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

Chapter 511 Goodbye Lyra
Xia En nodded, taking the warning to heart.

He took one last look around at the crystal coffin in the hall.

Those divine corpses slept peacefully, yet gave one the illusion that they might awaken at any moment.

"Carles, are you ready?"

"Ready to go at any time, Captain."

Xia En took a deep breath and stepped towards the hidden door.

Just as he was about to push the door open, the guard suddenly spoke again.

"and many more."

A small ball of dark red light separated from the sphere of light and floated in front of Shane.

"Take this with you."

"It will help you resist the contamination of the Tomb of the Gods... at least for a while."

Xia En cautiously accepted the ball of light.

It feels cool to the touch, like a piece of cold jade, with strange runes flowing across its surface.

"Thank you."

A weary smile appeared on the guard's face.

"Good luck, successor to the [Dominator]."

"I hope you can find that girl... and I also hope you can stay true to yourself."

These meaningful words made Xia En feel uneasy.

But he didn't ask any more questions, he just nodded and then pushed open the hidden door.

Behind the door was a spiral staircase leading downwards, its bottom invisible.

Dark red mist swirled around the steps, writhing as if it were alive.

Xia En glanced back at the hall one last time, then resolutely stepped onto the stairs.

As his figure disappeared behind the hidden door, the face in the sphere of light gradually faded away.

The hall fell silent once more.

Only the divine corpses in those crystal coffins seemed to slightly turn their eyeballs...

……

……

As you descend the spiral staircase, the surrounding air becomes increasingly heavy.

The dark red mist gradually thickened, almost solidifying.

The ball of light in Xia En's hand emitted a faint glow, creating a small safe area for him.

"Captain, high concentrations of divine contamination have been detected."

Carles' voice rang out in the mental connection: "37 times higher than the upper region."

"And... it's still rising."

Xia En nodded, his expression solemn.

He could sense that the dark red mist contained an extremely complex "divinity".

They tried to invade his body like living creatures, but were blocked by the barrier of the light.

"Don't stop."

Remembering the guard's warning, Shane continued downhill.

The stairs seem endless, and time becomes blurred here.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Xia En suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from the mist.

"Shane..."

The voice was soft and sorrowful, like a sigh in the night wind.

"Vivian?"

Xia En was startled and almost stopped in his tracks.

But he immediately remembered the guard's warning, gritted his teeth, and continued forward.

"Shane...why won't you look at me?"

The voice grew closer and closer, as if the speaker were right next to your ear.

Xia En could feel a hand gently resting on his shoulder, the touch cool yet familiar.

"Captain! Don't turn back!"

"It's an illusion!" Carles warned urgently.

Cold sweat beaded on Xia En's forehead as he forced himself to look straight ahead.

The [Dominant Law] was operating at full power within the body, resisting this strange influence.

Finally, the hand slowly withdrew, and the sound gradually faded away.

But then, more calls came from the mist.

"Captain Shane..."

This time it was Joey's cherished voice.

"Mr. Shane..."

The lively voice of the stringed instrument.

"captain……"

Jane, Ann, Faye, Youxing, Marina...

One familiar voice after another rang out around them, as if all the crew members had arrived at this strange place.

What shook Xia En the most was...

He even heard Lyra's voice in it!
"Shane, have you forgotten our promise?"

"Didn't we agree to meet again in the future?"

“Turn around and look at me. I don’t believe your eyes are empty.”

Xia En clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug deep into his palms.

The pain kept him conscious and prevented him from being misled by hallucinations.

"It's all fake... Don't respond..."

He kept reminding himself, and his steps never faltered.

Finally, after an extremely agonizing period, the sounds gradually faded away.

The stairs had come to an end.

Shaun stood at the entrance to a huge underground cave, and the sight before him made him gasp for breath.

The interior of the cave is a strange space that cannot be accurately described in words.

The ground was not rock or soil, but was made up of countless writhing, dark red membranes, like the viscera of some kind of giant beast.

The surface of the membrane was covered with twisted blood vessels, which pulsated slowly in a certain rhythm, emitting a nauseatingly sweet and fishy smell.

In the center of the cave—

A “mountain” stands there, made up of countless bones.

The skeletons were all different shapes and sizes.
Some resemble enlarged insect shells, others look like distorted human figures, and still others are skeletal structures that cannot be classified as any known organism.

