Shrouded Seascape

Tobba's eyes showed deep confusion. "Edikth? Who's that?"

Anna ignored him. She had no time to explain. It was better to think of a solution to this dilemma rather than spend time explaining the Divinity named Edikth to Tobba.

Anna crouched and pressed her ear on the chest of the sleeping Anna. She could feel a steady heartbeat inside. Her fleshly body was alive.

A sharp crystal spike pierced her fleshly body. Blood flowed out of the wound, but her fleshly body showed no reaction as if she were in a vegetative state.

"Why did you not attempt to summon something else?" Tobba asked. He had been chattering incessantly and was simply being ignored by Anna.

Anna glared at Tobba in annoyance. "I just wanted to borrow the presence of a god from the Subterranean Sea to scare my opponent away. And I had no time to choose at all, so I simply picked the most convenient one."

"Oh? Is that so? Does Edikth have the ability to transform dreams into reality?"

"I don't know. Even in the Subterranean Sea, Edikth is the most mysterious entity. I actually obtained that sacrificial ritual through a deal with a creature living in the Dark Abyssal Trench. Anyway, stop asking questions."

Anna calmed herself down and examined the fleshly body in front of her. She inspected it inside and out, confirming that the fleshly body before her was indeed her fleshly body.

Recalling Luvlyn's special ability and the fact that her fleshly body had always been with Tobba and the others, an assumption formed in Anna's mind. Luvlyn had to have used an Anomaly or something else to drag Anna's sleeping self to Site 66 in order to interrogate or torture her.

It was supposed to be temporary, but Edikth's aura had influenced Luvlyn's dreamscape, transforming parts of it into reality.

Anna's assumption was evidenced by how she now had two bodies—her original, fleshly body and her current fleshly body that Luvlyn had imagined into existence.

Staring at her fleshly body, Anna was at a loss for what to do next.

Under normal circumstances, Anna would have deemed the fleshly body useless and would have no qualms about destroying it. However, there was a slim chance that her imagined fleshly body was ephemeral.

What would she do if her imagined fleshly body disappeared and she had no fleshly body to return to? She'd most likely die in an instant by then. Anna couldn't afford to take any risks. Luvlyn and Edikth's abilities were both unknown to her, after all.

No one knew what fruits their fusion could bear except for transforming dreams into reality.

Wait a second, transforming dreams into reality? Anna noticed something just then. She noticed that she had forgotten something. It was important, but she could not remember it for some reason.

With furrowed brows, Anna paced back and forth. She couldn't help but hate the limitations of her human brain.

It took Anna thirty minutes of pacing back and forth before she finally remembered what she had forgotten. She immediately reached into her pocket, and a glimmer of joy appeared in her eyes as soon as she felt a small, hard object inside.

Pulling out her hand, a crystal-clear die appeared between Anna's fingers. This was the relic that she had imagined in her dream. It was Charles' teleportation die.

Anna tossed the die into the air before gripping it tightly in her palm. Anna willed it, and her figure instantly reappeared in the adjacent room.

Hehe, not bad at all. This is such an unexpected harvest. I had no idea that Edikth is actually capable of materializing relics.

Anna's delight lasted only a few seconds as a wave of nausea struck her, making her feel like vomiting the contents of her stomach. It seemed that the relic had been materialized perfectly, including the side effects.

Anyway, it's better to have it than not. I can either keep it or fuse with it. Any of those two choices are great, Anna thought. She then placed the crystal-clear die in her pocket and walked toward the wooden door.

Anna had somehow obtained a relic, but she still had issues that had yet to be resolved. Her extra fleshly body was an example; Anna pondered for quite a while before she finally made up her mind.

She had decided to bring it with her. If there were any issues related to her fleshly body, then she'd have no issues resolving it. Having made up her mind, Anna looked up and swept her gaze across the people in the room.

Li Lu, Wang Sheng, Tobba, the clown, Li Long, and the dozen or so Fhtagnists were all staring at her. Finally, her gaze settled on Wang Sheng. "Let's go. We can't stay here for too long. We'll go back home first."

There were some hiccups, but the mission objective had been secured, so it was time for Anna to receive her reward.

Inside the cabin of a passenger plane flying at an altitude of five thousand meters, Tobba was watching a movie next to Li Long.

Tobba's flailing legs struck Li Long, awakening him from his slumber. Li Long rubbed his eyes and looked out the window to the right. When he saw the familiar skyscrapers down below, Li Long's eyes welled up with tears.

Everything that had happened to him over the past year was so surreal that it did not feel real at all. During his confinement, Li Long truly thought that he'd die in that prison.

He had never imagined that he'd one day make it out of that prison alive.

While Li Long was deep in his own thoughts, he craned his neck to look around. Then, he stepped over Tobba's legs and walked up to Wang Sheng, who was resting with an eye mask.

"Hey, Old Wang! Wake up," Li Long said.

Wang Sheng felt someone poking his shoulder. He pulled away the eye mask and looked at Li Long.

"You still remember the promise that you made to me when we were still in that prison, right? You said that as soon as we're out of that prison, you'd find me a stable job with a monthly salary of twenty thousand yuan in your company."

Wang Sheng looked down on the sleazy Li Long. They never really had any interactions, but their imprisonment allowed them to nurture a friendship. In other words, the two could barely be considered friends.

"You really don't plan to follow the High Priestess anymore? And what can you even do to earn a job with that salary?"

Li Long surreptitiously glanced at Anna's seat before muttering, "I really can't do it anymore. It doesn't matter even if you think of me as a coward. It's true; I really am a coward."

When Li Long was just a small-time thief, he was convinced that he had latched onto a capable individual, but his decision almost lost him his life.

Li Long had been a good-for-nothing for more than thirty years, but it hadn't been that long since he learned a certain lesson—one ought to know one's place.

Li Long acknowledged that he was nothing more than just a small-time thief, so there was no need for him to get involved with the veterans capable of killing without batting an eyelid.

Of course, it wasn't like he was worthy to join their games.

Li Long had already made up his mind. Upon landing, he would resign and live a satisfactory but low-key life.

The imprisonment had truly frightened and traumatized Li Long, and he came to learn that US dollars and beautiful women were nothing in the face of Death itself.

"Are you sure about that? The organization that we had ended up offending seems to be a huge international organization. Are you not afraid that they'll come after you once you're no longer on our side?"

Li Long paled at Wang Sheng's remark. Moments later, however, a forced smile tugged at the lips of his pale face. "They're going to deal with you, not me. They're not going to care about a small fry like me. Yeah, they won't care about me at all."