Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse c1-705

by Adventure, Action, Fantasy, Game

  "I want to make sure that groups like that do not stand a chance to bully us even more. I want to make sure they can never even come close to the Trident of the Sea."

  His words were those of conviction as he finished and looked back at the Ocean Master that had shining light shooting out of his eyes.

  "Haha good, good! Those elected as Seekers always make their way to the dangerous locations where King Neptune's Trident might be hidden as soon as they undergo the infusion of the Golden Serum. Before you go, let me give you more information and things that would be of benefit to you, and ultimately to Atlantis if you are successful."

  The Ocean Master was very laid back as he led Noah into a neat room inside the castle. The room had a bubble that blocked any water from going in surrounding it, the inside filled with doc.u.ments and what looked like blue screens as the King brought him in and closed the door behind them.

  "Come, let enjoy ourselves first and get to know each other a little bit more. I'll fill you in on the current state of affairs later, and the positions of the main enemies to look out for before you head out."

  He clapped his hands twice as Atlanteans dressed in suits brought in a wide variety of food while he began debriefing Noah.

  The forces of Demons had spread out wide, their legions concentrated in the danger zones around the sea as they searched for the Trident of the Sea. Squadrons would occasionally come across underwater cities and cause conflict, but unless both sides wanted to face heavy damages, they would not start an all-out battle.

  When the ruler of demons, Baal, schemed to corner King Neptune with the aid of cultivators, they were all heavily injured and had to retreat to heal for years because of it. Now that they have returned, they only played the game of looking for the treasure as they spread their forces outwards from where the battle with King Neptune took place.

  A few months back, two underwater cities had been completely destroyed just for Baal to get the confirmation that the Trident was not in the hands of Atlantis. This lead to a period of extreme tension and anger as Atlantis increased their progress of finding Seekers powerful enough to survive the dangers of the sea while looking for the old King's Trident.

  "Many Seekers have been crowned until now. A few made it back alive with no positive results in their search, but even more faced destruction and were never heard from again."

  The Ocean Master gulped down the red drink in his cup as he said this.

  "Our cities are protected by the Sea's Blessing, and the creatures of the deep do not ever come near us to attack. Even the demons and cultivators will think twice before launching an all-out attack on Atlantis, our defense systems here being highly developed. But out there, in the dark waters, we lose that protection."

  He finished his drink as he looked at Noah closely.

  "You are one of the finest Seekers I have seen, being able to descend all the way down to the last floor of the Aqua Tower. I hope you find success and regain our honor, bringing the treasure of the sea back to the rightful hands of the Children of Atlantis."

  Noah nodded with a serious expression, even though he had plans of his own. The Ocean Master stood up and went towards a stack of thick files as he looked through them.

  "Will you be starting with the most dangerous zone first?"

  "Yes, the information makes it likely that I will find even more clues in the Abyssal Zone. It should have been one of the last regions that King Neptune could have gone to."

  The Abyssal Zone. Lying in the depths of the sea and filled with atrocious creatures. What exactly waited for him in this location?

  "Be careful. Here is the map that those who have gone there and back have been able to put together, it should prove useful. And before you go, let's have you visit the armory. We have the latest versions of Plasma Guns and Golden Battle Suits for you to choose from."

  ---

  The world continued to move, with many beings moving towards their own goals. In one of the darkest zones of the sea where many would be terrified to be alone, a girl that didn't look to be older than 18 was floating in the dark sea while humming. She had on a dark gothic dress as she swam along the dangerous waters without care.

  She floated like this for a few minutes before movement could be felt near her, causing her to open her eyes while yawning and look for the source of the movement.

  A few meters away from her, a humongous figure of Megalodon had appeared. Rows of sharp teeth that seemed to form into a smile broke out of The Meg that was releasing an oppressive air of power. This was a beast that struck terror onto many Atlanteans and Merfolk that ever visited waters of these depths, a fearsome creature that loved to torture its prey before ultimately swallowing them whole.

  The girl in the gothic dress looked at the appearance of this Megalodon that was tens of times her size as her eyes shone with fascination.

  "Well hello, little fish."

  Her eyes that were darker than the waters around her smiled, as hundreds of thousands of shining green lights appeared and began to eclipse the waters all around them, the terrifying smile of the Megaladon's face becoming wiped off entirely.

  Chapter 167 - The Abyssal Zone

  Noah spent the next day in Atlantis as he toured even more exclusive locations after gaining his new title. Before he finished his meeting with the Ocean Master, he was taken to the Armory where shining piles of weapons and armors were beautifully placed.

  He found himself a powerful [Plasma Gun] that could convert the water around him to shoot out blasts of plasma, its damage powerful enough to even injure someone at the Legendary rank were they to take it head-on.

  The other thing that was of use that he received was the Golden Battle Suit that Atlanteans and Merfolk in the Mythical rank usually wore. It had golden runic lines traveling all over the battle suit, making it release a pulse of gold every few seconds. The suit was even better than the [Deep Sea Armor] that dropped as loot from the Anglerfish as it provided a more robust defense.