They intertwined and piled up, forming a terrifying structure hundreds of meters high.

At the top of the Bone Mountain, a huge dark red "heart" floats.

It pulsated slowly.
Each contraction causes a viscous, dark red liquid to seep from the surface, flowing down the cracks of the bone mountain, as if "supplying blood" to the entire mountain.

Even more chilling is...
Xia En could clearly feel that what was contained in that "heart" was a highly concentrated "divinity"!
"This is... the Tomb of the Gods?"

Xia En's voice was a little hoarse.

Carles' mechanical voice echoed in his mind.
"Captain, an extremely high concentration of divine contamination has been detected. We recommend immediately activating the [Law of Domination] for protection."

Xia En nodded.

A hazy halo immediately emerged from the body, isolating the surrounding dark red mist that was trying to erode it.

He cautiously stepped into the cave, the fleshy membrane beneath his feet making an unpleasant, sticky sound.

"Could the clues left by Lyra be here?"

Shaun scanned his surroundings, trying to find any possible clues.

However, at this moment.

"Boom!"

The enormous, dark red heart suddenly pounded violently!
Immediately afterwards, the entire fleshy membrane floor of the cave began to writhe.
Countless blood vessels bulged from the ground, coiling around Xiaen like living things!

"Back off!"

Xia En gave a low shout.
The [Void Secret Power] condensed in his palm, transforming into a jet-black longsword, which slashed fiercely at the incoming blood vessel.

"laugh--"

The blade sliced ​​through, severing the blood vessel and spurting out dark red liquid.

But those severed blood vessels regenerated rapidly after hitting the ground.
It even splits into more tiny tentacles, surrounding it from all directions!

"It's endless..."

Xia En frowned, the power of the [Dominator Law] flowing through his sword as he swung it once more!
This time, the severed blood vessels showed no signs of regeneration; their edges were eroded by a hazy halo, and they had completely lost their vitality.

However, there are simply too many blood vessels.
Xia En fought and retreated, and was soon forced to the edge of the cave.

"Carlless, can you analyze the weakness of that heart?"

“Trying… wait!” Carles’ voice suddenly became urgent.

"Captain, an abnormal time fluctuation has been detected! The source is—"

Before she could finish speaking, the light inside the cave suddenly distorted!
Xia En felt a blur before his eyes.

The surrounding scenery seemed to be pulled and deformed by some force, eventually freezing in a strange state of stillness.

Time... has stopped?

No, that's not right.

Shaen quickly discovered that it wasn't that time had stopped, but rather that the "flow of time" in this area had been forcibly altered by some force!
"This is... the law of time?"

He suddenly looked up at the top of the mountain of bones.

over there--

Suddenly, a slender figure appeared.

She wore a tattered black dress, and her long, silvery-white hair moved without wind.

Barefoot, he stood atop the mountain of bones, looking down at Shane.

Those eyes...

Xia En's breath hitched.

Those were eyes made entirely of flowing silver light.

There are no pupils, no whites of the eyes, only countless tiny grains of sand of time flowing within them.

"Lyra...?"

He called out the name instinctively.

The girl's figure moved slightly.

Her face was still familiar, yet strangely unfamiliar.

Dark red lines crawled across his pale skin, spreading from under his collar to his cheeks like some kind of parasitic plant.

Most disturbingly, the left side of her body seemed to be in some kind of "unstable" state.

Sometimes clear, sometimes blurry, as if it might vanish into space and time at any moment.

It was as if the person before him was merely an incomplete afterimage!
"Is this Lyra a remnant image she left behind using the [Laws of Time and Space]?"

Shaun stared at the afterimage of Lyra atop the mountain of bones, his heart pounding faster than usual.

Her figure appeared so ethereal against the dark red sky, her long, silvery-white hair like a flowing galaxy.

It stands in stark contrast to the distorted and terrifying environment around it.

But what's even more disturbing is...

The left side of her body is constantly "flickering"!
Sometimes solid, sometimes transparent, as if it could be completely erased from space and time by some force at any moment.

"Laila!"

Shaun called her name again, his voice echoing through the empty cave.

However, the girl's afterimage simply watched him silently, without any response.

"Captain, watch out!"

Carles suddenly issued a warning in the mental connection.

