Chp. 71 Fleet of the world

[Drowned Earth]

"Why should we trust you? You have a monster in your midst so who is to say you are not in the side of this so called Queen of the Sea Monsters?" A man in a business suit pointed at Rita while accusing Bota of being at the side of the leviathans.

"Hahaha!" Paul laughed as he looked at the various men behind the guy discussing which place they should own after this.

"You think this is a laughing matter? You also brought Gordic here as well endangering the people in this floating Island of New York!" the man pointed at Paul fearlessly as he felt eh moral compass was on his side.

"Sure, you all do not want to cooperate then we shall not. Port Oasis and Union Busan will withdraw from here on." Paul did not say much as he stood up and left. Bota and the others were confused but they left as well following Paul.

"Hu-huh?! Where are you going?!" the man was totally confused as Paul left without another world while Clark Miller sat in his seat with a distasteful expression.

[Two hours earlier]

In an public space in the Floating Island of New York, Paul and the others were now face to face with Clark Miller who seemed to be looking at them in a challenging manner.

His eyes darted from Kana, to Bota and then to Paul who stood out in the crowd. He knew these three were red star holders but he was totally eager to try out his strength against these so called leviathan slayers.

But then he saw a familiar face in the crowd, he smiled and went to hug the person.

"Sonia! How long has it been?" He acted chummy and all with the girl who was frozen for a bit but she calmed down. She somehow lost her fear for him as she now dreaded another person entirely.

"Clark let go of me." Sonia said as she tried to push Clark away.

"Do you really want to make a scene here?" Clark threatened with a cold voice as he whispered in her ear. But as he was about to keep with his act he felt his world twist as he was thrown back by Paul after grabbing his shoulders.

He then twisted his body to readjust and landed on his two feet but this has been a humiliating experience for him as he was never manhandled like this before. He looked towards the one that threw him with anger but when they locked eyes he froze.

"Kid, you've got a lot of nerve ignoring us. Do you think we came here to this place to have a power play? Go get your psycho ass moving and lead us to where the meeting is going to be held." Paul said as he did not want to delay killing the Queen any second longer.

He was a bit annoyed at how this pretty boy thought of doing a power play move on them as soon as they met so he just threw him back so teach the kid a lesson. But this kid even glared at him so he showed death and destruction in his eyes as soon as they locked sights.

Clark froze as he felt fear for the first time in his life, it wasn't until Paul and the others passed by him did he react. He saw the eyes Sonia gave him like he was an idiot for even making such a move in front of Paul.

He then knew he was totally outclassed by him because he had been disbelieving when he heard Paul brought Gordic like a mount and the Sea Devil was tame under his control. Some wanted to attack but they were thrown back by Paul so Gordic just dove down.

Holding his anger in he and the harpoonist of New York led them to the meeting room. He did not even listen as he still felt the image of him dying by Paul's hands vivid in his mind. It was not just one but dozens of images of him trying but still dying from Paul's axe.

Meanwhile as the representatives arrive, Bota and the others were totally disappointed hearing the talks of the people in New York as well as the rich men of other places.

So they did not hesitate in following Paul out making the people inside dumbfounded, they acted insulted as they said things like they can take care of the Queen on their own and that Paul and the others were lying.

But it was then Dr. Foid came telling them they were all fools and idiots to think of profit when the whole world is going to end. He then showed the findings on the black box of the ship Jenner and how it now mirrors the recent tremors that have been observed.

It was also recently that the people that had been inflicted with Fish Disease or have great concentrations of the virus in their body had a dream of the Jenner as well as the explosion that happened 130 years ago as they felt the Psionic dream of the Queen.

Thus many brilliant minds grouped together and confirmed his findings so coupled with the dreams that was totally similar to all that saw it made the facts more solid, this made the business men pale at the truth of the matter and ask doctor Foid how can they survive this then he said.

"You can't anymore, you just disappointed the strongest person you could have gotten help from! Hahaha!! You are totally a bunch of stuck up rich idiots! You sealed you fate because of your greed!"

