Chapter 801 – 792 Warna, the Underwater City
The mermaids, who had annihilated the attacking Nagas, began collecting the corpses of the Nagas they had killed.
“Looking at the blood and flesh of the Naga family in the water, looking at the disgusted expression, it must be food.”
“Because mermaids didn’t have scales on their upper bodies. They must be making scale armor from the scales of the naga family.”
“The scales were different colors? Ah, there seems to be a way to bleach or dye it.”
The whirlpool that wrapped around the coral window felt like a wide-area explosion effect, so the Nagas who had all four limbs intact were only those who died from Baekryeogang’s arrows.
The mermaids, the Haerin tribe, return to the fjord by tying the body parts of the Naga family and the bodies killed by the arrows of Baeknyeogang with seaweed ropes.
Hwanin looked at the mermaid, who was taking several lower bodies of the Naga family, which looked like the tails of a large armored lizard, by tying them together, then looked at Sydne, who was quickly swimming this way.
Other Harin tribes were also strong, but the Harin tribe, which radiated the aura of a 4th class warrior, boasted exceptional strength.
It was the same as having a bright pink coral window wrapped in a whirlpool like other sea rinds, but when I added phase power to it and swung it, it swept through the sea like a dragon fist.
The concentration of the aura was only 4th grade, but the ability to actually demonstrate was almost like a 6th grade.
Sydne, who had approached the boat, raised a column of water and opened her mouth to meet Hwanin at eye level.
= Traveler. Thank you for your help in exterminating the naga.=
“No. He had the skill and strength to easily defeat them without our help.”
= It’s thanks to that archer who shook the Naga family once. Anyway, since you’re a land person, it might be difficult to bring the corpse.
At her question, Hwanin turned to Yurpa.
=I don’t really need the corpses of the Naga family. You can make water breathing elixir with blood and fins, but you can also make it with willow kelp and sea mushroom. Other than that, it becomes an ingredient for some alchemy, but I have enough substitute materials.=
“… That’s right. We don’t need it, so you can take it all if you want.”
=Thank you.=
Sydne gave her ghost a seductive smile, dragged the corpse of my family, and blew a whistle – whistle to the waiting people.
Then the mermaids take out their coral knives and split the belly and chest of the Naga family to find the topological stones, collect them and hand them over to Hwanin.
Hwanin, who had no intention of refusing even that, thought as he was handed over nine 1st and 2nd grade phase stones.
‘Even if he’s neutral, he has basic manners.’
Before starting the barbecue party, according to the information obtained through the spirits of the Harin tribe, they claim to be neutral, close to indifference, to land people.
Do not help the land people; They don’t even get help from land people.
Here, on the island of Jormundsen, a tribe living in isolation. That was the Harin people.
However, I saw them mooring the ship in the fjord, which is their territory, and thanked them for their help.
The policy is absolute neutral, but in reality it feels loosely neutral.
Hwanin, who organized his thoughts in the moment of receiving the phase stone and putting it in his pocket, caught Sydne’s gaze heading to the barbeque grill on board and asked with a soft smile.
“Would you like to eat together? It’s lunch time, so I prepared a meal, but as you can see, it’s a lot.”
= That, that’s…=
Sidne’s pupils wavered at the invitation of Hwanin.
The chicken skewers she tasted thanks to Riella floated in her mind, and even now the smell of the skewers being grilled on her grill relentlessly irritates her stomach.
With the invitation added to this, it’s hard to bear it any longer.
Pretending not to see Sid’s hesitation in the extreme temptation, Hwanin looked at the barbecue grill and said as if he realized it belatedly.
“There is enough for others to eat, so everyone come up… Ah, it must be difficult to come up to the deck, but what should I do with that?”
Seeing his troubled appearance, Sidney tightly closed her eyes and gave in to the temptation with a bashful smile.
=Thank you for inviting me to dinner. Don’t mind the seats. We’ll take care of it.=
Then Sydne jumps onto the deck with some of the water in the water column.
