Ocean Lords: Start as a Fisherman

To see the Seven-Colored King Fish, the first requirement is to collect all seven king scales.

Currently, Su Wang possesses one red and one green king scale, as well as two blue king scales, obtained from the previous capture of the single-color fish king.

To summon the Rainbow Fish King, you need one each of orange, yellow, blue, and purple king scales.

Su Wang planned to collect them one by one in order, determined to gather all seven colored royal scales.

"The orange kingfish is about 100 meters long and is located in a water layer 3,000 meters underwater."

Su Wang recalled his previous experience in the secret realm and immediately activated his sonar radar to search for the area.

At the same time, the "Death Heart" also switched to deep-diving mode and submerged in the water.

After being promoted to the Quasi-Saint level, the durability of the Heart of Death has been greatly improved once again.

The detection range of the sonar radar has been further improved, and the efficiency of capturing the King Fish has also been greatly enhanced.

Under the scanning of the sonar radar, the swimming figures of the three 3-meter-long kingfish were immediately captured.

Using the invisibility ability provided by Menata, the Heart of the Dead quickly swam to the vicinity of one of the tails.

The Soul Fusion state is activated, a giant fishing tackle appears, and special bait is already on the hook.

With 100% bait attractiveness and the bait being thrown very close, Su Wang received a special notification in less than half a minute.

Soon, notifications of the orange kingfish taking the bait appeared one after another.

With Su Wang's extraordinary attributes, capturing the orange fish king would be no problem.

This time, advancing to the level of a Sub-Saint Fisherman is much easier, especially since the bait bonus has also been greatly improved.

Through the enhancement of various rare fish meats,

Su Wang's current strength attribute has increased to 14240 points, and his stamina value is at its normal maximum of 106100 points.

In Soul Fusion mode, without using the Imbalance talent, the damage per second from the Fishhook reaches 569.6 million points.

The orange-tier fish king only has a stamina cap of 100 million points.

Even with the power of the orange king's authority, it couldn't withstand the terrifying damage from the fishhook for even half a second.

The changes in Su Wang's own strength before and after became particularly obvious at this moment.

Once the orange fish king was captured and brought into the cabin, Su Wang immediately summoned Menata to dissect it.

Before long, the belly of the orange king fish was broken down and opened.

The fish hold contains 600 million portions each of ordinary-grade fish skin, fish scales, fish tendons, and fish glue (crew bonus has been increased by 100%).

600 million units of Breath of Earth (for crew members...), 200 pieces of Black Iron Fishing Gear Parts (for crew members...), 1 Orange King's Scale.

"Good start!"

Su Wang was overjoyed when he saw the fish hold information notification flashing before his eyes.

Unexpectedly, the first king fish I caught produced the king scale I needed most.

As for other resources...
Menata has been equipped with 20 support staff and has received a 100% bonus to every item's output.

This is equivalent to catching a King Fish, and the amount of resources obtained is equivalent to that of two normal King Fish.

I'm extremely lucky right now.

With the orange kingfish king dealt with in one go, Su Wang no longer needed to continue fighting the orange kingfish. He then set his sights on the yellow kingfish king.

During the last expedition to the secret realm, we skipped the yellow fish king and instead focused on capturing the green and cyan fish kings.

This time, the focus is on the King Scale, so the issue of the Yellow Fish King's resource production is no longer a concern.

Based on the size patterns of the various fish kings, Su Wang quickly found his target.

It is a colossal creature that swims at a depth of 5,000 meters and is about 200 meters long.

The Heartless Fishing Vessel approached stealthily, then the Soul-Merging Fishing Gear was used to cast the bait with hooks.

A yellow kingfish was attracted by the bait and was swimming toward it.

Soon, along with the bite notification, the attribute information of the yellow kingfish also appeared.

【Yellow Fish King】

Species rarity: Mysterious fish.

Strength: 1000.

Endurance value: 1/200.

The King's Authority: The Yellow King - Endurance...

...

The appearance of the Fish King's information could no longer stir any emotion in Su Wang's heart.

Catching this single-colored kingfish is as easy as drinking water.

Even with the Yellow King Fish's 2 million stamina, it couldn't withstand the damage from the hook in just 1 second.

The only thing that could pique Su Wang's interest was whether this fish king could be broken down into king scales.

As Menata opened the Yellow King Fish's belly, a notification appeared indicating that items had been stored in the fish hold.

[The fish hold contains 600 million Black Iron-grade fish materials (4 types, including those for crew members), Breath of Earth, and Bronze fishing gear accessories.]

The luck of the previous king fish did not continue, and no yellow king scales were produced.

Although it was a pity, Su Wang was not discouraged.

