This necromancer is going to seduce the beautiful girls who are already dead.

The sea monsters in the ocean cannot see Abyss and Leona on the ship; the entire ship, including its passengers, has been concealed by Flora's divine magic. Since Abyss and Leona intend to use their bodies as bait to lure the sea monsters, they need to be far from the ship. Then, Abyss will make himself and Leona visually visible (at this point, they still cannot be detected by any means other than sight), thus attracting the sea monsters.

As planned, when Abyss and Leona had gone quite far, about a nautical mile from the Moonlight, sea monsters began to slowly swim towards them.

Various strange shadows began to appear on the surface of the water, and the water began to churn abnormally as those enormous monsters swam around.

"Wow...it's really here! I've never seen a sea monster before. What do they look like?" Leona became more and more curious. She stomped her foot on the water and injected a wisp of her battle aura into the sole of her foot, creating a provocative shockwave.

The dark shadows beneath the sea were clearly drawn to Leona's stomp, and the sea monsters, who were initially curious, moved closer to Abyss and Leona.

“These are experienced hunters. They will choose the right time to attack. Leona, you need to be a little careful, or you might embarrass yourself in front of everyone later,” Abyss reminded Leona with a smile.

"Shameful? What could I possibly be ashamed of?" Leona asked defiantly, hands on her hips.

Abis gestured with his fingers to indicate the shape of a large group of tentacles: "Like being entangled by tentacles or something."

"You pervert!" Leona's face immediately turned red.

"How did I become a hooligan again?" Abyss scratched his head, wondering how he had managed to anger Leona again.

Just then, a tentacle silently emerged from beneath the water. At its tip was a sharp spike, like a sword, relentlessly stabbing towards Abyss and Leona, seemingly intent on impaling them both!

"A mere trick!" Leona's eyes narrowed.

Although the sound of the tentacle emerging from the water was very faint, Leona's ears were incredibly sharp. She sensed the danger the instant the tentacle broke the surface. With lightning speed, she grabbed the tip of the tentacle that was stabbing towards her and the Abyss, and snapped the sharp spike in two.

Splash!

Leona's attack clearly caught the attacking marine predator off guard. It had only launched a tentative attack, but the retaliation had cost it a spike. The tentacle's owner immediately thrashed violently in pain. The tentacle Leona had injured abruptly retracted into the water, causing churning waves to rise from the depths.

"I thought sea monsters were some kind of powerful creature, but even if they are powerful, they are just strong creatures." Leona casually threw the spike she had broken off back into the water.

Splash!

Before Leona could finish speaking, another different ripple came from below the surface of the water.

A huge black shadow appeared directly below Abyss and Leona, while the other black shadows that had been circling around them seemed to sense the danger and left the place of trouble.

Leona and Abyss remained where they were, and the huge black shadow below seemed to grow larger and larger. The surfacing of some giant creature was pushing a large amount of seawater up, causing a noticeable bulge to temporarily appear on the surface of the sea.

At the same time, countless tentacles suddenly rose from below the water and surrounded Leona and Abyss.

There were at least three or four hundred tentacles. Unlike the previous light probe, this time, the tentacles swarmed towards Abyss and Leona, and at the same time, a suffocating sense of oppression slowly rose within the cage formed by the tentacles, making Leona feel a sense of crisis.

"What's going on? Why is its aura so powerful?" Leona was also somewhat surprised this time. For an expert of her level, her sixth sense was quite accurate. When encountering ordinary enemies, Leona would not feel any danger, but this time, a mere sea monster made the hairs on the back of Leona's neck stand on end.

"Roar……"

A deep roar came from beneath their feet, and the tentacles surrounding Leona and the Abyss began to slowly close in. At the same time, a faint blue light began to emanate from the surface of these tentacles...

"Battle Qi?" As an expert in battle qi, Leona immediately recognized what power the sea monster was using.

Abyss raised an eyebrow in surprise: "Battle aura? This sea monster can actually use battle aura?"

Then, all the tentacles suddenly accelerated, and the aura shining on them suddenly intensified. Three or four hundred spikes, with an unstoppable momentum, stabbed towards Abyss and Leona—the sea monster seemed to be enraged and intended to kill Leona and Abyss!

“I can’t use magic, so we’ll just have to fight it out this time.” Abyss quickly stood back-to-back with Leona and said, “This fishing trip seems to have yielded some unexpected results…we might have angered the overlord of this sea…”

Chapter 252 Biodiversity of the Stormy Sea

No sooner said than done, countless spikes attacked Abyss and Leona from all directions.

"Drink!" Leona immediately enveloped her entire body with battle aura, forming an impenetrable protective layer.

