Chapter 335: Battle in the Depths of the Sea
Fighting among their own kind required caution to avoid idents, and they were so constrained that it was impossible to stimte their potential. However, there was no such problem when using Nightmare Creatures.
To survive, they would fight with all their might without holding back. This type ofbat, facing death at any moment, is the most effective at stimting potential and could easily lead to their advancement.
Due to the vast and despairing gap in strength, most of the five Children of Nightmare were directly overpowered; only two, unwilling to give in, burned their very essence, their Divinity, resulting in a somewhat reduced divine reward after being in.
The five Children of Nightmare provided sixteen, seventeen, neen, four, and five points of Divinity, adding up to a total of sixty-one points of Divinity.
Over one hundred cards of various levels, including four Ancient Quality Cards.
There were certainly more than four Ancient Cards loaded into the total fields of the five Children of Nightmare, but only these four could be separated from the fields. Among them was a very valuable Ancient Five Star Card—the Well of Corruption, capable of summoning a well infused with the Power of Corruption.
This was an Ancient Miracle Card, which had a simple effect: load the card into the Divine Realm to summon the miraculous structure, the Well of Corruption.
The Well of Corruption contained the Power of Corruption that could corrupt and degrade the target.
Once the Well of Corruption was loaded, the surroundingnd would corrupt into fallen terrain. Benevolent creatures would suffer continuous damage and corrupting effects while active there, but creatures from Evil Camps entering thend would receive ceaseless healing. Prolonged absorption of the Power of Corruption could potentially lead to promotion.
Although this artifact was a miraculous construction of the Evil Camps, it did not mean Ocean couldn’t use it. He first dissolved most of the less useful cards into nutrients to strengthen the Well of Corruption.<div>
Without Creation Energy to transform it, a massive influx of Creative Power could still enhance it on its existing foundation, greatly expanding the effect’s radius.
Then, he directly loaded it into the Underworld Divine Realm Space within the Divine Terrain, cing the Tower of Corruption in this special bottomyer of Divine Domain Space designated for incarcerating or banishing evil creatures.
Next, he ssified and merged various Ecology Cards and Resource Cards, using the Creation Rubik’s Cube to purify the Nightmare Power contained within, synthesizing them into powerful cards to be loaded into the Divine Realm as circumstances dictated.
He managed to produce several superrge Basic Ore Vein Cards, all loaded into the Main Divine Realm.
After dealing with these, Ocean spent…
Thirty points of Divinity and thirty thousand Divine Power to promote ten Rank 7 Supreme Naga into legendary Lords of Nagas.
As for the remaining thirty-one points of Divinity and just over twenty thousand Divine Power, he saved them for the time being as both Divinity and Divine Power could be used at any moment.
With seventeen legendary Lords of Nagas and six legendary Heroes, Ocean nowmanded twenty-three Rank 8 legendary n members. This was an exceptionally high specification, a formidable force that many middle-tier Demigods did not possess.
Before leaving the Divine Territory, Ocean issued several Divine-mandates to rda.
In summary, there were three:
One: Greatly increase the reproduction of the n members.
Two: Open the Ancient Coliseum, granting him the right to extract prisoners from the Netherworld, to train warriors with real opponents in hopes of obtaining more powerful followers.
Three: Establish an immensely fortified giant city fortress within the Main Divine Realm.
After issuing all the Divine-mandates, Ocean retrieved his Incarnation. The two points of Divinity that constituted the Incarnation were recovered, but the ten thousand Divine Power returned less than five thousand.
At the same time, a vast and unparalleled dark power had nowhere to settle, so he cast it into the Netherworld.
After all, for him, the Netherworld was like a trash dump. Whatever it was, as long as it was negative and unable to be amodated by other Divine Realm spaces, it could be thrown into it, and he wasn’t worried about whether harboring too much negative energy there would cause any mutations.
With the Divine Realm’s limit in ce, no matter how much it mutated, it wouldn’t escape his control as the Master of the Divine Realm. Should anything terrifying emerge, he would know immediately and it wouldn’t go out of control.
Two dayster, Ocean organized all affairs, and all his will retreated back into the crystal-like Soul, which hung above the divine throne. The radiant, translucent orb slowly disappeared, and the Divine Realm once again dimmed.
The vast expanse of the ck Sea suddenly bulged with a water dome several kilometers in size. Shortly after, an unimaginably huge Giant rose from the sea, its tentacles hanging from its neck swaying gently, with ripple after ripple of invisible auras slowly spreading out.<div>
The profound gaze of the immense Giant pierced through the endless ck mist between heaven and earth, looking far into the distance, the sea. Once his soul’s essence ascended to immortality, most of the world’s hidden secrets were unveiled to him automatically. His gaze itself possessed the Eye of Truth, allowing him to clearly see through the heavy ck mist that was omnipresent, the boundless waters of the sea, and…
Above the thick clouds of the Vault of Heaven, immense and fearsome figures reside.
With the Evil God’s Eye of Truth, he could see past the ever-present clouds above the Vault of Heaven, where creatures no smaller than him, some perhaps evenrger, seemed to be swimming. Above the thick clouds of heaven, it was as if there was another world entirely.
