Chapter 453: Return of the King

The world seemed to hold its breath for a fraction of a second before the island tore itself apart. A blinding white light erupted from the mountain’s peak, swallowing the sky. It was followed not by a sound, but by a crushing pressure wave that flattened the jungle canopy for miles and boiled the surface of the ocean. Then came the roar—a cataclysmic, world-ending thunder that shook the very foundations of the earth. Deep beneath the churning, superheated waves, a sleek, black submarine,...