Anyway, there's plenty of rare fish meat in the fish hold, so there's no need to worry about the margin for error.

Immediately afterwards, Su Wang continued searching for the next yellow fish king.

A few minutes later, another yellow kingfish was successfully captured, but the king scales still could not be extracted.

Su Wang continued her search.

A few minutes later, the third yellow kingfish was successfully caught.

Following the fourth tail, the fifth tail...

Finally, good news arrived when the fish reached the seventh tail: the information inside the fish's belly showed the words "Yellow King Scale *1".

This special bait can only be used twice.

However, the only two types of royal scales that are missing are blue and purple royal scales.

Last time, the blue fish king was the limit that Su Wang could capture, but this time he will conquer the remaining two-colored fish kings.

Su Wang immediately changed the search area, focusing his attention on a depth of 1.5 meters underwater.

At this depth, the shadows of fish that have reached a length of over 3 meters are swimming around.

As the Xinhai continued to sink, it soon reached a depth of 1.5 meters.

Even with the greatly expanded range of sonar radar, very few fish were detected at this depth, only a handful of five.

At a depth of 20,000 meters, only three fish were captured.

Without wasting any time, Su Wang immediately piloted the Heartless Ship to stealthily approach one of the fish shadows, which was over 3 meters long, and summoned the Soul-Merging Fishing Gear accordingly.

Based on my memory, the Blue Fish King's stamina is at least tens of millions, but it shouldn't be too difficult.

Soon the bait attracted the blue kingfish, and the bite notification came shortly after.

【Blue Fish King】

Species rarity: Mysterious fish.

Strength: 5000.

Stamina: 4.5 million/5 million.

King's Authority: Blue King - When stamina is reduced, gain 10% damage reduction and 10 stamina regeneration per second for every 10% decrease in stamina.

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"Its stamina is 5 times higher than the Blue Fish King..."

Su Wang's expression changed from nonchalant to serious.

A 5x increase in stamina isn't a big deal; with Su Wang's current attributes, 5 million stamina won't last long.

However, the effect of the Blue Fish King's King's Authority surprised him.

The damage reduction effect of the previous colored fish kings only increased by 1%.

However, compared to the blue kingfish, the percentage of blue kingfish jumped directly from 5% to 10%, doubling.

In other words, when the Blue Fish King's stamina drops to less than 10%, its damage reduction effect will reach a terrifying 90%.

It also possesses an incredibly strong recovery ability, capable of restoring 90 stamina points per second.

With the current normal damage per second of 569.6 million for the Fishhook, it will eventually be reduced to only 56.96 damage, which is even slower than the recovery speed of the Blue Fish King.

However, Su Wang remained confident in capturing the blue fish king.

After all, the unbalanced talent has not been activated, and various amplification skills have not been used.

What Su Wang was concerned about was that the blue fish king already had a terrifying 90% damage reduction, so what kind of kingly authority would the purple fish king have?
What will happen to the ultimate target, the seven-colored fish king?
"It seems I underestimated it; that's what makes it challenging..."

Su Wang's interest was also piqued.

Now, Su Wang no longer maintained his normal attributes, but instead used his imbalance talent to enhance his power.

The increase in strength attribute instantly doubled the total damage dealt by the fishhook.

The Blue Fish King's high damage reduction effect, caused by its rapidly decreasing stamina, paled in comparison to the increased damage.

When the Blue King Fish's stamina drops to 30%, the damage that the hook can inflict has been reduced to less than 350 million per second.

Even after offsetting the Blue Fish King's stamina recovery effect per second, it still amounts to over 2 million.

The terrifying damage caused the Blue Fish King's stamina to drop below 10% in a very short time.

At this point, the Blue Fish King entered its most stubborn phase.

The fishhook's damage per second has dropped to less than 114 million, and after offsetting the Blue Fish King's stamina recovery effect, it's even less than 25.

At this stage, the Blue Fish King still has over 4 million stamina points remaining.

Su Wang estimated the time; even without using [Throat-Strike Wind], he could still finish the bait within a minute of its consumption time.

Therefore, there was no intention to make any further moves.

Soon, the Blue Fish King's last bit of stamina was depleted, and the capture conditions were successfully met.

After the Heartless's robotic arm grabbed it, it was disassembled into a fish belly by Menata's control.

Just as Su Wang had predicted, the blue fish king's belly decomposed to produce gold-grade fish materials, while the fishing gear accessories were even more extraordinary.

However, there were only 10 items, and that was after the crew had added extra items.

"The Blue Fish King is a super-grade fishing tackle accessory, so what is the Purple Fish King? And the Rainbow Fish King?"

