Magical Girl's Knight Brother

Chapter 673 Underwater Graveyard

Profound.

Absolutely profound.

In the suffocating, boundless darkness, the icy, leaden seawater surged in from all directions.

The seawater was not the azure of reality, but rather a viscous, pitch-black color, as if it had melted ink and abyssal silt. There was no light, no sound, except for the teeth-grinding creaking of the ship's metal being squeezed. There was only the omnipresent, extreme darkness and cold that seemed to freeze the very soul.

The ghost ship did not sail smoothly, but rather spun wildly downwards in a raging, erratic spiral of water as if it had been thrown off a cliff. The immense centrifugal force tore at the hull, and all unsecured items inside the cabin were instantly flung away and smashed to pieces.

Tang Cao and Xiao Xiao cried out and clung tightly to the pillars of the ship's deck. Afraid was held firmly by Fuseld's thin but unusually strong arms. Chang Lei shielded Tang Zijun in front of him, resisting the terrifying tearing force.

Even Tang Zijun groaned under the sudden dimensional shift and terrifying water pressure. He instantly realized that the water pressure here far exceeded that of any trench in the real world! Air... no, there was no breathable air here at all, only viscous, cold, dark seawater filled with unknown energy and ancient stillness.

"Open!" Without any hesitation, Tang Zijun's body shone with an unprecedentedly intense blue light as he pressed his palms against the empty space on both sides of the ship's side!

Buzz—!

A vast and powerful force of spacetime erupted from him, no longer the precise control of before, but like a floodgate being opened, bursting forth with all its might.

A massive, clock-shaped shield of light, radiating a soft yet incredibly resilient azure hue, instantly enveloped the entire Queen Anne's Revenge like a giant bubble.

The moment the light shield formed, the massive black seawater that had been frantically compressed was forcibly pushed aside. The deafening sound of the water crashing against the outer wall of the light shield rang out, as if countless giant hammers were pounding wildly. The light shield fluctuated and deformed violently, and dense ripples appeared on its surface. In that instant, everyone seemed to hear a loud bell.

Tang Zijun's body jolted violently. He gritted his teeth, maintaining the posture of spreading his arms out, and continuously poured the power of spacetime into the light shield, desperately resisting the terrifying pressure from the dark deep sea.

Inside the barrier, the suffocating cold and pressure suddenly disappeared, and the terrifying centrifugal force brought about by the ship's descent and rotation was greatly buffered and weakened by the light shield.

As if pulled back from the brink of drowning, the group, amidst the girl's screams, looked with lingering fear at the terrifying, churning, and pitch-black seawater outside the light barrier.

"Huff...huff...I almost...I almost turned into compressed biscuits..." Tang Cao's face was pale as she patted her chest, her voice trembling with relief.

"Hold on tight to Tangcao, it's not over yet." Xiao Xiao's perception of water elements was the best among everyone present. She could feel that the water current binding the Queen Anne's Revenge was still rapidly dragging it into the abyss, so she quickly reminded her.

In fact, there was no need for her reminder, because just as she finished speaking, a violent jolt accompanied by dizziness filled everyone.

Time lost its meaning in the endless darkness and dizziness.

Like a stone thrown into an abyss by a giant, the Queen Anne's Revenge spun wildly and plummeted in the raging, viscous black sea. The azure barrier that Tang Zijun had erected was violently torn apart by the immense pressure and chaotic currents, groaning under the strain. Every violent jolt and spin made the ship groan in a teeth-grinding way, as if it would fall apart at any moment.

Inside the cabin, Tang Cao, Xiao Xiao, and Afran clung tightly to whatever they could hold onto, their stomachs churning.

I don't know how much time has passed.

With an unprecedented, terrifying roar that seemed to break the keel and an extreme amount of turbulence, the ship suddenly jolted, and then the despairing, endless feeling of falling and the dizzying sensation came to an abrupt end.

Like a roller coaster plunging down its steepest slope and finally hitting the buffer zone, the boat was still rocking violently, but it was no longer an out-of-control spin and fall; instead, it had become a kind of...

float?

No...it's more like being stranded on some kind of invisible seabed, slowly moving with some kind of regular water flow.

"Uh...stop, it's stopped?" Tang Cao groggily lifted her head from a pile of books that had been thrown at her, her voice weak, while she was still clutching her treasured diary written by a demigod.

Xiao Xiao and Afran loosened their fingers, which were almost embedded in the wood, with lingering fear. They were breathing heavily. The old butler groaned and exhaled a breath of foul air with a bloody smell. His eyes scanned the surroundings wearily.

Tang Zijun slowly withdrew his hands, deactivated his transformation, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. Maintaining the barrier against the terrifying water pressure and dimensional tearing had consumed far more energy than expected. He took a deep breath, and the dark blue barrier stabilized. Although the light had dimmed considerably, it had finally isolated the deadly black seawater.

