Chapter 4788 — Taking Command
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Oda Ba's eyelid twitched. The terrifying presence the man had flashed for an instant had actually made his heart skip a beat—it felt as though he had run into a top-tier expert far above his own level. But in the next blink, there was nothing different about him at all; he was plainly just a young man in the middle Nascent Soul stage—hardly any top-tier expert.
Could the pressure have gotten to him and fooled his senses? Oda Ba shook his head vigorously, and in that mere moment Wei Zhao sent down three more pillars of starlight, with exactly the same result as before.
The others were on the verge of going mad. Every pillar of starlight consumed a vast amount of spiritual energy, and the boy had just flung down seven of them in the blink of an eye. At this rate they would not last three hours; the reserves would be drained dry long before that.
Not only were the men left speechless, staring at one another—even the three Mountain-Opening sea beasts outside were baffled. After waiting a while and seeing no further movement, each of them launched a frenzied assault on the ancient warship.
Because the Starfall Formation had already diverted the great majority of the spiritual energy, the defensive formation was now far weaker than before. Add to that the three Mountain-Opening sea beasts' ferocious offensive, and the warship was rocked violently back and forth. The defensive formation looked ready to shatter completely at any moment—the situation had turned dire in an instant!
Everyone, Oda Ba included, went white with fright. They no longer had the presence of mind to tell Wei Zhao to step aside; all they could do was shout over and over: "Fire the Starfall Formation! Fire it or we're dead!"
To their surprise, Wei Zhao turned and looked at them with an easy, faint smile. "The guest of honor hasn't even shown his face yet. What's the hurry?"
Oda Ba and the others were choking with fury. What kind of moment did the boy think this was? He still had the mood to put on airs—did he really think this was some kind of game?!
Just then the warship gave a violent lurch, tilting so sharply it nearly capsized. Had the helmsman not reacted fast enough to right their course in time, they would barely have escaped disaster.
Everyone froze. Fearsome as the three Mountain-Opening sea beasts' assault was, it should not have been enough to tilt the warship this far before the defensive formation collapsed. Unless...
Then someone suddenly cried out in a shrill voice: "Look over there!"
All eyes followed the sound. Miles ahead, a magnificent mountain range had appeared out of nowhere. Of course it was no true mountain range, but a top-tier sea beast whose bulk rivaled even the Mountain-Seat Whale in sheer, rolling vastness—except that where the Mountain-Seat Whale was heavy and clumsy, this one was slender and agile.
What met the eye was a stretch of pitch black, densely packed with scales. Coupled with its slender build, the first impression it gave was that of a giant sea serpent. But once it rose higher and revealed more of its savage form, that notion was dispelled at once.
"A Kronosaurus?" Wei Zhao murmured. Looking at the dreadful, close-set serrations of this top-tier sea beast and the four massive, powerful flippers on either side, the name surfaced in his mind on instinct.
"You actually recognize it?" Gui Dongxi was startled.
"It really is a Kronosaurus? Come up from the mortal world?" Wei Zhao was even more astonished. The Kronosaurus was a top marine predator of the Cretaceous, a fossil like the dinosaurs of the land. And the creature before him was at least dozens of times the size of a true Kronosaurus!