From Secret Clan to the Divine Dynasty

Even in the lightless waters, he could still rely on “Tracking Senses” to discern his location, quickly finding that familiar scent amidst the multitude of odors.

Finally, Chris reached Byrne’s side, he reached out to grab the unconscious man, and suddenly tried to pull him back to the ship.

But suddenly, he realized he was inside the body of the Spawn of the Abyss!

Unknowingly, the two had already been enveloped by the terrifying creature, layer upon layer.

One after another, menacing eyes several meters long approached, and from the middle, they crazily split open, turning into countless tooth-filled gaping maws, aiming to chew and tear them apart!

Chris, expressionless, held onto Byrne like a nimble fish, constantly swimming rapidly in front of the gaping maws, swiftly changing positions to avoid one deadly attack after another.

Dragging Byrne’s body through the water was truly difficult, and he quickly felt the air in his mouth running out, yet he still didn’t let go, continuously swimming towards the ship.

All of a sudden, Chris felt another arm throbbing with pain.

He simply couldn’t dodge all the attacks and still got bitten by a gaping maw once, his whole arm disappearing instantly, with copious amounts of red blood spraying into the sea!

Chris remained calm, clearly understanding that the blood loss was becoming more and more severe, and he absolutely couldn’t delay any longer.

Almost out of sheer willpower, Chris still shook off the Spawn of the Abyss and, before completely losing his strength, managed to swim with the unconscious Byrne to the edge of the hull.

Yet with one hand holding onto Byrne and the other devoured by the Spawn of the Abyss, he had no way to climb onto the constantly moving ship.

Moreover, the effects of blood loss grew greater, and Chris’s mind gradually became heavy, on the verge of sinking silently to the bottom of the sea.

Just then, a man jumped down from the ship.

Archibald firmly embraced Chris, then manipulated the power of wind to swim upwards toward the surface, bursting out of the water and clenching onto a thick hemp rope let down from the ship.

“Quick! Pull us up!” he bellowed.

On deck, Erik, Irene, Aaron, and the Abbott siblings all pulled hard together, quickly hauling them aboard, while Theo continued to steer conscientiously, focusing intensely; the young Knight Verne appeared somewhat petrified, continuously staring at the chilling night in shock.

Meanwhile, Karl’s intangible consciousness had already flown to the high sky in the distance.

He calmly stared at the one-against-three Monarch level battle in the sky.

Storms, blood fog, white giants, black light.

They vied with each other, tinting the night with completely different scenes, as if heralding the end of the world.

Irene not continuing the sacrifices just now was the right choice, for if those Monarch powerful experts had discovered their existence, the Fischer family would have been subjected to even fiercer pursuit.

By then, their chances of survival would likely have been zero.

Karl was very clear on one thing, even if he drained the remaining decade-plus years of Irene’s life, the weapon he would receive would not be able to kill a true Monarch Level powerful expert.

He soon discovered something interesting, which was that the Monarchs besieging the Tempest Bishop were wary and vigilant of each other.

“Those three Monarch powerful experts have been holding back all this time; it looks like there’s absolutely no trust among them, and they definitely aren’t all from the Sea God Cult.”

“Did the Sea God Cult’s two temporary allies come because of some special transaction?”

He had already sensed the scent of the Forbidden relic; the Tempest Bishop seemed to think he was doomed and used two distinctly powerful but different Forbidden relics to attack the Monarch powerful experts of the Sea God Cult without any hesitation.

Karl felt the Forbidden relics were full of temptation!

“Pity, now is not the time.”

Eventually, the sailboat carrying the Fischer family gradually escaped the crazy battlefield, and the Cyart forces had no idea how many had died in the night.

However, every member of the family knew that terror and danger were far from over.

As for when safety would come, nobody could say for sure.

The dark night passed silently, and dawn began to brighten.

A solitary sailboat drifted on the sea, and most of the members of the Fischer family on board displayed weary expressions.

This route’s destination was not Phelps Port but would directly reach Nasir Port, when Byrne fell unconscious, Chris had rescued him, and Irene took Byrne’s place to give orders, choosing this path to return home.

If they returned to Phelps Port, they would certainly be easy targets for the Sea God Cult’s ambush, so seeking the relatively unremarkable Nasir was better.

Theo, with a grave expression on deck, approached Irene and said:

“The situation isn’t great; we must land to repair the ship, or it won’t last until tonight and will sink.”

Subsequently, he and Irene looked towards the distance, where indeed, an island existed in their sight.

This island, named ‘Karimun’ by the Tempest Church, means a black giant sea turtle; from afar, it appeared to be a round island with no distinctive features.

Eventually, the sailboat anchored on the coast of Karimun Island. They landed, mooring the ship with ropes at the edge of the beach, and under Erik’s direction, who possessed the “Craftsman” ability, the people of the Fischer family began repairing the vessel.

