The mysterious and vast depths of the Black Sea.

The chaotic weather seems to have lost its most basic rules, sometimes it's clear skies for miles, and sometimes it's a sudden storm, even super tsunamis like doomsday calamities are not uncommon.

In the center of this chaotic area.

It seems as if a rock has abruptly risen from the deep sea bottom, turning into a peak that pierces the sea surface, forming a unique solitary island in the surrounding tens of thousands of square kilometers of deep sea!

The island has not a trace of trees or soil, and the jumble of rocks is filled with various sculptures of marine creatures, like whales, snails, sea anemones, octopuses, seahorses, sea snakes.....all known marine life forms have their templates here, plus a greater number of entities beyond human understanding.

But each sculpture of a marine creature carries shells and tentacles, giving an indescribable feeling of ferocity and strangeness that instills awe.

This is the miracle bestowed by the Mother of Sea Monsters, the promised land granted by the Goddess to the sea monsters, and the headquarters of the "Deep Sea Brotherhood," unchanged through wind, sun, rain, and even tsunami assaults...for eternity!

Moo Roar——!

Hiss——

Countless sea monsters, big and small, inhabit this sea area, even the rare giant species elsewhere can be seen in groups here, like moving catastrophes.

They wantonly stir up this sea, turning an already hostile marine environment into virtually a forbidden zone for humans!

However.

Behind the island's solemn and towering temple that reaches the sky, at the most outer edge of the island, near a wide cave half-submerged in seawater.

There...quietly docked a Black Sail Pirate Ship!

In the sea monster-filled headquarters of the "Deep Sea Brotherhood," a human warship actually appears?

Could it be that the sea monsters, deeply hostile to humans, have changed their nature?

The pirate ship's size is no less than a Level 2 Battleship of the navy, a rare sight in the pirate ship community where speed is most cherished.

On the black main sail, an eye-catching emblem of a crown-wearing skull with eight octopus tentacles prominently stands out, a ship's figurehead wrapped in black chains quietly stands at the bow, emitting a faint ghostly glow.

These features unmistakably indicate its identity—belonging to the Black Sea Pirate King, "Octopus Ghost" Hawkins, and his flagship, the "Eternal Imprisoned Holy Statue"!

Howl——!

Moo!

Beside it, the vast cave, even for a battleship to enter, would feel quite spacious, faintly echoes with the roars of giant beasts.

At the bottom of the cave, connected to the open sea.

One after another, wide water ponds are interconnected with complex waterways, even the smallest has a diameter of over fifty meters.

Red "stone walls" separate each water pond, forming individual spaces. However, these seemingly stone-like red walls feel more like some hard flesh, even emitting more heat than a human body.

Combined with the pale yellow liquid almost overflowing in the ponds, this sprawling cave network is not a cold underground structure, but rather gives the sense of being a special functional organ of some super-giant creature.

That is indeed the case.

The air in the underground caves permeates with a strange amniotic fluid-like smell.

In most of the ponds are frog-like eggs enveloped in thick transparent gelatinous membranes, only these eggs are thousand times larger than frog eggs.

Through the sticky, translucent gelatinous membranes, one can clearly see the curled-up sea monster embryos inside, all with shells and tentacles, it's evident that these embryos are all the beloved of the "Mother of Sea Monsters" Echet.

The rolling pale yellow liquid continuously supplies these sea monster eggs with nutrients.

Currently, there are hundreds of eggs of various sizes, developing at different rates, the larger they are, the quieter; the smaller they are, the more perfectly formed they become.

Four or five have even distinctly belonged to small species of sea monsters tearing through the outer gelatinous membrane, howling and shrieking in the pale yellow liquid.

The prosperous-looking "Octopus Ghost" Hawkins now stands on a stone platform at the edge of this vast pond area.

Listening to the fierce roars of the sea monsters, he cannot suppress his joy. Even the eight coiling beards on his chin quiver, like wriggling tendrils of flesh.

"Lord Heimtz, it seems the sea monsters' development is going very smoothly! These small species have matured to nearly the perfect state within just three months."

So far, all information about the Leiden River Valley is under my control at any time.

