I'm on the Ark, and I start out as Gretchen.

Before Quintus could react, a deafening roar erupted from behind the church. The entrance to the tomb, hidden within, had been blasted apart by a gigantic, dark green monster.

It collapsed...collapsed?

Seeing this sudden turn of events, Quintus dared not delay any longer. He decisively abandoned his reading of the sermon and left behind those who were listening to the gospel, rushing to the backyard.

He doesn't have time to worry about that now; he needs to stop it immediately, otherwise everything he has painstakingly built will probably be torn down.

However, it was too late; the enormous, snake-like creature had already burrowed into Quintus's experimental field.

"..."

Quintus stared at the collapsed entrance with a grim expression, a surge of anger rising within him.

He then joined the large group, summoned his comrades to the cave, and instructed the remaining comrades who were already at the experimental site to do their utmost to stop the monster's advance.

Quintus wasn't sure if the messenger in the experimental field could stop the thing, but if he acted together with the messenger, who knew... they might win.

So now he has to hurry down there.

It must be said that Quintus has made ample arrangements under the existing conditions.

However, all of this was still too weak for Möbius, who had entered a state of artificial collapse.

Monsters like crawlers, piercers, and runners were turned into mincemeat with a single sweep of her scepter. Under the terrifying force of her blows, they were nothing more than carbon-based creatures that looked a little more frightening.

Monsters would occasionally rush towards her from somewhere in the cave, only to be reduced to minced meat under her scepter.

The crawler flung out its venomous stinger, which struck Mebius's massive, collapsing body like a sewing needle, only to bounce back.

A sprinting creature, roughly the height of a person, charged toward the head of the body, its fangs-filled mouth ready to tear at her neck, but was caught by a giant claw emerging from the eerie green-glowing black mud on the ground, crushing it into a pulp.

Then, maintaining the artificial collapse, Möbius rushed towards the inner storage room. As a scientist, and with her current higher vantage point, she quickly grasped the layout of this secret laboratory after a quick glance.

Ultimately, it turned out that she hadn't gone to the wrong place and soon arrived at the area where Quintus Laboratory stored experimental subjects.

However, upon Möbius's arrival, he discovered that an uninvited "guest" was waiting for him.

P.S.: This post got longer and longer, and ended up being over 5000 words. I originally planned to edit it all out before posting it, but it's already 3:30, and I really can't finish editing it. So I'll post 3000 words for now. Goodnight everyone. By the way, I wish everyone good luck with their gacha pulls tomorrow (????????).

Chapter 5 Taking Away and Escaping

"You... are acting strangely."

At the entrance to the area, the towering Hai Si looked warily at the enormous Mebius before him and spoke in human language.

Although it's only a few words

They weren't very proficient or fluent, but what came out of their mouths was indeed human language.

If the Iberian judge were standing here at this moment, he would surely be astonished by this scene. It shows that Hai Si has begun to slowly understand humanity, and even learn everything about it.

However, Mebius didn't have any other thoughts; she just found the guy in front of her too much of an eyesore. After all, time was of the essence, and she knew without a doubt that a large number of Sea Spirits were rushing towards them.

While it's not life-threatening, it's always better to avoid these kinds of troubles as much as possible.

"Heh~ Your unusual behavior isn't small either~"

"If it weren't for the time crunch, you might already be lying on my operating table. It's such a pity. Otherwise, the first Haisi who could speak human language would have easily produced a top-tier biology paper!"

As she spoke, Mebius did not stop. She manipulated the artificially collapsed, enormous body and nimbly lashed out at the speaker with her tail.

Then a tremendous force was transmitted, instantly whipping it away like a kite with a broken string, smashing through several stone walls before finally coming to a stop.

Of course, before flying away, the First Speaker did try to resist, spraying a string of highly corrosive bubbles at Mebius through two sacs on its arms.

Besides being highly corrosive, these vesicles also contain extremely dangerous toxins. Furthermore, because the intruder appeared to be quite large, the amount of toxin injected was also considerable. For an ordinary person, contact with such a vesicle would be fatal.

But it was unlucky to encounter Möbius, especially since Möbius was deliberately brought to his knees.

