A sharp metallic chime echoes in the depths
of the ocean.
Ding
High-Rank Evolved Creature Devoured.
[Evolved Tier Upgraded]
[Devourer Core Upgraded]
The pressure of the abyss trembles.
El-Mond clenches his left fist slowly,
feeling power surge through his veins like
molten lightning.
"I'm… again…
A Duke-Level Evolver."
His eyes narrow.
"But this time… it's different."
"This power foreign"
"Yet intoxicating."
"Pleasant."
"Hungry."
A deep, primal urge coils within his chest.
TO DEVOUR.
El-Mond lifts his head sharply, gaze
locking forward.
The Crimson Eel floats above the battlefield,
its vast body radiating oppressive
dominance,
crimson scales crackling faintly with
electricity.
"As expected of the descendants of a god,"
the Crimson Eel speaks coldly,
voice reverberating through the water.
"Impressive. But I don't have time
to indulge you."
Its eyes shift slightly.
"Deal with him. Leave him alive
just enough for information."
The three elite eels snarl in unison.
The water distorts.
IN A BLINK.
They vanish.
Then surround him.
Monstrous jaws snap open from all
directions, speed so extreme the water
screams in protest.
Caught off guard!.
They believed.
El-Mond doesn't look at them.
His gaze remains fixed on the Crimson Eel.
He grins.
BOOM.!
Using the corpse of a fallen eel,
El-Mond rockets forward one eel
like a living missile straight at the Crimson Eel.
At the same time
BACKHANDS!
One eel
smashed into the ocean floor, the impact detonating with explosive force.
Before it can even twitch
El-Mond devours its evolved core.
The last eel is seized mid-motion.
GRAB!
El-Mond grips its tail and violently
whip-smashes it left and right,
the seabed cracking under repeated impacts.
Silence.
Then
He devours it as well.
The entire exchange lasts less than a breath.
With his rank and core upgraded,
El-Mond is moving at nanosecond speed.
The Crimson Eel clicks its tongue.
"Trash."
With a slash of crackling energy, it cleaves the rocket-flung corpse in half using a
spinning electric disc.
The battlefield stills.
Blood clouds the water.
Lifeless eel bodies sink slowly.
Ding
High-Rank Evolved Creatures Devoured.
[Devourer Core Upgraded x3]
[Rank Upgraded x2]
El-Mond glances down at the remains.
"No more appetizers?"
He looks up.
His eyes burn.
"ON TO THE MAIN COURSE."
The moment the words leave his mouth
He disappears.
And reappears directly in front of the
Crimson Eel.
ROCKET...!
A devastating punch slams forward.
Shockwaves explode outward, bubbles
erupting violently, traveling all the way to the ocean's surface
Three hundred thousand feet above.
"Such arrogance," the Crimson Eel scoffs.
The punch fails to move it even an inch.
"Such foolishness."
Electricity ignites in its eyes.
"Consider it a favor to die by the Crimson Demon."
A tremendous burst of electric power erupts, swallowing the sea in blinding crimson
lightning.
El-Mond reacts instantly, retreating
But
The Crimson Eel appears behind him.
CRASH...!
A monstrous tail strike rockets El-Mond
forward like a cannonball.
He skids, stabilizing himself mid-water.
"…It's strong."
His expression sharpens.
Then he laughs.
"Hahahaha perfect."
"The perfect test subject."
He launches himself forward.
For twenty minutes, they exchange
nanosecond-speed blows fists, tails,
electricity, shockwaves space itself warping under their clash.
They collide once more
And blast each other apart.
El-Mond flexes his fingers.
"What durable skin…"
"Then let's test this."
He stretches out his right hand.
A black-and-red orb forms in his palm,
growing rapidly, pulsing like a living heart.
Pain tears through him.
He groans.
"Damn… Void Blood drains my own blood
to form this."
The Crimson Eel roars.
"WEAK."
"Let me show you true power!"
A massive electric sphere forms
nearly half its body size, dwarfing El-Mond's attack.
"That thing's attack is a hundred times
bigger…"
"I have to dodge!"
Suddenly
A monstrous wave of energy washes over
El-Mond.
His control snaps.
His attack fires.
The Crimson Eel releases its own.
Two forces collide at nanosecond speed
BOOM...!!!
El-Mond's attack pierces through,
completely disintegrating the eel's massive
electric blast.
Half of the Crimson Eel's body is vaporized.
"…Wow," El-Mond mutters.
"That's scary."
"MASTER!"
Eldred's voice echoes.
El-Mond snaps back to reality.
"Oh right. Yeah, we need to go.
That energy is definitely heading here."
He devours the Crimson Eel's core and bolts.
Ding
Very High Evolved Creature Devoured.
[Devourer Core Upgrading]
[Rank Upgraded x5]
[System Skill Acquired]
[Sky Lord Tier One]
Mid-run, El-Mond groans, clutching his
abdomen.
He shakes it off and accelerates.
Then
CRASH!
He slams into an invisible wall.
"…This is not good."
He turns.
His eyes widen.
"M-Master…"
Eldred trembles.
Before them stands a beast so vast that six thousand meters feels like a hundred.
One tentacle alone stretches a thousand feet.
And there were Twenty-eight of them.
A body over ten thousand feet long.
A living catastrophe.
El-Mond exhales.
"I know."
Then he smiles.
"But the bigger they are..."
"THE HARDER THEY FALL."
He charges forward in a sonic boom,
lightning and black energy tearing through
his body.
The colossal beast roars.
A tentacle swings.
FIST AND TENTACLE
COLLIDE.
TO BE CONTINUED.p