Chapter 496 (1/2)

Chapter 496: Under the Deep Sea

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“The water from the Sealine flows downward to cause the lower level water to rise? How is this possible?”

Tilly pondered for a while. “So when the tide falls, will the water flow backwards?”

“Good question.” Thunder clenched his fists excitedly. “Afterwards, my fleet stayed near the Sealine for two weeks, until the tide fell. During that time, we tried all kinds of ways to break through the Sealine, and the most amazing part was sailing on the Sealine itself—do you know what kind of feeling that is? To outsiders, it seemed as if we were stuck to the face of a cliff, with our sails completely paralleling to the ocean, as if we could fall down at any second. But we couldn’t feel this on the boat at all, and it was like the Courage was sailing in a narrow river, with the vast wall of seawater on one side, and the expansive sky on the other. Of course, we had to wait for the water to slow down to do this, otherwise even the Magic Servant couldn’t protect the boat.”

“This… makes no sense.” Tilly felt her brain sink into total confusion. If some other explorer other than Thunder was telling her this, she would have immediately thought they were making it all up.

“I think so too, but I trust my own eyes more than common sense.” He continued, “After two weeks, the tide began to fall—it happened at exactly the same time as the tides rose and fell in the Shadow Islands. The seawater did not regorge and simply backed off slowly, and the Sealine raised from about 100 meters to over 200 meters once again.”

“Do you mean that all this seawater just disappeared into thin air?”

“Maybe, but it might have also flowed to somewhere else.”

“Where could it flow to?” Tilly said, rubbing her forehead. “The tides are drastic in the Shadow Islands, much calmer in the Fjord Islands, basically nonexistent at the shores of the Four Kingdoms—if this isn’t vanishing into thin air, what is it?”

Thunder pointed at the ground.

She sighed. “I remember that you once said the sea level in the Shadow area dropped very quickly as if there was a giant hole sucking it in at the bottom of the ocean. However, no matter how big the hole is, it should still be filled up after a few years.”

“I’m only guessing. No one has actually seen what the ocean floor looks like… but I’m very curious about one thing.”

“What?”

“Why is the ocean we’re in called the Swirling Sea?”

Tilly felt her heart skip a beat as she came to a realization and shook her head, saying, “That’s impossible and insane. If an underground cave expelled water to create a whirlpool, how could we not notice it? Also, this name has been around for hundreds of years, so who knows what our ancestors were thinking?”

“That’s right. I conducted a simple experiment and found that the water must be shallow enough for the whirlpool to show, but we don’t have the ability to see the ocean floor.” Thunder smiled. “Meanwhile, that doesn’t mean that witches can’t do it—I never thought of this before, but when you told me that witches ruled this land 400 years ago, I realized that this sea was probably named during that time.”

“I’m a witch,” said Tilly with a shrug, “and not a single witch on Sleeping Island can do it.”

“I know who can.”

“What?”