"Found you!"
By extending his Understanding Water through the flood, Ethan quickly located the hammerhead shark.
But he realized, his Strange Sword Style did almost no damage against the shark's tough hide. The wound he'd made had already healed.
That left Ethan speechless.
The thing was also incredibly agile. Combined with the resistance of the water, even using Moon-Slaying Form against it probably wouldn't be very effective.
Unless... he forced it to the surface.
"Spread Across the Sky Like the Stars!"
After thinking it over, Ethan could only take out the Star Staff and use his favorite dirty trick on the hammerhead shark's location.
"ROAR!"
The hammerhead shark was immediately sliced all over by Spread Across the Sky Like the Stars, leaving countless bloody cuts.
It writhed wildly in the water from the pain as blood mixed with bubbles floated to the surface.
Even so, the hammerhead shark still didn't die.
Its wounds were rapidly healing. It seemed this monster's greatest ability was self-regeneration.
But the hammerhead shark could still feel pain.
Even though it could heal itself, the agony of being cut kept it from diving deeper. Instead, it hurried toward the surface where there were no traps.
As for how the hammerhead shark knew there was no Spread Across the Sky Like the Stars at the surface,
Ethan guessed... it was probably because of the water currents.
Fish possess organs that sense water flow. Even a tiny Space Gate would still affect the movement of the surrounding water.
So the hammerhead shark was likely judging where it was safe and where it wasn't by detecting changes in the currents.
However, Ethan had never expected a single Spread Across the Sky Like the Stars to kill it.
He only wanted to force the shark out of the water with Spread Across the Sky Like the Stars, then finish it off with a Moon-Slaying Form.
"Trying to run?"
Ethan noticed that after swimming a little toward the surface, the hammerhead shark immediately changed direction, apparently preparing to dive again.
It seemed to have seen through his plan.
But there was no way Ethan was letting it escape.
"Spread Across the Sky Like the Stars!"
Ethan spent another 2,000 mental power and filled the area around the hammerhead shark with Space Gates.
No matter which direction it swam, it would be endlessly cut by the Space Gates of Spread Across the Sky Like the Stars.
It was no different from swimming into a fishing net covered in barbed hooks.
In fact, the damage Spread Across the Sky Like the Stars dealt was even worse than barbed hooks.
"ROAR!"
The hammerhead shark cried out again.
It immediately flicked its blood-soaked tail and rose toward the surface.
If, the first time it had encountered those bizarre Space Gates, Hammerhead might have thought the man on shore was dreaming if he believed a single skill could kill it.
But after the second encounter with the Space Gates surrounding it, it completely understood.
The man on shore hadn't been so careless as to think one skill alone could kill it.
He was using the skill to force it out of the water.
That was even more dangerous than trying to kill it outright.
"ROAR!"
But, it had no choice but to rise just as the man wanted.
Unless it wanted to be carved apart by those strange Space Gates that seemed to be everywhere, it had no option but to move where the man forced it to.
There was no other way.
Originally, it had wanted to wait for the right opportunity before using Fish Leap to instantly kill Ethan.
Now it had to use it early.
Even if it couldn't kill the man, it could at least force him back.
That might still leave it a chance to survive.
"Fish Leap!"
The instant the hammerhead shark burst out of the water, the hammer-shaped part of its head rapidly expanded.
Like an inflatable hammer, it instantly filled with air.
It turned into an enormous hammer-shaped balloon.
"Hammer Strike!"
At the same moment, the hammerhead shark came crashing down toward Ethan.
Its shadow was as massive as a small hill.
"Heh!"
The moment Ethan saw the hammerhead shark leap out of the water, he smiled.
He wasn't afraid of the hammerhead shark attacking him on land.
He was only worried that he wouldn't be able to lure it out.
Now that it was out... it wasn't going back.
"Moon-Slaying Form!"
There was no need to test anything.
Ethan directly unleashed the strongest move among the Eight Forms of God-Slaying.
A fierce sword aura erupted from the ground and shot straight toward the rapidly descending hammerhead shark.
"Shit!"
Just then, not far from Ethan, another figure appeared on the surface of the water.
'An octopus?'
It had a huge octopus head with countless tentacles.
But strangely... Below the octopus was a human body.
Like some stitched-together monster.
It looked incredibly bizarre.
And just as Ethan was about to kill the hammerhead shark, the octopus-headed creature suddenly shot out its long tentacles, trying to snatch the shark away.
"Huh? Trying to save someone?", Ethan turned to the octopus-headed creature, then swung his sword at it, "Moon-Slaying Form!"
The octopus-headed creature was so frightened that it immediately withdrew its tentacles.
Without another word, it turned and fled.
With the octopus-headed creature no longer interfering, the Moon-Slaying Form struck the hammerhead shark directly.
Crack!
Crack! Crack!
The sound of bones breaking echoed from the hammer-shaped head of the shark.
The hammerhead shark stared with wide eyes in shock, unable to believe that the strongest and hardest part of its body... had been split apart... by a single thin strand of sword aura.
This was the hardest part of its entire body.
It was strong enough to split mountains and shatter rocks.
'How is this possible?
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