And so, we go through the new discovery, the underwater cave, to move to the southern area. I feel the barrier separating the areas in my skin, and see groups of man-faced fish swimming.
“Uwa, are those man-faced fish…? Gross…”
“Those would appear in dreams too…”
“Scary…”
We’re not close enough for them to notice us, but the water is pretty deep around the underwater cave. It would make sense to be close to monster habitat. I open the map, and see no people in the southern area, and a lot of scissor crabs on the surface. I’m sure it wouldn’t bother anyone if we went wild right now.
“Seren, go nuts with Ocean Magic.”
‘~~? ~~♪’
“Yes, you can handle it.”
‘~~!’
Seren exclaims happily, and charges into the group of enemies. The man-faced fish notice Seren, and let out voices like they’re cautious.
‘Ohoh!’
‘Ohoh!’
“Uwah, their voices are creepy…”
“They’ll definitely appear in dreams…!”
The man-faced fish groan, which serves as an alarm for the others. Monsters respond to the call and gather, and Seren dodges the group to swim towards others that didn’t respond. The monsters chase it as Seren heads deeper, and the number of monsters chasing swells.
It looks like it wants all the man-faced fish in one place.
Only a few minutes pass before they’re all bunched up together. As Seren said, we’re watching from a distance, slowly going after Seren and staying just close enough to watch. But the number of monsters I see on the map is crazy.
‘Ohoh!!’
‘Ohohoh!!’
Their voices reach us from a distance. It must be a chorus around Seren. It’d be draining to hear that from up close. But still, I hear Seren’s clear voice.
‘~~♪’
Suddenly, there’s a big whirlpool centered on Seren, which engulfs all the enemies. Its pull and destructive force are incredible, and the monsters instantly turn to smoke. The beautiful ocean floor is carved along with the bedrock.
Even from this distance, it feels like it will pull us in. I don’t know how high the level of Ocean Magic must be to cast this, but it’d be bad if underwater monsters could use it. Seren’s Ocean Magic is level four, but what should I do against it…
As I think that, the smoke gathers and two rare monsters appear. Both are sucked into the whirlpool and return to smoke.
This is definitely overkill.
“That’s enough, Seren.”
‘~~♪’
Seren floats and uses Muddy Stream Control to collect the drops.
“There there, good job.”
‘~~♪’
“You really are unchallenged in the water.”
“I’m really glad this is your golem.”
“We couldn’t do anything if there were monsters like this in dungeons.”
“I’m sure there are if you look. Like in the High Rank Dungeon.”
“Eh. I don’t want to see them though.☆”
‘~~?’
“Seren is sad because you’re saying it’s scary.”
“Ah, Seren is different.☆”
Izumi says as she hugs Seren, who holds her too. Although if you don’t know what’s going on, it looks like a girl in a swimsuit being grabbed by tentacles. And it turns into quite the sight when Renka and Irina join in.
Let’s not say anything.
Then we fight two Mermen as planned while filming it, and take down rare and rare II in the eastern area too. The third one got me from level 79 to 81. I haven’t been leveling up a lot here.
After that, it’s time to go through the northern underwater cave to get back to the western area.
“Older brother, you have good eyes. Do you see someone swimming over there with a swim ring?”
“Hn? Ah, perfectly.”
I had Vision Strengthening that evolved into Perception Strengthening, so I can see far away.
I can’t see clearly with the waves above water, but I can see near the shore underwater.
“Eh. You can see the lower body of the girl swimming?☆”
“Y-you…”
““Hm…?””
Sharp eyes are pointed at me. Yes, I can see it. I looked closely to see if I could. But I couldn’t help it, you told me to look.
“You really are a guy. Well, I’m curious too.”
“Darling, you can look at my lower half all you want.”
“You shouldn’t peep.”
“““Peep…”””
“Criminal!”
“Pufufu!☆”
I try to appeal to my innocence, and I’m quickly forgiven. They were acting mad. Well, I’ll punish Izumi later.
And even as we enjoy talking, Renka and the others keep going on about peeping.
“Eh, that’s nice Irina. Let’s bring binoculars during our free time tomorrow.”
“Geez, it can’t be helped. If you do that Renka…”
This is all beyond help…
‘Oh! Oh!’
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Name: Man-Faced Fishman
Level: 75
Physical Strength: 540
Dexterity: 375
Constitution: 150
Agility: 300
Magic Energy: 0
Intelligence: 45
Luck: None
Boost skills: Super Strength III
Passive skills: Physical Strengthening Lv3, Spear Techniques Lv5, Swimming Lv4
Magic skills: Water Magic Lv5
Special skills: Limit Break
Equipment: Fishman spear
Drops: Fishman scale, fishman seed, Man-Faced Fishman trophy
Magic stone: Large
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The powered up one spawned without any issues, but…
The fishman seeds are the same size? That’s a little disappointing, but it’s fine if some sort of skills come from them. And I can’t help but feel like high rank skills will come from a level 70 monster.
I easily take it down and level up to 82. The dropped items are collected, and we make our way to the hidden cave to open a treasure chest. That’s the second floor key done.
Incidentally, the inside of the cave is a space that’s not disturbed, and can’t be seen from the outside. And so, we use golden incense like before so I spend some intimate time with the three of them. And the three that were supposed to be watching join in, turning it into chaos.
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