Su Wang became very curious. "Could it be that there are fishing gear accessories above the extraordinary level?"

However, Blue King Scales have not yet been produced, and the value of Extraordinary Fishing Gear is also quite considerable.

Su Wang decided to focus on dealing with the blue king scales first, and the answer would be revealed when he captured the purple fish king.

With one bait effect remaining, Su Wang continued searching for the second blue king fish.

After capturing the second blue kingfish, good fortune struck again, and Menata successfully extracted a blue kingfish scale from its belly as a reward.

At this point, the entire batch of special bait had been used up.

Although there is still plenty of time left in the secret realm, the special bait has been used up.

Su Wang immediately added a seven-colored scale and obtained a second special bait.

It is still made entirely from rare gold-grade fish meat, creating a second special bait with perfect enhancement.

"The last one was a bit of a waste," Su Wang couldn't help but ponder.

At first, I didn't think too much about it, only focusing on increasing the effectiveness of the bait, ignoring the fact that my own strength had greatly improved.

When catching the top-ranking fish of various colors, there is absolutely no need to process the bait to perfection.

Only when catching blue, purple, or even rainbow king fish will it be necessary to use special bait with high damage amplification.

Fortunately, it's not too late to realize this now, and the Seven-Colored Fish King Su Wang didn't intend to catch only one.

Once you've collected the second set of King Scales, you can process two different types of bait with varying levels of completion to reduce the loss of rare fish meat.

Su Wang stopped thinking about it and immediately drove the Death Heart to continue its descent, heading to a depth of 2 meters to search for traces of the Purple Fish King.

The number of purple kingfish is the smallest among all the different colored kingfish.

If it weren't for the Heartless's high stamina and wide sonar radar search range, just searching for the Purple Fish King would have been a huge problem.

The purple kingfish is located in the deepest water layer and is the largest, reaching a length of 5 meters, which is half the size of the Heartless.

Given its size, an impact against the Heart of Death would cause considerable damage.

Fortunately, these fish in the secret realm do not have any aggressive intent, so there is no need to worry about danger.

After Su Wang drove the Death Heart to stealthily approach a purple kingfish, he immediately baited it with new bait to lure it in.

Soon, as expected, the purple fish king was attracted by the bait.

The bite notification followed immediately, and the purple fish king's attributes were finally revealed to Su Wang.

【Purple Fish King】

Species rarity: Mysterious fish.

Strength: 1 million.

Endurance value: 8.96 million / 1 million.

King's Authority: Purple King - When stamina is reduced, gain 20% damage reduction for every 10% decrease in stamina, up to a maximum of 99%.

When stamina is below 50%, you gain 1% stamina recovery per second for every 10% drop in stamina.

Hint: The most powerful fish king among the single-color fish kings.

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"Tsk..."

Upon seeing the King's Authority effect of the Purple Fish King, Su Wang couldn't help but marvel.

This effect is simply too much for ordinary people to handle.

What does a damage reduction effect of up to 99% mean?
One hundred million damage per second can be reduced to only one million per second.

Its stamina recovery effect is also far superior to that of the other colored fish kings.

When your stamina drops below 50%, you gain 1% stamina recovery per second for every 10% drop in stamina.

They are no longer specific numerical values, but rather percentage recovery rates.

When the Purple Fish King's stamina drops below 10%, based on its maximum stamina, it will recover a terrifying 500 million stamina points per second.

If Su Wang didn't still have many trump cards in his hand, he would have wanted to turn back home after seeing the outrageous effects of this power.

I was initially thinking it would be a bit challenging, but now I feel that the challenge is a bit too outrageous.

Fortunately, Su Wang was no ordinary person; he was one of only three sub-saints among the three major fishing professions—the Fishing Saint.

If even he can't challenge this purple fish king, Su Wang will definitely have to have a good talk with the "fish" when he gets the chance to see it again.

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At this moment, Su Wang's attention was completely focused on the Purple Fish King.

Because it maintained the effect of the unbalanced talent, the purple fish king caused terrifying damage of over ten million the moment it bit the hook.

However, by the second second, the damage had been significantly reduced.

The damage per second, which should have been 1139.2 million, suddenly dropped to just over 9 million.

It also triggered the extraordinary effect of the extraordinary reel accessory, causing a 10x damage effect.

However, this 10x damage was not enhanced by the Soul Fusion state; instead, it was the same as the damage dealt by each class skill under the Soul Fusion state.

The massive damage generated at the same time also instantly reduced the Purple Fish King's stamina to below 70%.

Therefore, in the third second, the damage caused by the hook dropped to less than 456 million. Even after triggering the extraordinary main rod accessory effect, it only added a little over 1 damage.

