“I’m telling you, now I have to see what it is!”
“Quit shoving! Let me take a look!”
“Holy crap! Who grabbed my ass?!”
Bai Qiu’s expression darkened.
Without hesitation, he activated Wind Manipulation, lifting himself out of the crowd and hovering above the cruise ship.
Gripping Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear, he fixed his gaze on the enormous shadow lurking beneath the dark blue sea.
Only after the shadow disappeared did he finally let out a sigh of relief.
But before he could finish exhaling—
BOOM!
The entire cruise ship shook violently.
Several players lost their footing and nearly tumbled overboard.
The next instant, a gigantic tentacle shot up from the opposite side of the deck.
In the blink of an eye, its countless suction cups latched onto more than a dozen players!
Bai Qiu immediately activated Appraisal.
The moment the information appeared before his eyes, his expression changed dramatically.
Abyssal Kraken
Level 91
Emperor-Class Monster
That was all he could see.
There were no listed skills.
No attributes.
Only a long string of question marks.
The deck of the cruise ship stood nearly five hundred meters above the sea.
Yet a single tentacle could effortlessly reach all the way up.
Bai Qiu didn’t even dare imagine how enormous the creature’s full body must be.
Panic instantly erupted across the deck.
The players scrambled over one another in a desperate attempt to flee back into the ship, perfectly embodying the saying that some people only learn after they’ve hit a brick wall.
Bai Qiu hurled Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear with all his might.
The spear tore through the air like a raging tempest before slamming into the Kraken’s tentacle.
It managed to carve only a shallow wound before stopping completely.
Less than a second later— The injury regenerated as though it had never existed.
At the same time, the other high-level players on board also sprang into action.
One after another, they unleashed every skill they had against the massive tentacle.
The results were pitiful.
Most of them achieved even less than Bai Qiu.
Bai Qiu wrapped the dozen or so captured players in currents of wind, attempting to pull them free.
But his Wind Manipulation couldn’t overcome the tremendous suction of the Kraken’s suckers.
Meanwhile, the tentacle had already begun retracting.
If those people were dragged into the sea…
They were as good as dead.
“Take off your equipment if you want to live!” Bai Qiu shouted.
“I’ll pull you back!”
Hearing his warning, the trapped players hurriedly stripped off their equipment.
The instant the suction weakened as their gear came off, Bai Qiu seized the opportunity.
Using his wind, he managed to pull nearly everyone back onto the deck.
Only one player failed to remove his equipment in time.
Even Bai Qiu could do nothing except watch helplessly as the unfortunate man was dragged into the depths of the ocean.
The group Bai Qiu had rescued…
Could only be described as remarkably uninhibited.
Several of them had been wearing nothing beneath their equipment.
The moment they unequipped it, they were left standing completely naked, a sight almost too awkward to look at.
None of them had time to celebrate surviving.
Nor did they bother putting on clothes.
They scrambled frantically into the ship, crawling and stumbling over one another.
This terrifying monster was far beyond anything they could hope to face.
At that moment, only Bai Qiu and a dozen or so players remained on the deck.
Every one of them was above Level 30, and they all belonged to the Saber, Lancer, or Berserker classes.
As for the other classes…
They had all fled.
Forget fighting back—even resisting was nearly impossible.
The high-level Caster Bai Qiu had noticed earlier had also been caught by the tentacle.
Once the creature’s suckers latched onto someone, escaping through one’s own strength was virtually impossible.
Fortunately, Bai Qiu had managed to save her as well.
Among the cluster of embarrassing naked figures, however, she stood out.
Though her mage robe had been discarded, she was at least wearing underwear, and her fair skin and well-proportioned figure retained a measure of modesty, lending her an air of understated elegance rather than complete exposure.
As for those who had chosen to remain on the deck—including Bai Qiu— Each of them still had hidden trump cards they had yet to reveal.
They wanted to witness the monster’s true form.
More importantly…
They wanted to see whether the System would intervene to deal with it.
After all, this was a creature that the players at the current stage simply had no hope of defeating.
If the System didn’t intervene, there was a very real possibility that the cruise ship they were riding would sink.
After all… Its prey had practically been snatched from its mouth.
Having ended up with nothing more than the proverbial “duck’s rear” after nearly swallowing the whole duck, the Abyssal Kraken was thoroughly enraged.
Dozens of gigantic tentacles burst skyward.
Some wrapped themselves around the ship’s hull, while others lashed across the deck.
Fortunately, those who had remained weren’t ordinary players.
Everyone managed to evade the sweeping tentacles.
The immense force dragged the entire cruise ship downward by nearly two hundred meters, allowing Bai Qiu to finally behold the monster’s full appearance.
The Kraken’s massive body clung to the ship.
Its flesh was a dark crimson, resembling an ordinary kraken in shape…
Except it was more than ten times larger.
Even without counting its countless tentacles, its main body alone occupied well over half the length of the cruise ship.
The sheer sight of it inspired a crushing sense of despair.
After seeing its true form, Bai Qiu gave up any thought of attacking.
He knew that even Converging Piercing Star wouldn’t be enough to kill such a monster.
If anything, it would only drive the beast into an even greater frenzy.
He looked toward the horizon.
The other cruise ships sailing alongside them had already left them far behind.
The Abyssal Kraken’s attack had forced their vessel to come to a complete stop.
The instant the ship halted, blue light enveloped the hull.
Moments later, a three-meter-tall giant formed entirely from glowing blue data appeared on the deck.
Its body was enormously muscular.
In its hand rested a massive trident.
The Abyssal Kraken, which had been rampaging only moments before, reacted as though it had encountered its natural predator.
Its countless tentacles instantly withdrew.
Then it dove back into the sea, sending towering waves crashing across the ocean.
But the blue giant had no intention of letting it escape.
Leaping onto the ship’s railing, it hurled the trident with tremendous force.
BOOM!
The sea exploded into turmoil.
Azure blood spread through the dark blue water.
The enormous waves nearly capsized the entire cruise ship.
Only after more than half a minute did the ocean finally return to calm.
Bai Qiu stared at the sea below in astonishment as he slowly descended back onto the deck.
He had never expected that a monster which had left even him completely helpless would be killed in a single strike the moment the System intervened.
It was truly an eye-opening experience.
Two and a half minutes later, after the ship had finally stabilized, the cruise liner resumed its voyage.
It cut through the waves at high speed, desperately trying to catch up with the fleet ahead.
Unfortunately, every ship traveled at the same constant speed.
Once they had fallen behind…
They remained behind.
No matter how hard they chased, they could never close the distance.
The blue giant retrieved its trident before dissolving into a beam of blue light that settled at the center of the deck like a permanent marker.
Only then did everyone—including Bai Qiu—finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Without the System’s intervention…
Whether this ship would have survived at all was anyone’s guess.
“Phew… That was way too close.”
A Lancer clad in a tight blue combat suit let out a long breath.
“There shouldn’t be any more monsters now… right?”
The moment those words left his mouth, every person on the deck—including Bai Qiu—turned to look at him.
There was only one reason.
Of all times… He had chosen now to raise a death flag.
Talk about tempting fate.
“…Uh…”
Noticing everyone’s stares, the Lancer quickly realized what he’d done.
He scratched the back of his head and forced out an awkward smile.
At that exact moment—
WHOOSH!
A violent gale swept across the sea.
The cruise ship shook violently once more before grinding to another halt.
A blue barrier instantly enveloped the entire vessel.
And the blue giant wielding the trident appeared once again…
— The end of the Chapter–
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