"You want to mine the ancient site? You want to dig oil? Hah! As if you can live long enough to do that! What a bunch of morons! You even called Rita a monster when she is the only one that could wrestle control of Sea Monsters from the Queen! Hahaha!" Dr. Foid did not care at all as he laughed at the paling businessmen knowing they chased out the strongest man that could help them.

"But won't they be in danger as well if the world ends?" a fat man asked Dr. Foid.

"hah? Did you not hear what I just said? Rita is on the same level as the Queen, she has the protection of Kentrassi as well while the Curse Demon has Gordic on a leash. Sure the Sea monsters would get stronger but they can survive on the future while you all perish? You think they'll protect you all after what you just showed them? Hahaha!!" Dr. Foid was on the floor laughing heartily at the shivering fat businessmen.

"Clark, how confident are you in fighting the curse demon?" a clear headed man in the crowd asked as he looked at the silent Harpoonist.

Clark was taken out of his daze from the question and he just looked at those present and said. "Not one chance at all…"

Clark might be ruthless and arrogant but he is not the one to lie about this stuff so it made the people inside suck a cold breath since even their strongest cannot claim to be able to fight Paul.

Meanwhile Paul and the others walked back to their respective groups a bit disappointed at how the representatives of other groups acted. They cannot understand why they would still try and claim profits at this moment.

Even the representatives of Trade Port and Akroma followed behind them as they felt New York was trying to gain profit from their desperate situation.

"What are we going to do now?" Bota asked Paul as they felt that maybe they should just leave the world already. They were also contracted to Paul bound by Soul already as he promised them a life on a place that did not experience this life.

He only gave this offer to Teon Ma, Bota, Rita, Kana, Jako, Gongtae, Noah, Ling, Sonia, Brune, Sea Monkey, Butler, Mayor Mao and a few sea monsters Rita is fond with.

They also saw the rest of the laboratory except for the Jeagers, he did shown another Dreadnaught-Class Heavy Cruiser but this one has two CR90 corvette on its side that can be detached to act as support in case of a fight in space.

Not that there would be a fight but who knows how much Paul needs to be ready. Inside them thousands of Robots are working to finish the interior. Paul had to let his clone go to outer space to get a lot of H3 in the broken moon.

He had found some too in the planet as some parts of the moon broke when the meteor crashed on it. So now Paul has a store of at least two million tons of H3 for the moment and he now has a large reactor that could provide him enough power to fly the ship for years to come.

Paul's practice with his space powers also enabled him to use a neat trick of making the volume of an item smaller than they should be. Since there are a few clones of his that had been researching the spatial properties of the storage rings he has.

Now he was able to expand his storage many time as well so he can store lots of items away. That is where he kept the jeagers, and the only one he'll use is the EB-06 Graze model since it was faster and well armored enough to take on the attacks of the Queen as Paul calculated.

Though a bit late the businessmen of New York tried to catch up to them and plead that they will not think off any spoils for the moment as they need to combine forces now to fight the Queen.

This made Paul a bit surprised but he saw Dr. Foid behind them and thought how did this loony scientist get out in the first place. So he scanned his brained a bit and understood that Noah and Ling had been convinced by this guy to bring him the black box of the boat Jenner.

Paul was not mad since he gave the kids free reign on what they do but just keep what they learned from him a secret between them. So they were wandering within Union Busan as they were curious about this floating ship.

They met the old man and they got a bit into a deep discussion about various fields of knowledge. Paul did feel the Queen giving the old man some telepathic messages but he did not care as he was training Rita at the time.

Paul looked at Bota who accepted the offer as long as they can eliminate the Queen once and for all. It took about a few days of preparation since the former fishermen/divers of Port Oasis went to retrieve lots of bombs under the sunken floating islands.

There were three initially but the other two sunk due to a storm and another a bomb accidentally blown inside. They got about a few hundred from the three days they dove and some engineers repurposed the bombs into deep sea mines.

Paul was watching over this until the day before they are going to set sail where he told the others he'll be getting something on the way and that he'll meet up with them when the attack is on.

