Deep Sea Hunter, but Deep Sea Titan

Skadi, as always, prefers to keep her troubles hidden deep inside.

Only after arriving on land and experiencing the customs and traditions of the land dwellers did she realize how arrogant she and the Agor had been. If the Agor were to anger "Nautilus" in the future because of their arrogance, what should she do...?

She understood why Loting still said she was just one step away from success. Although conflict was not unavoidable, as Loting said, since she was going to swear to be a sword that was only wielded for him, she had to make a choice.

Another shell exploded outside the shield, the flash illuminating Skadi's melancholy face.

Like Laurentina, Skadi can only receive the typed messages that appear on the system interface through telepathy; they cannot see the system interface.

Although Lotin did not send any text messages in the system interface, and Lotin was currently launching an attack containing a scorching death ray against a high-speed warship, Skadi still felt Lotin's gaze on her.

Just like when they first met, she was a wounded whale facing the searchlight of a whaling ship.

Many deep-sea hunters gradually lose themselves in the process of fighting against their own blood relatives; amidst terrifying whispers, they begin to devour the flesh and blood of their dead companions, their skin gradually grows scales, and they eventually become monsters to be hunted.

Agor was destined not to regard the Deepsea Hunter as a victorious hero. Especially not for someone whose body flowed with the most filthy, poisonous blood.

What are you still hesitating about? What are you worrying about?

"What you want is right in front of you."

The person standing beside her was no longer simply her blood relative, but a nun from "Nautilus".

Yes, Skadi told herself, what was there to hesitate about?

"As you wish, my greatsword will only be wielded for you."

Skadi still gave her answer. Even if it meant hell, she was ready to jump in; there was no turning back.

A scorching beam of light descended from the sky, leaving a vertical scorch mark on the ground. This was an enhancement of the skin's exclusive passive ability after being enlarged. The high-speed warship that was directly hit melted into a pool of molten iron.

The only drawback is that the light beam has a rather long cooling time.

The garrison fleet's normal command and morale were clearly and devastatingly affected.

Their shelling became random, hurried, and chaotic. The garrison fleet's light warships were only classified by the system as small-scale monsters, but many mid- to high-ranking officers were also crushed, and their bounties were at the level of large-scale monsters.

The silver colossus emerged from the smoke time and time again, shattering the garrison fleet's illusions that they had defeated Lotin.

The extra resistance provided by the skin makes it difficult for the main guns of the garrison fleet's light, high-speed warships to even penetrate their armor, since their main guns are very limited in terms of propellant and caliber.

Meanwhile, the [Winter's Arrival] spell was rapidly stacking up as Lottin repeatedly slammed down his hammer and axe, enough to cause a small earthquake. The considerable amount of mana he had made Lottin's giant form time much less of a constraint than before.

Unfortunately, this skin is only a specialized form within Kazimierz; it seems inconvenient to unleash its full potential outside of Kazimierz.

However, there are still many skins waiting for Loting to unlock, and there is no need for Loting to keep obsessing over this one. Even if the [Light Knight] skin is fully buffed within Kazimierz, it still cannot reach the level of some other skins.

Chapter 94: You Will Guide the Sun Bombardment

"Damage control, where is damage control?"

The captain of a light, high-speed warship is trying to call the damage control team, but the entire rear half of the warship is completely red on the display screen in the main control room.

"How exactly did the officials at the Securities and Futures Commission get involved in this kind of thing?"

At such a critical juncture, he disregarded his career and simply vented his strongest dissatisfaction and resentment.

The truth is that the officials of the Securities and Futures Commission have already passed away before him.

The light suddenly dimmed before him, then the bridge was enveloped in a blinding flash of light. The supporting structure was deforming, and the glass and load-bearing components were shattering under the strain. They would not see their end.

Tapping on the bridge is always the most efficient way for Lottin to cripple a warship.

The garrison force, though not part of the core fleet of Kazimir, was still enough to demonstrate the might of the Giant Knights to the core fleet of Kazimir.

Another beam of light descended from the sky. This beam of light could not automatically target enemies and required manual control to move.

The attack principle of this beam is different from that of the space-based weapons in the original Arknights. The energy supplying the beam still originates from Lodin and is transmitted outwards, eventually converging at a certain height to create the effect of Judgment descending from the sky.

“Sister, you shall guide the beam of light.”

"Change the terrain of the battlefield so that they have nowhere to retreat."

These high-speed warships changed tactics, from flank firing in a single column formation to alternating, wheel-like firing while circling Lotin.