Being able to look directly at the secrets of this world and experience a preview of a True God’s perspective was a rare opportunity for Ocean, one that most people would never have the chance to experience.<div>
Now he could enjoy it. Once he left this world, he would probably have to give up both the Body of Evil God and that immense Evil God’s Divine Soul, so such an opportunity would no longer exist.
Bing an incarnation of an Evil God, this indescribable and eerie being, Evil Alien Races, the terrifying dark sea, was to Ocean what an ordinary world’s ocean would be. He, in his own right, was the strangest and most indescribable, the most terrifying enigma.
With the Eye of Truth, he peered through the seabed and into the distant waters of the great sea, where myriad creatures beyond ordinary imagination lurked quietly. A colossal creature, five kilometers tall, swam across the surface, causing the strange inhabitants to scurry away, including some with massive bodies. The feeling was exhrating.
After a while, following a thundering roar, the colossal being slowly sunk back into the sea, leaving a tremendous vortex in its wake before it disappeared without a trace.
……….
ck g Ind, more than three hundred kilometers to the south, a fleetposed of a five-masted giant sailboat leading over a dozen three-mastedrge sailboats was entangled in a melee with a fleet of seven irond ships.
Although the sailboat fleet had a numerical advantage, they were at a disadvantage in the naval battle against the irond ships. From a distance, the irond ships utilized theirrger number of cannons for long-range bombardment, resulting in two of the three-masted sailboats being sunk. Now, their wreckage was crawling with creatures covered in tentacles, secreting slime to envelop the ships and transforming their flesh, while more beasts tore at the struggling sailors and corpses in the water.
Arge number of creatures, attracted by the cannon fire and the light from the explosions, were converging nearby. Ordinarily, the fleets would have fled by now, but at the moment, they were still engaged inbat under the forceful suppression of theirmanders.
Five Children of Nightmare gathered on the deck of an irond ship, observing the battlefield and frequently ncing maliciously at the giant five-masted sailboat several kilometers away. Standing on the deck at the bow of this nearly two-hundred-meter-long sailboat were four Human Divine Territory yers. A woman, illuminated by the light of the explosive fire, nced at the distant irond behemoth and said with some concern to herpanions,
“Irond ships have too much of an advantage at sea. Even though we outnumber them, it’s not certain that we can win. I think next time we need to switch to warships with cannons.”
“Next time…”
Another Divine Territory yer pointed at the Children of Nightmare who asionally cast cold nces their way and said,
“There won’t be a next time. They have a numerical advantage and a military advantage; they won’t let us get away.”<div>
The leader among the four stroked his chin, paused, thenughed,
“Don’t worry too much. Although they have one more person than we do, it’s unpredictable who will win or lose before the battle is fought. Nobody knows how strong the opponent is until they fight.”
“Moreover, our reinforcements are already on the way. ck g Ind has received the message, and the Alliance Hierarch has already sent support. We just need to hold out until it arrives.”
However, his words didn’t provide muchfort to hispanions, and the first woman to speak said,
“That’s all well and good, but the main point is whether we can hold out until the reinforcements arrive.”
The leader smiled, then suddenly gave a loud order,
“All hands, retreat toward the direction of ck g Ind while fighting.”
The signalman immediately ryed hismand to the entire fleet using g signals and drumbeats, and the massive sailboat fleet began a fighting retreat.
The ever-dark waves of the ck Sea raged on, and the sh between the tworge fleets seemed insignificant on the vast ocean, with the asional shes of explosive fire and booming sounds attracting the surrounding creatures, including some extremely bizarre beings and gigantic monsters.
ns rarely work out as envisioned, and as the sailboat fleet retreated while waiting for reinforcements, their destination was a distant lighthouse.
This lighthouse was one of several near ck g Ind, serving to guide nearby ships. In the perpetually dark ck Sea, ships could only navigate long distances by the lights of these lighthouses.
After retreating for an indeterminate amount of time, the leader, Wang Nan, who had been fully focused onmanding the fleet, suddenly frowned and asked hispanion, Tai Li,
“How long have we been retreating?”<div>
Tai Li hesitated before replying,
“Two hours.”
At his words, everyone’splexion changed, and they rushed to the edge of the deck to gaze at the lighthouse in the distance, identical to how it had appeared two hours earlier, cold sweat involuntarily forming on their foreheads:
“Damn, normally, we should have been close to the lighthouse by now after two hours, but the distance between us and the lighthouse is the same as it was two hours ago.”
“I think we’ve encountered something big.”
Wang Nan took a deep breath to stave off despair andmanded calmly,
“Assess our current position, determine the direction of ck g Ind or the lighthouse, and re-establish our course. Leave this sea area as quickly as possible.”
“Oh, and send a message to the other side, informing them of the situation.”
“What if they don’t heed it?”
“Then we’ll all die together.”
Three minutester, a response from one of the Children of Nightmare appeared before them:
“Die at sea, or fight us in a battle to the death!”
Wang Nan scoffed,<div>
“How arrogant.”
After finishing, he turned serious and looked at hispanions,
“Prepare for full engagement. I want to see why you Children of Nightmare are so confident when we are all high third-rankers.”