“Damn it!”

Aaron’s face looked ugly because his important subordinate hadn’t survived.

Although he was a brainless guy, he was still an important Extraordinary Exponent from the silver descendants clan, yet he had fallen overboard during the Shape-shifting.

He had asked Irene for the reason, but she replied that Byrne could only perform “Shape-shifting” on living beings without malice.

Aaron immediately understood that since Byrne did not agree with the raiding, that foolish guy must have harbored malice deep in his heart, no doubt the reason he had perished in the sea.

“How stupid!”

Byrne, Irene, Chris, Theo, Archibald, Erik, Aaron, Verne, the Abbott siblings, there were still ten Extraordinary Exponents left on the ship.

And some of the ordinary people on the ship had also died, thrown out of the ship as it was shape-shifted and fell into the water, or had broken their necks from crashing inside the ship, leaving a total of one hundred and fifteen people left.

“…”

By the beach, Chris stood calmly in front of Byrne, silent for a long time, his body completely recovered.

In the process of saving Byrne, a terrifying maw from the Spawn of the Abyss had torn his arm to shreds, and if it weren’t for his sister’s healing, he would have been permanently disabled.

Byrne lay quietly on the bedding brought out from the ship with his eyes closed, his body completely free of external injuries, but he still did not wake up, not even with Irene’s full effort in treating him.

The situation was strange, but Irene was certain that there was no risk of him dying, he just needed a lot of sleep.

“Chris!”

He suddenly saw Irene shouting at him, and immediately noticed the situation in the distance.

There was a ship!

It was being constantly harassed by the sea tribe on the distant sea surface. Although it was desperately heading toward the island, its body was already in tatters from the numerous sea tribe attacks.

And when the ship got a little closer, Chris saw more clearly that it was undoubtedly a Cyart sailboat.

As Byrne had fallen into complete unconsciousness, Irene decisively took over his command.

“Rescue them!”

She could see that there were Transmutation Level Extraordinary Exponents on that ship; dealing with the sea tribe was only a matter of time, and even if the ship were destroyed, those people could swim to this island.

Given that, there was no need for the Fischer family to hesitate any longer—better to carry out the rescue before the others landed on the island, and they might earn a favor in return.

Since those sea tribe posed no threat, being only lesser in strength, Chris walked into the water expressionlessly and swam over.

The rest of the Fischer family, whose physical fitness couldn’t match Chris’s, didn’t rashly enter the water but prepared for a possible battle on the beach with nervous vigilance.

After a while, the battered ship finally reached the shore, and people quickly disembarked.

The middle-aged man wore a black military uniform and had a square face and a very strong build, as robust as an ox, accompanied by a green-dressed woman as they both walked down from the ship.

“Brave men of Nasir, the Fischer family, we are extremely grateful for your help! We are the Vaughn family from Sunrise Lake, and I am Baron Vaughn!”

Baron Vaughn was a Middle Rank Transmutation Extraordinary Exponent, and his daughter standing next to him was a low-level Transmutation Extraordinary Exponent; besides them, they had eight more Extraordinary Exponents and more than two hundred family soldiers aboard their ship.

Their overall strength was stronger than that of the Fischer family.

Though the Vaughn family lived near Sunrise Lake, they actually depended on the Donnerklaue clan, one of the seven viscount families, and the Donnerklaue clan, not participating in the struggle between the lions and the eagles, had always remained neutral.

The two families got along well, jointly repairing the ships by the coast, but due to the mental shock from this massive defeat, everyone was full of exhaustion and confusion, silent and uncommunicative, with little interaction.

It wasn’t until the afternoon that a great will from the Lord of the Lost emerged in Irene’s mind!

[A formidable enemy has arrived]

She sharply turned to look at the sea again and, sure enough, could faintly discern a small black dot gradually growing larger in her field of vision.

Could these people be related to the Vaughn family?

Irene frowned at the Vaughn family and others, and then shook her head. If they were traitors, her Listening for Malice ability would have already been triggered.

She made a decisive judgment—it wasn’t enemies brought by them; it must be enemies tracking the Vaughn family!

Even with Byrne still deeply unconscious, there were still a Middle Rank and a low-level Transmutation Extraordinary Exponents among the Cyart people on the coast.

Besides, there was also Chris, who could easily defeat an ordinary low-level Transmutation, already climbing the ladder of a ‘Disguiser’, wielding the powerful rune power “Blade of Silver Radiance”.

Irene’s brow furrowed as she analyzed to herself:

“Even so, the arrival still counts as a formidable enemy for the Fischer family. Could there be a high-level Transmutation enemy on that ship?”

With Byrne still in a deep coma, she understood the heavy responsibility she had to bear, to help the Fischer family withstand the powerful enemy!