The ship trembled gently from time to time.
-There was no telling where that mass of flesh had shrunk away to.
Every so often, Shen Ye could sense the hull trembling slightly.
It seemed it had not given up its search.
No matter what, it was going to find Maria and kill her!
Shen Ye pushed the door open and stepped out. Rather than return to Zone D, he went to the deck again.
"So this is The Other Shore..."
Song Yinchen spoke in his ear.
"Yes. Do you sense anything?" Shen Ye asked.
"Incredible."
"What is?"
"This pile of meat. Its grasp of the laws is simply unparalleled."
Meat...
Shen Ye looked toward the mountain of meat on the deck.
Indeed.
This was the food his "son" had left him.
-All the monsters were still alive, but they could do no more than sustain their lives, without the slightest room to resist.
That ensured the meat stayed fresh.
But.
How had this been done?
Shen Ye inwardly reproached himself. He had clearly been gathering intelligence all along, yet had failed to observe the power of this art.
Maria suddenly spoke:
"Many people have lived through countless ages and can see through every art and law in history, but the arts of the future are completely unknown."
"No one understands the arts of the future."
"-That is why we need someone with the most exceptional aptitude to observe them."
"So everyone nominated Song Yinchen?" Shen Ye picked up.
"That's right," Maria said. "Back then, a group of the most promising people were sent out of history, through the aether, to create the Ten Thousand Worlds in the Abyss, all to preserve the kindling of civilization."
"Now-"
"We have gained you and Song Yinchen, Xu Xingke, and even that swordswoman, with