Chapter 1 The Legend of the Kraken

The legend of the "Kraken" has circulated in the seas of northern Luying for at least a thousand years.

Maybe not this one specifically, but perhaps a group of these Titan octopuses.

But Suren had to admit that these behemoths were truly at the top of the marine food chain.

Fifty Mechanical Octopuses could destroy a fleet of dozens of warships, but fighting this guy hadn't yielded any advantage. Several had even been scrapped in the process. If he continued to wear it down, the Mechanical Octopus Legion might be completely annihilated.

Fortunately, the Stika princess, who that "Thief Emperor" Meldis was with, had run away, allowing Suren to free up his hands.

He and Dr. Banks, together, used poison, soul attacks, and all sorts of tricks for a long time before finally trapping the big guy. Then, they used the winches on three warships to pull it up, and after a great deal of effort, stuffed it into the "Small Void Realm."

Suren had always wanted to catch a giant octopus to make an extra-large Mechanical Octopus, but the octopuses sold on the market were far from meeting his needs.

This Kraken was just what he needed.

It had Titan bloodline and was a Overlord-class creature. Its size, vitality, and growth potential far exceeded expectations.

It was simply the most ideal material.

And Suren just so happened to have the ability to capture such a giant sea monster.

Dr. Banks was also keenly interested in this ancient bloodline creature. He extracted a lot of blue blood and body tissue samples for research.

He said that in the future, there might be a chance to extract the "Titan gene" from the blood to create a [Progenitor Potion], which could artificially cultivate this "Titan Octopus."

Not necessarily as strong as this one, but at least much larger than ordinary octopuses.

Once it could be cultivated artificially, the nature of the matter would be very different.

Suren thought the future was promising.

If he really had three or five of these Mechanical Octopuses, not to mention sailing warships, even those steel behemoths of the Mafa would be worth fighting.

However, small octopuses cost over a hundred million Resso each, so the cost of modifying a Mechanical Octopus of this size...was probably astronomical.

Suren didn't think so much for the time being, and took it one step at a time.

In any case, it could be considered a great harvest.

Of course, the price paid was not small.

Those few arrows just now, which forced Frostmoon Princess away, consumed about one-tenth of the [Sand of Time], the value of which was inestimable.

Fortunately, in addition to this "Kraken," there were some other gains.

...

While Suren and some of the Dawn Guard were catching the octopus, the people on the other two ships went to salvage the previously sunk "White Headed Eagle" and several pirate团's spoils of war.

Because it was artillery fire coverage, the five ships were all beaten to pieces. A large number of wooden blocks, debris, treasure chests, and wooden barrels floated on the sea...

Of course, there were also some survivors.

When Suren's side had completed the capture of the "Kraken," the salvage work on the other side was still continuing.

A large number of treasures were successively salvaged and sent back to the warships, piling up on the deck like a mountain.

"Hahaha... this time, the spoils of war are worth our rounds of shells!"

"That's right. I've never even seen so many treasures before. This superb [Seven-Colored Gem], I heard in Roman is also offered to the Agapagnon Temple as a 'divine object'. Tsk tsk... this is really an eye-opener."

"Mr. Suren, look quickly, is this the [Chronos' Void God Hand] you mentioned? Wow, and several space treasures..."

"..."

Suren looked at the treasures being salvaged one by one, and a look of joy appeared on his face.

The legendary [Chronos' Void God Hand] was indeed on the ship as expected. It just happened to be in a treasure chest floating on the sea and was salvaged in the first batch.

After appraising it, it really was an alchemical implant with a very high affinity with Chientiao. After fusion, it could give people an exaggerated "physical-magic dual penetration" ability. For a light swordsman, it would definitely be a qualitative improvement in combat power. In the future, when facing heavily armored professionals, the slashing damage would also be greatly increased.

There was no need to doubt the quality of the implant; rather, one had to consider whether Chientiao would become distorted due to the strong curse characteristics.

Picking up this treasure relieved Suren's mind.

Their initial goal in chasing this "White Headed Eagle" was for this treasure.

But gradually, as he watched the treasures piled higher and higher on the deck, Suren's expression gradually became serious.

[Hero's Spirit], [Muse's Quicksand Crystal], [Fertility God Frey's Golden Wheat Ear]...

These were all treasures of the same grade as the previously seized [Golden Fleece], and almost every one of them was something that could be associated with ancient mythology.

Obviously, these were the sacrifices that those guys from the Agapagnon Temple offered to the sea.

But now they had been intercepted and salvaged.

Suren frowned as he watched.

Through the sacrifices, it could also be determined that the scale of this sacrifice was frighteningly high.

