As I gazed at the endlessly expansive water surface in front of me, I spit inwardly.
It was an overwhelming size that was no different from looking at the sea from the shore.
Need to find a mystery hidden somewhere here?
I really thought this might take a few months. Even then, you may just not be able to find it at all.
“It’s been a while since I’ve been here.”
As Heibel sold, he said as he looked around the lake.
Well, it was enough to cast a spell on me and receive a commission.
The wagon stopped near the lake, and me, Ashel and Havel walked right in front of the lake.
A lush forest near the lake. This was the earthly landscape that I vaguely remember.
The probability of finding the mystery was high if you searched this area.
I looked around the lake for a moment and then turned to Heibel.
he asked, getting his attention.
“Are you starting right away?”
“okay.”
“Okay. Then… if something goes wrong with your body, please tell me right away.”
Hable immediately began to unleash his magic.
Blue light gathered in his hand, and the light was slowly absorbed into my body.
I felt the magic that started to fill my whole body. After gaining the extra senses, the energy such as magic was felt much better.
‘······Five.’
The magical effect appeared immediately.
Even if you don’t breathe in or breathe out, you don’t feel stuffy at all.
I’m amazed at him,” said Havel with a slightly startled look on his face.
“It seems that Confucius has never honed his magical powers, but the enchantment’s effectiveness is considerable, isn’t it?”
“efficiency?”
“They say that they have a high affinity for magic. Whether it’s martial arts or magic, if you honed your magic properly, you’ll be great.”
What, you mean you have a talent for magic?
I thought it was lip service, but looking at his expression, it didn’t seem like that.
It didn’t matter now, so I turned my attention back to the lake.
‘then······.’
where do i go now
There was nothing to drag.
I started taking off the clothes I was wearing one by one.
It was impossible to swim in the water in these thick clothes.
So I took it all off except for the thin T-shirt and pants I was wearing underneath.
“I’ll leave it to you.”
“·······Oh, yes.”
With a slightly bewildered face, Ashel carefully accepted the clothes she had taken off.
“Oh, and be careful not to move too vigorously in the water, Confucius.
He even listened to Havel’s attention and sent the two back to the wagon.
It’s going to be in the water for a while, so I didn’t have to keep it up here.
“Hmmmm….”
Alone, I relaxed lightly and approached right in front of the surface of the water.
There wasn’t much pressure on diving.
This is because one of the other specialties I was able to show off, having been immersed in games all my life, was scuba diving.
Unlike me, my brother, who is very active, would take me out of the house and carry me around on holidays. Skiing or climbing.
Among them, scuba diving was the one that my brother and I especially enjoyed together. Because this was pretty good for my taste.
Of course, he was naked now, but he had super rebirth and was able to move without getting tired, so there was no worry.
with a splash!
I dived into the water and immediately checked my breathing again. No problem.
The mana consumed while holding his breath was also clearly felt through his supersensory, so there was no problem here either.
‘…’
My body said that the enchantment efficiency is good, so that’s why.
I swam slowly, moving my limbs.
The extrasensory made the vision in front as clear as on the ground whether the effect was effective even in the water.
As I went deeper, fish began to pass by me one by one.
I stopped at a suitable point and started moving sideways, looking at the wall of the lake.
From now on until the mystery was found, it was an endless struggle in this way.
. . . And roughly, two hours passed.
I grabbed the stone beak protruding from the wall, stopped my body, and sighed inwardly.
‘There is no real answer to this.’
I expected it, but after experiencing it myself, it feels different.
In what age did you find and sit down like this?
I decided to go back for once because my magic power was slowly dropping.
I went back to the point where I marked the location and went up to the ground.
Returning to the carriage, Ashel and Baros were having a meal with Hable.
“…are you here?”
Seeing my wet look, Baros briefly twitched the corners of his mouth and lowered his head.
It may have been subconsciously, but he could see it very well because of his extrasensory. The child laughed and sat down.
Hable asked me.
“Did you find what you want, Confucius?”
I shook my head.
“I think it’s going to take a lot longer than I thought.”
Drying myself over the campfire, I ate with them.
And in the late afternoon, I went back to the lake and continued the exploration, but again, the mystery could not be found. That day’s exploration was over.
A week passed like that.
I came to the lake early this morning, and I swam in the water in search of the mystery.
However, due to the mystery of still not being able to see the nose, doubts arose as to whether this could not be done.
‘Is it really possible to find this?’
If it was possible to put in even a little manpower, I would do it right away, but I can’t because I’m looking for a mystery.
I lay in the water for a moment, drifting blankly, meditating.
If I had the certainty that I could find it, I would invest no matter how long it took, but the problem was that I wasn’t sure.
