Deep Sea Hunter, but Deep Sea Titan

"Ahem, Your Excellency, there's no time! The city is in imminent danger. If we don't deploy the beacon—"

"Does the advisor believe that Lord Nautilus is incapable of dealing with the Hai Si outside?"

The doctor, representing Lotin, interrupted Buodes' increasingly strained performance. At this moment, she exuded an inexplicable arrogance, just like Laurentina as always. It was not a deliberate affectation, but a natural demeanor as the representative of Nautilus's power.

Buodus's original assessment was that Nautilus's scale and strength in fighting the Sea Siege had limits, which is why he sought an alliance with Agor.

'Now it seems that whether Agor helps him fight HAZ is completely irrelevant; it's as if his relationship with Agor was merely to identify those who disagree with him on the strategy for combating HAZ.'

Even now, Buodus does not consider himself a follower of the Deep Sea; he simply has a different approach to the Sea's offspring.

Finally, the advisor's patience reached its limit. Lotin had confirmed through a series of previous actions that this capitulationist had no other trump cards, and now he could confidently push him to the brink.

The excruciating pain caused him to convulse and kneel on the ground. His assistant prepared a second dose of sedative, but the next second, it was cut into a scrap part by the circular saw.

"I hope this is your personal property, Advisor Buodus, so I won't have to pay compensation."

Among the Deepsea Hunters, only Laurentina can be described as lighthearted and playful. She received a call from Lotin in the system chat interface.

“If someone as deeply involved in several sensitive projects as you has fallen into depravity, then Agor is truly terminally ill.”

Goredia's words remained cold, but the shame and helplessness within them could no longer be completely concealed.

“Governor Goredia—cough cough. I am not corrupt—the truly corrupt one is the one who shaped Agor.”

"The signaling equipment of the navigation beacon has been reversed, and it will become a beacon to attract sea creatures to the city."

With veins bulging on his forehead, Buodus finally revealed all his plans.

"This is all for Agor's survival—!"

This is the truth, otherwise he wouldn't have said it under the current circumstances.

But that's the most ridiculous thing about him. Not only did he deceive the Deep Sea Cultists, but he also fooled himself.

“Sister, you will monitor the situation in the city in my place. Skadi and I will go to confront the Seafolk.”

Under the current circumstances, Lotin dared not let Skadi stray too far from him, lest some Deepsea cultists find some unorthodox method to awaken Isamara, and he would regret it then.

Meanwhile, the demoralized coast guard was facing another fleet. Fleet warfare, which had previously only existed in their simulated training, meant that Terra had no other fleet that could pose a threat to Agor's armed forces.

Today, the Coast Guard was truly forced into fleet warfare. The composite warships of various special differentiated organisms were in no way inferior to their equipment in terms of performance. Under the guidance of the Netherworld Mark, the Sea Inheritors' biological torpedoes were more accurate than the Coast Guard's level 3 weapons.

Dozens of tentacles extended from the biological torpedo and tightly entangled a target ship.

Once it has its prey, it will never let go.

This will become a desperate race against time, as the entangled ship must completely kill this highly differentiated biological munition before it can use corrosive substances similar to the Netherworld to completely disintegrate and crush the hull and digest the crew inside.

The desperate coast guard soldiers could only see through the observation port on the bridge that thick, disgusting digestive matter was slowly dripping down, while they learned from the central control system that the pressure balance had reached a critical point.

Until a current completely shattered the biological torpedo, Nautilus appeared before the unfortunate destroyer in the form of the "Scroll of Mountains and Seas".

In this state, Lotin used his E skill to rescue the Agor warships that were entangled in biological torpedoes.

"These beasts' weapons are more highly differentiated than before, but they have not become a general mutation in a colony."

"Someone is targeting and shaping Hai Si's form on a small scale."

After understanding the anomalous mutation that Lodin had mentioned, Skadi sensed a peculiar presence in the vast sea tide, calling out to someone—not Skadi, but Nautilus and the doctor from Rhodes Island.

“Maritus…”

Malitus, the number one traitor in Terra, was the forerunner who shaped the present-day Agor, and also the traitor whom Lottin despised.

"But this is fine."