  He wanted to use his newly found authority to tour some of the facilities where the even more important things like the World Engine were protected, but he couldn't easily do that even now. He would plan to obtain more information and find out exactly how the City of Atlantis was able to create something like this later.

  The Ocean Master went all out with festivities after the trip to the Armory, and Noah found himself spending the rest of the night eating and drinking as he associated with the King and a few high profile Atlanteans and Merfolk. His journey to the Abyssal Zone would begin tomorrow.

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  The sea of the Lost World was wide and vast, with many beings holding differing goals spread throughout. In some of the deepest waters that led to one of the danger zones of the sea, Noah was situated on top of a [War Shark] that menacingly swam forward.

  He left the grandiose City of Atlantis as he began his job as its Seeker, heading out to search for the missing Supreme Treasure that many wanted to get their hands on. The Ocean Master had given him many gifts, this [War Shark] at Legendary rank just being one of them.

  He was carefully looking at the map of the Abyssal Zone that he was given, making sure to note which locations to be even more careful in as he moved forward. There were terrible creatures of Mythical rank and even more powerful ones like the Kraken that he still hadn't formulated a full plan on how to deal with it. Would something as simple as mentioning its old friend, King Neptune, do the trick or would it be a scene of carnage he had to overcome?

  Currently, one path was to continue defeating and farming Mythical creatures, amassing enough strength before going deeper into the Abyssal Zone to see if he could repeat the scene of overcoming something of higher rank with his constant spam of extremely powerful skills just a rank below. He would have to over-prepare for this route though, as the creature he would clash with is one of the calamities of the sea.

  He let out an excited sigh as even with the apprehension the idea of the Kraken brought, there was st
ill a sense of thrill as he looked forward to matching such a beast in the future.

  He would take it slow as usual, farm on the outer fringes of the Abyssal Zone before getting deeper and deeper after he amasses more skills of Legendary and Mythical rank.

  There were many things happening around him, and he was only a moving portion as time went forward. By this time, gates connecting two worlds should have stabilized as an exchange of information and goods began to take place.

  His homeworld had collected many skill books and items over the time since the first awakened, while the Beast World had beings at even higher levels of power that they could obtain even more skill books and cores for their quick rise in strength.

  The end goal for connecting the inhabitants of the two worlds together was to promote the rapid rise in strength for both sides before the anger simmering in their hearts could be let out on one particular world that targeted them.

  They would need a large boost in strength before they could even begin to entertain this idea though, so time was needed. The remaining Rulers of the Demon World were powerful, their levels of power being Legendary at the lowest. Some time and effort was required before the two connected worlds could make huge movements.

  Noah kept this in the back of his mind as he swam deeper into the dark waters, killing any creatures he found as he added new skills and collected even more loot into his collection. The lowest level creatures he came across as he entered the outer fringes of the Abyssal Zone were of Epic rank, and he had come across two Legendary deep-sea creatures in just a few hours.

  This time around, he tried battling using just the physical force of his body, and he found himself ripping apart the slippery fish with his bare hands. The strength of his body had legitimately reached an extremely high level that neared the peak of Mythical rank with the infusion of the Supreme Grade Golden Serum.

  He looked through the skills he'd obtained so far from farming the creatures in the Abyssal Zone these past few hours.

  EPIC [Water Blast] :: A powerful blast of pressurized water hones in on your enemies.

  EPIC [Bombastic] :: Highly pressurized pockets of water will form and explode on command.

  LEGENDARY [Hydrothermokinesis] :: Chosen areas can be superheated to extreme levels.

  LEGENDARY [Hydrocyrokinesis] :: Chosen areas can be frozen below absolute zero.

  Noah was enjoying the new additions as he looked forward to delving deeper into the Abyssal Zone. He ushered the [War Shark] he was riding on to go forward when something disastrous happened.

  RIING!

  A blaring sound unlike any he'd heard before was ringing into his mind as [Crisis Avoidance] released the largest warning he'd ever received. His mind worked at high speeds as he didn't even bother to see what threat was coming towards him as he cast the unique skill, {Spatial Travel}, right away.

  ...

  F.u.c.k.

  The skill did not activate as Noah felt the sea constrict around him, any movements or skills that allowed for teleportation or spatial movements all blocked.

  "Now this is curious, you tried running so fast that you almost slipped by me. Let's have a look at you."

  A playful voice rang out as Noah found the figure of a girl that seemed slightly younger than he was, yet floating in the waters of the Abyssal Zone without any level of care. His eyes grew wide with apprehension as he recognized the girl he was looking at from certain memories he had plundered before.

  "Well hello there, little fish~"

  Chapter 168 - An Unstoppable Force

  The moment Noah recognized the face of the Ruler of the Demon World innocently coming towards him, blinding blue light erupted from his body as he activated his skills rapidly.

  [Thought Acceleration] worked in overdrive as a sense of fear struggled to erupt from Noah's mind. He had accidentally met a terrible enemy much too early!

  "Woow what's this? You can actually struggle from a spatial lock that I set up?"

  The girl oozing out maddening levels of power was still coming towards him nonchalantly as hundreds of thousands of green lights began appearing. The scene in front of Noah was one of the worst possible things happening as he watched the Legion of Undead that was controlled by the Necromancer of Chaos, Barbatos.

