Endless Ocean: Survival Begins with a Dugout Canoe-Chapter 118 - 116: Information: Killing Methods
[Possible Kill Methods:]
Shi Ming carefully read every word of the intelligence report.
He wouldn’t miss a single detail.
And the Eye of Intelligence truly lived up to its reputation as a broken-tier ability. The intel it provided was incredibly detailed, even going so far as to list the Deep Sea Titan’s three stages and their corresponding kill methods.
In its normal state without using any skills, the Deep Sea Titan’s strength and defense barely reached the threshold of an S-rank sea beast. Any A-rank or higher offensive Awakened skill could deal effective damage to it!
But the Deep Sea Titan was no fool. When faced with a threat, it would immediately activate its skill "Descent of the Titan" and enter its awakened state!
After using "Descent of the Titan," the Deep Sea Titan would gain a trace of divinity, and its core Defense Power would increase dramatically, making it difficult to kill through normal means.
The intelligence provided four ways to deal effective damage and hunt it.
[Method 1: Utilize a weapon-type Wondrous Item from the top 100 on the Wondrous Item Rankings to break through its core defense and deal effective damage. Examples include the Trident, Earth-Shattering Thunderbolt...]
[Method 2: Utilize an S-rank offensive Awakened skill to break through its core defense and deal effective damage.]
[Method 3: Stall until the Deep Sea Titan’s skill expires. During the skill’s 24-hour cooldown period, its core defense is drastically reduced, allowing effective damage to be dealt.]
[Method 4: As the Deep Sea Titan activates "Descent of the Titan," use an S-rank interference or distortion-type skill to forcibly terminate its bloodline awakening. This will throw it into a state of confusion, eliminate its core defense, and trigger the 24-hour skill cooldown.]
One extremely important point to note when hunting the Deep Sea Titan is that it must be finished off quickly when it is on the verge of death.
Otherwise, the Deep Sea Titan would use "Twelve Titans’ Fury." After a three-minute casting animation, it would enter its ultimate state, which lasts for 72 hours.
Those three minutes of casting animation are the last chance!
If this chance is missed and it enters its third stage, Twelve Titans’ Fury, the difficulty of the hunt will become unimaginable. According to the Eye of Intelligence’s analysis, only two methods could pose a threat to it.
[Method 1: Utilize the principle of divine counteraction by using a weapon or object that also possesses divinity to damage it.]
[Method 2: Wait for the skill to end and kill the Deep Sea Titan during its weakened period.]
At the very end of the intelligence report, there was an addendum.
[Skill "Descent of the Titan" has a 3-second preparation time, a 3-hour duration, and a 24-hour cooldown.]
[Skill "Twelve Titans’ Fury" has a 3-minute preparation time, a 72-hour duration, and an 8,760,000-hour cooldown.]
And with that, the S-rank intelligence report came to an end.
Shi Ming rubbed his head.
All things considered, a Deep Sea Titan that didn’t activate its skills was relatively easy to deal with... but once a real fight began, an S-rank sea beast like this would inevitably activate its skills at the first opportunity. The only way around it would be an attack so stealthy and powerful it could kill the beast in a single blow!
But then he thought about the Titan’s thick skull and massive body...
’Kill an S-rank sea beast like that in one hit?’
’Even ten times the power wouldn’t be enough!’
A Deep Sea Titan that entered its second stage was considerably more difficult to kill. You either needed an incredibly powerful weapon or an incredibly powerful skill. Otherwise, you couldn’t even break its defense and could only passively take a beating while waiting for the cooldown period.
As for the third stage?
Shi Ming didn’t think anyone could kill a Deep Sea Titan that had entered its third stage.
’A weapon or item possessing divinity?’
’Those are practically impossible to find.’
’Or what about surviving its frenzied attacks for 72 hours?’
’Who was he kidding?’
A second-stage Titan was already at its peak, capable of taking on three S-rank Awakened at once. In the third stage, it would split into twelve, its power skyrocketing to a point where it could simply crush its opposition!
If they failed to completely destroy the near-death sea beast during the three-minute casting window, then all hope would truly be lost. Twelve phantoms of Ancient Titans would appear together, employing an endless variety of tactics. Survive for 72 hours? Even escaping would be a pipe dream.
Fortunately, such a powerful skill had a huge restriction.
The cooldown was a staggering 8,760,000 hours.
A thousand years!
’Probably only an ancient sea beast like this could wield a skill with a cooldown measured in millennia!’
The *Shooting Sun* continued to ascend.
Having activated its Admiral-class characteristic, the Admiral-class drifter ship was moving at extreme speed. It shot past the Cave Mother Insect’s territory and headed for the surface.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived at the Twilight Layer. The Admiral characteristic entered its cooldown state, and their speed dropped significantly.
There was no danger here, nor were there any powerful sea beasts.
The scenery, however, had a unique charm.
Looking up from the seabed, Mount Olympus was magnificent and immense, like a Holy Land submerged at the bottom of the ocean. Its base was shrouded in shadow, while its peak glimmered with light filtering down from the surface, truly resembling the dwelling of gods from myth and legend.
Schools of fish swam by from time to time, and an endless variety of strange creatures filled the view.
Shi Ming admired the magnificent underwater view, but his mind was racing, contemplating a feasible way to kill the S-rank sea beast.
On the surface, his current offensive measure was just the A-rank skill, Ice Annihilation.
But in reality, the practicality of the Arm of Power’s ten-fold strength multiplier far surpassed that of an S-rank skill. Combined with King Slayer or Ice Annihilation, it could deal unexpectedly high damage. If he had others to restrain the behemoth, he could definitely deal effective damage to it.
If one slash wasn’t enough, he’d use two.
If two weren’t enough, he’d use three!
The ten-fold power boost lasted for a full three minutes, after all.
When the time came, as long as he could kill it, the Right Arm Red Pattern was so eager he wouldn’t even need to urge it on. It would be like a starving wolf, instantly devouring the sea beast’s blood energy at the first opportunity!
The difficult part was that he would have to defend against the Titan’s attacks while simultaneously trying to land his own.
Moreover, the Descent of the Titan skill was unpredictable, making it impossible to prepare for in advance.
A battle wasn’t simple target practice; it was a back-and-forth exchange. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚
Whoever attacked on the front lines would inevitably face its most ferocious counterattack.
Even Shi Ming, with his Black Tortoise Shield, had no desire to face a skill unleashed by an S-rank sea beast head-on.
What’s more, Shi Ming’s knowledge of the 12 skills was limited to their names; he had no idea what their actual effects were. There was a high probability that some of them were offensive skills that would be difficult to defend against.
For example, [Chain of Order]. The name alone suggested it was a rule-based ability. It had a 10% chance of being drawn, and no amount of Defense Power would help against it.
Another example was [Divine Hall of Time]. It only had a 2% chance of being drawn, but if it were activated, it was bound to be even more powerful and bizarre. Shi Ming suspected it might even involve authority over time itself.
But fortunately, Shi Ming was not alone.
He had a "team" behind him.
There were the elites from Vortex Country, skilled in strategy;
The top-tier combat power of a great nation;
The well-prepared upper echelons of the Twelve Stars;
The Black Gold Warriors from a distant land...
With all this, his chances were much greater.
