5: The tentacles easily crushed the warship!

Sunlight streamed across the wet, cold, gigantic pillar that exuded an ancient, ferocious aura, casting a shadow of death that completely enveloped the entire Yi Sun-sin!

"Ah... shi..."

Lee Jae-hyuk's mouth was stretched to its limit, his throat only emitting meaningless gasps, and his eyeballs bulged out from extreme terror!

All the knowledge he had accumulated in his life was utterly shattered at this moment!

The next moment!

That colossal arm, soaring into the sky, descended with the momentum of crushing stars,

smashing down with a thunderous roar!

No!

It wasn't a strike!

It was a coil!

Fast!

Faster than the retina's limit of capture!

The massive tentacle was like an animated mountain of death, covered in suckers and barbs,

instantly coiling around the sleek, rigid steel midsection of the Yi Sun-sin destroyer!

Screech—crack-a-lack-a-lack—!!!

The sound of groaning and snapping metal, enough to make scalps explode and souls tremble, burst forth!

The modern hull, boasted to withstand heavy torpedoes,

was as fragile as a child's cookie before this pure, ultimate physical force!

Visibly, the steel armor in the section of the hull wrapped by the tentacle twisted and collapsed!

The keel let out a mournful cry under the unbearable strain!

The entire warship was squeezed and arched upwards!

"Depth charges! Deploy! Deploy them now!! All weapons! Fire! Fire!!!"

Lee Jae-hyuk roared within the bridge, his voice distorted by despair.

Too late!

A second, a third, and a fourth equally terrifying dark red colossal arm,

burst out of the sea like the garrotes of a hellish demon!

They instantly joined the deadly coiling!

Four colossal arms,

like four ancient sealing shackles, tightened simultaneously!

Lee Jae-hyuk's vision was completely filled by the dark red "wall" outside the porthole—a cold, slimy surface covered in suckers and smelling of seawater!

The last thing he saw,

was the wildly flashing red alarm in front of the command console, signaling the complete structural failure of the hull!

Snap—BOOM!!!!

A colossal, snapping sound, far more muffled and soul-shattering than any previous explosion!

The nearly ten-thousand-ton displacement sejong the great-class destroyer,

snapped cleanly into two halves at the waist where the tentacles were wrapped, like rotten wood broken by a giant's hands!

Dazzling flames and thick black smoke erupted from the massive fracture, like a spewing volcano!

Detonating ammunition exploded sequentially inside the hull!

Countless terrified and despairing Goryeo sailors screamed as they plunged like dumplings from the broken deck into the cold, churning sea!

The steel behemoth that had been so imposing just a second ago instantly turned into a burning, sinking graveyard of scrap metal!

Time,

seemed to freeze at this moment.

Aboard the sea wolf,

Smith's cigar dropped to the deck, the smug look on his face freezing into a plaster-like pallor, and his pupils dilated from extreme terror.

Inside the kirishima,

Ichiro Matsushita's arrogant laughter caught in his throat, turning into a short, sharp gasp, like a rooster being strangled.

On the bridge of the Divine Summer Ship Name,

Li Weiguo and Wang Meng stood frozen, mouths slightly agape, their minds blank.

The tragic grandeur of their readiness to fight to the death was shattered by the pure, overwhelming scene of destruction before their eyes.

At the Divine Summer Naval Headquarters, there was dead silence in front of the massive screen.

Marshal Qin Zhenshan's hands, braced on the control panel, trembled violently from the force,

staring intently at the two slowly sinking hull sections and the survivors struggling like ants on the surface, too shocked to utter a single word.

The sejong the great-class destroyer,

that was Goryeo's most advanced naval warship,

one of the most powerful maritime weapons on Blue Star.

And such an advanced,

maritime weapon, costing 1.5 billion US dollars, was sunk in less than two seconds?

No!

Not sunk!

It was forcibly, directly choked into two pieces by an unimaginable colossal force!

"Fire! Fire! All weapons! Tear that monster apart!!"

