"Through offering, you can obtain the true 'Blessing of the Sea' from the incarnation of the ocean."
Little Fish's voice sounded, almost like temptation, "Don't you want to live freely and happily in the blue ocean like a true Sea Folk?"
After saying that, Little Fish stretched out its fish fin with a cold touch and gently touched the flowing, crystal-like fragile water ring on Henny's arm.
Henny lowered her head and looked at the Ocean Contract on her arm. After being touched by it, she could not help but tremble slightly.
Then, she raised her head and looked at Little Fish again.
"Why must I choose to live in the ocean?"
Little Fish was stunned by Henny's question, and its tone got stuck.
"But living in the ocean is such a comfortable thing."
"Because you are a fish, but I am not."
Henny looked at it with a smile.
Little Fish looked confused as it stared at Henny, unable to quite understand her words.
In its understanding, the ocean should be the most vast and boundless holy land in the world, able to contain all things.
Being able to swim freely in the sea should clearly be the honor of every fish.
But what puzzled it was that the girl in front of it had decided to abandon the embrace of the sea?
It did not understand, because just as Henny said.
It was a fish.
At this time, Henny spoke, "You mean, if I offer, I can obtain the Blessing of the Sea from the incarnation of the ocean, right?"
After hearing Henny's question, excitement made Little Fish nervously flap its tail, its big eyes blinking nonstop.
"Yes, yes!"
It truly liked the human girl in front of it. If the other party could live in the sea like it, that would be the best thing.
However, in the next second, it was wrong.
Henny stretched out one hand and activated magic.
Under her feet, a magic circle that had been drawn at some unknown time rose from the surface of the water.
A complex red formation appeared beneath her feet. The magic circle quickly lit up, and several red ropes wrapped toward the water ring on Henny's forearm like ghosts.
The ropes suddenly tightened, pulling the water ring hard in several directions.
In the next moment, the water ring that had been rotating on her arm scattered in all directions like a broken pearl necklace.
Drops of water gradually disappeared in the air.
Little Fish looked at Henny's actions and, for a moment, did not know what to do.
When that strand of water could no longer gather on Henny's arm, it finally reacted.
The Ocean Contract had been forcibly released by the other party, unilaterally.
She had rejected the sea.
Then, Henny's loud shout tore through the silence of the air, "Mr. Crocodile, please help me."
Leighton lowered his huge body and stretched out one hand onto the surface of the water.
Henny stepped onto the crocodile's giant claw and was calmly lifted up, raised above its head.
Standing on top of the huge crocodile's head, her field of vision was extremely wide.
She could stand there and clearly see all the areas below, including all the 'Sea Folk' living on the sea surface.
Henny lowered her head and showed a friendly smile to Little Fish, who was standing dumbfounded on the sea surface.
"Thank you for telling me all this. At the same time, I feel sorry for what you have gone through."
She seemed to know what the professor needed.
Henny took off the six-star medal from her chest.
She gently opened the palm holding the six stars and let those badges float in the high sky with the wind.
The badges drifted to the top of the bubble as if guided, like six stars hanging in the sky, shining brightly.
These stars were positioned in different places, corresponding to six different areas.
Little Fish was stunned on the sea surface, looking up at Henny high in the sky.
She… what was she going to do?
Behind Henny, the sea breeze quietly arrived, stirring up ripples.
Several pure white formations quickly flowed behind her like snowflakes flying.
These formations overlapped each other, countless patterns shooting out from the edges, weaving between the formations like blooming flowers.
"Observer hidden beneath the white hole, hand over your mind and clarity to me."
"If the world falls into nothingness and confusion, the eight hundred children shall become my eyes."
Before long, the fine, picture-like formation became extremely unstable. The whole formation seemed to tremble under the embrace of magic power.
However, Henny did not stop. Instead, she carved runes into the gaps between the white formations more and more frequently.
Numerous runes gathered between the formations like lively little fish. Like a steel needle fixed inside iron bones, the entire formation began to rotate rapidly and became extremely stable.
With the help of white light, the six star badges released a wave-like magical aura.
Starlight overflowed from around the formation and sprinkled toward the ocean.
At the moment it touched the surging sea, the silver stars merged into it.
Little Fish's huge school-like body floated on the sea surface. Looking up at the huge white wave sweeping across the sea, it suddenly felt a force pushing toward it, making its body involuntarily lean back.
Little Fish widened its eyes and looked at the white stars filling the sky as they fell, then looked at the rotating magic circle in the sky, speechless in shock.
'And you still say you are not a councilor!?'
The complex formation was simply unimaginable as the work of a second-tier mage.
To what extent must one understand magic to construct such a scene?
The six stars seemed to turn into six noble lights. The star glow spread through the entire city like awakened spirits until it completely covered the sky above the Sea City.
Countless Sea Folk turned into streams of water and rose above the sea surface.
They raised their heads and looked up at the falling white star points and the six brilliant stars floating in the sky.
It was as if the stars in the sky were calling them.
"Offering… offering…"
They repeated the word "offering" again and again, as if trying to break free from their restraints.