What was the feeling...

It was probably like you originally just wanted to rob the rich to help the poor and attack a small aristocrat, but you didn't expect to directly rob the emperor on a private visit.

Too many treasures made people feel uneasy.

This made Suren feel even more that there was a big problem with the sacrifice.

Just then, Lolota, Karma, and Tani returned excitedly in a speedboat. From a distance, they waved their hands and shouted, "Mr. Suren, we caught a live one you wanted!"

The three of them brought a female priest onto the ship. She was drenched and wore anti-magic handcuffs. Blonde hair, blue eyes, high nose bridge, a standard Roman beauty.

After boarding the ship, Lolota was still excitedly talking about the process of capturing the prisoners: "This person was hiding in the depths of the sea, and I don't know why she kept sinking. If it weren't for Tani, we wouldn't have been able to find her..."

Tani also had a proud expression, like a child waiting to be praised.

Suren listened and praised the three of them, "Well, you did a good job."

Probably seeing that Suren was the person in charge of the Dawn Guard, the priest looked up and glared at him with vicious eyes, and said: "You foreigners have desecrated the great Sea God, angered the Sea King, and will be punished. You are our enemies of Roman!"

"..."

Suren frowned as he listened.

He didn't think these words were just verbal curses.

The assassination with the [Golden Spear] in the city, the "Devil's Island Treasure" this time, and the current sacrificial activities... the Agapagnon Temple had played an important role behind the scenes in everything.

He originally didn't want to kill the prisoners, but looking at the situation, it was unlikely that he would be able to get information from this priest.

Without any hesitation, Suren raised his hand and flicked his fingers, and a line of blood immediately appeared on the beautiful female priest's neck.

Vitality quickly faded from her face, and her head fell onto the deck with a thud, blood gushing out like a spring.

The blood splashed on Lolota and the others' faces, and they looked slightly puzzled, not yet realizing why Suren would suddenly kill someone.

Suren didn't explain. The shadow of the God of Death appeared behind him and directly devoured the ball of "gray mist" on the corpse.

[You have stripped the soul of 'Orluen']

[You have obtained some historical secrets about the Agapagnon Temple]

[You have obtained a piece of information: Half a year ago, the High Priestess predicted that 'a foreign puppeteer would bring disaster to the Roman Kingdom'...]

[You have obtained the information: 'Living human sea sacrifices can bring good luck to the Roman Kingdom and obtain the blessing of the Sea God; no one can come out alive, they will forever remain in the Sea Ruins. This time, attracting those foreign adventurers to hunt for treasure, the Sea King will definitely be very satisfied with so many fresh souls, which will be exchanged for the stability of the Roman waters for the next few decades...']

[You have obtained a piece of information: '[Golden Spear] can only be used by Onis Popov, he is a handsome and charming man, a natural hero. Oh, he has close relationships with the other priests in the temple, and I am no exception...']

[You have obtained the information: 'Princess Stika heard that there was a [Ouroboros Fragment] on Devil's Island, so she wanted to exchange that treasure from the Sea King Drake with sacrifices...']

"..."

Searching for keywords, Suren immediately solved all the doubts in his mind.

The amount of information was very large!

After digesting it, he felt a headache again.

It turned out that the one who assassinated himself with the [Golden Spear] in the city was Oleg's second son, Onis Popov.

Similar to the scandalous rumors circulating outside, this guy was the child born to Oleg and the High Priestess of the Agapagnon Temple, Herviel.

Of course, the gossip such as "the two of them tossed and turned in the temple for seven days and seven nights" and "the temple has become Oleg's father and son's harem" was not important.

What Suren was more concerned about was that the reason why that guy assassinated him was really because of a inexplicable "prophecy."

Wasn't this reversing the cause and effect?

If you didn't stab me with a spear first, I wouldn't bother with you...

This feud was forged.

But Suren felt that this female priest probably didn't grasp all the truth.

The prophecy was said by the "High Priestess," and only she herself knew what the prophecy foretold.

Even the [Four-Colored Elemental Heart] that could control the puppeteer was deliberately spread because of this prophecy, in order to attract the puppeteer in the prophecy to Devil's Island.

And spreading the news of the "Devil's Island Treasure" was naturally also the temple's trickery behind the scenes.

They wanted to attract foreigners to complete the "Sea Sacrifice" that happened every few decades.

Use the lives of hundreds of thousands of humans to exchange for Roman's decades of good weather and national prosperity.

In Roman, there has been a tradition of sacrificing prisoners of war since ancient times. In the eyes of believers, dedicating their lives to the gods is not only not terrible, but also a glorious thing.