Smith finally woke up from his extreme shock,

letting out a hysterical howl, like a dying beast!

The next moment,

the sea wolf, the kirishima, and the other Joint Fleet warships reacted like mad dogs whose tails had been stepped on, their main bow cannons spitting out scorching tongues of fire!

Anti-ship missiles screamed off their launchers, trailing long plumes of fire!

Dense depth charges were hurled into the sea like hail!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom—!!!

The sea surface instantly boiled!

Massive water columns erupted one after another! Firelight and smoke filled the entire sea area!

The scene looked incredibly shocking!

However—

The shockwaves from the close-range depth charge explosions struck Su Chen's tough Kraken skin, leaving only rapidly fading scorched marks, as if he had been burned by a cigarette butt.

The high-speed incoming anti-ship missiles drastically slowed down once they pierced the seawater, their trajectories becoming clumsy and predictable.

Su Chen merely needed to casually swing a tentacle, lightly slapping the side of the missile body as if swatting a fly.

Bang!

Rumble!

The missile was knocked off course, exploding nearby in a burst of murky spray and bubbles, the shockwave spreading out like a gentle breeze passing over a mountain.

As for the naval artillery shells?

They vanished into the water like stones sinking into the sea, not even disturbing Su Chen with a ripple.

"Heh..."

"That's it?!"

A cold and contemptuous mockery emerged from the depths of Su Chen's consciousness.

Soon,

these humans would realize

that the thermal weapons they were once so proud of,

could no longer allow them to maintain their Overlord status in this new era.

The next moment,

Su Chen's massive body swayed in the murky water, generating silent undercurrents.

Ten colossal arms stretched out like a submerged forest of death.

Su Chen's gaze locked onto his next target—the kirishima flying the Rising Sun Flag!

Ichiro Matsushita watched the giant shadow—fast-approaching and like the incarnation of the abyss—on the sonar screen, feeling a chill shoot straight from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head!

He lunged toward the communicator, his voice distorted:

"Commander Smith! It's coming for me! Support! I request support!!"

Before he finished speaking!

The seawater beneath the kirishima suddenly arched upwards, as if stirred by an invisible giant hand!

BOOM—!!!

It wasn't a tentacle attack!

It was Su Chen's colossal head and front half of his body—ten meters in diameter and like a moving hill—

carrying immense momentum, surging violently from the deep sea,

like a meteor from the Earth's core,

slamming hard and squarely into the exact center of the "kirishima's" bottom keel!

Crack! Bang—!!!

The soul-shattering sound of metal snapping and the mournful groan of the keel disintegrating echoed through the sky!

The immense impact force made the entire Kongo-class destroyer leap several meters out of the sea, like a toy struck by a giant's sledgehammer,

instantly leaping several meters out of the sea!

Starting from the point of impact, the hull twisted and tore open like paper ripped by colossal force!

The bridge's bulletproof glass shattered under the shockwave!

The Fusang sailors inside were tossed around like rag dolls!

Immediately following,

was the earth-shattering roar of the internal fuel and ammunition stores being detonated by the massive force!

RUMBLE—!!!

A gigantic mushroom cloud, mixing fire, thick smoke, and shattered steel, shot up from the middle section of the kirishima!

Searing flames engulfed half the hull!

The severed bow and stern, ablaze with fierce fire, plunged listing into the sea like two burning gravestones!

"My God... a devil... it's a devil..."

Smith watched the kirishima instantly turn into an inferno on his screen, his lips trembling as all his arrogance and confidence collapsed!

A sejong the great-class destroyer, a Kongo-class destroyer,

two modern destroyers representing humanity's highest technology,

were actually sunk by a sea beast using the most primitive method,

Are you kidding me?!

The utterly terrified Smith abruptly grabbed the arm of the adjutant next to him,

his nails nearly digging into the flesh, and shrieked in a distorted voice:

"Siren's Song! Launch the Siren's Song! Quick! All inventory! Fire everything! Now!!!"