Chapter 258: Sea Membrane Mermaids Don’t Understand Humans
"Yeah." Vifiya responded almost inaudibly.
"The Barthelon Abyss can't be this peaceful. The last time I was here, it was at its most dangerous, as the mermaids would say. It's an extremely dangerous place. No matter how low the danger level is, it can't be as dangerous as it is now." In her mind, Vifiya bluntly stated her speculation, her voice firm. "The three mermaids leading you also doubt the dangers of the abyss."
Arnold controlled the sea bubbles to float to Vifia's side, and Kaharun also moved over when he saw this.
Three round bubbles gently touched each other.
Vifiya looked up and suddenly sighed, "I really want to have a snowball fight."
Arnold: "Can it snow in the ocean?"
Kaharun stroked his chin and thought, "Obviously, snow melts when it hits the sea." He paused, "Should I research some magic that would prevent snow from melting in water?"
"Is it possible?" asked Vifiya.
"Hehe." Kaharun smiled slyly, "Don't underestimate me."
The three alien craftsmen over there were already ready for mining, but Brinja didn't call her apprentice Kaharun to watch right away. After all, the sea-stained flower marrow was extremely important, and they needed to dig the ore quickly before anything unexpected happened.
The two dwarf craftsmen untied the sea foam, held their breath and began to mine, and when the air accumulated in their chests ran out, they quickly put on more sea foam.
Andre held a dagger in his hand and stood guard beside the craftsmen. Marinus, who was at the back of the team, carried a spear on his back. As the most knowledgeable fish in the three-person merman team, the task of digging out the complete sea-stained flower marrow naturally fell on him.
Mowen wanted to go forward to protect the master craftsmen, but she saw three humans standing not too far from the craftsmen, talking to each other.
The sea water brings sound. Even whispers can be heard by mermaids in the quiet and empty sea, even at distances so far away that mermaids cannot see, let alone the distance they are at now.
Compared to their tension with other races, humans seemed more like they were traveling, even though they had clearly told humans that there would be danger where they were.
Mowen didn't understand where the humans' sense of relaxation came from. She looked at the ore with her clear eyes, feeling the gleam of the ore caressing her through the sea water. She couldn't help but relax her shoulders slightly, and when she reacted, she reminded herself to be alert.
Could it be because of the sea-stained flower marrow?
The mermaid, who was only one step away from adulthood, was extremely confused about humans when she heard the auburn-haired human say that he wanted to research magic that could prevent snow from melting in water.
So strange, are all humans this weird? Why study this weird magic?
For the mermaids who live in the ocean all year round, the snow melts into the water, the sea flowers wither, the moon hangs on the sea, and the seasons change. It is a natural change just like every king of their mermaid tribe is a queen. They can't imagine what they would call the leader who rules the ocean if the successor is not the queen. Would they call him the Great Lord like the dwarves?
Mowen felt a faint sense of rejection in her heart. This rejection came from her unfamiliarity, from the breaking of a thousand-year-old inheritance, and from the need to change her identity.
Therefore, the mermaid didn't understand why humans wanted to study the magic that prevented snow from melting in water. She didn't understand why humans wanted to...
She tried hard to search her mind for another way to describe it that would be less rude, doing such an unnecessary thing.
She finally couldn't help but interrupt: "The sea will freeze."
"Oh?" Kaharun looked in the direction of the voice, as if he hadn't considered what she said at all, and then suddenly realized, "Oh! Yes, but..."
He smiled and said, "Not all sea areas will freeze over, right?"
"Why do you want to have a snowball fight?" The mermaid didn't understand.
In winter, the snow melts on the sea surface, and the mermaids do not have the conditions for snowball fights on their homeland. Similarly, not every mermaid who leaves the ocean and goes to land needs sea foam to sustain breathing.
She recalled a time when she surfaced out of the sea and saw orcs having a snowball fight from afar. The orcs without magic rolled out huge snowballs that were several times larger than their bodies, while the orcs with magic cast magic inside the small snowballs.
After the snowball fight, many houses needed to be rebuilt.
Are humans such an aggressive race?
Although she planned to choose warrior as her future direction after completing the Fin Certificate Tour, but...
She glanced at the three humans, all of whom had faces that, like Marinus's, were full of books.
"Because it's fun, of course!" Kaharun answered enthusiastically.
He recalled carefully. In fact, it had snowed in the East Continent for six years. Every time they had a snowball fight, the basic steps were: he would attack one of Osa and Arnold on a whim. The probability that Arnold would fight back expressionlessly was one-third, and the probability that Osa would fight back was one-hundred percent. Then Vifia and Isidore would be "accidentally injured" by them. If it was at the Marquis of Kesley's Mansion, Marlene and the Mei sisters would probably join in, and it would eventually turn into a big melee.
“Do you play often?” the mermaid asked.
This time it was Vifiya who answered her: "It's okay, I don't play it often."
Mowen nodded in agreement. Indeed, it was very troublesome to rebuild the residence after each fight.
"About twice a month." The blonde girl estimated the time when Kaharun's impulse came.
Mowen's eyes froze, and she found that she could not understand the human thought process at all.
So after thinking about it, the blue-tailed mermaid concluded that humans are not difficult to get along with, and that humans' bellicosity is very similar to that of orcs. In addition, humans are weird.
The humans over there were discussing the sea-stained flower marrow again, but Mowen didn't join in their conversation. She swam towards the craftsmen.
"This is the first time I've seen a stone that can make people relax at first sight." Kaharun stared at the two men, but there was no relaxation in his eyes. He stretched out his hand, and kept fiddling with magic in his palm, and runes kept changing in his hand.
