Chapter 13 I Never Believe in Fate

Lex's injured body fell from the sky, piercing the clouds, stirring up the water vapor, and then continued to accelerate towards the sea.

He is about to fall into the doldrums!

Just as Lex's body was about to touch the sea water, the sea water in the calm zone below him began to surge wildly.

The sea water bulged like a huge inverted bowl, surging upwards against the current.

It's like the prelude to a seaquake or an underwater volcanic eruption.

However, the next moment, an extremely large and smooth tentacle slowly emerged from the rising sea water.

The tentacle gently caught Lex as he was about to fall into the sea.

It gently lifted Lex's body horizontally, and slowly moved it towards the sky, towards the direction where the Red Earl stood. Its speed was sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and it looked very anxious.

It was afraid that going too fast would aggravate Lex's injuries, and it was also afraid that going too slowly would prevent it from reaching the Red Earl. After all, it could not heal human injuries.

It seemed to want to be as gentle as possible, bending the part of the tentacle where Rex was located downwards to form a huge pit. However, the 3.33-meter-tall Rex looked like a speck of dust, a small dot, on this tentacle that was thousands of meters long, so it looked very funny.

The Red Earl looked at this scene and the tentacles that were getting closer and closer to him, and a strange smile appeared on his face.

"Hey, Luska, stop wasting time. Take a good look at what the Lex in your hand is."

The Red Earl reminded loudly.

The sound reached below the sea surface, and the huge tentacle suddenly braked. It shook its tiny body slightly, and then stopped. Yes, it stopped moving.

Then, a loud laugh spread across the sea, breaking the silence.

“Hahahahaha!! Luska, have you been sleeping for a whole year and are you so sleepy that you can’t even see through the illusion of folded space? Hahahaha, no, let me laugh again.”

Lex suddenly appeared on the other side of the tentacle, stepped on Luska's huge tentacle, bent over and laughed wildly.

The laughing Lex was in good physical condition and did not show any injuries at all, because the Red Earl did not touch him at all.

Surprisingly, the 'seriously injured Lex' on the other side of the tentacle was still there, sleeping in the pit formed by Luska's 'bending arm' as much as possible.

Hearing this, the tentacle seemed very angry and felt offended.

The tentacles suddenly burst out at an extremely fast speed, which was totally unlike the speed of a creature of this size. Its tentacles bent instantly and shot towards Lex at a rapid speed. The speed was so fast that it caused bursts of sonic booms, and the water vapor on the surface of the sea condensed and turned into pieces of water mist.

However, when the tip of the tentacle was about to hit Lex, Lex disappeared instantly. Lex entered the different space and took a few steps casually, and came to the side of the Red Earl in the sky.

The Red Earl frowned and glanced at Lex with a look of disgust.

The giant tentacle obviously refused to give up, it was severely teased, and the clown turned out to be me.

Luska was very angry, and it was useless even if Aquaman came.

The next moment, more huge tentacles shot out from the sea water and attacked towards Lex. Seeing this, the Red Earl raised his eyebrows slightly, then fluttered his wings, turned into a blood-red afterimage, and flashed away, leaving the battlefield to the man and the beast.

"Hey, hey, hey, Luska, it's just a joke, don't take it so seriously. I wouldn't joke with ordinary people like this."

Lex's figure kept teleporting, appearing on the sea surface for a while and appearing under the clouds the next second.

It seems that Lex is hiding, but in fact he is just strolling around.

No matter where Lex hid, the eight tentacles would always chase him, from the sea surface to the clouds, and then from the clouds to the sea surface.

The tentacles were extremely long and seemed to cover the entire sea area. The entire calm belt was in chaos, the sea water was constantly surging, tsunamis could be seen everywhere, but they were easily dispersed by the huge tentacles in the next second.

"Okay, okay, don't be angry. I'm here to tell you something serious."

"What business can a bastard like you have? If you have the guts, don't hide! Let me give you a hand."

Lusca's voice appeared in Lex's mind. He called himself "the King" and his voice was a little childish, sounding like a teenager in the voice change period.

"Hey, hey, spare me. Let me have you. Do you want to lose half your life?"

Lex's voice rang out.

You know, generally speaking, giant creatures like this don't have very strong single-point attack power, but their huge size, huge destructive range, and amazing power are what matters.

But Luska is one of the few, or perhaps even the only, purebred ancient sea king in Qinghai today. It is a top creature that far surpasses ordinary sea kings in every sense of the word.

Luska knew how to gather huge power through soft tissues and burst out with earth-shaking power! He even knew how to accumulate power.

Luska's ultimate attack is comparable to Whitebeard using all his strength to activate the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and concentrate all his power at one point!

