Linsey: Wala Wala, there really is danger ahead.
Linsey: The piranha I sent over just now was burned to ashes the instant it crossed the scouting boundary.
Wala Wala: Fire in the Water!
Wala Wala: Looking at it another way—we've been pretty lucky. We found the core of the Sea of Wandering so quickly and easily.
Linsey: If that Awakened from the Abyss School had spotted us up there, who knows whether we'd have made it here alive.
The two communicated through the Friend Channel as they felt their way through the pitch-black seawater and continued descending.
After the enemy's scouting just now,
they had shut off all their glowing equipment and relied entirely on an Awakened's Scouting Skill to move.
They stopped upon reaching the boundary where the piranha had vanished.
Wala Wala: Linsey, we need to think of a safe way.
Wala Wala: If this fire could instantly burn your piranha to death, then it won't turn out any differently if we go in.
Clang—
At that moment, a bell suddenly rang.
The immense sound carried malicious laws, filling the seabed saturated with the power of deathly silence and erupting into an even stronger malice!
Linsey and Wala Wala tensed.
They both realized that this dull, thunderous sound was the power of an Abyss Awakened!
Though they had just evaded the search through stealth,
an Eighth Stage powerhouse was simply this unreasonable.
He had still sensed something in the sea and was now spreading his technique to search for their traces.
It was only because this place lay close to the root
that Linsey and Wala Wala's powers had been muddled by the origin of Source Material, preventing the other party from discovering them immediately.
Linsey: ...
Magma Crest/Material: Magma Crest
After equipping it, increases the user's resistance