Chapter 440: Shark Fight
=Indeed…Pathos…what does the “MY” in our lord’s armor stand for? You never informed me.=
=No, you just started laughing like a gremlin while our lord was testing out the “M-form” and “Y-form” with the kaijin. Then started laughing even more when our lord developed this thousand yard stare as he realized something he didn’t want to share with me.=
=I…think so? You’ve been playing a lot of game series lately.=
=Oi, focus!=
=Okay…our lord’s old world had different definitions for such things so that makes sense, what does this have to do with the MY driver?=
Pathos told her logical counterpart,
=What does-wait…=
A smile akin to a Cheshire cat’s quickly formed on Pathos’s face as he saw the gears in Logos’s head turned.
Once the realization had fully dawned on upon Logos, she let out a reverberating sigh.
=Doesn’t change the fact that I still want to strangle you.=
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“You bastard!,” Zhen Shi shouted at Grand Fisher as he watched the latter knock out three of his sons with barely any reposte. Angered by the sight, Zhen Shi felt something in him surge as he suddenly dismissed his shield and lashed his chains forward, knocking Grand Fisher backwards.
“How dare you hurt my sons?!”
Zhen Shi ended up taking a few more hits as a result of suddenly dismissing his defense, but strangely, none of those subsequent hits ended up distorting his armor any further.
In fact, if one were to stare at Zhen Shi’s form at this moment, one could barely make out the giant shadowy image of a mammoth overlaying him.
“What ho? Your sons?”
Grand Fisher was surprised at this outburst, but quickly regained his composure and even proceeded to taunt Zhen Shi.
“Those three bottom feeders tried to interrupt our most noble of conflicts. It is only right I make them pay for their crimes.”
“Most noble of-You sent an army of coral monsters!”
“That you singlehandedly defeated! In that case, consider this a return of the favor.”
“You did not just-! That is not the same thing!”
“Enough talk! We continue this hunt!”
Grand Fisher proceeded to readjust the grip on his, holding it as if he was preparing to throw it. As he did, Aquarri aether began to condense around it into the shape of a strange looking shark with a hook-like tail.
On top of that, Grand Fisher then infused the completed shark with another type of energy, something that seem to shine like a rainbow, but also consume all light around it like darkness.
Once all the energies were mixed, he was ready to strike.
[Isonade Rage: Grand Tide!]
With a gargling roar, Grand Fisher threw his harpoon at Zhen Shi, causing the hooked tail shark to go charging towards Zhen Shi as well.
“Wanna play with sharks? Fine!”
In response to this encroaching threat, Zhen Shi let out more of his chains and proceeded to manipulate them until they were weaved into the shape of a shark’s skeleton.
With the framework complete, Zhen Shi infused the chain with aether, causing water to condense and form into the body of a shark and then ice to freeze where the head and teeth would be, creating an armored shark.
[Polar Thrash!]
ROOAAARRR!
Once his icy creation was completed, Zhen Shi threw the shark directly at Grand Fisher, more specifically, into the path of the latter’s hook-taik shark.
Focusing solely on the sharks made of aether, this entire scene looked like something one would see in nature.
Two apex predators crossing paths, where the outcome was either life or death.
Grand Fisher and Zhen Shi didn’t exchange anymore words as their respective attack arts swam towards each other, this was the point where they would only let their fists do the talking.
Roar!
As Zhen Shi’s armored shark got closer and closer to Grand Fisher’s hook-tailed shark, the latter proceeded to suddenly flip and attempt to slam the armored shark with it’s hook-like tail.
Mirroring the movements, Grand Fisher pulled the rope attached to the harpoon, a clear indicator that this was a deliberate motion on his part.
On the other side, Zhen Shi pulled his chains to move manipulate his armored shark, but instead of willing it to move forward or dodge, he moved it so that it would slam it’s armored skull directly into the incoming tail hook!
“Break!”
Splash!
“Huh?!”
As the ice armored skull of Zhen Shi’s shark slammed into the hook tail Grand Fisher’s shark, the latter proceeded to explode into a deluge of water.
This in turn caused a ripple effect that broke apart the entire shark and sent the harpoon flying.
Grand Fisher for his sort was stunned that his attack was dismissed like that especially since he infused the attack with a touch of [Chaos].
“Bite!”
With his path now cleared, Zhen Shi sent the shark surging forward once more and had opened it’s jaw wide, exposing several dozen rows of razor sharp teeth made of ice.
As this shark came closer and closer to consuming Grand Fisher, he soon realized why his own attack ended up breaking like waves against the rock when it collided with this armored shark.
It was also infused with a touch [Chaos].
[It can’t be! This old serpent can’t be…no. It’s only the icy parts that…bah! No time for that! [Guillotine Wave]!]
While his harpoon was still airborne, Grand Fisher suddenly channeled even more aether into it until the Aquarri aether around it condensed into a heavy chopping blade that he then pulled downward as if he dropping it.
Splash!
The armored shark was soundly decapitated in one fell swoop as the water blade slammed down at the only parts that weren’t covered in ice, and just like the hooked tail shark, the armored shark exploded into even bigger deluge.
“Thanks for clearing the path! [Narwhal Knuckle!]
“Bah!”
Unfortunately for Grand Fisher, Zhen Shi used the moment to launch himself forward with the shark’s momentum and subsequent beheading to punch him square in the face.
Well, to pierce the guy’s face with a narwhal horn made of water and ice aether, if we’re being more precise.
Granted, he didn’t manage to run Grand Fisher completely through with his attack, due to the fish man being able to juke his head to the side at the last minute.
“How are you able to use [Chaos]?!”
Zhen Shi was about to tell the fish man it was none of his business, but then remembered a line he used once against the Wolfe Grand Elder.
“Because fuck you, that’s how!”