Deep Sea Fish Hunting Specialty Broadcast

Chapter 118 : Fight League

Before we look into how this impossible situation came to be, let’s first examine Russell’s skill configuration.

His status window looks something like this.

[ Status Window: Russell Bright ]

[ Personal Skill: Critical Bite(S) ]

[ Excluding this skill, you can only possess up to 5 skills. All skill penalty effects are doubled. ]

[ When fully submerged in water, you can enter ‘Form – Nanaue’ state. In ‘Form – Nanaue’ state, all physical abilities increase, and bite force greatly increases. Additionally, all skill penalties are removed, and beneficial effects are doubled. ]

[ Skill List ]

[ Waterproof Sanity(S), Metabolic Error(S), Martingale Betting(S), Shark Spirit(S), Aqua Adaption(C) ]

[ Status Effects ]

Due to the uniquely brutal penalty of his personal skill, Russell went through tremendous deliberation when configuring his skills.

Moreover, since Waterproof Sanity and Aqua Adaption are practically essential skills for underwater activities.

In reality, he can only freely learn 3 skills.

Aqua Adaption is a skill that works like this.

[ Aqua Adaption(C) ]

[ Walking and running speed on land decreases by 5%. ]

[ Enables breathing and vocalization underwater. ]

Anyway, he’s torn through over two thousand skill scrolls just to optimally set up those remaining three skills.

The three skills he chose are those ones. Each one either boasts tremendous performance or has insane synergy with his personal skill.

The reason Russell could survive that recent explosion was thanks to the skill called ‘Metabolic Error’.

[ Metabolic Error(S) ]

[ Deactivates the body’s natural healing ability against external wounds. ]

[ Can ‘consume’ any target by biting. When external wounds are present, heals an amount equal to the mass consumed. Excess healing can be stored up to 10,000 kg. ]

Underwater, the healing effect and storage capacity are doubled. And of course, the penalty is removed.

Russell weighs about 90kg. This means he can recover from total body destruction approximately 2000 times.

At this point, he’s practically immortal.

Moreover, when combined with his personal skill, this skill’s outrageous performance rises even higher.

Being able to recover body mass equal to twice the consumed mass means that eating 1kg of his own body can recover 2kg.

While it might be somewhat repulsive, if you can compromise just on that aspect, infinite recovery becomes possible.

In fact, Russell managed to fill up about 5000kg of Metabolic Error’s recovery capacity by eating his own body in the midst of that insanely powerful explosion.

“No way, how is that possible!!”

Shin Yuna, who had been listening to the explanation, cried out in shock.

No matter how you look at it, eating 2500kg of your own body in such a short time should be physically impossible.

“Not necessarily.”

Let’s look at Russell’s next skill.

[ Martingale Betting(S) ]

[ When using a skill, there is a 7.7% fixed chance to cancel the skill use. Canceled skills cannot be used again for 7 days. ]

[ When using a skill, there is a 50% chance to use that skill again with double power. This effect can repeat up to 5 times. ]

When cast underwater, the success rate for reuse and maximum repeat count are doubled, and the penalty is removed.

If you can picture what an exponential curve looks like in your head, you’ll get a sense of just how much regenerative power he can unleash.

The extraordinary hunting method he demonstrated when Oceanos was hunting the sperm whale last time was created by combining these two skills.

[ Skill, Metabolic Error(S)’s remaining storage is 7000kg. ]

‘Hmm, Elvira definitely messed up her power control.’

Normally, around 3000kg should have remained.

Well, anyway.

Having survived Elvira’s explosion through that process, Russell looked at Elvira triumphantly.

If he could just approach and grab Elvira now, it would be Russell’s victory.

However, Russell knew better than anyone that the battle wouldn’t end like this.

Unfortunately, due to insufficient space in his skill window, he had no movement-related skills.

So what’s that one remaining skill, you ask?

I’ll tell you about that later.

Anyway, having to swim purely with physical ability, he was much slower than the other members.

In terms of movement speed, a chase with Elvira, who firmly maintained her position at the top of Oceanos, was destined for failure.

But that didn’t mean Elvira could do anything to Russell either.

This was why their matches always ended in a draw.

As expected, Russell couldn’t catch up to Elvira as she swam here and there, and the battle entered a stalemate.

─First off, neither of them seems human

─FFS is this even power that humans are allowed to have

─Wonder how pathetic they think those landlubbers are

─Fact is my hunter rank is higher than both of them lol

─What rank are they anyway?