It was when I was thinking about whether I should postpone the search for a space leap until later if I couldn’t find it a little more.
“···········?”
I could feel a huge sign approaching quickly from afar.
The next thing that appeared in sight was a gigantic shark. Almost the size of a ship.
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········Why did such a guy come out when you didn’t even go deep into it?
As soon as he saw me, he opened his mouth wide and ran wildly.
‘That bastard.’
I immediately tried to shoot a drop of blood using the blood technique.
But then, again, I felt another sign approaching quickly from the other side.
At the same time, blue magic energy cut through the current and hit the body of the shark that was rushing towards me.
Whoops!
The shark that was hit directly by the attack struggled in pain and lost consciousness.
Then I felt something approaching me grabbing my waist.
‘······uh?’
I looked at the one who grabbed my waist.
A woman with blue hair covered with scales.
It seemed like he knew I was in danger and was trying to save him.
I couldn’t speak because I was in the water, so I was caught by her and dragged to the ground in an instant without knowing anything. what’s so fast?
“········Whoa!”
The woman who came out to the ground exhaled heavily, then looked at me as I sat blankly and shouted.
“Hey! Are you crazy, human? Did you go so deep with the intention of dying?!”
“············”.
“Hey, I’m totally blown away. You’re so lucky. I was really just trying to ignore you and saved you.”
She grunted like that and started wiping away the moisture from her body.
Then, the scales that had been covered with water began to slowly return to the human skin.
I opened my eyes a little when I saw that.
‘······Haerin people?’
space leap (3)
harin tribe.
One of the many rare races that exist in this world.
The woman in front of me right now was definitely a Haein.
Because the only race that had the appearance of an ordinary human on earth and the appearance of a whole body covered with scales in the water was the Haerin.
I was a little surprised because I didn’t expect to see such a rare race in a place like this.
“What are you staring at and you’re drooling? Are you curious?”
“············”.
He’s a bit of a tough guy.
The scales that had sprouted on the skin almost disappeared.
I was completely naked because I wasn’t wearing a single piece of thread, so I glanced away.
······ Come to think of it, they weren’t the kind of people who were ashamed of showing their naked body like humans.
The woman glanced at me and then continued with a tongue-in-cheek.
“How long are you going to be stunned? Did you not say thank you to me for saving you some fish food?”
I also shook my head and got up.
“I didn’t have to save you.”
“······What?”
“It wasn’t even dangerous, but it sounds like you’ve been doing something useless.”
I could just say thank you and move on, but the way I spoke was annoying. The words that go are good, the words that come are good.
“Wow, huh!”
The woman let out a sigh of relief at him.
“Isn’t that dangerous?”
“okay.”
“You’re really shameless. It’s so hard to say a thank you? Did you think I’d ask for anything in return for saving you like you humans?”
“I was just telling the truth.”
“Okay, that’s all right. Boy, anyway, that’s why human bastards are…”
She shook her head and turned around.
I stared at her back.
‘Did the Haerin people also live in Lake Gaitan?’
It was a fact I didn’t know at all.
Because it was such a rare race that I only saw it once while playing the game in the first place.
And I knew that the Haerin people were definitely a tribe that inhabited the coast… Why the hell are they in a lake like this?
As it was an unexpected encounter, I felt a little strange, but a thought suddenly came to my mind.
‘·······Then don’t you know about the lake here?’
In other words, could I know where the place I’m looking for is?
After thinking about it up to that point, I immediately summoned a woman.
“Hey, Haerin.”
She stopped walking at my cry and turned her head back. He had a slightly bewildered face.
“Who are you? Do you know about our race?”
“okay.”
“how?”
“Because I’ve seen it in a book. A legendary race that covers human form on the ground and scales like fish in water.”
“······Me, a legend?”
For some reason, the corners of her lips twitched.
“Hmm, hmm. It’s a legend. Are you humans so famous for our race?”
“············”.
Do you like hearing the word “legend” now?
‘I just meant that it was very difficult to see.’
As she stared at me with a slightly absurd look, she gave me a look of disappointment.
“Oh, no? I’m not a Haerin? You’re wrong, human.”
Why are you here all of a sudden?
“That’s right.”
“No, sir. Don’t go around saying where you saw us, huh?”
She started murmuring that she saved me for nothing.
Like the vampires of Elrod Forest, I wondered if they were concerned that their home would be exposed.
Still, he didn’t want to kill him, but rather he tried to save him.
“So what? Why are you calling me?”
I asked her.
“Are you aware of the rock formations in the lake? Or is there a cave?”
She made a strange expression, then frowned and replied back.
“I don’t know. Why are you asking that?”