437 Chapter 435 (2/2)
You obtained 01 status points.
Congratulations! The skill Mana Barrier has leveled up.
You obtained 01 status points.
Congratulations! The skill Mana Barrier has leveled up.
You obtained 01 status points.
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Much to Leon's surprise, several hours passed, and he didn't find a single sea-snake. Maybe along the previous week, he managed to show all of them who was the boss... or if they were cannibal monsters, they were eating the corpses of the monsters Leon killed. However, Leon was pretty sure the second option wasn't the case. He found several bodies intact, after all.
”I wonder what it will be this time... A turtle was carrying Celsius' temple on its back, now would be what? A whale?”
If that was the case, Leon doubted that he would need Mana Dominion's help. Although his eyes weren't that good underwater, it was impossible not to notice such a massive thing moving.
After exploring for quite a while, Leon noticed that there was no sign of small animals in the ocean. Most likely, the sea-snakes devoured even the small fish. Suddenly, Leon felt a presence under him. It was massive and powerful. So, that caught Leon by surprise. He looked below, surprised, but didn't find anything aside from a coral reef.
”Could it be?”
Leon approached the coral reef and eventually found an underwater cave. However, when he approached, suddenly, a pair of eyes appeared in the middle of the coral reef. Leon almost shit his pants, because that scared the shit out of him. The eyes of that thing were bigger than Leon's body. It was an ancient eagle ray, so old that would spend a massive amount of time sleeping underwater that it gave time for a coral reef growing on its back and to become a sort of disguise.
”It must also have Mana Concealment... there is no way that such a disguise would work against every single other monster on the oceans.”
While Leon was thinking about that, the creature started to swim away from him. Despite its size, it was quite big and not violent. It didn't even try to attack Leon, after all. Regardless, after returning to the surface to fill his Mana Barrier with air, Leon used Transfer and appeared inside the cave.
Moving around inside the underwater cave wasn't easy since everything was so dark, and Leon couldn't use any spell because it could damage the temple or the massive monster, his Mana Barrier bumped against the walls of the place more than a few times, and that made his mana decrease. Regardless, Leon didn't know how he would be able to talk with the spirit of water, underwater, and inside the Mana Barrier... he could only pray that they would reach some sort of agreement after talking with their eyes.