Ocean Master

Seeing the thick rocks blocking the entrance to the tunnel and allowing the shark to escape, the Dragon Firefly who breathed out the fire hovered in the water with a livid expression on its face.

Its fiery green eyes glared at the rocks like they were its archenemy. If its eyes could shoot lasers, they would have probably evaporated the rocks already.

Screech…!!!

It raised its head, opened its mouth, and shrieked angrily.

Taking advantage of this rare moment of respite, the prey that survived the hunting of the winged predators took to their heels and immediately disappeared from the battlefield.

The winged predator felt even more livid because its green fire breath could not kill the shark, but it ended up killing its already half-dead sibling.

The poor Dragon Firefly was roasted by the fire breath of its sibling.

As the 2-winged predators thrashed angrily at the death of their sibling, green fire suddenly appeared from nowhere before quickly solidifying to form something like a portal.

From the green portal came an exaggeratedly thick talon, following it was the emergence of a Dragon Firefly that completely dwarfed the first 2 on every category imaginable.

As soon as it appeared, it first looked at the roasted Firefly in the distance before turning its head back to look at the 2 Dragon Fireflies who were guilty of this murder.

The 2 Dragon Fireflies bent their heads in fear and reverence immediately on feeling the gaze land on them, they visibly shivered.

The giant Dragon Firefly's antennas that looked like medieval lancers twitched and swiped at the water repeatedly like it was thinking, then one of them suddenly came slamming down like a mountain sword.

The sharp antenna cleanly cut through the left-wing of the Dragon Firefly who breathed out the fire, then without looking back, it went through the green portal and disappeared.

Despite the searing pain that followed the cut, the Dragon Firefly was able to hold itself back from shrieking in pain.

After the giant Dragon Firefly left through the portal, it finally raised its head again. Without making a sound, it turned around, and with its sibling, they swam closer to their dead roasted sibling.

They both bent down, striking their beaks down in the process as they started feasting in the dead remains of their sibling.

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"Phew! I survived!"

Sebastian heaved an exaggerated sigh of relief as he rested his body that was already bloated from eating too much to the sides of the tunnel.

The action that he took a few minutes ago was probably his riskiest action since transmigrating into this world, but he did not feel regret at all. Remembering the thrill throughout the process left him shaking in excitement.

The only regret that he felt was his inability to kill the Dragon Firefly.

"Damn! I was so close".

Despite his meticulous planning and his impeccable execution of the plan, he was still unable to kill the bird-beetle mismatch monster.

Despite taking 70% of its health in one go after successfully activating the Blood Vampire effects of his teeth adaptation, the fact that he could not still kill it with the subsequent attacks revealed to him that it was far stronger than him.

At least, its health points alone should be more than 5 times his.

"Leroy didn't lie". As much as he felt excited by the encounter, so also did he shudder dreadfully as any mistake would have easily led to his death.

Once again, through the previous battle, he was exposed to another facet entirely of this fantasy world. From this encounter, he was now sure that Oceania did not adhere to Earth standards at all.

That monster, the only thing that he could compare it to was Frankenstein's monster. It was a completely illogical bred of Oceania bird.

When he was trying to activate the Blood Vampire effect without success, he already had his heart to his throat as he feared for the worse. Thankfully, everything clicked and he was able to activate it on the 3rd try.

It was the only reason why he won the battle, this once again made him appreciate how strong his Vampire Teeth Adaptation was.

As soon as he escaped inside the tunnel, despite the entrance already being covered by rocks, he did not feel safe. He immediately scouted his surroundings for any danger, seeing none he rapidly swam deeper inside the tunnel.

In a few seconds, he was already far away from the entrance.

It was after he swam to a deep enough area of the tunnel that he finally heaved a sigh of relief, now he felt sleepy all over.

After pursuing a school of Blue Tang fishes for hours and having a feast from their flesh, fighting with another group of lunatics left him tired. Then, having to escape from the Dragon Fireflies pushed him to the edge.

Now, all he wanted to do was to sleep and recover.

He still felt disappointed by his inability to kill the mismatch bird. If he could kill it, he had no doubts that the experience gotten from that would have been enough to skyrocket him to the threshold to evolution.

"Well, I guess this was not my day. It's not like I have luck points either".

Consoling himself with that, his eyes slowly lost focus and he fell asleep.

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Blink!

A few hours later, when the green light shining over this region of Oceania peaked, indicating that it was afternoon, Sebastian finally woke up.

Sweeping a glance at his surroundings, he discovered that he was still in the tunnel but not at the same location where he slept. Without even having to think, he knew that it was his mischievous spinal cord again.

As soon as he woke up, he didn't know how he knew but he was able to know that his stomach already digested the feast that he enjoyed in the morning.

"That's some fast siphoning". He lampooned while observing his surroundings carefully.

After taking control of his body back, he keenly noticed that the tunnel was slowly widening the deeper he went, and it seemed like it led deep underground instead of the outside water expanse.

From the curve of the slope, he knew that the tunnel only pointed down.

Just like the other tunnels that he already saw, the walls of this one were mostly grey mixed with some slight greenery.

There were no interconnected tunnels, it was purely just this tunnel that was here which made it seem spookily isolated.

The most important observation that came to him was that no prey was in sight. Though he was not feeling hungry yet, he did not want to experience that before securing his next food.

With that consideration in mind, he started swimming down.