Khaos's POV:

After hearing about the rescue mission, I went into my room and brought out two masks from a sealed box in my storage ring. To break the seal, blood of a Maker was needed. I took out my Skinning Knife and sliced my right hand. I placed the bloodied hand onto the box. The blood flowed into the box and the seal glowed. With a *pppsssshsshhshhh*, the seal disappeared and the box opened. I lifted up the lid and smiled at the contents in the box. There were twelve SSS-ranked masks in the box that my master made and gifted to me. I took out two of the masks - Lady Luck's Warmth and Divine Touch. Lady Luck's Warmth was a mask with only one attribute (Supreme Luck) and one skill (Luck OverBoost) and this mask was bound to me and only me. Anyone else who dared to wear it or even possess it without my permission will instantly have all of their luck absorbed. The second mask Divine Touch was a mask with only one attribute (Supreme Regeneration and Recovery) and one skill (Resurrection). Like Lady Luck's Warmth, Divine Touch was also bound to only me. Anyone else who dared to wear it or even possess it without my permission will instantly have all of their health and lifeforce absorbed, killing them. The only problem with Divine Touch was that it can only allow me to heal others and not me. I looked at the other ten masks in the box and closed the lid. Maybe next time, I'll bring them out for a spin. I resealed the box and stored it in my storage ring again. Taking the masks, I stored them in my bag and headed towards the Tavern.

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Shadow's POV:

An airship flying the flag of the Adventurer Guild roamed across the sea near the Sea of Serpent. The guild heavily armed ship is flying a bit lower than usual and maintaining a steady speed, as if not to disturb the tranquility of the ocean. But with the amount of weapon drawn and aimed all around, it is clear that they are not on a peace mission. On the deck of said airship, one could see five different individuals stood with a rather relaxed expression. Well, two were wearing masks, so it was not quite the right expression. But almost none of them let out any feeling of urgency or danger. That was proof of how confident they are in their own skill.

“Okay, we are going to be near the place in 2 minutes.” My voice filled the deck as I stood in front of my large mechanical spider, Arkley. I, then, pulled out four identical boxes from inside my spatial gloves and placed them near the group of four.

“Inside each box you can find two sets of potion. The first one is this,” I pulled out a small potion filled with dark blue liquid and then continued, “This is the deep sea potion. By drinking this, you can withstand the deep sea pressure and also breathe underwater easily. The effect is about 2 hours, more or less.”

Then I put that potion back into the spatial gloves and pulled out another, this time filled with dark purple liquid. “The next one is this. By drinking this, you can see in dark area. The side effect is that your eyes will glow slightly, so be careful as you might alert the enemy. But don’t worry, it is only a slight glowing. The potion will be in effect for about 2 hours too.”

After that, I put the potion back into my spatial gloves and then looked at them. “There are 3 bottles for each potion. I also put 3 bottles of rejuvenation potion there. I know that you have powerful magic, but please use the potion if possible to conserve your magic. We don’t know what will happen there.”

I took a deep breath and then pointed at the location of their mission. “We will drop the rescue team there while I and Dancchi will go a bit far to wreak havoc there. We will distract the monsters as best as we could. When you're done rescuing Gen, swim up and then call me via the emblem. I will teleport the ship there and then teleport us to the special in Aeternus. Try your best to conceal his presence before we get to the chamber. After we get to the chamber, all magic will be nullified, so you can rest assured it will be sufficient to conceal his presence. Due to the ship’s size and Gen’s possible size, we only have three chances to do it at most.”

Then a sudden metallic sound came. All of them looked at the source and found that it was from Arkley, tapping his metal mandible.

“Master Shadow, everyone, we will arrive in 15 seconds.”

“Thanks, Arkley. Okay, everyone, get ready! We will rescue him!”

The other four nodded and they all get to their position.

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Biel's POV:

“Thanks, Arkley. Okay, everyone, get ready! We will rescue him!” Shadow exclaimed.

I walked until I reached Dan. I took her hand and gave her a soft kiss, "Please take care honey~~."

After I gave the three Water Breathing Potions to her, I walked to the border of the ship and jumped. While falling, I let out a huge amount of Chaos energy from my body, a quantity big enough to break the reality around me. I concentrated it in a sphere around me, and then I use the hole in reality to make a sub-dimension around me. Soon after I finished the dimension, I or rather the Dimension I made hit the sea and submerged. As I dove deeper and deeper, it started to become dark. I started to use a combination of Life-Force detection, Death-Force detection, and Energy Flow detection to understand what was around me.

I detected many sea monsters which obviously can't detect me because I'm technically outside this dimension. I used Mind magic to peek in their minds and discovered that they were being Influenced by the Seals on Gen's prison...so that was why they were protecting it. I ordered them to leave the area as fast as they can...an order which they were incapable of ignoring. Soon, I found myself near a giant earth mound, which I easily identified as Gen's prison. I didn't even need to look to understand which curse was put upon it. It's in fact one which I have in my blood, so it will be as simple as breathing to remove it. But from the look of the Death magic on it, I will need some time to dispel it. I started to analyze and work on it while the others arrive and do their work.