These bubbles were easily blocked by Mebius manipulating the black mud on the ground.

Strictly speaking, these things wouldn't cause much of a problem if they got on her artificially disintegrated body, but no one likes to be covered in dirt if they can avoid it.

Therefore, under the absolute crushing power, even if the first speaker resisted, he was still quickly slapped away and then entered a baby-like "sleep".

The snake glanced at the nearly dying Chief Speaker embedded in the distant wall, and after confirming that it was temporarily unable to stop it, it withdrew its gaze. Instead, it manipulated its massive body to dive into the storage area, searching for its target.

Upon entering the storage area, the first thing Mebius saw was a large number of severed limbs, internal organs, and other remains used for experiments.

These body tissues soaking in the jars were unusual; they were covered with Xu Haisi's cells to varying degrees, making them look bizarre and terrifying.

After exploring a little deeper, Snake saw three huge glass culture tanks embedded in the wall, and one of the tanks contained her target, a deep-sea hunter named Laurentina who was in a coma.

She didn't even need to open the jar to check; she could guess that the girl inside must have suffered a lot of inhuman torture.

Thinking of this, Mebius couldn't help but snort inwardly.

With such excellent experimental material, Quintus could have used more sophisticated methods for targeted research, but instead he insisted on using extremely violent methods for crude experiments... Not only wasting such a valuable resource, he was utterly useless.

Mebius, whose gaze had turned cold at some point, wasted no more time and directly used a claw to dismantle the culture tank made of special glass that was trapping Laurentina.

As the culture vessel was destroyed, Laurentina, who was soaking inside, was also thrown out as the liquid inside the vessel overflowed.

As the "culprit" that caused this scene, the snake couldn't bear to let such a good experimental subject fall, so it caught the person with its free giant claw.

After doing all that, Möbius didn't forget to swing her scepter and destroy the remaining two jars beside her. She had just observed that the remaining two jars did not contain any living creatures, but rather corpses.

Since that's the case, there's no need to leave them behind, lest Quintus continue his experiments and produce something terrible.

After doing all that, the snake didn't plan to stay any longer. It carefully cradled Laurentina in its claws and prepared to leave quickly.

In her perception, a large number of marine creatures had already gathered outside the underwater cave. Furthermore, since she had already obtained her target, she naturally didn't intend to waste any more time there.

However, before Mebius could leave his laboratory in the cave, he encountered Quintus, who had rushed down from the cave, at the connection point.

"Oh dear, isn't this Bishop Quintus? He's so slow!"

“You…you actually dared to kill the messenger! You monster…” Quintus said through gritted teeth, his face contorted with rage as he saw Mebius and the messy laboratory behind him.

However, Mebius wasn't too keen on Quintus's nonsense and slammed his scepter down, physically interrupting him.

What a joke! She's not stupid. What good would it do her to keep wasting time here? Doesn't she know that villains die from talking too much? If she waits any longer, the sea monsters outside will flood into the cave, and there will be another tug-of-war.

However, the feel of the impact quickly alerted Snake to something was wrong...

"Your bones are pretty tough~ I wonder if you could still live if I completely crushed you into mincemeat and turned you into dust?"

He withdrew his scepter and looked at the ground.

As Quintus's upper body began to twist and deform, a look of disgust flashed in Möbius's eyes, and he said.

"You... deserve to die."

As the final roar subsided, Quintus's body twisted completely, stretching out wildly, and the cave walls collapsed and crumbled under the waving of its outstretched tentacles.

Its head was squeezed out of its eyes, its eyelids fell off its huge eyeballs, and countless tentacles bloomed from its body. If its shape were to be described, Quintus at this moment would look like a blooming sea anemone.

Instantly, a putrid, foul stench assaulted Mebius's brain, intensifying the look of disgust on her face.

She gazed at the crumbling rock face, shattered by Quintus's writhing and thrashing, and decided she no longer wished to entangle with him. With a thought, the black mud covering the ground beneath her feet instantly stirred, transforming into countless spears that thrust towards her enemy.

Almost instantly, Quintus's twisted body was pierced and nailed to the spot by dozens of black mud spears, his entire body... no, his entire body was riddled with holes like a sieve.