Maybe those guys didn't think that the act of "sacrificing hundreds of thousands of people" was that bad.

But Suren immediately lost any good feelings for this "War God's Country" and "Hero's Country."

Sure enough, the ancient alchemists were right to expel these religious believers.

For humanity, some fanatics are simply a cancer.

As for what consequences there would be for interrupting the sacrifice, this female priest didn't know either. She only knew that it would cause "terrible consequences," and the people in this sea area would die in the "Sea Ruins" and become sacrifices.

Including herself.

From the time they came, these female priests had no intention of going back alive.

...

Suren stripped those information and finished digesting it, and immediately shouted into the communicator: "Everyone, return to the ship immediately!"

He immediately realized that there was no time to salvage the spoils of war, and they had to leave this sea area immediately.

The people on the sea were a little surprised when they heard Suren's order. Although they felt sorry for the treasures sinking into the sea, everyone began to take the speedboat back to the ship.

Chientiao heard that Suren's tone was very serious, and returned from the sea, asking: "What's wrong?"

Suren frowned and replied: "There may be a big change in this sea area."

It was a coincidence that just as he finished speaking, the world suddenly changed.

Thunder rumbled in the sky, and a gale suddenly howled on the sea, and the waves became more and more exaggerated.

In a very short period of time, the dark clouds in the sky seemed to form a super huge skull shape, and the hollow eyes stared at the three warships of the Dawn Guard, as if a god was watching the world, making everyone shudder.

Suren's eyes narrowed slightly.

He stared at the skull, and the appraisal showed [Sea King Drake's Death Projection], and muttered: "Sea King?"

Tani also heard something and exclaimed: "Mr. Suren, the fish are very panicked, it seems that something bad is about to happen!"

The crew members reacted instantly and quickly boarded the ship one by one.

"Don't worry about those spoils of war, get on the ship quickly!"

"If you can't collect the speedboats, don't worry about them, grab the cable!"

"Quick, pick up the brothers who fell into the water..."

"..."

Fortunately, Suren reminded the crew members in the sea in advance to prepare, and after a while, all the crew members boarded the ship safely.

At this time, the dark clouds covered the sun, and the sea was pitch black. The waves were already dozens of meters high, and the three warships were as small as leaves, and the ships were shaking violently.

A torrential rain poured down on the deck,哗啦啦, 哗啦啦...

The sea, which had been calm and sunny before, suddenly became so terrifying.

Everyone had never seen such exaggerated waves before, and in the face of the power of nature, human power seemed so small. A wave of this level could easily sink the three three-masted sailing ships of the Dawn Guard into the sea in an instant.

In the storm, Tani, the chief navigator, was shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Ship No. 2, forty-five degree angle, activate the alchemical sails, and rush to the waves at full speed!"

"Ship No. 3, fix your inboard sails, turn hard to port, and follow!"

"Ship No. 1, remove the chains that fix the artillery, let them move with the hull, and let inertia stabilize the hull! Hurry, or your ship will be overturned by the waves!"

"..."

This kind of wind and waves cannot be handled by ordinary navigators. A little carelessness and everyone will be buried in the sea.

At this moment, there was only Tani's voice in the communication channel, and everyone listened to his command.

Even Suren didn't interrupt.

Having witnessed Tani's super ship control ability in an extremely harsh storm once before, the Dawn Guard had absolute trust in him.

Therefore, even if they heard those instructions that seemed like "sending to death," everyone completely obeyed and was busy at their respective posts.

And the newly joined members of the Tribunal Regiment were professional soldiers, and they had the awareness to absolutely obey military orders. Even if they were not familiar with Tani, the "First Navigator," they would not question him.

If it were replaced by a group of ordinary pirate团 who lacked understanding, the first wave would have been completely wiped out.

The three warships were on waves tens of meters high, in huge whirlpools with a diameter of several nautical miles, and in bizarre sea trenches like cliffs... Several times they looked like they were about to be completely overturned by the waves, but they all miraculously sailed out.

One wave after another...

Extremely dangerous.

Suren, Chientiao, Barrett... everyone on the ship looked pale.

Even Pandora, who never liked to join in the fun, appeared on the deck and looked at the skull in the sky.

Suren also knew very well that this was the so-called "Sea King's" punishment.

But in the eyes of alchemists, the essence of all phenomena is actually the mutual conversion of energy.

This wave was not formed naturally, and the energy consumed by that "Sea King" to cause such a big movement must not be small.

If it can't sink the three ships of the Dawn Guard, it is likely that it will not last long.

As Suren had expected, the terrifying storm suddenly stopped after more than half an hour.

