Chapter 352 [The Abyss] and the Abyss

The white light in the distance resembled a silent funeral, contrasting sharply with the 'dark wall' not far behind them.

"Damn... it's gone just like that? I was hoping to take a piece of the shell off to upgrade [Heart's Desire]."

Ivan scratched his face, looking a little regretful.

He had actually been wanting to scratch his back, but after becoming a shark-mermaid, he was too strong and couldn't reach behind him.

"All that work for nothing..."

His face was wrinkled like a walnut.

"Is this all for nothing?"

I am very content with whatever I have.

After defeating the enemy, they unexpectedly obtained some mithril, successfully evolving the [Deep Sea Shadow] into the [Abyss]. Putting everything else aside, just looking at the durability that quadrupled, you can tell how powerful the ship's performance is.

Furthermore, Raven's Bloodlust ability has been changed to (8/10), bringing it one step closer to leveling up.

"These are rare underwater fireworks; you can't see them just anywhere."

"Besides, we have a new home now."

As soon as he finished speaking, a black figure appeared from the seaweed area a little further away.

They paused for a moment when they saw the strange, unfamiliar ship, then hurriedly swam over.

"Are you alright?"

She swam closer, her gaze sweeping over each fish to make sure they all had their whiskers and tails intact, before she felt relieved.

[Sobbing, I'm crying. The nun was the one who suffered the most...]

[The phrase "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger" is embodied in this.]

[Because of her, my impression of Italy has improved considerably!]

[No need for that. Character, whether good or bad, transcends national boundaries, age, and gender!]

"We're fine."

He stared at the nun for two seconds.

She appeared to be perfectly normal, but her breathing rate was much faster than usual, and her muscles would twitch irregularly from time to time. Sometimes, the residual stress response of the nerves after severe pain can produce such a result.

"And you?" he asked.

Aurora smiled broadly:

"Completely unharmed. The Lord's protection is everywhere!"

Since she didn't want to talk about it, let's just keep it to ourselves. Ivan casually patted her on the back:

"Well done!"

Alright, everyone's here.

The expansion of the "dark wall" has slowed down considerably, perhaps because Liv and Arthur are inside.

First, go and recycle the piggy bank...

Should we deal with the immediate problem first?

He hesitated for a moment between a dark abyss not far away and the Leviathan skull he had already reserved.

...Never mind, the house isn't going anywhere.

"Let's go up and take a look."

He gestured with his chin toward the newly formed abyss.

The engineers couldn't wait any longer.

As soon as the captain gave the order, the eight legs seemed to have motors and swam up, even though they could have swum directly into the observation cabin, but they didn't—

They insisted on slowly climbing along the deck.

"The texture... it's hard to describe..."

Klaus rubbed the deck back and forth with the suction cups under his tentacles. This was much more tactile than touching it with his hands or stepping on it. The deck, which looked smooth and hard, actually had a rubbery feel.

"Like amber...no, no, like cheese...etc..."

He wanted to rub it a little more.

As a result, the deck beneath his feet seemed to get impatient with this perverted behavior and gently bounced his tentacles away.

"Be more reserved."

A random voice drifted from behind him.

"Don't make it angry."

Klaus, as if electrocuted, obediently bound all his legs, straightened his upper body, and began to move horizontally like Bob.

Nathan was the last one to come up.

He posed for a while with the new figurehead, then swam around the mast:

"My dear captain, if I may be so bold, your ship... is becoming more and more hellish."

"Thank you, I also think it's quite unique."

With a casual flick of its tail, it herded Nathan and Ivan, who was trying to punch the ship to test his strength, into the observation cabin, and then followed them in.

The internal structure and layout are similar to those in "Deep Sea Shadow", but the sense of space is completely different.

The size has only increased by a tiny bit.

But both the cabin and the observation cabin seem to be at least half again as spacious as before!

"Is this a visual illusion?!"

Klaus spread out all his legs, wanting to measure the true dimensions of the space.

It turned out that it really had expanded!

"No, this is spatial expansion." Sita climbed out of the cabin and stood next to Aurora.

The observation cabin is where the most changes occur.

The control console no longer takes up space; instead, it floats in mid-air along with the miniaturized cores of each module, drawn together by invisible energy and marked with different colors. The original steering wheel also floats like a small purple planet.

Xiao Jiu curiously jumped onto it, only to discover that it was actually slowly rotating.

Without the console,

He had nowhere to put his artworks.

I moved randomly to the wall, intending to pick them up one by one and put them away carefully.

Wilson, the stranger's skull, and...

"Um?"

The blue eyes that were implanted in the [high-concentration flesh and blood] and had been dormant for so long have disappeared?!

Only a lone piece of meat remained in the same spot.

When did it disappear?

It couldn't have been lost during the bumpy ride, since the flowerpot is still there!

He immersed his mind in the Abyss, gaining an omniscient perspective. Every corner of the ship was revealed in his vision, but he could not find any trace of the blue-eyed man anywhere.

sad.

We have lost a powerful partner...

However, now is clearly not the right time to mourn the lost pet egg.

None of the fish from the Deep Blue Kingdom have come out since they went in; they're either trapped or the battle situation is not optimistic.

Prepare to rush in at will.

If we can save them, we will; if not... we'll just use a solar flare to bring a glimmer of light to that abyss.

......

The moment the Abyss passed through the dark wall, light and sound seemed to blur for a fleeting instant.

It wasn't pitch black inside.

Instead...

It looks more like a faded old photograph.

"This place... is full of negative energy."

Sita took two deep breaths greedily, and the drowsiness from not sleeping for two days disappeared, making him feel much more energetic.

Nathan, who had been through it all, said with lingering fear:

"Boss, be careful, the 'friends' here aren't very friendly... the kind that aren't very smart."

Not very intelligent?

That means you can just kill it directly.

Having figured things out, Ren Yi very ostentatiously turned the brightness of the much-admired "Heart of the Sun" to its maximum.

The mermaids were surrounded by an endless stream of monsters.

They relentlessly charged at the guard's already precarious defensive line.

Liv... can only be described as reckless and impulsive.

However, on a battlefield of this scale, individual strength is not enough to turn the tide of battle in a short time... especially when the enemy is endless.

The appearance of the Abyss was like lighting a torch on a dark and stormy night.

"Mr. Arbitrary!?"

Riesben was wielding his twin swords, helping Carlos fend off an attack from a shrimp-shaped monster.

Arthur pinned a monster to the ground with his halberd and shouted:

"Brother, what brings you here?"

It was as if I was activated by Arthur's voice.

The surface of the ship rippled like water... The next second, hundreds of eyes of all sizes and shapes opened up from all parts of the ship!

They looked around disdainfully—

"To govern".

He silently recited it.

An invisible spiritual force field spread out from the Abyss!