Chapter 802 – 793 Warna, the Underwater City
=Liella, Navan. You may as well go back. Shar-ah goes to Homingwon…=
Sidney talks to the three mermaids in a crack in the conch castle that looks like a valley at first glance, and the water that flows out of it and remains like a reservoir.
In the meantime, Hwanin began to analyze Warna in earnest.
The first thing that catches your eye is the oval conical conch castle thousands of meters high.
Spiral-shaped ribs splendidly adorn the outer wall of the conch castle, and countless building-scale coffin projections add to its splendor.
Spiral towers spread widely like disks to divide the floors, and spiral towers rise sharply as if piercing the ceiling, and the outer walls are dazzlingly blue.
The surface extending from the inside of the corner gate to the outside shines with flawless pearl luster, so there is no impression that it is a privately owned building.
Shall we call it the shape of a giant conch that was discovered by chance as a castle?
From the cracks and grooves here and there, as much water as a moderate amount of water flows through the air, and dozens of such waters are used by the Harin tribe as a way to swim.
There was a house of mermaids on the board attached to the waterway, and the house is also a peculiar shape that seems to have piled up common conch shells here and there.
After the conch castle, the air canal, and the house connected to the water canal, there are spirits.
There are no fire spirits at all, and water spirits account for 80% from the lowest to the highest level, and there are only one light spirit in a hundred.
Is it because of that? Just like the color of the outer wall of the conch castle, everything from the atmosphere to the color tone is blue, so it’s almost eye-watering.
Hwanin glanced at him curiously, gave a glance at the passing water spirit for a moment, then looked up.
At the end of the visual field, there was that huge membrane that divided the inside and the outside, and beyond the perfect circular sphere like a snow globe, black with a pale blue tint filled it.
‘That block…’
Checking the flow with the eyes of a new-style soul, you can see that it is in line with the air bubble that Sydne gave you.
If that’s the case, is the ocean outside, filtering only the oxygen contained in the water through the membrane and bringing it inside?
Hwanin’s eyes deepened.
‘A technique on a transcendental scale beyond this scale.’
It is a sphere with a diameter of only 6 km. Aside from the effect of the technique, it must have been a transcendent level of difficulty to develop this area.
Here, if the outside of the membrane is the sea, what kind of load would a protective shield this large receive? What about the monster attacking from outside the curtain?
The effectiveness of the membrane, the strength of the membrane, and the defense of the membrane.
No matter how much I thought about it, it was far beyond the ability of a person to unfold. It would not be strange even if it was a mythical level beyond a transcendental level.
If it is a being that can expand and maintain this…
‘I guess you know. A full-fledged god, not a half like me.’
Isn’t that an existence that has reached the extreme with such a realm system?
But I heard that Asin doesn’t stay on the ground.
= It is a very mysterious place… Anne, have you heard of Warna?=
= No. Neither my family nor the other members of the royal family probably came this far…=
“…”
After thinking for a while while listening to Isilite and Anne’s whispers, Hwanin walked to the edge of the pearly white wings wide enough to create a playground.
Looking down a few hundred meters from the end, you can see land and water in half. In the water, grass resembling aquatic plants grows densely like a field, and on the dark brown ground, tree-sized corals are formed like an orchard.
It’s not just trees like aquatic plants and corals. Some mermaids are cultivating vines that are not even in the records of Yeongdo, and there are places that raise animals the size of pigs that look like a mixture of a sea lion and a hippopotamus.
And when Hwanin’s gaze fell on the dark brown soil, he understood perfectly about this mysterious place.
“It’s a labyrinth.”
“… Is this a labyrinth?”
Hwan-yeon, who had followed him, heard Hwan-in’s words to herself and opened her eyes.
“Okay. The magic circle that passed through a moment ago must have been the entrance to the labyrinth. Somehow, I felt the deep core force faintly.”
Hwan-yeon, who had an expression that she hadn’t guessed at all, asked Riella and Shar-ah, who were escaping from the reservoir through the air canal.
