Chapter 6. Silent Siren Princess

"W-what was that?!?!" shouted Drag.

Ah, he must have asked that because he saw me using a magic gem. Well, I haven't told him about the magic gem yet.

"It's a magic gem. I made it by enchanting a skill into the gem. By saying the key word, I can activate a skill I've enchanted before without the need for MP, cooldown, cast time, or limits." I explained.

"Heeh...Wait...you didn't lose MP at all?! Also, no limit!?! That means you can use all your skills as long as you've enchanted them into gems regardless of MP or limit!?"

"Exactly~" I replied.

Although, I need a higher item to enchant upper tier skills.

"Doesn't that feel like a cheat...? You really are a cheater now."

"Compared to the Queen of Knight's Sword of Promised Victory, this is nothing."

Sword of Promised Victory. A skill obtained from a phantasm class weapon, Excalibur. The only phantasm class weapon that wasn't hidden. It is on display on a rock on the northwest side of East Anglia, along the border of Grantebridgescire, just above the Deod River.

It was a quest that gave away the sword for free. Whoever can pull the sword from the stone, then he will get the sword and its unique skills. I also tried doing it during the beta test, but the sword didn't budge at all. Even though I'm sure my STR was already very high that time.

I guess to complete the quest requires a player who meets certain conditions. I don't know what the conditions are, but I'm sure the Queen of Knights found that out during the beta and she can also finish them now.

I took a deep breath while thinking that.

"Alright, let's clear this dungeon. I'm already level ninety, so we just need to farm for a bit." I said.

"I'm counting on you." Reply Drag.

We then continued our exploration of the dungeon. We leveled up several times with experience from the battles here and from the Drag summon monsters he had spread outside the dungeon earlier.

In the end, by the time we were just outside the boss room, I had already reached level ninety-five while Drag had already reached level eighty-two. I could reach level one hundred after fighting the boss of this dungeon, while Drag would reach level ninety. We will be qualified to take part in the boss layer raid.

I touched the door to the boss room, ready to open the door.

"I'll open it." I said.

Drag nodded at my statement.

I pushed the door slowly and it slowly opened, revealing a dark room in the room. The two of us entered the room, but we couldn't see anything at all.

"..."

"I can't see anything." said Drag.

"Yes. Me too. I'll make a light." I said.

I stretched out my hand and whispered, "light". A kind of light emerged from my palm and became a light source for us to see.

It was only when the light appeared that I realized what had happened. Why didn't the boss of this dungeon, Sea Siren attack us and we couldn't find him.

"It's a trap!" I exclaimed.

But too late.

Just before I finished shouting, the door behind us closed itself and locked. Then several holes appeared in the walls and allowed water from outside to enter the room.

I don't remember having a trap like this before in the boss room, so it's probably a new mechanism created when the game officially releases.

"Solem, this..."

"Yeah. I didn't expect this to be a trap either. Nothing like this existed during the beta test." I confess.

There's no point in thinking about beta testing. What's more important now is how do we get out of here? In other games if a player is stuck in a situation like this then they just need to beat the boss to survive, but...

"Shit... I can't find the boss anywhere." I said.

I've searched all corners of the room, but I can't really find where the boss is.

I clicked my tongue.

When conquering a dungeon a player dies, then that player's experience will be reset to the level when the player just entered the dungeon. I don't want us to lose all our experience, so I have to think a way to get out of this situation.

"It can't be helped! We're out of here by force!" I said.

I took out some magic gems from the storage and immediately threw them in the air.

"Enchants!"

I activated the magic enchant skill I had enchanted into the twenty magic gems. From each magic gem appears a magic circle that I will use.

I took out a sword from storage and pointed it at the magic circle my magic gem created earlier.

"Lightning Sword!!"

I shouted the key word and then a thunderbolt shot out from the sword I was holding. The thunderbolt got into the magic circle then gets bigger as it passes through the magic circle. After that the lightning headed straight for the wall. As soon as it hits the wall, it explodes and water from outside rushes into the room.

"Swim through that hole! Hurry up!" I exclaimed.

The two of us then swam through the hole I made. Once we were outside, the view we got was an underwater view but somehow the water there looked darker.

Wait a minute... the dark ocean, the disappearing water attribute boss... I think I know what's going on!

We somehow received one of the high-ranking quests in the first layer, Tears of the Little Mermaid. I didn't have time to finish this quest because this quest only appeared when I was lazy to play after not getting the King class.

"To complete this quest if I'm not mistaken, we must defeat the Deep Sea Demon and release the Siren Princess!" I said via chat message.

"Where can we find them?!" Reply Drag.

I looked down, where light could not reach, the troughs and ravines of the ocean. I gave a hint to Drag, saying "down there" with a gesture of my hand.

Drag nodded. He seems to understand that we have to go down there.

