CHAPTER 72: ELENA’S PLANS

"Elena, I don’t mean to insult your plans, but this idea seems like a piece of crap," I say while I’m in a small boat in the middle of the ocean the boat is so small that it can only fit me.

"Thalor, it’s gonna work, trust me," Elena says through the communicator, after her Majesty discovered the kingdom’s attack plan to a certain extent and passed the information to Elena, plans have already started to be made as preparations.

But of all the ideas, this current one seems horrible putting me in the middle of the ocean in a small boat that looks like it’s going to capsize with just the wind is ridiculous.

Especially knowing that this will provoke the Goddess of Sirens, this is a terrible idea to have a chance to talk to her, nothing guarantees that I’ll get out of here alive.

The Goddess of Sirens can feel everything that moves in the ocean, you could say she has almost omniscience about everything in the ocean, when something touches the ocean she doesn’t know exactly what it was or what it’s doing.

But she knows exactly where it is and also knows the strength of what entered the ocean, so entering or leaving the ocean without her knowing is impossible, especially entering the ocean with this little boat.

She must be furious with me, this is practically an insult, as if I was affirming that she won’t do anything when I’m here.

’The water is strange...’

"Elena, I think I have company...and not a very pleasant one," I look at the dark ocean, trying to see something in it, even in this part where the ocean should be visible, you can’t see.

The oceans are incredibly dark even near the surface, only with abilities or being a mermaid can you see what’s underneath the ocean, or in the special case of the goddess herself allowing you to see the ocean.

Suddenly a giant pupil opens, looking directly upward, a giant eye with a yellow sclera and a red iris, the eye contracts, becoming small like a pupil, as if focused directly on me.

"!!!" I quickly take flight, leaving this boat and gaining altitude.

"ELENA, LOOK AT THE SHIT YOU’VE GOTTEN ME INTO!" I yell into the communicator while trying to escape, I know very well what this is, soon a strong suction starts to hit me even though I’m high up and starts pulling me down.

The boat is already gone, devoured.

"Submarine Devourer...sorry Thalor, I didn’t think this would be what would show up." This thing is ridiculously strong, normally it devours everything on the surface of the sea with a powerful suction.

The point where the suction started now has a whirlpool, I fly with all my might, if I get caught by this it’s guaranteed death, this thing is one of the 6 divine beasts, I have no way of winning against this.

"Elena, if I die here, I’ll come back to haunt you, this wasn’t in the plans, you never said I’d be fighting this." It’s super hard to stay in the air, and little by little I’m being pulled in.

The sound is horrible to hear, like the death bells warning that my time has come, honestly it seems like a terrible end.

"Elena, I told you that idea was bad, look at the mess you’ve gotten us into, the goddess is angry." If this thing is here, it’s because the Goddess of Sirens sent it to come.

Teleportation is also useless, it’s ridiculous, but this thing can suck in even non-physical things, I can only use teleportation through magic, so if I make the magic circle, this thing will literally suck up the circle.

I start firing various types of magic through abilities, maybe something will manage to hurt this thing. I can already see the teeth of this thing circling the entire area around, they’re like thousands of giant fins rotating in circles.

There are several of these circles that keep getting smaller until they reach the center of the suction, these are rows of teeth that keep rotating, just with this you can see how big this thing is, just its mouth covers an area of kilometers.

"Elena, tell Calypso to come help me, I’m going to die here, I need help." I’m getting closer and closer to falling, at this rate I only have a few more minutes.

Soon Calypso appears with teleportation.

"Thalor, I’m going to try to use magic to communicate with the goddess, you know that the success of this negotiation is important, we can’t let this be a failure."

"Soul Magic [Resonance] Sound Magic [Sonic Travel] Sound Magic [Amplifier]" Calypso starts using magic.

Soon a thunderous hissing sound occurs, my ears even bleed from the sound, the decibels of this are absurd.

"Goddess of Sirens, please stop for a moment, we only want to talk." With this set of magic, she can make the sound reach the goddess who is at the deepest point of the ocean.

I just hope this works.

"We want to negotiate with you, his Majesty the Demon King will come in person if you so desire..." Suddenly the suction becomes even more powerful.

"Calypso...DON’T MAKE THE SITUATION WORSE." Now we’re descending faster and faster, the suction power of this thing is absurd.

