novelraw Chapter 384-2: Cruel Disciple War, Three Goddesses of Vengeance (2)
Chapter 384-2: Cruel Disciple War, Three Goddesses of Vengeance (2)
With his enemies’ thoughts laid bare, the tension in Amos’ heart eased a little.
“Heh, Jeremiah and Agabus will never guess why Cain and I only brought two retainers.”
[You open your eyes. The sound of waves crashing rises and falls by your ears, and the air is full of the persistent salty stench of seawater.]
[Cold seawater rides in on the waves and washes over half of your wandering soul body, making you feel a chill that cuts to the bone.]
[You stand up and look around at everything…]
[You are on an empty beach. Dim moonlight pierces the clouds and falls down, as if laying a thin layer of frost and snow over the sand.]
[The sea at night is pitch-black. The moonlight cannot penetrate the water and can only float on the surface, as if some great danger lurks beneath it.]
[Your instincts are warning you never to dive into the sea, or else a terrible and immense crisis will surely occur.]
[You turn your head and look inland along the beach. What enters your eyes is nothing but lush, verdant vegetation and trees…]
[Not far from you, two faint lights suddenly appear. Two flickering white wandering souls manifest from the void and they are your loyal retainers.][You notice that at the edge of the flourishing forest, there seems to be a corpse lying on the ground…]
[Do you want to walk up and check it out?]
Amos did not immediately press the option and instead possessed a Shell first.
[You possess the Shell Corrupted Calamity Lich.]
[With your two loyal retainers, who have also possessed Shells, you walk to the long dead corpse…]
[Shell of Navigator Survivor: A navigator with lofty dreams who tried to discover a new continent in the vast ocean and obtain endless wealth. Yet a terrifying storm destroyed not only the ship that he believed to be indestructible, but also his dreams… Compatibility: 86 percent.]
[Do you want to possess this Shell?]
There was no Resting Page nearby, so Amos could not use the special method of possessing a Shell to learn its memories.
But as a Calamity Lich, this small difficulty did not trouble him.
In truth, the elite Apostles qualified to take part in the Disciple War were the top fighting force of the New World. Each had their own means.
“Let’s first see if there are any belongings…”
[You do not possess this frail navigator Shell and instead squat down to search for any belongings it might have left behind…]
[Soon, you find a bloodstained logbook in his leather satchel.]
[You have obtained Navigation Logbook (Document).]
[You open the Navigation Logbook and quickly skim its contents.]
[…]
[I swear that in my decades of life at sea, I have never seen a storm so terrifying…]
[Lightning and gales swept the ship forward. Such terrifying natural might was like the sea god venting endless fury.]
[As the ship was about to be destroyed, we saw three enormous islands in the endless storm. Then a violent thunderbolt mercilessly smashed our oceanfaring ship to pieces…]
[…]
[When I regained consciousness, I was already lying on the island’s beach. I was not the only survivor. I saw many familiar faces. They were all sailors I had recruited in person.]
[Though only one third of the original number remained, I had to admit that this was a miracle.]
[After a round of scouting, we discovered that the deserted island not only had fresh water but also many wild animals.]
[The sailors and I were overjoyed. This was the favor of the goddess of luck. I was on the verge of kneeling down on the spot and singing my praises of the great goddess of luck.]
[Yet we never expected that it would not be the goddess of luck that we were about to face, but the goddess of vengeance…]
[They were real goddesses of vengeance, the goddesses of vengeance we had only ever heard about in myths and legends.]
[When three tall and beautiful ladies appeared before me, I could hardly believe my eyes.]
[They had hair like venomous snakes, blood tears flowing from red eyes, and on their shoulders grew wings like those of a giant eagle. In their hands they held a torch and a bloodstained serpent whip.]
[They were the Three Goddesses of Vengeance that existed only in myth and legend.]
[Their names were Anxiety, Envy, and Retribution.]
[The Goddess Anxiety told us that we were not the only ones to survive the storm. Everyone had survived and the remaining crew were on the other two islands…]
[The Goddess Envy told us that it was because they had used divine power that we had been rescued from the endless storm. When mortals received blessings from gods, they had to pay a price…]
[The Goddess Retribution told us that sin born of vengeance and slaughter was the best sacrificial offering to the gods. On each island, only one person could leave alive.]
[After speaking, the Three Goddesses of Vengeance flapped their wings and disappeared into the sky…]
[Leaving us frozen in shock for a long time.]
[When I came to my senses, I could only feel that the sailors who usually looked at me with respect now glared at me with a cruelty that made my blood run cold…]
[…]
[The words recorded in the Navigation Logbook end abruptly.]
Amos stared blankly at the text, feeling an immense fear shroud his entire body.
“Only one person can leave alive… only one person can leave alive.”
He had never imagined that the victory condition of this Disciple War would be so bloody and cruel.
On this island where lower-ranked Disciples were gathered, only one person could leave alive. This outcome was even more dangerous than the worst case he had imagined.
No, it could not simply be called more dangerous. It could only be called certain death, an eternal damnation with no way back.
How was he supposed to fight against the Ninth Disciple Agabus who had already reached demigod level?
Suppressing the trembling in his fingertips, Amos activated a Shell skill, Dominate Ghosts.
A wisp of remnant soul drifted out of the navigator Shell and recounted everything that had happened to him before death. What he said was exactly the same as what was recorded in the logbook.
Amos’ last shred of hope was shattered.
He did not know why, but he suddenly became extremely calm. He temporarily muted his headset, then turned to his two retainers and said, “You both saw what the navigator’s ghost just said, right?”
The two retainers had already prepared themselves for death before entering the chapter. Hearing this, they nodded without any change of expression.
“Good. Then now it is time for the two of you to die.”
[You raise the Wraith Curse Staff and the incantation you have long been chanting suddenly becomes sharp and piercing.]
[A gigantic bone dragon flies out from the void. There is no flesh left in its eye sockets, only cold green soul fire.]
[The Wailing Bone Dragon opens its jaws in a silent roar. A waterfall of ghostly green breath of the dead pours out in an instant and crashes down upon your two retainers, who are completely unprepared and make no move to defend themselves…]
[…]
[Your Retainer No. 1 has died.]
[Your Retainer No. 2 has died.]
The two retainers at his side screamed in agony and instinctively clutched their own throats, collapsing to the ground in pain.
They struggled and howled on instinct until their violently twisting bodies gradually weakened and the light called life slowly went out in their eyes.
Amos did not look at the two retainers and instead stared coldly at the flickering text as he continued to trigger a Shell skill, Rite of the Dead.
[…]
[The raging breath of the dead finally dissipates. From the two masses of mangled flesh that no longer resemble human forms, two arms of pitch-black bone suddenly thrust out…]
[Soon, two Abyssal Dark Knights returning from the Netherworld appear before you. They kneel on one knee and await your orders.]
[You can sense that they seem even stronger than they were in life.]
Amos closed his eyes. When he opened them again, only resolve remained in his gaze.
He pressed the button on his headset and shouted in panic, “Cain, forget about the Shell’s memories, get over here and support me, Jeremiah is attacking me.”
“Both my retainers are dead already. Hurry over along the coordinates. As long as we join forces, we can kill Jeremiah.”
“Hurry.”