It is a boundless ocean, more than a dozen times the diameter of the planet Atas itself. Beneath the spiraling clouds of this giant gaseous planet from pole to pole, the ocean has never touched the sunlight or the rough outline of the land. The waves of this ocean have never crashed against the shore or the reef, nor have they thundered on the sand. Because this planet, also called Jupiter, coincidentally by the Atas people, has no continents, no islands, and even reefs.

Although the volume of this giant planet is more than a thousand times that of Attas, its "sky" is only one-third of the latter. This is due to the fact that its rotation speed exceeds that of Atas by dozens of times, which is why the giant planet appears noticeably flattened and partially convex at the equator. Heated by the blazing core of the planet below, turbulent by the planet's super-fast autobiographical speed, the raging currents rush through the endless ocean, letting out wild howls. The tall waves swept across the planet over and over again, like a giant wall that stretched infinitely on both sides, never stopping. Indescribable storms of terror are also raging across the ocean, and typhoons larger than the entire planet Atas have been roaring for centuries. This is undoubtedly the most violent, active, and terrifying ocean in the solar system in which Athas is located.

The ocean is not made up of water, it is composed of many lighter elements, such as hydrogen and helium. It is closer to a star than a planet, but it has not yet been ignited. Its mass is not large enough, so its gravity is not enough to crush the nuclei of the atoms at the core, producing an infinitely powerful fusion reaction. However, it is not big enough, and it is only a little bit worse.

"The ecological assessment of Mistara's world is complete?" Through the transparent circular viewing window of the magic ship, Grand Druid Camilla asked his subordinates without looking back, as she observed the magnificent scenery of Jupiter.

"Within five Attas, its ecosystem will completely collapse and be replaced by a new balance. Another Starch Spencer said the druid. "What is certain is that there are not many places left for Mistara in the new system. ”

"Expected. Camila said in a disdainful tone. "When our species is successfully invaded, it is only a matter of time before Mistara falls. "It's the same with or without those nomadic barbarians plundering. ”

"So what are we to do now?" asked the Starch Spencer Druid again, his tone mixed with awe and adoration.

"There's no need to waste manpower in Mistara, the creatures there are too primitive to teach us anything. Camila looked at Jupiter and said, it seemed to be alive, jumping, growing, and powerful. "Get all the idle druids here! ”

The word whaling was a word that sent a chill in the hearts of the druids who stood silently behind Camilla. The realization that there is life on Jupiter is shocking enough in itself. What's even more shocking is that the Grand Druid Camilla actually wants to capture these huge lifeforms alive, dissect them, analyze them, and study them. Squeeze out every secret hidden in their lifeline, and crumple and find out their ecosystem...... Then, use them to create new weapons of war.

Some of the Starch Spencers have weapons that are so small that they are invisible to the naked eye, such as the terrifying microbes of disease, plague, or red tides, but they also love large weapons.

The magic ship increased its speed and penetrated the surface of Jupiter's atmosphere. Here, Camila discovers an archaic species that resembles kelp, with inflated air sacs at the top, like balloons, and long, flat blades underneath. But unlike kelp, this creature never touches the roaring ocean below and floats in the atmosphere forever. Another difference is that it's much bigger and bigger than kelp.

The magic ship the Grand Druid was on approached one of these creatures, and the swollen airbags looked like they were close from the portholes. From here, it was the size of a hill, hundreds of times the size of the magic ship - and the ship was more than enough to hold Camilla and a dozen Starch Spencer Druids, plus two dozen crew members.

Those flattened leaves, or "kelp," are half the width of an airbag. It takes several hourglasses for a man to gallop from one side to the other. The lower end of it disappeared into the dark abyss below, and it was impossible to see how long it was, but at least there were dozens of palersans.

It's hard to tell if this strange creature is an animal or a plant, it has no eyes, no mouth, and no nervous system. However, it has vertical and horizontal blood vessels on its surface, like a patient with varicose veins. The magic ship slowly circled the airbag, like an insignificant mosquito flying aimlessly around a balloon. And there were hundreds of such balloons as far as the crew and druids could see. The crew felt as if they were thumbfish in a magnificent kelp field.

The Great Druid remembers when he was a child and used to go to the palace of the Witch King Polis. The Dragonlord usually doesn't handle chores, but his Templars do the work, so she doesn't get to see Polis himself. But she was impressed by the dragon king's huge palace in the twilight, with more than two hundred colossal Corinthian pillars each requiring fifty men to surround them, and ordinary people were no taller than their pedestals. It's like an ant in the hall of a giant.

And now, in the dim light of Jupiter's atmosphere, surrounded by countless giant "kelp", gave her the same feeling. Although she has grown from a little girl to a great druid in her own right, her surroundings have changed from a large and exaggerated palace to a planetary wonder.

