Chapter 56: Chapter 39: I Became a Whale
White clouds flew all the way, Chun approached the Silver Sea.
The inevitable has finally come—system notification: Congratulations! Your advanced module combination skill has been upgraded to level 10...
Very good, now that it’s level 10, can being an expert be far off?
Here you’re basically close to some merchant ship routes; the small boat cannot be seen by passing merchant ships, decisively let go of the fishing rod and threw it away. I believe the surrounding sea monsters have all entered the battlefield, even drifting is safe.
The tidal power began to slow down, the horizon of the sea subtly erupted with thunderous explosions.
Chun was stunned, this is a magic cannon! With such a formation, it must be the regular navy of Silver City?
It got closer and closer, already seeing the distant sails—Holy Shit, there are five or six! And the big one in the middle is beyond expectations, it’s definitely not something a whale can overturn, the difficulty is way higher than imagined! What to do?
But the waters ahead are a floating blood-red, filled with various things!
Chun ignored most of that: "Look, it’s food! Eat and fill up first!"
The whale was even more excited: "The taste of tuna! I thought I could never catch up to it, never have the chance to eat it!"
Holy Shit, it can actually blow up a never-ceasing tuna! The feature of sea monsters is not how high their stats are, but they run away and are especially hard to kill. If not for being hit by this mermaid’s hypnotic summon, would it still fearlessly charge towards the cannon mouth?
That’s fine, the fiercer the opponent’s firepower, the more dead sea monsters, the more food—The key is, this is not ordinary food, these are all Boss-level sea monsters! Boss eats Boss, it might as well ascend and become a Kun! If it can advance, it has a chance.
Swam closer, ahead is a large piece of fresh meat emitting rainbow light floating.
Chun was amazed: "What is this?"
Aileen knew well: "My god, it’s the imperial tribute ingredient, possessing seven flavors of sweet, sour, spicy, salty rainbow cuisine! Even as a duke, the City Lord is not entitled to eat it, otherwise if the Emperor knew, he would be charged with disrespect!"
Chun was surprised: "You said five flavors?"
"There are two more flavors without taste! One tasteless is plain water without fragrance, really no taste. The other exceeds the human taste bud perception limit, making it impossible to determine the flavor—"
Before finishing, the whale rushed up and swallowed it in one gulp!
Umm... perhaps tasteless also means gulp it down?
But the next moment, Chun’s vision seemed to see the whale’s soul space again, the sky became lit with magnificent clouds, a rainbow spanning between heaven and sea...
Is this the feeling of happiness? Not just that, clouds pierced by a thousand golden swords, the sea turns golden as if plated with a layer of gold armor—this is the feeling of power! Chun visibly sees the nearby wounds starting to heal!
Chun ecstatic: "We don’t eat normal meat, just eat the tribute, to ascend and become stronger!"
The whale excitedly spouted a water column straight into the sky: "I smelled the crab yolk aroma of the Sea Emperor crab! Also the liver oil aroma of the Giant-tooth Shark, and the scorched electric aroma of the giant electric ray..."
Chun is genuinely happy: "Quickly, quickly!"
This is way better than the bat eating those chaotic high-end stuff in the sewer! Sorry for Aileen.
...
At this moment, Sariel looked at the magic crystal screen completely dumbfounded: "It’s not coming to fight, it’s stealing my precious materials!!"
The steward could completely confirm: "Ordinary sea monsters don’t have this intelligence, it must be the design of the Divine Presence Corps. The mermaid’s anomaly must be related to this whale’s design!"
Sariel was furious: "Get me the Divine Team on the phone, ask about this whale’s attributes!"
"Understood."
...
At this time, the Young Master was extremely anxious about the water prison’s crystal bat battle situation, people died one after another, stones were dug out one after another, but the thing resembling a Magic Stone was never found. Does the entire collapsed passageway have to be moved through?
Just then the phone rang, it was Sariel from the second family!
The Young Master leapt up and called the team: "Everyone quiet, not a peep!"
Compared to the calm-as-ice Michael of the first family, Sariel is unpredictable; trouble people without reason.
The Young Master calmed his emotions and respectfully answered the call: "Lord Sariel!"
But the voice from the other side was gentle: "I’m the steward, the Lord is losing his temper, I’ll represent him, first receive the pictures."
The Young Master breathed a sigh of relief, then the pictures arrived, he couldn’t help but be shocked: "What is this?"
The steward asked: "Is this not the missing whale from your consortium?"
The Young Master was dazed: "Yes! But it had barnacle armor, the barnacles are gone! How did it get injured like this?"
"That’s not the point, the point is it was summoned by the Lord’s mermaid to the Silver Sea trying to rescue the mermaid, you understand, such existence is what we call intervention NPC! Provide the attribute parameters immediately..."
How did it come to this!?
The Young Master trembled all over: "To facilitate us getting this package, the whale’s template was set as old, sick, its attack, blood, defense is actually only A-grade level. But to prevent it being killed by strong NPCs first, we set its personality as cautious, demon alert, and extremely high magic resistance—"
The steward’s tone changed: "Foolish! Lowering attack, blood, defense to A-grade would mean some other attribute will compensate to super S-grade! The old template plus demon alert might evolve it into a divine attribute opposed to demons, now it’s interacting with the mermaid and devouring other sea monster corpses trying to advance, this intelligence already far exceeds other sea monsters! Its high magic resistance will also reduce the effect of magic cannons, once it disrupts the Lord’s actions, you know how to make amends?"
