Squid Ball

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Squid Ball
Real Name	Chen Moyu 126
Alias(es)	Cuttlefish Ball; Mo Yu Wan; Maruko; Meatball
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Ghost Ship crew
Occupation/Role	Astrologer; diviner; translator/decipherer
First Appearance	16

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Astrologer (Tier 2)	124	Her profession grants Stargazing, which forecasts weather for the following two days for 10 Mana, and Divination, a once-daily 30-Mana reading whose accuracy is affected by her mental state and environment.
Astrologer profession level-up	264	Unlocked Astrologer’s Wish Resonance, which raises the chance of obtaining a designated non-equipment item or material through random methods for 24 hours; 72-hour cooldown.
Astrologer profession level-up	385	Unlocked the light-element attack Skill Star Drawing Technique, which consumes 10 Mana to borrow starlight for a beam attack. Its demanding Focus and drawing requirements initially prevented Squid Ball from successfully casting it.
Astrologer (Tier 5)	761 762	Advanced after mastering the use of the Prism Shield to refract Star Drawing Technique. She gained Starlight Doppelgänger and access to the exclusive Astronomical Telescope facility. Her next advancement requires recording ten astronomical anomalies.
Upgraded Wish Skill demonstrated	820	Her upgraded Wish can support Ling Chu’s acquisition of a specific piece of equipment. She successfully applied it to Ling Chu to improve the chances of stealing Lucas’s Slippery Sea Monster Water-Scale Armor; the chapter does not establish a new profession tier.

Background

Squid Ball was active in the Public Chat Channel early in the survival game, where she earned a reputation as a “verbal warrior” capable of arguing with an entire channel. Her public arguments with Missing Teeth and Invincible and Handsome established her as a sharp-tongued defender of players being misled or exploited 16 17 66. She sent Ling Chu a friend request after observing her in public waters; although wary of Ling Chu’s Ghost Pirate abilities, Squid Ball trusted her instincts that Ling Chu did not kill indiscriminately. At the time, she considered her Astrologer profession less impressive than Ling Chu’s ability to summon Skeleton Henchmen 20.

Before joining the Ghost Ship, Squid Ball attempted to offer Divination services in the Public Channel for five Sea Shells per reading, but attracted little interest. This experience made her especially furious when the fraudulent fortune-teller Zhang Da Xian charged players one hundred Sea Shells for harmful false predictions 177.

Six days before her rescue, Squid Ball landed on a Level Four Island inhabited by a village of over two thousand people. The seemingly welcoming settlement had an inn, bakery, tailor shop, and blacksmith shop; she remained there for six days and became stranded away from her ship. Ling Chu rescued her by trading her a Space Spore from a Swallowing Pitcher Plant, which teleported her onto the Ghost Ship 124.

The confinement involved an apparent loop in which ordinary encounters repeated, including feeding a Little Yellow Dog and collecting an identical Tripod for the innkeeper. These repetitions made Squid Ball realize that she was trapped in what she compared to a “Ghost Wall” 125. The experience left her with lingering paranoia, initially leading her to wonder whether the apparent discontinuity in Invincible and Handsome’s death was supernatural before Ling Chu explained the Music Box’s time-stop effect 137.

Her prediction that the next Calamity would be extreme cold demonstrated the value of her profession. Ling Chu invited her to become a crewmate, built a Divination Room for her, and brought her into the Ghost Ship fleet 126. Squid Ball later publicly shared the extreme-cold warning despite uncertainty over whether doing so would aid enemies, helping players prepare for the disaster 176 325. Her forecast became widely trusted after the Calamity lasted twenty-three days and players who had prepared based on her warning survived 325.

Before entering the survival game, Squid Ball studied dance as an undergraduate. Her familiarity with several dance styles helped her participate confidently in the crew’s welcome celebration 141.

Appearance

Squid Ball is a girl with a doll-like face. After six days stranded on the Level Four Island, she appeared pale, exhausted, and malnourished 112 124.

