I Have 10,000 SSS Rank Villains In My System Space-Chapter 369: Ocean Black

Seeing the scene in front of him, even though Razeal was still standing many kilometers away from the actual place itself, he was able to see everything clearly. That alone spoke of how enormous the place truly was. The sheer scale of it made distance meaningless, as if the land itself refused to be hidden, demanding to be witnessed no matter how far one stood.

In front of him rose what could only be described as an enormous mountain no, not just one. A mass so vast that it plunged deep into the seabed, disappearing into darkness below, and then rose upward again, possibly breaching the surface enough to appear like an island if viewed from the sky. It reminded him of an iceberg.. small and harmless-looking above the water, but hiding a body hundreds, perhaps thousands of times larger beneath the surface. Except this was no ice. This was something far heavier, far darker and far more oppressive.

Whatever Razeal had expected before coming here, it was nowhere near enough.

The darkness ahead was made up of millions no, billions.. Hundreds of billions of monster cores floating together. They had piled up over time, compacted by endless waves and pressure, forming mountains upon mountains of black cores. They collided, pressed, and locked together, turning into what looked like a massive terrain rather than scattered debris. From afar, it appeared like a single, colossal landmass an unnatural continent formed entirely from dead monsters’ hearts.

If one looked closely, the surface wasn’t smooth. It was uneven, layered, constantly shifting as the water moved beneath it. The cores glowed faintly, eerily, as if each one still carried remnants of the lives they once fueled. Dark mana leaked from them endlessly, saturating the air and water around them, thick enough to be felt on the skin.

"When you said it was the size of an island," Razeal said slowly, eyes fixed forward, "I thought you were bluffing."

He turned his head slightly toward Yograj, though his gaze never left the black terrain ahead.

"But now that I’m seeing it... seems like you missed quite badly. This doesn’t look like an island. This looks spread out like a region. If not that... then maybe it could be called a small continent maybe?"

As he spoke, the corners of Razeal’s lips twitched upward, unable to stay neutral. His mouth curved into a slow, unsettling smile, one filled with quiet satisfaction as if he were staring at a feast laid out just for him.

"With this," he thought, his smile spreading wider, delight shining unmistakably in his eyes, "I’ll definitely be able to do many things for him."

Yograj, standing beside him, nodded slowly, his own gaze scanning the endless black expanse. "Its hundreds of thousands of years of accumulation afterall." he said. "Not to say.. monster cores from the entirety of the ocean. Of course it would reach this scale.. It coulve been more bigger if monstes sometimea gets closer to this and.. Devobour here and there for their evolution.."

Then he turned to Razeal, curiosity sharpening his expression. "But what do you actually want from here? We crossed seven seas to get here. There has to be a reason greater than just these useless monster cores, right?"

Yograj’s eyes gleamed faintly. He was experienced enough to know that nothing in this world was done without purpose. If this lid had led them here, then there gotta be something valuable here right? atleast to be worth the journey? Its just he wasn’t able to see it yet.

Razeal though didn’t answer as not even looking at Yograj.

He simply stood there, smiling, eyes fixed forward, completely absorbed in the sight before him, as if the world behind him no longer existed.

"...Alright," Yograj muttered after a moment, closing his mouth. "I’ll find out sooner or later anyway."

He turned away, beginning to scan the surroundings, his sharp eyes searching for anything unusual any hidden treasure, any anomaly, anything that might justify this journey beyond the obvious.

Maria, standing a short distance away, watched Razeal from the side. At first, she had been confused by his excitement, unsettled by the way his expression seemed almost... eager. But now, she found herself understanding it.

Her gaze drifted downward to her own hand.

It was trembling from excitement also.

She frowned slightly, confused, but couldn’t deny the feeling. Even from tens of kilometers away, she could feel it something radiating from that place ahead. A deep, heavy energy that resonated with her very being. It pulled at her, beckoned her, as if calling her home.

Her body wanted to move closer.

No.. more than that. It wanted to be there. To stay there. To exist within that darkness.

Unbeknownst to her, her demonic nature was responding instinctively. Dark energy flowed naturally within her blood, and monster cores especially ones so ancient and concentrated were saturated with pure dark mana. To her body, this place felt less like danger and more like sanctuary.

