85: Section 85

Su Ming really wanted to see what kind of thing had been struggling against him for so long.

With just one glance, Su Ming's expression changed slightly: "Don't... it wouldn't really be that thing, would it?"

Su Ming still couldn't believe it and hurriedly increased the speed of reeling in the line.

Finally!

With a splash.

Accompanied by ten-meter-high surging waves, a sea serpent-like super sea monster suddenly surfaced!

"Holy crap! Subnautica!"

Yes.

Su Ming recognized the sea monster before him that had been dragged until it was exhausted!

It was a Ghost Leviathan from Subnautica!

Su Ming hadn't expected that the mysterious fishing rod would trigger such a thing on its very first use!

It was nearly eighty meters long!

In terms of size alone, the One Piece World had plenty of even more exaggerated big guys.

But the Ghost Leviathan was not a simple sea monster; suspected to have been genetically modified by aliens, the Ghost Leviathan had a nearly transparent, gelatinous body!

Through its skin, the internal glowing organs and skeletal structure were clearly visible!

Most conspicuous were the nearly thirty-meter-long glowing horns on both sides of its head!

"Damn! So cool!"

What made this thing cool was that its special effects were maxed out!

The eighty-meter-long, thick snake body could periodically emit a gradient of ghostly light from pale blue to deep blue. When its tail swayed with the currents, it left behind starlike trails of light. This coolness alone was something the bottom-tier Sea Kings of the One Piece World couldn't compare to.

He took hold of the modao bristle-tusk.

The crimson Armament Haki Overlord Body was imbued upon it.

A flash of blood-red light.

The modao bristle-tusk tore through the air, shooting out with a sharp, piercing sound.

With a squelch, it plunged into the center of the Ghost Leviathan's brow, the three-meter-long weapon sinking in almost to the hilt.

[Ding! — —]

[Ghost Leviathan has died]

[Congratulations, you have obtained: Class EXP + 600, Deep Sea Amulet (Blue), Ghost Leviathan Essence * 1, Premium Coating Enhancement Scroll * 1]

[Ding! — —]

[Detected that the player has successfully hunted a famous sea monster]

[Comprehensive Achievement · Wild Hunt (Stage 5) has been achieved]

[Congratulations, you have obtained: Class EXP + 3000, Comprehensive Network Coins + 500, Nightmare Hook (Deep Purple), Crafting Table Upgrade Scroll * 1]

Whoo! — —

Refreshing! — —

This fatal throw seemed to have thrown away all the frustration in Su Ming's heart along with it.

While feeling refreshed in body and mind!

Su Ming used Gathering; for such a rare species as the Ghost Leviathan, he naturally had to skin it, debone it, and extract all its remaining value!

Thus, it was another big harvest.

The Deep Sea Amulet was unimportant; was underwater breathing really that difficult?

Just dismantle and recycle it!

The Ghost Leviathan Essence was a good thing. Essences were much like the Soul Rings from the neighboring plane; attaching them to equipment granted an additional corresponding transformation spell.

What about fusing it with a vehicle?

Su Ming didn't know, but it was worth a try!

The Premium Coating Enhancement Scroll was even more awesome, unconditionally raising the level of any coating facility of Deep Purple grade or below by one!

The Yellow Spring Coating was just right at the limit.

What Su Ming valued more, however, was the reward for the Achievement · Wild Hunt (Stage 5) — — the Nightmare Hook!

Chapter 96: The Strengthening and Transformation of the midnight rose

[Item: Nightmare Hook (Purple)]

[Category: Ship Accessory · Ship Anchor / Heavy Weapon]

[Attributes: Durability + 80, Intangibility + 50, Non-materiality + 30, Soul-Shattering + 10]

[Effect ①: Dream Creation]

[Effect ②: Dream Chain]

To understand the effect of the Nightmare Hook, one first had to understand what a dream was.

From a materialist perspective, a so-called dream was nothing more than special activity of neural electrical signals; it was the re-integration of information and the repair of nerves!

However.

Starting from an idealist perspective, things were different.

It could even involve the self, the soul, and even more unfathomable premonitions of fate!

But no matter which perspective one took, dreams were illusory; they were the continuation of thought, a sandbox game for life after casting aside all the worries of the present world.

Therefore.

The Nightmare Hook had the base bonuses of Intangibility + 50 and Non-materiality + 30.

And the effect of Dream Creation draped the Nightmare Hook in an even more mysterious veil.

Replacing the original Bone Hook with the Nightmare Hook, the effect appeared immediately; Su Ming could perceive that there was an extra accessory on the midnight rose.

But from a realistic perspective, the Nightmare Anchor didn't exist at all!

Yet, as Su Ming made a grabbing and pulling motion in the void, the clanking sound of iron chains immediately rang out, and he performed a throw without any physical object.

Nothing happened.

