“Mr. Larden, we’re out of main cannon shells!” Ryan burst out of the main cannon control room, shouting the report to Matthew.
The Medusa Warship had already fired all ten of its heavy shells in the last volley. The only remaining munitions were of significantly lower power.
“No matter,” Matthew replied, his expression unchanged. He then turned his head and spoke more softly to Ryan.
“Things might get bloody soon. I suggest you go back inside the ship. Otherwise, your clothes are going to be ruined.”
Ryan’s outfit was arguably the most normal-looking attire aboard the Medusa Warship. Everything else leaned toward the eccentric.
Ryan hesitated. “Mr. Larden, please be careful. If you can’t hold them off, then… Please call me.”
The fear favonovel.com once held toward the giant sharks had vanished from Ryan’s eyes. All that remained was unwavering determination, even the kind that welcomed death.
Matthew chuckled softly at the sight of Ryan’s resolve. “I told you, don’t be so quick to give up on life. Go on…”
Ryan nodded and retreated into the cabin. He found a window that gave favonovel.com a clear view of Matthew standing tall on deck. His gaze locked on Matthew’s upright silhouette.
Mr. Larden, if anything happens to you… I’ll blow this whole ship to hell. I’ll make sure those d*mn sharks die with us!
The ship’s self-destruct capability was something Ryan had only recently discovered.
All of the Medusa Warship’s power sources had been wired together, with the main energy core connected to its massive powder magazine, an arsenal that took up nearly a third of the ship’s space.
Each of the eleven main cannon shells previously fired weighed about 66,000 pounds. Besides those, the ship also carried 100 secondary shells, each containing roughly 2,000 pounds of explosive material.
And that didn’t even count the countless grenades, homing charges, and rocket launchers stored onboard.
Ryan had run the numbers. If the Medusa Warship detonated, it could unleash an explosion with a force measuring in the tens of millions of tons. Neither favonovel.com nor Matthew would survive, but Bloodfin Bay would be wiped off the map.
Up on the deck, the wind whipped through the folds of Matthew’s white robe. His deep-set eyes calmly watched the ocean surface as something massive approached from beneath the waves.
Suddenly, with a guttural roar, a shark nearly 33 feet long burst from the water, its massive jaws snapping toward Matthew’s arm.
“Shatter!”
The word left Matthew’s lips in a whisper, and the massive beast instantly turned into a shredded mess of flesh.
Blood sprayed toward favonovel.com but froze midair, halted by an invisible force. The droplets then fell helplessly to the deck, painting it in crimson.
“If you keep throwing your underlings at me,” Matthew said coldly, “I’ll just kill every last one of them…”
His voice carried a strange inflection, layered with something nonhuman, an attempt at communication more instinctive than verbal.
Based on his earlier observations, the alpha shark appeared to possess some rudimentary intelligence, but it wasn’t fully sentient, at least not In a human sense. So, Matthew used a vocalization more akin to an animal’s.
A rough translation of his message might’ve been, “Come out now, or I’ll slaughter all your minions!”
The ocean suddenly split open again. A massive gray form broke the surface, reeking of rot and decay.
“Get lost!” Matthew growled.
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