Abyss, on the other hand, took a different approach. His battle aura formed a turbulent flow on the surface of his body, and he intended to shatter any spikes that attacked him.

Boom!

The spikes imbued with fighting spirit clashed head-on with Abyss and Leona's fighting spirit defenses. The two sides' fighting spirits collided instantly, triggering a not-so-small explosion.

The explosion seemed minuscule on the vast ocean, but for Abyss and Leona, who were at its epicenter, it was a different story. In the instant of the explosion, they felt their bodies being squeezed inward by a powerful force of battle aura—the battle aura emanating from this giant sea monster was incredibly strong!

"What is this thing?! Its power is enough to crush many Supreme Aura Warriors!" Leona exclaimed to Abyss in surprise. "How come there are no records of such a thing on the continent?!"

Abyss reactivated his fighting spirit, continuing to shred the tentacles that had been briefly pushed away by the explosion. He then said to Leona, "That's because only living people could bring back the records. I'm afraid anyone who has seen a sea monster of this level has already become fish food!"

“You’re right!” Leona’s protective aura suddenly swelled, pushing away the tentacles that were trying to entangle her—she was getting serious now. “Then let me have a good fight with it! I thought I was just here to bully weaklings, but I didn’t expect to meet a worthy opponent!”

"Roar!!!"

It still hadn't revealed its full form, but judging from the size of its shadow, the giant monster, whose length (excluding tentacles) was at least three or four hundred meters, let out another angry roar. This roar was even more ferocious than before; if there were any ordinary people here, they would probably have bloodied ears and be unable to hear anything by now.

Like the astonished Leona Abyss, the giant sea monster was equally surprised. It was practically invincible in this area, having never encountered an enemy that could withstand its full-force attack unscathed, and even manage to destroy several of its tentacles. The attack, which had initially been full of confidence, failed to achieve its intended effect, leaving the already nascently intelligent sea monster quite disappointed.

The tentacles changed their attack strategy, switching from stabbing to sweeping attacks. The fighting spirit on them also changed shape, making the tentacles more solid and less likely to be destroyed.

Abyss glanced at Leona: "Then let's have you fight it one-on-one?"

"Leave it to me!" Leona declared with high spirits.

"Okay, then I'll..."

Snapped!

Abyss lived up to his word. After Leona confirmed that she would fight the sea monster one-on-one, he lowered his guard. Before he could finish his last sentence, he was whipped around and sent flying by the sea monster's tentacle.

"Leona, hang in there! I'm not hurt—" Abyss's shout drifted over from afar.

"I want to see what you really look like!" Leona knew that the Abyss wouldn't be hurt, so she gritted her teeth and quickly dived into the water.

The surrounding water was automatically pushed aside by Leona's battle aura, allowing her to move underwater with almost no resistance. This enabled her to descend hundreds of meters at an extremely fast speed, at which point the enemy's face finally came into view.

Four pairs of eyes, each as large as a fountain in a palace, stared intently at Leona. Around the eyes was a pockmarked, rough skin, and below were vast tentacles—presumably the sea monster's mouthparts. Numerous tentacles, each an astonishing length, grew from the monster's enormous head; these very tentacles had just formed a cage, surrounding and attacking her and the Abyss.

"Wow, she's really ugly!" Leona quickly gave her assessment.

"Roar!"

The sea monster clearly sensed Leona's emotions, and it let out another deafening roar. Some fish in the nearby waters were even stunned by the roar, their bellies turned white.

This is underwater, the sea monster's home turf. Its hundreds of tentacles reached out to Leona with incredible agility, and the light of its fighting spirit was even brighter than before.

Leona neither dodged nor evaded, but instead assumed a poised stance, her battle aura suddenly erupting in the water. Two enormous wings of battle aura instantly materialized behind her, propelling her towards the sea monster.

This sea monster's battle aura could overwhelm many supreme battle aura masters, yet it couldn't gain the upper hand in its battle against Leona. Upon colliding, Leona's battle aura flames began to tremble violently, but it was the sea monster that truly paid the price—most of its tentacles were instantly severed, and even after losing most of the impact, Leona's body still slammed diagonally upwards into its massive form.

Boom! !

This impact was the result of Leona's attack being blocked, but the enormous force still pushed the hundreds-of-meters-long monster out of control. Ripples spread across the monster's tough skin, and the immense force shattered its two pairs of eyes. Blood and bodily fluids flowed out instantly, turning a large area of ​​seawater murky.

"Roar!" The sea monster roared in pain, mixed with fear.

A direct confrontation with a serious Leona made it realize just how terrifying Leona's power was, and its instincts kicked in with fear.

The sea monster sprayed a large amount of black ink directly at Leona, and its body fled away from Leona without regard for the consequences.