The Young Master’s legs went weak and trembled all over: "Steward Lord, its physical defense is low, the previous design idea was to use barnacles as armor, now the barnacles are gone... I believe Lord Sariel can definitely handle it!"
The steward coldly snorted and hung up the phone: "Wait for notification!"
The Young Master was so frightened that he collapsed in his chair, and the entire command team remained silent.
...
At this moment, Sariel’s think tank quickly analyzed the Whale’s various attributes and deduced three conclusions, formulating tactics:
1. The Whale’s huge blood indents are obvious signs of a recent battle with a giant Octopus, as only the powerful suckers of a giant Octopus could forcibly tear the barnacle armor covering the Whale’s body. This process is highly damaging, and the Whale’s current state is closer to a dying survival instinct, which is why it seeks food first, rather than fighting.
Under such circumstances, the Whale’s high Magic Resistance is an advantage. It can withstand the power of a Magic Cannon without dying, allowing the Magic Cannon to load the "Magic Net Binding" magic and directly capture it alive.
2. The Whale has continuously consumed two pieces of rare ingredients, so its target is actually very simple, which is the 3rd and 4th pieces—current preparation time allows the entire fleet’s Magic Cannon to aim at the floating position of the 4th piece, making it easier to hit the Whale than any other Sea Monster.
3. The trawler fleet is encircling into position; as long as the Whale is bound with chains, it can assist in capturing it alive...
Sariel was very satisfied with the team’s analysis: "Very good! Very detailed!"
Then his expression changed as he angrily slammed the reporting staff: "Too much nonsense! The third piece is almost eaten!"
...
At this moment, the Whale had eaten three pieces of rare ingredients, and its entire Soul Space was filled with rainbow brilliance!
Chun seemed to see several transparent shadows moving in the sea: "What is this?"
The Whale was very happy: "Tuna’s soul! Giant-tooth Shark’s soul! And Sea Emperor Crab’s soul."
Holy Shit! What is this?
Aileen said solemnly: "It should be the same as my situation."
Understood, Aileen was eaten by the Cannibal Fish King, and thus her soul was bound. These three Sea Monsters are the same; their souls are also bound by the Whale. That also means these three Sea Monster souls can later be released like Aileen?
No time to think more, the Whale targeted the 4th piece: "Giant Electric Ray!"
But it’s already in the center of the battlefield, Chun decisively acted: "I’ll handle it!"
The Whale trusted greatly: "I’ve eaten and am too tired; I want to sleep. I’ll leave it to you!"
In the next moment, the Whale’s Soul Space descended the sunset, and the sky was filled with stars.
——System prompt: You and Aileen are fully entrenched in the Whale’s body, capable of controlling the Whale’s actions. You have acquired the Whale’s passive skill: Sonar.
Sonar: Can locate and navigate over long distances, paging, and echo listening to determine target position.
...
I’ve turned into a Whale!
At this moment, Chun’s game operation interface completely turned into the Whale’s first-person perspective, and a small world map, a mini terrain map, a current area perception map, and a particularly demonic alert map appeared.
Chun was shocked! Are these related to sonar maps? Four complexities, is this meant to be a submarine operator? It’s dizzying!
So, what is the difference between sonar and the bat’s radar?
Chun urgently asked Aileen: "Can you activate the sound wave radar?"
Aileen seemed equally eager: "Activate!"
In an instant, a transparent distant perspective directly covered the entire sea, even hundreds of meters underwater!
Aileen exclaimed: "Using the Whale’s body to launch skills, how many times stronger it is than you!"
Chun completely unable to adapt to the operations of two systems: "You’re right, can you handle using the radar and sonar?"
Aileen snorted: "Leave it to me, perhaps the Whale’s ability has a huge enlightening effect on my bat’s ability."
Chun felt very gratified, it’s great to have NPC assistance.
——Demon alert sonar prompt: detected magic power fluctuations in the high altitude, threat level: ignored.
Chun jerked up: "What is this?"
Aileen checked: "There is something flying at 1,000 meters above our heads, it seems we’ve been under high-altitude surveillance the whole time."
High-tech! It means they’ve long been watching me and making battle plans—Hmm?
Chun’s radar view saw a player using a telescope to observe himself at the warship’s window—player? Sariel!
Holy Shit World no. 2! The game is developed by their family. This is a privileged top master, so they can dispatch such high-end NPC fleets!
Chun’s scalp tingled, nearly wanting to turn and run!
Chun stared at the radar: "Where is my little boat?"
Aileen pointed to the world small map: "Here is the Whale, there is your small boat, 60 nautical miles apart."
Facing the thousand meters aerial reconnaissance, it’s still not far enough! There’s no room for retreat; otherwise, just a follow-up search would surely find the small boat, and I would be exposed!
I’ve got to go for it!
My current biggest advantage is that they don’t know I’m a player; I can pretend to be an NPC Sea Monster. And their biggest problem is exactly that they are players, surely using tactics for NPC Sea Monsters, which in turn could give me a chance! Otherwise, there’s absolutely no way to deal with these high-end magic warships.