Ashes Of Deep Sea

Chapter 715 - 715 712 Peeking at the Truth

?Chapter 715: Chapter 712 Peeking at the Truth Chapter 715: Chapter 712 Peeking at the Truth They were everywhere.

After the landing team moved away from the coastal shallows and advanced into the interior of Holy Land Island, the hair-raising scene finally unfolded before everyone’s eyes.

It was as if figures formed of pitch-black muck were visible everywhere, as though they had been “embedded” by the surrounding environment into various places—on the ground, the walls, beside the roadside boulders, and even on tree trunks. They had entirely merged with the things that had engulfed them, resembling a myriad of bizarre and horrifying sculptures frozen on this island void of living people. Each “sculpture” exhibited a posture of struggle that told onlookers one fact—
“They” were once alive.

Sherry felt her scalp tingle. The black human bodies that could pop up at any moment in the fog, merged with the walls or the ground, made her skin crawl. She wrapped her arms around herself and carefully followed beside Duncan, trying to avoid the struggling limbs or heads on the path while murmuring, “Those heretics… are they all dead? Did they die here? Are those things we saw on the sea surface when we first came over also them? Could it be that the entire Obliteration Sect has been wiped out?”

“Heretics from the Obliteration Sect are still active in other parts of the world. They’ve infiltrated numerous City-States; they’re not so easy to eradicate,” Fenna said, frowning as she kept watch around her, “But at least, it seems there are no living heretics left on this ‘holy land’… This fanatical dark cult has finally suffered a significant blow… That at least is good news.”

“Good news, but hard to relax,” Maurice spoke cautiously. “The key issue now isn’t how many Obliteration Sect members have died here, but rather how they died and how they turned into… this…”

Maurice paused for a moment, looking up to survey the faintly discernible buildings shrouded in fog. “This is their ‘holy land,’ a place they’ve operated for who knows how many years. They regarded this place as a safe haven to hide from church pursuit, even building towns and ports here. This suggests that this remote island had always been a secure and stable spot… at least until the island began to devour them.”

“Devour…” Sherry subconsciously repeated the scholar’s word, suddenly tensing up and looking down at her feet, “This place isn’t going to ‘eat’ us too, is it?! Could the ground suddenly give way, and then we become like those things…”

Clearly, it wasn’t only Sherry harboring such worries—the tense atmosphere was brewing among the marines as well. Despite being the elite of the church, and specialists in handling various anomalies in the border regions, feeling nervous in the face of the eerie situation on Holy Land Island was inevitable.

However, just as Duncan was about to say something, Alice, walking next to him, spoke up first, “It won’t happen.”

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