Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 485 - 49 Depth of 4000 meters_1

Chapter 485: Chapter 49 Depth of 4000 meters_1

Thousands of meters deep in the ocean, a sudden intense agitation of the air stirred up a large number of white bubbles. A powerful air column erupted from behind Freya’s Crystal Energy Gun, drawing a water trail over two meters long in the deep sea. Even from the side, the girls could clearly feel the violent fluctuations in the water. Invisible waves hit their bodies, allowing them to very intuitively experience the intensity of the shock with their own bodies. From the muzzle of the Crystal Energy Gun, a dark blue streamlined light bullet as thick as an arm shot out with a bang. The light bullet, formed purely from magical energy, disregarded the resistance of the water. Almost as soon as it had been shot out, it arrived in front of a deep-sea magical beast.

The magical beast charging at high speed didn’t even have time to react before it collided head-on with the light bullet. When the streamlined light bullet made contact with the beast, it exploded suddenly, allowing the intense magical energy contained within to burst forth. The deep blue light bullet was entirely composed of Ice-attribute magical energy. At the moment of its explosion, a bitterly cold aura filled the seafloor, and even from more than ten meters away, they could feel the bone-chilling chilly directly from the seawater.

The deep blue energy sphere exploded into countless pieces of light, and the icy energy swallowed the body of the deep-sea magical beast. The seawater around the magical beast, visibly froze at an alarming speed. In just a few seconds, a massive ice coffin nearly ten meters long formed. Inside the ice coffin, the stiff body of the marine magical beast was still faintly visible. It had lost its ability to move and encapsulated in the ice coffin, it sank to the seafloor, crashing onto the ocean bottom.

"I should be faster, right?" Freya turned to look at Vivian with a small smile of private joy at the corner of her mouth. However, when she saw Vivian, she realized Vivian’s attack had already come to an end.

Vivian’s attack didn’t come with violent vibrations, dazzling light bullets, or even any significant movement. Vivian simply raised her magic staff, pointing it distantly towards the direction of the incoming marine magical beast. Without any unnecessary effects or movement, with just a single point, the body of the deep-sea magical beast became completely rigid, no longer showing any signs of swimming in the water. With its momentum, it moved a few meters forward and then, like a stone, sank straight to the seafloor. It was only during the sinking process that they could see its body begin to freeze from the inside out. Blue and white frost rapidly crawled onto its skin. The area covered by the frost grew larger and larger until it covered its entire body, turning it entirely blue and white. It wasn’t until a few seconds later that the chill seeping through its body began to slowly freeze the surrounding seawater, though only a thin layer had frozen before it was shattered by the impact of hitting the seafloor.

"Seems like I lost." Freya looked blankly at the fallen deep-sea magical beast and gave a bitter smile. "What a pity."

"It looked like you were faster than Vivian." Catherine asked in confusion. "Why do you say you lost?"

"Although my ice bullet froze it faster, it was from the outside in. So, there will be some time delay between when the monster becomes rigid and when it dies," Freya explained shaking her head. "But hers was different, she directly froze the entire body of the magical beast from the inside, by the time the freezing was completed, it was already dead. So, in actuality, she was faster. But you cheated, you took advantage of the part that the Water-attribute energy is stronger at the bottom of the sea to do this. If this was on land, you wouldn’t be able to achieve this effect."

"Taking advantage of every available condition, whether it’s natural or man-made." Vivian crossed her arms and raised her head in triumph. "That’s how a Mage should fight. Haha, you want to beat me, this genius, but you’re still far behind."

"What are you two playing at?" Pannis appeared behind the girls unbeknownst to them, stirring the water. "Are we planning to have fish tonight?"

"If you want to eat, you have to learn how to cook underwater." Catherine turned around and rolled her eyes. "How did the test go? What about those three sea creatures?"

"The facts prove that even if I escape a kilometer or two, they won’t give up. I tried to stretch the distance to three hundred meters, but they still followed behind without showing any tendency to retreat. So, I suspect that unless we escape from the current range of the Devilish Sea Area, we won’t be able to shake them off," Pannis answered. "But there’s good news too. After I shook them off like before, they swam around in the same place for a minute, but they didn’t come back to our current location. Instead, they started patrolling that area directly. That means, when we come across enemies we can’t avoid on our way, I can use this method to lure them away, which could significantly reduce our chances of engaging in combat."

"That’s worth considering." Catherine crawled out from the back of a giant reef, took out her underwater compass for reference, and repeated the speculation about the controlled sea creatures that they had discussed earlier. "What do you think? Could that be a possibility?"

