[Warning! Warning! Warning!] [Current environmental Distortion Level: 30 / anomalous individual Distortion Level: 500] [Currently in a level-four distortion state!!!]
Xia Xiu stood atop the shipping containers, his hands in his pockets as he watched the distant sea shrouded in wind and rain. The fierce sea breeze whipped up the blond hair over his forehead, while the Red Book floated before him, displaying emergency pop-ups.
"Are we really playing it this wild?"
The blond young man narrowed his golden eyes at the pillar of flesh rising over thirty meters before the sea. Two human figures were embedded at its very top: curly-haired Amelia was embedded at the uppermost point, her wide, utterly lusterless eyes staring ahead. White-haired Katherine had her eyes squeezed shut in pain, her face deathly pale, blood continually seeping from her abdomen.
A dagger engraved with a two-faced statue was still lodged in Katherine's abdomen.
Aboard the whaling ship.
"Blupp, what the hell is going on?!" Gaul stared in panic at the "adopted son" before him, who now seemed utterly unfamiliar.
"Hiss... that damned bastard really hit hard."
Blup Gula yanked the greatsword out of his right shoulder, then casually tossed it onto the deck. The puncture wound was healing rapidly.
"Blupp, answer me!" Gaul demanded at the top of his lungs, on the verge of an emotional breakdown.
Hearing Gaul's shout, Blupp turned back and regarded him sympathetically.
"You're different from me. I'm a Sea-born chosen by [Tairmisius], so the understanding in my mind won't be completely altered by the [Ether Sovereign]'s fate profiling. But as an ordinary member of the Gura Clan, your understanding has been utterly corrupted by that being among the stars."
"What are you talking about?!" Gaul asked Blupp, utterly bewildered.
"Don't worry. As a fellow member of the Gura