At the fifth second, the hook was less than 228 million...

By the 9th second, the damage per second that the fishhook could deal was less than 11.4, a ridiculous reduction in damage.

At the same time, another effect of the Purple Fish King's Authority took effect, producing a 1% stamina recovery effect per second.

My stamina, which had just fallen below 50 million, suddenly recovered to 1 million, returning to over 50%.

To Su Wang's surprise, the fishhook, which had fallen to less than 11.4 damage per second, suddenly jumped back to nearly 228 million.

Then, in the next second, it dropped by nearly 11.4 again, changing every one or two seconds.

A glint flashed in Su Wang's eyes.

Are there limitations to the effects of the two types of authority?

This causes the damage from the fishing hook to fluctuate, and it seems that the purple fish king's stamina value fluctuates around 50%.

Therefore, the damage reduction effect of the Purple Fish King varies between 99% and 80%, and the 1% stamina recovery effect is also intermittent.

This discovery may not be of much use to the average fisherman.

After all, as long as there is no way to increase damage, the effect of the Purple Fish King's authority will remain the same no matter how it changes, and in the end, all that can be done is to wear it down.

Keep waiting until the bait's effect wears off, then the purple fish king will break free of the bait and escape.

For Su Wang, however, there might be something useful about this, and it might even have provided him with a new idea.

A simpler approach to solving the Purple Fish King problem.

Initially, Su Wang planned to use the 10% percentage damage from the Extraordinary Fishhook accessory, along with the Throat-Strike Wind effect, to whittle down the purple fish king.

Although the damage is reduced by 5%, it is still affected by the damage reduction effect of the Purple Fish King.

However, with the added damage from the stacked choke wind, it's not impossible to wear down the Purple Fish King.

However, it seems there's now an even simpler method.
Su Wang noticed something as soon as he triggered the effect of the fishing gear's extraordinary accessory.

That is when the extraordinary effect of the reel is triggered.
If the instant damage triggers the increased damage reduction effect of the Purple Fish King, the damage will still be deducted based on the previous layer of reduction value.

In other words, if the damage from a single burst is high enough, it can completely deplete 50% of the Purple Fish King's stamina, leaving it with no chance of recovery!
With this discovery, Su Wang was even more confident in capturing the Purple Fish King!

Without further hesitation, he immediately activated a layer of the "Strangling Wind" effect.

With the added effect of the choke wind, the damage of the fishhook doubles again.

The damage per second, which was originally close to 228 million, suddenly surged to 457 million.

When the reel effect that deals damage every 10 times is triggered, it will also deal an additional instance of the same damage.

However, when the Purple Fish King's stamina drops below 50%, its damage will be reduced to less than 23.

It takes nearly 4 seconds for it to recover to more than 50%.

Occasionally, even with the fishhook triggering 0.001% damage after 99% damage reduction, it was still unable to lower the purple fish king's stamina.

Su Wang was not in a hurry when he saw this.

This is only the first layer of the choking wind effect.

The 10-second choking wind effect ended quickly, and the purple fish king's stamina value was still fluctuating around 50%.

In the last second before the choking wind disappeared, Su Wang immediately applied the second layer of effect.

With two stacks of the Throat-Strike effect, the damage is increased again, directly approaching ten million.

This time, it will take the Purple Fish King even longer to recover its stamina to over 50%.

At this point, we've reached a critical juncture.

To achieve the goal of instantly depleting 50% of the Purple Fish King's stamina, you need to seize the moment when the hook damage and the reel's extraordinary effect burst simultaneously.

When the purple fish king's stamina was almost back to 50%, Su Wang concentrated his mind, constantly monitoring the trigger frequency of his professional skills.

Just as the Purple Fish King's stamina recovered to 50%, its class skill was also about to unleash its next round of reel damage.

At that moment, Su Wang immediately took action.

Although the effects of this strangulation haven't ended yet, there's no need to wait any longer.

The third choke wind effect is activated, perfectly replicated!

The two consecutive early stacks of Throat Strike directly increased the damage bonus of Throat Strike from 200% to 1600%!

At the same time, the purple fish king's stamina recovered to over 50%, leaving only 80% damage reduction effect.

The terrifying damage from the fishhook erupted instantly.

The 16-fold increase resulted in extremely terrifying burst damage.

The purple fish king's stamina value plummeted to the bottom in an instant, dropping from 50%.

When only 1 point of stamina remains, the Purple Fish King's authority effect will also dissipate.

A notification message suddenly appeared.

[One Purple Fish King has been captured.]

At that moment, a look of joy immediately appeared on Su Wang's face.

"It's done!"

…(End of this chapter)