Ocean Master

Dozens of minutes after the battle started from the first Draconic Lizard and Mammoth Crocodile clash to the death of the alpha Croc, then Octumpedam's appearance, then Old Mak, it finally came to a stop.

Though it came to a stop, the crater where the Mammoth Crocodiles took as their home was now already damaged beyond recognition.

Depressions and holes filled everywhere, with hot lava flowing out from some holes as the temperature in the surrounding already increased exponentially. The trees originally surrounding the crater were now history.

At this moment, the victors of the battle hovered in the water, looking down at the enormous Octopus that was on the verge of killing them all a few seconds ago. They still felt a lingering sense of fear just thinking about it.

Old Mak, the Mystery Pryer Crocodile, and the Lizard Lord hovered the closest to the enormous body of the octopus, granting them the privilege of seeing everything from close range.

Through their various senses and adaptations, they already confirmed that the octopus was dead but they still couldn't relax as their minds kept on flashing to the powerful burst that killed the octopus from below.

Old Mak may not know, but both the Crocodile and the Lizard Lord knew as they already saw such weirdly powerful skills being used by the shameless Megalodon Lord, which only left them feeling much more awed.

"Was he hiding his strength? Is he that powerful? Sigh, this guy is really related to the motherf*cker Lord". The Draconic Lizard concluded with a weary but excited sigh amid feelings of respect and fear for the shark.

Unlike the other 2, the Mystery Pryer Crocodile had another expression on her face, an expression of puzzlement. 

Due to her thorough grasp of this regions' magic power flow, she felt a strange magical fluctuation just after the octopus died. 

This magical fluctuation dissipated a few seconds after, but she knew that something happened though she could not pinpoint it. Left with no clues to follow, she could only remain alert.

While remaining alert, ideas rapidly started flashing through her mind.

After battling non-stop for so many minutes, every predator on the battlefield was severely injured and tired. Right now, they were already on that verge of fainting but they still waited like they were expecting something.

As all the sea creatures watched, the Mystery Pryer Crocodile suddenly made a move having recovered a few of her mana points.

Her magic power flared wildly as the earth on the seamount rose to form a large shield. As she moved, the only 5 surviving adult Crocodiles moved with her as they formed a sturdy defense together. 

After doing this, the Mystery Pryer Crocodile used her magic power to move and separate the earth beneath the seamount. 

As this happened, the earth stirred before revealing what was under. Hidden under the huge crater were Crocodile babies numbering about a dozen.

It was at this moment that the realization that they were enemies came back to the Draconic Lizards. They only allied with the Crocodiles because of the much stronger enemy, but now everything was back to normal.

Without hesitation, they turned to hunt the remaining Crocodiles with their last ounce of energy to end the war but a voice stopped them.

"Stop!"

Hearing this voice felt strange, it was like it contained an Emperor's authority behind it as every Draconic Lizard listened and stopped.

The Mystery Pryer Crocodile took advantage of this opportunity. After safeguarding the dangerously cute little Crocodiles who were the future of her family, she made her move as fast as she could.

Forming a wind propeller with her remaining mana points, she activated a magic skill and rapidly escaped with her surviving family from the battlefield. 

She didn't care much about the death of her mate, the alpha Crocodile. Only the strong could get revenge, and the powerful Great White Shark was clearly superior so why sacrifice herself for such a useless cause?

Instead of doing that, she would strive to preserve the life of her remaining family members especially the young ones. From today, that was her life goal. 

It did not take her long before she disappeared with her family.

As soon as the Crocodiles left, every head on the battlefield turned to where the voice sounded from, where Sebastian came from.

After thinking about it, Sebastian decided that there was no need to hide the hole that trapped the Octopus so he directly came out from underneath the beast.

Seeing him, every predator on the battlefield froze as silence reigned.

Perhaps, it was because he has not experienced this before so he felt weird. For the first time in both his lives, Sebastian felt other living personalities having that sense of respect towards him.

"Is this the reputation that the system notified me about?"

Though he felt weird being faced with such respect-filled attention, for some reason, he felt something even stranger from his heart. 

He felt proud of himself, he felt fulfilled, he felt like he finally did something worth bragging about to others apart from dissecting sea creatures. At least no one was calling him a psycho now, only respect for him was shown.

For the reason why he let the remaining Crocodiles escape. It may seem foolish but he still had principles. As the system said, he may be a Megalodon now but innately, his soul was human.

During his stay here, he's not noticed it before but after this battle he noticed. Slowly, his perception of what was normal was being eroded by his inclinations and instincts as an Ocean predator.

Though he loved dissecting sea creatures, he also loved preserving their life to the best of his ability, he could have never imagined himself planning the annihilation of a Crocodile family so nonchalantly before.

Unknowing to him, he now saw killing as normal. The euphoria he felt when dipping his sharp teeth into flesh already eroded most of his morals as a human though they were already warped, to begin with.

As an anatomist referred to as the crazy dissector by his colleagues, it may seem strange but he respected life. 

Even if as a Megalodon he couldn't stop himself from craving flesh, he decided to restrict himself from rampantly killing young ocean creatures.

At least, he would use this to keep his humanity in check.

After recovering from his mental reevaluations, he turned his head to look at the survivors of the battle. Seeing the severely injured Lizard Lord, he felt like laughing at him but in the end, he restricted himself.

Though he's not seen the leader of the sharks, Old Mak who Verni always told him about, he recognized him on sight. Such a massive size was impossible for any Great White Shark who was below the purple tier.

Personally, he would speak with them later but right now he needed to do something important. He thought of giving a speech but quickly decided that it was way too cringy, so he went for the simple style.

[You have activated magic skill: Sound Control.]

"We won!" 

He said only one word but the reaction that he got almost left him spooked. The Draconic Lizards didn't yell 'we won' back at him, they didn't give any pretentious reactions, they simply roared their emotions out.

Roar! Roar!

Seeing and hearing this, Sebastian gave a sharky smile in reply and translated it himself. "We won!"