Shrouded Seascape

Chapter 1029: Meeting

After detecting something amiss at the Colossal Hole Fortress, which was a territory of Hope Island, Lilith decided to contact Hope Island, but surprisingly, Bandages' response was strange.

"No, nothing happened... at the Colossal Hole Fortress... everything is normal..."

Lilith ended the call with furrowed brows. "Everything is normal? Hmph, who do they think I am? A two-hundred-year-old child? How could everything be normal after such a commotion?"

Lilith had been on the surface world to help locate and retrieve the darkness for the sake of stopping the rising sea levels. In other words, she was familiar with that place—a place shrouded in purple light that could transform anything into relics.

Considering what existed up there, Lilith believed that any incident up there had to be taken seriously. After pondering for a while, Lilith turned to the empty hall and said, "Send someone to take a look up there. I need to know what exactly had happened over there."

A large swarm of bats rushed out from under the red curtains and flew out of the window toward the distant, oppressive horizon of the dark seascape.

While the Mother was busy instructing her children, Lily was standing on the balcony, casting a worried gaze in the direction where the indescribable aura had come from.

If there's something going on here, then the same thing must be happening on that plane. Was this what Mr. Charles had mentioned to me before?

With that in mind, Lily couldn't wait any longer. After hastily bidding farewell to Lilith, she took to the skies and headed in that direction. A cocoon of gentle sunlight enveloped her as she flew like a meteor streaking across the sky.

To reach the Colossal Hole Fortress as quickly as possible, Lily didn't take the safe route that the Explorers Association had mapped out years ago. Instead, she flew in a straight line, passing through uncharted regions.

Lily's blatant crossing of such regions attracted covetous gazes from beneath the dark waters.

Just then, a translucent tentacle riddled with black rings stretched out from the pitch-black abyss and lashed out at Lily in the air. However, Lily managed to dodge it by a hair's breadth.

Truth be told, Lily couldn't care less about these creatures. She was extremely anxious, and the only thought she had in mind was to reach the Colossal Hole Fortress as soon as possible.

The indescribable aura earlier reminded her of the aura she felt when she first arrived at the Dark Abyssal Trench with Mr. Charles—Fhtagn's aura. There were some differences between the two, but there were clear similarities as well.

Since she was flying at top speed, Lily soon saw a beam of light sweeping across the dark sea surface. The beam of light was coming from a lighthouse. Annarles Island was just up ahead.

Lily came to a halt and hovered in the air above the island. She opened her palm, revealing a miniature sun that she hurled upward. To her surprise, however, the colossal door that was supposed to be above Annarles Island had disappeared.

In fact, there wasn't anything above Lily except for the generic rock layer overhead. Lily descended on the island below. She looked around and discovered that she hadn't made a mistake—she was indeed on Annarles Island.

"Mr. Charles, what exactly happened? Why did I feel a Divinity's aura from here?"

The thousands of eyes closed and were quickly overwhelmed by the amorphous organs proliferating across the flesh pillar.

Realizing that she was being ignored, Lily patiently asked once again, "Were you the one who moved that island with the planar teleporting portal?

"Mr. Charles, can you let me return to that plane? I need to go help him!"

"Get lost!" A terrifying and oppressive aura rushed out of the flesh pillar. "I'm already feeling annoyed, and I don't have the time to talk to you at all!

"And who do you think you are? You have no idea what we're about to face! A little mouse like you can't possibly help him or me!"

The terrifying and oppressive aura swept across Lily, eroding her mind and assimilating her will.

Lily gnashed her teeth and enveloped herself with the power within her in an effort to resist the oppressive aura.

"I can help! I'm strong! And I'm wielding the Light God's power!"

Rumble!

Three massive tentacles stretched out from the water down below and wrapped around Lily. The next moment, everything about Lily appeared in Charles' mind, and he could also see those afterimages around her.

"No, you can't help. You have just a spark of the Light God's power inside you; you can't wield even one percent of His power. At most, you're just a bit more powerful than an ordinary human being."

"You're not at my level. You cannot understand what it means to be a Divinity, and you have no idea just how weak humans are."

The tentacles loosened before pushing Lily away. Lily looked wronged as she stared at Charles in front of her. She could easily upend an entire island, but she was still nothing in his eyes.

"Does that mean you'll let me help if I become a being like the Light God?"

"Hahaha, how brazen. Fine, you might become a bit useful if you reach the same level as the Light God. Unfortunately, there isn't enough time. The fragmented scenes in my mind have become a bit clearer, and... I hope you haven't forgotten the ultimate fate of the Light God."