Chapter 157
The subsequent levels of 80 for the demigods and 100 for the deities would only be planned after the launch of the "Shattered Divine Court" expansion.
Moreover, even for the high-level NPCs and various monsters in the divine realm, level 60 represents the backbone of the strong.
Krakken didn’t have any job transition issues; her growth was smooth and uninterrupted. Ye Bai had previously estimated that level 60 would likely be a watershed moment for Krakken’s development. Even if her growth was slow, she should have reached a stage where she could hunt for herself. To Ye Bai’s surprise, even at level 59, Krakken hadn’t changed in size at all.
“Hungry…” Hearing Ye Bai’s murmurs, Krakken shyly covered her face with her limbs.
Indeed, Krakken’s body was strangely soft, and this gesture of covering her face involved all four limbs, effectively hiding her entire face.
Setting aside the issue of size, Ye Bai had noticed that Krakken’s intellect had grown significantly over the past few days. At the very least, she had transformed from an infant to a toddler level, able to understand and express more information.
Now aware that Ye Bai was puzzled by her lack of growth, Krakken felt a bit embarrassed.
However, this feeling of shame didn’t last long. As the aroma of fish soup wafted from the shell pot nearby, her attention was immediately captured.
Krakken dropped her limbs and fixed her fiery gaze on the food, instinctively moving toward it.
“Hungry, hungry, hungry!”
In a moment of distraction, Ye Bai let Krakken slip from her grasp, and she dove straight into the shell pot.
“Ah!”
Ye Bai instinctively gasped.
By the time her exclamation faded, Krakken was already sitting in the now-empty shell pot, where ten portions of fish had vanished without a trace, not even a drop of broth remained. Ye Bai didn’t even catch the motion of her opening her mouth.
A jolt of concern shot through Ye Bai as she worried that Krakken might have lost control, instinctively furrowing her brow.
“Ah, uh, ah!” Ottofis, who had been waiting for his meal, called out to Krakken, his tone filled with reproach.
Krakken, who had just taken a big bite, snapped back to reality and realized she had devoured both Ye Bai’s and Ottofis’s food. Her gaze flicked to Ottofis and then landed on Ye Bai, whose brow was tightly knitted, and her expression visibly stiffened.
While Ye Bai was still contemplating how to put the potentially uncontrollable Krakken back into the fish basket, Krakken, now at her fullest, realized she had made a mistake.
Suddenly, Krakken leaned back, lying down in the shell.
Then she looked at Ye Bai and pointed at herself, who was ‘stewing’ in the shell, signaling—
“Eat!”
“…”
At this point, not only Ye Bai but even Ottofis was left speechless.
It seemed that in Krakken’s logic, if she was hungry, she could eat her master, and her master could eat her too.
However, if Ye Bai could actually cook Krakken to eat, she could have Alisis tattoo her face on her back.
“…No need to be polite.”
Ye Bai, who had been a bit tense, suddenly found herself in a mix of laughter and tears. The weight on her heart lifted again as she stepped forward and picked Krakken up from the shell pot.
As soon as Ye Bai’s hands touched Krakken, she wrapped herself around her, quietly clinging to her without moving.
Krakken wasn’t in a state of extreme hunger, and she was still very obedient and adorable.
“Splash…”
When Ye Bai brought Krakken to the fish basket, she automatically released her grip and slid into the basket like a fish, disappearing within.
The next moment, a small red head popped back out, looking at Ye Bai expectantly: “Hungry, hungry!”
“Coming right up.”
Ye Bai shook her head and started boiling a second pot of fish soup.
This had become routine; now Ye Bai cooked fish one by one. Generally, a large fish could make four to five pots of soup. She and Ottofis usually consumed three or four portions, leaving the rest for Krakken.
Before long, the new fish soup was ready.
After setting aside portions for Ottofis and herself, Ye Bai gave the rest to Krakken.
This time, Krakken seemed to be stimulated by something. As she ate the fish soup, her little face was serious, and surprisingly, her murmurs were not about being ‘hungry.’
Ye Bai leaned in slightly, quickly catching what Krakken was mumbling.
“Big… grow big…”
Ye Bai was momentarily taken aback, then couldn’t help but smile with relief.
Well, it was already great that her obedient girl had the motivation to strive.
Just as this thought crossed Ye Bai’s mind, Krakken’s voice from the fish basket suddenly grew louder, drawing the attention of everyone present.
“Big, big, big…”
Ye Bai saw Krakken’s serious expression, as if she was exerting herself. Her hands were tightly gripping the fish basket, and her little face was flushed.
This unusual behavior…
Ye Bai’s expression changed, and she stood up, using a skill to gain insight into Krakken.
【Krakken】
Identity: Pet of Bai Ye
Level: 60
Status: Hungry
Having just consumed two pots of fish soup, Krakken had reached level 60. Was something about to change for her?
As Ye Bai hesitated over whether to take the seemingly growing Krakken out of the fish basket and into the sea, a soft “crack” sound made her eyes widen.
The sound came from the edge of the fish basket that Krakken was gripping. Ye Bai saw the woven basket, made of vines, slightly deforming under Krakken’s delicate grip.
This was a basket with the ‘indestructible’ property!
“Big!!!”
Finally, Krakken, with her tightly shut eyes, suddenly opened them, revealing a pair of bright green eyes that seemed to break free from some constraint.
At that moment, Krakken released the slightly deformed fish basket and began to giggle happily: “Grew big!”
Huh? She looked the same size as before, didn’t she?
As this question formed in Ye Bai’s mind, the next moment, the island beneath her feet began to shake violently.
“Splash, splash, boom—!”
Accompanied by the sound of a massive creature surfacing, Ye Bai’s gaze fell upon the little girl in the fish basket, wiggling her fingers.
And beyond the island, the boundless sea was filled with enormous red octopus tentacles, rising from all directions, blocking out the sun, stretching endlessly, as if they were infinite.
Any one of those tentacles, with a casual flick, could create towering waves.
This was… the true form of the sea god Krakken.
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Chapter 113
As the giant waves surged, accompanied by the tremors of the island beneath her feet, Ye Bai was caught completely off guard as countless massive tentacles emerged from the sea surrounding the island, instantly filling her entire field of vision.
If one were to consider the player’s personal perspective as a ‘screen,’ the enormous sea beast that had just appeared undoubtedly exceeded the frame, and Ye Bai could only vaguely imagine its size through the tentacles breaking the surface.
In the face of such overwhelming shock, Ye Bai even forgot to breathe.
The legendary North Sea giant, Krakken, was indeed a colossal creature resembling an octopus or squid; it turned out the name Krakken was not a misnomer at all.
In an instant, a whirlwind of emotions—shock, surprise, awe, and fear—swept over Ye Bai like the terrifying waves around her.
“Kra…”
Ye Bai opened her mouth to speak, but just as she did, before she could utter another sound, the little ‘Krakken’ in the fish basket excitedly shouted, “Big! Eat!”
Thanks to the familiarity she had developed with Krakken over the past few days, Ye Bai instantly understood the meaning behind her brief words—
She had grown big and could now find food for herself.
“Rumble, rumble, rumble…”
The scene that unfolded before her made Ye Bai involuntarily take a deep breath.
She felt a sensation of weightlessness as the ‘island’ itself began to descend.
At the same time, towering waves rose from around the island, like a massive curtain descending upon Ye Bai, within which she could still see the shadows of the gigantic tentacles swaying.
Ye Bai felt as if she were experiencing a 6D disaster movie, with a touch of the surreal. This scene could likely make anyone with a fear of the wilderness or giant creatures lose their composure and break down psychologically.
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