We agreed to set sail, so you'd become the ruler of the deep sea?

Chapter 328 I'm just an administrator; I don't have their power.

Taking advantage of the chaos on the deck.

The sixth-tier vampire Lilith quietly infiltrated the cabin of the Black Swan.

Her face showed a hint of lingering fear.

—That earth-shattering collision just now, and the strength that Shane displayed when fighting Richard, also had a significant impact on her.

That's why Lilith and Julian abandoned their original plan to gang up on Shane and instead used this despicable tactic to win.

However, whatever the plan, as long as it leads to final victory, it is a good plan.

Lilith also agreed with this decision to temporarily avoid confrontation.

No matter how strong Xia En is, he's still just one person.

Our side at least has three sixth-tier experts!
Such a numerical advantage should naturally be made good use of.

Lilith's confident gaze swept across the cabin.

Whether it was the intelligence she had obtained beforehand or the aura she sensed at this moment, only Xia En on this ship could threaten her.

Right now, Shane is already tied up with Richard and his companion, so there's no one on the ship who can stand up to him.

That naturally brought the time for her to unleash her killing spree!
"Let's start with that white-haired siren..."

Lilith's lips curled into a cold smile.

As a woman, Lilith always harbored jealousy and hostility towards those who were better looking than herself, not to mention that the girl was so young, at least dozens of times younger than herself.

Coincidentally, Joey's singing also has a restraining effect on Richard's [Blood Kill Domain].

Capturing her first would undoubtedly be of great help to the battle.

"Although we can't kill her for now, we can do some tampering."

Lilith's eyes gleamed with malice: "Perhaps... slashing her cheek and completely disfiguring her would be a good decision."

Thinking this, Lilith slowly moved closer to the direction from which the singing was coming.

"……Um?"

Suddenly, Lilith raised an eyebrow and looked around for a moment.

"Strange, there's clearly no one here..."

Whether it was Lilith's imagination or not, ever since she arrived on the Black Swan, she had felt like she was being watched.

Moreover, there was more than one pair of eyes watching!
It was as if countless people were hiding in the shadows, watching you and whispering eerie secrets.

"Am I too nervous?"

Lilith shook her head, dismissing her ominous premonition.

It's just a ship. Even if it's advanced, huge, and sturdy, what can it do without its owner to control it?
But soon, Lilith realized that she might have been wrong.

As she moved forward in the cabin, the number of prying eyes around her increased, as if an invisible net was covering her.

Moreover, the secret power within Lilith's body seemed to be suppressed by something, making its operation somewhat sluggish and difficult.

This symptom is almost as if she has unknowingly stepped into the realm of a powerful person.

And it has been suppressed in this field.

"What exactly is going on?"

Lilith couldn't help but ask herself this question.

However, no one could answer her questions.

Even stranger things were yet to come.

The white-haired siren's song was clearly not far from Lilith, but after walking for so long, she still couldn't pinpoint the person's blood aura.

It was as if there was a very long distance between them.

The problem is, this ship is only so big, so why haven't we seen a single living person yet?
Have they all gone into hiding?

Or have I been going around in circles from the very beginning?
Only after considering this possibility did Lilith begin to seriously observe her surroundings.

The cabin was dark and gloomy, with floors and walls that looked almost identical, and an oppressive atmosphere pervasive throughout.

Looking at the surrounding scenery, a strange and eerie feeling was slowly eroding Lilith's heart.

The area she was in seemed to be connected to some distant and profound space.

Lilith looked up into the depths of the cabin.

over there……

The floor, walls, and ceiling appear fragmented.

The chaotic, dark phantom and countless shimmering points of light in the distance slowly undulated, transforming into bizarre and fantastical light and shadow illusions.

They stirred silently deep within the cabin, whispering and lingering in the darkness.

Just watching this scene, Lilith, a battle-hardened sixth-tier secret path practitioner, couldn't help but feel a chill run down her spine.

"Something's wrong... something's very wrong!"

Lilith's expression suddenly changed, and a growing sense of fear welled up inside her: "What exactly is this ship?"

After her expression changed several times, Lilith finally made up her mind.

She's going to use violence to destroy the cabins all around!

Although this might cause the plan to fail, at least it will allow me to survive!

The interior of this ship is really too eerie.

However, just as Lilith began to use her inner power, the light and shadow on the wall not far in front of her suddenly began to distort strangely.

Lilith's heart tightened immediately, and she looked towards the wall.

A semi-transparent figure wearing a witch's hat and a long blue dress slowly emerged from the wall.

"……Who are you?"

Lilith's heart was in her throat.

Normally, the ability to pass through walls is not considered particularly special.

However, in this strange environment, the sudden appearance of such a semi-transparent figure inevitably made Lilith feel uneasy.

"ghost?!"

After recognizing the person who had come, Lilith breathed a sigh of relief.

While ghosts are rare in the Seven Seas, they are not entirely unheard of.

Moreover, judging from the aura Lilith sensed, this ghost was not very powerful; in fact, it could be described as "weak."

After emerging from the wall, Vivian didn't speak, but simply gazed silently at the uninvited guest.

Lilith sneered, "Ha...playing tricks!"

Before she could finish speaking, a bloody shadow struck Vivian's delicate body like lightning.

This was just a probing attack.

However, with Lilith's sixth-tier strength, such a probing attack could easily kill an ordinary fourth-tier Mystic.

However, Miss Ghost neither dodged nor evaded, but simply allowed the blood shadow to strike her body.

Before the look of triumphant satisfaction that appeared in Lilith's eyes.

The blood shadow shattered with a "hiss" and then vanished at an extremely fast speed.

"what?"

Lilith slightly widened her eyes, staring at the ghostly girl in front of her.

