The Damaged Ship Breaks Through

But this slowed the sea monster's advance. Xiwo cast an ice spell to slow the resisting tentacles.

Up in the air, Zijin calmly finished constructing her spell, moved in close, and enveloped the giant octopus in an eerie light.

"Zombie Reversal!"

This time, she held nothing back. Thick black mist erupted violently from the giant octopus's entire body, like a black flower blooming in the fog. Its tentacles went limp in an instant, and its enormous body crashed into the sea mid-stride, throwing up a spectacular V-shaped wave.

Its entire body then began to disintegrate. Great chunks of flesh fell into the sea and dissolved, staining the azure water dark red as the color spread through the foam.

A little farther away, the second giant octopus finally met up with the pirates' small boat. It wrapped a tentacle around the barrel they had brought, only to find that Zijin and Xiwo had long since abandoned the chase and were calmly returning to the White Triangle.

"I told you, Xiao Jin. If you'd met this kid earlier, how could you have spent a year fleeing in such a sorry state?" Xiwo said to Zijin.

"And then, half a month later, the Inquisition's high priestess Katharine would personally step in, and within a month, Pope Augustus would lead an expedition himself," the girl said irritably. "After that, we'd face the Star Empire's God of War and a continental coalition army of God knows how many."

Xiwo thought about it. "Hmm, I suppose so. But now that girl Katharine has gone off to have a baby, and the pope has his hands full with a doctrinal crisis. As for the Star Empire's God of War-if he really came, it wouldn't be such a paltry affair."

"We'll need to think about moving somewhere else