After detecting something amiss at the Colossal Hole Fortress, which was a territory of Hope Ind, Lilith decided to contact Hope Ind, but surprisingly, Bandages'' response was strange.


    "No, nothing happened… at the Colossal Hole Fortress... everything is normal..."


    Lilith ended the call with furrowed brows. "Everything is normal? Hmph, who do they think I am? A two-hundred-year-old child? How could everything be normal after such amotion?"


    Lilith had been on the surface world to help locate and retrieve the darkness for the sake of stopping the rising sea levels. In other words, she was familiar with that ce—a ce shrouded in purple light that could transform anything into relics.


    Considering what existed up there, Lilith believed that any incident up there had to be taken seriously. After pondering for a while, Lilith turned to the empty hall and said, "Send someone to take a look up there. I need to know what exactly had happened over there."


    Arge swarm of bats rushed out from under the red curtains and flew out of the window toward the distant, oppressive horizon of the dark seascape.


    While the Mother was busy instructing her children, Lily was standing on the balcony, casting a worried gaze in the direction where the indescribable aura hade from.


    <em>If there''s something going on here, then the same thing must be happening on that ne. Was this what Mr. Charles had mentioned to me before?</em>


    With that in mind, Lily couldn''t wait any longer. After hastily bidding farewell to Lilith, she took to the skies and headed in that direction. A cocoon of gentle sunlight enveloped her as she flew like a meteor streaking across the sky.To reach the Colossal Hole Fortress as quickly as possible, Lily didn''t take the safe route that the Explorers Association had mapped out years ago. Instead, she flew in a straight line, passing through uncharted regions.


    Lily''s tant crossing of such regions attracted covetous gazes from beneath the dark waters.


    Just then, a translucent tentacle riddled with ck rings stretched out from the pitch-ck abyss andshed out at Lily in the air. However, Lily managed to dodge it by a hair''s breadth.@@novelbin@@


    Truth be told, Lily couldn''t care less about these creatures. She was extremely anxious, and the only thought she had in mind was to reach the Colossal Hole Fortress as soon as possible.


    The indescribable aura earlier reminded her of the aura she felt when she first arrived at the Dark Abyssal Trench with Mr. Charles—Fhtagn''s aura. There were some differences between the two, but there were clear simrities as well.


    Since she was flying at top speed, Lily soon saw a beam of light sweeping across the dark sea surface. The beam of light wasing from a lighthouse. Annarles Ind was just up ahead.


    Lily came to a halt and hovered in the air above the ind. She opened her palm, revealing a miniature sun that she hurled upward. To her surprise, however, the colossal door that was supposed to be above Annarles Ind had disappeared.


    In fact, there wasn''t anything above Lily except for the generic rockyer overhead. Lily descended on the ind below. She looked around and discovered that she hadn''t made a mistake—she was indeed on Annarles Ind.


    But where was the colossal hole leading to the surface world?


    How could it suddenly disappear?


    Just then, Lily noticed that the inders looked terrified while staring at the dark sea.


    "What exactly happened just now? Why did our ind suddenly move several kilometers to the right?"


    "May the Giant Bird of Suffering bless us. Could it be that our ind is going to sink? That shouldn''t be the case, right? I mean, isn''t this a newly discovered ind?" ?АN??ě??


    "Uncle Charlie, let''s go to the docks! Let''s go to Auntie''s house on Hope Ind!"


    "We can''t leave! Customs has requisitioned all the boats, and the whole ind is under martialw!"


    The remarks of the worried inders told Lily what had happened. With aplex face, Lily looked to the left, where the ind was supposed to be. There wasn''t any light there; it was as dark as the rest of the seascape, but Lily inexplicably felt that there was something in the darkness.


    Lily took a deep breath and rose into the air again. Then, she flew in that direction.


    Lily dared not fly too fast; she was extremely cautious and vignt.


    About a minuteter, she heard some noises in the darkness. She raised her right hand in response, and a dazzling ray of sunlight pierced the darkness, vanquishing it.


    The light revealed a column of flesh covered with bulging blood vessels, bizarre-looking tentacles, deformed appendages, and amorphous organs.


    The column of flesh was extremely tall; its tip seemed to have fused with the rockyer up above, while its other end seemed to have pierced the seabed down below. It was pressing against the rockyer as if it were a load-bearing pir supporting both heaven and earth.


    An aura so oppressive that it was palpable was emanating from the pir.


    Although his appearance had changed beyond recognition, Lily instantly recognized that the pir before him was Mr. Charles—the Mr. Charles of this ne.


    Charles also recognized her, and thousands of eyes proliferated across the grotesque flesh pir in an instant, all staring straight at her. "What are you doing here?"


    Charles still had some impression of the little girl capable of wielding a tiny bit of the Light God''s might.


    "Mr. Charles, what exactly happened? Why did I feel a Divinity''s aura from here?"


    The thousands of eyes closed and were quickly overwhelmed by the amorphous organs proliferating across the flesh pir.


    Realizing that she was being ignored, Lily patiently asked once again, "Were you the one who moved that ind with the nar teleporting portal?


    "Mr. Charles, can you let me return to that ne? I need to go help him!"


    "Get lost!" A terrifying and oppressive aura rushed out of the flesh pir. "I''m already feeling annoyed, and I don''t have the time to talk to you at all!


    "And who do you think you are? You have no idea what we''re about to face! A little mouse like you can''t possibly help him or me!"


    The terrifying and oppressive aura swept across Lily, eroding her mind and assimting her will.


    Lily gnashed her teeth and enveloped herself with the power within her in an effort to resist the oppressive aura.


    "I can help! I''m strong! And I''m wielding the Light God''s power!"


    <em>Rumble!</em>


    Three massive tentacles stretched out from the water down below and wrapped around Lily. The next moment, everything about Lily appeared in Charles'' mind, and he could also see those afterimages around her.


    "No, you can''t help. You have just a spark of the Light God''s power inside you; you can''t wield even one percent of His power. At most, you''re just a bit more powerful than an ordinary human being."


    "You''re not at my level. You cannot understand what it means to be a Divinity, and you have no idea just how weak humans are."


    The tentacles loosened before pushing Lily away. Lily looked wronged as she stared at Charles in front of her. She could easily upend an entire ind, but she was still nothing in his eyes.


    "Does that mean you''ll let me help if I be a being like the Light God?"


    "<em>Hahaha,</em> how brazen. Fine, you might be a bit useful if you reach the same level as the Light God. Unfortunately, there isn''t enough time. The fragmented scenes in my mind have be a bit clearer, and… I hope you haven''t forgotten the ultimate fate of the Light God."