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Balthy's POV:

I watched Shady give his thanks to some guy that I didn't know the name of. Never bothered to learn. Biel saddled up on Danchi and gave her a quick kiss on the lips before employing her magic and jumping into the water. Not one to be left behind, I used shadow magic to phase me out of the material plane and dove in the water. Through the darkness, I could see many figures both distant and close but I couldn't get an exact read on their number, nor did I try to. I descended lower and lower before hitting a mound. I noticed that all the sea monsters were fleeing at a fast pace. Biel must have done something. I found my way to the seal I was in charge of and stared at it. I had no clue on what the hell to do. Might as well study it quickly so I could dispel it.

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Khaos's POV:

Taking the potions from Shadow, I store them into my bag. Then, I grab my mask - Mask of the Water Maiden and put it on. This mask of mine lets me breathe and fight underwater. Before I jumped into the water, I activated my Eye of Odin which will let me see in the dark as if it was daytime. Then, I jumped into the water and swam after what I believe is Balthy. Upon arriving, I see both Biel and Balthy studying the seals they're assigned to break. I don't see any sea monsters nearby so I assumed that they had taken care of the monsters already. Reaching into my bag, I grab a deep sea potion and consumed it. Then, I took off my mask and switched it with my mask - Lady Luck's Warmth. With this mask on, my luck as well as the luck of my allies increase exponentially. Hopefully this will decrease any chances of failure when we began the unsealing process.

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Dancchi's POV:

Bi went down before me, deri. I should do it before her but she beat me into it, deriyo? Well… she’d be all right deri. But then what about my part if she went down first derika…. Ah, just do it deri. I dove downward and right before I plunged into the ocean I activated [Angelic Layer] deri. With this, I didn’t need Shadow’s pill, deri. And I can fly underwater like the ocean was nothing but air, deri. No water pressure, no movement restriction, deri. Ugh, I still need the pill, deri! I don’t know why but it’s hard to breathe even inside [Angelic Layer]’s dimension, deri. Perhaps because it needs the actual air to be transferred inside derika? And since it’s in the ocean that the air was very restricted derika? Uhh, I don’t know…

Since [Angelic Layer] emits faint light, I don’t have any difficulties in seeing the deep underwater, deri. It was just a bit hard since the seeing distance wasn’t that far, deriyo? Maybe it won’t be too much of a hassle deri…. Because all the aggressive creatures were heading straight to me, deriyo? Un, krakens, megalodons, all sorts of big dudes were coming to me, deriyo? First it was kraken. Two krakens against one angelic fox, deri. I tried a new skill, deri. [Thunder Orb] - it was an orb made of initium with the attribute of Deena’s scorching thunder, deri. The size was a little smaller than my head, but I could see the dense electric streams inside it, deri. It was also shining brighter than me, deri. With the way it floated around, I think it also ignored the gravity, water resistance, and inertia, deri. Much like the Angelic Layer, deriyo?

It was small, but when I tried to make it shoot a thunder, *ZABOOOOM!* A condensed dense ray of laser came out, deri. A single attack, and the giant sized kraken was done for, deri. It also produced an intense water whirl due to its trajectory effect, deri. And even more monsters were sucked into the whirl deriyo? Most of them were harmless small fishes so I could ignore them, deri. And then there were 2 megalodons, deriyo? I killed one of them by that laser again, deriyo…. Ah, haven’t named this laser derika? Let’s call it [Railgun] deri! Because it shot straight like a train on rail, deriyo?

And then when the second megalodon came, a strange, much more bigger creature came deri. I could not see how big it was, but it swam graciously like floating, deri. It appeared slow, but it was an illusion because of its sheer size, deri. You know, when you see a building collapse from afar it looks like falling slowly, right? It was like that too, deriyo. It was like a thick, transparent red-orange blanket, deri. And it enveloped the massive sized megalodon in one wrap, deri. The megalodon… maybe it ate the megalodon in one gulp, deri. Scary….

But thank god I didn’t need to kill this mysterious and beautiful creature, deri. It left after it ate megalodon, deriyo? I stood watch and there was nothing else happening, deri. But when the rescue team did something, I saw numerous of signs coming for them, deri. So I deployed 3 Thunder Orbs and baited them to my place, deri. And the result was not disappointing, deriyo? Big fishes, mini leviathans, deriyo. Uhh… can I just call them “Levi Fish” derika? Despite the size, they could swim faster than megalodons, deri. Oh, they manipulated the water pressure to support their movement, deriyo? So they have brains even though they looked fugly deri.

Didn’t matter, deriyo? Even though all 5 of them attacked me simultaneously by shooting water jets and ice needles, as long as they couldn’t breach Angelic Layer’s dimension they couldn’t touch me, deri~. But then again, why couldn’t I breathe easily if I can defend against big attacks like these? Um, um, whatever, deri. I killed 3 of them because I didn’t want their attacks strayed to the rescue team, deri. With only 2 of the Levi Fishes left it was easy to control their directions, deri. I kept playing with them because it was a good way to getting rid of boredom, deri. There weren’t any other monsters, deri. Maybe because they were afraid of those Levi Fishes, derika?