Chapter 175: Terrifying Vitality

Chapter 175: Terrifying Vitality

The enormous gray-black hand clutched the side of the ship and rapidly climbed upward, dragging the part beneath the sea surface out inch by inch.

Through the azure waves, Klein first saw a vast gray-black shadow. Then his entire field of vision was filled by writhing chunks of flesh.

The monster seemed to have been haphazardly stitched together from countless gray and black corpses. Behind its two enormous palms were arms withered like dry firewood, and the arms originated from what looked like the corpse of a giant. That giant’s single eye was tightly shut. Several other heads were fused to its neck, and from those heads extended scaly fish bodies, lizard-like remains, and twisted human corpses. Layer upon layer, piece after piece, they built up into a floating-island-like mass of flesh.

From the different corpses, from the seams where they had been joined, streams of yellow-green gas seeped out and spread in every direction, as though they meant to shroud the area.

Cough! Cough, cough, cough!

Merely smelling a little of it made many sailors on deck cough violently, coughing so hard they could barely straighten their backs.

Seeing this, Frank Lee immediately moved to take out materials from a hidden compartment in his belt and use the corresponding Beyonder ability. Unexpectedly, Admiral of Stars Cattleya’s voice rang first beside his ear.

“Frank, stop!

“Go help Nina command the sailors. Adjust the sails with them!”

“Why?” Frank Lee reflexively asked.

“In this region, supernatural things under the authority of the Earth Mother will mutate, including your abilities.” As Cattleya spoke, both her palms had already pressed forward, landing on a certain spot on her desk.

The symbolic signs and magical marks across the Future immediately lit up in distinct layers, some first and others after, transforming the entire ship into a brilliant sea of stars. They seemed to correspond one by one with the deep-space radiance swirling around Cattleya.

The spreading yellow-green gas was blocked outside by the starlight, while Klein, who had been near the edge, floated toward the window of his own room.

The pirates’ coughing eased. Under the leadership of Boatswain Nina and First Mate Frank, and following Navigator Ottolov’s commands, they swiftly adjusted sail after sail, trying to make the Future leave the nearby sea as quickly as possible and no longer be affected by the power of mutation.

However, that enormous gray-black monster had already entangled the front portion of the ship. Its underwater body extended to some unknown place and forcibly dragged down the Future, making every bit of forward movement difficult.

At the same time, it was as if invisible mountains had appeared around them, blocking the sea wind that blew from afar. No matter how the Future adjusted its sails, it could not borrow any strength.

“In a situation like this, a backup steam-powered system would be needed. Unfortunately, the Future doesn’t have one…

“Mm… It can still leap using starlight, but that seems to cost Madam Hermit an enormous amount. It’s also very hard to control direction and distance. Flying that way in this sea, unless one is favored by luck, would most likely result in crashing into an even more dangerous area. Heh, and Anderson, that extremely unlucky fellow, is on board…” Klein floated by the window of his room, looking over the situation everywhere.

He was not nervous, because neither Admiral of Stars Cattleya nor the Strongest Hunter Anderson had yet displayed their true strength.

Of course, that includes me… Klein added inwardly.

He planned to first return to his cabin and put on the Fire Seed glove. There was no “food” nearby, so using that mystical item was more appropriate than using Creeping Hunger. The latter had to be saved for a chance to respond to a more dangerous and complex situation, then thrown above the gray fog to calm down.

As for the negative effect of randomly losing…