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Chapter 101, Wave 2: The Kraken Attacks

On the throne of Atlantis.

Poseidon stared at the distant coastline that he could not gnaw at no matter what he did, his face grim.

Nineteen hours. Of the sea monsters he released, more than 60,000 died, and they didn't even reach the first line of defense of the Chinese.

The armor worn by those ants, though clearly low-level creations, utterly pulverized his vanguard into dust.

"interesting."

Poseidon rose, and Arthur's body, infused with divine power, emitted a cracking sound as his bones shattered. This mortal body couldn't bear too much, but it was enough.

He raised his trident, tip pointing downwards, aiming it at the sea beneath his feet.

"Since there aren't enough shrimp soldiers and crab generals—"

A blue pulse of divine power pierced through the seawater and plunged into a ten-thousand-meter-deep abyss.

There was an area of ​​absolute darkness where even light could not reach, and something that had been dormant for thousands of years was violently awakened by this pulse.

A muffled sound came from the seabed.

The entire seabed then began to tremble.

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The East China Sea, the second line of defense. The outer perimeter of the Zhoushan Islands.

"Report! Abnormal seismic waves from the seabed! The epicenter is at a depth of 12,000 meters and is still rising!"

"What level?"

"Unable to determine! The value is outside the instrument's range!"

Lieutenant General Liu Guodong, commander of the second line of defense, put down his teacup. The cup spun twice on the table before crashing and shattering on the floor. He ignored it.

"All units retreat three kilometers, and heavy firepower groups move into bunkers."

The order had just been given when an accident occurred at sea.

Forty nautical miles east of Zhoushan, the seawater began to sink. It wasn't a whirlpool, but rather the entire sea area was collapsing, as if something was sucking seawater into its belly from below.

Then, it floated to the surface.

The first thing to emerge from the water was a tentacle.

One.

Tentacles with a diameter of over two hundred meters slowly rose from beneath the sea surface, covered with suckers the size of washbasins, each with a constantly rotating eyeball in the center.

When the tentacles reached a height of 300 meters, they bent and stretched towards Zhoushan.

The second one. The third one. The fourth one.

Eight tentacles burst forth from the water from eight directions, turning the surrounding ten-kilometer area into an apocalyptic scene.

Finally, the main body emerges.

That head—if that twisted mountain of flesh can be called a head—was bigger than an aircraft carrier.

It has no clear facial features, only a huge mouth that occupies two-thirds of the entire "face" area, with layers upon layers of backward-growing sharp teeth inside, and a cold, eerie blue light shining from the depths.

[S-Rank Lord - Kraken]

When the system alert popped up, the hands of all the Awakened on the front lines were shaking.

"Fire! All ranged firepower, give it your all!"

Liu Guodong's order was decisive.

The second line of defense mobilized 30% of China's long-range strike force. Thousands of awakened warriors unleashed their skills simultaneously: fireballs, lightning, armor-piercing bullets, energy rays—an overwhelming barrage of attacks rained down on the monster that crawled out of the abyss.

The light illuminated half the sky.

Then, Kraken opened his mouth.

A gush of pitch-black liquid erupted from deep within its mouth. It wasn't like water; it was more like a liquid night sky, devoid of stars, filled only with endless blackness.

The "Ink of the Abyss" is spreading at an absurdly fast pace.

Black mist spread across the sky, and all flying energy attacks—fireballs, lightning, and rays—extinguished their light and dissipated their energy the instant they came into contact with the black mist.

The volley of fire from thousands of people resulted in zero.

"What's going on!"

"Energy absorbed! All ranged attacks are now ineffective!"

The black fog did not stop. It continued to spread forward, covering the first layer of island chains surrounding Zhoushan.

The moment the black mist touched the soldier's armor, the metal surface began to bubble.

The A-grade equipment with energy shields collapsed first, followed by the armor—the alloy plates dissolved at a visible speed, as if they were soaked in strong acid.

"Take off your armor! Take off your armor now!"

Experienced veterans ripped off their outer armor immediately, but those who were slower were not so lucky.

The corrosion penetrated the armor plates and directly eroded the skin, causing screams to echo across the communication channel.

three minutes.

The first island chain surrounding Zhoushan, with its twelve firing positions, has all fallen.

It wasn't punctured, it was soaked and ruined.

Kraken's tentacles finally moved.

Eight giant arms slammed down simultaneously, shoving three small islands directly into the sea. The two companies on the islands that couldn't evacuate in time lost communication signals instantly.

"General Liu! The breach in the Zhoushan section has been opened, spanning seventeen kilometers! A horde of marine mammals is pouring in through the breach!"

"The third and fourth reserve teams, move up!"

"We can't hold on! The black mist is still spreading, all energy-based attacks are completely ineffective within the mist zone, and the armor is corroding faster than its self-repair limit!"

Liu Guodong slammed his fist on the command platform.

This thing is really difficult to deal with!

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Longwei Base.

Li Tianshan stared at the rapidly expanding red area in the Zhoushan section on the big screen, his temples throbbing.

"Casualty report."

"At the forward positions in the Zhoushan section, 117 people were killed, more than 300 were seriously wounded, and two companies went missing. The gap is still widening."

No one spoke in the command center. One hundred and seventeen lives seemed particularly glaring compared to the previous nineteen hours of zero casualties.

Lu Yan stared at the satellite image of the giant monster on the screen, something swirling in his pupils.

"Ink of the Abyss," he said. "Energy nullification combined with armor corrosion—a double counter. He has figured out the defensive methods of our frontline garrison."

"It's after our equipment," Xiao Qianyu added. "Poseidon observed the battlefield for nineteen hours and figured out our trump cards."

Zhao Leiguang cursed, "That bastard, he can't beat us, so he switches to another monster?"

Li Tianshan turned around and his gaze fell on Lu Yan.

"Your proposal is..."

Lu Yan did not answer immediately.

His gaze pierced through the satellite images, and what was an indescribable deep-sea monster in the eyes of others was deconstructed into a completely different form in his vision after unlocking the "Black Lotus" form.

That "Ink of the Abyss" that isolates all attacks is not simply energy or matter, but a domineering divine attack, a brutal extension of Poseidon's divine rules.

Kraken itself is a deformed creation born from this rule, a giant tentacle endowed with divine power.

Lu Yan finally spoke, his voice unusually clear in the deathly silent command center, "Any attack that does not possess 'divinity' will be absorbed by this rule."

He succinctly revealed the essence of the frontline troops' ineffective attacks.

Li Tianshan's gaze instantly sharpened like a knife.

"But it is itself a divine demon." Lu Yan tapped the edge of the storage space at his waist three times with his fingers, as if knocking on the door of an ancient ritual.

He raised his eyes to meet the gaze of Li Tianshan and everyone else. Deep within his pupils, it seemed as if a dark lotus was quietly turning.

"My 'nothingness' can strip away divinity."

"I will take responsibility for stripping away its divinity at that time."

"The rest is up to you."