• Often wears a light-blue short robe 530.
• Wears practical trousers beneath her skirt-like clothing and is a light, elegant dancer 141.
• Uses a staff and a Prism Shield in combat 266 427.
• For the Bright City expedition, cut her shoulder-length hair to ear-length and wore thick-lensed glasses specially made by Andrew, substantially changing her appearance 394.
• Wears Rift Whale Leather Armor, a Unique-quality fitted leather jacket that increases Strength and Constitution by two, raises defense by 10%, and improves shock absorption by 20% 654.
• Her Divination Room uses a round table draped in dark-purple velvet, Tarot cards, and a crystal-ball lamp 325 535.
• Her Astronomical Telescope installation expanded part of her quarters into a transparent hemispherical dome, allowing her an unobstructed view of the night sky 764.
• Used a Disguise Potion to take Zhang Da Xian’s appearance during the crew’s Black Reef Island Free Port reconnaissance 768.

Personality

Squid Ball is outspoken, quick-witted, and prone to taunting opponents in public chat. She publicly mocked Black Spade K’s soot-covered appearance after his ship’s internal conflict 206. Her sharp tongue nonetheless attracts a small fan club, which embarrasses her 658. Ling Chu gradually adopts some of Squid Ball’s incisive style, to Squid Ball’s great pride 708.

Although vocal in public disputes, she does not generally enjoy idle private conversations and tends to contact others when there is business to discuss 37. She also uses verbal sparring to relieve frustration, explaining that insulting Invincible and Handsome helped her feel better after the Meteor Shower 66. Her confidence does not make her immune to public criticism: after her first server-wide clearance announcement, she wanted to know the channel’s response but was afraid to look without support 588.

She is compassionate about other players’ survival and struggles with the responsibility of revealing Calamity predictions. She ultimately refuses to become a savior or to sell such information for Sea Shells, believing she can help others only temporarily and that they must still learn self-sufficiency 326. She can also be mischievous when irritated, once withholding her extreme-heat prediction from the Public Channel because of her anger toward the Holy Army 327.

Her insistence on fairness extends beyond player disputes. When Mermaid Princess Sveti demanded the eating competition’s reward, Squid Ball defended Clumsy Bear’s legitimate victory and refused to be intimidated by Sveti’s royal identity 491. Her resentment toward Zhang Da Xian is both professional and personal, as he had insulted and sexually harassed her in public chat 768.

Despite being initially anxious in combat and frightened by ghosts, fog creatures, and the Ghost Doll, Squid Ball persists in training. She improves her Star Drawing Technique through repeated practice and becomes capable of delivering decisive attacks under pressure 426 538 566 585. After the eerie fog dissipates, she practices beneath the stars nightly, tracks incremental improvements in a notebook, and develops roughly seventy-percent accuracy against moving targets before advancing to Tier 5 742 761. Although easily frightened in life-threatening situations, she investigates dangerous areas and continues participating in Public Challenges, Whispering Tower expeditions, and the White Bone Labyrinth 606 668.

Squid Ball is emotionally receptive to history and legacy. After witnessing the Elven Clan Leader’s final instructions, she develops a personal mission to preserve and accurately translate Elven history for both players and native inhabitants 321. If she returns to Blue Star, she hopes to operate a divination-focused social-media account 630.

Her advancement has further developed her curiosity about celestial mysteries. Although ordinary celestial formations did not fulfill the Astronomical Telescope’s anomaly requirement, she remained undiscouraged and continued observing and recording the sky 764. She also recognizes that Calamity readings become less clear when made too far in advance and intends to combine a later Divination with telescope observations for greater accuracy 767.

Abilities & Skills

Divination

As an Astrologer, Squid Ball uses Tarot cards and crystal-ball readings to identify threats, interpret omens, and predict Calamities.

• Stargazing can forecast weather for the next two days at a cost of 10 Mana 124.
• Divination uses divination-related items to determine an event’s outcome once per day for 30 Mana; its accuracy is influenced by Squid Ball’s mental state and surroundings 124.
• Predicted the extreme-cold Calamity before its arrival 126 176.
• Identified extreme heat through a Tarot spread featuring the upright Sun 325.
• Divined that the following disaster would be eerie fog, warning that it would distort direction, time, reality, and marine life 535.
• Read danger surrounding Ling Chu’s Level Four Island expedition, including chaos, delays, destruction, fire, and a mermaid-like shadow 144.
• Determined that Ling Chu’s entry into a later Public Challenge had been externally manipulated, interpreting the upright Tower, reversed Wheel of Fortune, and upright Hermit as sudden interference, loss of control, and isolated but resilient action 689.
• Her readings can be exhausting and are not universally trusted by players 325.
• Divinations concerning distant events are less accurate because additional future variables obscure the result; Squid Ball therefore normally performs Calamity readings around half a month before the event 767.

