## Chapter 959 – The Sea

“Oh.”

What burst forth was…

“Ooooooooooooooooooooooh!!!!!!!!!!”

A scream filled with despair.

“Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!!!!!!! Kkieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!!!!!!”

I was already tearing at my hair.

—Gooooooo.

Far away.

Down below.

What appeared on the beach was a colossal monster.

—A true monster.

A giant of the deep sea, risen from the endless abyss far, far away…!!! A monster as large as a whale stood on two legs!!!!

“This can’t be real…!!!!”

Its body was a twisted blue, cursed in the most horrific way, covered in wicked scales like armor!!!

It was so overwhelming that I felt like I couldn’t breathe! That thing was absolutely not normal!!! If I had three arms, I would have grabbed one of my balls and crushed it right then and there, that’s how terrifying the sight was!!!

“There’s no way such an inhuman being could exist in reality!!!!”

Even the number of scales was exactly the same as the number of people who had died in maritime accidents since the dawn of humanity!! An exact number, without a single error!! It was a true demon that knew every single name of those who had died at sea!

That was probably obvious!!! The souls of the drowned had become offerings to it!!! That must be what the scales were made of!! I felt it in my bones!!

I couldn’t stand the thought of it!!

Even though I knew it was a ridiculous idea, that impulse kept trying to seize my mind…!

“Why the hell did something like that come up here!!!!”

Its hatefully long legs seemed woefully inadequate to support its massive body, but since it lived in the sea, it didn’t seem to matter.

—How can it even stand!!

Its arms felt similar to its legs! Its head seemed to resemble that of the most wicked deep-sea fish! No, to be precise, it was the other way around. The most wicked fish resembled that giant of the seabed!!!

No cap, if there was a mouse hole, I’d be running into it! There’s no way humans could stand up to something like that! It was definitely not good for my mental health!!

“…!”

—Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!
—Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!
—Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!

Screams of humans echoed from everywhere.

—Thump.
—Thump.

The giant of the seabed stood tall on the shore, looking left and right as it came ashore. Was that why the fish-men and crustacean monsters were running around like crazy?

Had their reason been paralyzed by extreme fear, so they ran just to escape, without even knowing where they were going?

If something like that was chasing me in the sea, I would have cried like a three-year-old while running upside down. It was only natural that the weak fish-men were terrified!!!

Why the hell was that thing coming ashore!!!

—Thump!!!

And so, the giant of the seabed completely climbed onto the land.

—Crack!

Then, it opened its maw wide and gazed down at the villages built on the beach. Was it planning to swallow the entire village whole? With a mouth like that, it seemed entirely possible.

That’s what I thought.

But what it did was not absorption, but expulsion.

—Pfuwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!!!

An incredible water pressure.

Sea water shot out from its maw like a beam of destructive death. In a very straightforward manner, the village was destroyed by it… No firefighter would ever try to bring about the destruction of a village in exchange for putting out a fire!!

Fragments of crushed buildings soared into the air!

That thing definitely didn’t exist for peaceful purposes!! What a crazy stream of water! It was an inhuman fire hose that existed only for destruction!!!

—Whoosh!

After spouting a stream of water like that, it raised its long arm like a whip and swept through the area where the village had been, as if it were harvesting.

—Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!!!

A deafening roar erupted.

It was a blind and extreme act of destruction that conveyed its will to leave not a single pillar standing. It meant that it was an action of deliberately destroying with clear reason.

The beach village, shattered by the water cannon, disappeared completely without leaving a single trace. It hadn’t even been a minute since the monster appeared.

—Thump.
—Thump.

The giant of the seabed, having carried out its destruction, stomped on the earth as it walked heavily and slowly. Judging by its speed, it wasn’t very fast. That proved that it lived under the sea.

There was no way that something living in the sea could move properly on land.

—Pfuwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

As it walked, it destroyed the village as if it were erasing all traces of humanity. It spewed beams of sea water from its mouth, trampled on the ruined village, and rummaged through it with its long arms.

What on earth had angered it so much?

“It’s, it’s the Sea Goddddddddddddddd!!!!”

Sea God.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!!!!”
“The Sea God is angry!!!!”
“The God of the Sea has risen!!! Is it because of unauthorized aquaculture!!!”

Looking around, I saw people and soldiers in a panic, screaming and freaking out.

“The fishermen and pirates have awakened the Sea God!!!!!”
“We can’t survive!!!”
“Save me!!!!! Save me!!! Save meeeeeeeeeee!!! Mom!!! Mom!!!!! Mommmmmmmmmm!!!”
“This isn’t normal!!! We have to run!!!!”
“I think I’m going crazy!!!”

A scene of madness.

“This is supposed to be a summer vacation!! I can’t accept thisssssssss!!!!”
“Calm down, dear!!! We must return to Mother Sea! Let’s go to the beach!!!!”
“Dad’s gone crazy!!! We have to go into the sea to bring him back to normal!!”
“Oh, Sea God!!! Please save this family!!!”
“Uwaaaaaaaaaaang!!!”
“Mom!! Dad!!! Don’t do that!!!”

Parents in a panic were struggling to get down to the sea, and their youngest children were crying and grabbing their parents’ ankles.

This was how humans became weak in the face of fear.

Even I, a superhuman, was momentarily terrified, so there was no way that ordinary people could handle something like that with their mental strength. People in a panic tend to do incomprehensible things, and humans were acting exactly as expected.

