After hesitating for a moment, Dipper shouted, "Father. We all understand your concern for us, but for you, we have the same feelings! If you hadn't picked me up from the street, I would have starved to death! I am willing to give everything for your pursuit!"
Charles' pupils shrank slightly and he looked up at the fishman in front of him. This was the first time he called himself father.
The other crew members also slowly gathered around at this time. They formed a circle and surrounded Charles in the middle.
Charles looked up and looked at their eyes looking at him, those familiar eyes.
"Mr. Charles, Dipper is right. It was you who helped me find where my home is. It was also you who resurrected me and asked me to help you. I am very powerful."
"I seldom say thank you, but when the Saints wanted to send me away as cannon fodder, you saved me. I owe you this."
"Captain, I was just a blind painter on Dark Crystal Island. You gave me a new life. I now have my beloved and my eyes have been healed. All of this is given to me by you."
"That's right, Captain. The current island life is given to us by you. I can help you with anything you want to do."
After everyone else finished speaking, Bandage stepped forward and gently placed his hand on Charles' shoulder. He didn't say anything, but Charles understood what he was going to say.
Charles felt his nose a little sour. He seemed to realize that although Anna and Winky had left, he was not alone. Although the Earthsea assimilated him, it also allowed him to gain other things, even things comparable to the surface.
At this time, the small fire in front of him had burned out and only some black ashes were left. Charles looked at the ashes and said in a low voice: "Go and get everything ready. The Narwhal will set sail at 8:30 tomorrow morning."
Everyone who heard this showed a hint of joy on their faces.
"Yes, Captain!!"
"Yes, Captain!!"
"Yes, Captain!!"
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The island that was once the crown of the world and should have been lonely now has a new island next to it. They are connected to each other and form an 8 shape on the sea. That is Anna's floating island.
The Crown of the World, which should have been bustling with people, was completely silent at the pier, and the ryegrass in the fields had all withered. The entire island was completely dark, without any lights.
But it doesn’t matter. The creatures living here don’t need any lights either. From time to time, some strange sounds can be heard in the darkness.
Suddenly, there was a flash of white light, and a huge Levi whale over two hundred meters long fell from mid-air and hit the center of the Crown of the World.
After a brief second, the sound of flesh tearing was heard in the darkness. A delicate-looking girl in a white miniskirt sat on the whale's head, watching with great interest everything that happened below.
"Don't snatch it, Big Head Sister. There is still a lot of meat, enough for you to eat your fill." She shouted softly to the people below.
Seeing that no one paid attention to her, Shanshan didn't care and continued talking to herself. She called all the strange monsters below as brothers and sisters.
No one knew who had bit open the whale's stomach, and a half-rotten monster corpse covered in black mucus slid out from it. Charles' descendants rushed forward and quickly divided the thing up.
Shanshan watched until the dinner was over, stretched, stood up, and disappeared from the spot in an instant.
When she appeared again, she was already inside the floating island next to her. The city on the island, which was supposed to be where those green centipedes lived, had been completely transformed by Anna into a human city.
There are some humans living inside, and when they look at the huge tentacle monster in the center, their eyes are filled with fanaticism. That is their god.
When Anna saw Shining appear in front of her in human form, her tone sounded very dissatisfied, "Why did you have to become a human? It's a complete waste of time to become like this! Change back."
Shanshan showed a trace of helplessness on her face, "Before, you told me that I would become a human, but now you suddenly don't change. Can you let me get used to it first?"
"Change back!" Anna's tone towards her daughter was harsher than ever before.
The slender girl's body swelled up quickly, and a huge tentacle monster with green liquid eyes appeared in her place. The people around her fell to the ground and knelt.
"That's right, this is my dear daughter. Humans are an ignorant, foolish and selfish race. It's a complete waste of time to spend energy on them!" Anna's tentacles rolled up quickly, and several people passing by were thrown into her mouth in an instant.
"Ignorant, stupid, selfish? How do you feel about that? Is that the adjective you would use to describe your father?"
"Don't mention him to me! I've given so much for him! But what about him? How did he treat me? I've always been the one who gave, but in the end he was on guard against me! What does he think of me?!" Anna's voice was filled with unbearable anger.
"He is such a selfish piece of shit!! He even drove me away to prevent me from paying attention to the three wishes!!"
The tentacles smashed pits into the ground, and the roars made the residents of the entire island city cover their ears in pain. Many of their hair and bodies became deformed.
"Since you treat me as a monster, I will be myself again!! I will make that bastard pay the price he deserves!!"
"I think dad still cares about you, he's just not good at expressing it. In fact, between you two, as long as--" Feeling his mother's anger, Shanshan rationally stopped persuading her. Continuing to talk would only backfire, so he decided to wait until later.
Seeing the black tentacles stretched out in front of her, Shanshan floated over. The two tentacles of different colors entangled with each other. Anna hugged Shanshan tightly. "Child, you are the only one I have now. You won't abandon your mother, will you?"
"Won't."
"Very good, let's become stronger together, let's work together to become true gods!"
Shanshan showed a trace of worry in her heart, but she did not show it. Her father was right. Her mother's desire for power was too persistent. She had to find a way to protect her. This was also the reason why Shanshan followed.
"My dear daughter, teleport the entire island to the Sea of Misty Sea now."
Anna's words puzzled Shanshan, "Why are we going there? Isn't that the foundation's territory?"
"Yes, that is indeed the Foundation's territory. Although the Foundation has been destroyed, its legacy is still there, including the corpse of the god!"
Hearing this, Shanshan's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
"Sparkling, I know it was Charles who asked you to lie before, it doesn't matter, you don't have to listen to him anymore."
"Think about it, the corpse of a true god is much faster than sacrificing human lives. As long as I completely occupy that corpse, I will be promoted to become the new god of Earthsea!"
(End of this chapter)