Astrologer’s Wish Resonance

A profession skill that influences random acquisition outcomes.

• In its original form, can designate a non-equipment item or material as the target.
• For 24 hours, significantly increases the probability of obtaining that target through treasure chests, fishing, exploration, and public-challenge rewards.
• Has a 72-hour cooldown 264.
• Squid Ball forgot to activate it before opening a System Blind Box, much to her regret 597.
• Used the Skill at Ling Chu’s request to seek Glimmering Feather, a required material for upgrading a ship to Level Seven 534.
• Combined her Skills with the Gambler’s Coin’s triple-Luck effect to obtain a Crystal of Wind’s Protection, demonstrating the practical value of stacking luck and acquisition bonuses 275.
• By the battle against Lucas, her Wish Skill had been upgraded and could support the acquisition of a designated piece of equipment, extending beyond the original non-equipment restriction 820.
• Applied the upgraded Wish to Ling Chu by sending a thin beam of starlight across the battlefield. Together with Ling Chu’s triple-Luck effect, it improved the odds of Pirate is More of a Bandit stealing Lucas’s Slippery Sea Monster Water-Scale Armor; the theft succeeded 820.

Star Drawing Technique

Squid Ball channels starlight through her Prism Shield into a focused beam attack.

• Consumes 10 Mana and uses the power of visible stars to release a light-element beam 385.
• Initially had never cast it successfully and feared failing during the battle against Adrian 426.
• Drew down starlight during the Bright City battle; after You Jiali created an opening, she struck Adrian’s hand 427.
• With the Prism Shield amplifying the beam, she burned through Adrian’s abdomen and destroyed the remaining eyeballs there 428.
• Requires a usable view of starlight and is especially difficult during the eerie-fog disaster 585.
• Her early attacks revealed their intended target through her line of sight, a weakness identified by Huang Xiaowen 538.
• As a light-element Skill, deals two hundred percent damage to skeletons, making missed shots dangerous to allied Skeleton Henchmen during practice 539.
• Overcame the fog’s obstruction by calming herself and sensing the obscured starlight above it, allowing her to strike the Executioners 566.
• Destroyed the Black Mist Ball by drawing down a powerful beam through a hole opened in the tower roof 585.
• Through continued practice after the fog Calamity, she raised her moving-target accuracy to approximately seventy percent 761.
• At Tier 5, she can control the Prism Shield’s refraction well enough to redirect a starlight beam at a right angle and double its thickness, rather than merely firing directly at a target 761.
• Can also cast the ordinary, unamplified version with her Magician’s Staff while using another shield. During the battle against Lucas’s crew, she used this approach to attack archers while blocking incoming arrows with the Blow to Enlarge Shield 814.

Starlight Doppelgänger

A Tier 5 Astrologer Skill that creates a starlight duplicate of Squid Ball.

• Creates an identical-looking starlight clone that can mimic Squid Ball’s movements and speech 762.
• Squid Ball can swap positions with the Doppelgänger, allowing her to evade danger or misdirect an enemy 762.
• The Doppelgänger has no physical body; physical contact passes through it and exposes the deception 762.
• Reproduces the appearance of the staff and Prism Shield she is holding, as well as her voice. Its intended tactical uses include drawing attention, wasting an enemy attack, and buying additional casting time 762.

Astronomical Telescope

An exclusive mana-powered Astrologer facility installed aboard the Ghost Ship after Squid Ball reached Tier 5.

• Automatically calibrates star paths and can observe nebulae and celestial trajectories that are difficult to perceive with the naked eye 762.
• Raises the success rate of astrology-related Divinations by 20% while used for celestial observation and may reveal special astronomical anomalies 762.
• Records observed directions on a star chart, enabling Squid Ball to study and document newly visible celestial formations 764.
• Her Tier 6 advancement condition is to successfully observe and record ten astronomical anomalies; ordinary stars and star paths do not count toward the requirement 762 764.

