Chapter 40: The World Under Water

It's been a while since she's been back in King's Castle, and Lulunaka certainly doesn't live in the corners of the city like a lonely old fellow, but she likes to hang out in the crowded places, let your guard down with her cute face, and then listen to the interesting things that the city's inhabitants have to say.

The rumor that there are never-before-seen treasures underground is no longer something that the residents of this city will care about, and only some adventurers who have just debuted will be interested in this kind of thing. The city is so old that rumors about the city itself are not new.

But if Lulunaka were to be told, it was almost 90% true. Yes, there are indeed treasures in the ground, which is ninety percent, and one percent is that this treasure is probably not what people think, gold and silver treasures, or magic weapons.

It's a bit of a complicated thing, and if you let the average person see it, you'll probably only think it's a strange thing, but it's definitely not worth too much money, but ordinary people don't have a chance to see it at all, and if you get a little closer, you'll probably be burned to dry, after all, it's a very "vibrant" thing.

That thing doesn't have any value to ordinary people, but to mages, it's not necessarily. Lulunaka knew very well what a mage was. In the eyes of the Holy See, mages are taboo, in the eyes of ordinary people, mages are synonymous with power and terror, and in the eyes of the powerful, mages are useful staff...... Lulunaka's words are a little different. Mages are seekers of knowledge and magic - though she prefers to call them insane.

Lulunaka was tired of lying in the water, but now that the water was so high that there was no place for her to stay, even if she turned around, she just changed her position and continued to lie in the water. If there's any difference between her and the floating corpse now, it's probably that she hasn't become swollen. She didn't care at all that she was soaking wet, and the feeling of spitting water was far more fun than disgusting, or she didn't think there was anything wrong with it at all.

After lying on the surface of the water for a while, Lulunaka muttered to herself, as if she remembered something, "Am I saving the kind Marina like this......

She began to recall what had just happened. There's a reason why the snake guards didn't catch up when the water rose and they fled. The snake guards, who were faster in the water, were about to catch up after them ran away without knowing their heads, when the part of the spine of Lulunaka's upper body was grabbed by Lulunaka's small hand. The thick, white bones were not something that Lulunaka could grasp in the palm of her small hand, but Lulunaka had no intention of doing so, she reached over to crush the spine.

Even if there is no flesh and blood, there are no nerves, and the spine is crushed for a while, there will be a big problem. Its upper body falls off its tail and becomes two. Its upper body crawls forward, and the tail part of its lower body is flapping and rolling in place, which looks like an enlarged gecko tail, but the gecko's tail is not so long and thick, and it does not have bones.

Lulunaka did save Marina's life, and the Serpent Guard didn't come for Lulunaka, she just happened to be in front of it. For Lulunaka, Marina with the magic book was like a blind man with an oil lamp in a cemetery at night, with no idea where she was or how deadly it was to do so—the blind walked in a cemetery full of necromancers, while Marina walked in the sewers with the magic book.

Marina may have been cautious and careful enough, but Lulunaka felt that she hadn't done a good enough job, and that the person who gave her the magic book might not have taught her very clearly that there were some things that were not only about doing what she could do, but also about figuring out what level she was at, and whether she could follow the instructions to the legendary treasure...... Marina doesn't seem to realize this. And as a result, Lulunaka's poor "life" was sacrificed so that she and her companions could escape.

So is she blaming Marina? Of course not, since Marina has given her a lot of fun, and has let her know that even in this era, when the legend is no longer able to attract people, there will still be people who will rush to the depths of the underground "treasures" regardless of the consequences, then Lulunaka's disguise along the way is worth it. It's not that there is no surprise, a mage like Marina is a small surprise, but it's a pity that it's not careful enough, and the strength is not very good, but for a wandering mage, it's already very good.

As for whether Marina will have any psychological burden due to Lulunaka's "death" and become panicked as a result, it is not Lulunaka's interest. Sometimes, if she can't learn how to deal with the death of a "weak" like her, then Marina can't be a real mage, and thinking emotionally and emotionally is not what a mage should do. However, Lulunaka's words are not like she has never met such a humane mage.

"Hmph...... I remembered something that I wasn't very happy about. Lulunaka's mood visibly deteriorated, probably because she thought of something that made her angry, and that it was in King's Castle that nothing could have been more unpleasant.

She lay on the rising water for a long time before she remembered that she could no longer lie down as a floating corpse, she didn't want to spend the night in such a dilapidated underground, it was cold and dark, and it couldn't make people feel the slightest comfort.

She rolled over and dived headfirst into the water. She writhed, her posture graceful that of a mermaid, and swam into the depths of the reservoir - except that she didn't have a beautiful scaly tail like the Krakens, only a cloak that was soaked and stuck to her.

She breathed in the water, opened her eyes and looked ahead, her body sinking as if a few stones were tied to her. The water was so muddy that she pulled out a glass bottle from her bosom. The slender tubular glass bottle was completely sealed, and it was impossible to see where to open the bottle. There was a bright white liquid in the bottle, and the light from the liquid illuminated Lulunaka's surroundings.

When the surrounding water becomes visible due to the bright light, Lulunaka's surroundings are literally hell. All kinds of skeletons floating in the water, schools of strange fish. The skeleton didn't move much in the water, but the sharp-toothed fish coalesced together and turned into a black ribbon that surrounded Lulunaka.

Instead of swimming over and biting at Lulunaka's fresh flesh, the strange fish kept spinning around, as if Lulunaka was a center, a head fish.

The school of fish swirled around her, the circle spreading out more and more, until it became a sparse circular band, left behind by Lulunaka. Even fish without intelligence will run away from more powerful creatures and the fear of death.

The skeletons scattered around couldn't do anything to Lulunaka, they weren't fish, they weren't the bones of a snake guard.

Lulunaka sinked straight down, and it took her some time to reach the bottom of the reservoir. A hazy white light enveloped her, and when she landed at the bottom of the reservoir, she stood with her feet on the ground and under the water, her cane in hand, looking around. She can't make a sound in the water, but after seeing her surroundings, Lulunaka spits out a few bubbles and looks happy.

The place where she was shouldn't be an environment where people could laugh.

Thick white bones covered the bottom of the water, and the bones of different thicknesses and lengths overlapped in layers, and even the floor could not be seen. Lulunaka stood and walked on the bones, and occasionally a skeletal hand reached out from her feet, grabbing her by the neck and trying to pull her into the pile of bones. Lulunaka only had to kick her foot down slightly, and the whole person floated in the water, and the skeletal hand was pulled out, and as for the original owner, he continued to stay in the countless piles of bones.

Lulunaka quickly found what she was looking for. It was a passage clogged with white bones, and it took her some effort to clean up the bones that had been stacked on top of the passage, and then she jumped into the passage, fell into the passage, and quickly disappeared.