Orcas are mammals of the dolphin family. These marine behemoths, adult males, can reach a body length of 8 meters and weigh around 5 tons.
These animals are extremely widespread, found in seas from the poles to the equator, their presence almost global.
It is worth noting that orcas possess explosive combat power, being apex predators in the ocean. Their diet even includes large marine creatures such as sharks, blue whales, and giant squids.
These animals can hold their breath underwater for over 15 minutes, and their top swimming speed in water can reach 55 kilometers per hour.
Furthermore, they are highly intelligent and social animals. Orcas form small pods of three to five individuals or large pods of hundreds. These creatures can even coordinate their attacks, herding and surrounding opponents during hunts.
Notably, orcas are very friendly towards humans. For millennia, there have been no recorded instances of orcas attacking humans. On the contrary, when humans encounter orcas in the water, these animals often engage in playful interaction, and there have even been cases of orcas rescuing humans who had fallen into the water.
However, these mermen in the sea are not as friendly towards orcas.
On one hand, mermen are intelligent beings evolved from fish, sharing a closer kinship with them.
Mermen can enslave and command fish, engaging in simple communication with them. However, they cannot command more advanced mammals like orcas.
Conversely, mermen sometimes become meals for orcas.
The relationship between mermen and orcas is akin to that between primitive tribes in Africa and lions.
For mermen, orca meat is also a delicacy, and orca skin is an important material for crafting their armor.
To prove their valor, these mermen often hunt orcas.
And today, these three orcas, a small pod, happened to pass through this water territory and encountered a merman patrol.
The mermen then began to call for reinforcements,围攻 the orcas.
The three orcas fought fiercely, killing several mermen, but due to severe injuries and heavy blood loss, two of them died.
The remaining one was desperately fleeing, also heavily wounded with over 10 injuries, bleeding continuously. A spear was even half-embedded in its body.
Suddenly, a figure appeared beside the orca as fast as lightning. This was Ling Tian. Ling Tian precisely controlled the flight speed of his flying sword, matching the orca's pace.
Following this, Ling Tian extended his hand, emitting a green light. Ling Tian directly placed his hand on the orca.
The orca was desperately escaping when it felt a message transmitted into its mind.
The orca could sense the goodwill emanating from the person beside it. Ling Tian told the orca that if it wished, it could continue to live, and Ling Tian could help it kill the mermen who had harmed its family!
The orca agreed without hesitation. This giant beast had reached its physical limit and could not hold on much longer.
The next moment, this massive orca vanished into the water, as if this behemoth had never been there.
This sudden change left the merman patrol bewildered. They couldn't comprehend what had happened. Even more incomprehensible to them was that a human could swim freely in the water at this depth of over ten meters, moving as they did without needing to breathe.
The leading merman let out a couple of calls. Upon receiving the signal, the mermen immediately surrounded Ling Tian, blocking all possible escape routes from every direction, above, below, left, and right.
Then, at the command of the leading merman, these ten-plus mermen raised their tridents, propelled the sharks beneath them, and charged directly at Ling Tian.
Just as the closest merman's trident was about to pierce Ling Tian, Ling Tian suddenly vanished from their sight.
The mermen nearly impaled each other. Fortunately, their control over the water currents was extremely precise. The leading merman shouted, and the mermen halted their charge.
What appeared before them was a sphere the size of a cantaloupe!
The mermen were baffled. They had no idea what this object was. The leading merman even extended his trident to poke the sphere.
However, the moment it touched the sphere, the sphere suddenly exploded violently!
This was no ordinary sphere, but a magic core bomb, a specially enhanced version developed by Ling Tian.
This device could cover a radius of over 50 meters when detonated on land, let alone underwater.
The water hammer effect generated by the magic core bomb's explosion caused a massive shockwave that covered a radius of 200 meters of the surrounding waters.
The mermen in the core blast zone were instantly blown into minced meat.
Even those mermen hiding dozens of meters away were now limp like dead fish. Although their bodies appeared intact on the surface, every bone within them was shattered, and their internal organs were pulverized into a paste by the shockwave.
It turned out that the moment the mermen charged, Ling Tian had swiftly entered his spiritual realm space, taking a magic core bomb with him, activating it, and throwing it at his original location.
The mermen, having never seen anything like it, charged directly and were annihilated by the magic core bomb.
The entire sea area was stained red with blood!
At this moment, Ling Tian was in the Beast Taming Garden within his spiritual realm. Beside the Beast Taming Garden, a lake had appeared out of nowhere. In the lake, the orca was swimming joyfully.
The orca's wounds were healing at a visible rate. The spiritual energy in the lake water was unimaginably dense.
Ling Tian leaped into the lake. Upon seeing Ling Tian, the orca swam over intimately, nudging him with its massive head to express affection.
The orca had already signed a contract with Ling Tian and become his tamed beast.
Ling Tian would soon need to deal with the detestable mermen, which would inevitably involve fierce battles underwater. Ling Tian decided to find some helpers, and this orca, the overlord of the ocean, was the target he had set his sights on.
"Alright, from now on, you are my partner. You look so robust and strong, I'll call you Tou Tou!"
The orca understood Ling Tian's meaning and let out a joyful cry!