“They don’t look like heterogeneous species.”
“When did you say that? If I can control the core, wouldn’t it be possible to change or manipulate the labyrinth as I want?”
“Ah… It is a story that the Harin tribe took over a labyrinth and changed it like this. How did you know that?」
“I found a labyrinthine meridian in the ground below.”
The meridian of a general labyrinth flows along the floor or wall of the labyrinth like a blood vessel. The color is also reddish, and it sprinkles red light as if it pulsates from time to time.
However, what was visible on the ground below was the same meridian, but a different color.
“It gave off a soft blue light. I wonder if the blue tone of this space is due to the color of the meridians.”
That was what fueled Hwanin’s suspicions. I wondered if a person named the queen of the Harin tribe might have conquered the labyrinth and turned it into a city.
If the conch castle you are standing on now is part of the labyrinth, won’t many questions be resolved?
=Traveler?=
Hearing Sydne’s call, Hwanin changed her expression to a gentler one and approached her.
“The city is amazing. I’ve been to Nionebreth’s four national cities, but it’s the first time I’ve seen a place as unique and mysterious as this one. No other race could ever embody a place like this.”
=… All, of course! There will be no other city in the world as beautiful and mysterious as Warna!=
Hwanin’s naked compliments briefly embarrassed, then awkwardly flaunted, revealing cuteness by creating a gap with his alluring appearance.
When Hwanin smiled softly, Sydne, who cleared her throat with a slightly reddened face, dived into the reservoir and blew a whistle once.
And when she put her head out of the water again, a creature resembling a seahorse came from the other side of the canal leading to the conch castle, swimming through the canal like a dart.
Kwy~!
Kyakkyu!
Four creatures a little smaller than a horse approached in an instant, circling around Sidney and playfully pressing her body with their long, blunt snouts.
= Ahaha. Stop, stop!=
Sidne, who smiled and stroked the heads of the seahorses to calm them down, pointed out the blue and yellow seahorses to her phantom party.
=Everyone get on Maeha’s back. The elder is on the lower floor of the Gakcheong Palace, so it’s quicker to go by car.
“All right.”
When Hwanin stands at the edge of the reservoir, which is angular like a swimming pool, the servants fight each other to get Hwanin to go first.
Kwy! Kyw!
Kywu? Kwy~
Kwyit.
It swung its curled tail to hit other falcons, and pricked other falcons with its snout.
From Hwanin’s point of view, it feels like they’re joking with each other rather than fighting.
Then, among the four, Maeha, who was a little bigger and seemed stronger, proudly offered her back to Hwanin.
“I’m counting on you.”
When Hwanin climbed on the back of the hawk and smiled and stroked the back of the head, the hawk waggled its tail up and down and circled around the reservoir as if it were happy.
The women also laughed as they climbed on Maeha’s back in turn.
“The kids are cute~.”
“I think they are as gentle as the Que.”
The Queds are also gentle and kind, but they don’t have much playfulness or aegyo.
Even if it’s a prank, it sneaks up behind the owner and pats the owner’s back with his forehead, and the level of aegyo is the level of sneaking up and sitting next to the owner when he is sitting on the road and resting.
However, it rides the person who beats it on its back and plays with its body, and if it looks away from its back, it splashes water with its tail to look at itself, and cries out loud as if it is singing.
= If there are many kids like this outside, it would be easier to go to the river or the sea. Why didn’t I see you outside?=
=The hawks are very weak, so it’s hard to live in places where the water temperature is low or changes frequently, and they can’t fight, so they sometimes lose their houses to fish that aren’t even half their liking. In severe cases, they are chased by shoals of anchovies and run away.=
At Sydne’s explanation, Isilite and Anne made absurd expressions.
If it’s anchovies, aren’t they food for other fish that are about three fingers tall? Is that enough to make it strange that it didn’t go extinct?
Anyway, after leaving the reservoir and entering the air canal, the falcons gradually began to speed up, but the women had to cling flat to the falcons’ backs because of numbness in their hamstrings.
