Chapter 946: Where is it?
Chapter 946: Where is it?
Once the illusion array had been released and the true form of the island was revealed, Ariel had us land in the main square of the island.
The facilities of the island were built around this main square. With the way that everything was built, it was almost like a small town on the center of this island.
After landing, we could see the buildings more clearly and it was a surprise to see how well designed these buildings were. They weren’t built with wood like most buildings would be in this medieval world, but rather they were all built with carved stone.
With the construction technology of this world, it was certainly strange seeing a town completely made from stone buildings.
For most kingdoms, it was only the important facilities like castles and churches that were made of stone.
It wasn’t easy carving stone with the technological level of this world after all.
Even with magic, it was hard to do such a thing.
So a town that was completely made of stone was certainly a strange sight to behold.
But at the same time, this just went to show the power of the Tide Empire and the Merman Empire that they could construct such a thing.
This was the power of two of the two empires in the world.
After landing, it didn’t seem like Ariel had any hesitation as she jumped off the wyvern and headed into the town. With the way that she walked around here, it was as if she was already familiar with this place.
That wasn’t strange since she was the princess of the Merman Empire.
She should have already come to this place before in earlier negotiations with the Tide Empire. That was most likely why she even knew how to open up the illusion array from before.
Though if she had come here before, didn’t that mean that she already had a way to become human?
Why had she been so surprised by the legs that she gained after making that contract with me?
It didn’t seem to make any sense at all.
There was even a part of me that wondered if she was leading us into a trap…
But that part of me quickly disappeared when I saw what she did next.
Ariel went into one of the buildings near us without any hesitation. She even threw open the door with how quickly she went into the building.
After entering the building, Ariel started throwing all kinds of things around as if she was searching for something. She even seemed to be muttering to herself, “Where is it? Where is that thing?”
It seemed that I had been wrong about her.
Even though she knew the way to open up the illusion array, that didn’t seem to mean that she had been here before. The reason why she had been so comfortable jumping into the building like that was just because of her personality.
I had already seen what kind of personality she had, so it wasn’t strange to see her acting this
way.
I didn’t get in her way since I didn’t know what she was searching for, but it seemed like she was quite determined to find whatever it was.
After searching for a while, Ariel suddenly turned around and left this building.
She went into the building next door and did the same thing where she threw all kinds of things out of the way.
But looking back behind her, it seemed like she was leaving a trail of destruction with how messy things were left. She didn’t seem to care at all as she just continued to search for the thing that she was looking for.
After five different buildings, it seemed like she finally found it.
“Ah, here it is!”
We all looked over in her direction when she shouted out and saw that she was holding a conch in her hand.
This seemed like an ordinary conch, but I could tell that it was anything but ordinary since I could feel the magic fluctuations coming from it. It should be some kind of magic item, though I had no idea what kind of abilities it had.
After pulling that conch out, Ariel just waved her hand at us with a smile on her face as she said, “Come on, let’s go and call them.”
“Call them?” All of us repeated with confused looks on our faces, but we still followed Ariel to the beach.
She walked right up to the edge of the sand, standing where the waves were able to reach her feet. She had even taken off her shoes and socks to stand right in the waves, letting the water wash over her feet.
She didn’t go too far that she was swept out by the waves though
Once she was in the shallows, Ariel suddenly raised the conch and blew into it to let out a powerful toot.
This sound spread out all around us and it seemed like it was resonating with the waves itself. She blew on the conch for a bit until she suddenly stopped and looked expectantly at the ocean in front of her.
Only there wasn’t a single thing that appeared in the ocean in front of her.
It was only Klein who had sharp eyes that said, “There are a few bubbles.”
I narrowed my eyes to look at where he was pointing and found that there were indeed a few bubbles that were there, but they soon disappeared as well and everything went silent again.
As we were wondering what we should do, there was a sudden splash as the water of the ocean burst upwards and there were several figures that came out.
These figures jumped onto the beach and then pointed the tridents in their hands at Ariel who was standing there. Some of them also pointed their tridents at us, as if they were wary of us
as well.
Klein and the others went to draw their weapons, but I stopped them with a wave of my hand as I wanted to see what would happen.
Ariel didn’t seem scared at all by the fact that tridents were pointed at her.
She just looked at the one that seemed to be leading this group and said, “Sebastien, do you really not recognize me?”
“Huh?” The one she called ‘Sebastien’ was shocked to hear this, but then an even more shocked look appeared on his face as he said, “Princess, what are you doing here?!”
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