Eternal Sea Chart

Was this really a trial meant to test the younger generation?

Hawkins circled the Blue Giant, feeling rather speechless.

In this space, he could neither use Curse Power nor summon a Curse Spirit. The Blue Giant was simply too overpowered for him. If an ordinary person were taking this trial, the chance of passing would be zero.

A trial with a zero percent chance of success was rather thought-provoking.

Hawkins watched the Blue Giant from afar and had already understood the meaning behind its existence. But precisely because of that, he could not let it have its way.

The chance of an ordinary person passing was zero, but that did not mean his own chance was zero.

He took a deep breath, his brain entering an overclocked state, then strode toward the Blue Giant.

The moment he entered the Blue Giant's attack range, it moved. As though swatting a fly, it rapidly clapped both hands toward Hawkins.

But all of that was within Hawkins's expectations. He effortlessly dodged the Blue Giant's attack, then grabbed one of its fingers with both hands.

To maintain a human appearance, Hawkins had made many sacrifices.

Many exaggerated organs could not fit a human-sized body, so Hawkins had given up those organs, which also meant giving up many astonishing abilities.

For example, there was a kind of space creature in the universe with nuclear-powered hearts. They could survive for thousands of years without eating.

But such nuclear-powered hearts could not be shrunk down. Unless Hawkins transformed himself into a hundred-meter giant, it was impossible to install such an organ inside his body.

There was also a kind of mountain troll capable of lifting objects tens of thousands of times heavier than itself. The problem was that its muscle cells were six hundred micrometers wide and required a special structure to function. Unless Hawkins altered the shape of his arms, he could not accommodate those muscle cells.

But in order to preserve his human appearance, Hawkins had abandoned those powerful abilities.

Even so, his strength remained beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

His muscles were a blend of many different muscle cells, possessing the advantages of explosive power, endurance, toughness, and more. Combined with his reinforced bones, he could easily crush most superheroes from movies.

At that moment, strength surged through his entire body. Gripping the Blue Giant's finger, he violently spun, directly dragging the Blue Giant into a rotation.

Ai Miye stood below the Arena, staring at Hawkins in shock. She knew very well just how strong the Blue Giant on the Arena was, which made Hawkins's strength all the more astonishing.

Was he really an ordinary person?

The Blue Giant reacted quickly. As Hawkins dragged it around, it thrust one hand straight into the Arena, trying to stop Hawkins from continuing to spin it.

But Hawkins suddenly let go. The arm it had thrust into the ground was immediately twisted into a pretzel by the ground, then torn off by its own weight.

"Just as expected, there was no reflected damage!"

Hawkins glanced at the Blue Giant rolling across the ground and thought to himself.

The damage just now had not been caused by him. Strictly speaking, it could only be considered the earth hurting the Blue Giant. The problem was that the Blue Giant could not possibly reflect the damage back at the earth, and even if it did, the earth probably would not feel a thing.

The rest of the battle held basically no suspense. Having lost an arm, the Blue Giant was utterly inadequate before Hawkins. After Hawkins repeated the old trick several times, the Blue Giant was thrown out of the Arena.

"Thankfully, I did not fail my mission. There shouldn't be a third trial, right?" Hawkins asked as he stepped down from the Arena and looked at Ai Miye.

Ai Miye looked toward the opened passage and stiffly replied, "The door is open. Whether there's a third trial or not, we'll know once we look."

"All right," Hawkins said indifferently.

The two entered the passage. After passing through the long corridor, a high platform with a long staircase appeared before them.

An ancient horn rested upon the platform, but it did not look particularly remarkable.

"Is that your ancestral inheritance?" Hawkins looked at Ai Miye and asked.

Ai Miye nodded and quickened her pace, rapidly heading toward the high platform. Hawkins had no choice but to follow.

"That should be a Cursed Relic, right?" Hawkins asked as he climbed the stairs.

Just as they were about to reach the top of the platform, Hawkins suddenly accelerated, overtook Ai Miye, and arrived before the horn first.

"Hawkins, are you trying to take my ancestral inheritance for yourself?" Ai Miye stared at Hawkins with an expression of disbelief.

Hawkins summoned the Eternal Sea Chart, turned to look at Ai Miye, and asked, "Do you think everyone else is an idiot?"

"Hawkins, I don't understand what you're talking about," Ai Miye said innocently.

Hawkins smiled. "Heh heh, stop pretending. I realized you weren't Ai Miye the moment you woke up."

"Impossible. I saw her memories. You had known each other for less than an hour, so how could you have noticed?" Ai Miye's ancestor had originally intended to keep pretending, but the certainty in Hawkins's eyes told her it was pointless, so she asked in confusion.

Hawkins did not answer. Instead, he looked at the horn and said playfully, "If I'm not mistaken, you really are Ai Miye's ancestor. This thing should be very important to you, right?"

"What do you want?" Ai Miye's ancestor immediately frowned when she saw Hawkins hold the Eternal Sea Chart over the horn.

Hawkins said flatly, "My condition is simple. Get the hell out of Ai Miye's body."

"Impossible," Ai Miye's ancestor immediately refused.

Hawkins raised the Sea Chart in his hand and said coldly, "Then I'll have no choice but to smash it!"

"Smash my Devil's Horn, and you'll never be able to return to the real world!" Ai Miye's ancestor sneered.