Because it is transparent, the land hundreds of meters down the waterway is clearly visible. In addition, the left and right width of the waterway is about 10m, and the speed of the falcon is similar to the sprint of Que on land.
The air canal curves here and there like a roller coaster, and every time Mae-ha turned a corner, it seemed like he was about to be thrown out of the canal.
The falcons, who happily ran along the canal for about five minutes along the precedent Sydne, came down from the ground to the canal that was not very high and entered the lower entrance of the Conch Castle and Gakcheong Palace and cried kywy-.
Around that time, the women also got used to the speed of the hawk, so they looked around the entrance and exit with a very strange feeling and exclaimed.
Rather than a waterway, it feels like going into the body of a creature.
= Dew. Look at the wall Isn’t it just like a pearl?=
= That’s right The water is surprisingly clean, but there is no salt at all… Where does this much water come from?=
= Um~. Is it to circulate the gakcheonggung by raising the underground water? There’s a huge fountain in a city in the northern part of Glond Island. The fountain flows from an underground water vein…=
Anne’s soft, easy-to-listen voice resounded softly in the oval-shaped aisle.
Sydne, who was swimming ahead, waved to Hwanin, who was right behind her, and said,
=If you go all the way inside, you will come to an intersection, and that is the Elders’ House.=
“Okay. If the elders are on the lower floor, is the upper floor a place for the queen to live?”
=Yes. You are our great queen who looks out over the whole of Warna from her seat!=
“…”
Hwanin smiled softly at Sydne, who raised her nose as if showing off how much she respected her, then turned her gaze to the wall to the right.
To women’s eyes, it is a pearl-colored smooth passageway, but to Hwanin’s eyes, it is a labyrinthine passageway with blue meridians that lead inward rather loosely.
What is the difference between red and blue?
In my experience so far, red has been ominous, gloomy and menacing, like a mixture. Blue is closely related to phase power and has a similar sense to purity or clarity.
‘A human-friendly labyrinth might have blue meridians like this.’
Hwanin looked at his palm. If he takes control of the labyrinth, will the meridian of the labyrinth become golden?
= We have arrived! It’s in front of me!=
Raising my head at Sydne’s small cry, a history similar to that of modern European train platforms appeared.
In addition to the waterway the party entered, there is another waterway, as if coming from inside the castle, some mermaids swim out and go out in the direction they came in, or unload the load from the back of a falcon loaded with luggage.
Keke~ cheek.
Talent?
However, a small creature unloading a load from the back of a hawk caught the attention of the party.
The leather is light blue, the skin is clean, and although it is rough, it does not look intimidating at all because it is dressed in clothes and wears a Santa hat on its head.
It looks similar to a land hob with a bald head and an ugly appearance, but it feels like a completely different species.
= Mr. Sidney. What is that creature?=
= Yes? Oh, it’s Sickle. We, the Harin tribe, help with this and that, and we, the Harin tribe, protect those children.=
= You are mutually reciprocal. It looks like Hob, but what’s the personality like? Through the conversation?=
=I don’t understand complicated stories, but it’s not difficult to communicate with hand gestures. And if it’s a hob, it’s a land monster, right? They are sub-species of the sea.=
They are only about 100 cm tall, but they must be strong enough to carry a load twice their size through a door.
Certainly looks good in character. Mermaids don’t seem to discriminate against Sickles either.
As Hwanin and the women got off Maeha’s back and stood on the floor that was still polished like pearls, Sydne smiled and pointed to a door in the wall.
=Anyway, traveler. Do you see the door with many triangles engraved on it? If you go in there, you will find Elder Sijahan Beatt. If you talk to him, you will be able to solve your curiosity.=
“Thank you for telling me the story and even guiding me like this.”
= Say something. The food you served was really delicious.=
Sydne, who waved her hand and greeted her, quickly disappeared across the waterway with her sister-in-law, and when she disappeared, her fanfare brushed her bangs and snapped her fingers.
