Chapter 150 Meeting I

Ultimately, it was decided that all the rankers would moving out in a few days as one giant attack force to fight in the waters in order to finish off the sea monsters.

Days went by, and the day for the attack force soon came. They all moved out and began their duty at once without wasting much time. This time, Victor didn’t follow along as there was no need for him to. He trusted his people not to die, even though they later can’t handle the monsters.

“They have left, a few minutes ago.” A young man reported to Victor as he sat in his office chair.

“Good. We will keep in touch with them and stay updated. You may leave now.” Victor said before reclining into his chair.

He had been thinking of going back into the cave in the secluded village, but he kept having this feeling that something worth his time would come up, so he stayed. At least, for the moment, he will check things personally.

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Two days went by, and the report Under Current was getting from their people was quite unexpected. Victor already knew of the situation to an extent since he had sent out a recon team before the expedition began, but the members of Under Current that joined the attack force were reporting more information.

Firstly, the monsters were way stronger than they were on land, which was what everyone knew, but the interesting part was next. The sea monsters might not actually be monsters from some dungeon or gate, as they bore plenty similarities to normal earthly aquatic life.

The monsters looked more like mutated sea creatures than monsters from dungeons. This singular discovery, was very important.

It would seem that not only animals on land changed, even the ones in the seas had evolved. Humanity really is ignorant. They spend all their time trying to understand the secrets of the skies and cosmos while they have yet to even understand their own backyard.

This information quickly spread amongst the top organizations and hunter guilds. The job was no longer to find and eradicate a dungeon outbreak, it had changed.

Seeing that the aquatic life had changed so much, everyone really wondered just how much it had changed. For all they knew, they were still around the surface of the ocean, and as sea life went, it only got scarier the deeper one goes.

Another thing at that moment, was what exactly was causing the agitation of the sea life. It was more like they were being pushed or influenced by some external force than anything, or the evolution just messed with their normal behavior. The human scientists also thought of this, but the fact that they not done anything unusual up until that moment, suggested that there was something else at play.

“We have to check all around. Maybe someone dropped some kind of waste product that could have such an effect on the sea creatures.” One of the scientists said, as many gathered around a large meeting table. Around this table sat different top leading powers in the world at that moment, though not all.

For example, Victor wasn’t there.

The scientists did their searches, but didn’t find any such material traceable in the waters.

The fanatics of the Razhin faith were requested help from, but they believed the sea monsters to be evil, so they never agreed to help except it was fighting the monsters, which they took no break from.

Back when this whole thing started, they refused to join in, and left the science faction to take care of everything, until they must have gotten confirmation from one of their gods, after which they branded the monsters to be evil and began their assault.

The battle went on for some time with no progress even after rankers around the globe banded together.

The more the war raged, the stronger the creatures got, but that wasn’t the case for the humans, they only tired.

Sharks bigger than the rumored Megalodon began appearing, and sea monsters even scarier than Crakens also appeared. The entire fight was simply a losing one.

Ultimately, the humans gave up, and they completely abandoned the oceans and seas. All they could do was station some people close to the shores to stop the occasional intrusions. The oceans and seas and even other big water bodies became a no go area for anyone and everyone., and things stayed like this for another two whole months.

After that time, something very unexpected happened, something that no one would expect. A humanoid sea creature, though it would be an understatement to call it a mere creature, came out of the waters, and spoke human language to the understanding of those who had been kept to watch over the shores.

This creature called itself Smilrah and labelled itself an envoy of the underwater ruler. He didn’t exactly say it like so, but that was basically it.

It invited the leaders of the world above to come to their residence, where they shall agree with each other a way to resolve the current crisis, if not, the land and those on it shall suffer.

Those were in line with what the envoy said, and the manner in which he did showed some form of arrogance. Though so, the smart ones will not think that is how all the sea creatures wilt intelligence behave.

Either way, the humans agreed to the meeting. As the race with over 96 percent of people on earth at the moment, humans took it upon themselves to represent the earth’s surface.

During the time of all these happenings, Victor had left for the cave he found some time earlier. The second time around he came more prepared and went deep enough that he eventually ran into a person.

Both had a conversation, but the other would frequently make fun of Victor for being weak. If Victor tried to argue, it would be futile since he couldn’t use his skills.

Throughout that entire experience, there was one thing that stuck with Victor, and that was the fact that, when it came to strength, he still had a long way to go. Be it physical or mental, he was bested no stress.

“You dare to call yourself strong with such level of skill.. That’s really arrogant don’t you think?’

“What do you mean? Just because you beat me a couple of times doesn’t mean you will be better when the restraints are off.” Said Victor.

‘Don’t worry yourself, the moment you see it, you will know.’ Victor remembered what he was told that day before he never saw the man again.