Artifact Identification and Decipherment

Squid Ball can interpret ancient symbols and obtain historical visions from artifacts.

• Offered to decipher mysterious runes on ancient stone slabs 171.
• Used artifact identification on an ancient Elven book, witnessing the Elven Clan Leader’s instructions to preserve the Tree of Luga’s seeds and scatter nine Sacred Stone Slabs 321.
• The Thorn Crown enabled her to understand the ancient Elven language in the historical vision 321.
• Cannot obtain new scenes by repeatedly using the skill on the same artifact 321.
• Became determined to translate the ancient Elven book accurately and completely 321.
• Deciphered the fourth Elven Stone Slab, revealing a clue for luring a powerful sea creature: flesh and blood can divert a ferocious deep-sea creature from a voyage route 534.

Staff and Ninja’s Belt

Squid Ball trains with supplementary combat equipment but initially lacks accuracy and control.

• Her staff can fire stingers, though most of her first practice shots missed the target 266.
• The staff can deploy smoke bombs stored in its internal slots; her first attempt detonated the smoke against herself 266.
• Ling Chu corrected her posture and steadied her wrist during an afternoon of practice, substantially tightening the spread of her shots. The stingers could be recovered, allowing repeated training without expending ammunition 266.
• Used bee stings against Holy Army players during ship combat, killing two from a distance 330.
• Bee stings had limited effect against cotton doll soldiers 426.

Bumper Ball Master

Squid Ball participated in the Ghost Ship team’s clearance of a Whispering Tower inhabited by Thousand-Year Bone creatures.

• Helped establish barriers to redirect rolling bone balls into the tower’s cave entrance 654.
• Received the Bumper Ball Master title and the active Skill Bumper Ball with the team after the tower was cleared 654.

Equipment

• Tarot Cards — used for Calamity and danger divinations 144 535.
• Crystal Ball — used alongside Tarot readings to receive visions 144.
• Magician’s Staff — fires stingers and deploys smoke bombs 266. Also used to guide Star Drawing Technique and the upgraded Wish 814 820.
• Ninja’s Belt — generates smoke bombs 266.
• Prism Shield — Legendary-quality shield that amplifies and refracts the Star Drawing Technique’s starlight beam 427 428 761.
• Blow to Enlarge Shield — used to block arrows during the battle against Lucas’s crew. Holding it instead of the Prism Shield required Squid Ball to use unamplified starlight attacks 814.
• Thorn Crown — enables comprehension of ancient Elven language during artifact visions 321. Squid Ball obtained its Legendary-quality blueprint, which required a Jeweler to craft 275.
• Ancient Elven Book — artifact containing Elven historical records she seeks to translate 321.
• Rift Whale Leather Armor — Unique-quality armor granting Strength +2, Constitution +2, 10% increased defense, and 20% improved shock absorption 654.
• Astronomical Telescope — exclusive mana-powered Astrologer ship facility that enhances celestial observation and astrology-related Divinations 762 764.

