Ocean Master

To the more perceptive predators like the few Mystery Pryer predators who joined the struggle for the Sea King inheritance, through their various senses, they could see the invisible convergence of origin magic.

Mystery Pryer predators were too connected to the origin magic essence of the region they were tied in to fail in detecting such a huge shift.

The battle between the giant tripartite powers was still raging fiercely.

The massive army of the overlord Atlantis that was led by the Annihilator warship under Commander T.Y, the forces of the beast organizations under the cultist Ancestor Horamon, and the Rogue Snake Overlord himself.

This tripartite balance of giants was still fighting without restraint among themselves as they struggled to gain the ultimate supremacy.

Despite this struggle, the more intelligent mutated beasts of the other minor forces already discovered that these 3 giants were faintly holding back.

Neither of the 3 giants could be taken down easily, not the Rogue Snake Overlord, not Ancestor Horamon and his lackeys, and definitely not the Atlantian army who already received the reinforcement of an Annihilator.

These 3 rivals already recognized that going head-to-head would hardly provide any immediate results, so instead of doing that which would be foolish, they simply decided to battle in a laid-back manner.

They had one goal, and before their goal or any clue to their goal was found, they were satisfied with maintaining this status quo.

Until the ultimate inheritor of the Doppelganger and Invisibility Sea King arrived, they would not break this status quo.

Now, this was where the minor forces suffered.

The 3 giant forces could afford to battle in a laid-back manner, but the minor forces could not. This was because the laid-back fighting of the 3 giants was still enough to inflict them with severe damages.

Minor forces like the one formed by Old Mak and his clan survivors struggled to preserve their lives in this chaotic battlefield as they took emotional support from their proximity. 

Due to their proximity, their hearts didn't feel as lonely and in despair as they took special comfort from their similar root.

Not everyone could enjoy privileges like this though, most especially one of the few Mystery Pryer predators that were part of this chaotic battlefield.

This purple-tier Mystery Pryer Mutated Giant Cobra was having the most awful time of his life. This was not only because of this battle but also because of the envy that he felt towards the fortune of other predators.

Through his close connection to the region's origin magic essence, this predator knew that while he struggled, some predators were still benefiting.

This Cobra knew that not one, but two predators were currently fulfilling the dream of their lives which was to climb into the exalted tier that he was.

This Cobra knew that 2 predators were currently undergoing this pivotal breakthrough. Their chances of survival were still left hanging in the air, but the fact that they got this opportunity alone already showed their luck.

This Cobra felt jealous, if only he had a fraction of their luck.

"Lucky bastards!" He cursed.

Boom!

Another kinetic shell that was shot from an Atlantian warship hit his side as this Cobra was flung far away amid painful hisses and resentful curses.

Yes, his situation was awful compared to Sebastian and Tungsten's.

Sebastian and Tungsten were the undisputed candidates that benefited most from the Sea King Inheritance. This statistic directly placed Old Mak's clan group as the group that benefited the most.

Though Sebastian's evolution process was bumpy and thrilling, Tungsten's was more conventional but was still plenty dangerous.

The number one reason for Tungsten's dangerous encounter was the fact that despite attending his teacher's lectures, he never experienced an expert like Tonado who thought him so many details about the purple tier evolution.

Despite this shortcoming though, he was able to fumble his way through.

Through a series of factors, most especially the fact that his evolution origin magic that descended was nowhere as massive as Sebastian which directly reduced its lethality, his evolution process had more room to accommodate errors.

After a series of trials and failures, he finally understood the process. After putting in a lot of effort, he also succeeded in creating his mana core foundation.

Though his foundation was nowhere as consolidated as the abnormal foundation core that was formed by Sebastian, it was still impressive.

With this done, his evolution successfully started like Sebastian's.

Against all the odds of death that were stacked against them, these 2 predators were able to rise from the ashes and were about to be reforged and reborn from the fire as a phoenix.

Their benefits from entering this inheritance ground were unquantifiable since it addressed the most pressing need of every predator, evolution, but both of them were not the only special benefactors of this inheritance.

Throughout its long drift through the Ocean, Carcarot Gorgoneon just like he did with Colonel Tada was able to assimilate a lot of other inheritances to serve as platforms to make his own inheritance more impressive.

Apart from the 2 evolving predators, the other 12 predators and Atlantian soldiers that were not ejected out of the inheritance ground each encountered an inheritance opportunity like the one encountered by Captain Omega.

Of these lucky ones, Verni was among them.

Surprisingly, Verni was lucky enough to encounter the inheritance left by a Red tier Megalodon against all odds. 

This was an inheritance with prospects that if he could inherit it, this Great White Shark had an abnormally high chance of unlocking the Megalodon bloodline in his next evolution.

The benefits of evolving to become a Megalodon could not be easily quantified. To know the approximate benefits, studying his Seba bro was enough.

From the almost cheat-like recovery speed, Megalodons were so much better than normal Great White Sharks that both were incomparable.

Now, at this moment while his Seba bro and his big bro Tungsten underwent their crucial evolution, he took the test of the inheritance.

The test of the inheritance was pretty straightforward, unlike the zig-zag patterned inheritance style that was arranged by Carcarot Gorgoneon.

It had only one test, which was a battle test.

To get the inheritance, Verni was sucked into an illusion where the notion that he was a purple-tier predator became real. His challenge was to defeat another purple-tier predator who was the dead owner of the inheritance.

Against all odds, the owner of the inheritance was a female Megalodon.

Since Verni's basic strength was already elevated to the realm of purple tier predators in this illusion, it seemed that he could overpower his enemy but he was woefully wrong.

Apart from their higher base strength, purple tier predators were terrifying predators due to their high level of intelligence, battle intuition, experience, and a lot of other parameters.

With these advantages, they were beasts to face in battle!

Verni had no choice though, it was either he faced this enormous Megalodon and give his all to preserve his life and to get massive power or die.

Verni only needed one moment to make his choice, this young shark suddenly exploded with power that originally exceeded his normal.

A yellow fire with a lot of heat was suddenly unveiled around him, the only difference was that this time his fire had purple tier strength.

Verni did not hold back at all. Having witnessed the strength of purple tier predators extensively, and having been bullied by his master occasionally in training, he knew the depths of this tier of predators.

He knew how low his chances of emerging victorious were, but he did not let this realization weigh his will down as he exploded forth like a meteorite.

"Personal Skill: Era of the Floating Fireflies!"

Verni imitated a trend that was recently prevalent among the sharks of the Ultimate Dissectors hunting team, he yelled the name of his move as he attacked.

The calm Megalodon directed a look of disdain at him before retaliating. This female Megalodon's eyes simply blinked which changed the intensity of light in the water, the light intensity suddenly grew so high that they turned blinding.

Boom!

By the time Verni was able to react, the female Megalodon already gotten to his side as he was hit by a powerful battering ram attack.

All his body felt like squashed meat already, but he did not give up.

Verni persevered like a horse, fighting with his all as he sustained more and more injuries. Pushed to the wall by the pressure of death, he broke his limits repeatedly, exceeding his highest strength bar but he still couldn't win.

In the end, the female Megalodon was the one who stood on top.

The terrifying Megalodon hovered silently and looked at the battered-up body of this driven and highly motivated young Great White Shark.

"I like your temperament". 

"I like your bearing and mentality too".

"You please me".

"You passed!"

Verni was too injured to hear this correctly, but this was the sentence that changed his life for good.