Chapter 177: The Depths Of The Dark Blue  

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Chapter 177: The Depths Of The Dark Blue  

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So he decided to leave it for later, now he has too many things to research and train... Way too many things, the trip will also be a long long trip so he has ample time to do whatever he wants.

Massive tsunami waves that surpassed the height of even the black whale. It threatened to take down any seekers of the dark that want to go through it.

Creatures humans can only face despair against. The team witnessed the existence of mystical creatures before their eyes, legendary creatures such as Krakens and they don't appear to be too rare either.

The darkness of the dark continent started showing itself before they even reached it. Thankfully they were protected by the guide, and the Kraken seem to understand that as it only observed them for a bit before going back to the depth.

The same happened when meeting another mystical creature, the Sea Dragon. A massive creature, even bigger than the Kraken, miles long, vibrant dark green color that everyone on the ship watched in fascination for minutes until it disappeared from their field of vision.

The dragon acted similarly to the Kraken, it only took a glimpse at the guide and the ship within before continuing on its way. A hint of intelligence was clearly noticed in its eyes, just like the Kraken. Even their behavior was a clear indication of their intellect.

Those aren't in any way the strangest creature they lied their eyes on. The strangest one is none other than a creature they named Sea monk, the strangest creature humanity has ever faced, not from its power as it was never observed but from its behavior.

Rising suddenly from the placid surface of the water not far from the guide is what looked like a great ocean swell, a giant black head. Sea monks were massive, rising as much as a hundred meters tall.

Several of such creatures rose from beneath the sea looking at the guide with their enormous round eyes, a small black iris lies in their center that makes the vacant black heads look even more terrifying.

Their strange eyes were glued to the ship at the center of the guide with desire apparent in their eyes and they didn't fight that desire.

Instead, they accept it as they started strangely moving towards the guide only to be faced with an unstoppable force.

The guide was a barrier they couldn't go through to reach what they desire. No matter how much they collided with it, they weren't able to stop it in its place or break through it. In fact, the guide was just swimming through the dangerous wavy sea without a care in the world, its speed didn't decrease one bit. Its speed was actually increasing as time went on, a strange entity the guide is.

They were however quite persistent. They followed the guide for thousands of miles trying and trying to no avail, only then did they head back to whence they came from.

Those are just the most striking creatures they lied their eyes on, they saw much more. They also saw whales, enormous friendly whales. Some quite simple with black or blue and white skin while some have strips with the same colors.

Beauty and danger are quite alike. The team on the ship understood that and they were fascinated and terrified by what they saw. They couldn't take their eyes off the gorgeous scenes before them.

So most of the team spent most of their time on the deck just looking around engrossed by the scenery. The same couldn't be said for Yasuo who rarely if ever leaves his room.

He wasn't on the ship however, Yasuo was having his own little adventure, he was having the time of his life. The depths of oceans were a mystery even in his previous world.

In this world, it's even more of a mystery. The dangers and the depths of this puddle of water are deeper than anything ever discovered in his previous world. A fascinating world lies beneath that gorgeous blue water, that he knows.

A simple white short is all Yasuo wore as he swam to the depths of the unfamiliar water. His skin was strikingly pale appearing as a faint source of light in the middle of the darkness that would've been almost completely void of light if not for the vibrant life all around. He was just one source of light among the many.

The heavy pressure of these depths was no obstacle for him, he just shrugged it off as a tickling that will never be more than that. Just a resistance that will increase the input requirement of his control domain.

He was swimming in the depths of the ocean for days without seeing the light of day once. He didn't go up to breathe and get oxygen because he doesn't need to, the three gills on each side of his shoulders made that possible.

Gills, a respiratory organ found in many aquatic organisms that extract dissolved oxygen from water and excretes carbon dioxide. That small organ is something he recently gained.

He can use his control domain to completely modify his body to create such an organ but that's not what he did. All he did is to consume fish and aquatic organisms regularly, especially drinking their blood.

His genes did what they do best. They adapted and evolved to become better and gain more functions.

They devoured what they could and used his Aura to make the impossible possible, his enormous Aura was the fuel it needs.

He also started developing conscious control over the process. He started having a vague connection with every cell of his body and he realized he can decide his evolution path consciously much sooner than he anticipated.

So he started training and meditating on that connection until he gained even more control over each of his genes without the need for his control domain and he made use of that to gain the functions he wants.

Such as his silver eyes that are looking all around as if they can see everything around. However, how can one see if there is little to no light around?

Just like some deep sea creatures, his eyes evolved to have binocular vision and great sensitivity to small light signals. So he can see than most creatures in the dark though he still relying mostly on his domain to see.

His Aeroeye threads also went help here as he found that he can't see through them if his eyes can't see what's beyond. But he is working on making that a problem no more, his eyes and his every organ are in constant evolution.

His sensorial ability is also growing incredibly fast as he's not just using his eyes to see, he's also training his new senses.

One of them is Electroreceptors, the detection of electrical fields generated by the prey and creatures. For example, this allows sharks to find prey hidden in the sand. It doesn't provide much information to Yasuo but he believes that with constant use and continuous evolution, it will become much better.

He was right because after he gained Polarized Vision, it strengthened his other sensorial abilities and the same happened to all the sensorial abilities he gained, they supported each other and combined to become something better.

He swam deeper and deeper into the darkness yet his sense of direction was still perfect. He still knows where the depths are and where the surface is.

A smile never left his face as he explored the unknown and unexplored grounds. A beautiful and fascinating place.

He can see creatures everywhere because in contrast to his previous world where there aren't too many creatures in deep sea. Here, life is abundant.

Most of the creatures aren't visible but several if not numerous of them are bioluminescent.

That caused the darkness to become light as the shining creatures swam all around in their natural habitat.

Some are using their light to attract prey or warm predators and evade them. Most creatures at these depths use different strange sensorial abilities to see as most of them are blind.

A beautiful place Yasuo couldn't get enough of. He spent days in the fascinating abyss and he's planning to do the same for weeks to come.

Not just for its beauty but also for the benefits that lie everywhere. The many lifeforms that will push his evolution even further as well as the sense of adventure he gets from this exploration.

Also for research, he documented in his brain every creature he saw and observed how they behave and work, then took a sample of their blood which he drank after experimenting on it for a bit.

He observed the colossal dragon up close, he researched what's within, how it behaves, and what power it holds. And he did the same to every other creature they met and of course, took a sample of their blood.

And he realized something. Every creature they started meeting once they entered the dark continent's water contains a decent amount of Nen in their cells. They can't actively use it but it seems to work naturally once they use their natural abilities.

Every creature around him in these depths is naturally enhanced by Nen, their sensorial abilities and every organ of their will always function better than once without Nen.

In this world however, every creature has Nen, it just depends on how they evolved and how much Aura they have, and what their genetic structure can do with that.

Nen behaves in a strange way and its strangeness has only grown, the closer he was to the dark continent. Nen to a certain extent is a reality-warping power.

So when creatures with an abundant amount of it desire and need something through generations, their Nen helps them evolve to meet that desire.

A desire that has grown over countless years and that created some of the most dangerous and strangest creatures that would've otherwise been impossible to exist.

Yasuo turned his head and looked in a certain direction as his senses have picked a massive strange creature close by.

A creature slowly swimming towards him with the sound it's making preceding it, a sound that made water in its way vibrate slightly. "A new one, and an interesting one at that..."