Chapter 41
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Chapter 41: Gene Seal, Unlocked!
“Hiss——!”
“Ha——!”
The powerful "divine guards" with fish faces, human bodies, and fish tails, gripping tridents, had crept near the group of female knights.
These bold women, daring to challenge the sea god’s authority in the ocean, were quietly waiting beneath a crater.
Even the strangely shaped ship rested beside the crater, seemingly at peace.
Were they praying!?
“You… worship a god too!?”
While approaching, the divine guards studied these peculiar women.
They weren’t strong or tall as expected. By human standards, they looked beautiful—each like a ripe, tempting fruit that stirred deep feelings.
Though the divine guards had lost their humanity, becoming puppets of Sea God Agor, human aesthetic tastes still ruled them, sparking excitement.
But unlike humans, their cruelty twisted this admiration—even the primal thrill—into bloodlust!
So…
“Too bad your god is a weakling cowering in deep-sea mud!”
“It won’t save you now!”
“Roar——!”
The first divine guard to reach them raised its large body and swung its trident down hard!
But…
“Buzz——!”
No blood sprayed through the water. No beauty was cruelly destroyed.
The attacking guard met only a dull thud.
The trident had been caught mid-strike.
“What!?”
Brutal eyes in the fish head now flashed with fear.
The female knight merely turned her head slightly and blocked, stopping the heavy iron trident!
She shoved back fiercely!
“Buzz——!”
The divine guard—twice her height—was knocked backward, stumbling several steps.
As the guard reeled from the shock…
The knight’s counterattack struck.
“Puff——!”
She gripped the divine guard’s neck and violently flung it backward!
“Bang——!”
This divine guard, whose strength rivaled a low-level "bloodthirsty demon," flew backward pitifully and slammed hard into its companion.
Propelled by the female knight’s throw, they drifted far across the ocean!
Meanwhile, the other female knights finished their prayers.
They yanked their great swords from the seabed and turned to face the tidal wave of charging sea beasts!
And at that very moment…
“Bang——!”
“Boom!”
A massive crashing sound erupted.
Sulya, aboard the "Giant God’s Radiance," collided with a long, serpentine creature!
As the warriors’ battle grew fiercer, the clash of "giant beasts" began.
“Skreeee——!”
The enormous "sea dragon" lunged at the Giant God’s Radiance, driving its soft, long horns forward in a brutal charge!
“Boom——!”
The Giant God’s Radiance staggered back several steps from the impact.
The sea dragon gaped its maw, its terrifying fangs biting savagely into the ship’s hull.
Feather-like ornaments along its body stood tall and proud, flaunting themselves as if proclaiming a great victory to its god!
—-
“Hmm…”
“Testing, just testing now.”
Trilobite had been closely watching this battle all along.
He paid no attention to the blue dots fighting the orange dots.
Mainly because his eyes hadn’t changed since the start—still basic Calcite Eyes with terribly low resolution.
No matter how fierce or brutal the combat, to him it was just clusters of “pixels” bumping around meaninglessly.
What was the point!?
Besides, the blue pixels—his plankton spawn—held a massive advantage.
Though vastly outnumbered, they sliced through the orange “pixel dots” like a hot knife through butter. Now, they seemed ready to carve through them again.
“Hmm… Animal fights aren’t just chaotic free-for-alls after all.”
“They even keep formations—better than most street fights.”
“Ah, do what you want. The real point is…”
What truly captivated Trilobite was the duel between the two giants.
Even with poor eyesight that made ant brawls hard to appreciate, he could still enjoy a rhinoceros beetle battle!
Moreover, this was practically a war between species!
"The last kindling of trilobites, the unremarkable Bud Insect, faces off against…"
"Uh…"
Trilobite examined the creature before him.
"Should be an early polychaete annelid."
"Similar to the Canadian spine worm?"
"Quite majestic indeed!"
"It reminded him somewhat of a bobbit worm."
When discussing annelids, people inevitably think of the most common creature—the earthworm.
Earthworms give the impression of being slimy, slippery things that burrow through soil all day, but among annelids there exist more fearsome, even combative varieties.
The sandworm, for instance, is a formidable little predator.
The bobbit worm stands as a powerhouse among Eunicida worms, typically growing over a meter long, with larger specimens reaching three meters!
These vicious worms hide on the seabed, waiting for small fish or shrimp to approach before erupting from the sand. They seize prey with their terrifying, large-toothed jaws and drag it into their sandy burrows.
The "Canadian spine worm" now confronting Trilobite appeared more majestic, splendid, and ferocious than its later relatives.
To the "aphid-headed Trilobite" that had shed all ornate decorations and defenses to return to trilobites’ primordial form, the Canadian spine worm was undoubtedly a terrifying, monstrous foe!
Yet this armorless "aphid-headed Trilobite" persistently charged again and again with her clumsy body.
Like an unyielding warrior who refused to admit defeat or abandon hope!
"Truly the last trilobite!"
"What incredible tenacity! What refusal to surrender!"
"Then I can’t just stand by doing nothing!"
"Hmm…"
Trilobite opened the "evolution STEAM" interface and scrolled straight to the arthropod section.
"System, can I purchase equipment for my ‘symbiotic creature’?"
【It is possible.】
【But… is this truly advisable? Seems rather wasteful.】
"No waste at all."
Trilobite mentally shook his head.
Witnessing "unforeseen paths" wasn’t exclusive to Paradox players.
He’d often wondered: if during the Cretaceous ET, a small dinosaur survived as land dinosaurs’ kindling, how might they evolve?
What world would take shape?
If trilobites stopped clinging to obsolete traits and actively modified their limbs, what destiny might they forge?
Could they endure multiple Mass Extinctions to reach the present?
What forms might they assume?
Now, the opportunity had finally arrived!
"Let’s experiment…"
Considering his remaining "flesh fins" purchase funds and the "1680" Chaos Energy points gifted by anonymous benefactors, Trilobite decided…
【You purchased the basic limb mutation gene for "Symbiotic Creature No. 1," costing 500 Chaos Energy.】
"First… gene seal! Release!"