Surprisingly, the water wraps around her lower body like a water balloon and stays there without spilling or bursting.
=The traveler invited me to lunch. Everyone please come up here.=
=Really?=
= And !=
Even if it wasn’t so, it was hard to bear it because the smell that stimulated my curiosity inexhaustibly arose from a while ago on that boat, but it was an invitation!
After hearing Sidne’s story, the women threw away all the corpses of the Naga family and quickly began to board the ship as clean as white coral.
It makes a column of water like a cydne and rises up like a dolphin, and lands on the deck by rising up to 30m like a dolphin, or it makes a large water droplet that floats up and rises on top of it.
As the mermaids with natural-colored hair came up to the deck, Cheol-soo Kim and Young-soo Kim let out a sinister laugh as their nostrils flared.
All of the mermaids were beautiful, but when they took off their scale armor, saying it was heavy, their breasts with no underwear underneath were exposed along with their nipples.
While the two Kims are delighted with the unexpected windfall, the mermaids who put down scale armor and coral spears on one side of the deck skillfully approach the barbecue grill on water beads and chatter.
= Hmmm… Haaa! It smells so delicious.=
= Wow, wow. Wow!=
=Is this what land people eat… ?=
Sidne, who clapped her hands and drew attention to her people, pointed to her ghost and said.
=That traveler invited me to dinner. Let everyone say thanks.=
=Thank you, traveler~.=
=Thank you for inviting me to dinner…=
=Thank you, I will eat well~!=
As mermaids sing in unison, they raise their voices in one accord, so it sounds clean and beautiful like a youth choir.
Such an extended mealtime.
Hwanin’s women read his mind, showed a demonstration of grilling skewers for the 12 mermaids, and made skewers upon request, building friendships with the Harin tribe.
There were only six Isilite, Anne, Yurpa, White Ryogang, Ayoung, and Imorel to grill the meat, but it wasn’t too difficult.
It was because the mermaids were surprisingly full of three or four skewers.
His body is on the side of 140~160cm, but he eats surprisingly little.
= Do you want to eat more? There’s still a lot left.=
= It’s so delicious, but… The taste is so strong that it’s hard to eat a lot!=
=I want to eat more, but I think my stomach will hurt if I eat more…=
For a mermaid who lived a life with almost no seasonings or spices, grilled skewers with various seasonings were a stimulus in itself.
The women realized this and started making basic skewers with a relatively light taste and a little salt, to the delight of the mermaids.
Their staple food is seafood such as fish and seaweed. To be exact, there is nothing to eat except seafood.
Then, I was curious about the taste of land meat, but how did you solve it like this!
Not only the food on land, but also the appearance of men was a curiosity itself to the mermaids.
=Wow, land man!=
=You really look like us?=
= It’s amazing. There are no real scales.=
“Uh heh…”
“Ahhh…”
Kim Cheol-soo and Kim Young-soo’s cheekbones endlessly ascend to heaven at the unrestrained touch of the beauties holding the grilled skewers one by one.
Being out of the water, the skin became dry and smooth, and somehow it even smelled good, and the large and small breasts swayed right in front of them, stealing attention, so it was like heaven for the two of them.
Shouldn’t you be able to develop tolerance only if you’ve been receiving active attention from pretty women?
While the women greeted the mermaids and talked to them to satisfy their curiosity about each other, Hwanin grilled skewers for Sydne and one of the other mermaids and talked about the world.
It’s not a serious or problematic story, but what kind of atmosphere is in other countries, what has happened and is happening in the world.
=Are you sprinkling salt now?=
=Yes. Sprinkling salt before grilling can cause the juices to flow out.=
= Juicy… ? Does it taste bad when it spills out?=
= It turns hard or prickly like this, so the taste is slightly off… Oh, if you eat it…=
= Mmm! It’s really hard, unlike anything I’ve eaten before. But this also has its own taste!=
But Sidney was not interested in outside work. When Hwanin talks, he listens for a while, but when Issilite grills meat over charcoal, he tends to turn his attention to that.
