Boons and Choices

At the front of the deck, after the vicious evil ghost retracted all the chains into its body, it burrowed into the corpse of the young man frozen in place nearby.

Wu Heng's consciousness and body, separated across space, merged into one.

The young man who had been frozen in place slowly opened his eyes. His movements gained a hint of liveliness, no longer mechanical.

Wu Heng raised his hands to examine them, familiarizing himself with the body. Then he waved his right hand, and a red aura spread outward like a shockwave.

The abnormal thunderstorm in the sky, caused by the frigid green water of the Eerie Sea flooding into reality across the mountain, was torn apart.

The dark clouds turned blood-red.

Then snow began to fall—snow the same color as the clouds.

"We can't let the Eerie Sea keep flooding back like this, or it may lose its properties," Wu Heng murmured softly amid the snow.

Ah-yeon, Charlotte, and the other four on the deck stared blankly at Wu Heng.

They did not know whether the young man before them had said those words to them, so for a moment, they did not know whether they should respond. They were at a complete loss.

The six of them were terrified inside, hardly daring to breathe.

Ordinary people felt some fear when facing their boss; in ancient times, ordinary people felt even greater fear when facing an emperor who held the power of life and death.

But the pressure before them came from the very level of life itself, a hundred or thousand times more frightening than that kind of fear. Every cell and particle of their spirits trembled. It was the terror of ants facing something immeasurably greater.

And that was only because Wu Heng had already restrained