Part 3 THE TRAVELER Chapter 175 – Terrifying Life Force

　　Huge gray-black palms clawed at the side of the ship, climbing rapidly upward, pulling out inch by inch the portion below the surface of the sea.

　　Through the azure water, Klein first saw a large gray-black shadow, and then a writhing mass of flesh filled his entire field of vision.

　　The monster seemed to have been haphazardly pieced together from countless gray and blackened corpses, with two massive palms followed by arms withered like dry wood, and arms originating from the dead body of a suspected giant. This giant’s one eye was tightly closed, and several other heads were glued to its neck, and those heads extended outward to extend scaly fish bodies, lizard-like stumps, and twisted corpses of humans, which layered upon layered, layer upon layer, constructing floating island-like chunks of flesh.

　　From the different corpses, from between the seams of the splices, a yellowish-green gas filled the air, spreading out in all directions, seemingly enveloping the area.

　　Cough! Cough cough cough!

　　Just by smelling a little odor, many sailors on the deck coughed violently, coughing so hard that they could hardly stand up straight.

　　Seeing this scene, Frank Lee did not hesitate to pull out the materials in the hidden compartment of his belt and use the corresponding extraordinary ability, but who knows, “Star General” Gadelia’s voice rang in his ears before him:

　　”Frank, stop!

　　”Go help Nina command the sailors and adjust the sails with them!”

　　”Why?” Frank Lee subconsciously asked back.

　　”In this area, supernatural things within the authority of the ‘Mother Goddess of the Earth’ are subject to mutation, including your powers.” As Gadelia spoke, her palms had reached forward and pressed on a certain spot on the desk.

　　The symbols and magical markings on the “Future” immediately lit up in a distinctive sequence, turning the entire ship into a bright sea of stars, which seemed to correspond with the deep space light that surrounded Gadelia.

　　The permeating yellow-green gas was blocked out by the starlight, and Klein floated from near the edge toward the window of his room.

　　The coughing pirates were relieved of their symptoms, and led by Nina, the Bosun, and Frank, the First Mate, following the command of Ottorov, the Chief Navigator, they quickly adjusted one side of the sails in an attempt to get the “Future” out of the nearby ocean at a faster speed, so that it would no longer be affected by the effects of the mutation.

　　However, the huge gray-black monster had already wrapped itself around the front part of the ship, and its underwater body was connected to an unknown place, dragging the “Mirai” hard and making it difficult to move forward.

　　At the same time, the surrounding seems to appear invisible mountains, the sea wind blowing in the distance blocked out, so that the “Future” no matter how to adjust the sails, can not borrow the power.

　　”In the face of such a situation, a backup steam power system is needed, but unfortunately, the ‘Future’ does not have ……

　　”Well …… it can still borrow starlight to leap, but this seems to be extremely consuming for Ms. ‘Hermit’, and it is very difficult to grasp the direction and progress, flying in this sea in that way, as long as it is not favored by luck, the probability is that it rushes into a more Dangerous area, heh, the ship and Anderson this extreme unlucky guy …… “Klein floating in his room’s window, looking over the situation.

　　He was not nervous, because neither “Star General” Gadelia, nor “The Strongest Hunter” Anderson, had yet to show their true strength.

　　Of course, including me …… Klein added in his mind.

　　He is ready to go back to the cabin and put on the “fire” gloves – there is no “food” in the vicinity, so it is more appropriate to use this magical item than the “writhing hunger”, which needs to be used. “The latter needs to be saved for more dangerous and complicated situations, and then thrown above the gray fog to calm down.

　　As for the negative effect of losing items on his body, Klein already has a plan, and intends to put the money clip, Aztec brass whistle, adventurer’s harmonica and other items into his luggage when he replaces his equipment later, leaving only the “writhing hunger”, the fisherman’s sleeve nails, and the various spells of Poseidon’s realm, and keeping a close eye on the first two, in case they are lost.

　　According to the probability, the most likely to be lost by the “kindling” gloves is the spells, because they are the most numerous.

　　Klein wasn’t worried about that, he had made several charms with different effects, so he could use one, throw one, and lose one!

　　Besides, the metal of the storm field is tin, which is cheap and worthless, and the extraordinary effect is given by the “Scepter of Poseidon”, so it doesn’t cost any extra money……. Klein muttered as he reached out and pushed open the window of his room.

　　At that moment, the huge gray and black monster made of meat pieces climbed up a lot more, as it approached, the sailors on the deck busy hair grew wildly, and soon exceeded their waists.

　　This was not the most frightening situation, the most frightening was that one of the clumps of flaxen hair seemed to take on a life of its own, crisscrossing from side to side, twisting and binding up its owner.

　　Clumps of hair appeared similar changes, the bright sea of stars on the surface of the “future ship” could not completely block this effect.

　　For some of the pirates who had shaved their heads, they were not so lucky as to be unique; their nose hairs were multiplying at a rate visible to the naked eye, clogging their breathing passages.

