I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

Lu Ban continued to follow the two. Feng Yu's complete invisibility effect evaded all of their detection methods. Although Lu Ban was walking right behind them, the two did not notice him at all, and were only looking at the various things inside the ship.

The bandaged man entered a spacious room. Unlike the other bedrooms, this room had a large wooden desk in addition to the bed. On the desk was a nautical chart, and behind the chair was a display cabinet. Inside the transparent window, there was a model of the Starship.

This is clearly the captain's cabin.

The bandaged man didn't touch anything inside rashly. Instead, he reached out and used the gray mist falling from his fingertips to explore. His gaze swept over the cabinets, windows, and portraits, and he saw the mirror on the wall.

The image of the bandaged person was clearly visible in the mirror.

However, he clearly saw that there was another face behind him.

The face was slightly pale, belonging to a completely different race. Its deep black eyes seemed to devour everything, making it ferocious and terrifying.

"!!!"

The bandaged man immediately turned around, and the smoke in his hand transformed into sharp spikes that pierced through the man's position.

There was no feedback of being hit.

There was nothing behind the bandaged man; the merman was exploring another room.

When he turned around, only he himself remained in the mirror.

pat-

A pen on a nearby table fell to the ground with a slight thud.

The bandaged man, his nerves on edge, looked over.

There was no one there.

He spread the gray mist from his body throughout the room, trying to detect the movements of any possible person, but found nothing.

"illusion?"

Even though what he saw and heard gave him a strong sense of unease, his own abilities told him that he was safe here.

The bandaged man quickly found the cruise ship's blueprints, picked them up, and prepared to leave the captain's cabin.

Before leaving, he turned back and took one last deep look at the room before departing.

Inside the room, Lu Ban stood by the window, a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth.

"How could you suddenly break invisibility?"

He questioned Feng Yu.

Lu Ban was standing behind the bandaged man, but Feng Yu suddenly deactivated his invisibility, causing Lu Ban's face to appear in the mirror. Although he immediately reactivated his invisibility, he almost gave himself away.

The pen was knocked away by Feng Yu when Lu Ban was standing by the table, after Feng Yu suddenly deactivated the invisibility on his hand.

"Isn't this quite interesting?"

There was a clear hint of laughter in Feng Yu's voice.

"No, it's not interesting at all."

Lu Ban immediately replied.

If I were to expose myself to these people, then war would be the only option.

Lu Ban considered himself a pacifist, and the missions in the Silent Land were all kinds of strange things. Maybe these people weren't actually there to break the seal. What if they were just swimming next to that eerie city and he immediately treated them as enemies? That would be so awkward.

Moreover, these people are capable of undertaking tasks of [Alienation] difficulty, so their strength is at least similar to Lu Ban's level. There are three people on the other side, while Lu Ban only has two. It's not certain that they can defeat them.

Uh, wait a minute.

Lu Ban suddenly thought of a question.

Where did Leica go?

After being possessed by Feng Yu, I was unconscious for a while. When I woke up, Lyca seemed to have disappeared.

Are they hiding?

Or……

Considering Lycra's characteristics, Lu Ban suddenly felt that the people on this ship might be in trouble.

……

Four-Eyes sat on the deck, looking at the island that was so close yet so far away, feeling troubled.

Before his eyes, the flags on the deck twisted and formed the system's crimson and ferocious text.

[Ode to the Past]

In the eye of the storm, a solitary temple stands.

The gods who once ruled over all things slumber here, awaiting an opportunity to resound the old hymns and usher in a new dawn.

Enter this temple, attempt to break free from the shackles imposed upon this great being, and witness a mad and magnificent feat.

[Mission Requirements: Enter the eye of the storm and reach the temple]

[Mission Requirement: Break the Seal]

[Mission Difficulty: Alienation]

"It's unclear how long the storm will take to move; it seems the city will only rise from the sea when the storm actually hits."

The bespectacled man rubbed his palms together, muttering to himself.

The mission has two companions, and so far, everything is going smoothly, but Four-Eyes feels something is very wrong.

He had previously experienced the mutated missions, which were extremely difficult and almost impossible to survive. He relied on his previous experience, proceeded cautiously, and sacrificed several teammates in order to survive these missions.

Some of these missions involved being attacked by terrifying monsters right from the start, others required assassinating a general who was heavily surrounded, and still others required surviving for seven days in a severely contaminated area.