  Damn. Too early, much too early!

  OOOOOH!

  He howled out as all the six forms of Mountain Sea Sect's Six Secret Techniques were activated, a humongous dragon with a shining blue crown beginning to form as it lit up the dark sea now surrounded by hundreds of thousands of burning green eyes. If he couldn't quickly escape, he would fight back as he used the few seconds he bought himself to think of a way out of this!

  [Summon Creatures of the Deep] and {Primal Conjurer} was cast as two terrifying figures of Anglerfish erupted out from a dark runic circle while another two primal spirits were summoned from the unique skill, {Primal Conjurer}.

  The primal spirits summoned out were Red Dragons that instantly elevated the cold temperatures around them, their eyes staring menacingly at the enemies around them. In but an instant, four Mythical summons were at Noah's side!

  The Legendary skills, [Whirlpool] and [Corrupted Sigil of Hegemony] were cast next as the sea around them became destabilized by a forming whirlpool. The blue runic circle that would only last 30 seconds spread out with Noah at the center as he gave the command to the four Mythical summons beside him.

  ATTACK!

  His mind worked at high speeds as he continued trying to cast [Teleport] and {Spatial Travel} to no avail, the frustration in his heart increasing as he tried to find a way from this terrible calamity.

  His body encased in the Blue Dragon form roared out as a signature move of all dragons erupted out from his jaws, a deadly blast of blue light shooting out from the dragon with the blue crown.

  The Anglerfish summoned from the [Summon Creatures of the Deep] rushed forward with their deadly fanged teeth as they bit down towards the figure of the girl. The Red Dragons followed Noah's lead as roiling breaths of flames appeared under the sea against all odds heading towards the being that locked the entire area around them.

  The response as this girl faced all of these attacks?

  "Haha, now you, are the most interesting Atlantean I have ever come across. Let's see if you can keep up!"

  "Death's Domain."

  Light words escaped her lips as dark light erupted from her and went to cover every nook and cranny of the sea for miles. The light covered Noah and all of his summons as they felt a sluggish feeling, their skin beginning to tingle as a burning sensation appeared.

  Noah roared out as he cast more attacks, every single attack skill from Epic to Mythical being cast and flying out as roiling flames, lightning, and storms of ice and bones wildly flew towards Barbatos. [Healing Water] went to full drive as any injuries and cracks that the Blue Dragon form suffered were quickly healed.

  Even though his summons were heavily injured and bleeding from the area of effect attack from Barbatos, he himself had healed up in the next second as he moved with even more attacks.

  "You know, I have little pets too? Why don't you try a few of them~"

  Barbatos let out light words as a few of the shining green lights surrounding them came forward with powerful auras. Noah's eyes moved rapidly as he ascertained the auras of multiple Mythical ranked beasts surrounding him and his summons.

  Preposterous looking creatures of horrid sizes neared as their shapes became clear. A deathly aura surrounded them as they ranged from deep-sea creatures to huge skeletons wielding bone swords. Most ridiculous of all was a massive creature that Noah could only connect to a famous creature of the deep, a Megalodon.

  OONG!

  The Undead Creatures attacked in their own ways as rays of dark lights rushed towards them, with a huge Skeleton Warrior smashing down their bone swords that split apart the waters of the sea.

  Noah looked at these coming enemies as a ray of light seemed to appear in his mind and split ap
art every speck of darkness. Yes, he had met an insanely powerful enemy much too early, but he could still somewhat withstand her for the time being as she wasn't acting too seriously.

  But most amazing of all, the enemy commanded forces of beasts at Mythical rank to swarm him. This was dangerous, but also provided a tremendous opportunity. If he could take down these creatures and take their loot for himself before their terrible master decides to finally become serious, he might just find a way out of this.

  Noah moved decisively as he summoned yet another beast from his skills, this time one that was more special to him, and one that could possibly play a huge hand in this fight. [Summon Saint of Death] was cast as a deathly aura erupted from Noah, a mass of flesh and bones coming together to form into the figure of a man with a similar face to his.

  The Saint of Death was only an Epic+ skill, but it had many skills that were geared towards the undead. It looked at the many moving corpses surrounding it as the fair white hands rose out and snapped.

  PAH

  Only a light snap that released low vibrations, but the moving Undead Mythical Creatures came to a halt halfway through their attacks. Noah's eyes shined as he read the thoughts of the summon, realizing that because of its lower rank, it could not control these powerful creatures under the command of another master, and could only hold them in place for a few seconds. But these few seconds...would be enough for Noah.

  His large blue figure of the dragon moved out as it aimed for the Mythical creatures that had their movements still halted, ignoring the face of the chuckling Barbatos that looked at the scene of her frozen undead in amazement and nothing else.

  His heart sank just a bit as he continued to observe the nonchalant expression of this Ruler that made it seem whatever plan he had would have no way of working. But he still had to try any possible avenues to preserve his life. He couldn't die. It wasn't even an option.

  "Now you've definitely captured my attention, little fish."