Tides: Years of Dawn

Crewe's second visit to Gareth and Tristan's cottage came a few months after school started.

He still brought a basket of rolled kelp, and still didn't say anything.He had watched happily as the brutes ate it up, but now even Gareth could see Crewe's hesitation.

His tentacles trembled violently, and he was in a daze several times.Gareth and Tristan called him a few times before he reacted slowly, but he never turned the topic to the real thing.

"Why hasn't he made up his mind yet?" Gareth asked Tristan after Crewe left at night.

"Quickly," said Tristan, coughing and spitting on the grass, dropping the plate again, and kicking a drowsy animal lying on its stomach next to it. Covid."

The beast opened his eyes in a daze, stood up muttering, and lazily cleaned up the mess in front of the house.

He is the most humanized of the beasts, so the work that Gareth was given to do before now falls on his shoulders.Gareth also got leisure, pulling a hammock and lying lazily all day long.

Tristan felt that this was not going to work, and Gareth would turn from a useful beast into a useless salted fish.

So—maybe a little work is good too.

Gareth followed Tristan into the house, "What is he going to do? He has come to us twice, this..."

"The determination to kill." Tristan cracked a cigarette and handed it to Gareth.

In fact, it's not just Gareth, Tristan has never let down his vigilance during this time.From the first time Crewe came to see them for dinner, he could see in Crewe's eyes the look that had always been seen in the people who had hired them before.The hatred was hidden deeply, but it couldn't escape Tristan's carefulness.

And this time Crewe came again, almost unable to hide his hatred.His gaze was dodged, and his thoughts and actions were slightly out of sync.It means that the things on his mind are very heavy, which prevents him from coordinating with the reality.

"Kill who?" Gareth asked.He has always believed in Tristan's judgment, he rolled up his sleeves and rubbed his hands, "I want to help, I want to be with him—"

But before he could finish his sentence, Tristan kicked him.Tristan interrupted the conversation to ask him to bring him a drink.

Tristan opened the window and watched the dark blue sky while drinking.

There are few stars tonight, and the evening wind is cool and refreshing, and Tristan let out a long breath.

It's a good season to work.

Tristan was right, for Crewe didn't let the cold wind pass, and at the end of the month, it came again.This time was no different from the last time, still kelp, dinner, trembling tentacles and dodging eyes.

Skoved even chatted with Crewe over dinner, trying to squeeze out words with difficulty and excitement in his broken language.

He has the blood of an octopus, but he can't transform into eight tentacles, nor can he completely transform into an octopus.Even if he was treated with the redemption potion, he could only protrude two from the left and right sides of the waist.

Crewe's tentacles held together with his, in what looked like a friendly gesture between friends.It's just that Crewe drank more tonight than usual, so he also danced with Skovide.

After Crewe left that night, Gareth was still gossip and asked Tristan what he found this time, how far Crewe had come, and how far he was from determining the determination to kill and the person who intended to murder.

But Tristan's answer was beyond Gareth's expectations. Tristan coughed forcefully and said—"He has been killed, but it seems that the matter is endless."

Maybe Tristan didn't know much about Sea Folk, but he believed people were all the same.The panic, composure, relief and despair they reacted to, no matter they are placed on Lu Wu or Haimin, even ordinary humans are always the same.

Even though Crewe was still shaking, he seemed much more relaxed than he had been during his previous two visits.It explained that the work was done halfway, but some unplanned things happened, which made him not know how to proceed.

"We've got to help him," Gareth said. "If he killed someone like you said, he wouldn't know what to do with it. Don't forget he made me like this, and if I can't When he needs help—”

Tristan clicked his tongue and shot Gareth a disapproving glance.It seemed that Gareth would never learn to hold his breath, whether he was a beast or a seaman.

Besides, Tristan didn't see any benefit in turning Gareth, who was hardworking and simple, into a full-fledged seaman who only knows how to lie half dead in bed all day long.

He stepped out of the house and watched Scovid, who had sent Crewe to the end of the road, slowly turn back.

After a while, Tristan suddenly said, "You have to wait a little longer, the reason why the little octopus can't speak is because he is worried that we will be implicated, but... someone is more worried about the safety of the little octopus than us being implicated. "

Yes, Tristan's words came true three days later.The person who came was none other than Gao Wen.

And Gao Wen's first words were - "I need you to do one thing for me, help me...kill a person."

Tristan was smoking a sea cigarette and occupying Gareth's hammock.He squinted at Gao Wen, and sat up slowly from the bed after a while.

Then he stretched his waist, waved at Gao Wen, and smiled, "My price is very high, you know that?"

Gao Wen's face was gloomy. After hesitating for a moment, he nodded vigorously.

How things developed in the end, we have to talk about it from a few weeks ago.

Two weeks ago, on the third day of Crewe's return to school from his cabin on the east side of the cliff, he had the opportunity he had always dreamed of.

