Chapter 630: Unknown Domain and Deformity

Luo De saw the range of the trembling, leaping water droplets in the distance expanding.

A massive dark shadow beneath the ocean gradually surfaced.

And at the same time.

The changes around the three surviving crew members also intensified.

They clutched their heads, faces contorted in excruciating pain, as blood seeped from their facial orifices.

Their eyes, once faintly human, swelled and bulged outward before bursting with pus with a wet pop.

"Fall back!"

Luo De's expression darkened.

He spun and unleashed a Repulsion Technique, accelerating backward with a burst of force, his arm wrapping around the girls as he retreated at high speed.

Sharon reacted swiftly, consuming a spell slot from the Mana Web and instantly casting a mental defense spell.

But the anomaly wasn't confined to the distant, approaching dark shadow.

The three surviving crew members suddenly let out a high-pitched scream unlike any living creature.

The sound pierced through Sharon's spell and struck directly into everyone's minds.

"Ugh!"

The witch Demiya and the sea elf Lora were struck as if by lightning, crying out in pain as blood trickled from their noses.

Tally remained alert, having already shifted into shadow and hidden within Luo De's clothing.

Sharon gritted her teeth, stifling a groan, then immediately devised a strategy.

Forcing her focus, she chanted briefly and successfully cast a soundproof barrier.

This spell was low-tier, so she hadn't prepped it in her Mana Web slots and couldn't cast it instantly.

After Sharon enhanced it with ether, the soundproof spell's effect was immediate—the negative impact of the high-pitched scream dropped sharply.

But the forced focus caused minor mana backlash, turning her face pale as she began to plummet from midair.

Luo De, unharmed, caught her in one swift motion.

He kicked out a barrage of ice blades.

Blue frost surged across the sea's surface.

As it solidified into ice, it slammed into the wrecked ship, rapidly encasing it in a massive, spray-like ice sculpture.

The high-pitched screaming finally ceased.

"What the hell?"

"It's another domain!"

Sharon, coughing up blood in Luo De's arm, suddenly warned him.

He didn't need her to tell him.

The massive dark shadow beneath the sea had already glided to within close range of the wrecked ship.

As an unnatural blue-green light rose from beneath the waves, a song began to drift softly through the air.

Even through Sharon's soundproof barrier, the voice seeped into his mind like icy fingers tracing his brain's grooves.

【【Insight Demon Eye】 detected domain confrontation!】

【Grass Domain · Verdant Mutual Healing (Luo De): 51】

【??? Domain ·??? (???): 24】

【Result: Success!!!】

Black, cold question marks appeared on the panel.

Luo De noticed that, aside from Sharon, all the girls' bodies had grown rigid and vacant-eyed.

He didn't hesitate.

He instantly spent forty points of 【Life Spirit】 and used 【Spirit Symbiosis】 to share the ultra-high mental resistance of 【Heavenly Will】 with the girls.

This song indeed possessed Siren-like hypnotic power; even as a domain effect, 【Heavenly Will】 could still resist it somewhat.

And at that moment.

As the sea churned, the massive dark shadow revealed itself.

—It was a creature so grotesque it exceeded human language's capacity to describe.

Like a hundred oceanic creatures thrown into a nuclear blast zone and stitched together, its core vaguely retained the half-human, half-fish silhouette of a Siren, but grotesquely magnified.

Countless malformed fish tails, fins, and soft-bodied tentacles grew chaotically intertwined.

Its neck split upward into five serpentine appendages, each ending in a deformed female head, hair transformed into writhing tentacles; all heads sang in unison, their voices pure and clear.

The monster's body was riddled with constantly opening and closing orifices, each spewing out barbed, repulsive tentacles.

Upon closer inspection.

The suckers on those tentacles were covered in countless eyes, weeping blood.

They rolled over in unison, staring directly at Luo De and the others.

The monster shattered the ice field's surface; its thick, tangled tentacle-arms clamped onto the wrecked ship like a floating board.

Its swollen, pus-dripping chest crushed the ship's railings; splinters of wood flew everywhere around Luo De.

Luo De snorted.

He held nothing back.

His throat glowed red-hot in an instant, the vast energy stored in his stomach churning violently.

Two scorching streams of breath erupted from his nostrils.

He drew a deep breath.

The next moment.

A blinding, brilliant orange-red light exploded outward.

The red light burned fiercely, compressed to its limit, then erupted into a colossal, violent column of energy.

ROAR!!!

【Dragon Breath】!

Enhanced by the blessing of the 【Heavenly Ancient Tree】, its power surged.

The heavens and earth darkened instantly.

The ice field melted rapidly; under the extreme heat, the sea surface boiled, releasing wisps of steam.

The dragon's fire column, entwined with spiraling lightning, crossed the distance in an instant, engulfing the monster.

The song turned into a shriek of agony!

Then it cut off abruptly.

Puff—

The light column vanished.

The upper humanoid portion of the mutated Siren now bore a massive circular void; its writhing, floating limbs lost all vitality, limp and sinking slowly.

"Domain powers are disgusting. Its body's bigger than a dragon's, but it can't take a hit at all."

Luo De sneered, offering his assessment.

He'd expected something troublesome at this size—never imagined it would die from one blast.

To avoid contaminating the sea,

He used 【Gravity Chains】 to haul up the remaining massive corpse—surprisingly light, as expected of a non-natural abomination.

Then he froze it instantly with his ice blade domain.

Having completed these tasks swiftly, Luo De turned to check on the girls.

"Trouble."

Sharon's face was pale as she helped hold the witch and sea elf, both in mild daze and vertigo.

"Demiya and this little one have no domain— they can't resist the bloodline corruption. My plague domain can only protect myself, not cure them."

Luo De thought of the surviving crew members' condition and frowned.

Without hesitation, he pulled the two girls close and hugged them tightly.

"Now's not the time for—"

"Don't you remember? My Grass Domain saved you once."

Sharon froze, then beamed: "Yes! Yes! That'll work!"

She immediately shoved Lora aside and pushed Demiya firmly against Luo De's face.

"Hold her tight!"

Demiya wore a sleeveless mage robe, slightly fitted.

As Sharon shoved her, her entire chest pressed against Luo De's face, squashing into an unnatural shape.

The witch's minty scent and soft, smooth flesh were unbearably exquisite.

"Luo De..."

As the dazed Demiya murmured, she instinctively wrapped her snow-white arms around Luo De's head.

Luo De raised an eyebrow.

He silently crossed his legs in midair, letting Demiya and Lora's buttocks rest against either thigh.

As for his hands—

Since he needed to treat both girls, touching wherever necessary was unavoidable, right~

(End of Chapter)