Luo Ting thought that since this guy had delivered himself to his doorstep, he might as well use the Blood-Drinking Sword to destroy its consciousness and separate it from the group, so that it would no longer be able to induce the evolution of the sea creatures, thus directly resolving one of the biggest risk factors.

Chapter 246: The Beast Invasion

Agor's fleet rarely encountered truly equal adversaries in the waters of Terra, and this time, they had to rely on an unfamiliar bronze colossus to protect the city behind them.

"The evolution against high temperatures is more targeted, but as of now, these beasts are still not completely immune to the burning of the [Sunfire Aegis]."

Lotin swung the giant anchor, lifting the sharp rock pillars on the seabed, but the seabed rock pillars could no longer pierce the outer shell of the biological warship. These specialized giant chitinous plates could even support them to dig through the rock strata.

In addition, the shock-resistant flocculent vesicle structure, which can withstand Agor's level 3 singularity weapon, makes ordinary kinetic energy attacks ineffective against the biological warship in front of it.

"My hunter, can you cut through the bony plates of this behemoth?"

“It will probably take some effort,” Isamara said. “It can receive bio-electrical signals from those bio-warships.”

Ever since Skadi tried to intimidate Isamara herself, she seems to have found a solution: to display the power of fearlessness and confusion, just like Nautilus.

However, she also knew that this intimidation was essentially still dependent on Nautilus, but that was enough. She was willing to dedicate her strength solely to Lotin.

"Hunter, couldn't you communicate with Isamara's consciousness like this before?"

Isamara's situation had stabilized thanks to the combined intimidation from him and Skadi, a fact Lotin had already confirmed, but he hadn't really thought that Skadi was already able to extract information from Isamara by turning the tables on him.

"It seems that it's only possible when wearing these Yan Kingdom clothes."

Skadi's current nonchalant attitude, just like when she found everything amazing, makes Lotin think she's a bit simple-minded, but that's part of her unique charm.

It seems that this is the additional ability that the [Shan Hai Hui Juan] skin brings to teammates. [Light Knight] brings the flash interference as an additional ability, [Conqueror] brings lifesteal and strong attack, while the [Shan Hai Hui Juan] skin seems to bring behemoth special attack.

When it comes to dealing with behemoths, the Yan Kingdom is indeed the most professional in the Terra world. And the Sea Heirs "newborn", including Isamara, are ultimately behemoths, so they are also within the target range of the teammate bonus brought by [Shan Hai Hui Juan].

"Then let's give it a try and see if we can cut through the bone plates on the outside of these piles of meat, my hunter."

As soon as Luo Ting finished speaking, the deep-sea hunter in the ocean launched herself out at near-sonic speed; she was truly in her element here.

The jet-black greatsword that slays the behemoth stirs up a vortex, and the waves it generates create a deafening roar. The hunter, far from becoming dull from being pampered, actually rejuvenates himself thanks to proper care.

The power of this strike was even more terrifying than the sword that killed Isamara, so much so that the enormous impact temporarily cleaved the sea, exposing the biological warship to the air for a moment.

A large piece of chitinous bone plate was completely pulverized, but the warship was not split in two as a result.

"So hard! I have never encountered such a hard prey before. Please forgive me for not being able to crush it."

Skadi quickly dodged and smashed the small dinosaurs that gathered around her, feeling somewhat disappointed. Her current sense of disappointment stemmed more from not being able to help Lotin than from the anxiety she felt before when she was alone due to the evolution of her enemies.

"That's okay, that's enough."

Lotin took out the [Shipbreaker], activated his W skill to make the Ghost Face Red Shield surround him, and used [Nash's Tooth] and the W skill to make the surging destructive energy reverberate in the giant anchor and the cone axe. This power was still a complete black box for Hai Si. Therefore, when the two weapons opened the ship's skeleton plates, the surging violent energy caused the relatively fragile flesh inside to swell, churn, and squeeze until they were compressed and destroyed to the point that repairing them would require more energy than dismantling and remelting.

The damage to the outer shell also destroyed its heat protection mechanism, so the two devices with their own combustion auras could then come into play, burning away the compressed meat paste and the Minghen that had gathered to decompose and recycle biomass.