The sight outside the barrier made everyone who tentatively peeked out from the captain's cabin or behind the bunker hold their breath, temporarily forgetting their physical pain and discomfort, leaving only extreme shock and bewilderment.

They...are still floating in the sea.

But here, it is no longer a void of darkness.

Above, there was an endless, thick, leaden, slowly surging black seawater, forming a suffocating, upside-down sky. There was no sun, moon, or stars, only the seawater itself, illuminated by an extremely faint, inexplicable light, gleaming with a viscous, inky sheen, like a frozen night sky.

Beneath my feet lay the same bottomless, pitch-black seawater, so deep it seemed to stretch to the horizon.

Meanwhile, the Queen Anne's Revenge is currently floating in an incredibly strange underwater canyon.

On both sides of the ship are cliffs hundreds of meters high, made of flowing, dark seawater. These seawater cliffs are not static, but rather slowly undulating and flowing like living things, forming huge, ever-changing seawater folds and ravines.

Between the cliffs, only a relatively narrow waterway remained, barely wide enough for the Queen Anne's Revenge to pass through.

The ship was slowly drifting forward in this deep canyon formed by flowing seawater, like a narrow sliver of sky, silently propelled by an invisible, gentle yet irresistible ocean current.

"The sea...the seabed...is it still the sea?" Tangcao lay on the ship's side, her small mouth agape in an "O" shape, her big eyes filled with incomprehensible astonishment. "What is this underwater Bikini Bottom?!"

"Hey, you know what, if I could see a giant pineapple and a yellow sponge right now, my heart probably wouldn't be beating so fast." Afran gave a wry smile and turned to look at the old butler. "Are you alright?"

"It's alright, Miss." The old butler nodded gently, then turned to look at the messy captain's cabin, and more importantly, at the cups on the floor—what a pity...

At the bow of the boat, Tang Zijun helped Chang Lei, who was somewhat exhausted, to his feet.

Chang Lei forced himself to stand upright, his crimson eyes scanning the extremely eerie surroundings, his brows furrowed. "...The sky is also the sea? We're...we're in a trench in the ocean? Are the coordinates correct? Is this Poseidon's lair?"

"We've passed through the dimensional barrier, and the coordinates match. We should be on the right track." Tang Zijun's voice was weary, yet unusually certain. "This should be the border of Poseidon's lost kingdom, or the entrance passage, only its form is beyond our imagination."

He gazed intently at the dark seawater that flowed slowly on either side, forming the canyon walls. "I never thought it would actually work."

With the help of the kerosene lamps burning steadily with a ghostly green light on the ship, and the faint ghostly blue light emitted by Tang Zijun's barrier, the group was able to barely see their surroundings.

Deep within the dark waters that flow slowly on both sides, forming the cliffs of the canyon, lies a boundless graveyard of shipwrecks, behind the gloomy curtain of water as far as the eye can see.

Huge, rusted ancient wooden sailing ships, like the skeletons of giant beasts, lie half-buried in the dark sand. Bizarrely shaped metal wheels, covered in thick barnacles and eerie corals, are embedded deep in the cliff face. One can even see the remains of strange flying machines, their structures defying the laws of physics and emitting a faint magical glow. Countless artifacts from different eras and civilizations...

Even ships and vehicles from different dimensions, like tombstones forgotten by time, lie quietly deep within the black seawater cliffs on both sides.

And scattered among these shipwrecks are mountains of...treasure!

In the dim light, piles of gold coins, stretching like sand dunes, are faintly visible. Crowns and scepters inlaid with huge gems gleam alluringly in the shadows of the shipwreck. Boxes of pearls and gems are scattered on the sand like trash. Weapons, armor, scrolls, and statues, radiating strange energy fluctuations, are like stars dotting this silent underwater graveyard of shipwrecks and treasures!

Spectacular, eerie, and breathtaking.

Tangcao covered her mouth, her large eyes filled with utter shock. "So many ships, so many, my darlings..."

She instinctively reached out to point, but then quickly pulled her hand back, as if afraid of disturbing the spirits sleeping deep within the sea cliffs.

Xiao Xiao and Afran were also deeply shocked by the scene before them. Xiao Xiao instinctively felt the aura emanating from the sunken ships and treasures...

Amidst the ominous aura of death, greed, and the decay of time, Avran keenly sensed that deep within this seemingly tranquil shipwreck graveyard lurked some... indescribable, chilling gaze.

No one suggested disembarking to explore.

The Queen Anne's Revenge, as if sailing on a dark road to the underworld adorned with shipwrecks and treasures, is propelled by invisible ocean currents in this mysterious and unpredictable divine passage where the sea lies above and below, slowly heading towards the unknown depths.

Even the most daring Chang Lei felt a chill run down his spine looking at the deep, flowing sea cliffs and the countless sunken treasures buried within. Those treasures were like poisoned bait wrapped in honey, exuding a deadly allure and an ominous aura.

Most terrifyingly, Chang Lei had noticed that many shadows were slowly moving within those treasures.

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