Chapter 29: Performing a Water Spray for Everyone
Not long after Orion Cross’s group went upstairs, a witch with a sea beast’s eye embedded in her forehead drifted in, her face filled with the air of death.
"As agreed, two in exchange for one."
Miss Fortune crossed her arms and glanced at the unlucky brothers tied up beside the table leg.
"Good. Your first mate."
A flash of light passed over the sea witch’s moss-covered staff, and a dark-skinned Buhru man dropped out.
After completing the trade, the sea witch paid no further attention to anything else and focused on examining the two people before her.
"These two will become excellent sacrifices for the beast beneath the sea. Prepare yourselves for a thousand years of torment."
A chilling smile appeared on the sea witch’s face. With a wave of her withered hand through the air, the two bound men on the ground floated up and followed behind her.
"A thousand years? No! Miss Sea Witch, I’m still young! I don’t want to die yet! At least not together with this guy!"
Twisted Fate struggled with all his might and shouted, but it was useless.
The sea witch paid no attention to his cries either. Sufficient negative emotions would only make the quality of the sacrifices higher.
"You should feel lucky that the Harrowing changed the way I view life."
After struggling internally for a while, Miss Fortune drew a red card from the deck on the table and threw it in Twisted Fate’s direction.
"Only one? Then sorry, brother. I’m escaping first."
Twisted Fate glanced at Graves, who was still unconscious, and prepared to teleport away.
"Wait!"
The sea witch suddenly turned her head back, frightening Twisted Fate, who was just about to cast, so badly that he trembled and dropped the card to the ground.
They had been discovered?!
Everyone was startled at once.
Miss Fortune’s hand also moved toward the pistol at her waist.
"There is a special scent upstairs. A sacrifice even better than these two fellows... Are they your crew?"
The sea witch’s three eyes stared eerily at Miss Fortune as she asked.
"No. However... this was not part of our deal."
Miss Fortune frowned slightly and spoke.
Her revenge against Gangplank had stained her hands with blood. The dragon slayer had ultimately become the dragon, turning into an empress of her generation.
And the arrival of the Harrowing had made her face life once again, restoring her ordinary sense of good and evil.
Since she could act to save Twisted Fate and Graves, whom she did not even like, she naturally did not want the innocent Orion Cross and the others to be dragged into this.
"That’s right. This is not a deal. That sacrifice is not something you can capture. You may leave, little Sarah. Obey the will of the beast beneath the sea."
The sea witch spoke eerily, lowered the staff in her hand, and began chanting a strange spell that made people’s scalps tingle.
"The sea beast’s priestess once helped me resist the Harrowing, but..."
Miss Fortune closed her eyes and drew the pistol at her waist. She raised it, then suddenly opened her eyes. "Bilgewater is still under my rule!"
Bang! Bang!
Gunshots rang out.
They pierced through the sea witch’s body, and disgusting mucus surged out from within.
"Too late. The beast beneath the sea has come to claim its sacrifice... No matter how filthy the harbor waters are, they cannot stop its desire for such a wonderful offering..."
The sea witch coughed out a mass of dirty water and revealed a hideous smile at Miss Fortune. "When the time comes, your soul will return to the sea as well."
Boom!
The moment her words fell, a massive tentacle burst straight out from beneath the ground. The entire house was instantly shattered, and everyone fell into the sea.
Fortunately, the Ancient One had noticed something wrong long ago. The instant the house broke apart, she set up a defense. At the same time, carrying one child in each hand, she stood upon the surface of the sea as she descended.
"What kind of monster is this?"
Coulson lay on a piece of driftwood, gripping his pitiful little handgun tightly, trembling slightly.
"Pfft."
Choked by seawater, the unconscious Graves woke up. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a massive tentacle. "What the hell did you people do?!"
"How about it, Empress? Do you regret it now?"
Twisted Fate stepped on a wooden plank and asked Miss Fortune not far away.
"Take your cards."
Miss Fortune took a stack of something from her pocket and threw it over. Then her gaze turned toward the enormous tentacle. "Tonight’s dinner is grilled octopus."
"Maybe we’re the octopus’s dinner tonight?"
Twisted Fate drew a gold card and joked with a smile, but bean-sized beads of sweat had already appeared on his forehead. "If we can’t beat it, I’m running at any moment."
The Ancient One had originally planned to open a portal and help everyone escape, but then she noticed a problem.
When they had been resting in the room, they had admired the surrounding scenery and city through the window and had also learned the terrain here.
The surroundings were a human settlement. If this monster were left alone, it would very likely cause even more casualties.
And this tentacle seemed to have been attracted by the aura on Orion Cross’s body.
At this moment, Orion Cross seemed to have already reached the most critical stage. Unless necessary, he was deep in consciousness, equivalent to having fallen asleep.
Then she could only act.
The Ancient One opened a portal and transferred the two children, Wanda and Pietro, onto land. Then she slowly walked across the surface of the sea.
"Dragon King, perform a water spray for everyone."
Orion Cross, who had been floating with the waves on the sea, suddenly opened his eyes and spoke.
Boom!
In the universe, nebulae gathered, and a beam of pure starfire descended from the heavens, directly vaporizing the tentacle into ash.
What followed was a painful howl from the deep-sea beast!