After everyone stared at the Kalon Beast, which lay there like a dead fish, the scene fell silent for a moment...
"What happened to the boss?"
"Is... is he dead?"
"Impossible! The boss was so powerful. How could he die just like that?"
"Hmph! Good riddance!"
"Shh! Do you have a death wish?"
"I stopped wanting to live ages ago! What's the point of living like this, neither human nor monster?"
"..."
The Kalon Pirate Gang had always been a product of Kalon's ruthless, iron-fisted rule.
Many of its members had been forced to join and subjected to inhumane beastification surgery. The loyalty of a band of pirates like that hardly needed explaining.
Now, with the Kalon Beast's fate uncertain, the pirates who had usually swallowed their anger out of fear of Kalon's tyranny immediately began to riot.
Boom! Just then, a huge hole suddenly exploded in the Kalon Beast's back, sending flesh and blood flying.
Under everyone's astonished gazes, a very familiar-looking six-legged all-terrain vehicle crawled out, drenched in blood.
Once it emerged from the Kalon Beast's body, it kicked off hard with its mechanical legs. Its rear engines roared to life, and it leaped into space like a nimble insect.
Only when it retracted its six mechanical legs did everyone realize that this was no all-terrain vehicle. It was clearly the Ghost Captain's flagship!
Except now, the ship was covered in the Kalon Beast's highly acidic, corrosive blood, leaving it pitted and looking utterly wretched.
Its hull bore scorch marks and collision scrapes. Several sections were even deeply caved in, with little more than its general outline still intact.
No one could understand how this ship had suffered such devastating damage without being destroyed.
Not only had it survived, it was still full of life-and trying to haul