This mission, however, has been extremely simple from the beginning. They originally thought they would have to physically cross the storm, but the tunnels in the ruins led them directly to the vicinity of the temple. No monsters have appeared for so long. The biggest problem is that the ship cannot get close to the temple.

It went far too smoothly.

Imagine a test paper that's supposedly incredibly difficult, one that even top students can't solve. But you finish it in a mere twenty minutes without feeling any difficulty at all. After you're done, don't you feel like something's not right?

That's the feeling of a four-eyed guy.

The mission has progressed far too easily so far, without any difficulty whatsoever, making it hard for Four-Eyes not to suspect that something big might be waiting for them later.

Does this mean that after the seal is broken, the three of them will become sacrifices?

The ship's sudden appearance here must be some kind of mission element; perhaps there are monsters hiding on board?

Just as the bespectacled guy was lost in thought, he suddenly saw something flash by at the edge of the deck in the distance.

The thing looked like... a lump of flesh?

Chapter 300 New Business Opportunities

Lu Ban followed the fishman and the bandaged man into the engine room.

This is the center for controlling the cruise ship's power system, as well as various electronic communication devices. To start the cruise ship, these devices must be controlled from here.

It was much darker here; beyond the light from the last window, there was only darkness.

"Never be in absolute darkness," was the advice Lu Ban received from Feng Yu.

What monster lurks in the darkness?

Lu Ban asked.

"A unique monster, you can call it a Shadow Demon or a Shadow Eater, that only moves in complete darkness. This is not because they are afraid of sunlight. In fact, these monsters will not die even if they are exposed to sunlight. They just have a special way of existing."

Feng Yu explained with lingering fear.

"Once they are perceived by a creature with a certain level of intelligence, they will appear as shadows and become immobile, indestructible, and indestructible. In layman's terms, when you see it, it is just a shadow, but when it disappears from your sight, it becomes the most sensitive creature in the world."

"But if it touches me, then it's considered to have been recognized, right?"

Lu Ban pressed for an answer.

"Yes, when Shadow Fiends touch other creatures, they also turn into an indestructible shadow. Therefore, their hunting method is to hunt in groups, quickly surround their prey when they are not paying attention, completely isolate them from the outside world, and then wait until the prey is completely dead before they return to their original state and start feeding."

Feng Yu explained.

"When I boarded this ship, I didn't notice the presence of the Shadow Demons beforehand. I was almost completely surrounded by them and had to sacrifice part of my body to escape."

"A part of the body..."

Lu Ban thought of the huge mouth on Feng Yu's chest. So what exactly was that thing?

"Because I lost part of my body, I ate something else to replenish it, and that's what you're seeing."

Feng Yu once again read Lu Ban's inner question.

"Are those things tasty?"

Lu Ban was really curious.

"...The taste is just so-so, the kind you would never want to eat when you have nothing to do."

Feng Yu hadn't expected that Lu Ban would be so interested in this kind of question.

"You can take me to try it next time. I've never eaten anything like this before. The rat I had last time tasted pretty good. I think exotic foods have elements that don't exist in our world, so their taste must be unique."

Lu Ban was already planning how to eat those monsters.

"I'm thinking, if these exotic things were brought to our world, wouldn't that be considered a form of pollution? If humans ate them, their bodies would contain similar elements, which would be equivalent to them being polluted. If we could find some safe, reliable, and side-effect-free ingredients and promote them in this world, wouldn't that quickly increase the pollution level of the entire world?"

He suddenly sensed a new business opportunity.

"Moreover, these things can be sold in real life after they appear in the movie, which can be used as advertising. It will definitely be very convenient to promote them, and the money earned can be used to expand production. Even if we need exotic soil or ecology, I can use props or the like to have Shia and Trist take care of it."

"..."

Feng Yu was speechless.

"You should deal with the immediate problem first."

"I don't think I need to go in, do I?"

Lu Ban asked.

His goal at most is to prevent these people from breaking the seal. Since the Shadow Demon is guarding the engine room now, if these people go in, they definitely won't be able to come out alive. So Lu Ban only needs to guard the door.

Feng Yu was caught in the trap because he was unaware of the situation at first, while Lu Ban, who was fully aware of the situation, could have avoided it.