Lily's eyes were full of pleading, "I know you are hiding from us, I'm really scared, after I leave this time, I will never see you again."
Charles thought for a long time, and finally said helplessly: "Lily, you shouldn't stay by my side. Maybe it was possible before, but not now. Something has changed."
"Why can't I stay with you? Is it because I turned into a human? Then I can change back!" Lily's voice couldn't help but become a little excited.
Just as Lily finished saying this, a flash of cold light appeared behind Charles, and a scratch appeared on Charles' face. Dark red blood slowly seeped out from the wound.
Charles did not make any move in response. His brows were furrowed, and the sharpness that had disappeared before was gathered again in him. He asked in a low voice: "Have you had enough of the trouble?"
The afterimage quickly gathered on the right side of the sofa. It was Dipper who followed. When he saw the wound on Charles' face, he said happily, "I knew it must be the real captain! You said it was a fake, second mate."
Seeing Charles' face turn cold, Dipper suddenly felt nervous, "Captain, this was the second mate's idea, I was just executing it."
"You're so grown up, why are you still so restless all day long? Go back to sleep! If you don't want to sleep, get out of here!" After being scolded by Charles, Dipper showed a look of joy on his face. This was the captain he was familiar with.
Just as Dipper was walking upstairs happily, Nico came down from upstairs. He greeted Charles with a smile and said that all this was Dipper's idea.
Charles obviously didn't want to pay any attention to the two of them. He stood up and took Lily to a quiet place.
But just as Charles turned around, Nico's face turned cold, and as he turned his right hand to the holster on his waist, a silver pistol with patterns appeared in his hand. He raised his hand and shot Charles in the back of the head.
With a gunshot, a bullet engraved with inscriptions and wrapped in black liquid spun and shot towards Charles's back.
Just as the bullet was about to hit the back of Charles' head, he quickly turned around, raised his hand, and directly blocked the bullet with his steel prosthesis.
When Charles slowly put his hand down, the other three people present were stunned. The sound of the bullet hitting the metal arm was not the sound of metal collision.
Lily, who was beside Charles, looked at Charles' arm with slightly trembling pupils. There was a hole on a gear on the prosthetic arm that was supposed to be all-metal, and dark red blood was slowly flowing out of the hole. The metal arm could actually bleed.
"What the hell is going on?" Dipper didn't know what to do for a moment. He couldn't believe what was in front of him.
"What else could be going on! The captain in front of us is a fake!!" Nico raised the gun with both hands and aimed at the fatal part of Charles' body.
Lily took three steps back in shock. When she thought about how she had just been lying in the other person's arms for a long time, she felt a little nauseous.
"Lily, listen to my explanation." Charles walked towards her.
But before he could take half a step, the dazzling sunlight shot out from the girl's body and instantly turned into a long cone that pierced into the opponent's body, nailing him directly to the wall.
"Bang bang bang!" Nico fired his rifle instantly, and Charles' temple, chest, and limb joints all exploded like red flowers.
"I'll go call the others down!" Dipper's body instantly turned into a ball of blue mist and quickly floated towards the second floor.
Charles, who had suffered several fatal wounds, moved slightly and raised his head again. At this time, the tentacle hair on his head had been torn off by bullets, revealing an empty skull with nothing inside.
There was a noise at the stairs, and the crew members who were supposed to be lying upstairs rushed downstairs quickly, and then saw this scene.
Looking at the fear in Lily's eyes in the distance, Charles, with only a faceplate left to support his features, smiled calmly, "Maybe this is better."
As soon as he finished speaking, everything around him began to change. The chandelier, the dining table, the carpet, the walls, everything around him began to wriggle and gradually regained its flesh and blood appearance. The whole house became like the stomach of a monster.
"Get out! Leave this place immediately!" Dipper immediately issued the most effective order.
Linda vomited forcefully, and a big hole was instantly corroded on the wooden door and the surrounding walls of flesh and blood. However, the scene outside made them feel extremely desperate. The two street lamps at the door turned into two eyeballs, and the ground outside and the dark woods also began to wriggle, and the darkness was gradually replaced by flesh and blood.
Some rustling sounds began to ring in their ears, similar to the whispers of gods.
"Do you remember my original wish? I didn't wish to go back, but I wished to gain the power of God, because I know that some things must be done by someone."
The entire flesh and blood house quickly rose up, and the roof and walls began to collapse in all directions. Within a few seconds, the entire island appeared in front of them.
At this moment, the island came alive, and all kinds of eyes growing on the limbs, flesh pillars, and on the ground were looking up at the other crew members in the air.
Among these flesh and blood, Charles' descendants howled in horror, and their organs began to distort again.
"And now I am a god of Earthsea. I have immense power, but I have also lost something important."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present instantly collapsed to the ground holding their heads, with extremely painful expressions on their faces. The influence of the gods was unbearable for them, even if Charles had no ill intentions.
But there was one exception, and that was Lily, whose petite body was enveloped by the gentle sunshine.
She took a half step back in disbelief, looking at everything around her in horror. It turned out that the Charles before was just his mouth, and the current Charles' body was actually this island which was larger than Hope Island!
"Lily, do you understand why I didn't let you stay? Some things have changed and can't be changed back."
"Why? Why did it turn out like this!" Lily screamed in pain as she looked at Charles, whose face was disfigured beyond recognition.
"Because I want to give it a try. Although this power comes at a great cost, it allows me to protect what I can protect, including you." At the same time, the facial features of the other crew members began to bleed, and they could not hold on any longer.
"Tell them not to come to me again. The rest of the matter has nothing to do with them. This is my last order as the captain of the Narwhal. Live every day of your life well." With a flash of white, the crew of the Narwhal quickly disappeared from the spot.
(End of this chapter)