chapter 24

The storm, mixed with lightning and thunder, became more intense.

Countless raindrops formed into lines that slowly opened like a theater curtain.

The huge plesion looked at Merlin and Alice from high above.

With a famished look and and red flicker in its eyes, it’s gazing at the boat with the two people as if it’s a dish.

“As soon as I went out, I received a warm greeting…”

Upright and spirited, Merlin standing on the bow of the boat looked up at the powerful plesion.

He stroked the magic sword at his waist with his hand and welcomed the torrential rain with increasing calmness.

“You’re so hungry that you came to me to find trouble, I’m afraid that you’ve lost your mind!”

The plesion is intelligent and can understand Merlin’s words. It ejected two pillars of mist from its nostrils, and the gills on the sides of its maw trembled more intensely, clearly irritated.

“Hey, stop angering it. Don’t you know that plesions are very powerful in the sea?” Crouched inside the boat, Alice has an unsightly expression on her face, “If it’s in a good mood, maybe it will let us go.”

“Humph humph~” Merlin sneered, his fighting spirit surged, and he said with a grin, “Isn’t it better that it’s powerful? If it was salted fish instead, I couldn’t be bothered to deal with it!”

Face deathly pale, Alice covered her face and stopped talking, thinking — this fool must have a screw loose!

“Although there is nothing really wrong with my body right now, but the more the better. I will use it to replenish…”

“Roar–!”

Before Merlin could finish his thought, the plesion lowered its head and let out a roar.

Suddenly, a fishy wind blew by and lifted the hair of the two. The expression of the two changed, and they bared their teeth in a comical way.

Along with the fishy breath, the roar also brought sticky yellow saliva, which sprayed all over Merlin, turning him into a yellow wax sculpture in a blink of an eye.

The beastly roar swept away the waves nearby and agitated the mind. The maw full of serrated teeth is taller that a dozen stacked adults. The gills on the side of its maw issue buzzing sounds.

Feeling the pressure of a higher-ranking species, Alice fell into a sluggish state, and the blood drained from her face.

Frightened by the plesion, her eyes widened and her body shuddered.

The plesion didn’t rush to eat them. After its initial show of strength, it stopped all activity, toying with its prey.

Although Alice recovered her composure a little, but her heart is still beating fast. She is extremely nervous.

She is caught between a rock and a hard place. If she jumps into the sea, she will be eaten by the maneater sharks. If she doesn’t jump into the sea, she will be eaten by the plesion. In any case, her fate is to become food.

But there is still a glimmer of hope, that is, Merlin. If he can display the power from the time when he slayed the white whale, then they will be able to survive the crisis before them.

Alice looked at Merlin standing on the bow of the boat. Merlin, who was turned into something akin to a mud monster by the plesion’s saliva, is cutting a rather sorry figure.

“Disgusting…”

Smelling the a stench coming from the plesion’s saliva, Alice almost threw up. However, in order to survive, she can only pin her hopes on Merlin.

“Merlin, are you okay?”

“I’m… I’m okay…” Merlin responded awkwardly. He wiping the yellow spittle off his face with his hands, “It fucking stinks. Did this guy rob a merchant ship full of canned herring, or something? There is this disgusting taste in my mouth…”

“That’s not important right now!” Alice hit the floor of the boat, looking like she’s about to cry, “Hurry up and do something, or we’ll be buried in the plesion’s belly!”

Before Merlin could reply, the giant body of the plesion moved abruptly. All of a sudden, as if the surface of the sea folded, a monstrous wave hundreds of feet tall rose!

A wall of surging sea water rolled over.

The sound of the wave is fiercer than thunder.

The wave hid the sky, covering everything in darkness!

Merlin watched as the magnificent and oppressive wave, which is the size of a tsunami, overturned everything in the deep sea.

Alice is dumbfounded, her face white as paper.

Now she knows why Great Britain’s royal fleet was destroyed. With the wave’s astonishing destructive power, no matter the fleet, it will be overturned and buried in the sea!

That’s the overlord of the Strait of Orkney, an almost invincible existence in the sea for you!

Alice looked at Merlin in front of her. Compared with the monstrous wave, he is but an ant. How can he go against the power of nature?

She sighed inwardly, thinking that she’s screwed. If she had pan and paper, she would leave a will to her teacher.

“Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha…”

Merlin, who has a calm expression on his head, suddenly grinned.

Faced with the threat of death, he unexpectedly became excited.

Merlin gripped the hilt of the magic sword at his waist, and the sword vibrated and hummed.

His eyes lit up, and he looked straight ahead at the wave that hid the sky–

“Interesting~”

“All bark and spittle but no bite.”

“What a smelly, ill-mannered salted fish!”

“You think that you’re great just because you look like a member?”

“Since you’re courting death, then I won’t talk anymore nonsense!”