Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1212

Chapter 1212 - Under the Sea (Part 2)

"How is holding hands supposed to help us breathe underwater?" Lith had considered several options to solve that problem, but had been forced to discard them after careful thinking.

Creating an air bubble around their heads would be idiotic. The mana required to hold it together under high pressure and high-speed conditions would be enormous and the bubble wouldn’t last long.

Store air inside a dimensional item would have been dumb as well. Taking out the air and bringing it to the nose or mouth required fine tuning. With such a method, every time they had to take a breath they would also need to stop, making it a hassle.

Shapeshifting would give them gills, but they wouldn’t work. Lith had no idea how to extract oxygen from water and then move it to his lungs without giving himself an embolus.

On top of that, his body had never learned how to breathe from gills so he would just die the moment he instinctively used his nose by mistake.

"It’s easier if you see it with Invigoration while we move." Rem offered Lith her hand who promptly took it.

The merfolk shivered at the contact and the sides of her mouth curled up in an expression of pure disgust for a split second.

Mal, a short but fit merfolk with purple hair would take care of Phloria while Khalia, a female merfolk with emerald green hair and eyes of Tista.

The three pairs dived inside one of the water pools near the Mayor’s office, but they didn’t move for a while. The merfolk wanted to make their human guests get accustomed to both moving and breathing underwater.

Awakened were capable of holding their breath for a long time, but the merfolk couldn’t afford them to panic the moment they needed air. Trust was the first step of their journey.

Lith never stopped breathing, discovering that somehow, the physical contact allowed Rem to share the oxygen that her gills filtered from the water. It wasn’t an innate skill but a spell that channeled a stream of minuscule air bubbles.

The bubbles moved along their skin, filling Lith’s nostrils with every breath Rem took.

"I’ll do my best to match your breathing rhythm, but you need to give me a hand and stay calm. If your respiration gets messy, I’ll bring you to the surface as fast as I can." Rem’s voice came from her skin as well.

The words reverberated through her whole body as if it was a sounding board and physical contact allowed the vibrations to reach Lith’s ears. He tried to reply, but he only emitted a gurgle.

"Yes, this is how merfolk communicate between them and no, you can’t do it." Rem said with a chuckle.

Once everyone became able to breathe naturally, they started moving. Slowly at first because they needed to get out of the network of tunnels and faster once they reached open waters.

Moving at high speed required using magic to "kick" the water behind them while creating a stream in front of them to keep their eyes from being squashed by pressure, sand particles, or a random fish.

The deeper they got, the less light there was, making it almost impossible for them to see. Both Fire and Life Vision were pointless. The cold water surrounding them was much thicker than air and made everything look the same.

’F.u.c.k me sideways, this is nothing like it was depicted in the movies back on Earth. Most of my spells either don’t work or work differently from the surface. Life underwater needs not only you to completely rethink magic, but it also makes human senses unreliable.’ Lith thought.