Rather, Shar-ah, a mermaid with ultramarine blue hair who was by her side, expressed more interest in the story of the Hwanin.
=According to what you said, the outside world is a big deal.=
“Because the more crowded the world is, the harder life gets.”
Of course, I only feel that way after hearing the news of a major accident, but the citizens who are actually caught up in a big incident are very few in terms of the total population of Nionebreth.
Most people live today the same as yesterday and spend the same time tomorrow as they did today.
=Is that why land humans don’t pass this area anymore?=
“Is that so.”
=According to the story of the village elders, I heard that land humans were sometimes seen until 40 years ago, but now they cannot be seen at all.=
Is this why Liella and the other mermaids showed curiosity?
“I heard that a serious incident has occurred in recent years, so people are less likely to come this way. This is baked, so eat this.”
= Thank you. If it’s a big deal, are you talking about the sky?
Following her slender fingers, Hwanin turned to the entrance of the fjord, looked at her for a moment at the dark cloud-filled western sky, and then nodded her head.
“Do you know why those clouds formed?”
= No. The only ones who know that are the elders and the queen. Warriors like us only think it’s strange that the sky rains continuously for months.=
After taking a bite of the lamb skewer Hwanin offered her, Shar Ah’s eyes twinkled.
Then, she dipped it in a mixture of pepper, salt, and red pepper powder and ate it.
‘It’s interesting, but he doesn’t seem to care much. Or maybe the elders of the mermaid village warned me not to pay attention.’
=Actually, we are in a bit of a difficult situation as well.=
“I think there was another attack by the Nagas in the morning, but it seems to be related to that.”
=Yes. Since that dark cloud was formed, monster attacks have become increasingly frequent. It’s been a while since they’ve been attacking Nagas on a large scale. It’s really difficult. =
“…”
Hwanin savored the beef steak Isilite cooked for her and looked at Sydne, who was extremely happy with her.
Sydne, slightly embarrassed by his gaze, covered her plump lips and curled up, as if she hadn’t lost her mind on the meat.
= I’m sorry. Am I eating too much?=
“No. I was a little concerned about what Ms. Char-ah had told me.”
= Yes… ?=
With a slight tilt of the head and a puzzled gesture, each facial expression reveals her innate talent for seducing men.
However, Hwanin did not pay any attention to it and cautiously opened his mouth.
“I think I know why those clouds were formed and why monsters like the Naga family keep coming to Jormunsen Island.”
= You are a traveler… ?=
“Yes. And that’s why I came here.”
=What is that?=
Her Hwanin also spoke with a serious attitude to her, who became serious as if she had never been happy.
“Adnevila, it’s because of her, the white and blue dragon of Lake Aleughel and the divine beast.”
=… !=
=…=
Sydne and Shar-ah’s faces hardened.
After the mermaids, who had been treated well for lunch, returned with thanks, Hwanin asked Yurpa for several elixirs of underwater breathing.
= I made about 30 mermaid breaths while going out to sea. Should I make more? =
“Give me all of that, and just in case, make me that much more.”
Since you have to be active in the sea for a while, the more things that allow you to breathe underwater, such as mermaid’s breath, the better.
And while cleaning up the traces of the barbecue party, I called the two Kims who were debating which mermaid had big breasts and whose nipples were pretty.
“Is the motion sickness better now?”
The two rushed to his call and nodded vigorously.
“Yep. The shaking in my stomach has also subsided, and since I ate well, I feel totally energetic! The same goes for withdrawal!”
So, Hwan-in pointed to an island to Kim Young-soo, who was showing biceps as if asking for something to be done.
“Look around the island with spatial perception and come. What to look for are cave passages leading into the island, like those undersea caves there.”
“Isn’t there a need to look at the Harin tribe village?”