But the dark clouds in the sky did not dissipate, and there was only a faint cyan light between the sea and the sky.

The feeling it gave Suren was a bit like the sky in the "Land of the Underworld" back then, with a dead silence.

...

The storm stopped. Except for some damage to the ship and some materials falling into the sea, there were no casualties.

The crew members began to get busy again.

"Engineers, check the hull and repair the damage!"

"Everyone, check your equipment and don't relax your vigilance. Perception team, pay attention to the situation in the sea."

"It's foggy, turn on the fog lights."

"..."

Because there was an emergency plan, everyone did their job and was busy in an orderly manner.

At the same time, on the deck.

Suren, Chientiao, Dr. Banks, and Barrett met together and held a brief meeting with serious expressions.

Suren shared the information he had stripped with everyone.

The danger didn't make a few people feel anything, this was part of the nautical adventure.

But when they heard that the Agapagnon Temple was really going to use hundreds of thousands of adventurers as sacrifices to the sea, everyone's faces were very ugly.

Chientiao: "So, from the beginning, the Devil's Island treasure was a conspiracy?"

"Yes."

Suren said, and then pointed to the cloudy sky and said: "The current situation is that this Devil's Island is actually a 'Sea Ruins'. The waves just now brought us to this sea area. And unfortunately, we are now trapped here..."

The All-Seeing Eye had already identified it, and not long after the ghost face appeared in the sky just now, this space was the [Sea Ruins].

"Sea Ruins" is a legendary name. In the mouths of bards, it is the "Land of the Death of the Sea" and the "Place where the Sea God is buried."

It sounds quite romantic.

But in reality, this is a very dangerous place.

It is said that all the people who die at sea will go to the "Sea Ruins," where there is a passage connecting to the underworld, hiding some unknown secrets.

This is a bit like a super-large cursed space, but it is not.

Now the Dawn Guard is trapped here.

Even Suren guessed that from the beginning, the High Priest of the temple was probably paying attention to this.

Kill the prophesied person in this way.

As long as you come to this sea area, you won't be able to get out.

Suren also said: "There is also that mysterious 'Sea King'. I'm not sure what he is, maybe a false god, or maybe some sea monster, but... he should be very strong. The storm before should be his masterpiece. Of course, the most important The problem is, we are trapped now, we have to find a way out."

As soon as these words came out, everyone on the deck fell silent.

Because no one had ever been to Hai墟, they naturally didn't know how to get out.

At this time, Chientiao looked at the depressed atmosphere and said: "No matter whether that 'Sea King' is a monster or something, he can come and kill him."

She had seen real gods in the Dawn Ruins, and she had also slashed false gods in the Yellow Springs Kingdom.

Therefore, there was no fear in her eyes, and nothing could make her afraid.

Hearing this, Barrett also analyzed: "Indeed, we can just fight if he comes. The strength of our Dawn Guard is not weak now, and it is unlikely that we will encounter something irresistible. Moreover, false gods also need the support of faith, and if that 'Sea King' is a false god, he won't be too strong. Otherwise, he should have taken action in the waves just now."

People who have experienced life and death ordeals seem very calm in the face of adversity.

After a pause, he said: "Our biggest problem now should be how to get out."

Suren also nodded, he thought so too.

But he asked in the communicator, and no one knew.

At this time, Chientiao suddenly said: "Why don't you ask Filo? She might know."

She was still used to calling Mirror Sir by this pseudonym.

Suren heard this and said, "That's right!"

His senior sister had seen the world, and she also had a father who had seen even more of the world.

He was always thinking about breaking the situation himself, and his thinking suddenly became limited.

Thinking about it, he directly dialed Mirror Sir's communication.

Barrett's eyes twitched when he heard this. He knew who Suren was going to contact.

Now that he had officially joined the Dawn Guard, he knew the true identity of the leader of Dawn.

He had countless guesses about the identity of the mysterious "Mirror Sir" before, but he never thought that she was actually the daughter of Sir Isaac, the "Alchemical Demigod" from a thousand years ago!

Soon, the communicator was dialed.

After asking, Mirror Sir actually knew!

"You are trapped in a 'Sea Ruins'? That's a bit troublesome. My father once went to a 'Sea Ruins' in the South China Sea, and he told me about some experiences. To get out, you must first find the 'River of the Underworld', and go upstream from that river to come back. But you have to pay attention, there are many undead creatures in the Sea Ruins..."

Suren and the others listened, and their expressions immediately became wonderful.

The saying "dead end" depends on the person.

For ordinary people, there is no way out of the Sea Ruins, but for existences as strong as Sir Isaac, it is probably just a more dangerous tourist attraction?

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