Camila was a little confused at first, what the hell was this kelp. What is their source of energy? The sunlight in this location is too weak to sustain any photosynthesis. Then it dawned on her that it was the meteors that gave them the energy they needed to live.

Due to Jupiter's enormous mass, many comets that enter the Atas solar system are captured by its gravitational pull and end up crashing into its furious surface. Meteorites rub together in the dense atmosphere, emitting light and heat, while bringing polymer products. This forms the basis of the ecological cycle.

Upon further inspection, Camila discovered that the giant airbags also contained hermit creatures, an albatross-like and manta ray-like creature nesting at the top of the airbags. Their wide wings allow them to soar effortlessly through the dense atmosphere. With no land, these bird-like creatures are unable to land for the rest of their lives.

These creatures may be useful, but now she has a more important mission, so Camilla decides to catch them next time.

The Great Druid's goal this time was to be some kind of larger, more amazing creature.

In order to combat the Gisyankee fleet, Witch King Malik ventures to have his giant magic ship, the Troll, pass through Jupiter and surprise enemy bases on its backside moons. On that occasion, the Witch King's giant magic ship encountered a monster of Jupiter that was even larger than itself. Although it actually escaped without causing any damage by the main thruster of the Troll, its impressive size still impressed. For the Starch Spencer Pai Druid, this was simply unimaginably priceless.

"Dive. Camilla gave the order, the crew complied, and no one dared to question her decision.

The height of the magic ship gradually decreased, moving away from the air sacs on top of the kelp and heading deeper into Jupiter's atmosphere. As the ship descended, the surrounding light became dimmer. The further down you go, the denser Jupiter's atmosphere becomes, and the more powerful the storm becomes, with the wind striking the hull and emitting an eerie scream. The crew carefully steered the magic ship to avoid hurricanes, large and small. Now they're at the waist of those giant kelp, but no new species have emerged.

After a few more hourglass dives, it was completely dark and there was no light. It has penetrated hundreds of parasan into Jupiter's atmosphere, approaching the vague dividing line between the atmosphere and the liquid ocean. The roots of the giant kelp extend all the way here, though there is no solid land arch to hold itself in place. The Great Druid speculated that the purpose of these false roots was to take advantage of the huge density difference between here and the upper layers to create fluid osmotic pressure, allowing bodily fluids to flow, functioning like a heart.

The temperature here is much lower than the temperature of the water freezes, and the pressure is equivalent to the bottom of the sea at a depth of 100,000 feet. There is no water here, oxygen levels are extremely low, ammonia, helium and hydrogen are the dominant elements here, and the atmosphere is about as acidic as human stomach acid. But in this extremely hostile environment, life still exists.

"Report status. The Great Druid asked.

"The hull is in good condition. A crew member responded.

"Still no target has been found. "A Starch Spencer sent a druid to report, a little frustrated.

"There are no anomalies. Another crew member said.

"Keep diving!" Camila nodded in satisfaction.

Further down, the temperature gradually rises until the core of Jupiter is hot enough to vaporize steel. Although the temperature is extremely high, the thick atmosphere and the gravity of twelve times that of Atas make the hydrogen helium here form a liquid - an endless ocean with no land in the world. If it weren't for the fact that the Witch King Malik was the most skilled disciple of the Primordial Warlock, and that he had attached gravity resistance and other enhanced spells to the ship, no mortal would have been able to stand here.

For mortals, this ocean without borders is impenetrable darkness, devastating heat, and crushing pressure. Without arcane vision or the enhanced vision of the Starch Spencer Pai Druid, they couldn't see anything through the portholes in this dark and furious ocean. Here, ocean currents are raging and huge whirlpools can swallow the entire planet.

With a snap, a porthole of an enchanted crystal full twenty fingers thick was crushed. A noticeable crack appeared on the porthole and was constantly expanding.

The crew members showed obvious frightened expressions and shouted in panic, "Master Camilla!

"Summon an Earth Elemental Lord and order it to plug the damaged portholes!" Camila jerked back, the ponytail at the back of her head flicking, and she commanded in a calm voice. A Starch Spencer sent a druid to respectfully obey, took out the scroll and began to cast a summoning spell.

Immediately afterward, there was an ominous ** from the hull, followed by a terrifying scream, like the kind of sound that comes from geysers when they erupt. Another crew member rushed into Camilla's cabin in a panic and shouted, "The second ballista deck has collapsed......!

"You, you, you, you, you go and plug the hole!" Camila pointed at the four Starch Spencer druids. "Turning wood into iron, stone walls, anti-gravity...... I don't care what method you use!

The four druids she had spotted nodded hastily and disappeared from the cabin. After a few moments, the screeching and the tremor of the ship's hull also died down for the time being.

"Keep diving!"

