Chapter 136: Nightmare Sea (4)

[Apprentice Elior sends you a Party Invitation. Y | N?]

Inari affirmed with the prompt as another message greeted their sight.

[You have formed a party with Apprentice Elior.

Party member: Elior, Planet Earth, Level 49.

Inari, Mother World, First order (High).

Features: Mapping, Karmic link, Chat window (Sealed).]

Soon a connection passed between them as they got a general sense of each other's presence, even though both of them were staring at each other.

"Not all options available, but it's more than enough for now," Elior said and dived into the water again.

Inari still could feel his presence through the link as she balanced herself. She had the first look at what she had to protect herself from, and she could tell it would be tough. She would need everything out of her for that.

[Your party member Elior has killed a Barbiola Sea monster LVL 42.]

[You have gained 45 karma points through the karmic link.]

[Your party member Elior has killed a Barbiola Sea monster LVL 47.]

[You have gained 67 karma points through the karmic link.]

[Your party member Elior has killed a Fithar Sea monster LVL 72.]

[You have gained 112 karma points through the karmic link.]

[Your party member Elior has killed a Nigd Sea monster LVL 32.]

[Your party member Elior has killed a Gakth, Sea monster LVL 57.]

[Your party . . .]

[ . . .]

Notifications after notifications came as Elior killed efficiently. Inari had no idea how Elior was killing these monsters so easily with only being at level 49, his and her level should be similar, and she would never be able to do that even with her blessing and every other advantage she got being a Devarian.

Devarians do not level up like humans or some other races. To the elder of her clan, this is just a loathsome system where it makes it easier for lowly humans who do not understand how mana and the universe works. Devarians only have the order system like the humans, and it was the same as any other race.

Unlike Humans, Devarian does not do job advancement on advancing each order. That seems like a big disadvantage, but in truth, it was not without any perks, like humans they do not have to break the restriction of every order to advance. Advancement of order comes naturally to them like breathing.

You train, learn mana applications, you advance. Simple. While humans had to do some rituals with rare expensive ingredients, before meeting that class's specs. 

Inari could feel her next advancement was not far away, but with those injuries, she would need to have a little time before she could think about it.

Messages of Elior killing sea monsters came one after another. It was as if he was not leaving anything for her, which she had no problem with. Another thing she noticed was the names of those monsters, it seemed there were a lot of variants and all of them were named something weird.

Inari might not be the best of the studious type, but with the perk of being the sister of Ellora, she had to learn a lot of stuff and heard a lot of stuff, but she had no clue about these monsters.

'Well, the devarians had a little hand on the trial system, there is that,' she thought. 'Why does Elior seem to know more about it, though? Isn't the whole point of the trial that it's a surprise? Then the fairy joined our conversation in the middle. Does the fairy do that?'

These fairies were the creatures of divinity, created by the seven gods to act as an arbiter on many occasions. As far as she knows, their behaviour was erratic; some of them were playful, while they were heavily instructed to not be impartial to any of the partial.

'Could these two be cheating?' she wondered. No monster came, and the spells were doing its job, though she still had to use the orb to protect herself and the boat from sinking. 'There was something about a wager they were talking about.'

Inari shook her head amidst. This was not the time to have these thoughts. Through the link she felt the presence of her party member. Elior was not that far into the water about twenty metres deep. As for the monster, she felt nothing. The link only let her feel the presence of her party members, nothing else.

. . .

On the same sea, but not on the same water, a steamer boat surged through the storm, as if denying its mere presence. High waves rose but soon as they came closer to even five-metre radius of the boat all fell dramatically.

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A lone figure was hovering above the boat, eyes vigilant, watching the waves approaching, trying its best to collapse the boat, though it would be unlikely to be the case with his presence.

"Wow," Ileana mumbled, impressed. "He doesn't look this powerful."

"Mopher has some serious power-up since last time," Scarlett said, watching the Youth in the murky strangling storm. "Though flaunting his strength is the last of the things he likes to do."

"So he's your exact opposite?" Ileana asked.

Scarlett looked away from Mopher from Ileana with a startlement. She did not say anything as her mind was working on something. "Stupid, stupid, stupid," she said in frustration. "How can I be so stupid?!"

Ileana looked at the youth hovering in mid-air, making things easy for her, as the lightning flashed around. "I am sure I don't know a lot of things, but it looks like he was assigned as your knight for certain reasons."

Scarlett was smart enough to understand what Ileana was implying. "And here I thought they were angry at me for choosing one of the weakest candidates," she said, sighing. There were mainly two reasons why Scarlett chose Mopher over other knights, even though they appear far better on the outside. Other than the fact that she knew Mopher since her childhood, she just wanted to piss off her parents for restraining her in the magnificent palace.

"Weakest?" Ileana asked, eyes glued to the figure disrupting the waves. "I don't know the definition of what is strong, but he does not seem weak to me."

"Because he's not," Scarlett said, still seemingly in a bad mood for what happened years ago. "He used to whine a lot before, but he was never weak, and after he was handed responsibilities such as this, he had put humongous extra effort."

"So, why are you with that face?"

"I just hate being manipulated," Scarlett said in frustration, showing through her nostrils and eyes. "I thought I chose him on my own will—"

"Just to figure out, he was prepared for you all along." Ileana completed her sentence.

"When I get back, I will have a nice little chat with grandfather," Scarlett shouted, unseemingly like any princess. Then her eyes lit up as she found a new challenge.

Mopher came down on the ship to take a breather to find Scarlett with a conflicted expression. "Something wrong, your highness?" he asked, looking at the two of them.

"I just realized I have been played," Scarlett sneered, not at Mopher but at the space. "Don't worry though, I found a very my original way to outplay it."

"I'm not sure if I follow what you're saying, but good luck," Mopher said that and flew in the air again.

. . . 

Inari felt Elior swimming up. The lower world human popped his head out of the water, black hair pressed against his forehead, eyes still vigilant looking at her. The vigilance dropped as he approached the boat, breathing mechanically as if it was drilled in his body though through practice. 

"You are faring well," he said first.

Inari snorted. "You didn't let out a single monster. Of course, I would be fine."

"You seem the type to be like to be fine doing nothing."

"Curious," she said, "What type do you think I am?"

"The type who would dive into the water to do something productive," Elior answered with his usual smile.

"Huh, so am I like a looking glass, eh?" she snorted again. "Yet I did not jump into the water."

A monster lurched out of the water at the very moment, coming to take a bite of Elior's head. 

Inari became alert, but before she could even move, a sharp force forced out from a swipe of palm, severing the monster's head effortlessly. 

[Your party member Elior has killed a Kaht Sea monster LVL 47.]

[You have gained 44 karma points through the karmic link.]

"No worry, princess," Elior said with a smile. "Until I'm here."

The colour from Inari's face faded, and she looked at Elior with a serious expression. "Don't call me that," she said, finger digging into her palm.

Elior looked at her eyes through the mask with a conflicted expression. "Yes," he said, "Sorry."

"Thank you," Inari said and saw Elior getting back to his hunt again, seeming apologetic of that.

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