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Deep in the middle of the Forgotten Sea, Shin brought Cloe and Alice to the underwater temple of the Forgotten God of the Sea – the God of Primordial Waters, Hydros.
Cloe seed to be still upset about sothing after listening to Shin's 'explanation' earlier. Even though he could hear her complaining in a low voice, she still followed him here without saying anything.
Regardless, she was still willing to help Shin with anything. She was just sulking since she thought this was finally the ti when she could 'solo' Shin and have a ti together. But who would have thought that they would be in the presence of a 'third wheel', who happened to have so history and a complicated connection with Shin?
Earlier, she and Alice were sowhat getting along. But after this 'incident', the gap between them seed to appear once again.
What upset her even more was when she learned that Shin and Alice had gone questing before with just the two of them. And it was not just once, but twice.
Cloe felt like crying since she had yet to spend ti with Shin together within the ga themselves when her main purpose of playing the ga when Arthur first invited her was to play with him in the first place.
But who would have thought that she would have to wait a very long ti before Shin joined them?
Then such a precious opportunity was snatched by so other woman!
How could she not be upset because of this?
Alice, on the other hand, was oblivious to this. She remained silent as she followed them here under Shin's invitation. After all, he had helped her before during their ti in the Stormy Mountain Range between the Storm Empire and Dark Cloud Kingdom.
Even if Shin had told her that he was also doing his quest by helping her, she still felt sowhat indebted and wanted to repay him.
After all, she had not only ford a contract with such a powerful Elental Spirit Queen, who was a fallen Primordial God but also had gotten a top-notch secondary combat class during that quest.
She felt that she had taken advantage of Shin by gaining more benefits during that ti, so she wanted to take this opportunity to repay that 'debt'.
Since this also happened to be related to contact with another Elental, the timing, and condition could not be any more perfect.
This was the perfect opportunity to repay him.
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Alice curiously looked around the underwater temple and observed the place. Her eyes were especially attracted by the ancient murals painted and engraved on the walls, which were telling the legends of the sea.
At the sa ti, she could also feel that her Ocean Spirit King that she had contracted, Suijin, was getting sowhat restless due to the boundless and powerful water elent filling this place.
As a Spirit King of the water elent, particularly being labeled as a Goddess of the Water during her peak, Suijin felt a certain connection to this place. She could already tell that the owner of this temple was soone who far surpassed her in terms of water affinity and power – at least during the peak of their strength, which was during an Era far harsher than the ti she lived in.
[Esteed Elven Sage, the Elental Spirit sealed in this place is most likely not inferior to Goddess Gaia.] communicated by Suijin after observing the murals painted on the walls and sensing the dense water-elental powers filling the entire place.
Suijin, who was said to be one of the absolutes of the sea and ford a contract with the sea itself as a faith god during the end of the Ancient Era to pursue greater power, could feel that the spirit sealed in this place far surpassed her connection with the elent of water.
Hearing her words, Gaia could not help but add. [If I am the Goddess of Earth and Nature, then the one who is sealed in this place must be the God of the Primordial Waters. A god who has been forgotten due to the countless wars.]
[We are from the sa generation. One of the most Primordial Gods, who have been born from the Primordial Chaos.]
She paused for a mont as she felt a nostalgic feeling before continuing. [Who would have thought that we both would end up in such a state.]
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She observed the energies filling the air and followed their flows with her senses and added. [And it seems like his situation is much worse than mine. I have at least been reincarnating countless tis while following the passage of ti, but he seed to have been sleeping here for a very long ti.]
[I will not be surprised if he has already lost himself after all this.] She paused before warning Alice seriously. [If that is the case, then I must say that you have to be very careful when trying to unseal him.]
[If you committed even the slightest mistake during the unsealing process, then there is a high chance that you will release a God of Destruction instead of awakening a Primordial Elental Spirit.]
[I now understand why that little kid repeatedly warns the two of you to be careful when studying seal.] She added with a very serious tone.
[But his decurion shouldn't be that far either,] Gaia continued as she recalled the plan that Shin had co up with while sharing this quest with them.
[Given that I am also a Primordial God during my peak, I have a decent knowledge about the thods that are only available to us. Even if I can't help you release the seal directly, I can at least help you deduce the thod of unsealing it.]
[Then there is this Faith God Suijin of the Sea, who also has contracted with the Great Sea, and the inheritance that you have gotten from that Elven Sorcerer.]
[If we have combined all our efforts perfectly, then we can indeed help that little girl unseal that ancient seal, especially since a very long ti has already passed, making it lose most of its operational powers.]
[This thod is indeed more reliable than looking for a Saint Rank Runemaster, who is unfamiliar with him.]
Gaia could not help but beco impressed with Shin. He had only heard a few of their abilities, but he had already deduced a great thod to deal with their current problem.
She knew that this guy was not that simple since he had contracted several Elental Spirits with great potential and limitless aptitudes, but she did not know that she would be given such a surprise of this level.
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Not long after, Shin led the two to the hall, where the sleeping God of the Primordial Waters was.
Boom!
When he opened the giant tal gates, an overwhelming pressure quickly rushed out of the hall and tried to drown the three of them.
Shin was relatively fine since he had already familiarized himself with this pressure when he first visited this place. Moreover, his newly improved ntal prowess could already withstand this kind of pressure. It was nothing to him.
Cloe and Alice, on the other hand, were sowhat caught off guard by this sudden eruption of pressure. After all, it was their first ti coming here.
But they had their respective thods to withstand it.
Alice was protected by Gaia, who released a cleansing aura that washed her mind from ntal pressure and protected her from a mind mark that could leave fear deep inside her consciousness, putting trauma in it.
Cloe, on the other hand, released a holy aura that covered her body and protected her mind. The effects of this aura were similar to the one that Gaia had released, but hers possessed more potent cleansing powers due to her high affinity for light and sacred elents.
After recovering their footings, they raised their head and saw a cute little creature that seed to be a humanoid whale 'floating' in the air while being sealed in a glass-like container made of the purest form of mana.
Their eyes were also attracted by the huge magic formation that almost covered the entire hall.
[It is indeed Hydros of the Primordial Waters.] mumbled Gaia after a brief silence. The form might be different, but she could sense a dense primordial power coming from this little creature.
Aside from that, she could also feel that this 'Hydros' had already lost all his mories after seeing this creature's 'clear' consciousness. It was no different from an infant which had been born into the world.
But what made her frown deeper was when she could no longer sense any divinity from Hydros' current vessel – not even the tiniest hint of it. He had his divine powers completely.
Even she, who had been 'reincarnated' multiple tis through different vessels and forms, was still able to retain a small hint of divinity, albeit being broken.
She could not help but sigh after realizing that Hydros might have experienced much harsher conditions than her during the war at 'that' ti.
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