They stretched out their arms toward the six star points, trying to fully embrace the ocean.
All the Sea Folk in the Upper City seemed to have been summoned and controlled.
Even the Sea Folk around Little Fish could not avoid it. They also stretched out their arms and began to pray to the stars.
Offering, offering.
Little Fish looked at all this, completely confused and even a little panicked.
At this moment, it seemed to understand something.
'That human girl…'
'She wanted to treat all the Sea Folk in the entire Upper City as living sacrifices and offer them to the ocean!?'
The entire Upper City had at least nearly one hundred thousand people.
This meant that the girl standing on the giant crocodile's head treated the lives of one hundred thousand people as nothing.
Only to accomplish her own goal.
Little Fish looked up at her, its voice trembling nonstop, "Witch… witch…"
"You are the real witch…"
Hundreds of thousands of people crowded densely on the ocean, feeling strange waves of frequency coming from the sea beneath them.
The magic formations flowed like musical notes. White stars fell from the sky and merged into each Sea Folk's body.
Like pouring out a bottle, they released countless Sea Folk from their bodies.
From this point on, they turned into clear water, flowing in the air.
———
The one hundred thousand people who had turned into streams began to gather into a tide in the sky.
The tide became denser and denser, finally changing from chaotic water flow into a towering giant wave.
The surging wave formed from one hundred thousand Sea Folk rose from all directions of the city at the same time and fiercely swept toward the center of the Sea City.
Standing in the sky and floating near the white mist, Viktor witnessed all of this.
In his eyes, a trace of approval flashed.
Henny's performance did not disappoint him.
"Vega."
With his words, the blue water droplet headpiece above Vega's head flashed with mysterious light.
Within the surging giant wave, countless souls of the Sea Folk were drawn out, as if pulled by an invisible force into that string of blue beads.
The more souls the water droplet absorbed, the deeper its blue color became and the brighter its glow.
"How can such a good thing be enjoyed by Dozale?"
Even though the souls had been drawn out, the giant wave still fiercely rushed toward the white mist.
The blue sea wave covered the dense white mist and raged wildly.
The rising water vapor and rolling sea waves twisted together, pressing against each other without retreat.
At the moment when the tide completely pressed down, pearl-like whirlpools rose throughout the entire mist area and completely shattered.
The giant wave turned into a towering water pillar, surging upward against gravity and climbing into the sky.
The bubble above the Sea City shattered under the impact of the huge water pillar.
The white mist quickly spread toward the sky and all around, as if it wanted to cover everything.
Little Fish widened its eyes.
"The Sea City… has been destroyed!?"
Then even it merged into the white mist and disappeared.
———
Endless white mist quickly spread across the sea surface, as if completely covering the entire ocean.
Countless fishermen, driving fishing boats that had just set sail, faced the white mist with worried expressions.
It seemed that fishing would not be possible today.
On a large ship, the captain walked into the cabin and said apologetically to the two passengers behind him, "I think I must apologize to you, Duke. Today we cannot continue toward the deep sea."
"The fog is too thick. We might lose our direction."
The two passengers had the same golden hair and were dressed nobly. One glance was enough to tell they were not ordinary people.
At this time, the man called Duke spoke first, "It's fine."
"Just dock the ship nearby."
He turned his head and looked at Erica.
"My dear, haven't you always been confused about Viktor's strength?"
Erica blinked, not understanding. She only heard her father continue, "To be honest, I am also quite confused about it."
"So…"
Woo~
Before his words finished, a deep roaring whale cry suddenly sounded on the sea surface, bursting out from the thick white mist.
The sound was deafening, and those who heard it felt fear rising in their hearts.
Erica heard it even more clearly. In her heart, a voice seemed to rise.
As if she understood the meaning carried in that whale cry, "Father… the white mist… is speaking?"
Levi looked at Erica with understanding, then straightened his body and looked toward the white mist.
As if accompanied by its appearance, heavy rain began to pour down.
The rain splashed into the sea and hit the deck of the ship, making dull echoing sounds.
At this time, the sailors on the ship pointed at the sky in fear and shouted, "Th… what is that thing!!!"
Within the white mist, they vaguely saw a huge figure floating in the air.
It looked like a giant whale, floating in the white mist, slowly twisting its massive droplet-shaped body.
The towering black outline stirred a wave of fear.
Levi stared at the huge shadow in the white mist, as if seeing through the hazy blue. But in the next second, it disappeared into the dense white and was completely hidden.
Looking at the enormous creature before him, his eyes shone with excitement.
Picking up from his earlier words, he continued, "Let us enjoy it."
"The wonderful performance brought to us by the strongest mage councilor."
As soon as his words fell, another deep whale cry came from the thick white mist, like a giant drum being blasted open, bursting with powerful echoes.
Woo~
The thick white mist, carrying the pouring rain, continuously stirred up raging waves.
The huge body in the depths turned over and fell toward the vast deep sea.
The sea waves surged upward, and a bright gaze, like a clear lamp, passed through the white mist and pierced through the darkness.
It shone upon the fearful hearts of everyone.
[Calamity of Water: Dozale]
[Lv60]