Glug, glug, glug.
Glug, glug.
Victoria was a High-Rank Supernatural of the [Justice] Path, the Empire's Eldest Princess, and the master of the Saint Clair Grand Library, but she...
Could not swim.
Of course, she also had an identity behind the Veil. She had many more deeply hidden secrets and powers, such as her eerie, unpredictable spider form, and the Abode that was about to ascend.
But swimming was not among them.
Well, Victoria had imagined many ways in which the Second Era might be destroyed, but a great flood was the one she had never considered.
Now, she flailed her arms and legs desperately in the current. Her power could keep her from dying, but it could not keep her from swallowing water.
After swallowing so much water that her eyes rolled back, Victoria finally found an opening. Her long golden hair stuck to a nearby wall like spider silk.
The instant her body connected to the wall, her figure vanished like a phantom, then appeared on the ceiling a moment later.
Her feet rested on the ceiling as she hung upside down, headfirst.
Yet her golden hair did not fall, instead clinging to the ceiling as though gravity did not exist.
She took a deep breath, then opened her mouth...
And began throwing up water.
She had swallowed quite a lot just now...
Victoria suddenly realized that the human form still had its limits. Her body, strengthened during her advancement, possessed terrifying strength, but floating in water, all that strength could do was make bigger splashes.
Fortunately, she had finally climbed out.
After throwing up the water, Victoria rubbed her stomach and looked down in utter bewilderment. "What on earth happened? Why is the Abode flooded?"
"Wait, could this really be the Overflowing Garden? Rumor has it that