Chapter 630: Unknown Domain and Abomination

Rod saw the range of the trembling, leaping water droplets in the distance expand.

A huge shadow beneath the ocean gradually emerged.

At the same time.

The changes around the three surviving crew members also began to intensify.

They clutched their heads, revealing expressions of extreme pain, followed by blood seeping from their facial features.

The eyeballs, which had still held such a faint glimmer of humanity, swelled completely and bulged outward, then burst with pus in a wet pop.

"Retreat!"

Rod's expression shifted slightly.

Turning, he unleashed a 【Repulsion Technique】 to generate explosive thrust and accelerate, his arm scooping up the girls as they retreated at extreme speed.

Sharon reacted quickly, rapidly consuming a mana web spell slot to instantly cast a mental protection spell.

But the mutation was not limited to the huge shadow approaching in the distance.

The three surviving crew members suddenly erupted into a high-pitched scream belonging to no living creature.

That sound directly bypassed Sharon's spell and crashed into everyone's minds.

"Ugh!"

The witch Dimia and the sea elf Laura were struck as if by lightning, crying out in pain as blood flowed from their noses.

Tally remained sharp, having already transformed into shadow and hidden within Rod's clothing shadow a step earlier.

Sharon gritted her teeth and groaned, but immediately formulated a strategy.

Forcing her focus, she chanted briefly and successfully cast a sound-blocking barrier.

This spell was of low rank, so no slot had been reserved for it in the mana web, meaning it could not be cast instantly.

After Sharon enhanced the sound-blocking spell with ether, the effect was immediate, and the negative effects of the high-pitched scream dropped at once.

But she was also slightly backlashed by mana due to her forced focus, her face deathly pale as she began to fall from mid-air.

Rod was fine; he caught her in one grab.

His right foot kicked out a wide array of ice blades.

Blue frost raced across the sea surface.

As it froze into an ice sheet, the blades crashed into the stricken ship with a pish-pish sound, rapidly encasing it into a massive, splashing ice sculpture of a ship.

The high-pitched scream finally stopped.

"What the hell?"

"It's a Domain again!"

Sharon, in his arms, coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood and suddenly warned him.

Rod didn't need her to say it; he already knew.

The huge shadow beneath the sea had, in the blink of an eye, swum to the vicinity of the stricken ship.

As an unnatural blue-green light rose from beneath the sea surface, a song followed, sounding leisurely.

Even through Sharon's sound-blocking barrier, the sound seeped into his brain, like cold fingers wandering through his brain folds.

【'Insight Magic Eye' observes a Domain confrontation!】

【Grass Domain · Green Vines Mutual Healing (Rod): 51】

【??? Domain ·??? (???): 24】

【Result: Success!!!】

A pitch-black, indifferent question mark appeared on the panel.

Rod noticed that, aside from Sharon, the girls' bodies all showed obvious stiffness and trance.

He did not hesitate.

Instantly consuming forty points of 【Growth Spirituality】, he used "Spiritual Symbiosis" to share the 【Will of the Firmament】, which possessed extremely high mental resistance, with the girls.

This song indeed possessed the hypnotic ability of a Siren; even against the power of a Domain, the 【Will of the Firmament】 could resist it to some extent.

At this moment.

As the seawater churned, that huge shadow revealed itself in the process.

—It was a creature so disgusting it exceeded the scope of human language to describe.

It was like a twisted thing made by throwing a hundred kinds of sea creatures into the center of a nuclear explosion and piecing them together; the main body vaguely retained the half-human, half-fish outline of a Siren sea monster, but scaled up to a nauseating proportion.

Countless attached deformed fish tails, fish fins, and cephalopod tentacles grew chaotically together.

The neck split upward into five snake-like appendages, each ending in a deformed female skull; long hair had turned into writhing tentacles, and those skulls sang simultaneously, their voices clear and pure.

The monster's body was covered with constantly opening and closing holes, from each of which protruded disgusting tentacles with barbs.

Looking closely.

The suckers on those tentacles were also covered with eyeballs weeping bloody tears.

They rolled around and turned in unison, staring at Rod and the others.

The monster smashed through the ice sheet of the Ice Blade Domain; the massive arm formed by a tangle of thick and thin tentacles grabbed the stricken ship as if it were a buoyancy board.

A swollen chest oozing viscous pus crushed the ship's edge railing, and flying wood and wood chips scattered around Rod.

Rod snorted coldly.

He held nothing back.

His throat instantly turned as red as a hot iron, and the massive energy gathered in his stomach began to churn.

Two streams of scorching breath steamed out.

He took a sharp breath.

The next moment.

A fierce, blinding orange-red light suddenly erupted.

The red glow burned white-hot, gathered and compressed to the extreme, then exploded with a roar into a massive pillar of violent energy.

ROAR!!!

【Dragon Breath】!

The power is amplified by the stacked blessing of 【Ancient Sky Tree's Blessing】!

Heaven and earth abruptly changed color.

The ice from moments ago melted at tremendous speed; under the ultra-high temperature, the sea surface actually began to boil, sending up wisps of steam.

The fire pillar of the dragon breath, wreathed in spiraling Lei Ting, crossed the distance between them in an instant and engulfed the monster.

The singing turned into a scream!

And then it cut off abruptly.

Fwump—

The pillar of light went dark.

The upper human half of the mutated giant siren had a huge circular hole punched through it; the writhing, drifting tentacles also lost their vitality, hanging limp as they slowly sank.

"Domain power is nasty. The body is bigger than a giant dragon, but it's nowhere near as tough."

Rod curled his lip and delivered his verdict.

Thought something that big would at least be a bit of trouble—didn't expect it to drop dead in one shot.

To avoid polluting the seawater—

He used 【Gravity Chains】 to haul the remaining massive corpse up; surprisingly, it wasn't that heavy—worthy of a product of the unnatural.

Then he first froze it solid with his Ice Blade Domain.

Finishing these tasks quickly, Rod began checking on the girls' condition.

"This is trouble."

Sharon's face was pale as she helped hold up the witch and the young lady of the sea-spirits, who had both fallen into a light daze.

"Dimia and this little thing don't have a Domain. They can't resist the corruption of the bloodline. My Plague Domain can at most keep myself from being affected, but it can't heal them."

Rod recalled the surviving crew members from earlier and couldn't help frowning.

Without a second word, he immediately pulled the two girls over and held them tightly in his arms.

"What kind of timing is this for you to—"

"Did you forget? My Verdant Grass Domain saved you once too."

Sharon froze for a beat, then beamed: "Right, right, right! That'll work!"

She immediately peeled the sea-spirit Rola outward a bit, then hurriedly pushed Dimia to press tightly against Rod's face.

"Hold her, hold her tight!"

Dimia was wearing a strapless mage robe today, slightly form-fitting.

Pushed by Sharon like that, her entire chest pressed over and squished flat against Rod's face.

The witch's mint fragrance and slippery softness were simply too wonderful.

"Rod…"

Meanwhile, the dazed and dizzy Young Lady Dimia, as she murmured, also instinctively wrapped a pair of snow-white, lotus-root arms around Rod's head.

Rod's eyebrow twitched.

Silently, he crossed his legs midair, letting Dimia and Rola's bottoms rest against each of his thighs.

As for his hands, well—

Since he needed to treat the two young ladies, touching certain places was unavoidable~

(End of Chapter)