Air Coral Base.
The last time he had come here had been five years ago.
With the Tower Spirit and Wood Luminary Curved Vine transmitting real-time images from every location, he had never actually come here to inspect it in person.
And now that he was here...
He silently raised his head to look at the enormous bubble-it held back millions of tons of seawater. It looked flimsy, yet its toughness defied imagination.
Kroya suddenly spoke:
"You're alive, aren't you?"
"You managed to evade all those surveillance devices. But I created you with my own hands. You can't hide from me."
His clear voice echoed across the undeveloped seabed around him, as though he were the only person in this vast underwater expanse.
-Indeed, there was only one person.
The other... was a sprite.
An Air Coral in the distance trembled slightly. A tiny ball of light, scarcely the size of a little finger, drifted out of it and floated lightly over to Kroya.
Despite its tiny size, the magic power within the ball of light was staggering. It was almost like facing a boundless ocean.
Kroya held out a finger, and the little sprite immediately settled on it, flickering with light.
It had no physical body to speak of, only a constantly flickering sphere of pale blue radiance, with what vaguely resembled human features inside.
Honestly, seeing it at night would have been a little unnerving.
"Dear Father," the sprite said, "I wasn't deliberately hiding from you. It's just that all your subordinates are useless. They never discovered me."
"..."
Kroya blinked, once again marveling at the godlike translation of the All Things Communication Spell. It could even translate "all useless."
Of course, he certainly wasn't going to admit that all the surveillance Magic Arrays he had set up