Once Hercules was secured heavy locks were opened and sea water began to fill the sacrificial pool.
Once Hercules was secured heavy locks were opened and sea water began to fill the sacrificial pool. The king and his guards watched from above as an enormous grating lifted and the giant octopus slithered into the rising waters and immediately found its prey. With horrifying precision. the monster began to wrap its awesome tentacles around Hercules for the death crush. With tremendous effort. Hercules snapped his chains. but by then the huge tentacles covered his entire body except his arms. Grasping the blade the king had dulled until he thought it to be ineffective. Hercules mustered his remaining strength and drove the sword deep through the sea monster‘s eye and into its brain. killing it instantly. Lungs bursting he wrestled free of the limp tentacles and splashed, gasping into the air above. The exasperated king had already gone to prepare for the next torture. -- source link