Somewhere in the endless azure ocean, ten thousand meters below the surface.
In such deep-sea areas, the thick water layer completely blocks out the sunlight, leaving the icy cold and dark waters illuminated only by some peculiar, translucent little fish emitting faint glows.
Under the dim glow.
Amidst the rugged seabed littered with strange rocks, a huge green silhouette can be vaguely seen.
After a period of recuperation, the state of Nagakabouros has improved significantly. In fact, it could leave the deep sea to hunt and enslave beasts once again.
The reason for its hesitation.
Even after its wounds had healed, Nagakabouros remained hidden in the deep sea due to its cautious nature.
It was also aware of the other demigods' wariness towards it.
After becoming enemies with a being like itself, the opponent would definitely not miss a rare opportunity to kill it.
Thus, Nagakabouros used the vast and deep ocean to hide.
Its strong tentacles spread across the seabed, unmoved by the pressure of the surging seawater, as if it had become an inanimate object.
"Stupid demigods, thinking of killing me?"
"First, try to find me."
Nagakabouros was satisfied with its method of concealing its presence. With the breadth of the deep sea, it felt very safe.
However.
Not long after.
The hidden Nagakabouros suddenly sensed unusual movements in the seawater.
Splash!
It seemed as though a large creature had entered the ocean.
As a sea beast accustomed to living in the ocean, it was extremely sensitive to even the slightest currents and vibrations. Without needing to use its eyes, just through the vibrations of the water, it could sketch out the size and shape of the creature from a distance.
Following the slight water vibrations, Nagakabouros sensed the outline of the newcomers.
First was a dragon with wings, followed by a giant bear with thick limbs. Nagakabouros's heart tightened.
"How did they find me here?"
After entering the ocean, the other party moved through the water, heading straight towards its location. This made Nagakabouros tense up, clearly, the opponent knew where it was hiding.
Without hesitation.
Nagakabouros moved.
Its tentacles released a powerful force, swirling in the sea like windmills, creating a tremendous propulsion force. Like a turbocharged vortex, the giant sea beast shot out like a rocket.
On the other side.
The silver dragon that had just entered the water immediately discovered Nagakabouros's movement through a time mark.
"It's too late to run now."
Garon shook his head slightly, not in a hurry.
Besides a few terrestrial demigods, there were also a seal nun and a sea spider demigod, who were helpers brought by the seal nun, participating in the encirclement of Nagakabouros.
With this.
A total of eight demigods had already laid a trap around Nagakabouros's hiding place. No matter which direction it fled, there would be a demigod to stop it.
Although Nagakabouros was powerful, after losing its enslaved beasts,
It was not an easy task to shake off the entanglement of another demigod of the same level.
Just after a short half a minute.
In the deep sea area to the east of Garon and Volibear and other demigods, suddenly, a series of tumultuous undercurrents erupted. The battle of demigod creatures at the bottom of the sea caused the originally calm sea surface to rise with waves and waves, and many dangerous ocean whirlpools visibly spawned.
Boom boom boom!
Several green tentacles, nearly a thousand meters long, broke through the surface, soaring into the sky, stirring up tons of seawater like giant sea pythons, resembling water tornadoes connecting the sea and sky.
Nagakabouros's figure emerged from the sea surface.
At the same time.
A giant god-transformed cyan wolf, over seven hundred meters long, also broke through the water.
The giant wolf howled towards the sky, and a sharp and cold hurricane burst out immediately, scraping against Nagakabouros's body, leaving countless laceration-like wounds on its slick surface.
Before Nagakabouros's wounds could heal and regenerate,
Endless seawater condensed into a net-like structure. The highly compressed seawater turned into unbreakable heavy water chains, enveloping Nagakabouros from all directions.
The sea spider, with its slender and sturdy limbs, treaded on the sea surface, pulling the giant net.
After a series of strikes, Nagakabouros was restrained on the spot for a moment.
It struggled desperately to break free from the entanglement of the two demigods.