But sometimes we have extremely high expectations for a certain thing, and when we think that everything is well thought out, it will always have unexpected variables.

Before that, Crewe thought he would lure Dale and Geros to a remote corner.It could be the room at the end of the dormitory, or the rocky beach in the backyard of Haicheng School.Neither of these places was deserted at night, and if they wanted to assault him further, he could finish them both there.

After all, Crewe didn't want the law to do him justice at all, he just wanted the lives of these two men.The raging hatred burned his heart for a moment, so that he was not interested in whether the two were thrown into prison.

Killing was the only way in his heart, and he was well prepared for murder—he deciphered Debbie's second spell of his own making.

That spell can make the octopus gigantic, that is, stimulate the more primitive genes in the body.

When Crewe returned to his original form, he was indeed larger than a human being, but definitely not to the extent of being gigantic or gigantic.The ancient octopus lineage has been crossed many times, so the shape is far less than that of the ancestors.

But Debbie said in the manuscript that she thinks those genes are not filtered, but just dormant.It sleeps deep in Haimin's body, and because of years of not expressing it, people ignore its existence.

And her spells and potions are the key to revive them and express them.

The potion is not the key point, because as long as the raw materials can be purchased, Crewe's dispensing skills are not a problem at all.He can even concoct the ghost weed poison that is several times more complicated than this, and the steps to make it huge are less than a third of it.

Apart from dispensing the medicine, the more important thing is to recite the mantra after drinking the medicine.

Crewe could understand the pronunciation of those spells, but he didn't know what he would become.

He chose to conduct the first experiment in a small pond in his backyard late at night.He poured the potion almost in a desperate mood, and Debbie's handwritten book was placed by the side of the pool.Although he has memorized the mantras by heart, he is still worried that once he gets scared, his mind may go blank.

that's the truth.

I didn't feel much when I drank the potion, only my stomach churned, and then the back of my head throbbed.Within half a second, his eyes blurred immediately, and he couldn't even read the words on the handwritten book.

But fortunately, he was prepared, so he immediately opened his mouth and chanted the mantra.But before he could say a single line of the incantation, he spit out a mouthful of black water.

The black water was also mixed with blood, as if it had been mixed in after the internal organs were squeezed.

He didn't dare to stop, wiped his mouth and continued to run the spell.

Sea people's spells are very long, basically starting with ten lines of spells.And Debbie's giant spell is longer, as long as two pages.

Because the sea people use the power of nature, it is very dangerous to stop during the chanting.Their bodies are likely to be backlashed due to natural forces entering but not smoothly exiting, and explosions and self-destruction occur from time to time.

So when Crewe felt a throbbing pain in his heart, his whole body shook, and he quickly connected the spell.

But the power of the spell was unbearable, as if there was a living thing in his stomach.The living creature kicked left and right, rushed up to the chest for a while, and squeezed down its lower body non-stop.

At the same time, the bones around him seemed to be burned by flames, and the human bones melted inch by inch, and then made the body heavier and heavier in an inexplicable way.

He read it for a while, groaned again, and then read it again.

He felt that the spell became extremely long, and the discomfort all over his body made him dizzy and almost crazy.Several times he had to interrupt midway, convinced in despair that no matter how hard he insisted, he would not be able to read the two pages before his body was destroyed.

But if he didn't read it to the end, he would really be blown up.

He knew that the feeling of burning bones was not an illusion, but that the bones were really being eroded inch by inch. They dissolved under his skin with the medicine, and then extended the skin and internal organs in an incomprehensible way.

Crewe was sweating profusely, which was worse than Gawain's twenty lashes.

In the end, he could only recite silently in his heart, enduring the severe pain and concentrating on reading the last byte of the mantra.

As soon as he relaxed at that moment, he fell into the pool.

This was the first time he cast the spell, but it was a pity that he didn't see the effect of the spell.

After falling into the pool, she passed out, and when she woke up, she could only see water around the pool, the bushes in the backyard were in a mess, and the window of her room was smashed, and the glass was broken all over the place.

He examined his body carefully and found that his arms and tentacles were covered with scars.Those scars should be caused by destroying the surrounding landscape, but he didn't have any impression of the destroying process.

So he tried again when he returned home on the weekend of the second week.

This time he tried to speed up the speed of chanting the mantra, hoping to maintain his consciousness until the moment he finished chanting the mantra.It's a pity that he still didn't succeed, and he still fainted completely after reading, and the next day, there were traces of being injured by the severe force everywhere around him.

He was a little unconvinced. After all, he was not killed by the spell twice. Although he was exhausted after returning to his original shape every time, as tired as if he had been swimming in the sea non-stop for three days and three nights, he thought he was finally It could be harnessed—he had harnessed Debbie's spell once, and he could harness it a second time.