Relationships

• Ling Chu — Captain and rescuer. Ling Chu brought Squid Ball off the Level Four Island, recruited her into the Ghost Ship, built her Divination Room, and supports her decisions about revealing Calamity predictions 124 126 176 326. Ling Chu also teaches her to use the Magician’s Staff, protects her during dangerous expeditions, and relies on her divinations to identify threats to the crew 266 668 689. After Squid Ball’s Tier 5 advancement, Ling Chu immediately constructed the Astronomical Telescope facility for her 762. Their tactical cooperation later extends to targeted equipment theft, with Squid Ball immediately fulfilling Ling Chu’s request for a Wish aimed at Lucas’s armor 820.
• Huang Xiaowen — Crewmate and training partner. Huang Xiaowen welcomed Squid Ball aboard, sparred with her to identify flaws in her Star Drawing Technique, and protected her from the Executioners’ final attack 126 538 566. She also examined Squid Ball’s Starlight Doppelgänger and encouraged its tactical use 762. During the Moss Giant battle, Huang Xiaowen used Let’s Swap to remove Squid Ball from the path of a devastating punch that her Prism Shield could not have withstood 675. At Black Reef Freeport, Squid Ball helped her identify Raine by the black scorpion tattoo on his right hand 788.
• You Jiali — Crewmate who helped create an opening for Squid Ball to hit Adrian and used Charm to leave him vulnerable to her decisive starlight attack 427 428. He later helped analyze her divination that the Circus had interfered with Ling Chu’s fate 689. Squid Ball traded her Strength Fruit for his Intelligence Fruit to better suit their respective attribute priorities 598.
• Clumsy Bear — Crewmate who escorts and shields her in battle; he helped protect her from the Executioners’ flying swords 427 566. He also assisted Ling Chu in rescuing Squid Ball from the White Bone Labyrinth’s moving bone walls 668. Squid Ball later amused herself by complimenting his transformed appearance while mocking his mannerisms at Black Reef Freeport 769.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon — Crewmate who supports Squid Ball with debuffs, protection, reassurance, and puzzle-solving assistance 566 581. Squid Ball encouraged her to join the welcome celebration and taught her simple tap-dance steps 141. Her Disguise Potion enabled Squid Ball’s transformation into Zhang Da Xian at Black Reef Freeport 768.
• Star River Enters Dream — Helped escort Squid Ball through doll soldiers so she could use Star Drawing Technique against Adrian 427.
• Titch — Skeleton crewmate who welcomed Squid Ball with a rose and danced with her on deck. Squid Ball accepted the gesture without finding a dance with a skeleton unusual 141.
• Hemlock — Joined Squid Ball’s welcome celebration and requested a dance with her after Titch’s performance 141.
• Zhang Da Xian — Fraudulent fortune-teller whose false Calamity predictions and exploitation of players infuriated Squid Ball 177. After Ling Chu left his punishment to her, Squid Ball kicked him into the freezing sea 214 215. His absence from a later illusion of people killed by the crew made her question whether he had actually died 330. She later chose his appearance for the crew’s “most hated person” disguises, recalling his insults and sexual harassment 768.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Stranded on the Level Four Island

Squid Ball’s unexplained six-day confinement on the village island introduces Ling Chu to its suspiciously idyllic settlement. Her prior experience becomes useful when the Ghost Ship later investigates the island 124 148.

Her detailed account of repeated errands and encounters reveals that the island’s apparently ordinary hospitality conceals a loop-like trap. The ordeal also explains her heightened fear of supernatural phenomena after her rescue 125 137.

Ghost Ship Recruitment and Calamity Warnings

After joining the crew, Squid Ball’s divinations become a major survival asset. Her extreme-cold warning proves accurate, making her widely known on the Public Channel; later she predicts extreme heat and eerie fog 176 325 535.

The conflict over those predictions brings her into direct opposition with Zhang Da Xian. When the crew captures him after defeating the hostile pirate fleets, Ling Chu allows Squid Ball to decide his punishment, and she kicks him into the extreme-cold seawater 214 215. When Ling Chu subsequently checks on her emotional state, Squid Ball says the kick felt “awesome,” although Ling Chu recognizes that she still needs more combat experience 219.

Elven Legacy

Through the ancient Elven book and Stone Slabs, Squid Ball becomes involved in preserving Elven history. She witnesses the Elven Clan Leader’s final instructions and commits herself to translating the book’s contents 321 534.

Combat Development

Although initially the crew’s weakest combatant, Squid Ball trains with her staff, smoke bombs, Prism Shield, and Star Drawing Technique. Her starlight attacks injure Adrian, defeat the Black Mist Ball, and become a meaningful part of the Ghost Ship’s combat strength 266 428 585.

Her increasing offensive usefulness does not eliminate her vulnerability to powerful close-range attacks. During the Moss Giant battle, she cannot escape a descending fist in time and attempts to brace behind the Prism Shield; Huang Xiaowen saves her by swapping her away before impact 675.

Eerie Fog and Whispering Towers

During the eerie-fog Calamity, Squid Ball faces monsters capable of imitating familiar people, encounters the Ghost Doll during a house challenge, and continues fighting despite her fear 559 606. She supports the crew through weapon-silhouette puzzles in the Whispering Tower and contributes to the Thousand-Year Bone tower clearance that earns the group the Bumper Ball Master title 581 654.

One Drowned imitates Squid Ball’s appearance and voice to lure Clumsy Bear into rescuing it from the sea, then tries to suffocate him. The real Squid Ball had already returned to her cabin; Ling Chu exposes and kills the impostor 559.

