73: Kraken – a walking natural disaster!

However,

Morgue shook his head.

"No rush. Although these foolish Americans found the vibranium ore vein, it will take at least a week to develop and utilize it."

"It's Divine Summer, though. In such a short time, they can already produce Tier 50 mechas. If we give them more time, they might cause great trouble for our clan. We should first use the power of the US to destroy Divine Summer, and then take care of the US later!"

As his voice fell,

the Thorned Giant Serpent in the sea suddenly raised its massive head.

Facing forward,

it hissed and attacked the heavily scarred menshen mecha.

Thousands of warships in the Joint Fleet also started their main engines and pushed forward.

However,

right at this moment!

RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE!!!!

The sea surface directly in front of the Joint Fleet suddenly exploded without warning!

A giant vortex, over a thousand meters in diameter, appeared out of thin air. The seawater wildly churned and roared like an abyssal behemoth!

An indescribable, terrifying pressure—vast as a sea of stars, primal as antiquity—slammed down upon the hearts of all living beings like billions of tons of solidified seawater!

Under this pressure,

the fiercely arrogant Thorned Giant Serpent, Naglfar, let out a sharp hiss of extreme terror.

Its massive body trembled as if encountering a natural predator, retreating wildly backward!

The precise electronic instruments on all the warships instantly sparked and flashed, and the screens went blank with static!

The soldiers felt their hearts being tightly squeezed by an invisible giant hand; suffocating fear gripped their throats!

Under the horrified gazes of hundreds of thousands across the entire scene, and under the frantic focus of global live broadcast cameras—

A segment!

Just one segment of a terrifying tentacle, over twenty meters in diameter, covered in countless suction cups the size of millstones and vicious bone spurs, and dark as the abyss itself, slowly extended from the center of the giant vortex, like the finger of a demon god reaching out from the Nine Hells!

It hadn't even fully emerged;

just that small segment lazily and casually shook its tip toward the Divine Summer Navy's position.

As if saying—

"I have returned."

Although only a small segment of the tentacle was revealed,

yet,

the immense darkness beneath the surface of the sea chilled everyone to the bone.

In an instant,

the charging Joint Fleet suddenly halted.

Silence!

A deathly silence enveloped the US-Goryeo Joint Fleet!

"Wha... what the hell is that thing?!!!"

Fleet Commander Smith's binoculars clattered onto the deck, his lips trembling too much to form a complete sentence.

"Im... impossible... It should be dead..."

The sneer on Goryeo President Park Jeong-hwan's face froze completely, turning into a plaster-like pallor and terror.

"Kraken?! It's him?! But how could he... how could he get so big?! He was only two hundred meters before!"

Wilson, like a rooster whose neck was being squeezed, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets, stared fixedly at the terrifying, despair-inducing signal source representing the giant life form on the radar screen!

The shadow of the main body connected underwater to that single exposed segment of tentacle made the five-hundred-meter-long Naglfar look like a slender loach!

In stark contrast to the despair of the Joint Fleet, which felt as if they had fallen into an ice cavern,

was the instant burst of ecstatic cheering from the Divine Summer defense line, loud enough to tear through the clouds!

"A tentacle! It's a tentacle! It's Lord Kraken's tentacle!!"

"The Lord is back! It's Lord Kraken!!"

"Hahahaha! Heaven protects Divine Summer! I knew it! The Lord would never abandon us!!"

"He's too big! The Lord has become bigger and mightier!!"

The torch of hope was instantly ignited, transforming into a boiling ocean!

Jiang Zhenyue, who had just climbed onto the Rock-Armored Spirit Turtle's shell, preparing to flee, froze on the spot as if struck by a Body Immobilization Spell.

He stared dumbfounded at the terrifying tentacle segment, whose mere appearance caused celestial and terrestrial anomalies.

The panic on his face was quickly replaced by an extreme greed!

He abruptly jumped off the turtle shell,

rushing back like a madman to the bridge of the "hujian" and shouting hysterically at Qin Zheng:

"War God Qin! Hurry! Quickly command it! Tell the Kraken not to resist and willingly let my Spirit Turtle devour it! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"

"If the Spirit Turtle fuses with his power, it will surely evolve to an Invincible State! It will definitely be able to destroy the Serpent and wipe out the Americans, ensuring Divine Summer's eternal peace! This is the wisest choice for Divine Summer's future!"

This utterly shameless and absurd statement made the entire bridge instantly silent enough to hear a pin drop.

Everyone looked at him as if he were a madman.

Qin Zhenshan was so angry he laughed, mocking him mercilessly:

"Jiang Zhenyue! Did a sea serpent chew on your brain?! Your broken turtle's Devouring Ability is a degraded version stolen from Lord Kraken! Its efficiency isn't even one-ten-thousandth of the Lord's! If anyone is doing the devouring, it's the Lord adding your useless turtle as a snack! How is it your turn?!"

"Th-this is different!"

Jiang Zhenyue's face cycled between green and white from being choked, yet he still argued sophistically,

"The Spirit Turtle is controllable! It is Divine Summer's future!"

"Future?"

Qin Zhenshan scoffed, pointing at the tentacle segment on the screen, "Who stands up whenever Divine Summer faces danger? And who runs away at the critical moment? Jiang Zhenyue, where is your shame?!"

"Even so!"

Jiang Zhenyue shouted, pointing at the screen like a gambler who had lost everything,

"He was only Tier 7 before! 2,000 Strength! Even if he's a bit bigger now, how much stronger can he be? Can he be a match for the Tier 80 Naglfar? It's better to give him to my Spirit Turtle..."

"Shut up!"

Qin Zheng's cold voice interrupted him. He didn't even spare him a glance, his gaze fixed on the giant vortex in the distance, filled with absolute trust.

"Divine Summer has always had only one guardian god."

"And that is—Kraken!"

"Whether it's the Rock-Armored Spirit Turtle or the Thorned Giant Serpent..."

Qin Zheng's voice was resolute, carrying absolute confidence.

"To the current him, they are nothing more than... appetizers!"

As if perfectly confirming Qin Zheng's words—

BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The giant vortex suddenly exploded!

Billions of tons of seawater were pushed away by an irresistible force, forming a destructive giant wall of tsunami!

Under the terrified, voiceless gaze of the US-Goryeo Coalition, and in the nearly frozen global live broadcast footage—

The Kraken—Su Chen's complete body,

like an ancient demonic mountain rising from the abyss,

was completely revealed between heaven and earth!!!

One hundred meters!

Three hundred meters!

Five hundred and eighty meters!!!

His majestic body blocked the sunlight, and the shadow cast covered nearly half the fleet!

His entire body was covered in a pitch-black keratin layer, tougher than armor, shimmering with a dark, cold, hard luster!

Ten terrifying tentacles, resembling the veins of giant mountain ranges, burst out of the sea and slowly danced in the air. Every sway brought forth the sound of wind and thunder, stirring up the elements for miles around!

His pair of massive compound eye, like two blood-red stars hanging high in the sky, burned with a cold, indifferent light that looked down upon all creation, slowly sweeping over the Joint Fleet below, which resembled model toys.

Finally,

they settled upon the Thorned Giant Serpent—Naglfar—which was nearly rigid from extreme terror.

Previously, Su Chen was a terrifying sea monster.

Now, He

is the Calamity that walks the human world!

He is the Absolute Ruler of the deep sea!

The entire battlefield fell into an eerie, heart-stopping silence.

The global live broadcast comment sections online experienced a momentary blankness.