WUUUUNGGG...!
The giant fish unleashed another sonic wave, this time far stronger than before.
The surrounding seawater felt like solid concrete crashing into their bodies.
"Ugh!" Arrow groaned behind his helmet.
The alarms on his Nano-Pressure Suit flashed wildly, warning that the suit's structural integrity was beginning to fail under the extreme sonic vibrations.
"That rotten fish is way too damn loud!" Tora snarled.
The muscular giant stomped against the ocean floor, sending black sand exploding upward as he used the force to launch himself forward.
Tora swung his axe toward the spiritual chain held by The Ningen.
But beneath the pressure of millions of tons of seawater, Tora's normally lightning-fast strike slowed drastically.
The ocean itself resisted his weapon.
Realizing how slow the attack was, The Ningen merely lowered its head slightly.
Its corpse-white giant hand casually flicked toward Tora.
BAM!
That single motion generated an unbelievably violent underwater current.
Tora never even got the chance to swing.
His massive body was hurled away like a ragdoll, rolling dozens of meters across the trench floor before smashing through black coral formations.
"Tora!" Scyte shouted. "Damn it, this water is making all our movements slow as hell!"
Scyte immediately activated his power.
Energy condensed around his legs as he burst forward in zigzag movements, searching for a blind spot behind the pale giant's head.
His scythe began glowing, preparing to release an energy slash.
But The Ningen was not stupid.
Even without visible eyes or ears, the ancient creature could sense every disturbance in the ocean currents.
Suddenly, the pale giant swung both of its enormous arms in an incredibly fast circular motion.
"Hah?!" Scyte's eyes widened.
An underwater maelstrom formed within seconds.
Its pulling force was absurd.
Caught directly in the current, Scyte instantly lost control of his balance.
He was dragged violently into the spinning vortex before being slammed at terrifying speed into the trench wall.
KRAAAK!!
Scyte's back crashed against solid rock, forcing him to cough violently and release precious air bubbles from his mouth.
Seeing both of his teammates defeated within seconds, Rare tightened his grip on Excalibur.
His smile disappeared.
"Please don't hurt my friends," he whispered softly.
Rare plunged Excalibur into the seabed, manipulating gravity itself to crush the giant's body.
The area surrounding the monster suddenly became ten times heavier.
For a brief moment, the creature stopped moving.
Its gigantic body lowered slightly beneath Rare's gravitational pressure.
But Rare forgot about another threat.
Feeling its master endangered, the pale giant's pet opened its rotting jaws wide and unleashed a focused sonic blast directly at Rare.
BLOOOOOOP!!
The shockwave obliterated the ground beneath Rare's feet.
The manipulated gravity shattered instantly.
Rare's body was hurled far away, his sword ripped from his grasp as he disappeared beneath collapsing piles of sand and rock.
"Rare! Scyte!" Arrow attempted to aim from a distance, but the chaotic currents guaranteed his arrows would miss.
Now, the pale giant slowly turned toward Arrow.
The only one still standing.
The Ningen gradually raised one massive hand the size of a skyscraper, preparing to crush Arrow into pieces.
Tiny cracks began spreading across Arrow's helmet visor.
Krrrt...
The pressure from both inside and outside was overwhelming the suit's defenses.
All four of them were completely cornered at the bottom of the world.
Amid the chaos of the raging underwater currents, Tora slowly rose from the shattered coral ruins.
His muscles tightened despite the insane water pressure.
Instead of attacking directly, Tora spun his body and hurled one of his twin axes with full strength straight toward the giant's hollow black face.
The axe tore through the water...
But it was only a distraction.
Using the split second when the pale giant's attention shifted toward the spinning axe, Tora launched himself forward like a torpedo.
Ignoring the sonic waves entirely, he grabbed the rotten fish's tail with both massive hands.
With one brutal spin, Tora hurled the enormous sea monster directly toward Rare.
Rare, who had just emerged from the sand pile, saw Tora's "gift."
His eyes narrowed sharply.
Immediately, he stabbed Excalibur into the seabed and manipulated the surrounding coral formations.
The black rocks exploded upward, forming gigantic sharpened stone pillars.
As the fish crashed toward him, those stone spears pierced straight through the monster's body.
Dark purplish blood erupted outward, staining the surrounding ocean crimson.
Meanwhile, Scyte wasted no time at all.
Using Tora's floating axe as a foothold, he kicked off the weapon with explosive force.
The momentum launched him straight toward The Ningen.
He swung his scythe with everything he had.
"Take this!! Whoever the hell you are! Hiyah!!"
ZRASH!!
A dense energy slash cleanly severed one of the giant's arms.
The massive pale limb, larger than a building, crashed heavily onto the trench floor.
While the others went completely berserk, Arrow realized his helmet was moments away from collapsing entirely.
Without hesitation, the archer removed his pressure helmet.
Holding his breath and enduring the horrifying pain of the deep-sea pressure, Arrow calmly swam toward the crystal altar to retrieve the Achronal Miasma.
But the fish was not dead yet.
The ancient monster thrashed violently, shattering the rocks embedded in its flesh.
Its lifeless eyes locked onto Arrow, who was now completely vulnerable without protection.
With horrifying speed, the creature surged toward the archer, jaws opening unnaturally wide as it prepared to swallow him whole.
Arrow turned around, but maneuvering underwater was far too difficult to evade in time.
But before those massive jaws could close...
Tora's gigantic shadow appeared beside Arrow.
The giant slammed Arrow away with brute force.
And in exchange...
CRASH!!
The Bloop's jaws snapped shut.
Swallowing Tora whole.
Rare and Arrow's eyes widened in shock.
Neither of them could believe their largest teammate had just been devoured so easily.
But Scyte merely smirked faintly.
The shock only lasted a few seconds.
Suddenly, the seawater surrounding The Bloop began trembling violently.
A massive earthquake erupted...
Not from the trench itself.
But from inside the creature's stomach.
BOOM!!
BOOOOMMMM!!
BOOOOOOOMMMM!!!
With one full-powered strike from within...
DUAR!!
The Bloop's stomach exploded apart.
Rotting flesh, shattered bones, and ruined organs burst everywhere alongside horrifying sprays of blood.
Tora shot out from the remains of the monster with a savage grin on his face like the true devil of the ocean.
Seeing its beloved pet completely destroyed, The Ningen descended into absolute fury.
Its remaining arm pounded against the trench floor repeatedly, attempting to generate catastrophic underwater storms.
But The Four Pion had already returned to their proper formation.
And Arrow had successfully secured the Achronal Miasma.
There was no more hesitation.
With Scyte's unbelievably fast slashes, Rare's bone-shattering Excalibur strikes, Arrow's precise specialized arrows, and Tora's brutally lethal punches...
The pale giant was finally overwhelmed.
Its massive body slowly crumbled apart within the endless darkness of the Mariana Trench.
Their first deep-sea mission had ended in complete success.