Heavenly.

As for what Razeal wants? maybe she knows as Obiously she had seen it.. Like on way here as month ago.., she had seen it with her own eyes Razeal absorbing monster cores. The black color would bleed out of them, drawn into his body as if pulled by an invisible force, until the core itself turned translucent and lifeless.

Monster cores.

Objects deemed useless by scholars across history. Countless experiments, theories, and studies had been conducted, all concluding the same thing these cores had no practical use.

And yet... Razeal used them.

Not only used them.. absorbed them maybe? And she also have a weird feeling that maybe she could too...

Maybe because she is half demon now? Maria wasn’t fully sure what that even meant yet. She only knew fragments of it, only what Razeal had told her something like an angel.. And yeah for reasons she didn’t fully understand, that thought alone made her feel... satisfied. Not proud exactly, but something close. A quiet sense of being different. Special. As if something fundamental about her had shifted without her permission and yet her body accepted it without resistance.

And there was more.

She was seeing something now. Something she was sure the others couldn’t.

The black smoke no, not smoke. Energy. Thick, dense, living. It radiated from the place in front of her in enormous waves, invisible to ordinary senses yet screaming to hers. It wrapped around the monster cores like a veil, pulsing slowly, rhythmically, as if the entire ocean floor ahead was breathing. And that energy... Though this was definitely not hostile.. Atleast to her. It was rather inviting.

Calling if she have to call it anything.

Her gaze locked onto the endless terrain of black cores, and the feeling intensified. She could almost tell no, she knew it was coming from those monster cores. Each one carried death, darkness, and something useful inside it, and together they formed a presence so vast it made her heart pound uncontrollably.

"What in the hell is happening with me..." she murmured softly to herself, her voice barely audible over the hum of the ocean. She pressed a hand against her chest, feeling her heart thumping wildly beneath her palm. Confusion and excitement tangled together inside her, impossible to separate. Her instincts screamed at her to go closer, while her mind struggled to keep up.

"So this is the legendary Ocean Black...?" While Sofia from side murmured, her voice quieter than usual as she assessed the scenery in front of her. Her eyes moved slowly across the horizon, tracing the endless black expanse. "I’ve heard so many stories about it. A great dumpster of the ocean... made entirely of monster cores from the outside world and other dimensions."

She tilted her head slightly, lips pursing as she continued to look. "Honestly... it’s nothing as grand as I imagined. But it definitely feels weird and... Eerie. I’ll give it that."

Then her gaze shifted toward Razeal.

"So?" she asked, watching his expression carefully. "You like what you’re seeing?"

"I love what I’m seeing," Razeal chuckled, his voice low, amused, and unmistakably pleased.

Sofia crossed her arms, eyes flicking back to the mountains of cores. "So what are you planning to do now? Absorb these like you did with those smaller monsters on the way here? Or store them?"

She paused, stress creeping into her expression as the scale of it truly sank in. "Because... absorbing all of this will take an insane amount of time. Like, really insane."

Her eyes narrowed slightly. "And if that’s the plan, then our honeymoon might be delayed... by a lot."

"So you really can absorb monster cores?" Merisa suddenly spoke from the side, her brows lifting in genuine surprise. Her voice was calm, but the shock was unmistakable. She had suspected it.. pieced it together by clues and all but hearing it confirmed made the realization hit far harder.

Her gaze moved back to the terrain ahead. Mountains upon mountains of monster cores, stretching farther than sight could reach.

Now she can also understand the excitement on his face.

To her, they might have seemed mostly useless. But for him, this was treasure the kind of sight she herself would see if a mountain of elemental cores stood before her.

She pressed her lips together and remained silent for a while, simply staring at the massive accumulation. Now it made sense why he had come here. Who wouldn’t? If this were a mountain of elemental cores, even she would have come.. Nott to mention even the Empress herself woulve came if she knew After all, just looking at the sheer quantity was enough to understand its value.

The combined wealth of thousands of high-level empires, gathered over countless years, might amount to nothing compared to what lay before Razeal now.. assuming he truly could use them.

And if Razeal truly could use them...

Then it was no exaggeration to say he had just robbed the treasuries of countless civilizations.

