Chapter 661 – Capture and Dismemberment

Chapter 661 – Capture and Wreckage
The Skeleton Spider let out a series of chaotic and ear-piercing noises – a cry mixed with intense mental pollution, the roar of a monster on the verge of losing control of its mental equilibrium, in which the fury almost condensed into a solid substance, and yet this substantial fury could not in the least influence the newly-vivified ship to embark on its way home.

Even if he was seriously injured, even if his senses had been confused, the “Saint” could feel the ship under his feet accelerating in a certain direction, and could feel the abnormal tremor coming from the hull – the steam core had been completely destroyed, but the ship’s propellers were accelerating, the navigation and linkage equipment had disappeared, and the ship’s propeller was gradually accelerating. The ship’s propellers were accelerating, the navigation and linkage equipment had disappeared, but the ship itself knew the way home.

The torn hull of the ship was still floating not far away, and between the torn structure, the ghostly green flames burned silently like a curtain, isolating the cold water and all hope.

The steel behemoth that he had blown apart with his own hands was now sailing towards the Holy Land as a shattered corpse.

Behind the skeleton spiders, from the swollen, horrifyingly large brain came a “thud, thud, thud” the eerie throbbing sound of its veins swiftly rising and shrinking and writhing, as if something luminous was brewing within it, and a crazy destructive aura suddenly began to rise.

But just as this Annihilation Magus was about to use himself as the “raw material” to create an earth-shattering self-explosion, he suddenly realized that he had lost control of his body.

A kind of strange stiffness suddenly attacked him, he felt that each of his limbs and eye stalks seemed to have instantly turned into some kind of stone or ceramic hardness, and immediately after, it seemed as if there was some kind of irresistible force descending on those stiff limbs, pulling them to fix in all directions.

Terror filled his mind, and the “saint” turned his eyeballs in the other direction with all his strength, turning the one eye stalk that was still intact.

The beautiful figure with silver hair, wearing a dark purple court dress, was standing quietly in the flames, holding her hand up slightly as if she were manipulating invisible threads – in the slightest hint of reality refracted by destiny, the Saint could see transparent lines wrapped around the other’s fingers, if they were there at all.

“Abnormal ……099……” An angry, frightened voice came out of him.

“You need to calm down,” Alice cocked her head slightly, looking at the ugly skeleton spider thoughtfully, “your lines are messed up, I smoothed them out for you.”

The Skeleton Spider’s body trembled for a moment, then finally lost consciousness – and at the last second when his body was completely transformed towards a ‘mannequin’, Alice let go of the invisible silk threads in her hands.

She also remembered that the captain needed this ‘live’ person.

Duncan, on the other hand, looked at Alice with some surprise, and then looked at the skeleton spider that had completely lost consciousness, and asked curiously, “Is it wired too?”

“Yes,” Alice nodded, “It’s just a little more disorganized than normal, but it can still be run through ……”

Duncan frowned slightly, a thoughtful expression on his face.

A gust of wind, meanwhile, blew into the mechanical bay at that moment, wrapped in brilliantly colored pieces of paper – pieces of paper that coalesced into Lucrecia’s figure at the end of the platform, a dozen meters from Duncan.

At first glance, Lucrecia saw the motionless skeleton spider on the platform, and then she noticed the steam core and differential machine pillars that had been completely destroyed not far away, as well as the countless flames and fragments that were floating in the air as if time and space had stagnated.

Duncan stood in the center of it all and nodded to Lucrecia, “It’s all done over here.”

“…… I heard a large explosion in the lower sector, and saw huge flames and torn metal flying out of the stern of the ship ……” Lucrecia looked a little confused as she froze at the the unimaginable sight in the mechanical compartment, half a dozen times before she then spoke, “…… You restored its power?”

“It will return to its home port on its own, though it may take a bit of time,” Duncan waved his hand, looking at the mess with no small amount of regret, “It’s a shame that the Differentials thing, which I’m still interested in, ended up blown up like this… …”

With that, he shook his head and raised his hand to point at the “Saint” on the platform.

“Take it away, this guy was seriously injured, I want it to recover in the shortest possible time – it doesn’t need to be fully recovered, as long as its mental state and vital signs are stabilized, I need it to open the door to the Profound Deep Sea.”

“…… Oh, okay dad.” Lucrecia then woke up from her daze, hurriedly took a few steps forward, raised the “baton” in her hand, and with a hint of disgust on her face, gently touched one of the skeleton spider’s limbs with the front end of the baton.

The front end of the baton suddenly drilled out a shadow – it seemed to be sealed in the baton body of something, Duncan only saw its blurred and hideous silhouette in the air for a moment, and then saw the shadow expand and solidify into an abstract, as if a sketch of a lurid mouth, it will be the skeleton spider swallowed, and in the air! Making a difficult swallowing motion, it quickly burrowed back into the baton.

