Chapter 276: 44th Floor: The Sea
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 276: 44th Floor: The Sea
“He-help me!”
My scream echoed.
“What’s she saying?”
“Eheheh… Want me to help you with my cock?”
Just as they grabbed my hips, spanking my ass as one of their cocks touched my pussy…
Dududududududu!!!
A tentacled creature, slightly smaller than a human head, appeared out of nowhere and shot toward them at incredible speed.
“Huh?”
Splattersplattersplatter!!!
That was the last thing they ever saw.
In an instant, they were all crushed beyond recognition.
The creatures were, of course, my cute little babies, my Kkwiut-kkyu.
I had summoned them in advance, just in case a situation like this arose. I’d told them to rescue the hostages first, so they had saved Ludger and Fergus before finally coming to me.
And just in time, the sound of explosions rang out from outside.
Pig Mage Hosu.
He was so huge that I’d had to bring him along stored in the shuttle’s only missile launcher.
He survived in the vacuum of space with a protective magic shield. While most of the pirates had moved to our ship to fuck me, he had used the opportunity to instantly destroy all their patrol ships with Flame Spears.
About ten seconds.
That’s how long it took to neutralize the enemy.
There were still survivors, but they were as good as dead.
“Wipe out all the remaining pirates!”
“Kkwiut-kkyu!!”
My Kkwiut-kkyu pursued them like grim reapers, hunting down every last one.
A short while later, the inside of the ship was a mess of bloody corpses, but they were all dead. There was nothing to interrogate them about, and keeping them around would just be a waste of food.
Besides, most of them knew I’d been fucked by the pirate leader, so I just gave them all a nice send-off.
“Hoo… Still, I’d say this counts as a clean mission success, right?”
I let the enemy drop their guard, then killed them all.
I’d failed to capture their ships, but the enemy’s preparations had been more formidable than I expected. A wrong move could have led to a counterattack, so this was the best possible outcome.
“Mission clear!!”
I took Ludger and Fergus to the situation room and restored communications.
I announced proudly.
“Mission complete, Captain. However, the three patrol ships were aiming at us, so I just destroyed them all.”
Even though semen was still trickling from my pussy, I was now Super Soldier Lee Do-hee, the woman who had perfectly executed her mission! With a confident expression, I puffed out my chest triumphantly and looked at them.
The clothes I’d been given were already registered to my Illusionary Garment, so they had automatically repaired themselves. On the outside, everything looked perfectly fine.
“[Oh… Well done. You have an exploration to conduct today, too. Get down here quickly.]”
“Yes, sir.”
Perfect! Mhmm!
A little later, Ludger said he would stay behind to nurse Fergus, who had been injured by the pirates.
It was obvious he was just scared shitless after hearing about the sea monster and was making an excuse to run away, but the ship needed to be cleaned up anyway, so I let it slide.
But… if that’s the case, who’s going to pilot the emergency escape shuttle?
“It doesn’t need a pilot, does it? Besides, the pirates found us because you forced the door open and broke our stealth! Just go! Ah, take this exploration gear with you.”
“Eh… But why!!”
Thump!
“So mean!”
I was thrown back into space with nothing but my body, plummeting once again.
But if the pirates really came because I broke the stealth, then I guess it was my fault.
Falling without my pussy rocket took a little over an hour.
Thirty minutes after I landed on the planet.
I had a simple meal and prepared to go back in.
“Th-this is a violation of labor laws!! I’m going to tell the CEO of Misailris!”
“Stop talking nonsense and help me install the measurement equipment.”
I had to get ready to enter the sea again.
I installed and checked the equipment with Mickey and Rodmill.
I also listened to the detailed plan for the mining operation I had to carry out below.
“By the way, Ludger was asking. What was that weird tentacle thing?”
“Oh, that? It’s classified… Let’s just say it’s a combat bio-robot from Misailris.”
“No, I mean, where did it pop out from?”
Mickey’s gaze drifted down toward my lower hole before he realized his rudeness and quickly looked up.
“Ahem… Where are you looking! It was compressed in my headband.”
A ponytail headband is an invincible item that never comes undone, no matter the situation.
Thankfully, the awkwardness of the moment kept him from asking any more questions.
The other crew members had plenty of questions too—what had happened during the ten minutes I was captured by the pirate leader, how I had managed to shoot down all the patrol ships at once—but they just thought:
‘Well, she must have handled it somehow.’
The naive crew members never imagined that our Super Soldier had just engaged in some sticky rape breeding press creampie sex.
“I’ll be heading down now. Time to uncover the monster’s identity.”