Worse.. or perhaps more terrifying if he found a way to let others absorb these cores, even at half the efficiency of elemental cores, he could build an army. An army of high-level combatants, forged not through years of cultivation, but through sheer accumulation.

Merisa said nothing more, her eyes sharp as she silently assessed everything before her.

Razeal, however, still didn’t answer.

Not to Sofia. Not to Merisa.

But someone else couldn’t hold back anymore.

"What.. WHAT??" Yograj nearly shouted, spinning toward them in disbelief. "You’re telling me you can absorb monster cores? The useless ones? The ones no one not even in ancient times to now.. no one ever found a use for?!"

His eyes widened dramatically. "Why the hell don’t I know about this?!"

"Yeah, he can," Aurora said calmly, glancing at Yograj like the answer should have been obvious. "Didn’t you see him absorbing them? Back when we were traveling here on the ship. He’d pull the cores out of the monsters and absorb them right there in front of us? He didn’t even tried to hide it.. How could you not see?"

"Wait what? Really? I didn’t see it at all..." Yograj almost cried out, his voice cracking with genuine disbelief. He slapped his own thigh lightly in frustration, brows knitting together as if trying to physically drag the memory back into his head. "What was I even doing? How the hell did I miss something like that?"

For a brief moment, a very rare emotion crossed his face self-doubt. The kind he hadn’t felt in decades. Was he getting careless? Or worse... lazy? Maybe it was the years spent locked away, the prison dulling his edge. Or maybe he really was getting old. The thought unpleasantly.

"Maybe because all this time you were busy staring at us instead of the surroundings?" Aurora snapped back sharply, not even bothering to soften her words. Her tone carried irritation, but also something defensive underneath. She tightened her grip around Levy, who was still leaning heavily against her, clearly exhausted. One of her arms was firmly around him, supporting his weight, as if afraid he might collapse if she let go.

Her eyes flicked briefly toward her father. "How would you notice anything else when you wouldn’t stop watching us?"

The implication was obvious. Yograj’s eyes were always on them.. As if expecting something to happen the moment he looked away.

"That.. I was just" Yograj’s face flushed red instantly. He cut himself off mid-sentence, turning his head away as if the ocean itself had suddenly become very interesting. He cleared his throat loudly, coughed once, then spoke again, forcing his voice into something more dignified. "I was worried about my daughter. Is that a crime now?"

He shot Aurora a sideways glance. "Can’t a father check what kind of man his daughter is getting close to? Whether he’s good or not? Whether he’s worth trusting?"

"Yeah, yeah..." Aurora muttered under her breath, clearly unconvinced. She didn’t even look at him this time. The discomfort was obvious. This sudden reappearance of a father she barely knew, acting like he had always been there, was still something she hadn’t adjusted to. She shifted her stance slightly, instinctively putting herself between Levy and Yograj without even realizing it. "I know what kind of man i am getting close to." She s

still said at end as gently looking at levy face on her side.

Razeal, however, didn’t wait for the family tension to settle.

"Take care of that serpent for me," he said suddenly, his voice cutting cleanly through the moment like a blade.

He turned his head toward Merisa as he spoke, raising his hand and pointing casually toward a distant direction over the endless black terrain.

Merisa stiffened. "What?"

The word escaped her before she could stop it. She looked at him, genuinely taken aback, eyes narrowing slightly in confusion.

"What?" Razeal repeated flatly, as if the idea itself shouldn’t even be questioned. "You thought I’d fight it myself?"

A faint, almost mocking smile curved his lips. "No. I don’t have time to waste. Go take care of it. I’m sure it won’t be a big deal for you."

His tone was cold. Dismissive and Final.

Merisa simply closed her mouth. She had expected something else. She thought he would act arrogantly and say something like, I’m disgusted to even accept your help. I’ll fight it myself, even if it kills me. That was what she imagined he would say.

But instead... he was ordering her?

Using her?

This... surprised her very much

Razeal, meanwhile, was already looking past her. His senses were focused elsewhere. Far away, buried deep beneath layers of monster cores, something massive stirred. A presence so well-hidden that even most high-level powerhouses would have missed it completely.

But not him.

Through his killing-intent perception, the thing was impossible to ignore. A colossal serpent.. nearly ten kilometers long coiled beneath the cores like a living landmass. When viewed through his killing-intent sense, it wasn’t black at all. It was red.