─They said earlier Shark guy is B-rank, Bomb lady is C-rank

─Hunter Association <- Like if you agree they’re historically incompetent lololol

─The funny thing is I feel like I could beat them on land lololololol

─Seriously, I’m confident I could take them down in 5 minutes on land.

─What about underwater?

─Then I’d have to cry and beg the host to protect me…

The viewers were also on the edge of their seats before finally starting to pour out their thoughts about the battle.

Meanwhile, Yuna watched the battle with her eyes gleaming.

In her mind, she quickly sketched out the equipment both of them would use.

Well, regardless.

Having already pumped out every type of hormone that drives people crazy – adrenaline, dopamine, you name it – Russell and Elvira were now in a state where they couldn’t care less about the cameras.

However, the decisive powerful blow that would determine the winner had yet to strike.

And so, these crazy bastards were heading toward the same conclusion again.

“Damn, this is so frustrating. You little rat.”

Russell ground his teeth as he shouted.

“How long are you going to keep running away?! The sun’s going to set at this rate!”

Elvira, who had completely recovered her stamina, also glared at Russell and yelled.

“Oh yeah. I’ve been waiting for you to say that! You cockroach!”

It was a kind of code phrase meaning ‘let’s end this now.’

With that, Russell activated his fourth skill.

[ Shark Spirit(S) ]

[ This skill can only be used underwater. ]

[ Summons shark spirits that increase the power of the next strike. Can randomly summon 1-5 shark spirits, with each spirit increasing strike power by 10%. ]

Instantly, an enormous school of sharks appeared around Russell.

A golden army of sharks, numbering easily in the thousands, gathered around Russell and swam by his side.

As if to tear apart and erase any trace of anything that dared block their king’s path.

On the opposite side, Elvira prepared her final strike.

Around Elvira, the maximum number of bombs her stamina would allow appeared. It was nearly equal to the number of sharks Russell had summoned.

Their battle had already reached a level beyond human comprehension.

─I think I just peed myself

─You’re holding up well… I’m already on my third sheet

─So you’re saying the host absolutely destroys people like them when fighting?

─Yeah that’s what they say

─Is this seriously not fake BS??

“Ready?”

“That’s my line.”

Russell and Elvira made eye contact once and nodded simultaneously.

With respect for a warrior of equal strength.

With reverence for a rival they could never defeat even in hundreds of battles.

And finally, with their feelings for an old friend.

“Here I come.”

“Yeah.”

Russell and Elvira charged at each other simultaneously,

And finally, the bombs and sharks collided.

“Kyaaaaaah!!!”

Yuna let out a shrill scream at the tremendous impact that rushed into the commentary space.

The aftershock was so massive that the spherical object they were in shook as if it would break apart entirely.

Of course, being an object, it didn’t actually break.

Yuna thought this must be what it feels like to witness a nuclear bomb going off right in front of you.

It reminded her of a movie she had seen recently.

In the chaos, even Oceanos could be seen struggling not to be swept away by the impact.

“Oh god, this is driving me crazy!! This is why you shouldn’t get close when these two are fighting!!”

Vertea’s resentful voice could be heard from the side.

After the chain of shockwaves that seemed to last forever finally ended, the battle results hidden by bubbles started to become visible.

“Xiao, please.”

“Sigh……”

Parang made a familiar request to Xiao, and Xiao pushed two medium-sized bones into the bubbles with a deep sigh.

Soon after, two skeletons emerged carrying the unconscious Elvira and Russell.

It was their seventh draw.

The chat room’s reaction was explosive, as expected.

An incredible amount of chat messages scrolled by too fast to even see.

─NextMatchNextMatchNextMatchNextMatch

─Holy shiiiiiiiit this is what you call a fight

─CG artists collectively crying lololol

─???: Please make it like this video

─Kyaaaaargh

Russell and Elvira regained consciousness simultaneously.

As if they had never fought, they put their arms around each other’s shoulders and shared a hearty laugh, then confidently took their seats in the commentary space.

“Then, could the next contestants please come forward.”

At Yuna’s words, two people stepped forward without time to feel sad.

“Ah, I don’t want to fight this one.”

“……”

“Diego probably feels the same way.”

─Kyosunni!! Kyosunni!!! Kyosunni!!! Kyosunni!!!!

─Rooting for Giant-nim damn show them!!

─↳ This is that 67m 38cm guy from before lololol

Match 2, Vertea Fabron VS Diego Lopez Martin.