His skin was deathly pale, covered in horrifying cracks, and an icy, sinister aura radiated from him.
Looking up at the gloomy sky, a flicker of delight appeared in Ghostfreak's purple eyes.
With no sunlight, he could fight at full power.
With that thought, Ghostfreak raised his claws and tore open his own skin.
Riiip!
That outer layer of white skin came away as easily as a useless rag.
Whoosh!
A wave of evil energy, cold enough to pierce the bones, swept out in all directions.
An upside-down skull, purple skin, bone-white claws, and a black-and-white tail released a thick ghostly chill that frosted over the sea's surface.
Ghostfreak at full power!
By then, the ferocious mechanical creatures had already charged in close.
Ghostfreak gave a sinister grin, baring his terrifying fangs without the slightest fear.
Countless green octopus monsters lashed their tentacles like a horde of demons, smashing through the frost on the sea and surging toward Ghostfreak all at once.
Floating above the water, Ghostfreak's eyes gleamed wickedly. He pulled open the crack in his chest, and black-and-white tendrils shot out like frenzied venomous snakes.
Boom!
A thick purple beam burst from Ghostfreak's chest, its energy so overwhelming that it instantly vaporized the monsters in the front ranks.
The massive purple beam tore through the mechanical creatures in its path and melted them down completely, reducing them to pools of molten metal that splashed into the churning sea.
But there were simply too many Tentacle Troopers. No matter how strong the purple beam was, he couldn't keep firing it forever.
After blasting open a path, Ghostfreak pulled the energy back.
Then he turned invisible and vanished from the raging sea.
Those mechanical creatures clearly hunted by sight. Once Ghostfreak disappeared, they lost their target and began wandering aimlessly.
The colossal golden octopus stood in the boundless ocean like an unshakable mountain, radiant and immovable.
Suddenly, ripples stirred in the empty space beside it.
Ghostfreak's figure slowly emerged.
He tore open the crack in his chest and unleashed another raging energy beam. The blinding light dyed the surrounding sea purple.
The fierce purple beam poured out continuously, hammering Kraken's head.
The golden fluid inside its head flared even brighter.
Alarmed, Kraken immediately let out a bellow like an enraged bull and summoned the other mechanical creatures to help.
At the same time, it swung its tentacles with all its might. Like a giant silver whip, one came crashing down at Ghostfreak.
Ghostfreak didn't stop firing. Instead, he circled around the octopus's head, attacking while dodging the tentacles.
To kill this giant octopus, he was going all out without holding anything back.
As for the other mechanical creatures, they couldn't do a thing to him.
Ghostfreak was floating in midair, while those monsters could only flail helplessly in the sea below, roaring in frustration. They couldn't lay a finger on him.
Crack! Crack!
Under the purple beam's bombardment, cracks began spreading across the golden octopus's head.
But the damage wasn't deep. He was still far from shattering that glowing head.
"Roar!"
Unable to hit Ghostfreak, Kraken roared in fury and pulled back its wildly lashing tentacles.
Then it sank beneath the sea in a spray of white foam and vanished in an instant.
"Oh no~" Ghostfreak's pupils shrank, and he hurried after it.
The giant octopus was already injured. This was the perfect chance to finish it off. If it escaped now, catching it again later would be far harder.
With that thought, Ghostfreak dove straight down in pursuit of Kraken.
The moment he entered the water, endless Tentacle Troopers rushed at him recklessly.
Ghostfreak immediately turned invisible, slipped through the savage swarm, and kept chasing.
The deeper he dove, the lower the visibility became, until everything turned completely black.
In the endless abyss, Ghostfreak's eyes gave off a faint purple glow as he kept scanning the darkness around him.
Then suddenly, the "boulder" behind him lit up with dazzling golden light.
Ghostfreak spun around at once, his eyes twitching.
A gigantic golden octopus was staring at him with deathly, demonic eyes, as if it were sizing up an ant.
Its glass-like head was covered in dense scratches, but none of them had done any real damage.
That wasn't a boulder at all.
It was Kraken.
Kraken shot out several silver tentacles in a surrounding formation and seized the startled Ghostfreak in an instant.
It was just about to tighten its grip and crush the pitiful little insect to death.
Ghostfreak turned intangible and slipped free of the tentacles, floating silently in the water.
Without another word, he tore open the crack in his chest and unleashed another blast of purple energy.
Boom!
The golden octopus was astonishingly agile underwater. It raised a suction-cup-covered tentacle and blocked the surging purple beam.
At the same time, its other tentacles tore through the water and shot toward Ghostfreak at high speed.
Ghostfreak's pupils contracted sharply. He immediately cut off the beam, turned, and fled in the opposite direction.
At the same time, he stayed intangible, avoiding the relentlessly pursuing tentacles and shrugging off all physical attacks.
"This giant octopus is way too much trouble..." Ghostfreak muttered, feeling a headache coming on.
Even Vilgax in aquatic form probably wouldn't be much stronger than this, right?
Just as Ghostfreak was thinking, a strong purple glow suddenly lit up the seafloor ahead.
"Hm? Could that be...!"
Ghostfreak seemed to realize something.
Without wasting another second, he slipped through the maze of huge rocks and found the source of the light.
It was a purple energy sphere lying inside a shattered machine, dazzling beyond compare. Next to it, everything else looked drained of color.
Ghostfreak picked up the sphere in both hands and examined it with his purple eyes.
He remembered that in the original story, this purple energy sphere could be detonated, and its power was enough to destroy the entire underwater resort.
As he was thinking that, Kraken had already caught up.
Its brilliant golden head was impossible to miss, driving away the darkness for nearly a thousand meters around it. Its tentacles churned through the sea like a giant meat grinder, destroying who knew how many ships. The sight alone was terrifying.
Looking at that enormous head, Ghostfreak grinned wickedly.
"Hehe~ Now I've got it."
Holding the energy sphere, Ghostfreak turned intangible.
The invisible slime he secreted altered the sphere's density as well.
Ignoring the vicious, deadly tentacles entirely, Ghostfreak carried the purple energy sphere and flew straight into the giant octopus's head.
Then he extended his bone-white claws and stabbed hard into the sphere.
The purple energy sphere instantly became unstable. Violent arcs of electricity burst across its surface with rapid crackling sounds, as if it were about to explode at any second.
Ghostfreak gave a sinister laugh.
"Enjoy your meal!"
The moment he said it, Ghostfreak vanished, phased through Kraken's head, and shot upward toward the surface as fast as he could.
Half a minute later, Ghostfreak burst out of the sea, but he still didn't relax. He kept flying higher.
Only after reaching an altitude of about a thousand meters did he finally stop.
Ghostfreak lowered his head and looked down at the sea below.
"I wonder if it worked..."
Rumble!!!
The previously calm sea suddenly erupted into a towering purple mushroom cloud with terrifying force.
Endless waves, mixed with the wreckage of mechanical creatures, exploded upward and rained back down into the ocean.
"Holy crap... that's basically an atomic bomb!" Ghostfreak said with a sigh.
After the sea finally calmed down, the waters below were littered with mechanical corpses. Black liquid rolled across the surface, and the stench was overpowering.
Ghostfreak dove back into the sea and searched for any trace of Kraken.
It didn't take long before he found something.
He didn't find Kraken's body, but he did find some silver fragments that looked like pieces of its tentacles.
Floating nearby were traces of golden fluid, along with scattered shards of glass of various sizes, probably pieces of the giant octopus's skull.
[Ding~ Successfully killed Kraken]
[Unlocked Powerful Hero: Way Big!]