Heaven, Earth, Me

Chapter 770: Entrance to the Underwater City.

While they approached the path toward the underwater city, Embera asked to be sure. "Are you sure that it will work on me as well?"

Kali shrugged with a gentle laugh. "I don't know. It's my first time speaking with spirits other than Valeria. The few little ones I can summon are all mindless, after all. So, we'll need to test. Even if there is any problem, at most, you will boil a small area of the sea, right?"

Embera nodded. "Well, you are right. It's my first time going underwater, so my instincts are a bit twitchy. Sorry for asking so many times."

Kali shook her head. "It's only right to do so."

Soluna blinked and asked Kali with interest in her harmonic voice. "You can summon spirits?"

Kali waved one of her tails and used her summoning skills to call ten small green spirits without a specific shape. They were like blobs of green light that floated around Kali gently.

Soluna clapped, her exotic eyes glowing beautifully. "Oh!"

Yasenia looked at her, and a small laugh escaped her. She patted her head and commented. "Cute."

Soluna smiled shyly and clung to her again. Our dragoness was walking with Tatyana at her right, and Soluna at her left this time.

The nature spirit raised her leafy eyebrow, approached one, and poked it. Delighted, the unnamed and non-sapient spirit began bobbing up and down. The nature spirit laughed. "Very cute. But They have no ego."

Kali explained. "They come from a skill, so they are naturally non-intelligent. They can follow orders and have basic instincts that help them follow my commands better. For example Go there and explode."

One of the green spirits flashed where Kali pointed, creating a very small explosion on the sand. From the area where they exploded, grass and other types of common flora sprouted.

The spirits blinked a few times, looking strangely between Kali and that spot. The nature spirit coughed. "I see."

Kali looked at them, confused. "What's wrong?"

Embera commented with a laugh. "It's just strange to see spirits exploding. While they can't even be considered the same species as us, for you, it would be similar to seeing a small kali-shaped, semi-conscious doll go to a place because someone ordered it to and then explode..." Kali was about to say that it wouldn't be much, but Embera added. " splattering the doll's small organs around."

Kali swallowed her words and apologized with twitching lips. "Sorry. I won't do it again."

No matter how much a cultivator was desensitized to seeing gore, that image would still be uncomfortable to look at.

After that small setback, they all walked toward the ocean and began entering into the water.

When their feet touched the water, and the waves slowly crashed on them, a pleasant sensation of feeling the sand moved by them caressed their skin.

The water quickly increased in depth as they walked forward along the path pointed at by the Ascending Ocean City. It used clever structuring to use plant life to limit the path's edges while also using oceanic rocks that wouldn't be swallowed into the sand with time.

It was an exotic and interesting path to walk through, with vivid green, purple, pink, and yellow colors usually found in oceanic materials.

Flame said honestly. "Hm I feel slightly anxious and constricted. Even when I spread my wings wide, I feel like I'm not stretching at all. It's a strange feeling. But it's getting better with time, and even now, I feel much better than when we just entered."

Yasenia kissed her again as a reward while she carried her in her arms. "Perfect. Great job, Flame."

Flame blushed up to her ears, making her red hair and skin seem almost indistinguishable, and she buried her face in Yasenia's neck. The feeling of discomfort almost disappeared when Yasenia took her in her arms, but she left that small detail for herself.

'Being in Aunty's arms is so nice~.'

On our girls' part, only Andrea was mildly uncomfortable. Still, it was a sensation that quickly disappeared.

A merman guard stopped them while they walked forward, about 500 meters into the ocean. They could see the ocean floor dipping down on a steep slope. It was the first significant plunge point since they entered the ocean.

Looking around, they could see a few tens of relatively high-level guards looking around, making sure that no one deviated from the path initially set up.

On the plunge point, our girls could see quite a lot of traffic in the form of wandering merchants. Instead of stalls or similar, they were water creatures that had signals written that read what they sold.

Once they arrived, a merman approached with armor and a large spear with sharp edges. With that shape, swinging it around in water wouldn't be much of a problem. Yasenia's eyes moved toward the merman's hands and saw a small layer of scales, which probably protected his hand from being cut to the duller edge on the gripping section.

"Halt. What business do you have for entering the Descending Ocean City?"

Yasenia blinked and realized. 'So, the inland part is called Ascending Ocean City, and the underwater part is called Descending Ocean City.' She nodded in her mind. 'Good name.'

Meanwhile, the girls had their lips twitching at the simple but effective naming. It reminded them of Tatyana's and Yasenia's naming sense. Andrea even recalled how Yasenia almost called Kaleina "Purplegold" because of the color of her scales. 'Scary, scary.'

Yasenia took the leadership of the group as usual and spoke. "We are tourists. We have never been in an underwater city, and because we came to participate in the summit, we decided to check before it started."

The guard was startled and looked at the group of 70 gorgeous beings gathered in front of him. Looking at the strange earth, light, and darkness male-shaped beings, he asked himself. 'Why are there only three males?'

The guard asked. "Please, tell me the name of your sect, group, or clan so that I can check if you are indeed one of the participants. We will also need the names of the leaders."

Yasenia commented. "Astral Sky Sect. I'm the leader, Yasenia Dravory."

Embera took a step forward and commented. "Embera from the [Spirit Cradle Group]."

The guard looked at the list and saw those two names almost at the top, showcasing that they were extremely important people. The Astral Sky clan was even marked as being a powerful ally and a group that couldn't be offended regardless of their actions. If something happened, the guards were to first look for a superior before taking any action.

His face changed, instantly changing his attitude, becoming extremely respectful. "I'm sorry, Lady Yasenia. I didn't intend to offend you when I stopped you."

Yasenia smiled. "Don't worry. You are just doing your job. If anybody were to become angry at that, they would be the unreasonable ones."

A shrill voice came from the side. "What did you say!? How dare you call me unreasonable!?"

Yasenia and the rest turned to the side, seeing a relatively large woman with crustacean characteristics, about four meters tall, swim at her with her own entourage of almost 200 people. Most of those looked like guards because of their uniform clothing.