When Deep and the others, who had entered the nail crevice of Punos, finally returned, they seemed as though trapped in a nightmare, clutching their heads and gritting their teeth in anguish, but at least, one way or another, they were still alive.
In Deep's webbed right hand, he grasped a piece of hand bone—that was Charles' purpose for coming this time.
The dark-red eyeball was tossed by Charles; after rolling for a moment, the dim eyeball regained its luster, its trailing blood vessels began to sway, and then, like tadpoles, burrowed into the body of Punos.
Having taken back its eye, all of the eyes on Punos' body slowly began to close. After a brief few seconds, its enormous body vanished into the ocean like foam.
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"Shhh—bang!" Eleven exploration ships suddenly appeared in the coastal waters of Hope Island, startling the island's naval defenders out of their wits.