“These mounds of flesh give me a strong sense of incongruity. Compared to the subspecies that Haisi has evolved on its own, they appear hasty and bloated... as if they were forcibly shaped by external forces.”

"Perhaps the Sea Si doesn't have the ability to reproduce these bone coffins on a large scale. These few ships may be things that the Deep Sea Cult has artificially induced."

In fact, Skadi's intuition was correct. Both the anti-tear vesicles against level 3 weapons and the bio-warships were "handicrafts" of the Fallen. Compared to the optimal solution that the Sealing had evolved on its own, they appeared primitive and inefficient.

However, the insulation layer seems to be a structure that the group figured out on their own, because so many Sealings were burned to death by the [Sunfire Aegis] that Lotin had to upgrade his level not long ago.

"Ah, the number of these biological warships is even less than the number of Victorian battleships..."

"Although they are already comparable in quality to the warships of the Agorians."

Fortunately, Lodin's policy of prioritizing the elimination of the Fallen prevented them from having more time to induce the Sealings to undergo weaponization.

Nautilus has always been a notorious shipbreaker, and using ship-shaped weapons in the face of a deep-sea titan would be a complete mistake. Lotin seems to have muscle memory for dismantling ships, whether they are made of flesh and blood or cast in steel.

The coast guard soldiers stood bewildered on the bridge as the behemoth that had gotten them into such a difficult situation was seemingly easily destroyed by another, even larger, colossal object.

With its artillery capabilities restored, the Agor warships continued to fire level 3 singularity weapons, and some that slipped through the net ultimately failed to reach the city.

"Is that a self-regulating weapon left behind by ancient civilizations? The so-called wrath of the Creator..."

The physical destructive force detected by the water flow sensor was clearly not the full extent of the power of the bronze giant before them. Agor's detector could not measure the destructive energy generated by the system template, the raging power of the Nautilus's turbulent seas.

"Were the golden and silver giants that appeared in the city before different models?"

It enabled a battered garrison to recover its basic fighting capacity so quickly from the insurgency, and the coast guard officer had to admit that the giant had eliminated the most traitors in a limited time and at the lowest cost.

The information that ordinary Agor soldiers possessed was only enough for them to imagine things to this extent.

However, a certain ancient philosopher from the former Agor made the same judgment as the most ordinary Agor soldier. Malitus, who thought he understood the ancient civilization's obsession with the survival of civilization, at this time only regarded Lottin as the autonomous weapon of the ancient civilization, nothing more than a military version of Kal'tsit.

Therefore, he arrogantly exposed himself to Lotin and Skadi.

The long-robed marine creature has appeared.

Chapter 247: Terra's First Drought Scoundrel

Maritus did not seem to feel any remorse for the severely damaged biological warships induced and evolved by the deep-sea cultists.

Although the deep-sea believers valued these creations highly, considering them the vanguard and divine soldiers of the sea god, capable of wiping out those stubborn kin who continued to resist out of ignorance.

More biological torpedoes are still being launched. If the swarm were to experiment according to its own evolutionary system, these specialized suicidal tarantulas would probably be even more destructive—at least the ideas of the fallen inspired the swarm, teaching it how to mold itself into a weapon.

The heat emanating from the Bronze Colossus prevented the biological torpedoes from extending their tentacles to entangle themselves, and the coast guard's warships also discovered that attacking enemies targeted by Nautilus would cause more damage than the rated design limit, as if some kind of weakness had been marked out of thin air.

[Imperial Order] The team-breaking effect of this equipment was not actually Lotin's original intention in choosing it. After it was materialized and reforged, it provided mana charges according to the number of taxpayers, thus helping Lotin maintain his gigantic form for a long time.

“Maritus, I thought you would be more cautious.”

Loting immediately recognized from the vast chitinous ocean this so-called "wise man" who still seemed to be wearing a philosopher's robe, the master of empty promises who made countless false promises to the deep-sea cultists, and the number one accomplice who caused the sea creature to go out of control to its current state, Maritus.

“Ah. You are protecting Ishar-mla? Of course, of course.”

"After all, she is the end of the cycle, not the nourishment that completes it."

Maritus's voice was a kind of bioelectrical signal that could be received by the brain, rather than a poor imitation of the vocal cords; his body was highly evolved.

