Man on the ark, forced to become king

"You're not planning to cut your way in from here, are you?"

Kal'tsit was stunned and blurted out something instinctively.

Then she saw Skadi nod solemnly, then swing her greatsword and slash at him again.

Boom boom boom!

A loud crash filled the room. The serious-looking female hunter swung her sword like a lumberjack, quickly making a hole in the metal wall and crawling through it.

"I have an idea!"

Skadi turned around very seriously, and a faint golden light emanated from her body, converging into an intricate cross-shaped prayer pattern.

On her shoulder, a golden horn extended from the glow.

The corner of the melting pot!

After learning how to use prayer from Lin Lu, she only learned two techniques along the way, and this was one of them.

Boom!

The sharp point struck the wall of the tunnel that the bishop had opened, and the enormous impact shook the ground. The alloy-supported wall was actually breached by the impact, creating a hole large enough for a person to pass through.

Under the stunned gazes of Kal'tsit and the others, Skadi began to use the Hundred Prayer of the Forge repeatedly, slamming her body against the wall.

Each impact of the Hundred-Faced Furnace widened the hole in the wall. After only a few times, the metal wall was completely broken open, revealing a huge blue stone that completely blocked the passage.

However, Skadi didn't care at all what was behind the wall or whether there was a passage. She used prayer continuously, and after a while, she used the power of the furnace prayer to carve out a passage on the bluestone. Each time the light shone, the passage extended forward a bit.

"Did she... um... suffer some kind of trauma on land?"

Laurentina's eyes twitched at this extremely hardcore behavior, and she subtly pointed to her head, the meaning of which was self-evident.

She had learned about Skadi in the deep sea and knew her fighting style, which was already very simple and brutal.

But now it seems that was nothing. After coming ashore, did they completely grow muscles into their brains?

How do you break through a blocked passage?

This is not a normal person's way of thinking!

Furthermore, what's with that spell that lets you grow horns from your body? When did deep-sea hunters learn to use something like that?

While everyone was using pure physical attacks to clear out the sea monsters, you secretly learned magic.

But why are the spells I learned so barbaric?

Is this what you're going to do with learning magic?

As Skadi continued deeper into the passage, Miss Laurentina felt her understanding was being challenged.

"I……"

Kal'tsit opened her mouth, but could only manage an awkward yet polite smile.

She now understood what Lin Lu's instructions meant before she came. It turned out that this person really only knew how to build muscle and not brains; she would rather do things by brute force than think things through.

What kind of method is this?

"Isn't this... just fine?"

Warfarin, being petite, easily jumped into the tunnel Skadi had created and waved to Kal'tsit and Laurentina.

"Hurry up and catch up. Haven't you noticed yet? Skadi's obsession with the Church of the Deep Sea is too strong. She won't listen to anything you say to her now. We might as well just do what she wants. Anyway, we still have a last resort."

Skadi rushed in just now, and Skadi saw it all clearly. The extreme destructive desire in those crimson eyes was almost overflowing. The hatred between this hunter lady and the Deep Sea Church could easily fill a novel. Skadi was probably thinking about how to cut up all the people in the Deep Sea Church, chop them up, and mince them into mincemeat.

Given Skadi's current state, it's clear that the few of them can't hold her back. So they might as well just follow her. Maybe there will be some unexpected surprises. If Skadi's combat power is off the charts, she could just sweep through and smash the bishops of the Deep Sea Church to pieces, and the matter would be resolved.

If we can't do it, it's not a big deal. At most, we'll just lose face. We can bring in people from Golden Tree to cover for us, but the final result will still be the same.

"..."

Kal'tsit was speechless. In the end, she could only have Mon3tr pick up the large saw that was lying in the corner of the research room and put it in Laurentina's arms before following Warfarin into the passage.

What else could she do?

Given Skadi's current state, there's nothing we can do but go along with her.

Chapter 237 The Perfect Biological Weapon

Tick-tick~tick-tick~

Thick water flowed from the top of the cave, pooling into droplets that fell and created puddles of varying sizes on the ground.

Blue-green algae clung to the surrounding stone walls, emitting a faint fluorescence that illuminated the writhing mass of flesh in the center of the cave.

Compared to the clean and tidy research room, this cave was undoubtedly much more rudimentary, lacking any decent equipment and filled with a fishy stench, making it almost completely unrelated to scientific research.

But in fact, this is the real and important laboratory of the Deep Sea Church.

The evolution and consuming of sea creatures are well-suited to these seemingly harsh conditions, and the naturally formed damp caves make it easier to deal with the deformed products of failed experiments.

As the liquid from each test tube was poured into the dark green pool containing the mass of flesh, the bishop's arms began to tremble uncontrollably.

Everything went smoothly, incredibly smoothly.

This experiment went more smoothly than any before. They successfully transformed a person into a Haizi while retaining some of their sanity. The most important work was completed, and the aberration of the experimental subject was completely under control. The next step was to guide the physical shaping process of this 'artificial Haizi' and completely transform it into the 'super weapon' on the blueprint.

Yes, weapons.