Now, the pressure outside the magic ship is equivalent to 500,000 feet of ocean floor, dozens of times deeper than the Mariana Trench, the deepest on Earth. If it weren't for the magic that would have worked wonders, the steel plates would have twisted as easily as sheets of tissue paper at this depth, and the granite of a house would have been crushed to the size of a fist.

The temperature here is about the same as the temperature of a piece of wood, but the hydrogen helium remains liquid at high pressure. The heat passed through the thick, magically enhanced hull of the Witch King into the cabin in such a way that it was unbearable, and only the Grand Druid himself was indifferent. During her adventure to the Pure Fortress, Camila discovers a heat-resistant microorganism that lives in a pool of sulfuric acid, and she fuses the properties of this strange creature to prevent the proteins that make up her body from being inactivated by heat.

The other druids were not so lucky, and had to use the druid magic that endured elemental damage to protect themselves. The crew had to endure the heat with the help of precious magic scrolls.

Outside the porthole, a blurry dark shadow swept past the edge of the field of vision.

When Camilla looked at it again, the shadow was gone. What was that? It was too small, she thought, to be what she was looking for. Maybe it's some kind of baby beast, or the target's food, but it's small, but it's a thousand times larger than the whales that have ever existed on the planet Attas.

Common sense suggests that super-sized creatures are unlikely to be predators, as that would mean that they would have to hunt down the food chain...... But here is Jupiter, which is more than ten times the diameter of Atas and thousands of times larger than Attas. Who knows what kind of terrifying monsters will be hidden in this endless ocean of hydrogen and helium?

The shadow reappeared, this time swimming towards the magic, like a hunter who had spotted his prey. The Great Druid looked closely and saw that it looked a bit like the ancient creature shark of Atas. However, she remembered that the shark only had two eyes, and the monster's head was flanked by dense compound eyes, which looked disgusting. The monster has no fins, and it is not very fast to move forward with flagella sticking out of its sides. Its mouth is somewhat octopus-like, with a ring of terrifying sharp teeth. From head to tail, the thing was about a thousand feet long, about the size of the largest dragon, and seven or eight times the length of the magic ship.

The dark shadow circled the magic ship, seemingly hesitating whether to try to eat the strange intruder. The crew in the cabin looked like they were about to pee their pants, and the Starch Spencer Druids weren't much better than them.

"Predators. Camila judged. "The ecosystem here can be more complex than we initially thought. ”

The Black Shadow finally decided to attack, and rushed straight at the magic ship, the currents it brought up as it sprinted, causing the people on board to jolt for a while. The monster opened its bloody jaw, its mouth structure allowing it to open wider than its torso, as if it were large enough to swallow a dozen magic ships in one gulp.

A crew member slumped on the ground in fright, and Camilla cast a death finger at the shadow.

The green light emitted by the Finger of Death pierced through the hull of the ship, directly hitting the soul essence of the black shadow. The monster trembled violently, stopped sprinting, struggled frantically, and finally remained motionless.

It seems that none of the species here have spell resistance, Camilla thought, but it is understandable that these species have never been exposed to magic or magic.

"Keep diving!"

The hatch was slammed open, and the captain and first mate of the magic ship rushed in. They were Templars under the Witch King Malik, of average strength but experienced in sailing.

"We can't dive any further!" the captain pleaded worriedly to the Grand Druid. "We don't have a lot of obsidian orbs on our ship! if we dive any further, the ship won't have enough magic to fly back!"

"I give you permission to kill a few unimportant crew members and use their souls to replenish the life energy needed for magic. Camila frowned and said impatiently.

"We are Malik Sultan's subordinates!" the captain protested, taken aback. "Who authorized you to kill the crew of this ship?!"

"Nobody, but I think it's easier to ask the Witch King for forgiveness afterwards than to ask for the Witch King's authorization in advance. Grand Druid Camilla looked at the captain and said. "Do as I say, or I'll throw you out of the boat." ”

The captain looked tormented, as if he was being torn apart by two great forces. He did not dare to disobey the orders of the Grand Druid, nor was he willing to sacrifice his men.

"I guess your silence means 'yes,'" the Grand Druid asked.

The captain was sweating profusely, and tried to speak several times, but finally he spoke. "No, sir. This exploration must be terminated and we must return immediately. Who knows how long we'll have to dive before we find our target? The ship won't be able to bear it! And who knows what monsters are waiting for us down there!"

"For us Starch Spencer Druids, the more monsters, the better. As Camila spoke, one of her magic spells struck the captain. The latter immediately went limp, and his face remained surprised.

"You've been promoted. The Great Druid said to the stunned man. "Carry him down and do as I say!"

"Throwing him overboard!?"

