Chapter 713 - Own Grave
Just a little further, as soon as that beast senses the ship, I’ll ditch it and run! And the nightmare stone is all mine!
Roman’s expression twisted in delight as he saw his “bright future” across a bloody curtain made from the sacrifice of the innocent.
This was the second time he did something like this. Years ago, he used the same trick to lure the Golden Road cargo ship here and claimed its nightmare stone, after which the inspectors from Floating Mech City never found him out.
That one stone sold for 8,000 crystals. If he could sell another one even at a lower price, he would get enough money to buy a bottle of White Night Potion.
The user of this potion had a chance of reaching the next level straight away. However, the potion also came with a side-effect that prevented its user from gaining any level in the future. But Roman didn’t care, as he only needed to level up to extend his life. As long as he was alive, he could always find other means of improvement.
This mighty Leviathan is more than enough to tear the bloody ship to shreds. I will not fail!
As the others on the ship welcomed the Silver Palm Isle, Roman grasped the stolen nightmare stone, thrilled.
“A Leviathan is able to sense approaching enemies within ten kilometers. Just one kilo to go, and my work’s done…” Roman muttered.
The sailors gasped in horror, while Erwin gave Roman a surprised look. He wouldn’t have taken those words so seriously if it were Helen who told them so. But there was no way the “second wizard” lied to them like that.
“YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME!” Roman bellowed. “You lucky, good-for-nothing b*stard! I have to grasp all chances to reach the wizard level. A damn ship means nothing!”
Angor snickered and slowly grasped his right wrist using his left hand.
“You can all go to hell! Tremble before the absolute horror of a Leviathan and enjoy your last breath!”
Previously, Roman planned to wait until the ship fully ran into the monster before leaving. But since his trick was exposed earlier, he no longer had a reason to remain. He had to get away as fast as possible so that the strange seabird couldn’t catch him.
With this in mind, Roman left several maniacal laughs. “Farewell, losers. We won’t see each other again!”
He then activated the nightmare stone, which released abundant illusion energy that covered his form.
Next, he leaped into the air using the levitation effect on his boots. Hidden in the illusion, he dashed straight ahead toward the Silver Palm Isle because that direction would get him out of Devil’s Water quicker.
But he didn’t get to move too far before he noticed that the illusion around him was wavering.
He was terrified to see the illusion energy from the nightmare stone leaving toward another direction. Following it, Roman saw Angor somehow absorbing the energy using his right hand, which looked strangely bigger than his left hand.
Without Angor’s glove, Roman also noticed some green symbols floating around the strange hand.
Slowly but surely, Roman’s body was fully exposed.
At the same time, he heard the sound of disrupted current behind him, which was followed by a mighty aura that locked him in one place.
He didn’t even have enough time to express his fear because everything changed so fast.
While his expression remained to be an excited smile for successfully carrying out his plan, his eyes gave out his true emotion, which was despair.
In the last second, he screamed at Angor madly, “Fine! We’re gonna die together, and we’ll settle this in hell!!”
Hearing those words, Angor waved a hand at Roman to say goodbye.
Under Roman’s frightened gaze, Angor placed his enlarged right hand against the ship’s deck, and the ship slowly faded out from Roman’s view.
“An illusion?!” Roman realized what just happened to The Limpet.
Now, it was clear to him that Angor used his own plot against him.
Angor provoked him in the end just to force him to leave The Limpet so that he was the only one who was going to face Leviathan.
Everything still went according to his plan, just with the participants swapping places.
Roman used all his strength to turn his head, and he saw a single eyeball of Leviathan, which was much much bigger than his body.
He couldn’t even tell how the monster killed him. A crimson eye that showed nothing other than hunger and bloodthirst was all there was in the last moment of his existence.