Shrouded Seascape

Chapter 855: Plane

Swoosh!

There was a flash of light, and Sparkle's tentacled figure appeared between the two. Before Charles could react, Sparkle's gelatinous green eyeballs flashed, and the pitch-black tornado before Charles disappeared instantly.

Sparkle's tentacles moved aside, revealing a blood-red eye. The blood-red eye was familiar to Charles as it was the same eye that Anna had grafted onto herself.

"Return what's ours to us, and what's yours will be returned to you!" Sparkle's clear, melodious voice reverberated throughout the icy cold seawater.

Charles realized his daughter's plan. She wanted to use the eyeball that the Pope had stolen back then to make a deal with Hypnos.

Hypnos' attacks had come to a halt as soon as Sparkle appeared before it. Its blood-red eyeballs stared alternatingly between Sparkle and Charles, seemingly observing something.

Has it been intimidated? Sparkle has intimidated it enough to stop attacking us? Charles thought.

Just then, blood-red blood vessels pervaded all of Hypnos' eyes, and a violent tremor ran across its colossal figure, sending waves across the seabed. In the blink of an eye, an apocalyptic scene appeared in the depths.

Hypnos' colossal figure abruptly split in half, and those two halves carried with them the momentum of a mountain as they rushed toward Charles and Sparkle. It turned out that Charles was mistaken—Sparkle hadn't intimidated the entity; she had provoked it!

Sparkle retracted the eyeball into her tentacled figure, and then her figure contracted, leaning against Charles. The flesh and blood of the father and daughter pair merged in tacit understanding.

Since talking it out wasn't going to work, then it was time to fight!

In the face of Hypnos' fierce attack, white flashes of light inundated Charles. Sparkle wanted to teleport away to dodge the oncoming attack, but when the white light dimmed, the father and daughter pair found that they hadn't moved at all.

Clearly, Sparkle's teleportation ability was being suppressed by something. At this point, they no longer had enough time to dodge. Hypnos' colossal and monstrous mouth swallowed them whole.

The colossal mouth closed slowly, but then a tunnel about a dozen meters wide appeared in the roof of Hypnos' mouth. Charles and Sparkle gouged out a tunnel using their tentacles and escaped as fast as they could from Hypnos' mouth.

Charles and Sparkle's ability to teleport was under suppression, but it seemed that it only applied to themselves. They could still teleport objects. Sparkle could teleport away anything she was touching, including flesh and blood, so it wasn't that easy for Hypnos to devour them.

Unfortunately, Hypnos seemed to have an insatiable desire for their flesh and blood, and the massive movements that it was making made it obvious to the father and daughter pair that Hypnos wasn't going to give up so easily.

"Go to hell, you bastard!" Charles cursed his depraved self. "You're not Charles at all! Where did the steadfast heart that you developed after years of exploration go? You actually allowed yourself to become a monster's slave?!"

"Charles?" The same familiar voice rang out again. "My name is Gao Zhiming. You think I did not resist at all? I did, but it was all in vain. When my crew died, my heart died with them, and I felt that perhaps it was best for me to do nothing."

Charles' figure sprouted quite a few mouths that resembled a wolf's mouth, and they frantically tore apart the embedded Charles' flesh. At the same time, Charles launched a psychological attack on the embedded Charles.

"The crew died, and you gave up just like that?! What about your Anna?! Did you give up on your wife, too, you coward?!"

"You mean that man-eating monster? She's not my wife. She was just using me. She killed too many people, so I killed her myself. I'm human, after all, and the things she was doing were becoming more and more abominable, so there was no other way. By the way, who are you?"

"Ah~! I know who you are! It seems that Hypnos has decided to go to another plane again while I was sleeping. No wonder I encountered another one of myself. It seems that the Charles of this plane is doing very well—despair hasn't crushed him yet!

"Now that I think about it, this is really unfair. Why?! Why am I the most unlucky one?! Why do I have to face that despair!" The familiar voice became venomous and full of malice. There was obviously something wrong with the embedded Charles.

Just then, a pitch-black storm began to rage. The Torments had reappeared, and they tore apart Charles with their sharp figures.

Quite a few of them were being teleported away, but it was impossible to keep every single one of them at bay. Fortunately, Charles' regenerative ability was strong enough to heal him as soon as he sustained injuries.

At a glance, it would appear as though the two were locked in a stalemate, but Charles' regenerative ability was clearly getting weaker and weaker as he suffered more injuries.

Just then, Sparkle chimed in. "Come on, Daddy! Help us, Daddy. The daddy in my heart isn't like this!"

The embedded Charles from another plane froze, allowing Charles to devour his flesh and blood at a much faster rate.

The next moment, his voice sounded extremely dejected and lost as he muttered, "Sparkle, Daddy is sorry. Daddy really didn't mean to do it."

"You also have a Sparkle over there? What did you do to her?"

"I-I devoured her..."