Black Whale Coral Reef! (N Years Later)

"Kevin, slow down." Beneath the azure sea, amid a patch of colorful coral, a beautiful mermaid wearing the Ocean Diadem called out anxiously from beneath the Golden Wreckage under the coral. "Kevin, where are you? Come out, now! I'm getting angry! Mom said we weren't allowed to go into the God Burial Ruins!"

"Haha! Sis, you were fooled. There's actually no danger here at all! I heard the grown-ups say they found lots of Sage Soul Artifacts here back then!" As sunlight from the surface shifted with the rolling waves, Kelly the mermaid stared at the deep, dark hole beneath the beautiful Coral Mountain, gripped by an inexplicable sense of dread.

If one pulled back for a wider view, one would discover that beneath this tranquil stretch of sea lay nothing but soft, fine sand. Yet on this flat seabed, a gigantic coral reef over a hundred meters tall rose up abruptly.

"Seriously! I'm getting angry! Get out here already!" Kelly stared at the hollow beneath the coral reef, piled over with sand and gravel, her lovely brows arching slightly.

A tremendous secret was buried beneath this coral reef, and Kelly had no desire to learn anything about it. Neither side involved was someone the Mermaid Kingdom could afford to provoke.

"Come on, Sis, come take a look. Last time I came exploring with my friends, I told them I'd found a treasure, but none of them believed me. Sis, come down already." A small head, wearing a crown similar to Kelly's, popped out of the pitch-black opening. But just as Kelly stirred the water to grab him, the little fellow feinted and instantly pulled his fishy head back inside. (Kevin: What if I were a sea turtle right now?)

Generally speaking, few people explored this coral reef. But the