The surface of the sea did not explode with surging waves.

But on the seabed three kilometers away, the keel of a shipwreck from decades ago was hooked by the intangible object, and then, with the assistance of the midnight rose, it creaked as it floated to the surface, and was instantly recovered by Su Ming with a remote Gathering!

Su Ming stood on the bow and reminded Midnight: "I just changed the anchor for the rose; you should be able to feel the existence of the Nightmare Hook. It's in your hands, Midnight!"

"Understood, Master!"

After a brief adaptation, Midnight exclaimed: "With this anchor, the speed of salvaging materials will increase by at least an order of magnitude! However, Master, such a miraculous anchor, won't you use it yourself?"

Su Ming waved his hand in refusal: "No matter how much the Nightmare Hook is a Dream Creation, its size comparable to an orca is still too conspicuous; it would disrupt my combat rhythm."

He didn't have Nautilus's build, and using a ship anchor as a weapon was too abstract.

He waved his hand to dismiss Midnight.

Su Ming crossed his arms and paced back and forth on the deck.

He was thinking about how to combine materials and what kind of design to create so that he could have stronger basic configurations before the midnight rose upgraded to an Orange-Light ghost ship.

As Su Ming paced.

Ripples quietly spread out. A pure white radiance gradually expanded from the point where Su Ming stepped, until it enveloped the entire ship!

Branches of the treasure tree adam!

The giant skeleton of the Ghost Leviathan!

The remaining sea beast skeletons that the Yellow Spring Coating couldn't consume!

A hundred tons of wapol alloy!

The biological gel contributed by the Ghost Leviathan!

A large quantity of Sea Kings' Essences accumulated previously, which of course included the Ghost Leviathan Essence!

Through Wall-Piercing Insight, Su Ming monitored every detail of the ship's reinforcement in real-time. Matter was reorganizing at high speed, and within the framework of the ghost ship simulated by the power of "I think it works," it was self-awakening at an unimaginable speed!

Starting to shape from the giant skeleton of the Ghost Leviathan, it would serve as the future keel framework for the midnight rose!

Dozens of Sea Kings' skeletons were broken down into bone powder, and the most essential parts were extracted to reinforce the toughness of the keel and endow it with superhuman load-bearing performance!

treasure tree adam was integrated into the keel framework as the most important auxiliary material, and along with it, three thousand leaves from the World Tree Yggdrasil were also merged in!

Thus.

The ship's keel was the first to be reconstructed and formed!

The jade-like, translucent keel was clear throughout, overflowing with starlight inside, rising and flowing rhythmically like breathing; it seemed like a brilliant galaxy that could only be born in a dream, or like the accumulated soul essence at the bottom of the River of Oblivion!

The new keel was eighty meters long!

To match such an artistic, long-lasting keel that wouldn't become obsolete for a long time, the layout of the ship's body naturally had to keep up!

The biological gel contributed by the Ghost Leviathan spread across the ship like spilled mercury.

The original structure was melted and integrated; the bone powder of the Sea Kings scattered down, evenly falling onto the biological gel, and a new round of fusion began!

The ship's body gradually became transparent.

The hull silently elongated.

Even the Ghost Sails (Blue) were replaced by the translucent skin membrane of the Ghost Leviathan, and a touch of deep purple radiance quietly bloomed!

Essences of various types of Sea Kings surged in.

Boosting the Ghost Sails and leaping into the Purple-grade realm in one step!

The eighty-meter-long Ghost Leviathan roared high, as if reborn; that was its essence, which even contained part of the innate concepts of its species!

Now.

It would merge with the newly born midnight rose!

Just at this moment.

The last remnant of a sentient life was dragged onto the deck by the Nightmare Hook.

Su Ming's eyes flickered, and he tapped his finger!

A scroll of blueprints appeared out of thin air, and then burned without fire!

A large amount of materials accumulated in his backpack evaporated crazily, turning into the meaning of death that invoked the concept of the Yellow Spring. Gradually... a dirge of death rippled out from the sound of waves playing from nowhere.

The aura of death was rising.

...

The Banshees seemed to sense it; in their hollow, dead eyes, the strange spectacle of the birth of the Yellow Spring Coating was reflected!

Yellow Spring Coating!

Plus the Ghost Sails upgraded to Purple-grade quality!

Having gathered two major Purple-grade ship facilities in one go, the midnight rose simultaneously met the upgrade requirements, and the might of the Abyssal Sea Game Field descended!

This was an epic transformation.

It was the beginning of the midnight rose truly stepping into the realm of immortality!

Under this blessing, the slight discordance in the previous reinforcement process was quickly smoothed out by the might of the Abyssal Sea Game Field!

The new midnight rose was 80 meters long and 24 meters wide; the ship's body shed the cold, bone-like texture, and in its place was a kind of jade-like, translucent hull!