“Okay. You just need to check the entrance. I’ll draw contour lines on the map of the island here…”
Hwan-in, who drew a seven-story contour line so that he could know the height of the island, handed the note to Kim Cheol-soo.
“… Please indicate only the location of the entrance here.”
“Ancient. Hey, let’s go.”
“Can I go alone?”
“Do you know how to read a contour map?”
“I know who is stupid. And even if you don’t know how to see, if you know the north, south, east, and west locations, it’s not difficult to mark them on a map, dude.”
“Come~ But I don’t know why my brother called me.”
“…”
“Admit it stupid?”
“Old man.”
The figures of the two flirting while checking the north with a map disappear with a hook.
Hwanin retrieved all the heroic spirits just in case, and summoned only five souls that showed great qualities in underwater combat and infused them with deep core power and spiritual energy.
After a good 12 hours, I call Imorell and instruct the six to guard the ship.
With Immorel with a lightning bow, five former 5th-class warrior souls that move as fast as flying in the sky even in water, and Kim Chul-soo and Kim Young-soo, it will not be difficult to protect the ship even if hundreds of Nagas flock to it.
Since there is a narrow entrance to the fjord, the defense will be easier.
After finishing cleaning up the barbecue party, Anne looked at the water spirits flying around her for a while and asked Hwanin.
= Doryeong. Will the Harin tribe really invite you to the centipede village?=
“If you are taking the situation seriously, I will invite you.”
When the Nagas arrived earlier, I saw a Naga bugler waiting at a distance.
The raids of the Nagas had been carried out several times before their arrival, so it is a known fact that the location of the village of the Harin tribe was known to the Nagas.
If we don’t quickly restore the coastal waters and start a full-scale subjugation, the Haerin tribe will have to suffer from the attacks of the Naga family forever.
=What if I don’t take it seriously?=
“At that time, I will have to sell the name of Soul Corp.”
Even the Harin tribe is known for its reputation as a spirit master. If you sell your name, at least you won’t get kicked out of the door.
=Master, here is coffee.=
“Hmm.”
When Isilite drank about half of the coffee diluted with purified water, Kim Young-soo and Kim Cheol-soo returned to the boat and returned the map with both hands.
“Older brother. While checking the entrance, I looked deep into the ground with spatial perception, but it seems that there is no mermaid village on the island?”
“… Was there anything that interfered with perception?”
“Yep. If there is a mermaid village under the real island, I think it will be deep underground.”
There are a total of six entrances marked on the map. It was on the rock crevices and cliffs on the west coast and under the trees along the small stream on the east side of the island.
There must be something here, seeing as there are many entrances.
One of the reasons is that there is some kind of secret technique that prevents detection, or that Kim Young-soo’s spatial perception makes it difficult to see underground.
The other is the possibility that the village of the Harin tribe is somewhere other than the bottom of the mountain.
‘The latter is more likely.’
At that time, Sidne, Shar-ah, Riella, and an unknown mermaid quickly swam out of the fjord’s underwater cave.
=Traveler, the elder allowed you to enter the city.=
“Is that so? That’s good.”
=Yes. However, it is not possible to invite all of you, and only 4 people are allowed.=
Hearing Sidne’s story on the deck, Hwanin thought of a trap, but it ended in a misunderstanding when Anne asked.
=Is there a reason to limit it to four people?=
= Our city, Warna, is the last paradise for the Harin people. So there is a facility to protect the city, and that facility is also in charge of entering and exiting the city. Because it’s not infinite…=
=If you use it more than a certain number of times, the tool will stop.=
= Yes… If the naga attack again, we have to intercept it, and we need to keep track of the number of times the warriors who intercepted return return, so we only open it to outsiders four times a day.=
“Understand. There will be four people visiting your city: me, Isilite, Anne, and Hwanyeon.”
If only four people can visit, it is no different than that the members are fixed.