Then, in an instant, the moisture was removed from the bodies of Hwanin and the two women, who were drenched in water, and they became dry.
「Hwanin. He kept looking around as he came, how is it? Is this really a labyrinth?」
= Huh? Is this a labyrinth?=
“Okay. On the wall, something like a labyrinthine meridian can be seen. But it doesn’t beat red, it’s blue, and the beat is weak. I can’t even see the acupuncture points.”
= I don’t even feel mental infringement… ?=
“She is probably ruled by a person called the Queen of the Harin tribe. Be careful not to show off in front of people. Stop peeping at the fantasy here.”
After giving the women a small warning, Hwanin approached the door Sidne had pointed to and knocked on her door.
Upon closer inspection, the door was made of coral, not wood or iron.
[Come in.]
“…”
I can feel the strong power from his voice, whether being an elder is false.
The control of the phase power is very skillful, and it even overflows, so the phase power is faintly buried in the voice.
Even if you can’t do it, Siha = Saiji is a 8th-class baron or a count of Pshud.
Issilite and Anne also noticed this and relaxed slightly.
“I will go in.”
Since it is a hinged door, I pushed the door sideways and entered the room, like an indoor swimming pool, with a depth of about 1m.
The owner of the voice was a middle-aged mermaid with a thick aura like quicksand in the desert.
The mermaid, her white-yellow hair in fine braids, sat on a slick coral chair, patched up her scales, and smiled softly at her phantom.
=Welcome, traveler. I heard from Sydne that he visited Jormunsen Island on a very important occasion.=
“Yes. It is to inquire about Adneville, the white and blue dragon.”
With the faint traces of age at the corner of her eyes, to her astonishment she was etched with an enormous scar that stretched from her left collarbone to her right silence followed and across the valley of her breasts.
In addition, there were large and small wounds left on the breast, arms and sides, and the lower abdomen, and there was a scar like a lightning bolt across the left eye on the face. There was.
The lower half of her fish was also full of cracks, cracks, and scars of different colors, and her anal fin was also tattered.
=Warrior of scars…=
Scar Warrior. It is a rare job that says that the more life-threatening scars there are on the body, not the scars and minor scars, the more powerful it is.
A scar of that size would be powerful enough to be counted on one hand among rare occupations of the same class.
Hwanin took off his gloves and placed a hand on his chest as a sign of courtesy.
“Nice to see you. My name is Hwanin, I am a traveler walking the road with the lamp of the God of Mercy at the fore.”
= Were you a spirit master? Such a judgment… I am Sijahan Viat, the elder of the armed forces of the Noarat tribe.=
Sija Han, who put down the scales he had sewn into his armor, puts his hand on his left chest and bows his head.
=But it seems that Warna welcomed a very rare person as her guest today.=
“I also never imagined that I would meet someone like Elder Beatart here.”
= Haha. Scar warriors are perfect for dying prematurely. It’s not like this, eat it inside. I will bring you something to eat and drink.=
As she moved to the kitchen, Hwanin, who went inside her house, found Isilite continuing to stare at Shijahan’s back.
There are also scars on the back, but relatively few compared to the front of the body.
“It must mean that he is a fearless warrior who never turns back in front of the enemy.”
=Yes.=
She is not only confident as a warrior but also soft as a woman, and she seems to have found a role model for her life in Han = B. Art.
After stroking the back of her hair, Hwanin went to a suitable chair like a stool and sat down.
Even if they are mermaids, only the lower part of the body is a fish, but the height of the waist is similar to that of a human. Thanks to this, the size of the furniture is also similar, so sitting is no problem.
The height of the chair is higher than that of a normal chair, perhaps considering submersion in water, but it is not uncomfortable to sit on as it has a leg rest and the lower part of the thigh is submerged in water.
Inside, there is only one bedroom, one living room, one living room, and one kitchen, and the interior is a modest place with only a few decorations such as coral, jewels, and monster bones.