“Right. This time, we’re going to test the waters with a bit of mining, too. If the monster was born from Giro, there should be some kind of reaction.”
And so, the second dive began.
Splash!
Down I went.
Deeper.
Endlessly, I descended once more.
And again, I reached the 10-kilometer mark.
“Is the depth holding steady like last time?”
“[Yes. It seems to be using the same trick again.]”
“Hoo… Seeing as it has no ability to learn, it might not be an intelligent life form.”
I created another foothold panel and descended into the deep sea.
And this time, too, I began to feel it at around the 20-kilometer mark.
Something… something was watching me.
“Captain, what are the survey results?”
“[Just as we predicted. The movement of the seawater is… fascinating. The very space you’re in is being lifted. It’s clear that someone is controlling it.]”
“I see. To be honest, unknown creatures are only scary when they’re unknown. Once you know about them, they’re not that frightening.”
“[Right… I don’t know what it is, but it must be related to the Giro. We’re going to try and draw it out today.]”
“Yes, sir! I’ll negotiate masterfully with this thing and get it to just hand over the Giro!”
If it was a Transcendent with normal intelligence, I could use threats, deception, or whatever it took to get the ore.
‘I just have to hope it’s something I can talk to.’
*
A short while later.
Thud…
I landed on that same seafloor again.
[Light]
As I began to rummage through my equipment in earnest, the hostile gaze I felt grew fiercer, more furious than before.
‘You’re in my house again! Get out now!’
Something like that?
It wasn’t the back of my head that was tingling; my whole body was.
It was staring at every part of me, from my ass to my breasts.
‘Just how big is this thing?’
Soon, its identity would be revealed.
‘Don’t tell me it’s just some pipsqueak using a weird trick…’
“I’ve arrived, Captain. What now?”
“[Hmm… Can you tell which way is north, south, east, or west from there?]”
“No?”
How am I supposed to tell when there’s no light? It’s not like I have a magnet in my head.
“[……]”
After some trial and error, we managed to get our bearings.
Walking about one kilometer to the east, I found a deep-sea cave.
The entrance was a little too narrow for a person to enter.
It felt like a rabbit hole.
The outer surface was made of a stratum mixing extremely hard rock and metal. It wasn’t impossible to break through, but it would require considerable force.
“A cave can maintain its shape under this pressure?”
“[Yes, it’s strange, isn’t it? But if you just blow open the entrance with a bomb, it should be wide enough to pass through. See that round thing about the size of your head in your gear? Try setting that up.]”
Following Rodmill’s instructions, I set the charge to blow up the cave entrance.
“[The shockwave will be immense, so don’t forget to be careful.]”
“Huh? You should have told me that soon—”
Vwoooooom…!!!! Pooooow!
The shockwave from the explosion slammed into me in an instant.
Even though I was a considerable distance away, the incredible impact made my head ring.
‘Fuck, what was that… What the hell did they detonate?’
A normal person would have been disintegrated at the molecular level.
But it did the trick. The cave entrance was wide open.
It looked grotesquely distorted, like a portal to the underworld had opened.
And at that moment,
Vwoooooooom…!!!!!
The sea… began to vibrate!
This was no aftershock from the explosion.
If its anger level was a 1 before, now it was at 100. I could feel an immense killing intent!
‘Crazy, but where is it?’
I spread my senses wide.
‘Huh…?’
It had no form.
With no form, it was impossible to distinguish, impossible to even feel properly.
“Wait… Ugh!!”
The enraged water began to press down on me.
My body was flattened against the seafloor, squeezed tight.
Vwoooooooooom~~!!!!!
Was it because I had touched its precious place?
This was no longer mere hostility; it was a murderous intent, a desire to kill.
“Dammit… Gack!”
Pinned to the floor, my body was slowly being crushed.
Crack!!
The Arcane Suit protecting my body tore and cracked, and the communication line was cut.
The [Light] divine magic also vanished, and I remained pinned to the floor, being crushed.
Like some massive, god-like being crushing a human to death, an incredible pressure bore down on me.
‘So it wasn’t hiding because it was scared of me…?’
“Keuk!”
If this continued, I was going to die a lonely death in the pitch-black deep sea.
My consciousness… was fading…
“Noooooo!!”
I can’t go back like this!!
Water.
Yes, I will never lose to water!
I absorbed the water with my entire body.
‘Fuck, how many times has it been just in this Ordeal!’
And then, I unleashed the 2,000 liters of water I’d just absorbed in a single blast from my pussy!
Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
This was the Lee Do-hee style emergency escape!!
