Adelian and Zero’s bodies got tangled up in the strong recoil and fell into the water.
Adelian was separated from Zero’s arm by the strong current, and they were pushed the farthest away as if they were being crushed.
Eventually, seeing Adelian being sucked into the center of the current, Zero put mana on his body and swam downward as if splitting a whirlpool, but his body was thrown backwards by the vortex.
‘Adelian-nim!’
Adelian is not visible even in Zero’s eyes.
Was it swept away by the short new vortex and went down to the bottom, or was it entangled in another vortex because it was a vortex zone?
or… … .
Zero’s jewelry eyes scanned all directions in the dark water and beyond the numerous air bubbles.
With mana wrapped around his body, he went down and down a little more, as if he were letting the current flow without forcibly penetrating it.
As she descended quickly, pink and red hair swayed faintly, and gold shimmered in the round air bubble-like shield below.
little bit more. little bit more.
Luna’s voice seems to be heard underwater. However, the closest one was Leaf.
The light green hair was hard to see in the dark water, but the moment Reef moved his body to catch Adelian, he was caught up in another whirlpool and drifted away again.
Then Kane grabbed the mana of the water as if controlling a violent vortex.
The moment when the mana that was entangled in this tremendous whirlpool was controlled by a single cane and a gap was created in the waterway.
Luna, Rachel, and Zero had to control their breathing as much as possible with mana, but Leaf, who didn’t need to breathe, didn’t miss the timing Kane had created and used all the mana to follow Adelian.
As if a subspace had opened, a long rope came out like a snake.
Grabbing the middle, Leaf finally grabbed Adelian, whose body was bent as if she had lost consciousness.
“Ouch!”
And Rachel was the first to breathe.
Countless air bubbles scattered around the mouth.
At that moment, Luna grabbed the rope with one hand and Rachel with the other, and Zero also grabbed the floating rope in the water and turned his head to look behind him.
At first glance, black figures and golden eyes.
Seeing Kane returning at high speed from the end of the ocean current, Zero swung the rope with all his might and threw the end at Kane.
And that moment when Kane’s fingertips seemed almost to touch the shaking rope several times before finally grabbing it.
The entire party was thrown into a cold cave rather than into the water.
“Keuok! Kuck!”
“Rachel, are you okay? Leaf! What about you, Bocchan?”
Luna patted Rachel’s back, who was spitting out water, and turned her head to find Adelian lying down holding Levi inside the cave, where the blue light shimmered.
And the leaf next to him tried to get up, but soon stumbled and fell to the floor, and Luna, who was about to run to Adelian, fell to the floor as well.
“sh*t. This is… … !”
Inside, Rachel, who was a little further away, looked around and tried to raise her mana, but she was exhausted!
A voice came from the stone statue of a mermaid woman with two tails carved on the inner wall of the cave.
-You will witness what you fear most.
Rachel, who had exhausted her mana, spat out curse words, and she fell backwards without being able to resist.
Feeling that ominous feeling, Zero, who was far away from the party, took off the robe he was wearing and sprayed water with mana as he moved towards Adelian.
step by step again.
As we walked further into the cave, the woman’s voice echoed again and again.
-You will witness what you fear most. Resist. get out Or drop everything and run away.
The tactic was too powerful to resist with a handful of remaining mana, and at the moment Zero was about to fall unconscious, Kane grabbed Zero’s clothes and walked inside.
After blowing away all the water that had soaked into his clothes, he covered Adelian and Levi with mana-warmed robes, and even Kane knelt down with his golden eyes closed.
* * *
“I’m thirsty… … .”
It’s ridiculous… … .
I remember getting caught up in a whirlpool.
When I woke up, I was in the middle of the desert.
The blazing sunlight pierces the skin like needles. It felt like I was suffocating because it felt like I was almost baking rather than hot, but I put on a robe up to my head and took out a towel and wrapped it around my nose and mouth.
When the wind blows, fine dust-like sand gets into your nose and mouth, which is more painful than being choked.
‘I didn’t want to know why people wear long clothes to cover their bodies and cover their noses and mouths even though it’s hot in the desert… … .’
There is no end to walking and walking.
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When you breathe, it seems as if hot air enters your body and carries the remaining moisture out.
Gradually, I feel that each cell is getting dry.
But I can’t stop because it’s clear that Levi must be somewhere.
I don’t know about the other party, but since I was holding Levi until the end, he must have fallen together.
I’m having a hard time too… Levi is a mermaid.
I thought about it for a moment, then shook my head.
“Levy… Levi… … .”
Damn. There is no power and the sound does not come out loud.
I want to drink water, but for some reason, Kruger’s ring only spat out a bottle of water and it didn’t work right away.
I want to drink all of it right now.
‘Because it’s not just before death yet.’
I feel like I walked for about 30 minutes, but I can’t see the end of the desert. I didn’t know how much longer I had to walk, so I couldn’t easily consume a bottle of mineral water.
however… I mean, something is weird.
‘I thought it was real because the floating feeling didn’t work right away.’
is this real?
If it was something like fantasy, I would have known right away thanks to the feeling of floating. Besides, this dry pain is so real that I was walking for a while.
No matter how I thought about it, it felt strange.
Certainly the South Navy, and also me who was caught up in the mermaid and fell into the whirlpool.
Why are you in the middle of the desert?
‘… roll your head Suho Kang. Think about it right.’
