Chapter 481: Fighting A-Grade
The Iron Maiden groaned. Metal bent. Jack and Brock took a step to steady themselves while Elder Boatman gazed outside the window. Finally, he relaxed. “What are you sitting around for?” he asked Jack. “Go out there and kill that thing.”
“Excuse me?”
“You heard me. You should hurry, too, or it will damage our ship.”
More sounds of creaking metal. Something gave way. A piece of the hull was torn apart. Jack cursed out loud, then teleported outside the starship, staring at it from a distance. He also stared at the space monster.
It was a monstrosity. A large, bright pink mass of flesh with eight thrashing limbs, one of which was wrapped around their starship. The monster was significantly larger than the ship, over three hundred feet from end to end, and it used its tentacle to bring the ship closer to its single eye, inspecting it carefully. Jack saw the Elder waving.
“Fuck me,” he muttered. This was an octopus. He had traveled to a different galaxy to fight an octopus.
Despite its small body compared to other space monsters, the octopus contained a vast amount of energy. It felt more like a natural disaster than a creature. Every inch of its body was saturated, hinting at extreme physical power. The fact that the starship hadn’t instantly imploded in its grasp meant there were Dao protections at play.
Unlike lower-rank space monsters, which relied solely on their physical superiority to crush their opponents, this octopus comprehended the Dao as well. It had reached into a deep layer of space to pull them out of their teleportation, something Jack hadn’t even known was possible. Spacetime fluctuated around it like the surface of the sea in a storm, creating an area of danger several thousand miles wide. If a C-Grade cultivator was placed in this range, they would be immediately torn apart. Thankfully, Jack also cultivated the Dao of Space, so he could resist with little effort.
At least, this space monster wasn’t of the intelligent variety. Jack wasn’t sure how that worked, but he knew that starting from the D-Grade, more and more space monsters were intelligent. He guessed some species were more bestial than others.