Laurentina had nothing to do while standing on Lotin's shoulder, so Lotin temporarily handed over control of the pillar of light to Laurentina.

A solar bombardment always needs a guide.

"As you wish, the death ray of judgment will burn all enemies."

"Protect your comrades and strike your enemies hard."

After the system confirms with Lotin that control of the beam has been temporarily transferred, Laurentina can use her staff to guide the beam down from the sky.

The scorched earth eventually altered the landscape, leaving deep pits and dark red ravines on the plains, which, for a normal Terran, would be considered canyons.

The terrain became undulating and complex, and gaps appeared in the wheel-shaped artillery formation. A warship that was unable to change course in time became stuck in a huge ditch.

Meanwhile, the battlefield was already filled with deadly Originium dust.

In peacetime, the mining industry produces a large number of impoverished infected individuals, while war brings not only a large number of impoverished but also extremely dangerous infected individuals.

These retired soldiers, infected because of the war, are a festering scar that the military system of the Terran nation cannot cover up.

Aside from Laurentina, who was injected with a high concentration of Originium concentrate into her spinal cord, Deepsea Hunters are almost immune to Oripathy. However, this dust poses a deadly threat to the Grand Knights behind Lotin.

The silver colossus stomped the ground, causing shattered rocks to crumble and ripple with scorching holy light, burning the harmful Originium dust.

The high-speed warships that were trying to circle around Lotin and use their maneuverability to fire were also damaged by the fire.

The Originium fuel in its fuel chamber was also ignited, triggering a violent explosion, and the dust generated by the explosion was burned by the second and third light rings.

The Originium dust that escaped from the site ultimately did not reach the level of causing public harm.

In reality, the thin armor is completely ineffective against the increased spell power of the [Riftmaker] when it grows to its maximum size.

Based on the current shelling results, a super heavy cannon with a sufficiently large caliber could theoretically still inflict damage on Lotin.

Given that the Originium shells commonly used by Terrans tend to cause damage through high-explosive and dirty shells, Lotin plans to reforge his pay armor after purchasing [Endless Hatred], and then use the freed-up slot to craft [Jash the Thousand Shapeshifter].

This item provides both physical and magical resistances, and when fighting hero units, it further increases both resistances by an additional percentage.

With the last fleeing high-speed warship plunging off the newly constructed cliff, the garrison fleet summoned by the Securities and Futures Commission had lost its most basic combat capability.

At this moment, within the Great Knight's territory, a middle-aged Kuranta man with a typical appearance of the Nearl family crumpled the newspaper in his hand into a ball.

“Such absurd things can still happen in Kazimierz.”

His face was full of fatigue and frustration from working overtime non-stop. He was the current head of the Lin Guang family in law, although he never admitted it himself.

This morning, as usual, he dragged his tired body to work at a building materials company that was just in the middle of the pack.

When Cyril Nearl passed away, and Margaret Nearl was targeted for winning the Knights Tournament, he was extremely disappointed in Kazimierz and chose to protect his family in this way.

He gave up everything as a member of the Nearl family and lived like an ordinary modern-day Qazimir.

Everything is different today.

His boss told him:

"Marna, today is a holiday."

The boss's stiff expression almost made Marna Nearl think she had been fired.

Marner always had the habit of reading the newspaper, but today the mailbox at the Linguang residence was empty.

His superior handed him a newspaper, the headline of which was naturally about the Giant Knight announcing his return to Kazimierz.

"Utterly absurd."

This was Marner's first reaction.

As he continued reading the newspaper, he finally lost his composure, but he still tried his best to maintain a basically proper and calm demeanor in front of his superior.

'The Radiant Knight has passed the Giant Knight's test and is qualified to pave a new path for Kazimierz.'

This was absolutely the most objective report ever given by the newspapers in Kazimierz, because the censorship of publications in the Grand Knights Territory had been effectively paralyzed due to Lotin's purge.

Yet, no news company dared to report anything different from what Laurentina had instructed.

Those who dared to continue their underhanded tactics had already been "specially looked after" by Luo Ting last night.

“This is utter nonsense. Does Margaret even know what she’s involved with?”

After giving her boss a hasty apology and saying goodbye, Marna immediately set off to find Margaret.

In his eyes, Margaret was still not mature enough, and as an elder in the family, he could not let Margaret continue to sink into such a dangerous quagmire.

Since the venues of the National Assembly and the Supervisory Council were no longer usable, the provisional government of the Grand Knights maintained basic operations at the City Hall.

