33: The real enemy!

Red, white, and charred fragments mixed with leaping electric arcs,

scattered and splattered like the bloodiest fireworks!

The Polar Giant Crab Clovis, which was as massive as a mountain and had plunged the entire Divine Summer into despair,

was utterly transformed into a giant, charred, smoking wreck, its carapace shattered, its limbs twisted, and emitting a pungent burnt smell,

slamming heavily into the melted ice water, which was churning with bubbles and electric sparks!

In that instant,

the entire world fell silent!

Only the sound of churning seawater and the crackling aftershocks of the current remained.

The global live broadcast camera seemed to freeze at this moment.

No one had expected that

the Kraken of Divine Summer, seemingly the weaker party, would suddenly instantly kill the Polar Giant Crab of the USA.

"Lord Clovis... is dead?! T-this... how is this possible?!"

Wilson slumped into his luxurious seat, utterly pale, as if his spine had been removed,

He knew very well

what the death of Clovis meant for the USA.

He seemed to see the iceberg of USA hegemony sinking to the bottom of the sea along with Clovis.

Nakamura Kenichi, on the other hand, was so scared his pants were wet.

Park Jeong-hwan's reaction was simpler: he fainted instantly from shock.

Before he passed out,

Park Jeong-hwan had only one thought in his heart:

Goryeo... is finished... On the deck of the Nimitz aircraft carrier,

the expressions on Liss and Saruman's faces completely shattered!

Only extreme horror and disbelief remained!

"Lightning Element! It's the Lightning Talent!! Clovis's absolute nemesis!!"

Saruman let out a frantic shriek, like a rooster being strangled,

"When did it master it?! Why wasn't this in the intelligence report?!"

Liss's black robe billowed without wind, and his shadowed face was twisted like a fiend,

He stared fixedly at the distant, pitch-black giant silhouette, wreathed in residual lightning, looking like the descent of the Thunder God,

squeezing out a bone-chillingly cold voice from between his teeth:

"We all underestimated this Kraken... Go! Now!"

"This beast... has become a force! Today... the tide has turned!"

Saruman glared hatefully at Su Chen,

Subsequently, the bodies of the two instantly transformed into two streams of murky water,

and with a "plop," they merged into the cold seawater and vanished.

In the center of the battlefield, next to Clovis's wreckage,

Chen Feng stood in the melted ice water,

his short hair standing on end like a hedgehog due to the violent electric aftershocks.

He looked up at Su Chen, who was close at hand, radiating terrifying might and destructive aura,

feeling the slight numbness caused by the lightning power that had not yet completely dissipated,

his heart pounded wildly, and his blood boiled!

Instant... instant kill!

That Polar Giant Crab, which had driven him and countless comrades to despair and could not be shaken even at a heavy price... was actually instantly killed by Lord Kraken... in a single strike!

All previous doubts, anger, and resentment now transformed into the purest shock and... a nearly fanatical reverence!

A seed named Faith,

furiously broke through the soil, took root, and sprouted in his heart!

Boom—!

After the brief silence, the Divine Summer mainland erupted in earth-shattering, ecstatic cheers!

Like a volcano that had been suppressed for hundreds of millions of years,

it violently erupted!

"We won!! We won!! Lord Kraken is invincible—!!!"

"Holy crap! Thunder God! Lord Kraken is the Thunder God descended!"

"Ice conducts electricity! That was awesome! My physics teacher didn't lie to me!!"

"Which bastard said our Lord Kraken couldn't beat this big crab from the USA? Come out!"

"American Guys! Fusang dogs! Goryeo sticks! Where are your gods?! Shout again!!!"

On the ice plain,

the surviving Dragon Blood Warriors and navy sailors, disregarding their wounds and bloodstains,

wildly embraced, jumped, and thumped their chests,

tears of joy mixed with blood rolled down their faces!

Their gazes towards that pitch-black giant silhouette were filled with the relief of surviving a catastrophe and... incredibly fervent worship!

The fleet, like a Great Wall of steel, fired all its cannons in salute!

Ship horns blared!

sounding the triumphant song for their guardian deity!

In contrast, the Blue Star Alliance Joint Fleet on the other side,

was completely silent.

Su Chen's cold vertical pupils swept across the sea,

the Blue Star Alliance Joint Fleet, which had previously been arrogant and wildly shouting,

now trembled like terrified quails in the floating burning wreckage and melted ice water.

Fear, like a tangible plague, solidified on the pale faces of every USA, Fusang, and Goryeo sailor visible through the portholes.

There was no mercy.

"Whoosh—Boom!!!"

"Rumble!!!"

"Crack—Splash!!!"

Several terrifying tentacles, wreathed in dazzling residual lightning, tore through the air and lashed down fiercely like the massive whip of the Grim Reaper!

A USA "Arleigh Burke"-class destroyer was struck across the midsection!

The heavy hull armor twisted and fractured like paper! Amidst the grating metallic wail, the severed half of the hull, carrying burning flames and desperate screams, tumbled into the churning seawater!

The bow of a Fusang "Kongō"-class destroyer was pierced by the tip of a tentacle! The immense kinetic energy sent the entire warship hurtling backward, slamming violently into a Goryeo supply ship behind it!

The two ships turned into massive fireballs amidst an earth-shattering explosion, and fuel ignited a raging wall of fire on the sea surface!

A Goryeo missile boat attempted a high-speed turn to evade, but a tentacle swept across as if predicting the move!

The boat's hull was instantly flattened, like a crushed soda can, and disappeared into the surging waves!

The terrifying sound of the explosions jolted the stunned Wilson back to reality,

letting out a pig-slaughtering scream,

"Retreat!! Full speed retreat!!! God help us! Get out of here!!!"

Wilson's shriek, broadcast over the public channel, became the sole command for all allied ships!

Formation? Tactics? To hell with them!

Fear crushed everything!

The engines of the surviving warships roared wildly, spewing thick black exhaust, as they frantically turned their bows,

abandoning all pretense, like a swarm of ants scalded by boiling water,

desperately fleeing towards the open sea in a frantic rush!

However,

the tentacles, like shadows claiming lives, continuously fell behind the retreating fleet!

Every strike was accompanied by the destruction of a warship and towering columns of fire and water!

On the sea surface, burning wrecks, floating corpses, and oil slicks formed a tragic, apocalyptic scene.

Finally,

when the last few tentacles, carrying lingering electric arcs, slowly retracted into the sea, the massive Joint Fleet that the Blue Star Alliance prided itself on had suffered heavy losses.

The remaining ships, bearing heavy scars and bone-deep terror, disappeared miserably beyond the horizon.

Su Chen did not pursue them deeply,

firstly, because the energy consumed in killing Clovis was too great,

and he needed to quickly consume Clovis to recover his strength.

Secondly,

Su Chen knew clearly that

his true enemies were never the clowns like the USA or the Japanese,

but rather... the Shadow Scale Clan, who would launch a full-scale offensive... in 26 days!!!