The next day.

"Hello."

"Nice to meet you, young master-nim." Cale exchanged greetings with an old man.

This was a fisherman who had roamed across this Ubarr sea and battled against the whirlpool for tens of years.

This old man, who was known as the greatest veteran of the Ubarr sea in this small seaside village, had a very tan skin that represented just how much time he spent out at sea.

"Just trust me. I will safely take you to the central island."

Amiru, who was next to Cale, nodded her head and added on. "Right. He is an amazing individual, so you will be able to get to anywhere in the Ubarr sea as long as he is with you. I'm sorry I cannot go with you even though I'm supposed to show you around. I have some works to do."

"That is okay. It is enough that you have introduced me to an expert fisherman."

It would be complicated if Amiru went with him. Cale had already determined the people who would go with him today.

The fisherman asked. "Is it just the three of you?"

"Yes. Let us go."

"Yes sir. Please get on."

Cale got on the small but sturdy boat. The Vice Captain got on behind him. Since the Vice Captain will be with him, Cale did not need to take any other knights with him.

The vice captain's presence was only to assure people on the surface, since Beacrox only known as a chef and Raon was to remain invisible.

It really wouldn't be a problem anyway, since the islands were uninhabited.

"Please be safe, young master."

"Got it."

Deputy butler Hans had On and Hong in his arms as he watched Cale off. The kittens On and Hong were flailing around, trying to get away from Hans, who was getting closer to the water.

This cause Cale to frown. Although they liked the smell of the sea, On and Hong did not like water. "Hans, keep On and Hong away from sea, or I banned you from getting near them again."

"Ah." Hans quickly back away from Cale and the sea. "Understood, young master. I'm sorry, kitten-nims."

""Meow"" the kittens meowed pitifully, they wanted to go with Cale and their youngest but the sea seemed too scary.

– Noona and Hyung, don't worry, I'll be flying right next to Human to protect him.

Cale sighed then turned to Beacrox and try to lift up his mood. "Beacrox, apparently the nets near the island tend to catch a lot of rare seafood. It will be great to broaden your palate."

"...Thank you very much, young master Cale." Beacrox, who insisted on going with Cale, got onto the boat with a stiff expression. He felt like his young master is trying to do something big again.

Cale ordered the fisherman once everybody was on board. "Let's go."

"Yes sir." The fisherman, the captain of this small boat, started to row with his son.

In this whirlpool filled sea, neither a large ship nor acceleration magic was important. It was safer to be with an experienced fisherman and rely on their years of rowing experience.

"The boat may rock quite a bit, so please hold on tightly." The old man casually announced as the boat departed.

Soon after they left, Cale tried his best not to curse at the situation. "Ah damn."

The boat was rocking. The boat was just barely avoiding the whirlpool that seemed like it would suck everything in. The force of the whirlwind was rocking the boat a lot.

Luckily he had Beacrox's help to steady himself.

Splash, rash. All sorts of water smashing sounds rang in Cale's ears.

The old fisherman shouted. "Hahaha. Young master-nim, isn't the whirlpool grand?"

The fisherman was a very courageous man. Cale pushed away the hand of the Vice Captain who was grabbing onto his clothes with a pale expression.

Cale looked at the scene before his eyes. The color of the violent water was not transparent at all. It was white and blue as it reflected the bottom of the sea, and became a darker and darker shade of blue as it got closer to the center of the whirlpool.

'You'd probably die if you get caught in it.'

Cale thought about the new magic bombs inside Raon's spatial dimension right now. He then turned his gaze toward the smallest island of the cluster of islands in front of him.

"Young master-nim, it is that island over there! The whirlpool in front of that island is the worst! You'll need to say goodbye to this world immediately if you get caught in that one! Hahaha!" The fisherman was really gutsy. He didn't even see the Vice Captain's face turn paler as he continued to speak. "There is a legend that says that the whirlpool appeared because of a thief who stole something from a god, but, aiya!"

Cale also held back the feeling of needing to vomit and paid attention to the fisherman's words.

• Ah, it sounds like my other Noona.

Cale heard the voice of the Crybaby.

• To be able to create this whirlpool and a thief who stole from a god... it's definitely her.

Cale had no time to reply about his words yet. The boat was leaning to one side. Cale gulped after seeing the water crash against the side of boat.

"Aigoo, the boat almost tipped over. Hey punk, row properly!"

"Sorry dad!"

The fishing dad and son duo really were gutsy.

"That is why, young master-nim."

