On careful look, each wizard on the fish had a scale on his or her exposed skin with unique shape and color.
“Song of the Deep,” Flora muttered.
The tattoo scales were the symbols of wizards from Song of the Deep.
Song of the Deep was one of the commonly agreed top ten wizard organizations in the south. Its headquarter was located at the bottom of the Endless Sea. They controlled a number of underwater cities. Most wizards from this organization possessed talents related to water. Also, their personalities were like water too. Not gentle water, but furious torrents.
“Now that’s trouble,” Sunders shook his head.
Song of the Deep came earlier than he expected. The second stage of plane fusion had not started yet. Seemed like they had really good sources to receive information. Still, the sea was like the back of their hands, so no one was surprised by their fast arrival.
“The first stage ended? Looks like I won’t get my share of the fragments,” The leader of the group muttered to himself. He was a handsome young man with long, silver hair.
“‘Sorcerer of Big Fish’ Sliv,” Flora said his name in a low voice.
He had a young appearance, but his actual age was greater than Sunders. Sunders never actually tried to remove the traces of age from his face, so his middle-age image was the natural result after living for centuries. Sliv, on the other hand, constantly spent his mana to maintain his good looks.
“Stay away from that man. He’s dangerous enough. He does anything without thinking about consequences,” Sunders whispers to Flora.
“Understood.”
Saipan from Gravity Forest heard Sliv’s “muttering” (Silv used Amplify Voice spell on it), caught a new idea, and yelled out for everyone to hear, “Daaaaamn! Flora took ALL of the Fragments of Eternity!”
That caught everyone’s attention.
Saipan smiled in content while Lady Danae gave him an angered gaze. The bastard had no idea he just offended Sunders, badly. Sunders was an extremely powerful being and the Brute Cavern behind him was a bunch of unreasonable ruffians. The Song of the Deep might still have several “gentle” wizards, but every single individual from Brute Cavern was someone that enjoyed utter chaos and disorder.
Gravity Forest had always been a peaceful and neutral organization. If they offended Brute Cavern… no one knew what would happen next.
Sliv looked towards Saipan and smiled. Then he addressed Sunders.
“Aha, Mister Sunders, the Phantom Master. We haven’t met in a long time,” Sliv stepped in the air and approached him.
When he was about a hundred meters away, Sliv hurled an abrupt water arrow at Sunders.
The arrow was blocked by the spell array.
Sliv smiled widely as he said, “Oh no! My hand slipped.”
He then changed his attitude as he said, “A multi-layer spell array… Man, you’re being really careful.”
Hearing Sliv’s unpleasant voice, Flora complained in her mind. ‘Oh no’ my arse!
Like Lady Danae. Sliv carefully inspected the spell array with a frown and decided to halt. He moved back to his own group. Silv was bad at dealing with spell arrays. He also knew that the array must be the work of a master which would probably take hours to breach. Meanwhile, Sunders and Flora were free to retaliate or teleport away.
A perfect balance between offense and defense.