Lucrecia put the baton away in disgust.

“…… Your spells are all very good,” Duncan said with a hint of emotion as he watched Lucrecia’s actions with a somewhat subtle expression, “This time, the spells that ‘summoned me ‘ The …… ‘method’ used when you brought me here was also quite good.”

“I hope you’re pleased,” Lucrecia said as a smile suddenly appeared on her face, “The last time I heard you talk about the ‘avatars’ you use and the ‘beacons’ you use to teleport between them ‘ rule, I’ve been thinking about it ever since, and it’s good that it’s coming in handy now.”

Duncan nodded slightly.

He had come to this ship in his own body – although at first he had considered projecting only a portion of his power here, after learning about the situation on the ship, it was clear that teleporting his powerful body directly here was a much more prudent option. But such a “teleportation” would require the creation of a beacon, a beacon that could be used by Aey to navigate the ship – the usual Mirror Ritual was certainly not enough, and the temporarily occupied body of an Annihilationist would not be able to withstand it, but there were other “things” that could be used on this ship. “There are other things on this ship that can be made into beacons – but that only leaves the innocent “sacrifices” that the cultists keep in their cages.

After all, outside of the Lost Country, the so-called “beacons” were occupied shells.

It was against Duncan’s principles to make beacons out of innocent sacrifices from the ship.

Fortunately, Lucrecia solved this problem with her ingenuity – she made an “artificial beacon” in advance that could accommodate Duncan’s power.

Carrying the beacon, she relies on the summoning ritual performed by the cultists under the control of the rabbi to teleport to the ship first, and then uses the power of the artificial beacon to summon Duncan’s body there as well – so far, this “chain summoning” process seems to be very effective.

Duncan lowered his head and looked at his hands.

His current body was “attached” to the artificial beacon that Lucrecia had created – the beacon was now inside of him, and it was in perfect working order.

“The beacon test went well,” Duncan said to Lucrecia, looking up, “If it works well for a long time, you should carry one with you afterward, so that I can get to you in case of danger… -better than the mirror ritual.”

Lucrecia was slightly stunned and seemed a bit surprised, but slowly, a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

“Then I’ll send one over to my oldest brother afterward as well ……”

“There was already one of my avatars on the Frost side,” Duncan glanced at her, “He even visited me at the cemetery this morning, he doesn’t need your ‘artificial beacon’.”

Lucrecia looked a little disappointed at once, “…… Oh.”

“…… You don’t always think of tossing your brother.”

“Oh.”

Duncan shook his head helplessly.

“What’s the status of the ‘sacrifices’ on the ship?”

“Rabbi and I have found them,” speaking of business, Lucrecia hurriedly adjusted her expression, “the good news is that the place where the sacrifices are being held is located in the bilge of the entire forward half of the ship, and the big explosion in the machinery compartment was suppressed by you before it could reach there, so no one died in the explosion or the fire, the The bad news …… is that they’re in bad shape, very, very bad, and some died in their cells before we got there – the sea voyage was boring, and the cultists would relieve themselves by torturing the sacrifices in their spare time, and would even take the sacrifices that had lost their ‘blood food’ value of their sacrifices to kill for fun ……”

She paused, carefully observing Duncan’s grim-to-the-death face.

“But don’t worry, I’ll do my best to save the ones that survived, even the near-dead ones – it’s just their mental state that’s hard to tell, and that requires a more specialized psychiatrist. ”

“Hmmm,” Duncan nodded softly, the somber expression on his face stretching slightly as he exhaled and asked again after a brief moment of thought, “Have you found that ‘Dreaming Skull’ yet? ”

“Still looking for it,” Lucrecia replied, “It’s a valuable yet dangerous ‘seal’ that would be hidden in the most heavily defended and hidden location on the entire ship, I’ve already sent out my toy soldiers and Shadow servants, they are searching every compartment of the entire ship from top to bottom, they should be found soon.”

Alice stood by and listened curiously for half a day, and then, as if finally catching up with the pace, suddenly ventured a little worriedly, “It shouldn’t have been blown up already, should it?” ……”

“I don’t think so,” Lucrecia shook her head, “The Dreamland Cranium is a seal with a tendency to activate and contaminate, and this kind of thing can’t be placed too close to the steam core, or else there’s a chance that it will give the machine an evil spirit- Those cultists should still have that much common sense.”

“Well ……” listening to Lucrecia’s analysis, Duncan nodded gently, and said in a somewhat more subtle tone, “But seriously, what to do with it once it’s recovered is also a problem… …Putting it next to the goat’s head isn’t sure if it can adapt.”

Lucrecia thought for a moment, “…… First Mate has a big heart, I don’t think it’ll be a problem.”

“Never mind, we’ll talk about it when we find it,” Duncan waved his hand, “First show me the ‘sacrifices’.”

(End of chapter)