Of course, think while walking, while walking. Don’t even think about taking a break. Because Levi is so skinny he will be looking for me.
As I moved my heavy legs and gasped for dry breath, my eyes slowly became dizzy, but I kept thinking.
several possibilities. Like the mermaids eventually caught us and played tricks. I started thinking that if I did something like dimension shift once, I could have done it again.
‘I feel like I’ll be cursed at, but isn’t this a dungeon?’
to a very reasonable inference to do.
‘I really hope it’s not, but I really hope it’s not there.’
If it’s Kane’s luck that a swamp troll comes out from the lower level of the labyrinth and meets a dragon along the way, it’s possible.
Kane says I drive accidents, but it’s not.
Such is the fate of the main character. I need to find out what Kane’s boss is.
‘This must be it.’
I heard something somewhere, so I ripped off a button from my clothes and put it in my mouth.
It seemed like a little bit of saliva came out as a stimulus, so I swallowed it and frowned.
‘The grace of the sea witch.’
In the original work, it was a dungeon in which Levy put the mermaid royalty in revenge after sweeping the mermaid’s territory by force.
Readers said that it was a sweet potato foreshadowing, and that at least one guy over there would pass the dungeon test and become stronger and come for revenge, but since then it has never been mentioned.
‘Now that I think about it, it must have been a historical proof that it wasn’t a place that people with rotten minds could pass through.’
In Innocent Saga, which was a game, it was a place to gamble and send units that were a waste to throw away and ambiguous to use among those who received mental strength correction.
Because of the game system, I sent people with lower stats like trauma, and if I was lucky, they would overcome the trauma and come out and make me level up.
It was like throwing a unit you don’t use anyway into a dungeon and returning it to become a high-end unit… … .
‘I feel a little self-employed.’
Other than Kane, who also had Indomitability in the main party, there was little chance of returning alive, and sometimes Kane also tried to avoid entering the dungeon because it exploded.
‘It’s ruined, this.’
The moment this happens, you have to get out of it somehow in a short time.
It was written in the dungeon description that you had to overcome what you feared the most.
‘Desert, sunshine and loneliness like being stabbed with a needle.’
and.
―This is the first time I’ve ever had a useless child like you.
-disappointed.
-It’s nothing.
great voice. But all he says is things that constantly undermine someone’s self-esteem.
I walked to where I heard the sound.
Now I feel like my eyeballs are drying up, so I close my eyes and rely only on the sound. I grabbed a bottle of mineral water under my clothes.
―Something worse than a water snail.
-You’re putting mud on my reputation.
―It is lamentable that someone like you is my child.
“wrong… sorry… … . don’t throw it away… … . Do not go.”
Don’t leave me alone here… … . please stay by my side Please stroke me one more time. You said you were my beloved daughter… … .
I covered my body over the sound that cut off as if I was dying. When you touch it, the skin is cracked and wrinkled. I hugged the body whose skin dried and burst and oozing blood.
“Levy.”
I open my eyes, but I can’t see them properly, as if I’m too skinny. Even I, who has a sense of wealth, is suffering like this.
It’s not my nightmare, I’m in yours, not my fears, so the floating feeling doesn’t work.
fortunately If the feeling of floating had been properly applied and I had returned to reality alone, I would not have been able to soothe you.
With trembling hands, I opened a bottle of mineral water, covered my clothes over her dry body, and sprayed enough to wet the cloth.
Then, as if creating a shadow over it, he crouched down and whispered.
“It’s not your fault, Levi. You won’t be hot or thirsty anymore. open your eyes And there’s no way the mermaid king would say that.”
The nobleman didn’t wake up from the eternal sleep phase in the original work, but you said in passing that one of the reasons he entered the sleep phase in the first place was for you.
For you, even though they are idiots, there is no way they can say that after making so many collateral royals.
“… really?”
“Isn’t it? So, didn’t you somehow hold out and wait on that island?”
“but… that’s right.”
I feel my body, which had shriveled up in my arms, soften little by little.
It felt like my back and neck were burning under the hot, scorching sun, but it was quite cool in my arms.
no. At one point, my whole body felt cool, and I thought I was opening my eyes, but as if they weren’t, my eyelids were lifted again.
‘It’s dark.’
Inside the blue cave. I looked around and the group was nowhere to be seen.
When I got up, a large robe that seemed to belong to Zero fell down.
As soon as it fell, his wet body shook his head feeling a bit chilly, breathing evenly in his arms and looking at the sleeping Levi, then he lightly pressed his cheek and it softly entered.
It wasn’t very moist like usual, but it wasn’t very dry or crunchy.
When I ran my tongue over my mouth, there were no buttons either.
‘An illusion that is no different from reality.’
However, my throat was very dry, my clothes were dry, and when I touched the nape of my neck, I felt a slight tingle, not like a burn, but like a reddened skin.
Even if it’s an illusion, if people believe it, it will appear as a body.
“Ugh… thirsty.”
Levy also woke up suffering from hunger, so he opened the subspace and took out two bottles of mineral water.
‘I think it’s correct that I gave you a bottle of water.’
First of all, after giving Levi water, he took out the magic tent, spread it out, lit a fire in it, and put Levi on the bed.
“Get some rest. don’t go anywhere.”
“huh… … .”
I saw that Levi had just woken up and was nodding absentmindedly, and the moment I moved back to search the cave, I was again standing in a different place.