"Hey." In the end, Cale raised his hand to stop the old man and sternly started to speak. "Let's talk after making it to that island first."

"That is what lady Amiru said as well! We are almost there." The old man skillfully started to row.

The boat that was moving as he continued to row somehow twisted and turned to avoid all of the whirlpools. Cale observed each and every one of the whirlpools they passed.

'The marks of the wind vomited out by the Sound of the Wind. And this is one of the friends they mentioned. What are the odds that their group of friends have the five attributes Ancient Power I wanted to gather?' Cale stopped at that. 'We'll know when we get there.'

Cale thought about how the novel had described the Sound of the Wind.

"Y-Young master, I-I'm supposed to be protecting you.. Ugh."

Cale frowned at the Vice Captain's words as he clenched onto the boat's handles while Beacrox stood at his side to steady him if necessary. He did not want to drown to death.

"You can't even stand steadily while getting seasick, stop talking nonsense!" Cale was very irritated.

Finally, the boat arrived at an island and Cale could once again feel the ground underneath his feet.

"We have arrived. It was easier than usual." The fisherman's son nodded at his father's words.

Cale looked past the two of them to see the Vice Captain leaning over.

"Baaaarf." The Vice Captain was suffering from such severe seasickness that Cale wondered if he may end up dying.

'So useless. Beacrox is much better.' Cale tapped Beacrox's arm as Beacrox walked by his side and pointed to the Vice Captain.

Beacrox frowned before taking out a pair of white gloves from his pocket and putting them on as he headed over to the Vice Captain.

Cale flinched a bit once he saw the white gloves. 'Aren't those the gloves that he uses for torture to keep himself clean?'

Beacrox seemed to have an endless supply of those white gloves. After observing the existence of these white gloves for the first time, Cale stopped looking at Beacrox and the Vice Captain and looked around the island.

There was no sand on this island, instead, it was surrounded by rocks. If you looked a bit farther in from the shoreline, you could see a small forest as well. Well, it is probably more accurate to call it a garden than a forest since they said you should be able to walk all around it in less than an hour.

"Old man."

"Yes, young master-nim."

"Continue your story from earlier, the one about the thief."

The old man stopped watching his son anchor the boat and pointed to the path they took to get here. He was pointing at the large whirlpool in front of this island.

"A long time ago, there was a thief who was faster than anybody else. The thief's steps were so light and cautious that, supposedly, he could walk on water without causing the smallest of ripples."

'It really was the Sound of the Wind. Of course, walking on water was a bit of an exaggeration.'

• It was the Thief, but the walking on water part was not true.

Cale and the Glutton was talking at the same time.

'The Thief? What is wrong with ancient people's naming sense?'

"Anyways, the thief supposedly stole something that belonged to a god. The legend says that the thief jumped off the Cliff of Winds with the items.

You know which cliff that is, right? That was how the god's item and the thief disappeared from this world, as well as how the whirlpools came to exist." The old man smiled as gently as the tanned wrinkles on his arms. "That is why there used to be sacrifices in the past for the god's item."

"Not anymore?"

"If it really was a god's item, why would that god bother us humans instead of taking back his item?"

Cale agreed with the old man. It was not a god's item. It was a human's power. That was why a god could not take it.

• It's just a guy who thought of himself as a god.

Cale heard the Glutton grumbling, but kept the information to himself. "Then I will look around the island now."

"Yes sir. I will be waiting for you here." The old man headed toward his son as the Vice Captain jumped up.

"Young master-nim, me too, ugh." He then curled back down.

Cale clicked his tongue and motioned for Beacrox to come over. Once Beacrox arrived, Cale whispered in Beacrox's ear. "Please hold him here for me."

"...Will you be okay on your own?"

"What could be dangerous over here? I have Raon and I also have my shield."

"Please be safe."

Beacrox agreed to follow Cale's order without much issue. This was why Cale had brought Beacrox with him. He needed someone around him for the time being, someone who was strong, and trusted him.

It also had to be someone he could boss around. That was why Beacrox was perfect.

"I'll be back soon." Cale headed to the forest at the center of the island.

"Please shoot your shield up into the air if you are in danger."

"Young master-nim, I will be right behind, ugh."

Cale just half listened to Beacrox and the Vice Captain as he walked into the forest. He then quietly spoke as soon as he was away from the others. "What do you think?"

Raon answered back. "As you mentioned, there is something underneath that whirlpool in front of this island. It was similar to the power from that cave from last time. Is it another Ancient Power, Human?"

Raon was talking about when Cale earned the Vitality of the Heart. Cale smiled "Yes, it is, Raon."

