Shrouded Seascape

The moths moved quickly beneath Anna's watchful gaze. Hundreds of children with albinism walked slowly into the water, leaving only their heads above the surface.

The moths followed closely behind them, and the entire lake was soon covered in a black-and-white hue.

The fluttering wings of the moths sounded nothing special at first, but it eventually became a bizarre low-frequency melody.

The lake churned, and the spots on the moths' wings seemed to come alive, arranging themselves into circular patterns filled with nothing but densely packed clusters of pitch-black holes.

It was a scalp-tingling sight.

The bizarre patterns formed by the spotted moths rotated slowly, and the lake seemed to lose its natural color as it took on a black-and-white color.

Perhaps the summoning was mentally exhausting, but the moths let go of those under their control. Faced with such a bizarre scene that words alone could not describe, they fled in terror into the adjacent cave, wanting to escape this place.

However, they were driven back shortly afterward, as the followers of the Shattered God had already entered the adjacent cave.

Amidst all this, Anna acted like a spectator, and she even wondered which were the true forms of the Moth—was it the moths or the children?

Faint footsteps echoed from the adjacent cave, and the lake became placid once again. Just as Anna was about to mock them for their futile efforts, a six-meter-long, half-rotted, and severed arm was reflected on the lake's surface.

The severed arm existed only on the lake's surface. It also looked like a thin sheet of paper, but it was undeniably the real deal. A massive yellow pupil appeared on the palm of the severed limb.

It blinked and looked at the shocked woman by the lake.

"Anna, is that you?"

Anna's long eyelashes trembled slightly upon hearing that familiar voice. As soon as she blinked, tears fell from her eyes. It had been a long time since she heard that voice. She was about to step forward, but she stopped herself.

Anna looked down. A few seconds later, she looked up, and her gaze had grown more determined than ever. "I must say this is a convincing act, but you can't deceive me. You can't possibly summon Him."

However, the moths offered no response to Anna's doubt. The albino children were trembling violently in the lake, and their faces revealed extreme agony.

Their heads quivered like aspen trees, and they seemed to be trying to cancel the summoning. Unfortunately, the situation was now beyond their control.

"Anna, what are you talking about?" Charles asked, his voice sounded hoarse and tired.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

A whirlpool formed in the lake, and the moths above the surface of the water and the eyeless fishes down below rapidly gathered, merging with each other to transform into a six-meter-tall flesh tentacle. The tentacle seemed to be alive, as there were deformed amorphous organs rapidly proliferating on it.

Just then, an aura so oppressive that it was palpable descended upon everyone present and engulfed them.

Clatter, clatter, clatter.

The sound of chattering teeth echoed throughout the cavern. In the face of an entity far beyond their comprehension, the tourists collapsed to the ground. The freckled Olivia was among them, and extreme terror marred her face as she stared at the writhing flesh tentacle.

Having been overwhelmed by fear, Olivia opened her mouth to scream and grabbed her head with both hands as she curled up into a ball in a corner.

It wasn't just the tourists. Even the Fhtagnists quaked as they stood before Anna.

Just then, a large group of soldiers in camouflage carrying firearms rushed into the cavern from the adjacent cave. They were accompanied by some figures clad in black robes.

There were so many of them that they crowded the cavern, and they were all wounded; their fight against the Blind Sisterhood had to have been quite intense. As soon as they walked into the cavern, however, they instantly came to a halt, freezing as if they were statues.

An elder of the Shattered God clad in combat gear was trembling like a leaf as he took out his phone, allowing the Shattered God—thousands of kilometers away—to see everything through the phone's camera.

"What is that thing? What did the Moth summon? Test it with an attack before going all out. No matter what, the Moth must die today."

"Understood!" Although afraid, they dared not disobey their god's orders. They moved quickly, pointing their powerful weapons at the albino children trapped in the summoning ritual.

Sensing the danger, the giant flesh tentacle trembled, and the dim cavern instantly brightened.

The mountain had been split into two, allowing moonlight to pervade the lake. Of course, it wasn't just the mountain—the followers of the Shattered God had been split into two as well.

In the proverbial blink of an eye, hundreds of people were quietly torn into two, and they wordlessly fell to the ground. They perished without being able to let out even a scream.

The blood from the corpses dripped into the lake, ultimately dyeing the lake in a crimson hue.

The survivors were stupefied. The wary and frightened Fhtagnists revealed eyes full of fervor as they fell to their knees in unison and roared, "Long Live the Great One!"

"Anna, it's been so long. I really missed you." A voice laced with affection echoed from the dozens of mouths on the tentacle.

Anna walked through the crowd and stepped onto the crimson lake. The lake was supposed to be liquid, but it acted like a red carpet for Anna as she walked slowly toward the flesh tentacle.

Upon reaching the giant flesh tentacle, Anna went berserk. She punched and kicked the fleshly tentacle as if her life depended on it for the sake of venting her dissatisfaction.

"You selfish bastard!! You've always only thought about yourself! Have you ever thought of me before making any decisions?! I changed many things about myself for your sake, and what reward did I get in return?!

"The reward was getting thrown to this damned surface!"

Just then, two palms grew from the tentacle, and they extended to embrace the hysterical Anna. "I'm sorry, my love."

Anna broke free and pounced on the tentacle before biting it viciously as if she were a leopardess. However, it seemed that biting was not enough to assuage her fury, as she even used her corrosive flames to scorch Charles' flesh.

However, the green flames only managed to burn the first layer of the flesh tentacle before extinguishing. It was useless against Charles.

The part of the flesh tentacle that Anna was biting furiously transformed into a mouth, and it moved closer to kiss her. Anna struggled, but multiple appendages burst out of the flesh tentacle, wrapping her in an embrace.

Anna's fierce struggles gradually mellowed out. In the end, she embraced the giant flesh tentacle and began biting its appendages.

The others were beyond stupefied at the scene, and the cogs in their heads seemed to have come to a halt as they felt like their worldview was collapsing right before their eyes.

After a while, Anna got tired and spat out the bloody tongue in her mouth. She glared fiercely at the flesh tentacle and exclaimed, "Now bring me back!"

The eight mouths on the flesh tentacle opened at once. "I'm sorry, Anna, but I can't do that. First of all, you're far safer on the surface world than in the Subterranean Sea, and I want to keep you out of danger's reach."

"Secondly and lastly, I'm on the surface world as well."

"Bullshit! You're on the surface world? Then how come I haven't seen you yet?"