Paul brought Gordic with him back to the underground Lab that he is now slowly packing up as he now prepared to leave once the Queen is dead and Rita getting the position.

Paul also prepared a large vat of anti-virus that would only attack the virus that the Queen has as well as the other Sea monsters in the world. He had already trained Rita to be able to manipulate her powers that she can now make sea monsters of her own.

He had her make another strain of virus that she can only control and that it had already spread wide in the sea slowly changing the sea monsters of her side. Kentrassi and Gordic were changed as they now lost their fascination for the human taste.

To them the human meat just taste bland while fish meat is proper and kelp is healthy. This made a lot of Sea monsters docile, which were the ones that were originally docile before they mutated.

Rita was smart as well as she made the virus unable to go infect humans like the fish disease. Though it would only have a slow evolving effect that would one day make humans reach the part where they can breathe under water.

This new Virus also will not develop into a queen but rather would become an essential part of the ecosystem as well as human lives. Fish will mutate from time to time and that would be in the norm.

Now once the Queen is gone he can have Rita go on a worldwide purge using the anti-virus and control all the sea monsters. From what he can tell he'll need two more years for the spaceships to be space worthy.

He also left tomes he personally wrote all over the world, they were modified cultivation tomes. He had made this when he thought of how Bota and the others should continue in their development.

He made a manual that would make man able to use the newly made Virus Rita produced and substitute it for Qi as they would be slowly able to become physically stronger.

He had helped Rita as well in designing the Virus which will now exist in all matters of sea life on this Earth. From Fishes to the Kelps and to the ones that are going to be transformed by the Virus.

So in any case it will give humans of this world a way to develop in case Stronger sea monsters ever get born. Paul was a bit guilty for plundering this earth a bit so these cultivation manuals were just body cultivation types were his way of at least giving back.

This world has already been changed by the virus anyways so why not change it for the better, who cares on what they will do with the power they will gain but Port Oasis and Union Busan will be at the lead.

Since they already started in their progress, if compared to the cultivation world they are now in the Body development stage, some of those he is teaching can now even be considered Foundation Establishment with Kana and Bota at the lead.

Teon Ma was now in the Qi Gathering level or in this case, Virus Gathering level but he is ways to go through to reach the Golden Core level or Bronze Body cultivation. Only Rita seemed to have reached this level but she is too gentle and could still be fought to a standstill against Teon when they sparred.

Most of them can at least fight Skutoom evenly now, Jako and his team still needs to work together but they are considered elites already. Paul had Gordic go first to assist Rita along with Kentrassi.

Paul even felt pity on the Queen as her fighters, Skutoom are going to face its children that are a bunch of chonky crabs, Bazrah is facing Kentrassi and Gordic will fight against Kraken, that was the initial battle plan but things really change too fast.

On their fifth day their fleet faced a storm while millions of Sea monsters attacked them. But it was there they witness Rita's powers as she also had her Sea Monsters face the attackers, there four of the gigantic raspberry crabs showed themselves and protected various boats.

They knew they were allies since all of Rita's sea monsters wore a red bandana with a white silhouette print of a raspberry crab. Rita also wore one as she stood on top of her chonky babbies.

"Raghh!!" Rita cutely roared as she felt emboldened seeing her side win. Meanwhile Paul was watching underneath as people were awed by the performance of Bota, Kana, Teon, Jako, Gongtae and Sonia as they fought in the sea to help the people that were thrown off the fight.

But to escape more losses they had to sail in the stormy seas, unbeknownst to them the Sea monsters of Rita had been teleported by Paul up ahead, there he knew the three Sea Devils await a floating Island filled with Pirates.

Mayor Mao and the Port Oasis harpoonist also showed a great performance in the battle that many had thought that Paul was a great trainer to produce such a fine elite force that were now all Peak Body Formation stage.

Even Clark Miller was impressed thinking there were a lot of strong people in the group, he did not even think Sonia also improved. He could see that she has grown considerably since the last time he knew her.

This made him more alert to Paul even when he was nowhere to be seen.