When Aegis returned to the Sea God's Palace, he found the palace very quiet.
An eerie silence spread through every corner.
His heart raced as he thought of all kinds of bad possibilities.
He slowly called out to Naida.
"Naida! Where are you? I'm back!"
His voice was loud, yet there was no answer.
The uneasy feeling in his heart intensified.
"Eterna! Flama! Diva!" he called again.
And yet, not a single soul responded.
Slowly, he started wandering through the hallway, the suffocating silence pressing in on him from all sides.
He paused at the main balcony. From there, his eyes reached every corner of the lawn and courtyard.
Still no one.
His gaze turned toward the ocean depths, sweeping almost every corner with his Sea God's Authority. He saw the ocean filled with schools of fish, swarms of crabs, and nearly every sea creature he had synthesized.
But he didn't find them.