She wouldn't be surprised at all if the other party used some means to shatter her attack.

In Lilith's perception, the ghost did nothing, as if... the blood shadow she had summoned had collided with an invisible maw and been chewed up and swallowed.

"...I originally wanted to take action myself."

"But now it seems that even without me, someone else can solve your problem..."

Just then, Vivian looked meaningfully into the depths of the cabin, then glanced at Lilith with a hint of sympathy, and said the following.

"What are you talking about?" Lilith felt that the ghost in front of her was saying some nonsense.

She was a sixth-level Mystic, after all; when had she ever suffered such contempt!
However, Vivian ignored her completely and simply walked back into the wall as if she had never been there.

"what the hell?"

Before Lilith could recover from her shock, a steady series of footsteps came from the cabin not far away.

step... step... step...

The footsteps were unhurried, as if they were tidying up the disordered bookshelves in order.

Soon, Lilith saw an old woman wearing a black gauze dress and with slightly silver hair walking towards her from the cabin.

The old woman's eyes shone with wisdom and rationality, and her once beautiful features could still be faintly seen in her aged face.

Upon seeing the old woman, Lilith's first reaction was to laugh.

How could such a frail, aged woman possibly try to stop him?

That's absolutely delusional!
But after the previous unusual events, Lilith had at least learned a thing or two and knew that the other party might not be as simple as they seemed.

Therefore, without further hesitation, she activated her powerful secret technique.

From her palm, a blood-red beam of light as thick as a bowl shot out, heading straight for the old woman's face!

The old woman remained standing in the same spot, without moving.

Just as the beam of light approached her side, countless things that looked like numbers or symbols suddenly appeared in the air, easily blocking the blood-red beam of light.

No, rather than blocking it, it's more like using some incomprehensible method to analyze and decipher it at the level of secret power.

Not only that.

In the blink of an eye, those data-like things began to condense into blood-red spheres and shot back at a speed no less than when they came.

boom!
Lilith erected a blood shield, barely managing to block the arcane attack.

Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth as she murmured in disbelief.

"This...how is this possible? Why would you use my secret technique?"

"Is this difficult?"

"A secret technique that can be achieved simply by imitation probably doesn't have much value, right?"

Jane said it casually, as if she had done something insignificant.

"I'm just an administrator; I don't have Captain Shane's power."

"However... dealing with a nobody like you is still no problem."

At this point, they heard Jane's calm, almost emotionless words, and her self-designation as "administrator."

Lilith finally snapped out of her daze, remembered something, and her expression changed drastically.

"Administrator...you're the administrator of the Federal Grand Library!?"

"But how did you end up on this ship?"

Jane indifferently raised her cane and pointed it at Lilith in front of her.

"That's not something you should know."

……

……

There was a "pop" sound.

After being punched in the chest, Richard coughed up a mouthful of blood.

It even contained fragments of internal organs.

Normally, Richard can turn his body into a blood mist to resist most physical damage.

However, by this time, he had already consumed a large amount of secret power after repeatedly breaking and restoring, to the point that he could no longer regenerate normally.

This shows how serious Richard's injuries were during this period.

Not only Richard, but Julian, who was with him, had also been pulled out of the blood mist by Shane and lay dying on the deck.

Julian's situation was even worse than Richard's; he was barely able to move, with only about a fifth of his body remaining.

His words had undoubtedly touched a nerve with Xia En.

Therefore, Xia En had no intention of letting him die so easily.

"Damn it, why hasn't Lilith appeared yet?"

Julian let out a venomous and resentful hiss: "Did she abandon us and run away?"

Shaun stepped on Julian's newly regenerated area again, and said calmly.

"The answer is simple."

“Your companion has been killed by my crew.”

Given his bond with the Black Swan, he naturally became aware of what was happening inside the ship's cabin.

The only thing that puzzled Xia En was that Vivian, who was usually a lazy bum, seemed to have originally planned to make a move.

Does she possess the ability to defeat Lilith?

"impossible!"

Julian retorted fiercely, saying that like a drowning person grasping at a straw, the yet-to-be-released Lilith was their last hope.

On the other side, Richard seemed to have also realized the situation and spoke up with difficulty.

"Shane, we can surrender!"

"If you spare our lives, we can lead our vampire followers to your aid."

"By the way, aren't you going to deal with the cataclysmic disaster later? We'll definitely be able to help then."

Upon hearing this, Xia En merely sneered.

"Now you know to surrender? Too late!"

"Not only you, but all the vampires on your ship will die!"

If they were crew members from ordinary enemy ships, Shane might have sent them to the [Rhine Secret Realm] as death row inmates or slaves, squeezing out their last bit of value.

However, vampires are inherently an extremely unstable species.

They need fresh blood to survive, and ordinary animal blood won't do.

Sending them to the [Rhine Secret Realm] will render them unable to move without blood as food.

It can be said that even as slaves, vampires are the worst and most despicable kind.

But that's it.

Richard's body suddenly exploded, and countless droplets of blood mist scattered in all directions.

Xia En saw through his intention at a glance.

Richard wanted to escape!
His words of pleading and surrender were probably an attempt to lower Xia En's guard.

Unfortunately, from the very beginning, Xia En was on guard against his escape.

[The Touch of the Deep!]

In an instant, the [Void Secret Power] hidden in the blood mist suddenly erupted.

Countless dark tentacles emerged from the darkness, engulfing the surrounding blood mist like a tidal wave and greedily devouring everything in their path.

Julian, who was standing nearby, was also included.

"no no!!!"

Amidst their screams, the surrounding blood mist quickly dissipated.

In the end, neither of these two sixth-tier secret cultivators left behind a trace of their remains.

Then, Shane turned to look at the other vampire ships and urged the Black Swan to charge again.

(End of this chapter)