During the Ghost Doll’s hide-and-seek challenge, Squid Ball hides in the storage room but is quickly discovered despite concealing herself near a bag of cement. Afterward, she warns the remaining participants that the Ghost Doll is heading toward the bedroom 611.

Circus Conflict and Public Challenge Interference

Squid Ball’s divination reveals that Ling Chu’s forced entry into a Public Challenge was not an accident, but the result of external fate manipulation likely connected to the Circus 689. She joins the crew in resolving to retaliate against the Circus after Ling Chu returns 689.

She reacts angrily when Smiley demands that Ling Chu kneel during their confrontation, condemning his attitude as a “feudal relic.” The crew’s reaction to Ling Chu’s answering insults also highlights Squid Ball’s influence on her captain’s verbal style 708.

Tier Five Advancement and Astronomical Research

Following the end of the eerie-fog Calamity, Squid Ball steadily trains Star Drawing Technique under the open sky and learns to use the Prism Shield’s refraction without sacrificing her accuracy. This breakthrough advances her to Tier 5, granting Starlight Doppelgänger and the Astronomical Telescope facility 742 761 762. She begins documenting star paths and searching for the ten astronomical anomalies required for her next advancement, while planning to use celestial observation to improve future Calamity predictions 764 767.

Black Reef Freeport Reconnaissance

When the Ghost Ship enters Black Reef Island Free Port under a merchant disguise, Squid Ball joins the crew in using Disguise Potions to resemble people they hate. She chooses Zhang Da Xian, linking the reconnaissance mission’s comic disguises to her longstanding personal grudge 768.

During the crew’s search, she carefully checks unfamiliar people’s right hands. At a gambling venue, she spots the exposed tail of a black scorpion tattoo beneath a man’s sleeve and quietly alerts Huang Xiaowen that their target has arrived, enabling her to identify Raine 788.

Battle Against Lucas

Squid Ball provides ranged support during the battle against Lucas’s crew, remaining farther back with the Blow to Enlarge Shield and using unamplified Star Drawing Technique to strike archers above the deck 814.

When Lucas’s armor obstructs Ling Chu’s attacks, Squid Ball uses her upgraded Wish to support a targeted theft of the Slippery Sea Monster Water-Scale Armor. Ling Chu combines the Wish with the Gambler’s Coin’s triple-Luck effect and Pirate is More of a Bandit, successfully stealing and equipping the armor. Its removal allows her subsequent time-stop scythe attack to inflict deep crossing wounds on Lucas 820. Lucas’s realization that his armor has vanished and his resort to a transformation-inducing injection mark the next escalation of the battle 821 822.

Trivia

• Squid Ball is fond of cats and immediately reacted enthusiastically to Fluffball 255.
• Her Sin Value is the lowest on the Ghost Ship; she had killed three people by the events of Chapter 330 330.
• She personally killed Zhang Da Xian by kicking him into the sea, though his absence from the Netherworld-related illusion later raised doubts about whether he was truly dead 330.
• She haggled with the Level Four Island innkeeper and stayed in Room 201 at a discount 148.
• She received a beanbag sofa, stress-relief squishy, mana curling iron, and Mysterious Fruit from a System Blind Box, leaving her disappointed by the impractical rewards 597.
• A player named Squid Ball Support Club appears in a livestream chat 658.
• She believes that “gods” may be higher-dimensional beings or advanced civilizations rather than entities that humanity must blindly deify 144.
• She believes that her current physical abilities would make her capable of becoming an Olympic sprinting champion on Blue Star 668.
• Has trypophobia; the concentric rings of teeth in an illustration of a Deep Sea Seven-Gilled Eel disgusted her 256.
• Won The Willing Fish, a 24-hour buff improving fishing probability and catch quality, from the Fate Table’s wheel and immediately went fishing 275.
• Prioritizes Intelligence over Strength and trades Mysterious Fruits accordingly 598.
• Received one thousand Sea Shells from Give You a Dalieba as a voluntary token of gratitude for her disaster information 327.
• Enjoyed a comic recovered from the Circus Ship’s warehouse, treating it as a rare source of entertainment after a long period at sea 744.