The three Sea Kings racing toward them were all massive creatures, each over five thousand meters in length.
Next to these behemoths, even the Pluton could only be described as "delicate."
Though the three Sea Kings were apex predators of the ocean—creatures with intelligence on par with humans—they had no idea that their chosen target was, in fact, a biological weapon specially developed by the alien Harvesters for the sole purpose of harvesting life matter.
And the sole purpose of such a weapon's existence… was to slaughter every form of life and collect its essence.
The result of the Sea Kings' blind assault was easy to predict.
The leading one, a massive monster fish vaguely resembling a hammerhead shark, swung its head once and its already incredible speed spiked even higher.
Opening a giant maw bristling with sharp teeth, it lunged straight for the one-eyed giant!
With its enormous size, one bite was enough to swallow the one-eyed giant whole.
The next moment, it paid dearly for its fearless ignorance.
In the giant's single eye flashed an expression of vivid disdain and mockery.
Just as its entire body was about to fall into the monster fish's mouth, four arms shot out at once, instantly piercing four massive holes into the jagged, hill-sized lips of the Sea King.
From the ends of those arms, rows of vicious barbs erupted, stabbing deep into the fish's lips.
The one-eyed giant's massive body then tore itself free from the fate of being swallowed.
To Roya's slight surprise, even a Sea King of such immense size shared the same weakness as ordinary fish—it lacked the ability to sense direct injury to its own body very well.
The creature barely noticed what had happened to its lips and kept up its habitual swallowing motions.
Lifting its head high, with most of its upper body protruding from the sea, it opened and closed its mouth repeatedly, still trying to gulp the giant hanging from its lips into its throat.
Through his spiritual sense, Roya saw that in the fish's throat were three complete rings of densely packed teeth—serving as a second stage in its food-processing system.
But instead of cutting through chewing, these teeth rotated in a bizarre and terrifying manner.
Each pair of rings spun at high speed in opposite directions, forming a deadly grinding channel.
Anything entering that passage would be shredded and pulverized to dust in less than a second.
The Sea King jerked its massive body downward several times, trying to shake the giant into its gullet, but failed.
Then the three rings of teeth began sliding forward toward the lips, driven by its strange musculature and skeletal structure—clearly intent on crushing the one-eyed giant where it clung.
The giant was not about to back down.
Its six thick legs suddenly retracted tightly, their flat, crushing undersides morphing into sharp, multi-faceted ramming hammers.
Each leg was like a siege ram, storing up a tremendous, explosive impact force.
In the next instant—
All six legs struck at once!
They slammed into the grinding rings as they rolled forward.
With a series of deafening, splintering crashes, hundreds upon hundreds of tooth fragments the size of door panels blasted out from the Sea King's mouth, raining down over the surrounding sea in a grotesque "tooth storm."
The giant's six massive legs, however, were completely unscathed—not even a scratch on their surface.
And this… was only the beginning of its assault.
In an anatomically impossible motion, the six legs abruptly shifted from ramming downward to swinging high upward at an angle.
Like six titans each wielding a massive warhammer, they brought the blows crashing down on the Sea King's lower jaw!
Boom!
The Sea King's jaw dislocated instantly; the muscle and skin around it tore apart and dropped straight down onto its chest!
An immense force shot through its jaw into its massive body, driving it headfirst toward the ocean surface.
When its nearly split-in-half skull was forced down into the sea, its tail had no choice but to rise straight up.
A five-thousand-meter giant… flipped upside down by a single sixfold hammer strike that shattered its jaw.
And yet, its suffering had only just begun.
The one-eyed giant used the momentum to flip onto the bridge of its nose.
Its six legs morphed again, becoming six enormous spikes that drove down into the Sea King's skull.
Barbs sprouted from the spikes, boring through the hard skull without resistance and locking firmly in place.
At the same time, the giant's four arms each wrapped like ropes around the two massive hammer-like protrusions on the fish's head.
A savage glint blazed in the giant's eye.
It opened its abyssal mouth in a soundless roar—and all four arms wrenched back at once!
Crack!
Snap!
The two massive head-horns, strong enough to smash reefs with ease, snapped off like brittle chalk.
The force tore away a chunk of skull with them, exposing the pale mass of the creature's brain.
The one-eyed giant opened its mouth wide again, unleashing a monstrous suction—beginning a grotesque live performance of eating raw fish brain right there on the spot.
The Star Spirit watched as his three Sea King "little brothers," who had charged in so fearlessly, suddenly turned into… offerings on a plate. His rage flared.
He roared at the two remaining Sea Kings:
"What are you standing there for?! Get in there and tear him apart!"
But before he even finished, the one that had stayed in a streamlined, torpedo-like form suddenly unfurled eight massive tentacles—
—each nearly the size of the Pluton itself!
The spectacle of those eight limbs stirring the sea was terrifying.
Yet, to everyone's surprise, the purpose wasn't to attack the giant at all—it was to reveal the creature's ink sac.
With a resounding pop, a torrent of ink blasted from its siphon, instantly staining over ten nautical miles of water pitch black and impenetrable to sight.
In the blink of an eye—taking advantage of everyone's momentary pause—it retracted its limbs and slipped back into the Calm Belt.
The last Sea King, a massive serpent, became disoriented in the inky waters and slammed headfirst into the severed skull of the monster fish.
Still reeling, it was suddenly ensnared by one of the giant's reaching arms.
The one-eyed giant yanked the serpent to its face, opened its maw even wider, and began slurping it up in segments like a stick of spicy dried tofu.
In mere seconds, the "spicy strip" over five thousand meters long vanished into its belly.
Then it turned back and began gnawing haphazardly on the floating, belly-up body of the monster fish.
With two of his "little brothers" devoured before his eyes, the Star Spirit finally snapped in humiliation and fury.
From the Pluton's decks, nearly ten thousand naval guns roared in unison, hurling a storm of Seastone shells that arced in the sky before curving down toward the one-eyed giant.
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