Chapter 101: Backup Plan

Chapter 101: Backup Plan

The cold seawater instantly submerged Klein, soaking through the golden-red dress he wore and making it as heavy as stone, dragging his body sharply downward.

At the same time, however, Creeping Hunger had also devoured that pirate, removing the weight of an entire person.

Klein did not attempt to float back up. Instead, he continued sinking. Through the waves, he vaguely heard several distant splashes, as if pirates of the Sailor pathway were relentlessly pursuing him.

This was their home field!

They could move through water like fish for a very long time!

Klein did not panic. As a Magician who never gave an unprepared performance, he had naturally considered an evacuation plan in case the operation failed. After all, nothing in the world had a one-hundred-percent chance of success.

To play Elaine as perfectly as possible and avoid exposing flaws to Vice Admiral Ailment Tracy, not only had he brought no other mystical items, wallet, or cash, he had even left the newly crafted charms related to water and wind domains above the gray fog. Yet that did not prevent him from making his move. The state of being deity, Blessed, and believer in one gave him many marvelous options for handling similar situations.

He quickly made Creeping Hunger turn pale and take on a sinister green tinge. The seawater around him froze in response, turning into layer upon layer of white frost.

Before the frost fully condensed into ice crystals, Klein moved the muscles along his back and abruptly spread his arms to both sides, using the strength of a Living Corpse to shatter those frozen layers and send them flying into the farther seawater.

This temporarily created a small space around him where no seawater existed.

The current instantly surged backward, trying to fill the empty space. Klein extended his left palm and released terrifying cold once more, letting it spread outward and forming one seawater ice wall after another.

For a brief moment, he seemed to stand inside an underwater ice prison. He could stand. He could speak. But he was restricted to an extremely narrow space.

Klein immediately took four small steps counterclockwise and softly recited the honorific names of the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings, quickly sending his spirit body above the gray fog.

The moment his figure appeared in The Fool’s high-backed chair, he directly picked up the Sea God Scepter that had already been placed before him.

Without needing to identify it, Klein willed it, and the point of light symbolizing the new Sea God believer Gehrman Sparrow was selected. Following the connection he had established in advance, he lifted the milky-white short scepter, causing the blue-green “gemstones” to bloom with hazy brilliance.

He responded to the “believer,” layering spell-like effects over himself one after another, including, but not limited to, underwater breathing, free movement, and pressure resistance.

Finally, he used a paper angel to interfere with divination, and issued an order to the sea creatures in the surrounding waters, commanding them to help and cover Gehrman Sparrow’s escape.

After completing all this, Klein did not delay. He immediately returned to the real world and once again took control of his body.

By then, the seawater’s pressure had already crushed the melting ice walls and swallowed that “independent” space again.

But Klein could now breathe smoothly and swim rapidly.

Through the rippling, crystal-clear water, he saw one fish after another swim over. He saw a shadow rise from beneath his feet, and some unknown giant monster speedily ascend.

It was a brownish-red octopus with a somewhat strange appearance. It was so enormous that it seemed capable of using its tentacles to embrace and coil around an entire ship.

It sprayed ink into the surroundings, instantly darkening the nearby sea. The Beyonders of the Sailor pathway who were searching for and pursuing the attacker abruptly saw…