However, in a short amount of time, the other six demigods from different directions arrived one after another, appearing in Nagakabouros's field of vision. Seeing that there were a total of eight demigods, Nagakabouros's heart tightened, showing a look of despair.
Not to mention now.
Even at its most powerful, reviving all its enslaved beasts, it was no match for eight demigods.
Next, thunderstorms, winter ice crystals, scorching primal fire, and other diverse divine-like power attacks fell on Nagakabouros, hitting it continuously.
The sea area centered on Nagakabouros.
At this moment, due to the demigods' attacks, it had become a forbidden death zone with divine power surging and howling. The chaotic divine power contained within was enough to make any demigod tremble with fear, unwilling to venture into.
Boom!
Nagakabouros, in a desperate attempt, used all its divine-like power to break free from the numerous restraints and bindings.
Its battered body, emitting a faint green glow, fled at an extremely fast speed.
Seeing this, the silver dragon soaring in the sky narrowed its eyes and took out a world rune.
"Nagakabouros."
"If you want the power of the world rune, try it first."
Magic was injected into it, and a blue light ball expanded and appeared again.
This time, Garon did not infuse as much magic as before, and with a higher degree of intimacy with the world rune, he could more significantly influence and control it.
His psychic power locked onto Nagakabouros.
The surface of the blue light ball rippled with flickering electric arcs.
Zap!
The blue arc light flashed and disappeared.
In an instant, Nagakabouros, already dozens of miles away, let out a pained scream. A wound that split open its flesh appeared on its forehead, revealing the slightly wriggling brain tissue inside.
Before Nagakabouros could recover, thousands of interwoven electric arcs fell on its body.
Some of the electric arc's remnants swept across the ocean, and the surging magical power directly tore open a huge gap in the sea, evaporating countless seawater. In places where the seabed was shallow, the torn sea floor could almost be seen. However, at the same time, more seawater from the surroundings rushed in, filling the gap torn by the world rune.
"You can control the world rune?"
The seal nun looked at Nagakabouros, enveloped in the power of the rune, with a look of amazement, then turned to Garon with her moist eyes.
Garon nodded slightly.
As time passed, the struggle of Nagakabouros became weaker and weaker.
When the world rune finally calmed down, a horrifically mutilated corpse, barely recognizable, floated to the surface.
The destructive power of the world rune was indeed high.
Even a demigod creature struck by its magical arcs was left with no advantage, and combined with the prior attacks from the other demigods, Nagakabouros thus died under the power of the very world rune it sought.
Garon flapped his dragon wings, approaching the remains of Nagakabouros.
He exhaled the Breath of Time Disintegration, covering and passing over Nagakabouros's corpse inch by inch.
Together with a large amount of surrounding seawater, Nagakabouros's corpse was turned into nothingness within the Breath of Time Disintegration, like a simple drawing erased from the board, leaving not a single trace behind.
After doing all this, Garon released a tangible psychic force, sweeping through the surrounding sea area.
After searching back and forth for a while and finding no anomalies, Garon retracted his psychic force.
Then, he looked towards the seal nun and said, "Nagakabouros is dead. You no longer need to worry about your safety."
The seal nun, who had been living in fear, could now breathe a sigh of relief.
The seal nun showed a smile and said, "I am grateful for your willingness to lend a hand."
"Nagakabouros was an ambitious demigod. Its death is a good thing for the ocean."
Even without the matter of the world rune, Nagakabouros's reputation was not good.
At that moment, Ornn, standing amidst a cloud of fire in the sky, said to the seal nun, "The channel you brought was very useful."
The seal nun nodded slightly, smiling gently, "If there's anything else you need my help with in the future, come find me in the ocean."
As the dust settled.
After a brief conversation, the seal nun and the sea spider disappeared into the vast depths of the ocean, while Garon and the other terrestrial demigods left the ocean, returning to their continental territories.
Time gradually passed.
In the midst of the cool sea breeze, the sun sank, and the night sky, like a black velvet cloth, took over the bright daylight. The clear sea surface reflected the myriad stars and the bright moon, together forming a beautiful seascape.
