Because the bait had been eaten, the fisherman naturally reeled in the line.
It was as if a deity was fishing from the sky; when the slender fishing line tensed, the Evil God's tentacle, originally set on targeting the People of the Sea again, was promptly lifted and then inextricably dragged upwards until it vanished into the void.
With the dragging away of this tentacle, the massive dark shadow lurking beneath the sea was forced to emerge. It was a colossal green monster with the head of an octopus, the body of a giant, and a pair of relatively small wings on its back. And that terrifying tentacle was merely one among many that hung from its body like whiskers.