"What are we doing now?" Eddie asked after the blue-robed figures had left. "We can't just let them be enslaved."
"You said you were going to protect us against strong beasts," Chloe accused Thalion, who, now that the danger had passed, approached again.
"I'm too weak to fight them alone," Thalion said calmly. "Didn't you notice their strong aura? They might be close to level 70."
"Forget that excuse! You blew apart those giant squids with ease," Chloe complained loudly, pointing with one of her giant hands at him.
"Yes, but those were big creatures without any defenses," Thalion argued. "As long as I can keep my distance and attack them with my skills, I'm fine. This will beco much harder against trained water mages. If they land even one good hit, I’m dead."
"But what do we do now?" Chloe asked, desperate. "Jack and Josh are too good to be enslaved."
He could try to find Annie or Seraphina at one of the larger reefs. Thalion thought, though he questioned if that was even safe. Kael had gotten an item from his god for the sanguine thorn, so why shouldn’t he ask Seraphina for assistance?
Perhaps her goddess even commanded her to help them, since Kael was seen as a beacon of hope in the gods' eyes in the fight against the undead—while Thalion himself was deed unworthy.
Why was it that gods held such views? If not for his title keeping him at such a low level, he could potentially kill them all as the umbral predator. Even though he felt good while spending ti with Seraphina, he wouldn’t bet his life on it, with so much that could have changed while he was gone.
Although Seraphina had been very helpful, it was clear he wouldn’t get any special treatnt. The mont killing him beca advantageous to her, she would definitely do it.
There was also Annie, but he didn’t want to drag her into this by pushing the task of freeing the two onto her. Nerissa likely held a high standing among the blue-robed society, and even if Seraphina was willing to help, was it even possible for her to demand that Nerissa release Jack and Josh?
"There's nothing I can do. You should fly back to Kael and ask him to negotiate their freedom," Thalion said after weighing his options.
"That could take days! We don't have one of those flying ships anymore, and we were already scouting for you when the other shapeshifters went to the mountains with Kael to find a good flying form," Chloe exclaid in desperation.
"What are your flying forms, then?" Thalion asked, intrigued.
"I'm a wasp," Chloe muttered, a bit embarrassed.
"And I'm a wasp too," Eddie proudly announced.
"Well then, let’s just hope they aren’t killing all the slaves when they teleport to a higher stage like they did last ti," Thalion sighed in sorrow. Even when they were a bit annoying, he liked them.
"They did what?" Eddie and Chloe exclaid, both looking at him in shock.
"Yeah, but it doesn't matter now. We can’t do much to help them. By the way, how many pearls did you get?" Thalion asked the important things. He wondered how fast they would help with his bodytempering.
"None. I was stuck in that gap the whole ti," Chloe said, annoyed still trying to climb out of it.
"I got one after winning a fight against another coral golem," Eddie said proudly, holding up a single blue pearl.
"After hours of searching, you both found only one pearl?" Thalion said in disbelief. How were those people such a high level? It must have had sothing to do with the low rarity of their classes, which makes leveling easier.
"Well, Jack and Josh might have found more," Chloe mumbled and blasted on of her new skills against the gap she was stuck in, but it didn't help.
"Oh, I'm sure the spinning squid and the crab caught in his tentacles have found more than you two," Thalion laughed loudly. He really wanted to try the form of a squid now, just to test if it really was that difficult. Normally, most things ca very naturally when getting a new form. He didn't have to learn flying from the start as eagly, for example. Maybe it was that in science those tentacles had so many nerves, that they could function a bit like brains, too? Very interesting.
Getting no pearls was no big setback for him. He’d planned to dive deeper where the real bigshots resided. Those large crystals were likely far more potent than those tiny pearls anyway, he thought.
"So, what do we do now?" Chloe asked sadly, looking down in defeat.
It was indeed a difficult question. Thalion knew he couldn’t take them with him when he dove into the depths for various reasons. First, sharing the experience would leave him with next to nothing, and they’d be one-shotted by any stronger beast they encountered. Plus, he wasn’t confident he could protect them if things got intense and could those golems even swim?
"You two should go back to Kael’s base and ask for help. There’s nothing you can do here," Thalion suggested, trying to help them as best he could.
"But didn’t we agree to betray Kael by not killing you?" Eddie interjected a bit confused.
"You're lucky he doesn’t know that" Thalion replied with a grin.
"He tried to kill you. Why wouldn’t he try to kill us too?" Chloe added, still trying to get out of the gap.
"Because it wouldn’t benefit him in any way," Thalion explained. This was taking too long. He needed to get to so killing.
"Okay, but there's still one more problem—I don’t think these golems can swim," Chloe admitted, embarrassed after finally getting out of the gap.
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"Then let’s find you a new form." Thalion said, happy to have so progress while scanning the reef for a new form. Many fish swam around. Now it was just a matter of finding the best option for them. The most important trait should be speed.
They eventually settled on a tarpon, though it took Thalion so ti to catch one. The fish didn’t fight but instead fled at an incredible speed. After that, Chloe and Eddie set off back to Kael to save their friends.
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