Chapter 120 – Underwater City Under the Sea (3)
The experience of spending a night in the ocean is probably a special experience that cannot be had anywhere else.
The Kingdom of Prash, which has been interacting with the Kingdom of Gabondi on land for a long time, is said to have a space for guests on land who come to the sea like us.
We followed May, who guided us, to a special room filled with air.
It’s a large space where all seven of us can fit in, and May says she can breathe under the sea.
We all went into the special room May had mentioned and when she lifted her head and looked up, there was indeed air above the water.
When I got my head out of the seawater and took off my breathing tube, I could really breathe.
In addition, there is space to go out into the sea water.
We all went out of the water and onto a room with a floor.
“I think you can spend the night here without any problems.”
“It seems that messengers and merchants who come to the Frash Kingdom usually stay here. How did you make it?”
I turned my head this way and that and looked at the space I was in.
I don’t know how it was made, but it felt like a tourist attraction as it was surrounded by a glass-like wall that clearly showed the outside of the sea.
I was also curious about the principle that allows one to continue breathing under the sea.
“You can think of it as a space created by applying the brancho you used. You can use it until the evil group called Void comes tomorrow.”
After hearing May’s words, Ellie pounded her glassy wall with her fist.
“Is the wall here strong enough? I don’t want the Void to come in earlier than scheduled and break it while attacking.”
“I think Rachel and I should just build a simple firewall? What do you think, Jinu?”
As Ellie said, if she were sleeping here and the wall suddenly collapsed, she might drown.
I told Renia and Rachel to create a protective wall.
Then, Renia and Rachel created a thick wall of ice on the outside of the glass wall.
I couldn’t see the outside clearly due to the walls becoming opaque due to the ice, but I think this would be enough.
“If you need anything, put your hand there and someone will come and listen.”
Looking in the direction May pointed, I saw a protruding part on one of her pillars.
It looked like a button-like part, as if telling you to press it with your palm.
May said something to us and went back into the sea.
“Really, I don’t know why you’re going through so much trouble because of Boyd.”
“I think I need to tell you in advance in preparation for tomorrow’s battle.”
After May left, we all decided to get together and talk about what to do tomorrow.
“Once I heard Mei’s description, I think her greatest enemy is someone who has fused with the Kraken.”
“It’s a Kraken… It won’t be that much fun.”
Noah, who had listened to May’s explanation along with me, lay down behind her and talked as if he was bored.
She deserved it if it was Noah who said it was good to fight against the strong.
The Kraken is so weak that even Rachel can catch it alone, so it’s just like a weak monster.
“But you don’t know. The demons May has seen are Kraken, Crocodile, and Moray, but she can’t let down her guard because there may be one that has fused with a stronger demon.”
“The owner, too. Of course I know that well. I won’t let my guard down, but it’s true that there’s a high possibility that it won’t be fun. Oh! Don’t hit me, Sister Ellie.”
As if she didn’t like Noah’s behavior, Ellie, who was sitting next to her, lightly hit Noah on the head with her palm.
I didn’t care about that and continued talking.
“First of all, looking at the abilities that Void has shown so far, it seems that if it fuses with Demon, it can use Demon’s abilities as is, but it cannot show any more power. Instead, it feels like Demon has evolved into a more intelligent monster. But, if it’s a different problem, it’s separate.”
“You’re talking about the Void guy we saw in Ar’estel. He’s a fusion of two demons, Spider and Bael.”
I nodded at Lien’s words.
“That’s right, that guy! He wasn’t strong, but he was very tricky!”
“If among the Void guys we’ll be dealing with this time, there are entities that have fused with two or more demons… It’s definitely going to be tricky.”
Yuria got angry as if she remembered what happened back then, and Lien expressed the same thoughts as if she were representing my thoughts.
“Like Lien said, I think it would be a good idea to consider the case where there are two or more demons fused together.”
Even the guy who fused with Spider and Bael last time was seen using the patterns of both demons at the same time.
Even if you fuse with two, it looks like that, but I don’t even want to imagine what kind of troublesome things would happen if you fused with three or four.
“It’s not that I don’t believe what my sisters say, but I can’t believe there is someone who fused with a demon.”
