Ocean Master

Seeing this message, Tungsten kept quiet as he reflected on it. This message was for him because it was from his childhood friend and current greatest rival.

In the whole shark clan that was under the leadership of Old Mak, he and Torpedum were the only level 20 sharks at the pinnacle of the orange tier.

They were both given birth to in the same year, they grew up together at the same period, becoming friends in their tender years as a shark. As the years went by, with their ambition growing too, they slowly grew apart.

They were not enemies; they were rather bitter rivals.

Extracted from their last public duel, Tungsten was the stronger shark though their strength was almost tied. The main difference between them was in their adaptation and magic domain abilities.

Tungsten was a powerful light domain magician, while Torpedum was a powerful shark magician of the rare space domain.

According to knowledge that was taught by the elders, the 4 basic magic domains were the elemental domains- water, fire, earth, and wind. 

Any other domain magic apart from those 4 were advanced magic domains and could only be unlocked by predators with a high-tier bloodline, or through an inheritance of any type.

Still, the advanced magic domains were further subdivided into the rare advanced and pinnacle advanced magic domains.

Magic domains like light, sound, thunder, and shadow were all rare advanced magic domains while the pinnacle advanced magic domains consisted of the even rarer space, time, healing, necromancy, and other hidden magic domains.

The different types of magic domains were not necessarily stronger than the other as the strength of a magic domain was reflected in the strength and intelligence of the wielder. 

The rarer magic domains just reflected more potentials for growth, and they also gave more ground for developing strange, revolutionary, and terrifying domain magic skills.

The pinnacle advanced magic domains could not be encountered even once in some predator clans for decades.

They were only mostly accessed by the predators with the strongest and rarest bloodlines. Predators like Orcas, natural-birth Megalodons, Dragons, and a host of other apex predators.

As soon as all this information went through Tungsten's brain, they unearthed some bad memories from the depths of his mind which he quickly suppressed.

After doing this, he finally went back to the contents of the message.

Before leaving to hunt with his team, he met with Torpedum and asked for the movement of the new shark to be monitored and sent to him. Though they were rivals, they still talked.

The reason why he went to meet Torpedum though was that he was the only Space magician of the shark clan, and also, Torpedum had a skill that he called Long-range Space Communication.

This was what he used to communicate with them a few seconds ago.

Tungsten expected Sebastian to go out hunting after familiarizing himself with the clan. What he didn't expect was for the shark to take one of the still-growing young sharks of the clan out to the wild.

Though no rule was made by the clan head against it, it was already widely seen as a hidden rule that no hunting team should take the young sharks out to the wild until they were grown up and powerful enough to survive the perils out there.

When he heard the news of what Sebastian did, of course, he was angry, thinking that the clan would lose a promising young shark.

What he didn't expect was for Shanks to return safely.

"How did he do it?" This was the only question that was on his mind though he was relieved that the young shark was safe.

If Sebastian was a defense-oriented shark, perhaps, he would have found it easier to believe but having fought alongside the shark once, he was pretty sure that Sebastian was a pure offense freak.

He didn't try to crack his brain just to know how Sebastian did it though, he was an intelligent shark but definitely not an intellectual reasoning one. He used his intelligence for his day-to-day activities, deep thinking was not his forte.

"Team leader, what next?" One of the sharks suddenly called.

"I think it's time we go back to the clan, we already hunted enough".

As he said this, Tungsten looked down at his magic storage pouch which contained tons of meat from the different species of prey that already fell victim to him and his crew.

Among the meat included those of Sea Lions, Seals, Crabs, Shrimps, mutated Water Snakes, and mutated Cobras. 

"Does anyone object to going back?"

"…"

Tungsten took his team member's silence as a yes as he turned to lead the way back home to the clan cave.

…

In the boundless water world filling the middle of the wardrobe-like cliff surrounding the volcano, Tungsten and his group of 12 sharks continued swimming forward as they navigated their way back to their clan.

Throughout the journey, as they swam, none of them spoke, keeping absolute silence which was a rule set by Tungsten himself.

This was to enable absolute focus to react properly in case of an enemy attack. In this ocean volcano, there was nothing like too much preparation. After all, prevention was better than cure.

As they swam with Tungsten taking the lead from the front, they all suddenly stopped having noticed their leader stop.

"I feel something".

All the sharks perked up on hearing that.

Tungsten's tail fin became as stiff and straight as an antenna all of a sudden as he closed his eyes, focusing his attention to increase the range of his electroreceptors.

"Is that…? Dodge!"

Without hesitation or thinking, all the sharks dived out of the way.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

2 metal rods were thrown in their direction at a very fast speed, but Tungsten's OP electroreceptors detected the danger on time, preventing the team from suffering injuries so early into a fight.

"Prepare for battle!"

Even without Tungsten's reminder, the sharks were already arranging themselves into shape as they got prepared to face this new challenger.

The next moment, thinner and shorter arrows came at them with even more speed, perplexing them at which type of predator this was and what strange magic domain ability it had.

This time, 3 of the sharks were shot as they started bleeding immediately. Seeing this, Tungsten was already about to order his team members to charge forward when the invisible enemy finally appeared before them.

A mini-submarine that was designed like a diver's cage but much bigger and developed technologically suddenly appeared, having left stealth.

"Reporting: 12 Great Whites". 

"Their leader is big, probably at the pinnacle of the orange tier already or just a fat balloon shark. It's hard to believe it's a purple tier already or we'll be having a hard time". 

"I recommend using the stun harpoons, the 0-89-12 too".

As soon as these words were said, 2 strange creatures that could not have been more stranger in this predator world popped their head from the sides of the mini-submarine. Then, they pointed what seemed like guns at the sharks.

Seeing these strange creatures, Tungsten was shocked because it was these exact same creatures that his master always talked about, told tales about, and all that. These strange creatures were…

"Atlantians!"