After activating the Ship Ticket, Chen Lin felt an immense suction pulling him toward somewhere unknown.
But...
The suction acted on both his true soul body and his physical body at once. With the Tentacle Monster restraining his physical body, his departure was actually delayed rather than instantaneous.
This shocked him.
The Tentacle Monster was powerful enough to contend with the Life Ferry!
If that was the case, he had no chance of surviving today. He was certain to die.
Just then...
The phantom image of an enormous upside-down top hat appeared in the sky. No one else could see it, but Chen Lin, who had kept his Heaven Opening Eye Divine Ability active, could make out its outline.
As the top hat's phantom image appeared, the suction on him grew stronger.
Ash gray fog also began to rise around him.
Likewise...
Only he could see this ash gray fog. Ordinary sight and perception detected nothing unusual.
But the Tentacle Monster sensed it.
It trembled slightly, then an eyeball opened at the tip of its white tentacle. The eye swiveled, and the monster immediately cried out in alarm.
"Holy crap, the Fatal Hat Ship!"
Even as it cried out, the Tentacle Monster tried to abandon the Rainbow Sword and withdraw its tentacle.
But it was too late.
Once the ash gray fog appeared, everything connected to Chen Lin was tainted by it and began vanishing little by little.
On the River of Destiny.
The Octopus Monster's normally narrow eyes went round, filled with terror and regret as ash gray fog began rising from its own body.
"What a loss!"
It no longer dared leave anything to chance.
With a strange cry...
An odd circular pattern appeared above its head.
As the pattern spun rapidly, its enormous head began to shrivel,