Chapter 98 - Giganto

The unknown creature crashed into the underside of the ship, sending it flying into the sky, smashing through many layers of the shielding just shy of the last few as it followed the launched ship out of the water.

The now airborne ship was hurtling through the sky ever higher, doing a few spins along the way, allowing everyone on board to witness not only the monster but how far from the ground/sea they were getting.

There would have been endless screams to listen to if Theoric hadn't encased them so tightly. The only screams anyone heard was their own.

The creature resembled a giant s.p.e.r.m whale over 150' long with the only notable difference besides the size were 4 large appendages, two at its rear for legs, and two in the front for arms.

Theoric looked down at the behemoth as the ship flipped over, watching it open its jaws in an attempt to catch them for when they came back down.

Seeing his chance he instantly started to create giant spears, shooting them down the gullet of the beast which wailed in agony with its whale-like noises.

He then detached his legs from the ship, pushing himself down towards the creature, punching it right in the nose, only for the blubber to render the impact all but meaningless as it didn't affect it at all.

The others watched on helplessly as they prayed for their lives.

Their upward momentum coming to an end as they began the fall back down.

Theoric jumped off the whale, back towards the boat to help stabilize it, and once again reinforce the shields so they wouldn't die on impact.

Seeing they were falling towards the same area as the whale which was already breaching back into the water causing a giant splash and a huge amount of upturned water, making the sea chaotic.

Theoric concentrated his energy keeping the ship upright and willing it to move away to a safer area to land.

It's been a while since he worked himself so hard outside of training. Still feeling great, and ready to go, he grinned, enjoying the results of his work,

It was a good thing too since the whale monster wanted revenge. Surfacing it glared at the tiny boat, straight at the man who injured it.

Theoric heard the whale roar as it angrily splashed the water with its hands, still feeling the painful damage the spears caused to its insides.

The ladies wanted to be free to help, but Theoric was far too busy to pay them any mind as he prepared for the next charge.

Sigyn used her ring's telepathic connection- 'Theo...'

'Not now Sigyn! It's coming back.' Theoric said staring at the whale monster picking up speed to ram them from behind.

After Reinforcing as best he could, he maneuvered the sails to catch what wind it could, so the ship would begin moving to help reduce any rear impact. Patiently waiting for the whale to get closer as he began to apply more protection to the back while simultaneously extending it to a point. Not forgetting to secure his legs to the ship again so he doesn't get separated.

By the time the whale reached them, Theoric made the entire back into one big spike that impaled itself into the whale's blubber as it smacked into them.

The spike was just long enough to make it past its blubbering defense and inflict pain, forcing the whale to stop as it instinctively shook its head to get the ship off while failing to reach the front of its face with its arms as it widely swung them around trying to remove it.

Despite everyone on the ship still being secured in Theoric's barriers, they were still getting dizzy from the quick back and forth movements. Many of them passing out due to the whole ordeal being beyond what they could comprehend. They were just mere mortals caught up in a battle of gods as far as they were concerned.

The ship eventually slipped off and was sent skipping across the water.

Theoric making sure it stayed upright as he thought of a new plan, gazing at those giant eyes. He knew whales used echolocation, but that didn't mean the eyes weren't a good target to hit even if it didn't completely blind them.

He shot a spear toward the whale's left eye only for the creature to block it with its arm.

Theoric frowned wondering why this creature was so hell-bent on killing them as he saw it heading towards the boat for another go before diving below. He hoped it wasn't getting ready to launch them into the air again.

Looking over the edge, Theoric cursed, gritted his teeth in anger- "Damn it, can't you think of something new?"

The whale monster surprised by the sudden increase of speed coming from the boat didn't miss anything as it changed tactics shifting its direction to come up behind the ship, shooting out of the water in an attempt to land right on top.

Theoric immediately changed the direction of the ship to dodge, just missing the falling whale, but he forgot about the arm that reached out and managed to clip the ship, dragging it under.

The whale creature on top of the water was imposing, but underwater it was truly terrifying, it was a sight to behold seeing the creature completely in its natural environment.

Theoric never felt smaller than he did now, completely out of his element as he tried to get the ship back to the surface only for the whale to use its arms to smack it further down.

Seeing the whale playing with him now, put Theoric further on edge as his anger rose.

He had enough, gathering a massive amount of power he formed his own giant man around the ship to fight the sea beast.

His giant energy man caught the incoming right arm of the creature and then sent a right hook of its own towards the beast.

Completely flabbergasted, at the emergence of this unknown giant that appeared out of nowhere, the whale monster didn't even defend against the incoming fist that slammed into its guts, reigniting the earlier injuries the spears caused, making the whale cough up blood.

Theoric seeing his chance didn't hesitate to shove his energy man's right arm into the mouth of the beast and then focused the entirety of his power on the hand as the rest of his energy man's body began to crumble.

The Whale monster went berserk as it tried its best to remove the blockage and close its mouth, but its arms couldn't reach well enough and its jaws were held up by spikes so biting down was also extremely painful.

With the mouth held open, Theoric was able to take control of each of the greatswords within the body and began to will them around causing a much more significant amount of damage.

Losing its mind from how much pain it was in, the whale no longer cared as it bit down to stop the madness.

Theoric sensing the hand cracking dropped his focus on the swords and put all his power into reinforcing and expanding the hand. Morphing it into an expanding ball of spikes, growing it down the mouth of the beast, like a spiked vine overgrowing inside and out, taking the opportunity to send offshoots to attack the now vulnerable eyes as the whale concentrated on removing the blockage from its mouth.

After spending so much energy and losing so much blood, it's inside nothing but a destroyed mess of internal organs, it's eyes now gouged out, the monster finally died.

Theoric watched in relief as the sea beast sunk into the depths.