Chapter 39: Aftermath

Chapter 39 - 39: Aftermath—---------------- Chapter-39 —---------------- Deep inside the vast Sea, one huge creature was lying on the bottom, it was bigger than any sea king that Yoriichi ever encountered. But this creature doesn't move even an inch as it is lying like it's dead, meanwhile, all the other sea creatures look like popcorn compared to this huge creature in size. Suddenly the creature opened his eyes revealing its sharp shining golden colour eyes and as the creature slowly started to move. Due to its sudden movements, not only the water but nearby islands started to shake and Sabaody Archipelago was one of those islands, even though this creature only started to just move its body. Unfortunately for this creature even though it wanted to go on the surface, it's huge body weight is so heavy that it can't even go upward 1 inch. But this creature has several tentacles that are big enough to reach the surface without having to move its massive body. And that's exactly what this creature did as this sea king stretched his arms to its fullest resulting in earthquakes and tsunamis in that area. ..... On the surface... Right now many marine ships are moving towards Sabaody Archipelago but unfortunately for them, current conditions allow them. The current sea is too unstable due to that creature making it extremely hard to reach their destination. Waves in the sea were so strong that even the ship was continuously damaged by accidentally crashing into each other. "Why the hell are sea waves so strong in such calm weather!?!" One navigator on one of these marine ships couldn't help but ask this to himself in a very frustrated tone. Because a few moments ago, the sea was very calm with clear weather and everything was going alright until suddenly the sea started to become more chaotic than ever making their ships go out of control. Even though they're trying their best to not clash with each other, it's not used because waves are just too strong and because of the damage to the ships. Some ships even begin to sink since the water is now coming into their ships through the cracks caused by this. Unknowingly to them something much more dangerous than just strong waves coming towards them and yet they were totally unaware of it but it is already too late for them now. *THUD!!* Suddenly the exact water surface under one of the ships completely got destroyed into pieces by a huge tentacle that came out from below that ship Not only that but the impact was so strong that even surrounding ships completely sank into the sea. Everyone started to panic as they became frightened at this sight because they had never seen something this big in their entire lives. But soon some come back to their senses since no matter what they still are navy soldiers and receive training from the navy which makes them different from ordinary citizens. The soldiers who came back to their senses ordered people to ready their cannons to fire since they knew the only way out of this was to kill this thing otherwise, they had no other way to survive this. They all started to do what had been told as they ready the cannons while they contacted Navy Headquarters to give them information about their current situation. They also tried their best to get away from the tentacle but it was futile since the sea didn't allow them to do what they wanted. The more the tentacle moved the more ships were destroyed into pieces as screams could be heard of people on those ships. Even though they are navy soldiers, they are also people, so it's natural that they are also afraid of dying. And it's even worse for people who are devil fruit users on those ships since they can't swim in the sea, so the chances of them surviving are literally near zero. After minutes of preparation, all the remaining ships fire the cannons at once towards the giant tentacle as a result multiple explosions occur on the tentacle making it harder for anyone to see the aftermath of all the cannons. "Did that thing die... ?" One of the navy soldiers couldn't help but ask this as suddenly tentacle movement midway stopped after all those explosions. Since the tentacle was so big, they mistook it for a weird sea creature instead of a tentacle and not to mention they didn't even have time to think about what this thing was. *THUD!!!* But as they were about to celebrate thinking that they managed to kill it and thinking they were finally safe, suddenly another very strong wave started to hit, destroying another marine ship. Because another tentacle came below that ship, making all of them stunned they couldn't help but think there was more than one of these things here. They were about to reload their cannons again since now they have the confidence to defeat this one too. But this confidence didn't last long as more and more tentacles started to come to the surface turning their confidence into helplessness. "J-just how ma-many of t-those t-things a-are there..?!" one navy soldier asked them in a shuttering voice since even speaking seems a very difficult task right now. "That thing is also alive?!?" another shouted as the tentacle they thought they killed suddenly started to move again making all of them lose hope. They could only stare at this scene with helplessness in their eyes until all the tentacles started to move towards them like death coming towards them. They couldn't help but wonder why this is happening to them now as they regret their decision to join the Navy since Navy soldiers also have families. so none of them want to die here but unfortunately, it's too late as one of the tentacles is already going to hit them. *SMASH!* ..... Back at Sabaody Archipelago... *POUR!* A huge man with a big axe throws the cold water bucket on the unconscious kizaru who got knocked out by Yoriichi. Kizaru came back conscious as the first thing he saw was the huge man who had just thrown cold water on him without any mercy. —------------------------------------------------------ Join the discord to ask any question or to make friends: [ Link:- invite/yNUvd79Z3U Sёarch* The novёlF~ire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. To read Advanced Chapters here is my patreon link: [ Link:- /6Shinigami9 ]