"Giant mutated squid? Sounds delicious." I said off handedly. After facing a massive blue dragon and hundreds of thousands of Horse Gavarels, a giant mutated squid sounded really meh.
"My father once said that if the squid is 25 percent smaller, he would hunt it down and eat it. But because it is so darned big and strong, getting to eat it was not worth the effort to kill it." G-Drake elaborated calmly.
"Tell me the coordinates of the cave." Bruce Pang said. "I will get Chronos to standby in the area. With Chronos, killing mere beasts would not be a problem."
G-Drake obliged and told him where it was even as we dived into the river and made our way towards the secret passage.
"What is so troublesome about the squid?" I asked curiously.
"Its skin is extremely rubbery and almost impossible to penetrate. Going against its thirty rubbery tentacles is just too troublesome. It would attack you from all directions and squeeze your body parts with surprisingly overwhelming strength. The tentacles are pure muscle, and could bring forth an incredible amount of strength." G-Drake said.
"Sounds chewy and nutritious." I chuckled, unwilling to take a mere squid seriously, even one that the king of blue dragons found annoying.
If it was mere physical strength and tough elasticity, I was not worried in the slightest!
The damned squid might be able to resist the sharpness of the blue dragon's claws, but it would have no defense against my incredible nanotech which I had very fortunately included in G-Drake's system.
G-Drake's claws had sharpness that was at the nano level and strength that exceeded even that of diamonds.
A biological mutation, no matter how ferocious and stupidly ridiculous, would have no chance against claws that were designed to be unstoppable even against the strongest of all human mechas!
"I would not underestimate the giant mutated squid, master. It is almost ten times larger than me, and would probably be able to crush me with ease." G-Drake said seriously.
"You underestimate yourself and my power too much." I said to G-Drake with a confident smile. "I made you almost perfect. You would be able to slice and dice that damn squid easily. Don't worry too much about it. When the time comes, just attack with your dragon breath and with your claws when it gets close."
"Understood." G-Drake responded with a solemn rumble of his draconic voice. "We should be there in three minutes. Master, prepare for battle."
"Good. I will prepare to eat fried squid." I responded with a laugh.
Three minutes later, however, my mirth evaporated completely.
We had exited the portal cautiously, so as to be able to gather our bearings first before we were embroiled in battle.
But as soon as we floated out into the cave, our breaths were caught in our throats.
Before us was the giant mutated squid, as expected. But it was… I wouldn't say dead, because its too mild a word to describe the poor squid's state.
It was… shredded. Yes, shredded would be a pretty accurate description of how dead the squid was.
A huge number of fleshy strips of muscle fibre surrounded us in a cave that was slightly reddish in colour due to the squid's blood that had yet to dissipate.
Something had completely obliterated the mutated giant squid that even the blue dragon had found troublesome to kill!
And not just obliterated in the sense that it took advantage of the squid's weakness to kill it.
On the contrary, it had gone up against the squid's greatest strength, which was its near impenetrable, rubbery armor, and very coldbloodedly shredded it!
The thought that something was able to do such a thing caught us by surprise and worried us much more than the disgusting scene that appeared before us.
"The kill was very recent. An hour at most. Be careful. The killer might still be nearby." Bruce Pang warned us.
"Where is Chronos?" I asked him softly.
"It's safely parked nearby. Don't worry, no harm will fall upon it. Let us focus on identifying and locating our enemies first." Bruce Pang replied seriously.
"Scanning the area." G-Drake said softly. "Two energy signatures detected ten kilometers away. Both are… tremendously powerful, each of them almost as powerful as my father. I do not think that he would be able to fight against them both at once!"
"Golden mechas." Both Bruce Pang and I said in unison.
"They are moving away from our position. It is very probable that they are the killers of this squid." G-Drake continued as a tinge of excitement finally appeared in his unusually calm and emotionless voice.
I glanced at the white heart.
It was still intact.
The Pacific Ocean was still filled with enemies.
"The golden mechas are both stopping. They are making their way back here in this direction!" G-Drake said with a surprised voice.
"Get back into the portal now. Chronos will come with us!" Bruce Pang instructed us immediately.
We obeyed without hesitation. It was a critical moment for us.
Behind us, we had an infinitely angry blue dragon king that may or may not already know about our existence.
In front of us, we had two massively powerful golden mechas that came from two aggressive superpowers of the world.
At that moment, I truly understood what being stuck between a rock and a hard place meant!
As soon as we're back in the portal, Bruce Pang quickly briefed me about his plan.
"This escape route is unuseable. The golden mechas probably detected G-Drake's unique biomech signature. They would definitely lock the place down." He said slowly.
"Is there another secret passage? I doubt a massive lair like this only has two." Bruce Pang asked G-Drake.
"There is a third and final portal. It is in my father's private chambers." G-Drake said.
"Good. We'll use it." Bruce Pang said with a thoughtful nod.
"Wait a minute, we are going to use the portal in his private chambers?? Are you nuts?" I shouted at my obviously insane big bro.
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