　　At the window of the captain’s cabin, “General Star” Kadriya had somehow raised her arms, and in her hands was a scroll made of smooth fish skin.

　　”Paralyze!”

　　As the ancient Hermetic incantation echoed, and as the scroll burned silently, a light green light shot out from it, hitting the monster’s huge palm that appeared on the edge of the ship’s side.

　　The writhing hunk of flesh pieced together from countless corpses didn’t pause for a moment as it slapped its palm onto the radiant sea of stars, causing the glow to splash in all directions and the ship to rock.

　　The deep purple color within Gadelia’s eyes intensified all of a sudden, and without taking out a new scroll, she directly pushed her right palm forward.

　　”Cage!”

　　After the awkward and mysterious incantation was spat out from the pirate general’s mouth, the brilliant starbursts that surrounded her body flew away one after another, descending onto the terrifying gray-black monster.

　　The starbursts instantly condensed and created a huge transparent amber, which wrapped all the writhing pieces of flesh inside and restricted them to their original positions.

　　At this time, “The Strongest Hunter” Anderson’s right palm already had a black and lightless short sword, which appeared to have layers and layers of evil patterns on it, but it was just an illusion.

　　Taking the opportunity of the dreadful monster being trapped by the “Starlight Cage”, a layer of blazing white flame emerged from Anderson’s body.

　　The flames darted forward, leaping over the side of the ship, and landed on the grayish-black meat block made up of countless corpses.

　　Then, the blazing white glow traveled swiftly across the surface, as if it was engaged in extreme painting.

　　With a roaring sound, the flames shot up into the sky, and Anderson leapt back onto the deck with his pitch-black short sword in hand.

　　The huge monster remained frozen there, seemingly losing all vitality.

　　Click, click, click! A deep, gaping wound appeared on its surface, splitting it into countless small pieces of flesh in a second.

　　The attack power of the “Reaper” is really exaggerated ah …… Klein, who had already adjusted his belongings, just reappeared at the window and saw this scene.

　　Suddenly, he frowned unnoticeably.

　　At this moment, a sudden change, those split out of the meat all kinds of stretching “arms and legs”, in an overwhelming posture, catapulted toward the “future” deck.

　　This gray and black huge attacker seems to never be able to kill, cut it into as many pieces, it can become as many monsters!

　　Noiselessly, a grayish-black lump of flesh leaped up from the deck opposite the captain’s cabin, heading straight for the “Star Admiral,” to wrap itself around the other man’s head.

　　A figure emerged from the shadows and stepped in front of Katriya, none other than Heath Doyle, the Bloodless.

　　His mouth opened, the two sides have been split, from the nose to the chest and abdomen, and soon formed a slow wriggling “vortex” of flesh and blood.

　　The “vortex” sucked in the grayish-black flesh, and then quickly rolled inward, wrapping it in its body.

　　Heath Doyle landed on the deck like a shadow, his body shook a few times, and finally returned to normal, and the gray and black piece of flesh split out by the monster completely disappeared.

　　The most frightening thing about this monster is its perverted vitality, if only we could steal this kind of special …… Klein, who used the “Levitation Charm” once more, floated out of the window, stretched out his black-gloved right palm in front of him, and opened his five fingers.

　　The scene in front of his eyes changed, a group of different colors of brilliant light instead of the corresponding people and objects.

　　These glows were constantly changing and flashing rapidly, making it difficult to grasp the patterns contained within.

　　With the help of this perspective, Klein discovered that the gray and black pieces of flesh shared some of the luster, seemingly divided but actually one.

　　He whirled and calmly closed the five fingers of his right hand, grasping one of the glowing masses and turning his wrist to the right.

　　Suddenly, Klein saw the yellowish-green light being drawn away and half-integrated into his right palm.

　　This was the symbol of the “Mist of Poison”.

　　He had stolen the gray and black monster’s “Mist of Poison”!

　　This was the function of the “Spark” glove!

　　At the same time, Klein realized that his extraordinary ability of “Damage Transfer” was lost and disappeared!

　　12 hours, can only steal the same target once …… Klein had a realization that the yellow-green fog that enveloped the “Future” and corroded the bright sea of stars was rapidly thinning and no longer visible, and the gray and black pieces of flesh scattered everywhere showed signs of drying and darkening.

　　The pirates took this opportunity to obtain a respite, and the “star above the general” Gadelia will be a golden brooch to wear to the front of their classical robes.

　　The brooch appeared to be made of gold and was in the shape of a bird with a long tail feather.

　　The atmosphere around them suddenly became calm and peaceful, all the panic and tension inexplicably disappeared, even Klein was affected in an indescribable way, feeling that he had become an emotionless living corpse.

　　Seeing that the critical moment was approaching, a ship came on the ocean ahead.

　　It was also a sailing ship, equally huge, and its color was mainly black and dull with a gloomy greenish tint.

　　Its bleak white main sail depicted a black tulip in full bloom.

　　This was the flagship of Admiral Ludwell, the Black Tulip!

　　It was a regular visitor to these waters!