Shrouded Seascape

Chapter 721: Subterranean Sea

Charles' body began to swell uncontrollably; his bones snapped and regenerated, becoming bigger than before.

Deformed organs, limbs like crab claws, bubble-like black spheres, and triangle-shaped eyes similar to that of a fish sprouted all over Charles.

His lone eye swiftly mirrored the gazes of the other eyes on his body, becoming cold and emotionless.

The next moment, Charles' swollen and grotesque body vanished from the deck and reappeared atop the gasbags of the Narwhale.

The countless eyes on his body shot open collectively. Every body in sight—their scattered heads, limbs, and organs—vanished from the scene, only to reappear in other places where they were not meant to be.

Some bizarre configurations would be a head being lodged in someone else's abdomen while that body's head had mysteriously vanished and was attached to another body's neck.

Seeing that his captain had made a move, Dipp, at the helm, instinctively turned the wheel and altered the Narwhale's course. Instead of a downward plunge, she was now ascending. Their counterattack had started.

Charles ascended as the falling corpses rained down on the Narwhale. As both sides closed the gap, dismembered bodies and blood filled the sky, creating a macabre rain of gore.

Drenched in blood, Charles' deformed and swollen body was still undergoing its nightmarish transformation.

The bodies raining down on them still numbered plenty. Suddenly, all the writhing organs on his body froze.

Boom!

With a sudden explosion, Charles' deformed body exploded. Simultaneously, the colossal chunk of meat in the air exploded into pieces as well to reveal a shattered, smaller triakis octahedron hidden within it all along.

As soon as the smaller triakis octahedron shattered into pieces, the bodies of the Divine Light Order followers ceased all movement.

Charles' various organs scattered across the sky swiftly writhed and swam back, reforming his form atop the airbag.

A swollen, deformed monster drenched in blood amid the cascading waterfalls of disfigured bodies struck a chord of horror in everyone who witnessed it.

Julio's eyes widened with evident shock. He realized he could no longer fathom Charles' true power. "Damn it! Just who is this Charles?! Which entity's power is he using?!"

Seeing the situation, Sparkle didn't hesitate for even a fraction of a second. She revealed her original form and leaped onto Charles, merging her form with his. With the addition of Sparkle, the massive yellow eye instantly grew to three times its size.

When the yellow eye was summoned, everyone who laid their eyes on it collapsed in agony. Their bodies also started to mutate just like Charles'.

Gradually, everyone's appearance was diverging from human forms.

Of course, the triakis octahedron in front of the Narwhale wasn't spared. Quivering cysts sprouted all over the gray tendrils that were facing Charles. When those cysts burst, the foul fluids within sprayed out, triggering even more severe mutations.

At the same time, the dark sphere beside the Narwhale suddenly exploded, and everything was engulfed in darkness once more. A colossal human face appeared, stretching across the entire sky. This time, there was truly no boundary to the darkness.

The darkness started to corrode the triakis octahedron, stalling it from approaching Charles. As time ticked by, the once impenetrable shell of the octahedron began to turn into bloodied flesh.

When the triakis octahedron finally turned into a complete lump of flesh, a bright light illuminated the nearby black hole once again. The iridescent cone, surrounded by glyphs, shot out from the portal and embedded itself deep into the octahedron's body.

Under everyone's relentless assault, the octahedron finally halted in its trajectory. Its form slowly turned rigid before it eventually melted away and dissolved like snow.

Following the demise of the octahedron, silence took over the chaotic battlefield. The gigantic yellow eye swiftly withered away. A thoroughly exhausted Charles could be seen back in his human form and collapsed on one of Sparkle's tentacles.

Just then, Pede's battered form moved toward the darkness. Grabbing the dark tentacle that connected Charles and the darkness, He turned and flew toward the portal.

Anna seemed ready to intervene, but Feuerbach stood in her way, blocking her advance. He then said something to her.

Together with the darkness, Charles was pulled into the black hole. Emerging from the other side, they appeared above seawater. Judging from the thick fog that surrounded them, they seemed to have arrived in the Sea of Mist of the Southern Seas.

The moment the darkness arrived at the Subterranean Sea, the bright surroundings quickly dimmed.

Charles shifted his gaze downward. Upon seeing the rapidly receding seawater, his lips curved upward into a relieved smile. The water levels were decreasing; the Subterranean Sea was saved.

Cosyjuhye's Thoughts

You know what they say about this novel and its author. I ain't trusting this "happy" ending.