From the moment Lotin saw him, he had already prepared the active shield of the Bird Shield in case the other man resorted to desperate measures to awaken Isamara.

Clearly, this beast is testing Lotin. The horde, which has always viewed Nautilus as a natural disaster, has never considered Lotin's subjective attitude towards the horde's path of evolution and survival.

"You also chose to preserve this flame, after all, you witnessed the demise of the Creator. Ishar-mla saw other possibilities for herself in her, and therefore chose to continue her existence through Skadi."

"She will ultimately shoulder the hopes of hundreds of millions of lives."

This creature, named Maritus, shimmered with deep, eerie blue light. It slowly drifted toward Skadi, who was perched on Lotin's shoulder with a look of disgust, but was ultimately blocked by the shield provided by the W skill.

"I have also observed that future."

Lotin had actually observed it, that is, he had watched the plot before he traveled through time. That is why he was even more determined not to let Isamara take over Skadi's body.

That's after the lumberjacks have finished cutting down the trees, and then rebuild a new world using the ultimate form of Isamara. What Lotin has always wanted to prevent is something like flipping the table.

Moreover, it was a rebirth achieved at the cost of his hunter; Skadi's solitary will passed through a revolving lantern during the creation of the new world.

“I will not let it happen, you first fallen one, you have some unrealistic illusions about me.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the bronze giant transformed back into the most bloodthirsty and cruel Sarkaz demon lord, and [The Conqueror] once again became Nautilus's face.

To prevent this dangerous will from returning to the masses after the body perishes, Lotin needs to use the soul-stealing power of the Blood-Drinking Sword once more.

"Tikaz, a native species, an experimental subject of a prehistoric civilization?"

Maritus's psychological expectation of Lotin is that he is a military version of Kal'tsit from the prehistoric civilization, which is why he uses the topic of "the survival of civilization" to play the emotional card.

Unfortunately, the actual situation was quite different from what he had expected; the other party's aggressiveness was even higher than that of the aggressive Hai Si.

"Nautilus, what does that future mean?"

After Skadi switched to the [Conqueror] stance, her self-awareness became stronger. Although she couldn't use Isamara's authority in the same sophisticated way as [The Scroll of Mountains and Seas], she was still able to maintain a clearer sense of self and, in turn, influence the entire group through Isamara.

Because the collective consciousness of a large group is defined by blood ties alone.

Isamara is Skadi, at least that's how most people see it, but in reality, Skadi is not Isamara.

"It means you will watch yourself disappear alone, and watch another new world be born."

“You don’t need to sacrifice yourself for this, my hunter, I’m here.”

The Blood-Drinking Sword had been removed from the system space. Maritus instinctively feared this flesh-and-blood demonic sword, which he could not comprehend with his knowledge. It retreated, wanting to hide itself once again in the chitinous ocean.

At this moment, the Oracle Lens began scanning the battlefield. The increased skill range brought by the reforged and materialized Heart Steel was effective against the Sunfire Aegis, and of course, it was also effective against the Oracle Lens. Soon, Lotin locked onto Maritus, who wanted to dissolve his body to preserve his consciousness.

"I believe in your choice, Nautilus."

Isamara within Skadi actually agreed with Lotin's statement, which means that the future described by the three parties is almost true. Lotin stated that he would prevent this future, in which the horde devours everything and gives birth to a new world, from happening.

"You saw ultimate darkness in Isamara's prophecy, and I understand your desperation to find a way to survive by any means necessary. However, you are not a member of the previous civilization, and you cannot comprehend the full scope of the Deep Blue Tree's purpose..."

Within Lotin's capabilities, both the Originium Project and the Blue Tree are still salvageable. Perhaps the Heaven's Pivot also has a solution. Therefore, he cannot allow Maritus to continue his plans and let Hai Si run wildly down the wrong path of development.

They could have played a much greater role, rather than simply serving as a fallback option, allowing the swarm to brutally devour everything.

Moreover, in addition to the two skins, [Creator God] and [Scroll of Mountains and Seas], which can sweep across the surface of Terra, there is still an ultimate skin that has not been unlocked—the drifting nebula body, [Astral Paladin].