"Something's wrong with her! There's too much power of laws mixed in with her, she might even be..."

Before she could finish speaking, Lyra's afterimage suddenly raised her hand.

"Om-"

An invisible wave instantly spread out!
Xia En felt as if the air around him suddenly froze, and the flow of time was distorted once again.

Followed by.

"boom!"

The entire mountain of bones trembled violently, and countless bones peeled off the mountain, raining down on Xiaen like a storm!

"what?!"

Xia En's pupils contracted sharply, and he immediately activated the [Void Secret Power], his figure flashing like a ghost as he dodged.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The massive skeleton crashed to the ground, tearing apart the fleshy surface and gushing out dark red liquid.

While dodging, Shane kept his eyes fixed on Lyra's afterimage.

"Laila! Don't you recognize me?!"

The girl's silver eyes remained empty; she simply raised her other hand slowly.

"Ka-ka-"

On the mountain of bones, the remains of gods that had been silent for countless years began to wriggle and piece together!
In an instant, several enormous skeletal monsters detached from the mountain and pounced on Shane!

Dark red divine veins entwined their bones, and eerie green flames burned in their hollow eye sockets.

"Damn it!"

Xia En gritted his teeth and unleashed the full power of the [Dominator Law], a hazy aura swirling around his body.

He no longer held back, and made a fist in the air with his right hand.

"boom!"

A massive, jet-black sword, entirely formed from the power of the void, suddenly materialized!

The blade was still wreathed in the gray light of the [Dominator Law].

"cut!"

With a low shout, Xia En moved like lightning, rushing directly towards the skeletal monster at the very front.

"laugh--!"

With a flash of sword light, the skeletal monster's body was cleaved in two!
But strangely, the broken bones rapidly reassembled under the influence of the dark red liquid and lunged again!

Xia En's eyes turned cold, and the power of the [Dominator Law] erupted completely!

"boom!"

A hazy halo spread like waves, and wherever it passed, the skeletal monsters suddenly slowed down, as if suppressed by some invisible force.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Xia En flashed around, his sword slashing down like a storm!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

One after another, the skeletal monsters were completely pulverized, and the divine veins on their bones were eroded by the [Law of Domination], making them impossible to rebuild.

However, Xia En had no time to catch his breath.

"Boom!"

The dark red heart that was suspended at the top of the mountain of bones suddenly beat violently!
Immediately afterwards, the fleshy membrane floor of the entire cave began to writhe wildly, and countless dark red tentacles burst forth from the ground, sweeping towards Xia En like a giant wave!

"Oops!"

Xia En's expression changed slightly, and he immediately withdrew and retreated.

But that's it.

"Snapped."

A cold hand gently rested on his shoulder.

Xia En froze, then slowly turned his head.

Lyra's afterimage had somehow appeared behind him.

Her silver eyes remained empty, but the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, revealing an eerie smile.

"Shane..."

Her voice was soft, yet it carried a certain inhuman quality that sent chills down your spine.

"You've finally... come..."

Xia En's pupils suddenly contracted.

Because at this moment, he finally saw it clearly—

Lyra's left side is not simply an "afterimage".

Instead... it is being "eaten up" little by little by some indescribable entity!
Her left arm, left shoulder, and even left cheek seemed to be being devoured by an invisible monster, constantly disappearing, reforming, and disappearing again...

It was as if her very existence was being "corrected" by some higher-dimensional force!
"Laila! What on earth are you—"

Xia En hadn't finished speaking.

Leila suddenly reached out her right hand and gently pressed it against his chest.

In an instant, a cold and massive flow of information surged into Xia En's mind like a flood bursting its banks!
Countless fragmented images, sounds, and emotions exploded in his consciousness.

He saw Lyra's lonely figure traversing countless secret realms alone;

I saw her helplessness and confusion after losing her memory;
I saw her arrive at [Eternal Twilight], stand before the Tomb of the Gods, and whisper a name...

At last.

Shaen saw a scene that made his soul tremble.

black.

Pure black, without a single blemish.

It is surging in from one corner of the [Secret Sea], mercilessly swallowing up one [Secret Realm] after another, and one star after another.

This returns the entire [Secret Sea] to its original, deathly darkness.

That is……

[The Black Disaster!]

(End of this chapter)