The Kraken's massive body, comparable in size to a small town, possessed terrifying speed that matched its colossal form.
It was even faster than the warships and submarines of Ye Bai's era, leaving behind a fearso whirlpool in its wake with every sudden advance through the ocean.
From this perspective, one could understand why the deep-sea clans would actively worship the Kraken—her re hunting movents alone could be considered a natural disaster.
However, Ye Bai, safely perched atop the Kraken's head, had no such concerns. In fact, her role had reversed from that of a struggling caretaker to a beneficiary, gaining massive amounts of experience simply by sharing in the spoils. The experience pool was now full enough to level up to 52.
This rocket-like ascent would be unimaginable for any other player.
Watching the Kraken's hunting process—the storm-like suction devouring a dazzling array of high-level fish—Ye Bai's eyebrows twitched, and a new idea struck her.
The Kraken's spiritual and physical forms were interconnected. While the physical body consud vast quantities of fish, the childlike spiritual form no longer cried out in hunger as before. However, the spiritual form could still eat just like before.
So, Ye Bai turned to the Kraken in the fish basket and asked:
"Kraken, do you still want fish soup?"
"Soup…" The Kraken paused briefly to recall before imdiately answering, "Yes!"
Ye Bai smiled. "Then next ti you hunt, pick out the tastiest fish and bring them to . I'll make you fish soup."
"Ooh!" The Kraken, instantly attentive at the ntion of food, nodded eagerly in understanding.
Thus, during the next hunt, as the physical Kraken's maw opened and a swirling underwater vortex ford, the fish struggling the hardest within the whirlpool were all enveloped in an oceanic spell cast by the spiritual Kraken. Green light wrapped around them like invisible hands, plucking them one by one from the turbulent currents.
[Golden Koi]
Rank: Legendary
...
[Mutant White Anglerfish]
Rank: Legendary
...
[Blazing Sunfish]
Rank: Legendary
...
The Kraken could discern which fish were "tastier"—a judgnt based on their energy levels—so every fish she selected was, without exception, a legendary golden-rank specin.
Ye Bai's fishing trio of tools paled in comparison to this efficiency. What kind of fishing could possibly match this speed?
Skillfully filleting the fish and cooking the soup, Ye Bai collected the remaining legendary materials—bones, shells, blood—into her inventory. The processed food satisfied the Kraken's hunger even more, and she ate with great relish.
Acting as the middleman, Ye Bai also profited handsoly from the fish materials, creating a win-win situation.
The only regret was that Ye Bai's processing speed was limited, forcing her to focus solely on the legendary fish.
Sipping the even more delicious legendary fish soup, Ye Bai recalled an earlier unanswered question:
"Kraken, do you know who these fishing tools belonged to?"
She had already inspected the fish basket, finding only minor deformations at the edges. Its properties and attributes remained unchanged, seemingly unhard.
Hearing Ye Bai's question, the Kraken answered without hesitation: "Master!"
"Master?"
Ye Bai was taken aback, initially thinking the Kraken had misunderstood and assud she was asking about the present. "I an before I ca—"
Mid-sentence, she stopped, realizing sothing else.
Perhaps the Kraken had once had another master...
Ye Bai turned sharply to the Kraken and asked directly, "You had a master before , didn't you?"
"Mhm!" The Kraken nodded.
The forr master of the Sea God...
Ye Bai's heart jolted. The Kraken, once worshipped by the deep-sea clans, couldn't have been as pitifully starved to level 0 as she was now, willing to acknowledge anyone who fed her. Therefore, the one the Sea God had called master must have been imnsely powerful.
Pursing her lips, Ye Bai pressed further, "Who was your forr master?"
The Kraken's eyes curved into crescents. "Master!"
"Ahem..." Ye Bai rephrased, "Do you rember their na?"
"Na..." The Kraken pondered before shaking her head. "Don't know."
"Then what were they like?"
The Kraken's expression turned thoughtful, but soon she frowned in frustration, waving her hands to emphasize, "Big! Big!"
Big?
The Kraken's idea of "big"... Ye Bai glanced down at the physical Kraken beneath her feet. To be considered "big" in the Kraken's eyes, how enormous would that be?
Wait—no. Ye Bai quickly recalled the fishing trio. Their sizes were perfectly suited for a normal human. If the Kraken's forr master had been massive, the fishing tools would have been toothpick-sized in comparison, not their current dinsions.
The Kraken's "big" might have referred to power, not size.
After a mont's thought, Ye Bai tried another approach: "Did they have a title? Or have you heard others address them?"
"Title..." The Kraken scrunched her face in deep concentration.
Ye Bai waited, a possible answer already forming in her mind.
After a while, the Kraken's eyebrows shot up. "...God King!"
Hearing this, Ye Bai exhaled sharply, feeling a sense of inevitability.
So, this absurdly overpowered fishing set in her hands had once belonged to the vanished God King...
At this thought, Ye Bai instinctively looked down at the paper figure on the magic scroll in her hand. The paper figure stared back, its expression blank.
Well, judging by that look, she wouldn't be getting any clues about the fishing tools or the Kraken from him.
"Hungry..." After all the questioning and thinking, the Kraken complained again.
Ye Bai hurriedly fed her two more servings of fish soup. "Do you know where the God King went?"
"Don't know." The Kraken shook her head blankly.
"Hmm..." Ye Bai nodded, unsurprised. Seizing the opportunity, she pressed on, "Do you know why this deep sea is trapped in the Abyssal Rift?"
The Kraken blinked her erald-green eyes.
Just as Ye Bai wondered if the question was too complex for the Kraken in her current state, the little girl suddenly clenched her fists, as if rembering sothing she'd nearly forgotten:
"Eat! Fireball!"