I wonder when we'll implement our final plan?"

Hawkins turned around and asked another tall figure in a white robe beside him. The Pirate King even unusually used formal language.

This is not hard to understand. Even though he is essentially a cold-blooded, ruthless, and vicious demon, Hawkins still understands the most basic principle of the Extraordinary World: "Reverence for Power"!

Because standing next to him was the tall figure in a white robe, the guild master of the "Deep Sea Brotherhood", the Tier 4 Sea God's Son "White Remains" Heimtz!

Not to mention that Hawkins is currently only at Tier 3 Peak, even if he successfully breaks through to Tier 4, reaching the limit of the mundane world, he might not necessarily be a match for this unfathomable guild master of the "Deep Sea Brotherhood".

Didn't you see that the two vice guild masters, Tien Kute and Petrich, who are also at Tier 4, have been firmly suppressed by this "White Remains" for over a hundred years?

Unless....

Hawkins throws his lot with the "Mother of Sea Monsters" or more precisely, under this "White Remains" Heimtz's command.

At the cost of slaughtering nearly 100,000 people in "White Whale Port", he acquired these 87 sea monsters mainly from large species and partially from small species.

Although "Mother of Sea Monsters" Echet will surely take a substantial "handling fee" from this, the price of roughly over a thousand human lives per sea monster is indeed too high.

And it is precisely the strength of this guild master that leaves Hawkins with no room for negotiation!

Even though he is a king among the Black Sea pirates, able to summon tens of thousands of fierce pirates at his call, he is already a remarkable figure among ordinary people.

But he has a clear understanding.

In the face of real "big figures", he, "Octopus Ghost" Hawkins, is only a small pawn. In their eyes, he is not much different from an ordinary pirate.

So, he must endure! Suppress his Pirate King's nature fiercely!

This opportunity to break through to Tier 4 in one fell swoop, and even gain more chances, must be seized!

Absolutely!

The hood covered Heimtz's face tightly, but Hawkins still felt a pair of heavily pressuring eyes fall upon him, followed by a voice that was as deep and dangerous as a whirlpool in the deep sea.

"The great Goddess certainly possesses infinite mighty power.

However, the sea monsters spawned in just three short months not only have extremely low intelligence but also show a significant disparity in combat power compared to normal sea monsters.

Yet, with numbers as high as 87, it's already enough to crush everything along the coast for you.

Therefore, I don't care about the process, I only want that thing hidden in the treasury's depths! Do you understand?"

The guild master of the Brotherhood's tone was not polite, but Hawkins dared not have any dissatisfaction.

Performing an action he hadn't done for many years, he slightly bowed and assured, "Rest assured, my lord, I will land with the sea monsters and personally retrieve the 'Heart of the Ocean' from the underground grand treasury!"

"I hope so, wait for my notification on the action with reassurance."

Leaving behind this last sentence, Heimtz's figure had already vanished like mist, leaving Hawkins unable to tell whether the person who had just spoken to him was the real body or a mere illusion...

In the shadow cast by the silk robe's drape, Hawkins' hands, adorned with several gemstone rings, clenched tightly for a moment, then immediately relaxed, nonchalantly returning his gaze to the ever-increasing number of sea monsters breaking from their eggs in the pool, his thoughts unfathomable.

As a powerful Tier 3 Extraordinary on the "Exiled Prisoner" path, although the symbolic shackle no longer binds his body, the shackle in his heart remains.

And it is the invincible strength that can allow him to break this final shackle!

The "Exiled Prisoner" path, with Level 2 Knight as a prerequisite, in reality, it is the Tier 3 that is the true "Exiled Prisoner", completing the advancement ceremony can become the true Tier 4 Extraordinary Peak "Lawless"!

'...Releasing a powerful prisoner capable of overturning the world is the way to ascend to Tier 4 and gain the ultimate power, is it? It's close... so close... Brotherhood... haha... haha...'

Only invincible power can support living as one desires!

Until——

Tap... tap... tap...

A figure similar in build to Hawkins, equally somewhat short and stocky, emerged from the darkness behind him.