Chapter 7: The Abyss Shifts

The silence of the trench was deceptive.

Still. Vast. Eternal.

But something within it was changing.

The bones of ancient leviathans—those titanic husks left scattered across the ocean floor—began to stir. Faint pulses of energy echoed from their remains, drawn to the one thing in the deep that still lived.

He coiled among them, wounded but healing, blood rich with divine essence and boiling with hunger.

System Alert:

[Evolution Threshold Reached]

Current Level: 9

Evolution Pathways Available:

– Abyssal Devourer (Common)

– Terror of the Deep (Rare)

– Void-Touched Leviathan (Epic)

– Sovereign of the Black Sea (??? LOCKED)

But something else appeared—faint, flickering.

Hidden Evolution Detected

Origin Seed: Leviathan King

Status: Incomplete

Requirement: Reclaim Ancestral Power

The Leviathan stirred.

The system was giving him a choice. Power now… or the path of kings, veiled in risk and shadow.

He stared at the locked path—Sovereign of the Black Sea—and knew. That was the throne the gods feared. The crown they thought broken. The birthright they buried under fire and light.

And he would claim it.

But not yet.

Not without the Echo.

He turned toward the largest skeleton in the trench—his ancestor, the Titan-Lord Orhazun, last crowned Leviathan King. Its skull alone was the size of a mountain. Its bones, lined with barnacles and memory, pulsed with dying magic.

System Directive:

Abyssal Throne Detected

Dormant Power Signature Matching Origin Seed

Commence: Throne Assimilation

WARNING: Interference Likely

Continue?

The Leviathan answered with a roar that shook the trench and cracked the seabed.

He dove into the ribcage of the ancient king, coiling through memories and bones. A deep, humming chant began to echo in the water—something older than language.

[Ancestral Rite Initiated]

Stability: 73%

Status: Assimilating Throne Core…

But then the pressure changed.

Something was coming.

Above the trench, just outside the range of mortal perception, a tear opened in the water.

A being slipped through. Not divine. Not mortal.

Something in between.

A watcher.

It wore the shape of a sea serpent, but its eyes burned with starlight. Its scales shimmered with timelines—shifting futures, fractured pasts.

And it watched the Leviathan's evolution.

"So… the last child of the Abyss chooses his throne," it whispered, ancient and curious. "The gods should have burned the seed. Not just the tree."

It did not interfere.

Not yet.

But it would return.

Back in the trench, the Leviathan screamed—not in pain, but in growth. The Throne Echo wrapped around him like a cocoon, fusing memory and flesh, will and legacy.

Assimilation Complete

[Throne Inheritance: Partial]

New Trait Acquired: [Blood of the Abyss-King Lv.1]

New Skill: [Throne Pulse] – Emit a wave of abyssal dominance. Weaker sea creatures obey. Greater beasts fear. Divine entities… listen.

Level Up: 9 → 10

Evolution Path Unlocked: [Sovereign of the Black Sea]

The system pulsed one final time.

Do you wish to Evolve?

The Leviathan coiled through the bones of kings, his power boiling in the deep, a storm of vengeance forming beneath the sea.

He chose.