The pressure momentarily weakened as I absorbed the water, and the immense thrust freed me from the compression. I shot forward like a human torpedo!!
‘You’re dead, you liquid monster bastard!!’
Now I knew for sure.
The final boss of this Ordeal wasn’t a living creature.
The traces of magic, the gaze I felt from somewhere… none of it felt like it was coming from a single entity.
Its true identity was,
The ‘sea’ of this planet.
All the water on this planet.
It was water with a will of its own!
To be precise, it was probably a liquid monster with a hive mind at the molecular level.
The reason an inanimate substance had gained consciousness was, of course, because it had been awakened by the Giro.
But even a creature like this had a weakness…
‘Yes, that must be your treasure, right?’
The mineral-form Giro that it cherished so dearly.
That had to be what was important to it.
I flew toward it like a torpedo, arms pressed tightly to my thighs!
[Light!]
I lit up the space above my head once more and charged.
Before I came, I’d been given a rough description of the cave’s layout and the location of the Giro. This was a little earlier than planned, but I had no choice now.
If I tried to go back up, the marine platform would be destroyed first.
Vwoooooooooooooom~~!!!
It tried to manipulate the water to stop me, but…
‘I’m confiscating all of it, you bastard!’
I absorbed it all and expelled it as thrust.
Water cannot defeat me.
That is the power of an SS-rank trait!
A normal person wouldn’t use this ability so easily, fearing their own body would be destroyed, but my uterus and pussy are invincible thanks to my unique trait, so I can use it as much as I want.
Vshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh~~~!!!
‘Woah, woah!’
I navigated the winding deep-sea cave, changing direction as I went.
Have you heard of the sport called skeleton?
It’s a winter sport where you slide down an ice track on a sled in a prone position.
Just like that, I plunged into the winding deep-sea cave.
When a curve appeared, I used a foothold panel to change my direction.
My incredible reflexes, strength, and defense combined to let me break through the deep-sea cave.
I slammed into the walls here and there, tearing my skin and covering my body in wounds, but I raced on without rest.
Vwoooom~~?
I could feel its bewildered emotions.
Its anger quickly subsided, replaced by a frantic panic that screamed, ‘What the fuck is that, I’m so screwed!’
Well, a woman absorbing water and shooting it out of her pussy to propel herself… It’s a sight you wouldn’t believe even if you saw it.
‘I didn’t want to go this far either!’
My speed was incredible, covering hundreds of meters per second, as if I were in the frictionless vacuum of space.
‘This cave… is longer than I thought.’
I had no idea how a cave like this could have formed naturally, but it went sideways, then down, and when it narrowed, I summoned my spear to smash through, pushing forward with my head and chest!
And finally…
I saw it.
Down below, a brilliant golden light was shining through a narrow passage!
The passage was very narrow, with thick walls on either side.
I could feel the entity’s thought, as if it were saying, ‘You can’t pass here!’
‘Hah… Is this all you’ve got?’
[Haste] x30.
[Strength] x40.
My stats exploded in an instant.
And my ultimate attack.
[Direct Heart Thrust]!!!
I poured as much divine power as my body could handle into the thrust.
A bright pink light illuminated the deep sea…
KRA-KOOOOOM!!!!!
The sturdy rocks were all shattered, and I was engulfed in the bright golden light rising from below.
‘What is this…’
A vast, open space was revealed.
The space was a nearly perfect sphere, almost a kilometer in diameter.
In the center, a brilliant golden mineral shone resplendently, bright enough to illuminate the entire cavern.
This place was also filled with water, of course, but the water was extremely hot and felt strange.
The water on the seafloor 90 kilometers down had just been compressed water. The water concentrated here was the real thing, maintained as a supercritical fluid.
The temperature here was about 600 degrees Celsius, with a pressure of around 7,000 atmospheres.
A place where water, having passed its critical point, existed in a state that was neither liquid nor gas…
“Ah, ah… Is this water or steam?”
I felt like I was trapped in a deep fog, and that fog was pressing down on me from all sides.
My body felt strange, too, a kind of fluffy, weightless sensation…
And since it was no longer classified as a liquid, I couldn’t absorb the water anymore. But by the same token, the entity couldn’t control the water to harm me, either.
I stepped onto a foothold panel and slowly moved toward the floating Giro mineral in the center.
I could feel an immense energy radiating from it.
‘This… is a mineral?’
It was the size of a fist, a mineral that emitted a brilliant golden light.
This was the first time… I had ever seen it in its actual mineral form.
And just as I was about to touch it with my hand,
[S-stop! Halt!!!]
I heard its voice.
‘What the hell, this bastard could talk?’