Chapter 109: with translation of chapter title

Seal

「Alert! 」 No one spoke; a mental ripple spread instantly, and the Sentinels, in unison, recalled their wandering mental forms, guarding nearby.

Lan Qian sent the gurgle out, slapped back the water bubble containing the Sentinel, pressed it down with his fish tail, and his blue eyes narrowed.

Fu Guang sat up straight, the gold hair behind her somewhat disheveled; the shaking had come too fast, and unprepared, she rolled once in the spherical water bubble. This thoroughly drove away her sleepy bug.

Leng Ying looked at the little guide; although she had rolled once, she still steadied her body in the first instant, her gaze turning icy, her tail tightly gripping the water bubble wall, warily looking up at the dome.

Yummengze lifting the highest alert would also be earth-shattering; that is also why she has never left the guide team.

「Pay attention, gather at the entrance of Yummengze. 」 Chan Yi issued the notice swiftly, glanced at the girl scooped up in the arms of the shark person, and let her body sway with the waves.

「Don't resist; the more you resist, the fiercer it becomes. 」 Lan Qian determined that Yummengze was indeed lifting the highest alert, not a false release, and informed everyone via the mental link.

The next moment, the mental passage was cut off.

Splash, splash.

The surrounding seawater surged violently, as if struck by a heavy hammer on an eggshell; the violent shaking threw everything into disorder.

The waves carried an unacceptable force for the human body, tilting left and right, then colliding together; the energy gathered together began to collide, boom boom boom, the sound incessant, exploding one splash after another.

The sea beasts scattered in all directions, some even bumping into Fu Guang's bubble, with no time to see what they had hit; after recovering, they fled in panic without choosing a path.

Lan Qian grabbed Xi Guang's bubble with one hand, and with the other hand shrank Fu Guang's bubble, letting it float on her skin's surface, holding her in his arms, and at extreme speed dodged the high-speed energy shells incoming.

Yummengze is unlike the other S-rank danger zones; in those other zones, their own element occupies eighty percent, and it also suppresses people's strength.

And because of its water nature, Yummengze does not suppress people's strength, but the energy it contains is the most mixed; during the violent shaking, these energies merge and collide, and even small energy clusters are comparable to the strength of an S-rank casually thrown.

Boom boom boom, the explosion sounds never ceased, and one bloody firework after another burst open.

Lan Qian is a shark person, and his speed is the fastest, flinging everyone far behind.

「Are we heading upstream? 」 Fu Guang noticed that although Lan Qian swam without a pattern, it was gradually upward, appearing to head for the sea surface.

「Once the seawater of Yummengze drops to a certain distance, it will stop descending, sealing everything beneath the sea surface; no one has ever been seen escaping from the sealed Yummengze. 」

Lan Qian deftly flipped, aimed at the route, and slapped the water bubble back and forth with his tail from within the dense barrage of energy shells.

The Xi Guang inside the bubble also seemed to sense danger; golden wings wrapped him like a large silkworm baby, covered in a layer of golden light.

Fu Guang twitched the corner of her mouth, never mind what he does, as long as we can get out; following Lan Qian's words in her mind, she imagined that upon entering Yummengze it had been transparent, like a clean mirror-like sea surface.

「Is the sealed sea surface the same as the initial sea surface upon entering Yummengze? 」

「Yes. 」

「The sealing force is really strong. 」 Fu Guang sighed, 「Only the four heavenly pillars can break the sealed sea surface. 」

Fu Guang noticed that the shadows before her were no longer just patches of black; she could faintly see the true forms of things. Her hand had originally rested on the shark person's waist, and beneath her fingers were a taut waistline and several cold scales.

Now she could finally see clearly; those few scales were a gradient from light blue to deep blue. She looked around, and at their current position, she could already see the emergence of light.

Looking down was a dark, murky color, like the gaping maw of a giant beast, as if it would lunge at her any moment. Fu Guang exhaled lightly, relaxed her tense fingertips, and she finally no longer had to be a blind person.

Perhaps because Fu Guang acted too normally, everyone forgot that a low-ranking guide cannot see in the deep sea; her mental power compensated for this, preventing her from truly being a blind person who sees nothing.

But mental power can only perceive that something exists; the scene it sees lacks color, and only human eyes can capture the variegated hues produced by light refraction.

Lan Qian's speed is great; in an instant, light passes through the sea surface, refracting into bright paths like golden threads shuttling and intertwining, then breaking with the sea's turbulence, reflecting elusive glimmers.

「Boss. 」 Fu Guang looked at the somewhat familiar voice appearing; she gazed downward, and a black fish shot sideways past her vision—a very distinctive fish whose sail-like dorsal fin is larger than its body.

Lan Qian glanced, his curved fish tail tensed like a drawn bow, and he struck the water bubble at his side; his ear fins tensed, thinking that if he weren't burdened with extra baggage, he could be faster.

He lowered his head to glance at Fu Guang's complexion; he is the most outstanding, with no water-element Sentinel stronger than him.

「Hey, boss! 」 The black sailfish didn't understand why the boss, having heard her voice, would flick its tail and swim even faster.

He stayed in place, destroying some small energy shells, and shortly after, his companion sentinel fish appeared beside him.

「What are you stopping here for, waiting for Yummengze to eat you? 」 A sword-like fish halted at her side and asked, out of camaraderie.

「The boss heard me call him, so why is he swimming faster? I just wanted to say hello. 」

The swordfish first said, 「Your speed is good—have you been training extra lately? You can even catch up to the boss. 」

He paused, then looked up and down at his single comrade; the sailfish looked bewildered, 「What's going on? 」

The swordfish lowered his voice and said, 「Do you like Fu Guang the guide? 」

The sailfish flicked its tail and left the spot; being this close, is it looking for a fight?

However, she doesn't hold the swordfish's offense against her; she naturally replied, 「Of course. 」

Liking is liking; upon seeing Fu Guang the guide, her heart fills with joy—what's wrong with that?

「That makes sense—the boss also likes Fu Guang the guide. 」 The swordfish looked at the sailfish as if it were obvious and shivered, 「Either be rivals for the boss, or just take a look. 」

「The boss's possessive desire as a Sentinel has flared up. 」 Another fish swam out from the darkness, having heard the whole thing, and said to his clueless teammate:

「Oh, that's how it is. 」 The sailfish wagged its tail, then suddenly looked at the third fish that had listened the whole way and said, 「Have you been secretly training? You swim this fast—let's have a rematch when we get back. 」

「If we race, we race—you aren't even the second fastest in our team. 」

「You haven't even raced yet, and you're already boasting—aren't you afraid of pulling a muscle? 」

The calm, waveless sea surface was split open with a splash, the perpetually transparent water ball dehydrated and shot out, and the crystal-clear water droplets were flung away.

A shark person appearing at some unknown time caught the rolling water ball, his fish tail turned into legs, and he lightly landed on the sea surface.

The seal began.