"Uh..."
Kroya truly hadn't expected these strange fungi to have come from here.
On the seabed, roughly five hundred meters from the Air Coral, lay a faint patch of green, with some unusual power holding up a small protective barrier.
The barrier was about five or six meters across.
Inside it grew grasslike fungi, densely packed into an unbroken carpet.
They gave off a faint glow even on the seabed. The barrier provided a safe environment for them to grow in, and they were clearly thriving.
Finding something like this on the seabed was, of course, incredible.
Honestly, Kroya's first thought upon seeing it was... Could there be some ruins hidden here?
But when he stepped inside and carefully sensed his surroundings, he discovered... a trace of divine power in the middle of this little patch of green that had yet to dissipate completely-the divine power of the Earth Mother Goddess.
It must have awakened these fungi, which had lain dormant on the seabed for who knew how long, and even used its own power to shield them from the seawater.
There was only the tiniest amount, probably no more than a single teardrop, yet it had held out here for so long.
But this was as far as it could go. Its power belonged to the earth, and it faced countless restrictions in the ocean, on top of having awakened these long-dormant magical fungi.
By the time Kroya found it, its power was on the verge of dissipating completely. This patch of green would soon be crushed by the ocean's power and disappear.
"So this is fate? Something I casually tossed away happened to awaken the mycelium on the seabed..."
He shook his head, gathered all the strange fungi into a shell, then turned and returned to the bubble