Beyond the borders
"WE CAN'T DIVE!" he pointed towards the shell that was tied down by different colored chains of light that had appeared out of nowhere.
Or at least they looked like chains of light from afar but were actually the physical manifestations of various laws and the closer one looked the more different they would appear.
Even at first glance there were more than three hundred of them and that number was slowly increasing. They were not attached to anything physical but just empty points in space all around it.
The water splashed loudly as the seashell tried to break free of their grasp but either only a law could contend with a law or enough brute force to level mountains with a touch.
Hao Xuan calmly gestured for the merman to come over and muttered, "Take her inside. Be ready to leave when its time. Don't stop for even a moment."
With a vigorous nod, he took Princess Ceni from Hao Xuan even though she was trying her best to hold onto him with her frail hands.