Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 9 A Fierce Battle

Looking down at the tiny ship and the even smaller creature before it, the giant serpent's mind was filled with boundless rage.

Over the course of nearly a year, Meng continuously hunted in the nearshore waters to obtain enough food to fill its stomach and satisfy its constant, intense hunger. At the same time, its body grew larger every day.

To this day, it is like a living mountain, rising and falling amidst the waves and the sea.

When it grows to a point where it can no longer measure its own growth, it will naturally begin to shed its skin, just like other snakes.

However, its enormous size made its molting process incredibly slow. Almost half a month had passed since it started molting, and it had only shed half of its molted skin, giving Atler and his men an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

The crossbow bolt, as thick as a child's arm, was utterly insignificant to it. Being pierced by it was like a human being bitten by an ant—something that wouldn't normally matter.

However, at this very moment it was in the process of molting, and the scales on its new body had not yet fully grown. Its body was in an extremely sensitive state, and any sting felt as intense as being pricked by needles.

The giant serpent was enraged.

Under the influence of that hazy memory, it had no intention of harming humans, nor was it interested in eating people. It chose to avoid any unintentional contact with humans, leaving only some legends of the sea monster in the mouths of fishermen.

This time, it originally intended to simply leave, but what happened was unexpected...

How dare these tiny, dust-like creatures offend and attack it?
An indescribable anger welled up in its heart.

"You choose the path to heaven but refuse to take it, you barge into the gates of hell! You're courting death, so don't blame me."

At this moment, the savage aura in the giant snake's pupils completely filled its vision.

"Roar!!!!!!"

The colossal serpent, its body as massive as a mountain range and blotting out the sky, raised its mountain-like head and let out a deep roar that made the sea boil.

The deep and high-pitched roar even caused thunder to dance in the sky, and countless storms suddenly arose, as if they wanted to overturn the entire sea.

Under the gloomy sky, the torrential rain intensified, and the storm on the sea surface created countless tornadoes, resulting in the spectacular waterspout phenomenon.

A massive column of water was sucked directly into the sky by the tornado, and the whole world seemed to have fallen into a state of hysterical madness.

……

But Atler would never understand the thoughts of the giant snake before him. Looking at the enormous creature in front of him, he, who was only focused on avenging his brother-in-law's family blood feud, suddenly roared loudly.

"Turn the ship around!"

The brothers of the old Edgar family immediately understood. Their faces turned red, veins bulged on their foreheads, and they rowed the boat with all their might.

Under Atler's orders, the dragon-headed warship, which had been heading straight for the giant serpent, suddenly changed direction, abruptly traversing an arc in the raging sea, and swerved to the side in an attempt to avoid the serpent.

Atler's judgment was correct because...

Then the enormous creature, whose body was so large that it seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see, slammed its mountain-like head back into the spot where they had been standing.

"Boom! B ...

In an instant, as if the heavens and earth were created and stars were falling, an indescribably huge whirlpool was suddenly created on the sea surface. An immeasurable amount of seawater burst out under the pressure of gravity, and the entire sea shook, groaned, and cried out.

The trembling sea surface directly caused the seawater to form countless waves with a drop of more than tens of meters, layer upon layer.

Like ripples created when a pebble is dropped into a pond, only this time the ripples were so enormous that the waves rose and fell to a scale unimaginable to ordinary people. "Boom!!!"

Nearby, a dragon-headed warship located directly next to the point of impact was caught off guard and was suddenly struck by an unimaginable, towering wave.

Faced with these giant waves, the twenty-meter-long dragon-headed warship appeared as insignificant as a child's toy.

"Crackling!!!"

On the hull, countless runes, already activated to their limit, illuminated the dragon-headed warship as brightly as the sun. However, no matter how powerful the runes were, they could not resist this force that seemed like a natural disaster.

As a result, one by one, the runes could not withstand the enormous pressure and suddenly burst open.

Immediately, the raging, towering waves, with their unstoppable force, completely swallowed up the dragon-headed warship, which looked as tiny as a toy in front of it, leaving not even a trace behind.

Another extremely unfortunate dragon-headed warship shared the same fate.

These valiant and fearless Norse warriors, before they could even fulfill their potential, had already fallen to their eternal rest in the depths of the sea…

"Boom!!!"

At this moment, the raging sky had become completely dark, with lightning flashing beneath the dense clouds, as if responding to the call of the giant serpent beneath it.

"boom!!!"

Immediately following, accompanied by a tremendous roar of water, the giant serpent, as large as a mountain, once again shattered the surface of the sea with its head, stirring up countless huge waves, and leaped out of the sea to chase after the dragon-headed warship that was trying to get away from it.

Its silhouette on the sea resembles an endless mountain range. Every sway of its body stirs up towering waves and countless storms on the ocean, as if wind and thunder accompany it.

Meanwhile, the other dragon-headed warships finally adjusted and fired crossbow bolts at the giant serpent.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

One crossbow bolt after another was fired, piercing directly into the tail and abdomen of the enormous creature. At this moment, the flesh and blood, which had lost the protection of the scales and were extremely fragile, were powerless to resist the crossbow bolts that carried immense force, and blood gushed out.

However, what would be a life-threatening wound for other creatures is not even as serious as a mosquito bite for a giant snake that stretches as far as the eye can see, as long as a mountain range.

On the contrary, the pain only enraged the giant snake further.

"Roar!!!!"

The giant serpent raised its upper body, stirring up countless gusts of wind. It opened its gaping maw, as deep as an abyss, and began to breathe deeply. With each breath, a storm raged, and countless gusts of wind, along with the seawater, were swallowed whole by the serpent. And then…

"ha!!!!!"

Facing the direction of the dragon-headed warship, a massive flood, like a river overflowing its banks, suddenly gushed forth from the giant serpent's mouth.

"Boom!!!!"

The raging winds and the cascading floodwaters resembled a stampede of ten thousand horses, their boundless momentum like the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, flowing ceaselessly, intent on swallowing everything in their path.

"not good!!!"

Lina only had time to scream in alarm before the countless runes on the dragon-headed warship, unable to withstand the immense pressure, exploded completely and were swallowed up by the all-consuming flood...

(End of this chapter)