Vifiya calmly glanced at the blue-tailed mermaid's back and the other aliens who were focused on the ore: "Yes, the effect is better than being busy all day."
Arnold kept his hand on the hilt of the sword, secretly observing his surroundings and nodding. Indeed, it felt much better than lying in bed for a whole day of training.
Next to the remains of Barcelon, Bringa moved nimbly and quickly. As the most skilled stonemason in the Western Continent, her mining techniques for every type of ore were already embedded in her instincts.
The ore and the pickaxe clanged against each other. The stonemason caught a glimpse of the mermaid's somewhat clumsy movements from the corner of his eye, but he was unable to speak due to holding his breath, and he suppressed the urge to give instructions.
The blacksmiths and coral craftsmen around them never stopped chiseling the marrow of the sea-stained flowers. Their understanding of stonemasonry was much more professional than that of Kaharun and Arnold, the two apprentices who joined halfway.
For a moment, there was no other sound around except the sound of mining, and the humans in the sea foam could not feel the coldness of the gentle ocean current.
While Kaharun was maintaining the sea bubble for Vifiya and the other person, the magic circle runes in his hand kept changing. He diverted his attention to the magic fluctuations of Mowen not far away.
From the moment she arrived at the remains of Barcelon, the magic power lingering at her fingertips became more and more condensed. As a magician, Kaharun naturally knew what that meant, and that it meant being ready to fight at any time.
Besides him and Mowen, the only one present who truly possessed magical powers was a mermaid named Andre. However, he could sense that Andre's magical power was not strong, which meant that his strength was not in magic.
As for Mowen, her magic power would not lie. The magic power in her body was showing a subtle fluctuation from vigilance to uneasiness. Andre, who happened to be on guard, had the same emotion in his magic power even stronger than Mowen's.
A magician with powerful magic power can judge the strength and basic emotions of the opponent through the fluctuations of magic power, but perhaps because of magic power and family, Kaharun can sense more, and can even detect the emotions that the opposing magician is trying to hide from the subtle details.
Therefore, when Arnold noticed something and approached Vifia, he went over without hesitation.
There was a barely perceptible tremor in the sea water, a little, a little, and again.
Vifiya's breathing was steady, her eyes fixed on Kaharun's magical hands, as if he was fiddling with some fun toy.
The string of vigilance that has been hanging in my head for years is swaying under the beautiful colors emitted by the sea-stained flower marrow, but it hangs firmly high because of the soothing effect of the colors.
In an almost stubborn intuition, she raised her eyes unexpectedly.
Kaharun and Arnold, who seemed absent-minded but were actually paying attention to her, raised their guard to the highest level at the same time.
At the same time, the sea water gently brushed past Mowen's ears as usual. Her expression gradually became stern. She pricked up her ears and listened carefully. Suddenly she realized something. Her face changed. She opened her mouth but no sound came out. A "buzzing" sound like an earthquake stopped her.
The sea water shook violently.
Long and thin spikes suddenly protruded from the white surface of the conch, pointing randomly towards the aliens who were mining.
Mowen, who was right beside Marinus, grabbed him and threw him backwards. With a quick movement, she dodged the sharp thorns that nearly pierced her eyes, and with her other hand, she activated a teleportation array towards the craftsmen.
Andre threw the dagger with force, but the sharp knife only left a dent on the white thorn and only a few pieces fell off.
One by one, silent teleportation arrays covered Mowen's teleportation array and aimed at each alien. Mowen only felt the familiar dark and light in front of her eyes.
They were already five hundred meters away from the remains of Barcelon.
The violent shaking of the sea water created waves, one after another, forcing the sea bubbles of Vifiya and the others to move back.
Mowen glanced sharply at the human magician, whose expression was solemn. "The location I'm planning to teleport to is the coral craftsman's conch house."
The mermaid, who is also a magician, knows what this means, and the use of the teleportation array is restricted.
After the teleportation ended, Arnold quickly moved to Vifia's side, his hand on the hilt of the sword, ready to draw it at any time.
"We're trapped in the Barthelon Abyss." Kaharun withdrew the magic power that had spread throughout the Barthelon Abyss and concluded, "There's a layer of bubbles near the abyss, similar to sea foam."
He thought for a moment and said, "More like high-speed flowing water."
He tried to transmit his magic power, but was surprised to see that the sea water cut off his magic power.
Just one description made the mermaids' faces turn strange.
"It's sea membrane!" Marinus handed the sea-stained flower essence tightly in his hand to Mowen. His words were fast, but they were loud enough for everyone present to hear clearly in the buzzing sea water.
"The Sea Membrane is a very special kind of magic that can block the transmission of magic circles and cut through magic that is even more powerful than itself. During the one-moon period that the Sea Membrane forms, no attack can break through it except that of the person casting the Sea Membrane. After one-moon period, magic power equal to or slightly stronger than the person casting the Sea Membrane cannot break through it either."
Marinus's face was filled with obvious confusion. "Sea membrane is a magic that only Barcelon knows."
But Barcelon had been dead for many years.
As soon as the words fell, a rumbling sound like a landslide resounded throughout the entire Basilon Abyss, followed by waves that swirled up dust and sand. The sea foam of Vifiya and the others moved uncontrollably. Several mermaids hurriedly swam behind them, turned their faces away, closed their eyes, and stabilized the sea foam.
Vifiya and the others' eyes were not affected by the dust, so when the dust spread over the gaps between the sea foam, they could clearly see that the large conch that looked like a mountain was gradually shaking off the mud and sand that had accumulated beneath it for many years.
The remains of Barcelon came back to life.
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