“I don’t know what happened to your head. No one in their right mind would ever think of fusing with a demon!”
Rachel, who had not met Boyd yet, trembled slightly as if she was afraid of the upcoming battle, and Lenia shouted loudly as if she was not happy with the current situation.
“So are we going to kill Void on sight?”
I shook my head at Ellie’s words.
“Let’s look at the situation first. If they say they’re not as strong as we think, we’ll take the attack in moderation.”
Yuria tilted her head as if she didn’t understand what I was saying.
“Jinu, why do you have to do that? It would have been easier if I just killed her before she changed.”
Yuria seems to be thinking of killing the opponent before they turn into a fused state with Demon, like she did in Pern.
“That’s why I look at the situation and think. If we kill Void right now, that would be fine, but we will continue to be hostile to Void in the future.”
“Ah, I’m thinking of dealing with him appropriately and extracting information from Boyd.”
Renia guessed exactly what I thought.
“That’s right, Renia. We still don’t really know anything about Void. This is an opportunity to find out for sure.”
The plan I had in mind was simple.
Among these, only Ellie, who specializes in defending against opponent’s attacks, Renia, who can create a shield, and Rachel are the only ones to confront Boyd first.
The rest, including me, hide around and prepare for a surprise attack at any time.
And Ellie, Rhenia, and Rachel fight against Boyd and act as they struggle to withstand the attack.
Of course, this is based on the case where the Void guys we meet this time are fused with only one person and one demon.
If we determine that two or more are merging, all of us who are hiding will run out immediately.
Otherwise, you can take moderate attacks and extract information about the enemy.
People are most likely to let down their guard when they think they are in an advantageous position.
The goal is to take advantage of that gap.
In particular, it would be good to appeal to the fact that we took care of the last voids as well. If you think that those guys are being overpowered by us but not by you, and are overpowering them, it will be even easier to let down your guard.
“So, Ellie, Rayna, and Rachel, I think you three are going to have a bit of a hard time. Please do me a favor.”
The three people who heard me nodded their heads in agreement.
Once I had roughly decided what to do tomorrow, I tilted my head back and laid my back on the floor.
“It would be nice if things worked out easily.”
I said to myself in a low voice.
“I’ll have to listen tomorrow, but I really don’t understand what kind of organization Boyd is.”
“How do you know about Demons? There’s no way you would know unless you were us.”
As if they heard me talking to myself, Ellie and Renia started talking about Boyd.
I also listened to that story.
“I don’t even understand why Demon would want to invade this world in the first place. I don’t think there’s anything in this world that Demon wants?”
“That’s right. The reason Demon invaded our world is to devour the energy of the World Tree, which maintains the balance of the Aslan Continent, right? But here… I don’t think there is such a huge amount of energy.”
If the monsters that appear in all RPG games have their own settings, Demon’s setting was that he invaded the game world to eat the energy of the World Tree, as Ellie just said.
However, we still do not know why Demons will invade this world.
Even Gaia didn’t tell us why.
“An organization that knows about such demons and has technology to fuse with demons that doesn’t even exist in our world… It’s full of questions.”
“You just have to kill them all anyway, right? There’s no need to think about it.”
Lien thought deeply about the topic that was brought up this time and talked about it, while Noah waved his hand and said in an annoying voice that it was no big deal.
As everyone said, the existence of Boyd is truly questionable.
I think there must be someone who told Void about Demon.
I think that’s something that happened not too long ago.
According to Gaia’s words and the records I’ve seen so far, I can clearly see that they came over to invade this world a very long time ago.
If the Void had existed since then, this world would have been engulfed by the Void a long time ago.
However, looking at Boyd’s actions so far, it appears that he is just moving to take over the world.
If that’s the case, I think Boyd has just started to become active.
Otherwise, Gaia, the god here, cannot be unaware of the existence of the Void.
Recently, she found someone who knew a lot about Demons, and that person may have informed the members of her organization about the fusion with Void, which we don’t even know about.
And he must have taught me how to summon demons using equipment.
My thoughts so far are only guesses, but I think they are roughly correct.
I plan to find out the details tomorrow using the Void guys.