Although the Deep Sea Church pursues the evolution of life, that goal is too distant, and they do not yet have the ability to truly reach it. The limit they can achieve is to create biological weapons that can obey commands, just like Agor's Deep Sea Hunters.

However, in the eyes of the Salt Wind Bishop, this was a more perfect and powerful technology than the Hunter Project. The so-called Deep Sea Hunters were just inferior products with a small amount of Sealing flesh integrated into them. How could they be compared with the evolved individuals they had carefully created?

The seemingly powerful deep-sea hunters have at most greatly enhanced their physical abilities by relying on the flesh and blood of the sea creatures, enabling them to fight with weapons that ordinary people cannot control. Their upper limit has been locked. No matter how much they learn, they can only make their skills more refined, but they cannot significantly increase their true strength.

Compared to that thing, the biological weapon undergoing evolution in the pool not only possesses extremely powerful strength, but also has the evolutionary ability of the Sea Legion, which can become stronger and stronger. This is the most perfect warrior!

Most importantly, this newly created Sea Child, a powerful individual even within the Sea Child population, can be completely controlled by the Deep Sea Church!

"How beautiful..."

The fleshy mass in the pool wriggled and extended tentacles, gradually forming a shape similar to a flower bud. A viscous liquid dripped from the dark red fleshy walls, which was quite disgusting.

But what is disgusting to ordinary people, a wriggling mass of flesh that would make them want to vomit at the mere sight of it, is the most perfect thing in the world in the eyes of the bishop.

The experiment went far too smoothly, and he naturally poured a lot of resources into it. It could be said that nearly half of the resources accumulated by the Deep Sea Church of Saltwind City over the years were used up in this experiment.

To ensure this success, the remains of the experimental subjects who died as a prelude could have formed a small mountain.

Now, it's finally time to reap the rewards!

"Once we've dealt with those two deep-sea hunters, we'll increase the amount of nutrients."

Staring intently at the slowly changing mass of flesh, the bishop, his arm trembling, finalized his plan.

Sea creatures are naturally opposed to all life. They indiscriminately devour all life except their own kind, whether it is fish in the sea or birds and beasts on land, all of which become nutrients for their own growth—among these, humans are the most useful.

Swallowing a human is far more effective than devouring lower creatures. Humans possess too many possibilities, and by consuming the sea creatures that evolve from humans, they can develop even more advantages.

Fortunately, Yanfeng City has no shortage of people.

The Iberian royal family once relocated hundreds of thousands of residents from surrounding areas to Saltwind City. After experiencing the effects of the Great Tranquility, there are now 80,000 to 90,000 people living in this city under the control of the Deep Sea Church. Some of them have already been sown with the seeds of mutation, becoming a breeding ground for the birth of the Sea Heirs, while others have not yet been deeply affected and can be captured and used as nourishment. This is what the Deep Sea Church has been doing before.

To the Church of the Deep Sea, the inhabitants of Saltwind City were no different from cattle and sheep on a pasture. Their existence was solely for the purpose of contributing to glorious evolution. In the eyes of the Bishop of Saltwind, the deaths of many people were worthwhile as long as the desired outcome could be achieved.

Tick-tock~ Tick-tock~ Thump thump thump!

The water droplets were still falling, but their number had increased, and faintly, it seemed as if some movement was taking place inside the cave.

It was as if... some heavy beast had broken in?

"What's the noise?"

Bishop Saltwind, staring at the 'artificial sea creature,' turned his head in confusion towards the source of the sound. It seemed to be the passage he had come from.

That place should have been blocked by a pre-arranged mechanism. Since it had already been used once, the secret escape route had lost its intended purpose. The best course of action was to fill it in completely to avoid leaving any hidden dangers. This was the idea behind the design of the passage, and that's what he did.

But how can there be a sound coming from a blocked passage?

Could it be those two deep-sea hunters? Instead of escaping, they chose to follow his route and even dug open the blocked passage.

An utterly absurd idea popped into the bishop's mind, and he shook his head and chuckled.

how can that be possible?

That was a passage that was a full three thousand meters long. Even if the mechanism did not completely block it as expected, the length that was blocked was still considerable. The deep-sea hunters were just humans with strong physical abilities, not industrial excavation machines. How could they possibly dig open the passage in such a short time?

And even if they really did have something wrong with their brains and chose the most foolish approach, they still needed the tools to do so.

There were no tools related to digging in that research lab, so how did they dig? With weapons or their bare hands?

That's utter nonsense.

Bang!

Suddenly, a huge roar came from that direction, echoing inside the cave and causing ripples to spread across the pool.

Bishop Saltwind took two steps back and cautiously gripped the emergency communication device in his pocket.

The experiments on artificial sea creatures are very important, so ordinary believers are not allowed to enter this cave, and the guards are stationed on the outer perimeter, so it will take some time for them to arrive.

Although he didn't know what had happened in that passage, the current situation was clearly not right, and to be on the safe side, he felt it was better to play it safe.

Previously in the research lab, he was caught off guard and had his arm severed by the deep-sea hunter. He hasn't recovered yet, and if he really encounters a problem, he may not be able to solve it.