It was no surprise that the Silverfang territory expanded in the following months. Everything worked much better than expected, and it was a great surprise to everyone when nobody stopped their expansion. There were a few Lords in the surroundings, but none of them had been bothered to initiate communication.
If anything, they’d avoided Caesus and the Silverfang Tigerfolk to the best of their capabilities. That should have been warning enough, but Caesus and his people had been too excited.
They didn’t realize what was happening until it was already too late.
One day, the ground in the massive ocean gulf tremored violently. The tremors were strong enough to shake so buildings and push them until they collapsed. That was enough to put everyone on guard.
"We receive hostile signals from the ocean. Mariti monsters are erging from the gulf and the surroundings!" A Champion shouted at the top of his lungs when he rushed past the Orb of Hostiltiy.
"How many are there?" Caesus asked in a hurry, even though he could already sense the number.
"Hundreds of thousands, maybe even more!" Soone else responded, but Caesus had already turned to the gulf. Sothing humongous stirred in the gulf…sothing powerful enough to make his hair stand up to its end.
Caesus nibbled on his lower lip and disappeared through the Runic Gate for a mont. He erged in Tiagro, retrieved a red crystal, and crushed it. A mont later, he returned to the Origin Expanse, where the massive head of a mighty creature erged from the gulf.
The head was the first Caesus saw, but he could instantly tell what the creature was. The heavy presence filling the air showed Caesus what kind of enemy he would have to fight.
"I cannot protect you guys. Take care of the mariti monsters…and survive," Caesus ordered with as much confidence as possible. A mont later, he transford into a white flash. The Soullife Arts, Foundation Break, and the Soul Technique, Children of a God, were activated simultaneously, pushing his Soultrait and body to their limits.
Energy circulated through his body as he shot through the air. He reached the gulf, smashed heavily into the erging head of the Ocean Dragon, whose body filled the gulf, and grasped its scales tightly.
Caesus might not be as heavy as the Ocean Dragon, but he was certainly strong enough to carry it through the air while it was still tired. The Ocean Dragon had yet to fully awake, which was Caesus greatest advantage. He carried the Ocean Dragon out of the ocean gulf and dragged it as deep into the wide-open ocean where they could wreak as much havoc as they wanted.
The Ocean Dragon was still tired but didn’t like being dragged around. It liked even less than an Awakened had crushed one of its scales with brute force. It roared aloud, stirring more mariti monsters awake. However, it was to no avail. The Titan Whales protected the bay. They restrained as many mariti monsters from following the Ocean Dragon’s order as possible. That was the least they could do after everything Caesus had done to protect them.
"This is a battle between us. You versus !" Caesus roared, transforming his hands into claws right before they dug deep into the Ocean Dragon’s eyes. The Dragon retaliated with a horrifying roar. It unleashed its presence and altered energy which smashed heavily into Caesus.
He was hurled through the air and felt like his insides were being crushed, but Caesus wasn’t dead just yet. He was still alive and more than willing to fight the Ocean Dragon until one of them took the last breath.
"If you don’t leave my people alone, I will end you today!" He roared at the top of his lungs, to which the Ocean Dragon responded with another roar. However, this roar accompanied the Dragon’s Draconic Essence. It was unwilling to end this battle in a draw, either.
How could it? They woke it from its several hundred years of hibernation! They deserved to die. All of them!
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Crab monsters, serpents, and humanoid mariti creatures erged from the ocean. The Ocean Dragon stirred them awake and filled them with fear. They fled and reached the land, unlike the other mariti monsters, which tried to escape the Ocean Dragon’s wrath only to dive straight onto the sand beach, where they wiggled around helplessly. So elental creatures used their powers to escape death on land, but others were bound to die helplessly.
Yet, nobody cared about them. The Silverfangs were too busy with preparing their defenses. The villages of the fishing crews were deserted and ordered to return to the main settlents, which they reached just in ti by using three Behemoth Goats. Caesus tad them without using his powers. He used the abilities he had learned through decades of handling animals and trained them with the help of so Beast Trainers. This was a job for which only a few Silverfang Summons were granted. In fact, Caesus had never seen anyone else with a job like this in the ti he worked with – for – Michael.
The Beast Trainers had tad various monsters, mostly livestock, since they arrived in their new ho. Unfortunately, none of them were combat mounts. That would have made many things easier.
But since that wasn’t the case, the Silverfang Tigerfolk had to fight on their own. Their Lord was busy wrestling a Divine Beast, a fully-grown Dragon who had been hibernating for centuries – probably to attain godhood or to rest even longer for whatever purpose.
The hordes of Elental Crabs, tal-covered Crabs, and tens of thousands of serpents, several nests of them with tens of varieties – mutations and evolution –, each more dangerous than the other, charged ahead.
They crushed the ports, the boats, and the tiny villages before making their way to the main settlent. Most monsters didn’t even want to move to the settlent, but the strongest had received a command from the Ocean Dragon.
They were told to destroy everything to return the well-deserved silence in the Ocean Dragon’s land.
The mariti monsters followed the Ocean Dragon’s will and charged at the main settlent. Your next read awaits at .Côm
For the first ti since the Silverfang territory had been established, their existence was in danger.
They had to fight with their lives on the line, or everything would be over.
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