Chapter 379: Chapter 383 Anomaly 077

Guns were booming, and scorching cannonballs were howling as they fell from the sky, creating colossal spouts of water both inside and outside the port, some of which nearly grazed the hull of the White Oak. The sea's surface churned and the entire ship swayed from the impacts, giving off a disconcerting, creaking, and grinding noise.

Lawrence and First Mate Gus, leading twelve sailors, had climbed the rope ladder and returned to the deck of the White Oak without mishap; behind them, Dagger Island remained shrouded in thick fog, and an empty harbor was suddenly whipped up by turbulent winds, with the mist spinning and tumbling in the air as if filled with malice, as if enraged by unwelcome guests.