When Atreus regained consciousness, he was surrounded by boundless sea water. Judging from his body sensation, this time he did not fall from a high altitude, but more like a bubble bursting on the bottom of the sea and spraying him out.
"[Waterproof and Moistureproof]!" Atreus reflexively cast the magic that allowed him to breathe underwater, and it was used smoothly.
"Well...that's it."
Previously, I could not use magic or divine power after falling into the "Earth's Inner Sea", but I could do so after landing on Mermaid Island. The logic is actually very simple. In the "God's Kingdom" of "Ocean Dimension Lord Shirahoshi",
The ocean is where her power is most powerful. It is so powerful that even if she allows it, the power from other universe demons will be passively unable to be used. Of course, if it is not Atreus but Odin who falls in, the situation may
It will be different.
But now, Atreus is in the sea, but his power is not limited, which can only prove that this sea must not be the "sea in the center of the earth".
It turns out that if you fight in the solitary room, will you really be expelled from the solitary room?
Or was it the work of those patrolling Yakshas who broke free from their control?
Of course, there is another possibility... Atreus briefly recalled the previous events and found that his consciousness was interrupted immediately after seeing "Atreus Laufeyson began to read the 'History Text'".
Those who have not been recorded are not allowed to read? Otherwise, they will be kicked away directly? Or is there something special about that stone tablet?
After thinking for a moment, Atreus decided to give up on this unanswered question and board the nearest land first.
"Um?"
He didn't pay attention when he was casting simple magic and being in a daze. When he started swimming, Atreus realized that he was still using the incarnation of the gloomy man with a hooked nose. Although the feedback he got was a little clearer, it still seemed like he was separated by a layer.
Gloves.
This can be regarded as taking the "examination paper" out of the "examination room", right? There was no trial and error when creating the arena for the second game? I don't know whether it was intentional or accidental to leave such a loophole.
In short, based on gravity, the direction of the sea surface should be——
call--
A blue fish tail flashed past the corner of Atreus's eye.
Lily?
Could it be that she was also thrown out of the inner sea of the earth?
Atreus turned around with a little joy, and then he saw a dark mask-like thing coming towards him. Without noticing, it was firmly clasped on his face, and then, the "black mask" and his face appeared.
The seawater in the gap was quickly removed, and then less fresh air was injected. Finally, two holes blocked by transparent materials were opened in front of the black cover, allowing him to see clearly outside.
Atreus belatedly discovered that the mask covering his face should be a diving mask, one with relatively high technological content.
But those things were not important. When the eyepiece was opened, Atreus's eyes were attracted by the little mermaid with the diving mask on her face.
Her appearance and clothes were exactly the same as when he first met her, except that she had an extra dark golden trident in her hand, and her eyebrows were more serious and sorrowful than before.
"Lily" raised her finger to point at Atreus, then at herself, then pointed in a certain direction behind her, and finally raised the trident in her hand and gestured at him threateningly.
Atreus tried to translate the body language.
——You, follow me, go over there, and I’ll poke you if you don’t obey me.
Oh, even if she pokes her with that weird fork, she can't even think of driving her away.
————
Wow.
"Lily" took Atreus to a place with air, but it was neither the sea nor a shielded artificial island on the seabed, but a small cruise ship capsized on the seabed.
The ship seemed to have been scratched by a huge claw. There was one, no, four neat scratches on the side of the belly. The force was so strong that it even completely penetrated the bottom of the cruise ship. This penetration wound was also the reason for the sinking of the ship.
direct cause.
Entering the interior of the sunken ship, you can see that under the conventional cabin structure, many blue crystals in the shape of gemstones are scattered and inlaid. They are interconnected with each other and build a "light blue light curtain"
"Undersea tent" allowed air to remain in about half of the capsized cruise ship.
"Tell me your identity! Human!" "Lily" turned around and pointed the trident at Atreus.
The voice of this "Lily" was the same as the one she heard in the "Earth's Inner Sea", but her tone was obviously tired and vigilant, which was still somewhat different from that silly little mermaid.
Atreus also noticed that the little mermaid seemed very nervous at first. It was not until he passed through those blue light screens safely that her stiff and tense limbs relaxed slightly. The ferocity at this time was more like pretending.
from.
"I am the director and professor of Loki Academy, Hogwarts School for Gifted Youngsters -" he glanced at the hook-nosed man in the reflection of the ship's porthole: "Loki Odinson."
"...a teacher in a school?" Lily looked a little confused: "Then why did you come out of the 'Sea of the Center of the Earth'?"
Trouble is, this is not Earth, at least not the "Midgard" that I am familiar with.
In the original world, all the "superpowers" and some well-informed people have heard of the mysterious and never-shown "Dean of Loki Academy" in Hogwarts, which is equivalent to Hogwarts.
Even if the Atlantean mermaid who funded the project had no interest in him as the dean, he would still have no impression of Hogwarts.
As for the "Sea in the Earth's Core", although the name is the same, judging from the reaction, it is not the "God's Kingdom" that mermaids yearn for and believe in. Judging from the tone, it may even be some kind of extremely dangerous place where there is no return.
However, this level of question and answer was no problem for Atreus.
"I don't know," he spread his hands: "The boat I was on was sunk. I originally thought I would drown. Fortunately, you rescued me - what do you call it?"
"Damn [Drowned Souls]!" Unexpectedly, Lily herself added the reason: "Have you already started throwing victims into the 'Earth's Inner Sea'?"
This sentence seemed to contain a lot of information, but he was not sure whether he, the "shipwrecked teacher", could know the related words. Atreus finally chose to remain silent.
"Huh..." Lily gritted her teeth for a while, and finally reacted: "My name is 'Lola Angelberda', Zebel the mermaid. If it's hard to remember, you can call me 'Lily'. Come with me and have something to eat."
, I will find a way to get you back to the shore."
"Okay, thank you." Atreus followed her waving fish tail while thinking about how to phrase it.
After passing the corner of the cabin, he finally saw something familiar, which were three inscriptions engraved on the cabin wall:
[1: No waste of food]
[2: Provide free food to shipwrecked people]
【3: Do not attack women.】
The first two are well preserved, but the third has been blackened and crossed out with pens of different colors, surrounded by traces of damage and phrases in different handwriting: "Nonsense"! "Dog Snow"! "Sinner"!