"It doesn't seem like the power of evolution is evident in you. Camila said, a little annoyed. "Of course not! we can kill him at any time when he is alive, but it is not easy to bring him back to life when he dies...... Escort him down, and use his soul to replenish the life energy needed for magic when needed!"

"Keep diving!"

The ** god emitted by the hull of the ship continued to strengthen, the shell was corroded, and even the keel was shortened by three or four feet. A sea of high-pressure, high-temperature, and highly corrosive hydrogen and helium envelops the magic ship and the people on board. It's like plankton in the vast ocean, insignificant, surrounded by malevolent darkness.

The currents were even more violent than the Great Druid had initially estimated, and the magic ship would sometimes sink thousands of feet sharply, and sometimes it would be barely able to move an inch by the rising currents. There is no such thing as a fluid mechanics expert on Artas, otherwise Camilla would have brought a colleague with him at this time.

"What if we find a target?" asked Camilla, a Starch Spencer Druid.

"Everything is at my command. The Great Druid replied. "Don't act on your own, and you are not allowed to take the living components of your target in private...... The elemental composition here is very different from that of Athas, and the basic matter that makes up living things would be unimaginable to the previous generations of the Starch Spencer druids. Today we are about to open a new chapter in biotechnology...... Who knows? Maybe one day we will be able to create super-creatures that can soar through the astral planes and travel to and from planes based on today's discoveries, and we must be careful about that. ”

"Yes, Mistress Camilla. The druids echoed in unison, and the morale of the already somewhat depressed was slightly boosted.

Half an hourglass had passed, and the magic ship had been nearly halfway deep into Jupiter's body, and it was getting closer and closer to the blazing dark heart of the gas giant. The enchanted hull has reached its design limit, and any further dive could crush the entire ship.

That's when the target appeared.

Leviathan, as soon as Camila saw it, decided to give it this name. It's the legendary sea monster, truly huge, like a moving island, no, more like a moving continent. It looked at the shadow of a dark shadow, and its head was flanked by hundreds of compound eyes, each the size of the palace's dome. They are tightly packed together, and the scale is comparable to that of a magnificent city. The Leviathan's body was more than five palersans, or fifty kilometers in Earth's units. It has no fins, and flagella protruding from its side of its body are arranged from its head to its tail, each of which is thousands of feet long. They swing regularly, propelling the Leviathan forward.

It swam at an incredible speed with its relatively large body, and its head violently split the hydrogen and helium liquid layer, generating a huge shock wave in the water. If this were on Earth, the shock wave would be enough to flatten an island within 3,000 feet and cut off a coastline within 150 kilometers by 6 feet. If this is on Earth, due to the high temperature brought by the high-speed shock wave, as long as it swims by, the water within 150 feet around the body will evaporate and boil. The evaporation of water increases in volume by a factor of 2,000, further exacerbating the power of shock waves and tsunamis.

Jupiter has no land, no solid ocean floor or ocean bed. Otherwise, the shock wave in the water can plow deep gullies in the seabed. If the Leviathan were to swim in the Earth's Pacific Ocean, the shock wave would reach 30 kilometers deep into the Earth's crust, enough to divide the weaker parts of the continental plate into two, and then cause a new round of continental drift.

"Listen to my orders. Camilla's voice revealed an excitement that was difficult to hide. "The whaling operation is now officially underway!"

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"Satilly!" the Coral Witch, in the midst of a fierce battle, hears a message from the Psychic Warlock's abilities.

Abu Polis took the opportunity to intensify his attack, leaving a series of black orbs in the air, engulfing the space around him. A dimensional anchor spell is instantaneous at the same time, preventing the opponent from escaping with the ability to teleport.

However, the Dragon King did not use his full strength, and in between battles, he had been secretly observing the situation of the Witch King Nibennay, studying his spells and battle preferences. At the same time, Polis was careful to conserve his mana. On the one hand, it's not easy to replenish the obsidian orbs that provide life force in Bato, and there aren't that many mortals to kill here. On the other hand, because he didn't want to consume too much of his strength, so that he couldn't shock his colleague.

Nibennay may have thought the same thing, and although he had gained the upper hand, he was slow to deliver the final blow. It seems that he intends to use a more economical way, waiting for the female psychiocrat and the otherworldly priest to be exhausted.

It was the discord between the witch kings that gave the group a chance to escape.

"Aisha has a way to get us out of the fight and go straight to the eighth floor of Bato. Muhadi sent a message with a supernatural ability. "There's no need to entangle with the Witch Kings here, when we find the wise men, wouldn't it be easier to go back and deal with them?"

The Coral Witch hesitated slightly, how could Aisha have managed to escape from the two witch kings, and since she knew this method, why didn't she use it in the morning, but waited until now?

But she didn't hesitate longer, and after a heartbeat, she chose to trust Mohamadi in his judgment.