The giant insect moved through the steamship and slowly advanced into the cluster of dense and orderly buildings.0

"Captain… what was that?" Dipp asked with evident bewilderment on his fish face.0

"Its physical body is underground. What we saw was just its shadow," Charles explained as his gaze was fixated on the ground below. Just as how a human's shadow was black, that enormous insect was the shadow of some entity underground.0

The strange glow that was beyond the perception of the average human was slowly fading away, and only Charles could see it with his enhanced vision.0

The immediate crisis had passed, so the crew let out sighs of relief. Cold sweat beaded on their foreheads as they patted their chest to soothe their anxiety.0

As they laughed and jested at each other's frightened reactions...0