Since they are a species that lives close to water, it seems that poor interiors are unavoidable.
‘There’s a small waterway in the corner, so the water keeps circulating.’
After waiting for a while while looking around the mermaid’s house, Shi Jahan brought out round candy-like items and coral-like millet cans on two plates.
And Shi Jahan, who sat across from Hwanin, politely requested.
=Can you give me a glimpse of the wave of tranquility? I understand that she seems suspicious, but I hope you understand that I have no choice but to ask. =
“Of course.”
It is a race that is said to have little contact with the outside world. Since I hadn’t heard any news about the Holy Emperor or the soul knight of the Holy Emperor, it could be said that it was a natural request to confirm his identity.
In order not to misunderstand, Hwanin spread the old-style wave of tranquility first, and when the elder Sijahan’s expression changed more favorably, he used a new-style wave of tranquility that spreads a small golden glow.
= Ah… No, this is just… ?=
“You must have heard from Sydne that we came to find Adneville, the white and blue dragon. The very fact that insignificant people are looking for the divine beast, the white blue dragon, is something that can cause suspicion.”
=… Perhaps the Hwanin Soul Master…=
“You guessed right.”
=…=
Hwanin noticed that the elder Sijahan had mistaken it for a rare soul master class, but he didn’t really correct his thoughts.
Instead, he began to explain what had happened.
“Adnevilla is currently pouring rain every day on the capital of Merianol in the waters between the islands of Dorwain and Jormunsen.”
Not only does it fall in the city, but it has already been spraying the waters around the city and in between for well over half a year.
From the resulting ecological problems to the Naga family and the story that monsters are heading to Jormunsen Island in large numbers.
Elder Sijahan, who listened to Hwanin’s story with a serious face, closed his eyes and let out a small moan.
The news of attacks from the direction of Jormundsen has increased dramatically in recent years, and I wondered what the reason was…
=… Isn’t it a problem for Shinsoo’s spirituality that he sprinkles rain for such a long time and causes suffering to people on land?
“It’s possible.”
= Yes… Ok…=
At Hwanin’s short reply, the elder Sijahan realized the general reasoning and let out a sigh.
It is difficult for a land person to perform even 30% of their skills in the sea. Even that is the story of when you are on the surface, and when you go underwater, the ability to deploy is drastically reduced, and certain jobs become unable to demonstrate even 10% of their skills.
If Shinsoo’s spirituality is broken, he must be prepared for battle when he visits him, but that he came despite that means he has skills or a secret plan to overcome the situation.
Elder Sijahan looked at the extraordinary face of the man in front of him and stood up with a small nod.
=I am an elder who assists in the safety of Warna in terms of force. The elders in the Jeongsu area may know the information the Spirit Master wants. She guides her to her soul master…=
Elder Sijahan, who was talking, suddenly shuts up and looks up at the ceiling as if he had received a message.
The elder, who had been frozen in that state for about 10 seconds, narrowed her brows with a puzzled look on her face and said,
= I, I tried to guide the elder of the Jeongsu area to her soul priest… It is no longer possible.=
“Why?”
= The Queen… There really was no case like this, but she was ordered by the queen to bring the spirit priest upstairs. =
= Eh. Why?=
While Anne was puzzled, she glanced at Hwanyeon. She wondered if the queen had captured the energy of her merging with the transcendental water spirit.
Seeing that gaze, her brows furrowed slightly and she shook her head saying she wasn’t herself.
He hides his aura perfectly enough that even the elder in front of him doesn’t notice.
Then why?
I don’t know. Anyway I am not
‘… It’s because of me.’
Hwanin quickly realized that it was because of him.
Asinwi was completely hidden, but the tranquility wave energy that she shot at the elder Shizahan to prove her identity flowed into the meridian and reached the place where the queen was.
Hwanin also got up from his seat and asked Elder Sijahan, who was perplexed.
“I would like to ask her to guide you to where the Queen is.
=… Yes. Come with me.=