Yes, Debbie's research results are reserved for the octopus family. Crewe is an octopus, so he has the potential to withstand the spell.

When he returned home for the third time and chanted the mantra in the backyard late at night, he finally succeeded.

He experienced the previous two cramps and peeling pains, and after the pain passed, he fell into the water again.But this time he opened his eyes after entering the water, biting his lips fiercely, maintaining the last trace of consciousness at the cost of tearing his lips apart.

And when he lay quietly in the water for a few seconds, the pain in his whole body turned into a warm force to surround him.

He sank to the bottom of the water, but he could see the starry sky through the water.

And when he tried to swing his tentacles—yes, his tentacles were so cool that they didn't seem to be submerged in the pool water at all—then he finally found that this small pool couldn't hold him in.His tentacles were still stretched out on the shore, being gently blown by the evening breeze.

He rested for an unknown amount of time before crawling out of the pool.At that moment, he only needed to stand on the edge of the pool, without jumping or climbing, to see the woods and the winding path outside the fence.

Then he turned around again and saw his octopus head through the glass window on the second floor of the house.

The moment he saw his face clearly, he took a deep breath.

Yes, he had grown enormously large and ugly.But when he tried to swing his tentacles, he only felt a slight pain when his tentacles hit the stone table built by the pool, and the small stone table was smashed by his tentacles.

He was stunned and ecstatic at the same time.

He never knew that the ancient octopus blood in his body contained such a secret, nor did he know that he could release such power.

His appearance was extremely ugly, with four sharp teeth protruding from his mouth without a face.He was ferocious and frightening, baring his teeth and claws. He slightly opened his mouth to make a sound, but what leaked from his throat turned out to be a low, roaring muffled sound.

But he likes himself like this, yes, he likes it very much.

He stared fascinatedly at the vicious monster in the glass window, and finally involuntarily stroked the reflected scene with his tentacles.

But he didn't control his strength well, and the glass window on the second floor shattered.

Jade and Saru lived in the left room on the second floor. They were woken up by the sound of breaking, and rushed to the backyard in a hurry.

They were also stunned, and this was the first time they saw Crewe in this appearance.

They didn't know and didn't dare to imagine what Crewe had done to them. The appearance of the little octopus at the moment was like an ancient sea beast, which sent chills down the spine.But Crewe's eyes still betrayed him. The moment Crewe turned his head and looked down at Saru, Saru immediately recognized that it was his weak and useless younger brother.

This time, Crewe enjoyed the joy of being gigantic to the fullest.It wasn't until he felt that the strength in his body could no longer support him that he recited the second spell to transform himself back to his original form.

From the beginning to the end, Saru and Jade did not leave. Jade was tightly nestled in Saru's arms, and Saru was always staring at Crewe vigilantly and terrified.

But Crewe didn't do anything, and after returning to his thin and tall appearance, he walked past the stunned Jade and Saru silently.It wasn't until he got back to his room that he gasped for breath.

He was so ecstatic that even covering himself in the quilt couldn't quell the excitement in his body.

So he repeated it in the school dormitory the next day until his head hit the ceiling of the dormitory.Then I repeated it again on the fourth day, dancing happily on the edge of the reef beach, and then jumped into the sea, chasing the glowing fish.

He wanted to share the news with Gareth and Tristan, but for some reason, when he saw them eating and drinking comfortably in the cabin, he couldn't get the words out.

He couldn't break the hard-won comfort of the two old hunters, just as he couldn't tell Gawain about it.The hatred is his own hatred, and it will be up to him to solve the problem.

So he left, and with exciting abilities alone, he quietly waited for the approach of the sea crocodile brothers.He even took the initiative to walk through the corridors that the two brothers often passed, in order to push everything to the point of no return before he felt afraid.

At this moment, he believes that he can already endure the pain of transformation, and he is also firm in waiting for another idea-he can kill the strong-looking crocodiles, whether they come one by one or two together.

The day before that opportunity came, he stood in front of the table he had chopped into a pile of rubble.His eyes lifted from the tree stump to the high fence, and then beyond the fence, he saw the path stretching to the horizon.

At the end of the path is Haicheng School, and he will complete his first execution after becoming giant at Reef Beach.

It's just that everything is not as smooth as expected.

Crewe didn't know that Gao Wen would come to see him the next day, and wanted to see him for no other reason than seeing him in the past few days.Gao Wen felt that his relationship with Crewe had finally changed decisively, so maybe Crewe was willing to let him visit and walk on campus with him.

Crewe didn't know that Geros was going to watch an intramural spell competition the next day, but Dale was not happy about it.So he didn't wait for two crocodiles, but only one, and he only had a chance to kill one.

But what he didn't expect the most was that after he became huge, everything went out of control.His tentacles clung to Dale's neck, but another person pierced Dale's chest.

TBC