The sea surface rippled gently.
Among the ripples, a faint green glow gathered, and a mini octopus slowly emerged.
The octopus was only a few inches in size, entirely transparent without a physical body, its body texture appearing like a green jelly, undulating with the waves, weak as if it could not withstand a single wave.
With its body destroyed and its soul force flickering like a candle in the wind, Nagakabouros looked viciously in the direction the demigods had departed.
"You all wait for me!"
"I, Nagakabouros, will return."
A wave surged, flipping the defiant mini octopus into the sea.
The former ocean tyrant, a powerful sea beast, now tumbled several times in the waves before stabilizing its tiny body.
Nagakabouros had never felt so weak.
Though it desperately wanted revenge, it knew that for its current state, such thoughts were nothing but daydreams. With its injuries so severe, it might take thousands to millions of years to recover its former glory, if it didn't die in some unknown corner in the meantime.
Thinking this, Nagakabouros's face showed a determined and vicious expression.
"If I can't live, then none shall live!"
The cute yet fierce mini octopus dived into the deep sea, controlling small fish and shrimp along its way, slowly descending to a dark crevice in the deep sea.
This was where the seal nun had obtained the world rune.
The first time the world rune unleashed its mighty power, it overturned the ocean, pierced through the seabed, and left this deep sea fissure.
When Nagakabouros rushed over after sensing the immense turmoil, the world rune had already been taken by the seal nun. So, how could it have known about the existence of the world rune?
Several hours later.
The mini octopus stopped in front of a plane fissure emitting a faint purple glow.
This fissure, located in the depths of the ocean torn by the world rune, was slowly healing due to the material world's self-repair ability.
"The Void."
The mini octopus murmured softly, circling outside the purple fissure, hesitant.
It had communicated with the beings beyond the fissure, understanding a fraction of the terrifying power known as the Void, which made Nagakabouros, a demigod, deeply fear and realize its own insignificance.
The Void plane was very close to the Valoran continent.
The burst of power from the world rune had pierced through the barriers between planes, connecting two worlds, exposing Valoran to the eyes of the Void.
The ravenous Void wanted to devour this world and use it as a stepping stone to erode other main material worlds.
When Nagakabouros made contact with the Void, the unknown beings within promised to grant it unimaginable power in exchange for the world rune. However, Nagakabouros, fully aware of their danger, did not agree.
But now, cornered and with nothing left to lose, Nagakabouros no longer cared about the potential dangers.
It did not have the world rune, but it had its status and identity as a native wild god of the Valoran continent.
"Grant me the power of the Void."
"As your tentacle and minion, I will open a channel capable of accommodating the Void, handing this world over to you."
After a moment of hesitation, Nagakabouros approached the Void fissure and spoke solemnly.
There was no response.
Silence and darkness passed slowly.
However, just as Nagakabouros was about to leave, disappointed,
The Void fissure suddenly trembled.
Deep purple light, like mercury pouring down, extended from the fissure, sweeping over Nagakabouros's body, turning it into a deep purple mini octopus.
At the same time.
An endless hunger, a terrifying desire to devour everything, swept over like a tide, filling Nagakabouros's soul and completely engulfing its will.
After transmitting the deep purple light, the Void fissure in the deep sea seemed to have exhausted its last bit of strength and slowly closed, disappearing from sight.
The purple mini octopus left the sea floor fissure.
Driven by a strong devouring desire, it began to prey on ordinary fish in the ocean with its soul force.
The demigod creature, weakened to the extreme, found it easy to deal with ordinary fish.
Schools of fish, controlled by Nagakabouros, turned into clouds of blood mist, absorbed by it, and its severely injured body, which should have taken thousands to millions of years to recover, was visibly strengthening and healing at a visible rate.
It seemed as if the creatures it devoured were completely transformed into its power without any loss.
However, although Nagakabouros's aura was rapidly recovering, its eyes
seemed to lose the light of intelligence, leaving only endless hunger. At this moment, its body's actions were driven only by instinct and the will of the Void.
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