The Devourer Of Tides attacked again immediately, and it looked like it was observing its enemy more carefully this time. Its eyes were burning with rage, and the hatred could be clearly seen in them.
For the first time, a human had managed to injure it to this extent. It wanted to tear the human apart and devour him to calm its anger.
Its serpent-like eyes burned with fury, and the waves of water around its body spun like rotating blades.
"This is the first time I’m using it. I hope it works," Daniel muttered under his breath.
Lightning energy was released around him like a storm. The sky trembled. Thunder wrapped around his body like silver chains.
The monster charged at Daniel with its massive bulk like a moving mountain, but this time... Daniel saw its movement. Even before it moved, he sensed the trail of its energy.
[ Storm Pulse ]
A massive pulse of thunder was released from Daniel’s body. The water around him evaporated. The monster’s wave stopped before reaching him and it was pushed back several meters.
"W-What was that...?!" Veronica stared with her mouth open.
"This bastard really is a monster!" Kayn started laughing from pure shock.
"It worked," Daniel muttered to himself. The skill he just used was one he had recently created using the Law of Thunder.
He wasn’t very confident it would work, but it had clearly succeeded.
This was a defensive skill that created a powerful wave of thunder that burned everything in front of it and converted it into energy for him.
And this wasn’t the only new skill he had created.
The monster grew agitated and leaped, smashing its head toward Daniel.
Its speed was so high that the water under its head split apart.
"Calm down."
[ Thunder Severance ]
Movement... disappeared. Daniel became nothing more than a fading streak of light. Then suddenly, he appeared above the monster’s head.
Dozens of thunder slashes landed one after another on the massive column of its body.
Each strike tore open wounds several meters deep like an axe of lightning. Dark blood sprayed out and instantly evaporated on the surface of the water.
The monster let out a shriek that pushed the waves around the ship back dozens of meters.
Daniel combined the final strike with [ Strike of Destruction ].
An aura of destruction erupted, and white lightning burst out between his clenched teeth.
A single slash split the monster’s belly from top to bottom. For the first time, the monster truly felt fear.
"Looks like even a monster will feel fear when its time comes," Daniel laughed as he sensed the fear within it. From the start of the battle until now, the monster had never shown fear, but now it finally did.
Fear itself could lead to defeat.
The monster roared in rage and its body shook, sending a massive wave of water like a hammer toward Daniel.
Daniel was forced to use [ Bloody Shadow Dance ], passing through the shadow of the wave in a fraction of a second.
But the monster surfaced again, this time with its mouth wide open, like a tunnel of death.
The distance was only a few meters.
But Daniel showed no concern. His expression was cold and indifferent.
He raised his hand. The death aura wrapped around his sword.
[ Thunder Severance ]
The Law of Death grew heavy in the air. And just before he could be swallowed... Daniel vanished.
A flash of white lightning in the sky. The eyes saw nothing, only the sound of "splitting" could be heard.
When he reappeared, he was standing behind the monster.
The monster was still moving... then a thin line began to open. From head to tail.
As if it was trying to understand what had just happened to it.
And then—
The monster’s head separated from its body.
The sea water turned black. A pillar of blood shot upward. The monster’s body crashed down heavily.
"You got it!! You really got it!!" Kayn shouted, starting to gasp from shock.
Daniel had actually killed that monster! A legendary beast at the level of Divine Climbers had been beheaded by Daniel.
"Finally... it’s over..." Veronica dropped to her knees from the shock, countless emotions crashing over her.
Happiness, shock, amazement, and excitement... She had just witnessed a historic feat.
Daniel rested his sword on his shoulder. There was no emotion on his face.
"Can you still heal yourself?" he said while looking at the severed body.
Because the moment the monster’s body fell into the sea, the water around it began to swirl.
The wounds started to bubble and close. The scales regrew.
The severed head reattached itself to the body.
In less than ten seconds...
The monster rose again, fully restored.
"So you still can," Daniel sighed. Now he truly had no idea what to do or how to end this.
Veronica and Kayn were shocked, even terrified, to see that the monster still wasn’t dead.
Was this creature truly immortal? Was there really nothing they could do to kill it?
Even the other crew members had lost hope, no longer believing they would leave this place alive.
It wasn’t as if they had no options left. Kayn was certain that if he and Daniel wanted to escape, they could.
Daniel could break through the void, and naturally, a sea-dwelling monster wouldn’t be able to chase them.
But the pirates would definitely all die...
The monster’s eyes turned bloodshot, insane, and full of hatred. It roared and the entire sea began to boil, and suddenly the water started to rise.
Its size suddenly tripled, casting a massive shadow over the ship and a large portion of the sea. It opened its mouth as if it was about to swallow the entire ocean.
"This is troublesome," Daniel felt a headache forming as he prepared to fight once more.
The monster was about to attack, but suddenly it stopped... its body began to tremble... from fear!
"What’s going on?" Daniel frowned. Why did the monster suddenly start shaking?
"Oh? Finn?" Suddenly, a bird landed on his shoulder and stared at the monster, the way someone looks at their food.