“Playground of the Great Old One—R’lyeh!”
Following her skill declaration, the environment in the Eighth Arena changed drastically.
“Ngh...?! What...?!”
“The arena...is sinking?!” A transparent cylinder surrounded the arena as dark water began seeping in from the bottom of it, the level slowly rising.
The Eighth Arena—Death Period’s base—was gradually sinking.
Ray and the others jumped high and landed in the audience seating, where the water couldn’t yet reach.
“Liquid summoning?! Like Chelsea’s Poseidon?!” Max exclaimed.
“Not exactly. Not quite,” G said with a chuckle. “This is R’lyeh rising up.”
“Huh...?!”
“It’s something I gotta do to get the arena—and it’s my win condition for this game.”
“Right! I looked this up! So this is her ult...!” G’s words made Chelsea show a hint of panic, and Ray grimaced.
“‘Game,’ huh? You talk like this guy I know who wears a lab coat everywhere,” Ray said with a scowl as he recalled an unpleasant memory.
“Franklin’s Game, right? I know that! It went viral. I dunno if you realize this, but you’re very famous. You’re better known than even some Superiors.”
“Can’t say I’m happy about that!” Ray said before letting out a sigh. First Jubei, now this—becoming famous had gotten him nothing but trouble. If not for that, G wouldn’t have targeted him in the first place.
“And that’s why I think fighting you will make for a great video. Content, revenge for my brother, and this arena—I’m getting so much from this!”
G regularly recorded her activities and uploaded them on her channel. Due to her unusual role as both a Superior and an Overlord, as well as her personality, she had a lot of followers expecting to see something unexpected or entertaining. G believed, without a doubt, that “stealing an arena” and “fighting the Unbreakable” would amaze people as much as—if not more than—her previous escapades.
“Ya keep sayin’ you’ll take the arena. Whaddya mean by that?” Though Max now knew that G was an enemy, she still didn’t know much about her, and nothing had gotten any clearer for her. Juliet was the same in that regard. Ray and Chelsea knew of G and seemed to be getting more and more worried, but Juliet didn’t know why.
“That’s G’s skill, Maxie. It’s Overlord Invidia’s Embryo ult,” Chelsea began explaining to them. “She already cut off a buncha Legendarian territories, but she didn’t change the country’s borders like what happens in a War.”
“Then what did she do?” asked Max.
“The moment this ult is complete...”
“...The Eighth Arena itself will be absorbed by her Embryo,” Ray finished.
R’lyeh was a fictional location from the Cthulhu Mythos. Sometimes called an island, sometimes a city, it was always at the bottom of the ocean. However, it was said that when it rose to the surface, the Great Old One—Cthulhu—would awaken and subjugate the world.
Thus, R’lyeh’s core trait was “domination.”
When the rising waters of R’lyeh sank the targeted area, it would take control of and steal the land, the buildings, and any items within, turning them into a part of itself.
Basically, it was a Superior Embryo that forcefully claimed the very terrain in which it was summoned, cutting off parts of the world itself.
While this ult didn’t possess any direct offensive power, to a country, this was more terrifying than any violent attack. Multiple Legendarian tribes had already lost their mines, castles, and towns to this Embryo, whittling away at the country as a whole.
After claiming whatever she set her eyes on, G released everything in her faction’s base, creating her own land—the Overlord’s domain.
That was the core of her Underground Sanctuary’s strategy.
“Seriously?! That’s some totally lawless shit!” said Max.
“It is. As an Overlord, I make my own laws,” said G, not ashamed whatsoever. “Also, there’s a limit to how big an area and how many Resources I can absorb, and the more I steal, the longer it takes. This arena will be consumed in...a bit over an hour, I guess?” She explained with glee as she gazed at the water filling the arena from the bottom and the “scale” etched onto the top of the cylindrical barrier around the arena.
The time needed for her Embryo’s ult to complete scaled with the Resources of the target.
“Anyway, it’s time to reveal the rules! The channel regulars already know them, but I’ll make them clear to new viewers who came here just for the Unbreakable!” G once again spread her arms wide and raised her voice to ensure that the countless cameras all around could hear her.
In one of her hands, there was now an uncanny, unusual shape—a trapezohedron.
“The rules are simple! I lose if this trapezohedron breaks before R’lyeh consumes the Eighth Arena! This is the core of the ult!”
R’lyeh’s ultimate skill provided other people with the means to stop itself. The fact that it could only be used at night, its long cooldown, and this “fail state” were harsh restrictions that allowed for its greatly empowered effect.
“Of course, you could just defeat me, instead! R’lyeh will disappear and that’ll obviously stop the ult! But if you can’t do either before the time runs out or all of you are eliminated, Team Unbreakable loses!” G then put her hand on her throat and called out to Ray’s group surrounding her.
“Now! The Overlord’s head is right here! If you wish to protect your land, then face me like real heroes! This is the start of a fight to annihilate the Overlord!”
Following those words, pillars of water rose up everywhere. From the water, now knee-deep, large tentacles burst out and attacked Ray and his friends.
“Ngh...!” Ray reacted instantly, jumping on Silver to rush to the sky, while the others evaded their attacks as well.
Thus, they weathered the tentacle ambush, and the only things damaged were the places where the four had been standing.
“First they blocked Chelsea’s and Max’s attacks, now they attack us... How are those creatures even fitting in that amount of water? It is not that deep yet!” Already in her weapon form, Nemesis couldn’t make sense of this absurd scene.
But Ray and Chelsea knew exactly what was going on.
“The water is just an entrance.”
“An entrance?”
“The surface of this water is a connection to her Embryo... A whole other world.”
G had already revealed her abilities in her content. Ray had also featured in multiple public videos since Franklin’s Game—G’s powers were probably at least as well-known as his, maybe even more so.
However, G was a case where knowing her powers wasn’t much help in defeating her.