"Fireball?" Ye Bai was puzzled but then recalled the Kraken ntioning "fireball" before. "What's a fireball?"
"Fireball... can fill!" The Kraken's face turned uncharacteristically serious, as though Ye Bai had reminded her of sothing critically important.
As soon as she answered, Ye Bai saw the Kraken's massive tentacles stir in the distance, coiling and then exploding outward in the waters behind them.
"Whoosh..."
The scenery of the sea rapidly receded before Ye Bai's eyes. She stared in astonishnt as the surroundings darkened in an instant, plunging into the deeper abyss. This ti, Kraken wasn’t casually fishing as before but had changed direction, charging straight into the depths.
Ye Bai took a deep breath and turned her head away, refusing to look at the pitch-black void ahead. The sight was still too much for her nerves.
She shifted her gaze to Kraken’s spiritual form and continued asking, "What’s a fireball?"
"Fireball… yummy," Kraken drooled.
Ye Bai: "…" This glutton.
She glanced again at the increasingly dark abyss before quickly looking away, her mind filled with confusion. There shouldn’t be anything in the deep sea that could be remotely related to fireballs…
Then, the paper-cut figure beside her seed to realize sothing and said, "Maybe the fireball in Kraken’s eyes isn’t the sa as the one in ours."
This reminder sparked an idea in Ye Bai. She summoned the devil Alicio with a thought and pointed at it, asking Kraken:
"What is this?"
Kraken stretched out a hand from the fish basket, eagerly trying to grab Alicio, who shrank back in terror, desperately scrambling upward but unable to escape far due to the restraints of the truth-binding chains.
Looking at Alicio, Kraken quickly gave her answer: "Tiny… tiny fla!"
A level-55 devil was nothing more than a "tiny fla" in Kraken’s eyes—and one described with two "tinys" at that. It was clear just how massive the "fireball" she considered filling must be.
Ye Bai’s eyes lit up as she realized what Kraken’s "fireball" likely referred to—
Infernal creatures.
And powerful ones at that.
Infernal creatures were born from magma, forming one of the two great armies known for overwhelming numbers, alongside the undead legion. With the resurgence of infernal forces, this was the peak ti for their spawning—making them the perfect food source for Kraken. After two feeding sessions, Kraken’s level had risen to 73, and as her level increased, so did her appetite.
The endless spawning of infernal creatures from magma and Kraken’s insatiable hunger were indeed a perfect match—a "spear" and "shield" that canceled each other out.
As this thought crossed her mind, Ye Bai also recalled the inexplicable appearance of the deep sea within the infernal rift. It all seed… far too coincidental.
"Kraken, did the God King tell you to eat fireballs?"
"Hmm…" Kraken pondered for a mont before nodding enthusiastically. "Yes! God King said!"
With this answer, everything clicked for Ye Bai.
If that was the case, the one who had moved the deep sea into the infernal rift—with both the ability and motive—could only be the God King.
But why would the God King do such a thing?
"If you were the God King, why would you do this?" Ye Bai turned to the paper-cut figure.
The paper-cut figure’s mission also involved venturing deep into the infernal realm. The fact that the deep sea and Kraken—both capable of "suppressing" the infernal forces—had been relocated to the infernal rift by the God King suggested a connection.
However, one thing kept Ye Bai from concluding that the paper-cut figure was the God King: Kraken was now her pet.
Since the conditions for unbinding this newly erged pet system were unclear, Ye Bai couldn’t tell whether the God King, as Kraken’s forr owner, had been deed "dead" by the system or had simply "unbound" Kraken.
The paper-cut figure paused, then understood the implication behind Ye Bai’s question. "The most obvious and direct purpose would be to curb the expansion of infernal forces. If the infernal creatures grew powerful enough to breach dinsional rifts, the first place they’d likely invade is the deep sea."
"I’ve been wondering… what exactly awakened Kraken’s spiritual form. Maybe it was because you used Alicio as bait."
"Because Alicio is also an infernal creature." Ye Bai nodded, recalling this detail.
She had initially assud it was the fishing rod’s doing, but this explanation made far more sense.
"Then why would the God King want to suppress the infernal expansion? Because He knew He wouldn’t be able to stop it in the future?" At this thought, Ye Bai couldn’t help but glance at the paper-cut figure, who existed in a "two-dinsional" state. This guy, who knew about the "God King’s treasure," was seriously suspicious!
The paper-cut figure shrugged helplessly. "I’d like to know too."
After a mont of contemplation, Ye Bai waved her hand, deciding to take things one step at a ti. "At least for now, the 'God King’s contingency plan' works in our favor."
The appearance of "fireballs" was a huge relief for Ye Bai. No matter how vast the deep sea was or how abundant its fish, they couldn’t keep up with Kraken’s appetite. If Kraken emptied the sea, finding her next al would’ve been a major headache. Now, the problem seed solved.
Ye Bai had previously considered leading Kraken to an infernal rift with this very idea in mind, but since she couldn’t guarantee Kraken’s patience to wait in the original sea, she hadn’t held much hope. Now, it turned out Kraken was highly interested in the infernal realm—since she was already heading there, it saved Ye Bai a lot of trouble.
"Whoosh…"
The water surged as Kraken waved her arms, her eyes gleaming green with excitent as she charged forward into the abyss:
"Oooohhhh, fireball feast!"
Watching this, a strange new thought suddenly popped into Ye Bai’s head.
Wait… aside from suppressing the infernal forces, did the God King move the deep sea next to the infernal rift because even He couldn’t afford to feed this bottomless glutton anymore?
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