But Whitebeard also has a range attack, so if we really want to talk about the peak single-point destructive power, it turns out that the king of the sea, Luska, is the one on this ocean. It's just that the world doesn't know about Luska's existence.

You know, the bigger the sea king, the smarter it is. Generally, sea kings that are several thousand meters long have the IQ of adult humans. This is the case with the sea kings guarding Noah outside Fishman Island.

What about Luska? His intelligence far exceeds that of a normal human being.

It's just that the ancient sea kings had a much longer lifespan, often reaching nearly 10,000 years, so Lusca is now in the stage of just passing his infancy and entering maturity.

"I don't care, cunning Lex, come out of the other dimension quickly."

After a long time without any results, Lusca was not so angry anymore, and instead started to have a verbal fight with Lex.

"Then you must promise not to retaliate against me."

"I promise."

"I don't believe it." Lex continued shamelessly.

"..."

"You have to use the name of the Sea King."

"Shameless little thief!"

"Just swear an oath quickly and I'll come out."

"Well, I swear in the name of the Sea King that as long as you come out, Lex, I will never retaliate against you."

Luska's slightly childish voice rang in Lex and Red Earl's minds.

Hearing this, Lex's figure slowly emerged above the sea, but still remained partially blurred. He was on guard against Lusca. You know, Lusca didn't respect the Sea King that much, and the name of the Sea King didn't work that well with Lusca.

Sure enough, in just a moment, eight tentacles flew towards Lex at a speed that broke through the sonic boom.

"You are not a man of honor. Are you betraying the Sea King?"

Lex flashed and disappeared into the air again.

"Asshole, if you have the guts, don't run away."

Luska felt extremely aggrieved. Even though he possessed unfathomable power, he had nowhere to display it. It was like punching cotton. He was extremely angry. Moreover, as an octopus sea king, Luska had three hearts, which made him three times more angry.

"Then come in if you have the guts." Lex's shameless voice came from the other space and floated on the sea.

!!!

Such a bastard!

Human beings are so sinister.

Luska was so angry, but he had no other choice, so he took out his anger on the many sea kings in the Calm Belt.

He quickly extended eight tentacles, but his head remained at the bottom of the sea ten thousand meters deep. You can imagine how huge his body is.

Bang bang bang! !

In an instant, dozens of sea kings of various shapes were pierced through the bodies by the tips of Luska's tentacles and sent into Luska's mouth like skewers.

The sounds of chewing and swallowing continued like vibrations from the bottom of the sea.

Turn grief and anger into appetite!

"Hey, Luska, give me a few sea kings to eat. I'm a little hungry after fighting with Master for so long."

Lex's voice was heard, but this time he did not hide in the alien space. Instead, he appeared on the sea without any cover.

"Get out of here!"

Luska continued to eat. After sleeping for a whole year, he needed a huge amount of food to restore his body functions.

However, he did not attack Lex again, because he could neither hit nor scold him. The most disgusting thing was that his original intention was just to wake up from his sleep and "save" Lex, but he ended up being severely fooled.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. He had swallowed dozens of sea kings again.

Lex was not idle either. The light blue space went deep into the sea, and in a flash, several sea kings entered Lex's strange space.

But Lex is not used to eating sashimi after all.

So, he drew out Wan Qing Yukong and swung out a flaming slash.

In an instant, a raging flame suddenly ignited on the sea surface, enough to cover the several sea kings.

On the sea, you don't know how to play with fire, and you have the nerve to call yourself a strong man?

If I remember correctly, Kin'emon, one of Kozuki Oden's Nine Red Scabbards, could cut off flames. There were also many flame swordsmen on the sea, and it was very common to see someone slashing out with flames.

What lacks combustible materials and does not dissipate out of thin air?

It's not like Lex's fruit doesn't exist. Part of the space is stagnant, but the heat continues to radiate. In the final analysis, Lex is just using his swordsmanship to convert his physical strength into another form of heat, and then maintaining sustainability through the space fruit.

That's it.

After a while, several sea kings had been grilled.

Lex took out a lot of seasonings from the Yonggu space, including chili peppers, cumin, pepper, fine salt, sauces...

"Master, it's time for dinner." Lex called out to the Red Earl who was quietly looking at the sea from the distant sky.

"Well, not bad. Your cooking skills are improving faster than your strength."

Lex took out a miniature island from the alien dimension and floated it on the sea.

After a while, the two began to devour large chunks of grilled sea king meat.

You know, the meat of sea kings is the most delicious and highest-energy meat in the ocean.

Even ordinary people will have a good physique if they eat this kind of meat all year round.

Rex and the Red Earl had each eaten barbecued sea kings that were hundreds of times larger than themselves.

I don’t know how the stomachs of the strong people in this world grow?

The two started drinking again, Lex drank sherry and the Red Earl drank the wine prepared by Lex.

