The next morning, the Merman King organized the group as he promised.
The thing was that he even included himself in the group.
"I canât just let you die, can I? Not only are you the leader of the racial alliance, youâre also my son in law. I canât just let my grandchild lose their father." The Merman King said with a snort when asked about this.
I revealed an awkward smile before saying, "Iâm not the leader of the racial alliance."
This was the only thing that I could refute with what he said.
But when I did, the Merman King narrowed his eyes to look at me before saying, "You can say that all you want, but you know that this is the truth. If it werenât for you, the racial alliance wouldnât have existed in the first place."
Then in a more serious voice, he added, "You should take your position in the racial alliance more seriously. If it wasnât for you linking the different races, then the racial alliance never would have happened."
I gave a slow nod in response without saying anything.
The Merman King didnât say anything else since he had already said what he needed to say.
With this group guiding me, it didnât take me long to arrive at the border of that area that was surrounded in whirlpools.
Just a single glance was enough to tell how powerful these whirlpools were, but that wasnât all that I felt when I came closer. With that skin tight air bubble around me, I was able to feel the flow of the water.
I could tell that there was a strong flow in the water that was running past me.
This thing was clearly the flow that came from the whirlpool.
But even before that, there was something else that I felt from the whirlpools.
No one else seemed to sense it, but it wasnât as if they had the same sharp senses for this kind of thing like me.
The moment that we approached, I could already sense the faint traces of divine energy inside of these whirlpools.
It was so faint that I might have thought that I made a mistake if I didnât know what I was doing.
But it was hard for me to mistake this when I felt this divine energy.
It was clear that these whirlpools had been formed with divine energy.
Since they were formed with divine energy, that meant that my guesses had been correct and I moved forward.
The others seemed like they wanted to follow me, but I raised my hand to stop them.
Though it was only because the Merman King gave a nod that they listened to me.
It wasnât that they wanted to protect me, it was that they didnât want me to make things worse by provoking those whirlpools.
When I came closer, I didnât go all the way to where the whirlpools were and stopped right before reaching them.
Then when I was floating there, I raised the hand with the Mark of God on it.
The moment that I did, there was a glow that came from this hand as the Mark of God revealed itself.
Once the Mark of God appeared, it seemed like there was a reaction that came from the whirlpools that were in front of me. As soon as the Mark of God appeared, there was this resonance where the whirlpools seemed to slow down.
Then all of a sudden, they disappeared without a trace.
It wasnât a gradual slowdown before the whirlpools disappeared.
They just suddenly disappeared without a single trace.
If it wasnât for the fact that I had been staring at them before this, I wouldnât have believed that the whirlpools had been there either.
This was just too sudden of a change...
"Whatâs happening?" The Merman King asked after swimming over to where I was.
He had started moving as soon as the whirlpools started to fade and he came over right when the whirlpools disappeared.
I didnât get a chance to answer since there were things that suddenly came out of the ground.
It was hard to identify what these things were at first since they were too big to see and moving too fast to see properly, but it didnât take long for them to suddenly stop.
Once they stopped, it was easy to tell what they were.
Tentacles.
These were tentacles that had suddenly come out of the ground.
With the way that they came out of the ground, they completely surrounded both me and the Merman King.
The Merman King looked like he wanted to act, but I raised my hand to stop him.
It was just that I couldnât stop the royal guards that were charging over.
This couldnât be blamed on them since from their perspective, it really seemed like we were being attacked by these tentacles that came out of the ground. After all, we were completely surrounded by these tentacles that appeared.
Before the royal guards could do anything, I grabbed the Merman King and started floating in their direction. The problem was that I couldnât move fast since I was just a human that was floating there with the help of an air bubble suit.
It was a good thing that the Merman King came back to his senses before they clashed and started swimming with me.
In the end, we came in between the royal guards and the tentacles that seemed to be reacting to the hostility of the royal guards.
With the two of us standing in between them, it seemed that the royal guards and the tentacles couldnât actually do anything.
The tentacles didnât move since they sensed my presence.
The royal guards didnât move since they saw that the Merman King was with me.
Raising my hands to stop them, I said, "Letâs all take a step back and talk about this. Thereâs been a misunderstanding between the two sides, so thereâs no need to fight."