Leona was caught off guard by the spray of ink and frantically tried to brush it away, while the sea monster escaped several hundred meters in those few seconds.

However, its equally powerful escape skills did not save its life.

In the middle of its escape, suddenly a huge mouth, even larger than its body and with several rows of fangs, rose from the seabed, bit it down, and swallowed the struggling creature whole in no time.

Everyone on the Moonlight was completely dumbfounded.

Everyone originally thought that the giant tentacle monster, which was three or four hundred meters long, was the only overlord of this sea area. Unexpectedly, it was not the top of the food chain. There was a huge creature that could swallow it whole.

Soaking to the bone, Abyss sat on the railing at the bow of the ship, drying his hair with a towel Flora handed him, and exclaimed, "I underestimated the diversity of life in the Storm Sea... This is really... so interesting..."

Chapter 253 The Functions of Eganda

"I'm back!"

Leona leaped back onto the ship from the sea, dragging a rope with a sea monster about twenty or thirty meters long attached to it.

"The sea monster was eaten by other sea monsters, and then the sea monster that ate it ran away. I thought it was better not to catch it, as it would be difficult to study later. So I caught a slightly smaller sea monster for you."

Leona addressed everyone on the ship.

Leona has now truly experienced the power of the Stormy Sea. Even Leona had to be serious to defeat that tentacle monster, so the sea monster that could swallow her whole must be incredibly powerful. Some of the deformed creatures spawned by the Stormy Sea's raging magic have already exceeded human comprehension.

Leona, though fond of fighting, knew it was best to avoid battling the colossal sea monster now. A direct confrontation would create a huge commotion, potentially alerting the Council of the Dead and ruining the Abyss's plans. She'd challenge it another time.

So, Leona searched the surrounding waters, caught an unlucky ordinary sea monster, slapped it unconscious, tied a rope to it, and pulled it back. She wanted to show it to everyone before throwing it into Helheim. The researchers in Helheim had already prepared a fishpond to raise the sea monster, just waiting for Leona to throw it in.

Just as Leona was proudly showing off her spoils, she suddenly noticed that everyone's gaze seemed a little strange.

"Wha...what's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something strange about me?"

“Leona…you…pfft…” Rebecca couldn’t help but laugh.

Flora rushed over and handed Leona a mirror.

Leona held up the mirror and glanced inside.

"Ouch! How come the ink is still on me?!"

The mirror reflected Leona, whose entire body was stained black with ink. The ink was so black that Leona couldn't even make out the outlines of her body; she was a pitch-black silhouette, with only her emerald green eyes, white teeth, and pink tongue visible through her open mouth.

"The sea monster's ink is really good quality. It's waterproof and so black that it doesn't reflect light at all." Rebecca finally came up and used a glass scraper to scrape around Leona's face, leaving Leona with a messy, cat-like face.

"Quickly wash away this ink!" Leona exclaimed, jumping up and down in anger. "If that sea monster hadn't died, I would definitely have gone back and given it a good beating!"

"Let me wipe you down with a towel." Flora caught up at this moment, holding a large bath towel in her hands, and helped Leona wipe off the waterproof ink on her body.

Just as Leona was cleaning the ink stains off herself, Sheila walked up beside her. She held her Ergunda in front of her eyes, looking through it at the sea monster still tied to the ship by Leona's rope.

Sheila didn't stay idle during her travels; she kept practicing using the Ergunda to see things.

The Ergunda is indeed a very magical device; it can distort light in a certain way before transmitting it to the user's eyes. This distorted light enhances Sheila's innate talent, allowing her to see through more disguises.

For example, she uses Eganda to see what everyone looks like when they're naked. This function might sound like it would only benefit perverts, but it can actually be quite useful when dealing with people who are using disguises or are dressed very conservatively.

Furthermore, things that were hidden would become very conspicuous in her field of vision. Sophia's folding knife hidden under her shoe insole, Rebecca's false tooth with a potion inside after she knocked out one of her teeth, and Leona's delicious-looking little fish that she had caught at some point and was now hiding in her pocket—all of these could be seen clearly.

However, this observation is not casual. Whenever Sheila's ability is activated, she feels dizzy and weak, and even her hands and feet become clumsy. It seems that all the energy in her body is supplied to her vision.

"Sheila, how's your practice going with Eganda?" Abyss asked, noticing Sheila looking in the direction of the sea monster. "Is there anything about this sea monster that we can't see?"

Sheila turned her head and smiled at the Abyss: "Using the Eganda isn't actually difficult, it's just that you'll feel very tired when you use it. When I look at the sea monster through the Eganda, I can see the sea monster's original form."

"The prototype?" Abis was somewhat surprised. "Does that mean that in your talents, mutation also falls under the category of disguise?"