A river of red.

Its entire body radiated murderous intent so thick it painted the world in blood-colored lines. Obiously If anyone stepped even a little closer, it would strike without hesitation.

"What are you looking at? Go. Already," Razeal said again as looked back at Merisa again as she still hasn’t moved.. his voice colder this time

And just as he said.

Yograj and Maria’s backs stiffened at his tone the way he spoke to Merisa as if she were nothing more than a tool. Maria instincts screaming in warning. What is he doing?

Had he lost his mind? Giving orders to someone like her? Disrespecting her so openly?

Maria cursed silently in her head, her gaze locked onto Merisa’s face, watching carefully for any sign of retaliation.

Merisa, however, simply closed her mouth.

"...Fine," she said quietly.

Her voice was soft. Defeated.

Not because she couldn’t resist though she couldn’t. Not because she was forced though she was. But because she chose not to push him.. Not now atleast

To her, he was still a child. A deeply wounded one of that

So she would give him some time.

Razeal’s eyes though remained cold as he looked back at her. There was no gratitude there. No warmth. No hesitation.

He had not forgiven her.

And he had no intention of making things easy for her either.

She was under his control now. Completely. And he wasn’t about to forget that. What he would do with her later.. that could wait. But right now, she was useful.

A world-rank powerhouse, second only to the absolute peak.

Having someone like that under him? The possibilities were endless.

Razeal suddenly frowned when he noticed that Merisa hadn’t moved from her place. His brows knitting together in mild irritation. For a brief second, he wondered if she was hesitating if she was about to refuse or question him after all. His lips parted slightly, already prepared to say something sharp cold or something that would remind her of her place.

But before a single word could leave his mouth, Merisa moved.

She turned her head slowly, calmly, toward the direction of Ocean Black. Her posture straightened, her presence shifting in a way that made the air subtly heavier. For a fraction of a second so brief that anyone blinking might have missed it her eyes flared with a deep, radiant purple glow. Then just as suddenly, it vanished, her eyes returning to their normal state as if nothing had happened at all.

She turned back toward Razeal.

"Done," she said simply.

Razeal blinked.

"...Done?" he repeated, genuinely confused. His gaze lingered on her face, searching for meaning, trying to understand what exactly she meant by that single word But before he could even form a proper thought

Far away, the distant landscape of black monster cores trembled.

At first, it was subtle.. a low vibration that rippled through the ocean surface, barely noticeable. Then it grew stronger. A massive section of the towering black terrain shook violently as waves splashing outward as if something colossal was stirring beneath it. The tightly packed monster cores shifted, rolling and clattering against one another, the sound echoing like a landslide underwater.

And then it emerged.

From within the mountain of black cores, a gigantic serpent crawled out, displacing thousands upon thousands of cores as it rose. Its body was enormous.. so vast that it made the surrounding terrain look insignificant by comparison. A gray-white hide covered its length, rough and ancient, marked with scars that spoke of countless battles and ages survived. Its sheer size was overwhelming, stretching on and on, its length measured not in meters, but in kilometers.

Its head alone was monstrous.

The serpent’s face was so massive that it could swallow an entire small building whole without effort. Its mouth gaped wide, lined with countless jagged teeth, and strange mustache-like tentacles hung from either side of its face, swaying gently with the movement of the water. The creature’s presence alone crushed the air, radiating an oppressive pressure that could even make seasoned powerhouses instinctively tense.

Its eyes were glowed purple now.

The same deep, hypnotic purple that had flashed in Merisa’s eyes moments ago.

The serpent moved slowly through the water, its massive body gliding with unsettling smoothness despite its size. Each movement displaced huge volumes of water, yet it made no attempt to attack, no sign of hostility. Instead, it approached Razeal’s direction with deliberate, controlled motions. When it finally came to a stop at a distance, the colossal beast lowered its head.

It bowed.

A ten-kilometer-long serpent, an apex monster hidden beneath centuries of accumulated cores, bent its head downward in submission toward Razeal.

And then it stayed still.

"...Done, huh," Razeal muttered, repeating the word under his breath as realization finally settled in. He glanced sideways at Merisa, his crimson eyes narrowing slightly. She was smirking.