I checked my status. There is an additional status that appears named AP there. It was a status that showed how long we could not breathe underwater. Seeing that it had dropped to eighty percent even though we'd only been in the water for a few minutes, it's safe to say we couldn't possibly last long for now.

Only about fifteen minutes huh, I thought.

I took out my sword. I had enchanted the sword with the Lightning Sword skill, just like the sword I previously used to destroy the dungeon walls.

"I will face the boss alone." I wrote in the chat with Drag.

Drag put on a surprised and confused face.

"If you come with me, all you have to do is get hit by my wide-ranging attacks. Electricity flows easily in the water, and damage increases when hit by lightning strikes underwater." I wrote.

"Doesn't that apply to you too?"

"Baal's gives me additional immunity against lightning elemental attacks. I can definitely withstand my own attacks."

"..."

"..."

We stared at each other for a few seconds, after which Drag started to rise to the surface of the water. Seeing that I also began to descend into the ocean trench.

It was a journey of about ten minutes, but I managed to find the monster that made this quest. The monster had tentacles over a kilometer long. the size of his head is even bigger than a house worth twenty billion rupiah.

"!!!"

As I was a few meters away from the tip of the tentacles, some of the tentacles started attacking me. I dodged the attack quickly by moving a few meters to the side. Several other tentacles started attacking me as well.

I wish I could use enchantments to increase my speed, but if I did that water would go down my throat and reduce the time I could be in the water. I intended to keep that until I was close enough to use Barq Sayf Alianqirad to finish him off with one hit.

For now, I will sharpen all my senses so I can dodge all the tentacles. Although it's really mentally exhausting, but I'm sure I can do it.

Six,

Ten,

Twenty,

Fifty,

I have dodged almost a hundred tentacle attacks from various directions. I feel like to throwing myself in a warm place to rest because my mind is so tired, but now I'm close enough to suddenly faint so I'll finish now!

I took out another sword from the storage bag and pointed it at the monster.

"Extinction!!!!"

I activated the skill I had installed on the sword with one keyword. The skill I enchanted on the sword is my strongest skill right now and has the longest cooldown, but since I put it on an item, I can use it without thinking about the limitations.

An extremely majestic lightning struck the entire ocean up to a radius of ten kilometers. The lightning would flow through the water and eventually hit the monster. I could see the monster's head which was just an open mouth as if screaming at my attack.

I looked at my status screen. My HP is decreasing steadily but in a good rate. Compared to the monster's reducing HP rate, the monster would lose before me.

"!!"

It was that moment when I realized the monsters in that place were not one but two. If one monster is a monster shaped like an octopus, this one that newly appeared is shaped like a jellyfish. That jellyfish didn't take much damage from my lightning strike!

"Damn it!" I thought.

The jellyfish measuring several tens of meters started to move towards me. I stretched out my hand, only to remember I can't cast skills.

"Tsk."

I swallowed my own saliva. I'm almost out of breath and instead a monster like this appears!? You're kidding right, developer?!

"Ugh!"

While trying to dodge, one of the jellyfish monster's tentacles hit me and threw me into one of the octopus monster's tentacles which had been charred by my lightning. That attack cost me twenty percent of my HP.

There is no choice, I thought.

I extended my hand towards the jellyfish monster, then...

"Quadruple Magic: Magic Burst!!!" I shouted.

I activated the tier A skill, Magic Burst four times at once using quadruple magic. A magic burst attack is an explosion, but not an explosion triggered by fire but rather by mana. The explosion will not be dissipated by the aquatic environment and will deal the same damage as when used outside the water environment. The explosion finally managed to consume all of the monster's HP.

'I... made it...' I thought, but when I looked at my status screen, the AP value was gone while my HP was dropping by a terrible rate. I can't return to the surface with this remaining HP of mine.

'Damn it, looks like I have to go back to level eighty again huh...' I thought.

When I had given up on returning to the surface, a light appeared from below, from under the body of the giant octopus that I had roasted. The light kept getting bigger and bigger and then seemed to be walking towards me.

The moment I realized it, I saw someone. I said someone because she has a body like a normal human but after I took a closer look, he has ears like fish fins. In addition, instead of a pair of legs, a fish tail is attached to the lower body.

She approached me, but I already has sinking states so that I couldn't dodge. When it was close, she touched me with her human hand and the hand suddenly gave off light. After that she immediately left the place quickly.

"?"

That's when I realized that the state of sinking has no longer applied to me. I looked at my status and was surprised myself.

"No AP?"

Yes. On my status screen, the AP that should be an indicator of the player being able to swim in the water is missing.

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Class Skills

Blessing of Siren Princess (Rank A)

Effects:

You don't need AP to breathe in the water.

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Uh? I don't need AP anymore to breathe underwater? It's the skill that gifted for finished this quest huh...

Good job, developers! Now I won't lose experience from suffocation!

After seeing the new skill, I closed the window in front of me and immediately swam up. I'm so happy because with this I've reached level one hundred! The preparations for the next boss raid layer are perfect!