Hawkins looked up at Ai Miye and said seriously, "Never say never, you frog at the bottom of a well!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he exerted force in an instant and smashed the Devil's Horn directly with the Eternal Sea Chart. Although the Devil's Horn was a powerful Cursed Relic, it possessed no special power before being used, and its material was far less durable than Hawkins's Eternal Sea Chart.

"No!"

Ai Miye's ancestor had not expected Hawkins to be so decisive. Seeing the horn shattered, she immediately screamed.

But as the Devil's Horn shattered, Ai Miye's body convulsed madly as though she were having an epileptic seizure. Then a small red bead flew out from between Ai Miye's brows and rapidly flew toward the Devil's Horn.

At that moment, Hawkins opened the Eternal Sea Chart and infused it with Curse Power.

The instant he shattered the Devil's Horn, he felt the existence of Curse Power again. As Curse Power flowed into the Sea Chart, the Curse Spirit emerged directly from it, grabbed the Devil's Horn fragments, and stuffed them into its mouth.

"No!!!!!!"

This time, Ai Miye's ancestor let out an even more miserable scream, but the sound quickly faded until it disappeared completely.

Hawkins held the Sea Chart in one hand as the Curse Spirit rapidly digested the Devil's Horn fragments. Within the black mist, every fragment of the Devil's Horn could provide an enormous amount of black particles.

The Devil's Horn's power was beyond imagination. Hawkins could no longer judge what grade of Cursed Relic the Devil's Horn had been.

He felt the Eternal Sea Chart rapidly growing, and its connection with him becoming increasingly close.

The feeling was extremely peculiar, like interlocked fingers slowly fitting more tightly together, an indescribable sense of fullness rising in his heart.

Hawkins could not help letting out a low moan. The Eternal Sea Chart turned into black particles and merged into his body, while the Curse Spirit swiftly became one with him as well.

He brushed his right hand through the air before him, and a translucent Sea Chart floated in front of him.

[Eternal Sea Chart]

[Experience: 0]

[Growth-Type Cursed Relic]

[Primary Ability: Eternal Space]

[Secondary Ability: Appraisal Eye]

[Secondary Ability: Resurrection of the Dead]

[Secondary Ability: Devouring Evolution]

[Secondary Ability: Eternal Spirit]

[Secondary Ability: Endless Treasure]

[Secondary Ability: Endless Quests]

Hawkins looked at the Sea Chart, the corners of his mouth gradually lifting. In the end, he could not help throwing back his head and laughing toward the sky.

This was only a Level 1 Eternal Sea Chart. As its level increased in the future, it would become more and more powerful. Although its curses would also increase as a result, he could offset them by completing quests.

After his excitement subsided, he looked at the unconscious Ai Miye.

[Ai Miye, 13 years old. A girl with a special bloodline. An ancestral evil spirit remains within her body. The evil spirit can be devoured.]

Appraisal Eye was a passive ability. A line of golden text appeared before Hawkins's eyes, then turned into golden dust and scattered as though blown away by the wind.

This time, Hawkins was genuinely surprised. He had thought that Ai Miye's ancestor had already left Ai Miye's body. That agonized scream just now had actually been fake.

He walked over to Ai Miye, crouched before her, and pressed his hand directly against her forehead. The next moment, he activated Devouring Evolution.

"No, damn it, how dare you... No... spare me, I'll leave her body, don't kill me... bastard, I curse you..." Sensing danger, Ai Miye's ancestor immediately grabbed Hawkins's hand with both hands and glared at him with a ferocious expression. But as a black vortex emerged from Hawkins's palm, she grew weaker and weaker. Her curses gradually turned into pleas for mercy, and in the end, she fainted once more.

This time, she was truly unconscious. Before, she had merely been acting.

Hawkins rose to his feet, then opened a door leading to Eternal Space.

Eternal Space was the paradise in Hawkins's heart, a space ruled by his will. As long as he did not die, this space would never suffer heat death.

The "door" was not magnificent. It merely opened a passage within the existing space.

Because space could not be seen, the visible manifestation of this passage was a distortion in the air, like ripples spreading across water.

Hawkins picked up Ai Miye and walked straight into the spatial ripples. The ripples quickly smoothed out, and the passage closed.

In truth, Hawkins did not know what existed within Eternal Space. Although he had made the wish, the Eternal Sea Chart's construction had not been guided by him, but by the Dream Realm Laws.

So he did not know what he would face next.

After crossing the ripples, he appeared aboard the Black Knife, but he quickly realized that this was not the real Black Knife.

Carrying Ai Miye, he walked to the ship's side. Sure enough, House Town was there as well, but it differed from the real House Town. Not only was there no scent of blood, but the buildings themselves held no sense of decay.

"I see. So... am I inside the Sea Chart now?"

Hawkins quickly thought of the Eternal Sea Chart. If he was not mistaken, he was actually inside the Sea Chart.

"Does this count as entering a painting, stepping from three dimensions into two?"

Hawkins placed Ai Miye on the reclining chair where he usually sat, then disembarked alone.

He wandered around House Town and, sure enough, found no corpses at all—not even a single blade of grass.

This place was like an instance dungeon, a complete replica of the Seven Seas, yet it had not replicated any living beings.