Chapter 1135: A Drastic Change


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    "The Swirling Sea is huge. It’s perfectly normal that it has some strange geographical features," Thunder said after a moment of silence. "I’ve seen weathered rocky mountains in the Kingdom of Wolfheart. They’re pretty simr to those stone pirs although they’re not that long."


    "But unlike thend, there’s no wind underwater..." Cami left her words unsaid.


    "Wind?" Joan’s voice suddenly popped up in Cami’s head. "There’s wind here."


    "What did you say?" Cami asked quickly.


    "Um, didn’t I make that clear?" Thunder replied with a cough. "Then I’ll repeat... Back in the Kingdom of Wolfheart, I saw — "


    "Not you. I was asking Joan!" Cami snapped. She knew she was being rude, but she had no choice and had to interrupt Thunder. "Joan just said something... There’s wind at the bottom of the sea!"


    The spectators on the deck were all mildly taken aback.


    "I can’t feel it, but I can hear it... Listen, did you hear that?"


    Cami immediately concentrated. She knew as the channeling witch, she could hear whatever Joan heard. Instantly, she heard wind howl down the water just as air whistled out from a crack.


    "I’ll dive further," Joan said. "But I have to change my position."


    With these words, she untied her dress and her legs made contact with the water. Blue scales started to emerge from her ankles and crept up her legs. She now had a mermaid tail.


    Suddenly, Cami felt all the pressure weighing upon her vanish. She marveled at how far and fast the tail propelled her through water. She swam even faster than a fish.


    This was what Joan really looked like!


    Joan dived even faster.


    "200 meters deep, and the wind seems to be louder... Still nothing has changed undersea."


    "400 meters. It’spletely dark. Luckily, Joan doesn’t need light to see things. The stone pirs... are still deeper down there, and there are now new pirs."


    "Could you stretch the rope a little farther?"


    "Damn it, how deep is the water now? 600 or 800? Joan isn’t sure. However, the stone pirs — " Cami broke off. "No, that’s... impossible..."


    "What’s the matter?" Thunder asked.


    Cami felt an ineffable chill run down her spine. "The pirs, the pirs... disappeared!"


    "Disappeared? As in it vanished?" Thunder pursued, his brows furrowed as he turned around to look at the sea. The reefs were still there.


    Cami held her own trembling hands and said, "There’s no seabed... nothing... They’re suspended in the water!"


    Everybody gasped.


    Through Joan’s eyes, Cami only saw the upper part of those stone pirs floating in the water. Their lower parts lookedpletely chopped off by some invisible force. Large reefs were simply suspended in the middle of the ocean in a creepy sort of way.


    This was beyond the scope of her understanding.


    "Suspended? Are you saying these inds are floating on the water?"


    "By the name of the Three Gods, they’re all solid rock!"


    "Woman, are you sure about what you see?"


    "That’s impossible. Even if they’re floating, they can’t remain in the same position all the time. Without an anchor, the water currents would flush the Shadow Inds toward the Fjords!"


    The deck exploded with discussion.


    "Silence!" Thunder hollered at the crowd and they immediately became quiet. "Are all the reefs floating like that?"


    "I don’t know... They’re in different lengths," Cami mumbled. "We haven’t reached the very bottom of those pirs yet."


    Meanwhile, Joan slowed down.


    Even as a mermaid, Joan had a limit.


    Just then, Cami noticed a weird phenomenon.


    Some pirs near Joan seemed to be stretched.


    Those pirs were like tree trunks as they went straight down to the bottom of the ocean. Their ends were out of sight due to the darkness, and it was hard for Cami to tell how long they actually were. What caught her attention was the patterns on the pirs and some barnacles attached to them. The pirs started to elongate at some point in the middle, whereas the barnacles, which supposed to be in a round shape, turned oval. They looked particrly strangepared to the normal pirs and barnacles a few meters away.


    "Do you want to take a closer look?" asked Joan, who sensed Cami’s bewilderment. "They do look weird."


    "OK," Cami said while clearing her throat. "Be careful."


    Joan started to slowly draw close to a pir and stretched out her hand to touch the strange barnacles. Suddenly, something horrible happened.


    Cami saw Joan’s scaly fingers elongate.


    "What’s going on?" Joan stretched out her hands in confusion. "Is this an illusion?"


    Cami suddenly had a sense of foreboding.


    Just when Cami was about to inform Thunder, Joan stopped moving and stared at a fish that streaked past her nose.


    It was just a silvery eel that was about an arm’s length long. However, when it passed the mermaid girl, it instantly stretched to around five meters and turned into something like a "sea snake" that instantly plummeted to the bottom of the sea. Within a few seconds, the silvery eel was stretched to its maximum and its tail was still in Joan’s sight, but its head was already lost in the darkness. By that point, the eel was more than 100 meters in length! Within a blink of an eye, it disappeared in the sea with a sh of silver. It was as if it was sucked into something!


    All the little hairs on the back of Cami’s neck stood up!


    She yelled, "Get out of there! The exploration is over. Come back!"


    But it was toote.


    Joan struggled and her upper body still in the same position, but her tail was being horribly stretched to more than ten meters. It was as if something was dragging her down.


    With panic creeping into her voice, Joan asked, "What... what should I do? Cami, what should I do?"


    "Move faster... don’t stop. Kick harder! You can do it!" Cami shouted hysterically.


    However, Joan was sinking even faster. No matter how hard Joan moved her tail, she was sinking rapidly as though she was being sucked into a swamp. Now not only her tail was effected but her torso and hands started to elongate.


    Upon realizing what was happening, Joan stretched out her hands in despair and cried, "Help me..."


    "No!"


    Before Cami could finish, she passed out.


    Cami opened her eyes. Sweat started to drip from the tip of her nose and fell onto the back of her hand as she braced herself on the floor. Only then did she notice that she was covered with a fine sheen of cold sweat.


    "What happened? Is Joan in danger?" Thunder asked as he helped her to her feet.


    It took Cami a long time toe out of her trance. She muttered nkly, "I don’t know. The channeling... was disrupted."