Chapter 233 - The 9th Hour Is Here!

"Tell me everything that you managed to get about this seamount, the mission starts now". Captain Omega's face was finally serious since he arrived with his fleet as he asked demandingly.

"Yes, Captain!" Staff Sergeant Barnes did not dare to dally around.

Since Barnes arrived with his Crimson Fleet, the number one thing that they had been engaged in was scouting the layout of this seamount. Now, at this moment of truth, the benefits of this decision shone brightly.

Sergeant Raila reacted as soon as the Captain demanded it. She turned around and swiftly swam towards a location in the seamount where a huge machine that looked like an old telephone booth was erected.

When she swam there, Staff Sergeant Barnes and Captain Omega followed behind her. This machine was called the Statpadder, it's main use was to properly compile important data amidst a myriad of other uses.

After Sergeant Raila swam closer, her gloved hands glowed in bright yellow light as she placed it on the Statpadder before closing her eyes.

As soon as she closed her eyes, her perception changed. She was drawn into a blue world of data like a virtual world where the whites in the blue background were the numerous data that were stored in this Statpadder.

Having experienced this before, Sergeant Ralia was a veteran already. Without panicking, she willed as her yellow roaming virtual spirit started rapidly navigating through the myriad of data that were before her.

In just an instant, her virtual spirit narrowed on a piece of data that was shaped in the form of a white mountain. She moved her virtual spirit closer until it made contact with this data that was in the form of a white mountain.

The next moment, her virtual spirit jerked, then her perception returned to the real world. She didn't return alone, a large virtual projection returned with her, this was the data that was compiled and recorded inside the white mountain data.

On the large virtual projection, a map of this seamount was shone.

In other words, this was now a safe region of this seamount.

The smaller black part of the map was still an explored region, but it was marked as the dangerous regions of this seamount.

This black part of the map, though was the smaller part was still big. At this moment, the Atlantian soldiers were in the middle of this black part, they were at the very heart of the dangerous regions of the seamount.

The map didn't just show a monotonous black color to describe danger, it also showed the reason why these regions were dangerous.

Captain Omega impatiently skipped to these parts of the map.

-        Point A1: Mutated Giant Crab family with 8 orange tier predators.

-        Point A2: Mutated Sea Lion family with 5 orange tier predators.

-        Point A3: Draconic Lizard family with 1 purple tier predator and 16 orange tier predators.

-        Point A4: Mutated Devouring Cobra family with 1 purple tier King Cobra as the leader and 7 orange tier predators.

After the originally ruling Crocodile family was dethroned, as the Lizard Lord didn't claim this territory for himself, the remaining purple tier predator in the seamount saw it as no crime in claiming the territory for himself. 

The Captain turned to face the Staff Sergeant. "Their lair is here?"

"Yes, Captain!"

Almost immediately after Staff Sergeant Barnes answered, an extremely loud sound blast reverberated across the seamount. 

This was a sound that could only have been caused by a powerful collision between 2 heavy objects, Captain Omega turned his head immediately as his sharp eyes and bald head shone brightly.

After taking care of the mutated beasts that were attacking them in their panic, the warships of the Black Mamba Division Fleet followed their routine and hibernated their warships in strategic locations to form a large defense perimeter.

The hibernation setting of the warships meant that their energy levels were at the lowest, not switched off entirely, and the warship's lightning-fast reaction to danger was still very much effective.

At this moment, an enormous King Cobra that looked like a mountain tried to sneak through the warships and deliver a terrible sneak attack but it was discovered and was blocked by one of the warship's shield generators.

At this moment, the shadow domain King Cobra was already revealed.

After shrinking its size, it did not wait for the humans before it started a mad swim far away as it swam for its life.

Seeing this, Lieutenant Zorror transmitted into the comm. "What are your orders, Captain?"

Captain Omega took a deep breath of crazy excitement as he could not help but rub his smooth bald head, then he intoned in a deep voice.

"Kill them all!"

"Scour the 4 danger points, uproot and kill them all!"

"Yes Sir!"

A wide-scale hunt by the Atlantian soldiers began the next moment.

Boom! Boom!

…

After Captain Omega gave the order for the total annihilation of the beasts, pushed by the excitement of battle, he also joined the brawl which destroyed any tiny hopes that the beasts had before.

The 4 points that were indicated after the Crimson Fleet's meticulous scouting was also scoured completely by the ravenous Atlantian soldiers.

On getting to the first 2 points that were indicated, the beasts were only able to put up a little struggle against the overwhelming might that they came with.

Despite the beasts' struggle, it was all proven futile as they wreaked havoc through the beasts, annihilating them and suffering no casualties in the process.

It was when it came to the last 2 points on the map that they encountered problems. Concerning the Draconic Lizard family, on getting there, they discovered that their lair was actually covered by a poisonous membrane.

Of course, they tried to clear the membrane away but it was not that easy.

Left with no choice, they could only barge in forcefully. After suffering 9 casualties to the poison, with countless others weak from the poison's effects, the Atlantians were stunned to discover that no beasts were in the region.

This was when they discovered that the Draconic Lizards already escaped this region more than 2 days ago, having sensed the threat to their existence.

They were furious but there was only little that they could do.

The Atlantian army still steamrolled through them.

With this, the army finally secured the seamount for real, holding it with an iron grip. They didn't rest though, they quickly started forming a defense perimeter to defend against the enemies that were bound to come in the next few days.

For the 5 days after that, attracted by their 6th sense, powerful predators and groups of predators kept on being attracted to this area which led to terrible battles in which both sides lost.

The intensity and frequency of battles kept on increasing by the day, which placed more and more of the Atlantians into strain.

Because of this, they suffered more casualties each battle than was after the next. Now, after persevering through the stormy period of these 5 days, the remaining 2 days before the appearance of the inheritance was here.

Just one night more and the one week would be complete.

Today, the Atlantians felt tense and alarmed, the 9th hour of this defense battle was here and stunning changes always accompanied it.

They watched their surroundings with bated breaths, waiting for it.