"What in the world?" he muttered, caught off guard by the surreal scene unfolding on the display, the room's ambient hum seeming to grow louder in the tense silence.
The little boy who had withstood the three blasts now unleashed the absorbed energy in a counterattack, releasing it three times the usual lethality, as if the blasts had been merged and amplified within his scales. The combined force streaked back toward the defense room like a vengeful comet, its glow illuminating the ocean depths with an ominous radiance.
"Run—"
Boom!
The blast struck the defense room before Rudolf could complete his desperate order, engulfing the entire chamber in a cataclysmic explosion that obliterated it to bits, shards of metal and debris scattering through the water like shrapnel in a storm, the shockwave rippling outward and disturbing the serene underwater currents.
