I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 303 - 303 302. Engineer_1

Chapter 303: 302. [Engineer]_1 Chapter 303: 302. [Engineer]_1 The Bandaged Man and the Merman moved in the direction of returning to the deck. The body of the ship trembled slightly, this massive steel monster let out a deep roar, making both of their hearts leap with excitement.

“You are still very impressive!”

The Bandaged Man’s solitary eye twinkled with radiance as he looked at the Merman.

“It’s not a big deal, I should be thankful that I chose the profession of ‘Engineer’.”

The Merman said modestly.

“An ‘Engineer’ can analyze and understand all man-made objects and start them up in their original state, as long as I feel they can be started, then this ship will definitely move.”

“A very convenient power.”

The Bandaged Man commented.

It’s just that the combat power seems a little lacking.

The kind of monster they had encountered in the engine room, if the Merman had encountered it alone, he probably wouldn’t have lasted five seconds.

Thankfully, the Bandaged Man himself had an advantage over such creatures, which allowed him to resolve the situation without injury. Otherwise, they both would have perished there.

“So this is the difficulty of ‘Mutation’? It doesn’t seem too bad.”

The Bandaged Man mused, and then suddenly thought of a problem.

“What happens if those devices fail after we leave?”

Thinking back on the eerie conditions they had encountered before, the Bandaged Man felt that in addition to the shadow-like monsters, there might be other creatures aboard the ship.

“Don’t worry, after I repaired and started them up, even if they were already damaged, those things would operate normally. What I fixed is the existence of those things themselves, meaning no matter what they become, they can function as I’ve set them to, even if they fly away it would be no problem.”

Just as the Merman finished speaking, a loud noise came from downstairs.

“What’s that noise?”

He listened closely.

“It seems to be coming from the room we were in before… Are there other creatures?”

The tips of the Bandaged Man’s fingers exuded a gray mist, drifting along the path they had taken. About two minutes later, the gray mist reached the engine room.

There was no one there, but the main control equipment had all flown to the other end of the room. The engine room was a mess, as if it had been gnawed on by some creature.

Despite this, the Star Cluster’s turbines were still turning, and the speed of the ship increased as if it were about to reach The Island.

“This…”

The Bandaged Man informed the Merman of what he had seen and heard, and they looked at each other, unsure what to say.

There really was another invisible and intangible monster on this ship!

Suddenly, the Bandaged Man felt as though his gray mist had touched something.

In an instant, he gathered all the gray mist to that location of all sensation.

The mist, like a wide-open gaping mouth, enveloped everything at that spot. One could see that whatever had been scattered on the ground, no matter what it originally was, immediately dissolved, disappeared, and became part of the mist.

However, the Bandaged Man did not relax.

Because all of those were very common items found everywhere; among them, there was nothing that could have turned the engine room into such a battered state.

In other words, he had come up empty-handed again.

Watching the corridor growing increasingly dim with the cruise ship’s motion, the Bandaged Man felt something approaching him.

It was a kind of spontaneous, unexplainable intuition.

“Run!”

The Bandaged Man smacked the Merman, and they both immediately broke into a sprint toward the deck.

After running for a while, Lu Ban stopped in his tracks.

“I’m so tired…”

Their physical conditioning far surpassed that of ordinary humans, and Lu Ban, who had followed for a while, couldn’t keep up and stopped, panting heavily.

“You should get some exercise.”

Feng Yu scoffed dismissively.

“They’re both not human. No amount of exercise could push me beyond human limits,”

Lu Ban retorted.

However, after resting for a while and once the grass on his body had disappeared, he recovered.

The essence of physical fatigue is the damage sustained by the body from intense exercise, and muscle soreness is due to lactic acid produced by anaerobic respiration in the muscles, so exercise fatigue and discomfort are a form of pain.

The grass inside Lu Ban’s body had devoured the substances that were causing him discomfort during his rest, quickly alleviating his fatigue.

It even carried out a bout of photosynthesis in the process.

Now Lu Ban returned to his invisible state and walked up to the deck.

He discovered that one person was missing from the deck.

The Four-eyed Kid was nowhere to be seen.

Or rather, the still-living Four-eyed Kid was nowhere to be seen.

On the ground, only a mush of flesh and blood remained, next to which lay a slowly constricting clump of writhing flesh and blood.

Countless eyes were on that flesh, and they were dead set on the Bandaged People and the Merman.

Blood and flesh formed into tentacles that spread quietly, like a hunter lying in wait, ready to kill the two individuals at any moment.

“…Hunter!”

The Bandaged People uttered a surprised exclamation, seemingly unable to comprehend that such a monster could exist here.

No, he quickly realized that this was the level of challenge to be expected from a [Metamorphosis] difficulty mission.

Only, this challenge was perhaps a bit too thrilling.

“Once targeted by a Hunter, even if you return to your own world, these beings that can travel through time and space will catch up… to survive, one must either completely kill or seal the opponent!”

The fingertips of the Bandaged People turned to ash, his bandages began to disperse, and he transformed into a dense grey mist. His singular eye turned blood-red, hazily flickering in the center of the mist.

The Merman, without a word, dove straight into the sea.

“?”

The Bandaged People paused, stunned.

Was this guy selling him out and planning to escape?

Could he really be that decisive?

The Bandaged People would never have imagined that he would be used as a shield by a newbie who hardly understood the situation.

In the midst of these thoughts, the tentacles of the Hunter had already reached out, and the mist surrounding the Bandaged People suddenly contracted. Then, they allowed the tentacles to pierce through them.

He wanted to consume and dissolve the tentacles, but the eyes that opened on the tentacles shattered that thought.

The Bandaged People found that his most prized supernatural power was as futile against the Hunter’s attack as a baby trying to stop the advance of a massive ship. The fleshly tentacles rapidly enveloped the grey mist, and something strange dripped from the tentacles, darkening the mist almost to the color of ink.

Before the grey mist, the Hunter opened its mouth filled with millions of teeth, covered in tentacles and layered upon itself.

With a single bite, the mist, along with the tentacles, was swallowed, and the Hunter’s size abruptly expanded several times before quickly shrinking again.

Something trembled slightly within the body of the Hunter, and soon there was no movement at all.

It then approached the slowly writhing mass of flesh and blood beside the Four-eyed Kid, attempting to escape, and meticulously licked it clean as a dog would its bowl of food.

It then let out a satisfied belch.

Sniffing the air on the cruise ship, the Hunter came to the edge of the deck.

It saw the Merman frolicking carelessly in the ocean and inexplicably glanced at the sea behind the Merman, where small ripples stirred.

Shuffling its stubby little legs, the Hunter jumped into the sea.