Chapter 116 – Southern Sea (3)
After hearing Ellie’s words, I took over the compass and immediately checked the direction it was pointing to.
It’s not that I don’t trust Ellie, but I was shocked because I never imagined there would be equipment in the sea.
We all moved in the direction indicated by the compass.
We arrived in Libreville, but the compass was still pointing south, so we had to race across town and out of town.
Even though we were out of town, the compass was still pointing south.
“Hah… If it’s still pointing in this direction, it means it’s in the sea like Ellie said.”
As I crossed the village, I prayed that the compass direction would change, but my earnest prayers had no effect at all.
We couldn’t be frustrated here, so we moved along the compass direction and at the end, we saw the blue sea.
“Um… Is the direction still south, master?”
“Yeah… I thought it would be nice if the direction changed a little while moving, but it seems like there is no intention to change at all.”
I hoped it wouldn’t be as bad as in the sea, but my wish was not granted at all.
Even if you move the compass around, the direction it is pointing is not near the beach, but rather deep in the sea.
How do I find it if it’s under the sea?
It’s just really overwhelming.
“Is there any way to find the equipment in the sea?”
There is no specific method that comes to mind right now.
Everyone who heard my question couldn’t come up with an opinion right away.
Of course, there is an underwater-based dungeon in Elion, but it is only under water under the pretense.
Due to the underwater setting, the scenery is green and lush with seaweed-like grass, and the monsters appear as underwater creatures, but the gimmick in the dungeon is no different from existing dungeons.
I remember that the management team loudly boasted that they would be able to enjoy Elion’s first underwater battle, but they were scolded like dogs.
While everyone was quiet, Lenia carefully raised her hand.
“Hmm… It’s not that there is no way, but I think it would be difficult to implement.”
“What method do you think? Would you like to tell me first?”
Since I had nothing on my mind right now, I thought the way Lenia spoke might be a hint, so I focused, pricking up her ears in anticipation.
“If I unite with Naiad, the Spirit King of Water, I might be able to instantly split a part of the sea and reveal the land… But I don’t think this would be a good method since it would only work for a short time.”
As Renia said, it is a method that can be used when you have discovered the exact location of the equipment…
“Should I take a boat and go into the sea? Still, I have a compass, so I can use it to find the location.”
“It seems there is no other way. Then, do you plan to leave the cherry in Libreville?”
I shook my head at Renia’s words.
“I’m going out to sea now, and I don’t know how long I’ll be there, so I think it would be a good idea to take it with me. There’s a lot of baggage to carry.”
There are now 8 people including me, so I think we will have to rent a fairly large boat.
I can’t believe I have to go to the sea and fish for gear.
While we were watching the beach, we saw something creeping up from the sea.
“Uh. What is that?”
Yuria seems to have seen the same thing I was seeing.
As I was concentrating on looking at the sea, I saw someone jumping out of the sea and swimming.
A person with wavy orange hair was swimming quickly, and shark-like creatures could be seen chasing after him.
It appears to be a monster living in the sea, as its body is three times larger than that of any shark I know.
The person over there must have spotted us as well, so he turned and swam towards us.
“Sal, please save me~~!”
It looks like it will get eaten by a shark-like monster.
“Renia, Rachel, do you see the person being chased over there? Can you catch the monster chasing behind you?”
I pointed towards the sea with my finger and spoke.
I thought the only people who could attack from a distance right now were Renia and Rachel.
“No problem at all.”
After hearing my words, Rhenia summoned Naiad with her Water Spirit King behind her and immediately integrated it, then flew towards the sea.
“Renia, I will support you!”
Rachel held out her wand in front of her, looking in the direction Lenia had flown her way.
〈Ice Crystal〉
Among the Elemental Master’s skills, this is a skill that creates a large piece of ice behind oneself and rains it down on the enemy countless times.
Puff puff puff!
The ice pieces created by Rachel rained down on the shark monster and tore its body apart, and Renia, who had become one with the Spirit King, also created a blade made of water to attack the shark monster.
“Aaaaah! Help me!!”
The person who was running away from the shark monster saw numerous blades of ice and water flying behind him and swam towards us, shouting.
All of the shark monsters that were attacked by us died, and their corpses floated above the water.
I think there were about 6 of them, but I think they were killed in an instant.
The swimmer turned his head and saw that the shark monster behind him was dead, and then swam towards us with a relieved expression on his face.
“Heh, heh… Thank you for your help. If you hadn’t helped me, I would have been eaten by the horn sharks.”
When I looked at her from afar, I couldn’t tell because I could only see her orange hair, but when I looked closer, I saw that she was a woman.
She, a beautiful woman with blue eyes, greeted us without having come out of the sea yet.
“If you want to say thank you, shouldn’t you at least get out of the water?”
Looking at her, Lenia crossed her arms and spoke in her dissatisfied voice.
“Oh, that’s because I can’t do it… I have this kind of body.”
As she spoke, she dived, splashed where she was, made a sound, and her fish tail popped out.
What is that, is it perhaps a fishman?
And then her body popped out of the water again.
“I’m a fishman, so it’s hard for me to get out of the water. I’m sorry about that, but I’m truly grateful that you saved me!”
It was a fishman after all.
This is my first time seeing the fish people. I think I heard that they are a race of people with the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish underneath, but it’s amazing to see it for real.
“Wow, it looks interesting. Is it a mixture of a fish and a human?”
“This is also a race that didn’t exist in our world. It’s fascinating that it’s a race that lives under the sea.”
Everyone is looking at me in amazement after seeing a race that didn’t exist in Elion.
“Would that… Be delicious to eat?”
“Yuria, that’s not for eating.”
“But it’s fascinating. I think there are people who keep these trash as pets.”
We’re talking about the fish people we’ve seen for the first time.
“Wait a minute! Can you listen to me?”
As we were talking, her fish-man counterpart shouted in our direction.
“Seeing how you easily killed the Hornsharks earlier, I could see that you guys are quite capable. Can you help us in our kingdom’s crisis?”
What does this mean again?
“For now, just keep talking. What do you mean?”
“Recently, a group of people came to our kingdom. They were shouting at us to give them something, but we didn’t know what it was. So when we said we didn’t know, we threatened to give them a few days to find it.”
What kind of group… Could this be Void?
“There was no reason to listen to that, so we refused. Then they suddenly turned into monsters we had never seen before and attacked us. We fought back, but their power was so strong that we could not defeat them.”
We meet here again.
These damn Void bastards.
“Just looking at it, it’s a void, Jinu.”
“That’s right. We have to help. We have to destroy every Void bastard we see.”
When the fishman heard our story, she smiled brightly and shouted.
“Really? Thank you so much! I’m grateful that you saved my life just now, but you decided to help the kingdom. Thank you so much.”
“I would help, but there is a problem. We will probably have to go under the sea to get to your kingdom, and that will be difficult for us.”
They had not been able to solve the problem of the equipment used for summoning being in the sea just a moment ago.
But it is even more difficult to go into the sea to save the kingdom of the fishmen.
Surprisingly, there was no change in the fishman’s expression after hearing our words.
“That’s not a problem. There is a way for you to get into the sea like me.”
“Is that possible? How do you do it?”
It was amazing that such a method existed.
“Our kingdom and the Kingdom of Gabondi interact with each other, so humans sometimes come to our kingdom. Since they couldn’t just come, we looked for a way and discovered a plant called brancho. By using a respirator made from brancho, you can breathe even under water. “I did it.”
“Oh… There was a way. Where can I get it?”
I think that’s all it takes to find equipment easily.
No, maybe the equipment we are looking for is in the Fishman Kingdom.
