Helmsman

Anomaly 077 was the "route" itself—the crucial secret to reaching the outer barrier had been hidden within the strange traits it possessed as an "anomaly" from the very beginning!

In the upper Spirit World, the mirrored Lost Homeland was still endlessly repeating the cycle of the sea collapsing and reforming. Scenes of distant foreign lands flickered through Duncan and Agatha's vision like a poorly connected image, while the obsession originating from the Sea Song continued to drive the ship, trying to guide the Lost Homeland toward its "destination"...

Yet within the relatively stable, closed-loop sheltered waters of the Eternal Veil, Anomaly 077's power could not possibly function correctly—so the route collapsed and shifted again and again, accumulating tremendous force amid those collapses.

Once the Lost Homeland truly underwent spatial displacement, that force would find an outlet in the real dimension and become a raging storm.

Duncan raised an arm toward the distance. Flames spread and surged from the sea's surface, igniting the power sufficient to brew a storm and swiftly consuming it in harmless burning.

Then he severed his "connection" with Agatha and returned directly to the real dimension.

The sailor was still standing before the helm on the bridge, gripping the dark wheel tightly, his entire body tensed as if he were ready to crack again at any moment. Noticing the captain's gaze return to him, he immediately spoke. "Captain, look at me..."

Duncan nodded. "You can let go now."

The moment he finished speaking, the sailor practically sprang away from the helm as if he had been clutching not a wheel, but a lump of scorching lava. In the blink of an eye, the mummy had fled to the spot on the bridge farthest from the helm. Clinging to the railing at the edge of the platform, he