Norn didn’t like that he didn’t fit in, but here he wasn’t immature enough to use a group, so he just showed signs of disliking it and went on his own.
“I’ll be back, so take good care of the Regina.”
“… Okay.”
Hwanin, who calmed Norn’s head by giving him an awkward answer, asked the two Kims, Yurpa, Baeknyeogang, and Ayeonge, to guard the ship well, and then jumped down into the cobalt blue fjord with Sydne.
As the slightly cold sea water wraps around his body, Sydne approaches him with a soft swim and caresses his face once as if groping his face.
Then air bubbles formed around the face she touched and covered Hwanin’s head.
“This… I can breathe.”
=This is a magic technique for land people who cannot breathe underwater. Then I will guide you to the city.=
As Sydne grabs his hand and speeds up, he enters the underwater cave in an instant, and the scenery in front of him changes dizzyingly quickly.
After swimming through narrow passages that would be unbearable if you’re claustrophobic, the cave started to get wider and wider.
=Traveler, I will wait here for a while.=
And the place we arrived at was a place where a complex and dizzying plane magic circle was blocking the passage vertically.
Hwanin muttered as he stared at the plane of the magic method.
“This is the gateway to Warna.”
= That’s right. There is also a function that transfers you to the sea somewhere in this world if someone who has not received permission or recognition touches it, so please be careful not to touch it.=
Hwanin is relieved a little by the explanation, which doesn’t feel like a plot or conspiracy at all, and begins to memorize the 4-meter-diameter magic technique to pass it on to Yurpa.
After a while, Isilite and Anne also arrived holding hands with Shar-ah and Liella. Hwan-yeon merged with Lil and became an adult, a situation that naturally followed without the help of a mermaid.
=Please prepare.=
At the same time as Sydne’s words, the light in the blue magic circle gradually grew stronger.
A different color passed by Hwanin’s eyes, feeling a familiar energy in the light.
Although weak in the light, he felt the aura of the deep nuclear force.
It’s not a complete core power, and it doesn’t seem like the magic method is a relic, so what is the reason for the faint core power?
Did you process the core of the labyrinth and make it into a spell? It was around the time that Hwanin’s interest in the magic method grew stronger.
Whoaaah—
When the light disappeared, Hwanin and his women appeared in the middle of a strange, different world.
Hwanin’s eyes swept the starry sky like lightning.
A large air bubble covering a city that could have been 6km in diameter, and a castle that looked like a giant building made of blue conch shells piercing the ceiling.
The conch castle was built like a pillar at the very center of the air bubble, and dozens of waterways coming out of the castle embroidered the air bubbles everywhere like elevated roads without any structure.
While the Harin tribe was swimming and moving along the water path, houses like rest areas were attached to the water path, creating a strange spectacle.
“…”
Down there, which could be a good 2km, hundreds of Haerin tribes, whether it’s a farm or something, are planting and cultivating something that looks like coral on the ground.
= Huh? Wow!=
=Lord, master!=
Anne and Isilite, who came to their senses a little late, struggled.
It was because the place where the party appeared was a huge plaza-like board extending from Sora Castle, about 10 meters high.
Unlike the startled women, Hwanin was not surprised because he saw water pooling under his feet, so he surrendered himself to the sensation of floating as he fell.
However, Hwanyeon, with the power of the wind spirit, gently lowers the party onto the floor as smooth as the inner shell of a conch shell.
= Ugh, it’s a surprise. Thank you, Hwan Yeon-ah. Anyway here… Where are you?=
The sky is dark blue, but rather than the sky, is that the ceiling?
Besides, the surroundings are strangely bright. Besides, I’ve been in the water until now, but there’s no water at all…
= This is Warna, the last resting place of our Harin people. Welcome, travelers!=
Anne and Isilite couldn’t hide their embarrassment at Liella’s open-armed welcome.
No matter how much I think about it, this isn’t the basement of Jormunsen Island, so where did you come from?
