Douluo Dalu 3: The Legend of the Dragon King

Chapter 1838: A Whale?

The ship's swaying didn't affect him at all as he strode into the control center, where someone immediately offered up a report of the current situation.

"Change the image; I want to see the current situation under visual surveillance.," Chen Zeyu yelled.

Visual surveillance wasn't actual footage. Instead, it was a collation of data gathered from all types of surveillance soul tool, and through this data, the approximate form, power level, and other information about the subject being surveyed could be modeled.

This type of visual surveillance could help one analyze a faraway target so they could work out a strategy to counter the subject, and it was currently the Sea God Legion's most advanced method of reconnaissance.

The image on the big screen quickly changed, and a massive stream of data flashed past, following which an image was presented.

This was an image of a gigantic creature, and it was approaching at an astonishing speed. According to the data being displayed, this creature was currently moving at over five times the maximal speed that the Sea God was capable of reaching. This was a level of speed that virtually didn't exist in the sea, and what was even more terrifying was the sheer size of the creature; it was over a kilometer in length, and its overall mass wasn't inferior to that of the Sea God!

Chen Zeyu had been an excellent student, and he had memorized the data of the vast majority of powerful sea soul beast species, but nowhere in his memory could he find information about such a massive sea soul beast.

"Warships Heavensea, Earthsea, Emperorsea, and Voyagesea, lock onto the target and fire three rounds of torpedoes," Chen Zeyu commanded.

"Meanwhile, retreat the Sea God and advise the Northsea Legion and Eastsea Legion to disperse and retreat to form a ring-shaped battle formation!"

His orders were quickly issued, and immediately enacted.

From a bird's eye perspective, hundreds of ships could be seen quickly spreading outward to form a giant semi-circle with its opening facing the oncoming creature like a giant pocket.

Three rounds of torpedoes, which amounted to a total of 36, were launched directly toward the enormous figure as a probing attack.

However, in the next instant, the massive ocean current was released by the creature, and the 36 torpedoes didn't even have a chance to evade before they all exploded in the sea.

The seawater in the distance surged, and one pillar of water after another erupted into the heavens.

"Lock onto the target with all weapons and prepare the deep sea missiles. All mecha units, take flight and prepare to strike from the sky."

Chen Zeyu continued to issue orders with a dark expression. This was clearly a formidable enemy, but he had no idea what it was.

Judging from the current simulated model, it seemed that this was an enormous fish, but what kind of fish could reach this size? It was simply unheard of!

Surely even the legendary 1,000,000-year-old sea soul beasts wouldn't have been able to reach this size!

"The unknown creature is slowing down; it seems to be about to rise to the surface," a messenger soldier reported.

Chen Zeyu's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and he immediately ordered, "Bring up the satellite image; I want to see it as it rises up out of the water."

"Yes!"

The image on the big screen was quickly split up, with one side still displaying the visual surveillance model, while the other transformed into a satellite image of the sea.

Sure enough, the gigantic creature was slowly rising up, and it was truly an astonishing sight to behold.

The satellite image was locked onto the relevant area of the sea, waiting for the creature to emerge.

Finally, a massive dark blue back slowly appeared, and in the next instant, a colossal pillar of water with a diameter in excess of 50 meters erupted into the sky, creating a rainbow as it did so.

The pillar of water erupted upward for several kilometers before tumbling back down, creating a massive arc in the sky.

The pillar of water then formed a gigantic ball of water that was over 500 meters in diameter with purplish-black light shimmering within it.

In the next instant, the ball of water was guided directly toward the Sea God by the arc that had just been created.

A piercing alarm rang out across the entire ship, and the power rating of the ball of water as determined by the energy detection equipment was rapidly rising.

"Fire the ground-to-air soul missiles and the Sea God's main cannon to intercept the attack!" Chen Zeyu commanded.

The Sea God Legion immediately reacted, and thousands of soul missiles and soul lasers instantly rose up into the air to oppose the enormous ball of water.

"Boom!"

The ball of water exploded as soon as it was struck by the first attack, and as a result, many of the oncoming attacks missed it altogether.

Right at this moment, the entire sky turned dark, and a sense of crushing pressure descended upon the three naval fleets.

Massive dark clouds began to converge, and they seemed to have been formed by the dispersed ball of water. Immediately thereafter, what appeared to be a storm of purplish-black rain fell from the heavens directly onto the three fleets.

Only now did the satellite image appear on the big screen in the Sea God's control center, and it depicted a dark blue with a huge head and a relatively smaller tail.

The creature's body was riddled with layer upon layer of sinister faces, and upon zooming in on the image, it was discovered that these faces were countless vengeful spirits.

Near the top of the creature's head was a giant blowhole.

Was this a whale? But what kind of whale could grow this big?

A thought suddenly occurred to Chen Zeyu, a thought of a legendary soul beast: the 1,000,000-year-old Deep Sea Demonic Whale King!

It was said that the founder of the Tang Sect, Tang San, slew a 1,000,000-year-old Deep Sea Demonic Whale King 20,000 years ago, making it his ninth soul ring. 

However, even if it really did exist, hadn't it already been killed by Tang San? Why had it appeared here?

Furthermore, in the legends, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was only several hundred meters in length! A strong sense of foreboding began to well up in Chen Zeyu's heart.

"Activate all of the ships' protective barriers to their maximal capacity!"

A series of white protective barriers were quickly activated on all of the ships, and the formation of the three fleets also began to change.

It was at a time like this when the qualities of three fleets were put on full display. Even though it had been a very long time since they had fought in a real battle, they had undergone many practical combat drills in preparation to instigate war against the other two continents.

The larger the ship was, the further ahead their position would be, and the three motherships led from the very forefront with the warships on either side of them, while the smaller ships were quickly traveling toward the rear.

The largest ships undoubtedly had the most powerful protective barriers, so they would be able to have the best nullifying effect on a large-scale attack like this one.

Right as the three fleets began to change formation, the purplish-black rain arrived, and in that instant, all of the soldiers in the three fleets felt as if they had been plunged straight into the depths of hell.

Bloodcurdling shrieks and terrifying roars of fury rang out, and even through the protective barriers, they could clearly see one vengeful spirit after another shrieking in a deranged manner.

Some of the weaker soldiers were struck by symptoms of dizziness and nausea just from hearing these sounds, and ripples began to surge across all of the protective barriers, creating one halo after another.

Piercing alarms rang out frequently on all of the ships, particularly the smaller ships that were still in motion.

"Commander, the protective barriers of our third-grade gunboats won't be able to last much longer! According to our analysis, we are being attacked by a corrosive miasma, and it's whittling down the energy of our protective barriers very quickly," the advisor hurriedly reported.