Cale leisurely entered into the forest. There was no reason to look inside. He really just came here to look at the whirlpool. 'I do need to know a bit about the terrain, since we will be flying back here at night.'

Cale asked one more thing. "There's nobody here, right?"

"None."

There was nobody else other than Cale's group on the island. Cale could finally sigh in relief. He had been worried about the pod of whales from yesterday.

"But there is a corpse."

"What?" Cale instantly froze up. He started to frown and looked up into the sky.

The Black Dragon removed his invisibility and appeared in front of Cale. "When I looked down on this island earlier, there were three corpses on the other side of the island."

Corpses were completely out of Cale's expectations. "Human corpses?"

"The corpses were not human corpses."

Cale lifted his hands up to cover his eyes. If it was not human, that meant that they had a distinct feature. However, they also did not resemble animals.

'So they are similar to humans, but not the same.' Then there was only one answer left. "Were their hands and feet weird?"

Raon energetically nodded his head. "That's right! Human is so smart. The hands and feet were weird. They looked like fins!"

Fins. That was the symbol of the mermaids. A pod of whales and mermaids. Cale was worried about the war that started earlier than expected. The whales and mermaids were not supposed to show up just yet.

'No.' Cale quickly fixed his train of thought.

The battle between the Whale Tribe and the mermaids had a history that was even longer than the oldest human wars. However, the moment when this was revealed in the novel was when Choi Han became involved with the Whale Tribe.

Cale called toward the Black Dragon. "Hey, Raon. Are you sure there is nobody there?"

"There are no living presence. It is the same in the water."

"Then lead the way." He had to go check out the mermaid corpses. Just to verify and keep himself out of danger.

"You have to be next to me." Cale said as they headed toward the other side of the island.

He then started to frown as soon as he came out of the other side of the forest and saw the corpses. "...I was right."

As expected, they were mermaid corpses. To be specific, there were three corpses, all with their necks broken. Furthermore, their legs and arms were twisted as well.

Cale frowned even more after seeing the appearance of the mermaids with his own eyes instead of just as text in a novel.

The corpses were completely dry, as if they were mummies. However, the mermaids really did look different from humans. There were fins on their hands and feet, while their skin seemed to be covered in scales. They also had gills instead of ears.

"Why are you not getting closer?" Raon curiously asked Cale, who was observing from a distance.

Cale easily answered back to the Black Dragon. "It's scary."

"...Right. I forgot that you are a weak human." Raon nodded and headed toward the mermaid corpses.

He then started to mumble to himself. "It seems like they were flattened to death. They also seem to have died not too long ago. Furthermore, I can see some red blood underneath their fins. I think they were in a battle."

'It was a Whale. A Whale definitely killed these mermaids.'

The Whale Tribe had a small population, similar to the Dragons, but they were the strongest existence in the ocean. That was how they were able to protect the ocean world from the mermaids.

The mermaids wanted to create a kingdom inside the ocean. However, the Whale Tribe did not accept sharing their territory with others. It was because they were a species that needed to migrate along with the weather.

'The Whale Tribe is small in number, but they are too strong for the mermaids to do as they please. However, the mermaids suddenly started to get stronger.

I need to figure out how. The mermaids was the reason the secret organization could travel easily from Eastern continent to Western continent.'

The mermaids started to get stronger, putting the Whale Tribe in a difficult situation. That was when Choi Han appeared and assisted the whales. At least, that was the contents of the novel by the end of volume 5.

Cale told Raon that they should head back and turned away from the mermaid corpses.

"Can we just leave them like this?"

"Yes."

A mermaid corpse will not dissipate on land, instead, it will just dry out almost entirely. In order for it to dissipate, it needs to be under water.

Once that happens, the smell is spread throughout the ocean, signaling other mermaids to come to get the corpses. That was why the Whale Tribe left them on land like this on purpose.

'I need to get what I come for first before thinking about someone else's business.'

There was probably only one member of the Whale Tribe who fought these mermaids. If there were two of them, they wouldn't have left these corpses on land.

They would have thrown them into the water in order to draw even more mermaids over and battle it out. They chose to act like this because they were alone.

Cale headed back to the boat and talked to the others. "Let's go back. There's not much to see."

The Vice Captain, who was finally starting to recover from his seasickness, turned pale again.

However, Beacrox seemed to have bought a lot of fish from the fisherman, as he happily responded. "Young master Cale, we will have roasted fish for dinner."

"Sounds good."

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Tsuki: Enjoy!