At first, Marner was puzzled, but then he realized a terrible truth.

The reason why those powerful old-guard elites haven't taken any action is not because they dare not or do not want to, but because they are physically unable to take any further action.

There are far too many people who have evaporated.

Margaret's current task is to appease the citizens. Because Lotin's destruction of the existing order in Kazimierz was too simplistic and brutal, she now has to make some promises of a better future in an attempt to rationalize what has happened as much as possible.

The doctor led Rhodes Island's medical field team to conduct medical activities in areas where infected individuals were concentrated.

She cooperated quite well with Lotin's actions; these infected people already harbored a great, simple hatred for the authorities in Kazimir.

But they had already been eliminated by Lotin through unreasonable means and in an unreasonable manner.

In the eyes of the infected, the Giant Knight was simply a fair scale.

“Margaret, if you’re still a member of the Linguang family, you’d better have a serious talk with me.”

Marner clutched his forehead in anguish. Before considering anything else, he wanted to find out from Margaret what had happened in the Grand Knights' territory.

Chapter 95: What is meant by "Kazimir's Unofficial History"?

"Uncle, it's a long story."

Margaret is now in a rather awkward position, as her efforts to change Kazimierz are entering the next phase in an extremely bizarre way.

She briefly recounted what she knew of what had happened, and there was no doubt that this night in the Grand Knights' Territory was more frenzied than any night of revelry during a knightly tournament.

Prior to this, Margaret had won the previous Knights Tournament championship, but was expelled from Kazimierz as an infected person.

She was much less mature back then than she is now, and only now does she understand that it was her grandfather's way of protecting her.

But Lotin had already appointed her to continue leading Kazimierz, and she couldn't even refuse.

"The current situation is that all the members of the Securities and Futures Commission and the Federation of Industries that he could find are no longer able to perform their duties."

Margaret never imagined that her first long talk with her uncle, whom she hadn't seen for many years, after returning to Kazimierz would be about this kind of topic.

“Margaret, I hope you’ve thought this through seriously. Do you really think you’re capable of handling all of this?”

Marna once had a heart full of passion like Margaret, but the disappearance of his brother and the death of his father gradually made him feel isolated and helpless.

On one side are his family who need protection, and on the other side is Kazimierz, whom he sees as almost hopeless. He can only silently endure all the insults life throws at him in despair.

But now, a being with supernatural power has put the Nearl family in the spotlight. Judging from Margaret's behavior, it is probably not her intention to accept it so easily.

"Why did the Giant Knight choose you? If he just wanted someone to manage Kazimierz on his behalf, there are countless people more suitable than you, Margaret."

If the other party simply wants an easy-to-control puppet, then Margaret is definitely the worst choice.

At this point, it's pointless to doubt whether the Giant Knight really existed. Marna just wants to know what this giant, who claims to be from ancient Kazimierz, wants to achieve, and what role his niece played in this incident.

Margaret was well aware of her uncle's doubts, but he simply handed over a drastically changed Kazimierz to her without explanation, leaving her free to do as she pleased. And Lotin's request left her with no reason to refuse—if it really was about restoring the distorted history, Margaret would even wholeheartedly agree.

“Let me explain, Marna Nearl.”

Because Lotin knew the plot, he knew that Marna had gone to great lengths to protect the two younger sisters of the Lin Guang family when they were still young and impetuous.

A shadow fell over Mr. Lin Guang. Lotin had dealt with the garrison fleet and temporarily returned to the Great Knight's territory. Before informing the Radiant Knight of some necessary information, he also visited the old mansions of several knight families.

He originally thought that the "Knight of Light Nautilus" was just a mysterious legend in Kazimierz, which, although exciting, did not have a significant impact on the history of the Kazimierz people.

After Lotin clashed with the Council of Evangelists, he realized that Nautilus, known as the "Giant Knight" in the history of Kazimierz, had played a crucial role in the birth and development of the Kazimierz civilization.

Especially after the knight families who had been responsible for the so-called "dismemberment of giants" for generations confessed to the supervisory council.

Lotting attempted to find some physical evidence related to this history, though he did not hold out much hope.

Before the witnesses disappeared, the current heads of these families unanimously revealed the secrets that their families had kept for generations. Luo Ting, on the other hand, tried to find out if any physical evidence had been preserved.

The tombs in Waterdrop Village only record the giant knight's achievements, but not his fate.

After going around in circles, Lotin finally found the records entrusted to the successive Grand Knights in the underground archives of the Supervisory Council.