"!!!"

"PLEASE, LET’S TALK, IT’S IMPORTANT." Calypso tries to continue the conversation.

If we run now, it will be very difficult for the goddess to even consider the idea of giving us an audience in the future, but this situation is horrible.

"Thalor, what do I say? I don’t know, there’s almost nothing about what she likes, and all we know is that she’s a complete tyrant, how does that help?"

"I guess it helps to know that she’ll definitely kill us for having entered the ocean," I say sarcastically about this situation, it’s obvious that that damned tyrant doesn’t care about us.

"Elena, is this really necessary? Do you think that tyrant will accept an agreement with humans?" I say through the communicator, as someone who has been in many wars, staying calm under pressure is common.

But to be honest, I’m afraid of dying to this thing, I’ve heard that even my soul will be devoured, demons don’t fear death because when we die we go straight to a special area of the Abyss.

But if our souls are destroyed, then that’s a problem.

"Yes, we need this agreement, humans are persistent, I’m sure they can somehow get her to cooperate."

"Also, remember the mermaids, they’re a problem too." Mermaids are a race composed entirely of women.

The reason for this? We don’t know, but to reproduce, the mermaids kidnap men of any race who dare to touch the oceans or enter rivers that connect to the ocean.

They have children with these kidnapped men, before they drown, it’s quite intense since they will rape him until he’s dead, strangely even though they have children with various races, hybrids are never born.

And kidnapping mermaids is horrible, if you kidnap a mermaid and she dies, something like a "mark" spreads through the area, causing everyone nearby to be cursed.

The curse makes the target an enemy of the sea, meaning that any marine creature will see you as an enemy and attack you, even the peaceful ones, so even entering a river can become dangerous if you have that curse.

So if you kidnap a mermaid, you’ll have to make sure she doesn’t die, if you’re going to kill a mermaid, it has to be in the ocean. Mermaids also can’t leave the ocean, if they leave without the goddess’s permission, they’ll be banished forever.

So at most, a mermaid can stay a few minutes outside the water without permission, these minutes are usually to kidnap men.

Mermaids who leave without permission are marked as traitors and become enemies of other mermaids, since the goddess feels everything that enters or leaves the ocean, for the mermaids it’s impossible to leave without asking the goddess.

And considering these things, some nobles in the past gave mermaids to their enemies to make them enemies of the ocean.

"Elena, how does knowing this help?...the council...Calypso, stop talking to the goddess, try talking to the council members." The goddess lives very deep down, the ocean pressure would kill almost all mermaids.

So the only way for mermaids to communicate with their goddess is through a council formed by mermaids who can reach the goddess.

Normally, the regular mermaids ask things for the council members, and then the council members inform the goddess to see if there is permission or not.

"Okay..."

"Please, listen to me, we did not come here to fight or insult you, his Majesty the Demon King wants to have a peaceful relationship with you, please allow an audience with your goddess." Calypso says.

"We do not plan to cause any problems, and it is just a conversation involving both races."

"There, Thalor, now we have to wait."

"It’s hard to wait, you see that I only have a few more meters to die, right?" Calypso can’t teleport others with her teleportation ability, and if she makes magic circles, the Devourer will suck them up.

So if this doesn’t work, it will be the end of me.

"Calypso, if I die...please hit Elena for me, she said it was safe." What a great strategist we have.

"Sorry Thalor, I was out of my predictions that the Goddess would use the Submarine Devourer," she says through the communicator.

After a few moments, I speak to Calypso.

"Looks like this is my end, you can go, Calypso." I’m 3 meters away from the mouth of this thing.

"2 Meters....1 Meter..." It stopped completely, the first thing that happens is that I’m thrown upwards by the speed of the flight I had, soon I breathe a sigh of relief.

"It worked..." I thought I was going to die, until now the only one who has encountered the Submarine Devourer and survived is Lilith Nix Kaos, besides her, no one has survived such an encounter.

"Looks like they accepted..." Calypso says, soon we see the mouth of the Submarine Devourer descend down, it’s going away.

"We have to wait here, they’ll probably come talk to us."

Elena soon says through the communicator.

"Now the easy part is over, now comes the real challenge" convincing that tyrant to help us, she’s much scarier than this divine beast, it really makes my near-death experience seem like the easy part.