, but there is no feeling of being lethal.】

A moment later, he decided to enter the temple to explore the secrets within.

Fenris is the home of Leman Russ and the Space Wolves; it would not be easy for him to come here again.

Now is the best opportunity for exploration.

The key is that Morkai, the Wolf of Death, is not a true deity.

(End of chapter)