"Hey, Luska, do you want some barbecue?" Lex shouted below the sea.

"Bring some over and let us see." A slightly immature boy's voice sounded in Lex's mind, the voice was full of expectation and a little shy.

"Uh-huh-huh, here you go!"

Two grilled sea kings were thrown into the sea by Rex. In an instant, the sea water surged and a huge octopus head popped out. Only the tip of the iceberg was exposed, but it looked extremely amazing and huge, making people sigh at the magic of the creator of this world.

Luska's mouth was like the abyss of the sea, catching the two grilled sea kings.

As soon as the barbecue enters your mouth, your taste buds explode!

How come he didn't know before that Rex's barbecue skills were so good? As for barbecue, the mermaid princess 800 years ago also made it for him, and therefore "kidnapped" him to work for her.

It seemed familiar now, but Luska did not feel disgusted. Lex was naturally attracted to him. It was a peculiar temperament. In human terms, it seemed to be a feeling called "friend".

Being with good friends makes people feel very comfortable.

This is completely different from the sense of enslavement that the mermaid princess has for him, which is a kind of spiritual oppression that comes from blood, even though the mermaid princess is a very gentle and kind woman.

"Hey, Luska, do you want to eat more?" Lex asked with a faint smile.

"Yes, give me more barbecue quickly." Luska said happily.

"Then you help me hunt the sea kings, and I'll be in charge of the barbecue."

"it is good!"

——"Hiccup~~"——

About an hour later, Luska burped, and the sound made the Windless Belt tremble three times.

"Hey, Luska."

Lex sat cross-legged on the edge of the floating island and shouted below the sea.

"what happened?"

"Would you like to be my partner?"

Lex said suddenly, his voice echoing over the azure sea in the calm zone.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Luska was slightly stunned. This scene seemed familiar and he recalled some distant, unpleasant memories.

"As someone who participated in that great war, you should know what companions represent, right? The rulers of the world today are the winners of that war." Lex said.

"The betrayers? I know."

Luska paused and continued.

"But why should I join you? Give me a reason. Do you want me to be a soldier on the front line, or a shield to block Uranus (the king of the sky) at a critical moment, or a stupid sea king who can be used at will, or like that stupid elephant who was foolishly tied up for 800 years because of being late? Tell me, Lex!!!"

Luska's voice became more and more intense, containing reluctance, anger, and grief! The entire Calm Belt was also turbulent, and tsunamis arose.

"Don't be silly, Luska. Yes, I need your strength to realize my ambitions. But if the joint efforts of partners can be considered as exploitation, then you can continue to wait for your shitty fate that spans 800 years!!"

Lex stood up and burst out with amazing domineering color.

"..."

"Is that so? Lex. Mate..."

Luska's voice gradually became quieter, as if he was thinking about something.

"Luska, become my partner. Let's do it together again and attack the Void Throne again!"

"Don't you believe in the legend of Joyboy? The Nika warrior will shine on the sea like the sun, the drum of liberation will resound through the sky, and the warrior who inherits the free will will spread laughter across the Qinghai again."

Luska's voice was bitter, yes, bitter.

He was a participant in the war for 800 years, and these 800 years of waiting had almost exhausted his patience. The words that the mermaid princess warned him before her death, those 'destiny', those waits, had gradually faded away with the years and disappeared without a trace with the waves of the sea.

"Luska, more than a thousand years ago, or even in the older times, were there Joyboy and Nika? They were just people pursuing free will. Why must someone with the name of D accomplish this? What exactly is D? Is it dawn? Is it a dream? No!!! It is just an endless will, the crystallization of the people on the sea's constant pursuit of beauty and yearning for freedom! Then we were also born on this sea, bathing in the same sunshine, breathing the same air, why can't we pursue our own freedom, why can't we do what we want to do? Luska, I just want to change all this, I am so overestimating my own abilities, I just don't believe in that bullshit fatalism, Luska!!!"

The domineering aura of the king has broken through the sky, dispersing the clouds for thousands of miles in the sky, and the calm belt is constantly surging with waves.

The Red Earl was moved.

Luska was silent.

"......"

“Who is our enemy?”

After a while, Luska asked slowly.

"Hahahahaha!! Our enemies? Anyone who tries to stop us!!!" Lex opened his arms and said wantonly, his blond hair flying.

“…Hahaha! Is that so? Then I’ll accompany you to turn this ocean upside down again!”

Luska's voice rang out.

A fate spanning 800 years, a fate passed down from generation to generation, a fate that countless people are looking forward to.

At this moment, accompanied by Luska's laughter, it was broken for the first time!

What will the future be like? Will it be better? Or worse? Or, can it be worse?

The sea is still silent, but the waves are rolling.