Chapter 195 Chapter 195: The Giant Wave!
Chapter 195: The Giant Wave!
Skadi "cleaned up" very quickly. None of the Seaborn on the shore were a match for her.
In her endless battles against the Seaborn, she had already killed far too many of these creatures, to the point of numbness.
"Ugh!"
Suddenly, Skadi held her forehead.
"Ishar...mla......"
It was the deep sea. The whispers from the sea were becoming increasingly seductive, like one invisible tentacle after another wrapping around her, trying to drag her into the embrace of the Swarm.
One whisper after another.
"What are you spacing out for?!"
Seeing her standing still, covering her forehead, Irene gritted her silver teeth and charged over, but layer upon layer of Seaborn blocked her path.
"Damn it!"
But surprisingly, the Seaborn surrounding Skadi were all eerily quiet, not taking the opportunity to attack.
It was as if they were quietly waiting for something.
"Embrace...return to the Swarm....."
Half-asleep, half-awake, she seemed to be led to murmur softly as well.
But just a moment later, Skadi snapped back to reality. A trace of cold sweat was on her forehead, but she gripped her sword without hesitation and swung!
One step, two steps.
Severed limbs flew, disgusting bodily fluids dyed the beach into a sticky mudflat, which then rapidly decayed and weathered.
"You're awake?"
Irene took a deep breath but didn't dare to approach Skadi again. This Aegir woman seemed like a completely different person when facing Seaborn.
She was genuinely afraid that if she got close, she'd be casually "cleaned up" too.
A few minutes later, the remaining two thousand or so Seaborn that had come ashore were completely cleared by Skadi.
"Solved?"
Irene had killed nearly three hundred Seaborn in total. Without using her hand cannon, this number was quite impressive.
She let out a sigh of relief. The rapier in her hand felt heavy, already covered in layer upon layer of Seaborn bodily fluids and scales.
"No, not yet. Inside the sea, there are more."
Skadi leaned on her sword, gazing solemnly at the massive wave approaching from the distance.
It grew larger and larger along its path, finally stabilizing at a threshold of nearly forty meters high.
Dense black shadows darted within it.
Bottomfeeders, Shellscuttlers, Flowering Fear...
The Under Tides spread across the land like the veins of the ocean, adding blue thread-like patterns to the yellowish-brown canvas.
That was a Seaborn tide far more terrifying than those on shore. Moreover, even if they did nothing, the sheer wave they raised was enough to make all the citizens despair.
Forty meters high—enough to wash over half of Saltwind City.
"This isn't right, this is very wrong!"
Things had completely exceeded Skadi's expectations. Why would the Seaborn suddenly cause such a huge commotion?
Her blood couldn't do this.
"What is that?"
"A wave... fleet... city, hahaha finally here! It's the wave!"
"It... has come to take us away... no one can escape, everyone..."
Some elderly citizens who had already gone insane from eating Seaborn meat seemed to remember something. They cried and laughed, wearing expressions of both collapse and relief.
"Go take cover!"
Skadi had no time to think deeply. She shouted towards those behind her. She was a Deepcolor Hunter; such a giant wave naturally couldn't do anything to her.
But everyone in Saltwind City would "die because of her."
"This tidal surge, how is it possible?!"
Irene tightly gripped the rapier in her hand. How could her sword possibly cut through such a tidal surge?
There were clearly no weather-related omens at all.
Yet this wave had formed without any warning!
Was it those Seaborn? Having never witnessed the true face of the Great Silence of old, Irene gained a completely new understanding of the Seaborn's abilities for the first time!
"Teacher, I'll go try."
Hearing FrostNova's voice, Kevin paused his step and glanced at her.
He was met with her determined gaze. And honestly speaking, he really didn't know how much his student had progressed either.
"Hah."
Under FrostNova's hopeful gaze, Kevin nodded and gave her a look.
She instantly understood the meaning in her teacher's eyes.
"Go ahead with confidence. I'll handle everything if needed."
Spirit Blade: Frozen Hell!
The ice blade, like a gemstone, left its sheath. With the enhancement of the Stigmata, she erupted with ghostly speed, arriving on the beach in the blink of an eye.
Simultaneously, Kevin also stepped forward. Before the wave could get closer, he slowly walked to Dario's side—the man who was barely supporting himself with just his sword.
FrostNova couldn't do it; he understood that.
Although he didn't know the specifics of her progress, the energy level emanating from FrostNova wouldn't lie.
But Kevin didn't mind giving young people a chance to prove themselves.
In fact, he quite encouraged this kind of behavior. Fledglings must eventually fly far.
Dario barely managed to open his eyelids. The lantern in his hand flickered on and off under this sky-obscuring wave, as if it could go out at any moment.
"Choosing now?"
Most of his body had lost sensation. The burning wounds were gradually turning cold and stiff.
His consciousness was slowly leaving him.
Grand Inquisitors were not supermen after all; their bodies still belonged to the human category.
Dario didn't think about resisting; he simply couldn't resist at all.
For this man to take his life would be as easy as turning over his hand.
Moreover, even if he didn't kill him, under that wave, he had no chance of survival either.
"No, I'm borrowing something."
Kevin looked at him directly, his gaze calm and unwavering.
"What... thing... cough!"
"Your lantern."
"?... Take it."
The moment the lantern entered his hand, Kevin instantly completed its analysis. He turned his gaze towards FrostNova on the beach.
Whoosh!
As if a frigid north wind howling from the extreme north had arrived without warning, chilling gusts surged around FrostNova.
Skadi took a few steps back. This temperature felt like it could freeze one's soul solid.
Sword technique, skill, weapon—everything merged into this one move.
FrostNova drew her sword!
Slash!
A sword aura resembling a horizon sliced across the ocean, forming an ice path reaching for the sky along its trajectory.
Splash!
The sword aura was swallowed by that towering giant wave as if it hadn't caused even a ripple.
FrostNova wasn't anxious. She closed her sword and returned it to its sheath in one smooth motion.
"Ice Garuda: Bitter Cold Hell."
Crack—
At the center of the giant wave, a white dot rapidly expanded—it was ice!
Almost instantly, a massive iceberg appeared on the sea. The giant wave also seemed to freeze for a moment.
"It stopped?"
Irene's jaw almost dropped.
"No, it didn't." ×2
FrostNova and Skadi spoke in unison. They glanced at each other—as expected.
Wave after wave of surging tides carried terrifying kinetic energy that directly crushed the iceberg. Ten seconds—FrostNova's single sword strike only bought ten brief seconds.
This was already a remarkable feat, but—
"In the end, I still couldn't do it."
FrostNova reflected on herself for a moment and simply sat down on the beach.
She wasn't too disappointed though. At least she had fully expressed everything she had learned so far.
The massive wave was now less than a hundred meters from the shore. Everyone could feel its deadly oppressive force pressing down on them.
Next... leave it to Teacher.
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