The Great Green Owl Plantain rose behind Locke as he tried to fly upward, but no matter how hard he flew, he felt a massive pulling force dragging at his feet, preventing him from ascending.
Looking down, he discovered water plants tangled around his feet. Yet in the blink of an eye, those water plants turned out to be a woman's long hair.
From within that mass of hair crawled a woman with a pale, bloodless face and bluish skin. She crawled out of the hair and grabbed Locke's feet with both hands. "Stay, and I can return to the natural cycle."
"It's been over a hundred years. Stay and take my place."
"Stay!"
Locke frowned, but he still could not breathe. The moment he opened his mouth, he felt some viscous liquid about to flood into his lungs. Beneath him, there was also a water ghost tugging at his feet, wanting him to become her substitute for death.
Locke even considered using the Primordial Rune to obtain the ferocious beast panel and double his Magic Pressure to 7,000, strengthening his Mana to see whether he could escape this unknown region.
If he remained here any longer, he might really end up dying absurdly by drowning.
But just as Locke was about to open his Innate Magic Eye, he suddenly sensed another Crystallization Wizard's Magic Pressure appearing within this strange sea, which was filled with the Magic Pressure of the Specter Holy Church's Crystallization Wizards.
Locke stopped what he was doing. As his consciousness grew hazy from suffocation, that Crystallization Wizard poured a First Ring potion,
the Holy Spring Nectar Potion, into his mouth. Immediately afterward, Locke found that he could breathe smoothly again.
The female water ghost clutching him with both hands and her long hair let out an