Chapter 353 Long Legs!

It all seemed like an illusion.

The ship, neither entirely black nor entirely bright, silently glided in, lying between the merfolk and the monster tide.

...Then a light was turned on.

Not only the mermaids, but the mutants were also stunned. The newly emerged monsters were instinctively drawn to the light bulb.

Risbourne and Carlos know any ship.

But this ship seems... a little different from the previous ones?

"Brother, what are you doing here!"

Arthur roared, “The abyss is draining life force. Any living thing that stays here too long will be assimilated into mindless monsters.”

Just as he was about to say a few more words of advice, he saw that the ship suddenly grew many eyes!

They were emotionless and unfocused, staring disdainfully and blankly at every corner within their sight. The intense atmosphere of the entire battlefield seemed to have been doused with cold water, and a slight stagnation appeared.

With the free use of the new skill [Domination].

"roar--!"

The flat-mouthed mutant, which was opening its huge mouth full of sharp teeth, preparing to devour a defenseless guard, stopped abruptly after being swept by that invisible mental force field.

Then came the second one, the third one...

The scene, as if paused, spread out in a ring around the ship.

On the battlefield,

Most of the monsters, no matter how frenzied they were before, were now like video games with their batteries removed, no longer attacking or roaring, becoming puppets waiting to be inspected.

Only a few monsters with exceptionally large and distinctive physiques, clearly elite members, were still moving.

The mermaids stared wide-eyed.

The weapon in his hand was still in a throwing posture.

Meanwhile, Ren was only focused on his own panel.

The [Domination] bar above has turned gray and can no longer be used. A nearly full progress bar has appeared next to it: [Current Control Units: 98.9%].

Looking at this skill that seems to have no cooldown, the limitation is the total 'unit quantity' controlled.

Once the limit is reached, it can no longer be applied to new targets.

Although the [Flare] can actually clear the screen, it is more suitable for the current situation where friendly and enemy forces are mixed together.

The most important thing is,

Unlike solar flares, it doesn't require emptying your bio-energy bar!

At this moment, those standing monsters were much like corn in a cornfield waiting to be harvested.

"Alright, time to clean up the mess."

Upon hearing this, Ivan rubbed his hands together and rushed out, shouting, "You ugly bastards... Grandpa Ivan has come to bring you warmth!"

With their rapid harvesting,

The guards also recovered from their shock.

Although even more grotesque monsters continued to crawl out of the abyss rift, the merfolk, their morale greatly boosted, launched a fierce counterattack led by Liv and Arthur.

It seems that the end of this crisis is only a matter of time.

However......

Just as all the fish breathed a sigh of relief, and some fish (Carlos) even started cheering prematurely—

"Boom—!!!"

A muffled sound, unlike anything heard before, came from the depths of that abyssal rift.

The entire sea seemed to tremble!

The fissure, which resembled a giant mouth constantly vomiting monsters, stopped producing new monsters. Those that had already emerged began to retreat to the sides, seemingly clearing the way for some massive creature.

soon.

Something thick with darkness emerged from there—

A dark, indistinct thing?

The top was a sharp triangle, and it kept rising, soon surpassing the height of the [Abyss], its shadow obscuring the light brought by the [Heart of the Sun].

Then,

A stick... no, it should be called a leg, protruded from the crack.

Hanging from it are long, thin bamboo poles, as thin as razors!

However, its slenderness is only relative to its diameter; the length of just the extended section already exceeds that of the Abyss.

Its churning on the seabed created currents that made it nearly impossible for nearby monsters to maintain their balance.

That leg groped around outside for a long time.

It seems like they're trying to find a foothold to support themselves.

But it was too long, and after trying for a long time, it was like trying to pull out a nail with bare hands—it just wouldn't work. Siddhartha was starting to feel embarrassed for it.

A few seconds later, the leg retracted.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

At the same time, more than a dozen identical thin bamboo pole legs extended out from below!

Like a swarm of drunken jumping spiders, they tripped each other at the edge of the crack, and finally, after a few of them twisted themselves into pretzel shapes, they found the trick.

"Hey...whoosh..."

A huge, spindle-shaped body was pulled out of the crack by itself, as if it were a radish.

That seems to be...

Is it a combination of a squid and a spider?

Its body was as large as a mountain, and as it slowly rose, its two disproportionately large black and white pupils looked like two windows into an abyss.

And below the eyes,

Those dozen or so thin legs that seem to be hundreds or even thousands of meters long!

It stood up unsteadily, its height almost obscuring its body from the view of the other fish.

After a long pause, Ivan finally managed to utter a sentence:

"Wow...those legs are incredibly long..."

[My goodness, thank goodness we're in the sea; it wouldn't even be able to get up on land!]

[Why does this thing look so much like a giant squid?]

[Weren't we humans originally from the sea? Did our ancestors come ashore to escape these things...?]

[...Don't even mention it, even if you told me it's a vegetarian, it would still be terrified to see me.]

Klaus looked at those dozen or so ridiculously long and thin legs and couldn't help but complain:

"If these legs were on a boat, we wouldn't need to travel on the sea anymore. We could just walk on the seabed and go wherever we wanted."

This exaggerated structure is completely illogical!

However, what was said in jest was taken seriously by the listener.

Renyi, who was observing the colossal beast exuding an overwhelming sense of oppression, suddenly turned his head, his eyes clearly displaying four words—

"Great suggestion!"

"No, wait, Captain! Calm down, this is completely impossible, let me explain..."

But Renyi had already stopped paying attention to him.

I kept nodding perfunctorily as I listened to someone next to me saying "babababa".

"Hmm...you're right, so you think it's good too, right?"

Klaus: "..."

No, he doesn't think so at all!

At the same time, that "long-legged" creature finally completed a historic step—standing.

Then it begins to move.

A dozen or so legs swung clumsily and in an uncoordinated manner, but still quite steady, each step covering hundreds of meters.

The mermaids were all fine and managed to avoid the danger in time.

But those mindless mutants, like weeds under a wheel, were trampled into dust.

quickly,

"Long Legs" arrived at the center of the battlefield.

Its two black and white pupils moved with a human-like grace, finally fixing on the brightest star in the chaotic place—

[The Abyss] Part 1.

Malice spreads in the seawater.

"It's targeting us."

Nathan swam back to the side of the deck.

Staring at the shadows above, he excitedly muttered to his captain.

"I can't help it... I also want to keep a low profile."

Ren Yi's eyes were filled with longing for those long legs: "But excellence can't be hidden, and it's inevitable that it will attract envy."