Ocean Master

"Move in!"

As soon as this order was given by the Lieutenant, the soldiers showed their elite flair as they moved swiftly with a neat order like the perfect movement of the programmed cords of a machine.

The entrance to the rock cave was not blocked nor camouflaged, there were no predator guards either like the entrance to Old Mak shark clan's cave which gave the soldiers easier access.

Among the soldiers that made up the Lieutenant's elite team, though they were heavily geared all over and were all physically buff, from their shapes, it was easily deducible that 2 were female while the rest were male.

As soon as they got to the entrance of the cave, the leaner of the females dived into the cave without informing the others first.

The most glaring feature of this elite female Atlantian soldier was her glowing brown eyes with slits like those of a Cobra, her movement in the water was also swift like a snake and she wielded a pair of magic daggers.

Her movements were fluid, only a slightly gentle sound was heard as she disappeared inside the cave the next moment. A second later, her voice was transmitted out to the others.

"No traps detected!"

As soon as he heard this, Lieutenant Lookman personally led the dive this time as 5 of the other soldiers followed him in immediately, leaving 2 behind to stand guard at the entrance of the cave.

As soon as they entered the cave, they swam with such speed as if they were in a rush. This was because of Great White Shark's iconic electroreceptors ability, they wanted to get the Megalodon before it could react.

The sound of the water cutting apart due to their speed reverberated in the cave, but they suppressed the sound using special magic sound dampeners as they got to the heart of this cave in just a few seconds.

The female soldier who was at the front got there first, and she transmitted clear footage to the Lieutenant and her other companions.

The Megalodon was still asleep, and Doctor Mrs. Josephine was at her side, exactly in the same position that they saw from their deep surveillance.

All 7 soldiers moved simultaneously after they digested the contents of this footage, their targets being both the Megalodon and the female Doctor.

Whoosh! 

Time seemed to slow down as this group of elite soldiers rapidly floated across through the water, the lean female soldier and a male soldier went for the Doctor to rescue her while the other 5 aimed at the Megalodon.

Crackle!

Crackling sounds suddenly filled the cave as Lieutenant Lookman who was in the front growled loudly while his magic Trident lit up in flames. 

Not willing to underestimate the beast, he used his best move from the onset. The other 4 soldiers did the same as a terrifying presence of pure might and magic bombarded the Megalodon's body.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The first impact sound was soon followed by the second, then the third, and fourth to the extent that the terrifying power on display made cracks rapidly start spreading through the cliff walls.

This was a powerful display of power that died down only after a few seconds passed which was quickly followed by a tense silence.

When the colorful aftermath of the skill bombardment died down, the Atlantian soldiers were stunned, no corpse was before them. 

The place was clean and vacant like it was the day for worldwide environmental sanitation, and there was no Megalodon on sight. It was like, this cave suddenly turned into an entirely new cave.

Seeing this, they all felt a chill crawling down their spines.

This was when the Lieutenant remembered something. Amid their destructive attack bombardment against the Megalodon, how come no blood flew?

As soon as he thought of this, he reacted. 

"Dodge!"

The Lieutenant's loud growl echoed through the cave as his muscly body was already floating rapidly out of that location. 

His companions were all elite soldiers, they also made the same deduction that he did so they also reacted but the more big-boned companion in the team reacted a little bit slower.

This big man was the target.

Ptui!

Blood splashed out before quickly mixing with the water as a pitch-black arrow that was enveloped with astonishing magic power pierced through this big man's face.

The destructive power in the arrow dealt even more damage to the man after penetrating both his shield and armor, but it could not go all the way through as this big-boned soldier finally reacted.

"Ahhhh!"

With a deep-toned growl, this big-boned soldier was able to swing his magic ax fast enough to cut the arrow into 2 while his free hand grabbed the arrow, preventing it from going all the way in.

The big-boned soldier survived, but a battle was beckoning.

This was an ambush, a well-timed ambush, the 7 soldiers easily deduced this after the sudden disappearance of the Megalodon and the female soldier.

For the arrow, as elite soldiers who had the authority to go through some of their race's records, they instantly knew that this was the work of the Water Transmutation unique skill, it was the Megalodon who attacked.

As for the other enemy in the dark apart from the toad, they had no idea.

They already knew that they probably suffered under the influence of illusion magic, and with the Megalodon being a sound domain practitioner, it meant that apart from the toad, there was another enemy.

About their theory of the toad probably dying already or having separated from the Megalodon, they instantly eliminated it after understanding that all their previous evidence was just an illusion.

The soldiers didn't communicate with each other, as well-trained elite soldiers, they each came to this same conclusion like they had the same mind.

The time that took them to think and come to this conclusion was less than a second, which meant that the arrow was still the only attack that was released.

"Spiked Diamond Formation!" Lieutenant Lookman suddenly growled an order which the soldiers acknowledged immediately.

Without any hesitation, they reorganized themselves into a battle formation that looked like a weird quadrilateral diamond, with the 3 remaining soldiers coming out a bit in 3 different directions to form the spikes of the formation.

Of the 3 soldiers that formed the spikes of the battle formation, one was Lieutenant Lookman who was the strongest, the other was the other female soldier, Sergeant Major Chloe, and the big-boned soldier, Sergeant Major Bam who were both the second strongest soldiers in this elite team.

"We suffered an ambush". 

Lieutenant Lookman quickly transmitted again, this time to the 2 soldiers that he left to watch the cave entrance to remind them to stay alert and to not let down their guard.

As soon as they formed their battle formation, this was when they saw the Megalodon who was already advancing towards them.

Sebastian's enormous body was now back to its previous outrageous size of 15 meters. Before the soldiers, he was like a huge warship that was before a group of bicycles, the comparison was too lopsided. 

At this moment, his eyes were burning hot like fire as he fixated his gaze on this group of 7 Atlantian soldiers.

Though they were mere 7 soldiers, his face was serious, this was because he knew that these 7 were completely unlike the soldiers that he faced back in the Crimson Fleet base, even Staff Sergeant Barnes.

He acted while still moving.

[You have activated unique skill: Water Transmutation.]

[You have created a magic manifestation: Copper Lightning Rod.]

[You have created a magic manifestation: Overcharged Lightning Axe.]

Almost at the same time that he created these 2 magic manifestations, another illusion was cracked by the soldier's fierce willpower, this was when they discovered the toad that was perched at the roof of this cave like a night ninja.

It was too late though, Tonado's terrifying tongue adaptation already lashed out with astonishing force and tyrannical speed.

Boom!