Some were running higher up to cross the mountains, but there were also quite a few who were going down, muttering incomprehensible words. As if they believed that they could survive if they were embraced by the Sea God… It was like people who calmly calculated their chances of survival in a burning high-rise building and willingly jumped.

“Hahaha!!! Humanity has caught too many fish!!!!”

At that moment, a crazy old man with disheveled hair went berserk, uttering ominous prophecies.

“It’s a natural destruction!! Now humans will die like the fish that were caught in the nets!! The wrath of the sea will reach the heavens, and the sea water will cover the whole world, and the beings of the seabed will enslave humanity!!!”

As a paladin of the Bronze Celestial Angel Society, I couldn’t bear to tolerate such heretical words and assertions…! How dare anyone spew such nonsense in front of me!!!

May the judgment of the Scale God Verde be upon you!!

“You crazy heretic bastard!!!!”
“Heok!”

I immediately reached out and grabbed his white, long hair and shook him.

“How dare you utter such ominous prophecies of faith in front of me!!! Do you want to go to the church’s interrogation room!!!”
“Keoheoeok!!!”
“Confess every god you believe in!!!”
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

At that moment, the old man had an even bigger seizure and rolled his eyes. Then he slumped down, had he died?

When I checked, he wasn’t dead, so I roughly threw him on the floor and vehemently scolded him while pointing my finger.

“You crazy bastard!!! That kind of prophecy will never come true! The vermin of the sea will never invade this sacred land!!! Long live the God Verde, long live the land!!! May the great land last forever!!!”
“Katt, be good, okay? Calm down?”

Then, Claudia hugged me from behind, gently placed her hand between my legs, and started tapping me.

“He’s already fainted. It’s no use shouting. Katt, can you calm down?”

Then, she whispered softly in my ear.

“Ah.”

Since I was currently wearing thin beach pants, the sensation of her hand patting me like baby powder was properly transmitted, and my mind, which had been about to fly far away, returned. As I got an erection, all kinds of fear disappeared and my mind became focused.

“I think my mind is coming back.”

I had been mentally shocked by the incredible sight.
I think I’m healing a bit now.

“Yeah. Are you back now?”
“Completely. Thank you, Claudia.”
“Hehehe, geez.”

I was finally able to look at the situation calmly.

This city was a city carved out of the mountains. This place alone was quite high, so I could properly observe the beach located in the lowlands below.

—The Sea God wreaking havoc.

It was definitely destructive, but its speed was very slow.

Above all, it didn’t seem like it could come up here, and it seemed impossible for it to cross the mountains with that body. That was roughly how it moved. If it could have moved enough to wreak havoc even with that body, it would have done so already.

It might be a more transcendent thug in the sea, but not on land.

That thing… It looks like it has a lot of power, but its combat power itself doesn’t seem that high.

“…Hey, you darkie. Look at my legs giving out.”

Winia was sitting on the spot.

“Can you get up?”
“I don’t know… More than that, is the sea always like this? Is it a place where monsters come out all the time…?”
“I don’t know either. Now I don’t know what the sea is anymore.”

I immediately picked Winia up.

“Destruction…! That is definitely the God of the Seabed! He has come to destroy the human world!! The Sea Serpent that died last time was his doing!!!”

Hilde pointed her finger at the Sea God and shouted in a solemn tone.

“There is only surprise and shock. Why is there such a monster…”
“Do things like that really live in the sea? It’s so unpleasant, Father. Let’s go to a lake in the mountains next time.”

Ari pleaded with me.

“Yeah… That would be good.”

The sea is so fucked up.
How does it end up like this every time I come?

“I don’t think we need a separate aquarium. How can there be such a monster… As expected, there was a monster beyond imagination living in the sea. It will be a valuable experience.”

Liztina was just looking at the Sea God with great interest. As expected, she was a strong-minded older sister.

“Hey, but that thing.”

Then, Karin said.

“It’s really slow, isn’t it?”
“Slow?”
“Look, it’s really slow.”

Karin was observing the situation with a very serious face, touching her lips. Slow. Yeah, it looked slow to me too.

“If our vacation is ruined because of that bastard.”

Karin said, looking at my face.

“Wouldn’t we have no choice but to go and kill it?”

She smiled.

“We’re professionals at that.”
“Oh.”

Karin was absolutely right.

“How about it? Shall we go kill it once? Just looking at it, it’s so slow that we can probably wipe it out properly if we do it right. Look at those thin legs. If we just use aura, we can grind it down and come back. It doesn’t seem difficult to escape either.”

Karin said, stretching and turning her neck. Somehow, hearing those words made me feel cheerful.

“Hehehe, it seems like we’re just catching monsters all the time.”

Yeah.

Just like Karin said, if that monster ruined our vacation.

“Let’s go.”

We definitely.

“Kill it.”

We’d have to make it pay the price.

“How dare it ruin our vacation? This is absolutely unforgivable.”
“Well, we can just give up if we can’t do it. We came here to have fun anyway, right? Let’s go lightly. We can just run away if it doesn’t seem like we can do it.”
“Yeah. It’s not like we have a responsibility to catch it.”

I felt like I could annihilate it with a slightly lighter heart.

“Then, should we discuss it with the military commander here first?”