Shrouded Seascape-Chapter 1127. Higher Dimension

The disintegrating massive flesh tree told Anna that Charles was about to leave. She instantly became anxious. She couldn't let him leave so easily, as he was probably her only way back to the Subterranean Sea.

"Charles, bring me back. It doesn't matter where you are right now; you must bring me back!"

"Anna, I'm sorry. I know your feelings for me are genuine, but I can't bring you back. There's nothing here—hope is fleeting; only deathly silence is eternal," Charles replied. His voice was gradually losing its warmth. Upon comprehending everything, he no longer wanted to pretend that he wasn't on the brink of losing all of his humanity.

Indeed, there were barely any traces left of humanity in his heart.

The burning flames in Anna's heart erupted into a conflagration upon being rejected once again. "Who do you think you are?! Do you really think that I want to go back to get together with you? I want to go back for my daughter, my Sparkle!"

As soon as Anna's words fell, the tree instantly fell silent. The appendages and thin eyestalks growing on it drooped as they quietly melted away. The air seemed to become a bit downtrodden.

The faint sorrow emanating from the giant tree was transmitted to everyone present. Charles was supposed to have lost all emotions, but he felt sorrow once more. After all, he only cared about Sparkle and no one else.

Anna's words reminded Charles that he only ever cared about Sparkle.

Anna's heart skipped a beat upon sensing the sorrow emanating from the giant tree. Then, she seemed to have come to a horrible conclusion as her lips quivered ever so slightly.

Anna's trembling lips parted, and she sounded like she was pleading as she asked, "You know that you're her father, right? Charles? How is Sparkle doing?"

There was a loud crack, and the melting tree collapsed, creating waves in the blood-red lake.

Charles' gaze was starting to return to where it came from.

Meanwhile, Anna's breathing became increasingly rapid. Then, she lunged forward, jumping onto the giant tree. She thrust her hands into the melting flesh tree and dug around before pulling out an eye the size of a human head.

Anna held that eyeball in front of her face and roared, "Answer me, you useless waste of space! Where is our daughter?!!"

In addition to sorrow, Charles also felt guilty. Those emotions were fleeting, but Charles keenly sensed them. He cast his gaze on Anna's timeline and used his hand to straighten out all the twists and turns.

At the same time, the yellow eyeball melted like lava that dripped slowly into the lake. Then, the emotions in Charles' heart disappeared as he said, "Anna... I'm sorry..."

Charles' gaze finally returned to that barren surface world. He blinked, and the traces of the faint emotions in his heart vanished completely. His conversation with Anna was also cast aside.

None of it mattered.

What was important was that he had finally found the missing part of himself.

Just then, something pulled Charles' will out of his body, and as he became "taller," he saw the Edikths from different dimensions and different planes. freewёbnoνel.com

Their ascension drew out tentacles from many different dimensions and planes. The tentacles pierced every obstacle in their way, and together with Charles, they finally coalesced into a single point in the void.

There was neither time nor space here. This void was not part of the material world. Except for Charles, there was nothing.

Charles came to possess a myriad of tentacles. When his gaze fell upon one of his own tentacles, he saw a scene in the middle section of the tentacle. The scene depicted him conversing with Anna just now.

His gaze extended downward, and he saw many Charleses.

He saw Charles who had just become a god...

He saw Charles fighting the Foundation...

He saw Charles searching for the darkness...

He saw Charles, who had just become the Governor of Hope Island...

He saw Charles struggling on an island, and then he saw a teenager Charles. When his gaze finally landed on the end of the tentacle, he saw baby Charles wrapped in swaddling clothes.

The myriad tentacles all over Charles likewise depicted a myriad of such scenes. Each tentacle was its own timeline, representing a Charles, representing an Edikth.

Charles finally understood why the Charles who had become gods seemed to be moving solely based on their instinct and had ignored all of his attempts at communication.

It wasn't that those Charleses couldn't communicate at all. They refused to communicate, as it was simply a waste of effort.

His previous attempts to interact with the Charles who had become gods were equivalent to the tip of one's fingers trying to communicate with the middle section of another finger.

It was an attempt that needed no response. After all, regardless of their location and circumstances, they would all merge to form his current self.

Charles looked down at himself and saw that his body was now entirely composed of the past Charles and the various laws of the world.

He was a part of the world, and a part of the world was Him. It could be said that anything with a strong connection to Charles had become a part of Charles' body.

The past Charleses depicted on the tentacles weren't mere illusions. They truly depicted a real Charles living their own lives as depicted on the tentacles.

Charles waved one of his tentacles, and the choices made so far by the Charles depicted on the respective tentacle changed drastically.

Having become an omniscient being, Charles was aware of the effect of the past and the causes of the future, and he could easily modify both the past and the future through a single variable—Charles.

Now that he could manipulate everything at will, Charles finally became a so-called higher dimensional being that 005 had mentioned.

It was only when Charles reached his current heights that he realized how insignificant his past selves were. If one wanted to modify the laws of the world and reverse time, one ought to become an existence like Charles was right now.

Charles immediately made a move. Although he didn't know what benefit this move would bring him, his disappearing humanity ultimately led him to make this decision.

Time came to a halt. Then, his tentacles caved inward from the tips. Once the tips became the tails, and the tails became the tips, the time of every plane's Subterranean Sea would be reversed.

At first, it went smoothly, but something unexpected occurred. Something hooked Charles' tentacles, preventing him from proceeding any further.

Charles "gazed" into the past and saw something foreign within him.

It was a pitch-black line, and the line was connected to the tentacle tattoo on Charles' neck. Charles remembered the tattoo; the tattoo had been completely inconspicuous throughout his career as a captain.

The tattoo hadn't been useful at all during the many life-or-death situations he once found himself in.

The only time it had reacted was when he saw Dawn One and fell into despair to the point that he had decided to end his own life.

The tentacle tattoo's origin wasn't anything complicated. To ensure that Charles wouldn't die during his adventures outside, Anna had decided to take out an insurance policy for him.

Charles turned to a tentacle. His gaze moved down the timeline until he saw Anna conducting a ritual. The ritual required many sacrifices. In addition to sacrificing human beings, Anna also had to sacrifice a huge chunk of her own body.

Once Anna had offered enough to Fhtagn, Charles finally obtained the tentacle tattoo on his neck.