"It’s hard to say, and we can’t deny that there is indeed this possibility," Pannis frowned. "But as Lina suspected, even if it’s a deity, they may not be able to pull this off. If it’s man-made, there’s even less reason to ignore it. Anyone who does something must have a goal, but we can’t see what the goal is right now. Who would go to such lengths to do such a stupid thing?"

"Forget it, no need to guess anymore." Catherine shook her head, "Everything will be revealed once the mystery is uncovered."

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It is difficult to sense the passage of time in the underwater world. The only way the five members of the adventure team who were navigating underwater could discern time was by using their underwater timer. Though the timer indicated that three days had already passed, without an intuitive feeling, none of them felt it was real. However, the past three days couldn’t be described as monotonous. For terrestrial creatures, the underwater world was always full of wonders. As they traveled along the ocean floor, they would discover something intriguing after every while.

As the group ascended a slope onto a small underwater hill, they unexpectedly directed their torchlights downward and had a startling discovery. Under the mud and aquatic plants, there were not rocks or sand that they were stepping on but a mountainous collection of white bones. The magnitude of the creature that these bones could be mistaken for an underwater hill was unimaginable. Just the torso was over 500 meters high and stretched for about four to five kilometers. The smallest bone was several tens of meters wide. Small fish of unknown species darted in and out of the gaps in the bones, having made these remnants their home.

"Blessings of Denia." Lina murmured in astonishment, "Is this really a creature? The gigantic beasts on land would be as tiny as ants in comparison to this."

"That’s why the deep sea is the most terrifying place." Pannis, seeing such a colossal skeleton for the first time, crouched down to tap the bones beneath his feet. The feeling felt just like tapping on stone. "No wonder Caleto imposed natural suppression on the sea race against marine magical beasts. If it weren’t for the suppression, a single beast of such size could cause massive casualties among the sea race."

"Have you ever heard of such a magical beast?" Catherine asked.

"Never heard of such a thing." Pannis replied while exploring the remains above him; even a single tooth of the skeletal remained larger than their human bodies, "Judging by the shape, it probably belonged to something from the whale family. Tsk, even Badiya, that giant of the Sea Race, is no match."

"You might want to come over here." As everyone was engrossed in studying the remains underfoot, Vivian suddenly drew their attention to something in front of them, "Something intriguing has appeared."

"What did you see?" Catherine asked as she moved towards Vivian, but without the enhancement of the Hawkeye Spell, she couldn’t penetrate the sea water in front. However, standing at an elevated position without obstructions, she could vaguely make out something radiating a faint light several hundred meters ahead, similar to the glow of phosphorescent algae they had seen previously. "Have we finally come across phosphorescent algae again?" Catherine asked, excited.

"It’s not that simple." Vivian shook her head, "Do you know which part of the Devilish Sea Area we are in right now?"

"Though the 100,000 square kilometers of sea area is not regular, we can still roughly deduce our location." Pannis calculated silently in his head, "After journeying for three days, we’re probably near the original boundary of the Devilish Sea Area, which means we are approaching the Core Area. The number of Sea Race patrols we encounter is proof that we are getting closer."

"If my knowledge serves me right, the sea surface should be covered in dense fog all year round, correct?" Vivian asked, "Unless flying over from a height of seven or eight thousand meters, it would be impossible to traverse the ocean, right?"

"That’s common knowledge," replied Catherine, "Even adventurers and mercenaries who pioneer on the islands have to rely on the Sea Race’s navigation to sail in the navigation hazard zone, and the risk is high."

"I remember High Priestess Doris mentioning that the Devilish Sea Area is located deep at sea, far from the mainland." Vivian said, "There doesn’t seem to be any record of adventurers venturing into such deep sea areas to explore islands, right?"

"Of course not, venturing into such deep waters with the current technology, even with the Sea Race’s navigation, would be equivalent to committing suicide." Catherine frowned, sounding disgruntled, "What exactly are you trying to say? Are you telling me that you have spotted explorers here?"

"Indeed, there’s no record of anyone venturing into such deep waters." Freya added, "You didn’t really spot any explorers, or their ships, did you?"

"I’m not sure about explorers, but I have indeed spotted a ship, a very big sunken ship." Vivian pointed to the front, "In the Devilish Sea Area, where the Sea Race is subject to control, and close to the core area of the Devilish Sea Area, at that. Spotting a ship that should not exist here, it signifies something very complex." (To be continued. If you like this novel, please go to qidian.com to vote for recommendation and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)