Not arrogantly or mockingly.

Just a small, satisfied smirk.

To her, this had been nothing. A simple act. A casual display of control. And beneath that expression, there was something else too.. something warmer, quieter. A trace of pride. Not as a ruler, not as a butcher of legends, but as a mother, momentarily pleased to show her strength before her son.

On the other side, the reaction was very different.

Aurora, Levy, Yograj, and Maria all froze, their attention locked onto the massive serpent. The oppressive aura rolling off the creature made their instincts scream. Even without hostile intent, its mere existence was terrifying. This was not something one saw every day. A monster of this scale, this presence, this ancient weight it was the kind of being spoken of in legends and now this easily being subdued.

Sofia stared, lips parted, momentarily speechless as looking towards Merisa.. Kinda impressed.

"Anything else... Master~?" Merisa asked suddenly as turning her head toward Razeal. Her tone was calm, but her gaze carried meaning.. subtle, deliberate and very teasing.

Razeal, who had already turned away now that the threat was dealt with, almost tripped mid-step on mid waters.

He stopped, his body stiffening for a split second as if her words had caught him off guard. He turned his head slightly, just enough to acknowledge her presence, only to find that teasing expression on her face. She had done it on purpose. She knew exactly what she was doing.

Razeal frowned.

But again he just chose to ignore her.

Without another word, he turned away completely and walked straight toward the towering mountain of monster cores, his focus shifting back to the real reason he had come here.

As he stepped onto the uneven surface of compacted cores, he paused and took a deep breath. Standing atop them, he could feel it clearly now.. the dense, oppressive dark mana seeping from every direction. It clung to the air, thick and heavy, carrying a strange, almost metallic scent. It wasn’t pleasant in the conventional sense, but it wasn’t repulsive either.

If anything... it felt right.

"Let’s first absorb some mana," he thought calmly. "To perform that ritual, I’ll need an absurd amount."

Without hesitation, he crouched down and placed his hand against one of the black monster cores beneath his feet.

The moment his skin made contact, the core reacted.

Dark energy began to flow.. no, rush out of it, seeping like black smoke before being violently pulled into Razeal’s body. The absorption was immediate, instinctive, as if his existence itself demanded it.. As his best dark genius talent started working on its peak.

Ding!

[Congratulations, Host.]

[You have absorbed a D-grade monster core (Third Rank).]

Ding!

[You have absorbed an A-grade monster core (Third Rank).]

Ding!

[You have absorbed an S-grade monster core (Third Rank).]

The notifications poured into his vision one after another, stacking rapidly as his absorption rate increased. The darkness drained from the cores beneath him, their once-inky black color fading into translucence, turning glass-like and hollow. The change spread outward rapidly, like a wave.

Ding!

[Dark Mana successfully absorbed: 100%.]

[New Affinity Unlocked: Plague Affinity (Very Light).]

[New Affinity Unlocked: Decay Affinity (Very Light).]

[New Affinity Unlocked: Bone Affinity (Very Light).]

Ding!

Ding!!

Ding!!

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[Congratulations, Host. Your Mana Stat has upgraded from SS- Rank to SS Rank.]

Current Mana (MP): SS Rank (16.6 Trillion / 1000 Trillion) (Authors note: Sorry guy’s last time forgot one very crucial thing.. Our mc os special so he have double of the mana of everyone else on at the same stage.. So double what any powerhouse will have at same rank.. His always will be higher)

The small mountain beneath him visibly changed. Entire sections of it lost their color, turning transparent as the darkness was ripped out of them. The effect spread rapidly, swallowing more and more of the terrain. What had once looked like an endless black landmass now resembled a massive field of hollow crystal spheres.

Ding! Ding!

[You have absorbed a B-grade monster core (Third Rank).]

[You have absorbed a C-grade monster core (Third Rank).]

The notifications didn’t stop.

They kept coming.

The dark mana surged into him relentlessly, his body acting like a bottomless abyss, devouring everything without resistance. The mountain continued to fade at an alarming pace, nearly half of it already drained as the effect spread further and faster.

Ding! Ding!

The sound echoed endlessly in his mind as the Ocean Black itself began to change under his influence.

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