Seeing that the surrounding rock walls were still collapsing, after doing all that, Mebius stopped and carefully carried Laurentina in his claws. Using the path cleared by a bishop as he came down, he rushed up and returned to the land.

Chapter 6 Departure and Reactions from All Parties

When Mebius returned to shore via the path opened by Quintus, the sun was already high in the sky, its intense rays shining on the massive, man-made body, giving it an eerie, holy glow.

The underground exit behind her began to crack and collapse inch by inch because of her violent actions.

Those inside the church who witnessed the collapse of Mebius's massive body were simultaneously gripped by panic and fear.

Both townspeople and believers screamed and fled out of the church.

Seeing this scene, Mebius felt no particular emotion. Instead, he avoided the crowd and carried Laurentina away from the church grounds.

This place, and even Saltwind City, might not be a place she could stay for long anymore. Because she had taken advantage of her high vantage point to see the changes that had taken place on the coastline.

The originally grayish-yellow sand beach has now completely changed its appearance.

The waves no longer gently lapped against the beach as before, but seemed to be pulled by an inexplicable force, violently crashing against the shore time and time again.

With each receding wave, what remains is no longer the usual seashells and seaweed, but a horrifying scene. Schools of tarantulas have somehow covered the beach, their bodies reflecting a dull gray-black hue in the sunlight; clearly, their lives have ended.

Their bodies piled up and intertwined on the beach, forming shocking lines of life. At this moment, an unbearable stench filled the air, a deathly stench that neither the sea nor the sea breeze could wash away, a mixture of putrefaction and salt, irritating the noses and hearts of every creature touched by the sea breeze.

Möbius knew all too well what the changes on the beach meant. The swarm of white mice in the sea was coming for her.

Although she wasn't worried about her own safety and was quite interested in the phenomenon, she glanced at the small shark lying in her hand and didn't stop her actions of artificially breaking off her body.

Mebius wasn't going to waste any more time here; soon the news of the "giant serpentine monster" would probably spread throughout Iberia.

Next, Saltwind City will only attract a bunch of people with ulterior motives.

And only after she leaves will the little white mice that want to rush ashore follow her footsteps or the scent of the little sharks and avoid this dilapidated town.

So instead of wasting time here, Snake should think carefully about how to safely leave this place, and even Iberia, with this perfect experimental fish in his hand.

And so, the colossal, serpentine beast of Mebius, in its collapsed form, marched toward the hills of the Iberian wasteland amidst the awe and fear of the people of Saltwind.

A man-made monster, a towering snake, moved toward the hills of the Iberian wilderness amidst the awe-inspiring gazes of the people.

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"You said an unidentified behemoth has appeared in the location of Saltwind City? And Hai Si is also coming ashore for unknown reasons?" The Grand Inquisitor looked at the messenger while reading the email, seemingly trying to read the deception in her expression.

But her fearful expression revealed one fact: she was not lying.

“I remember Granfalo isn’t that far from Saltwind City…” He wiped his hand cannon and turned to call out, “Elena, has everything been handed over here?”

“Yes… um, I mean it’s finished, teacher.” The petite girl counted the scrolls in her hands and carefully handed them to the official who had been questioned.

"Go pack up. Next stop is Saltwind City. Let's see which guys have angered them."

"Mm." Hearing this, the girl nodded slightly and then headed towards her room.

Watching the girl's departing figure, the Grand Judge was pondering something else entirely...

A giant beast... a giant beast?

Just as the Iberian Tribunal judges were preparing to travel to Saltwind City to investigate, a Rhodes Island scout who was currently near Saltwind City...

The inspection team was already drenched in sweat.

Scout sat in front of the camp, getting information about Saltwind City from the team members reporting on the situation: "Little Mary, explain in more detail. What do you mean by 'a giant beast suddenly crawled out of the ground, and then the back of the church collapsed'?"

Little Mary took a few deep breaths and said seriously again, "It was a giant creature with hands shaped like snakes that suddenly crawled out from behind the church, and after it crawled out, the back started to collapse! It smashed up the church."