Chapter 321 - The Wish (II)

"Why do you say so, Lifera? You are the most trusted aid of my father and since when we are still kids, you also took care of us. Why would you say the seas will be in bad hands if you have this thing with you?" Sera frowned at Lifera's remark to himself.

"You already know that, Sera-sama. I have the tendency to be impulsive and you have witnessed earlier that I would sometimes exhibit villainous behavior. I would rather have to stay away from those things rather than have them near me."

Ah, he might be talking about the time he wanted to stop Sera and Li from going. He was indeed exhibiting some wild tendencies and I thought I would have to fight a mini-boss fight with him but I was wrong.

"Anyways, this heart is said to hold some powers to protect the seas and to give a strong power to do something that I have no idea what it was. It was clear that it is related to the power of the Primordial Sea God but who knows. Also, according to the sources, it can at least grant one wish to anyone who wanted to use it. That might be the reason for some greedy-minded people to actually seek this thing out and steal it."

"It can grant a wish? This is the first time I have heard of it," Li scratches his head.

"If it can grant a wish, then, can this "heart" revive everyone who died from the necrosis and the attacks of the necromancer who took over the kingdom?"

"As much as I want to say it can, it cannot. Despite being a wish granter, this is not an omnipotent wishing device. It can grant any physical wish or whatever wish but like most things, it can't grant something impossible like the end of the world and of course, reviving the dead," Lifera immediately denied.

A wish granter...is this perhaps...?

"There are much more things I can say about it but since you just asked what this thing can do, I wouldn't say anything unnecessary anymore to expand the topic of it. But if you want to dive deeper, perhaps I can tell you more."

"I guess that is enough. Thanks for the information. As much as I want to stay longer, we still have some things to do too. If not for the request of the siblings, we will not take this long either. By the way, what shall we do with this thing?" I still held out the heart of the sea god.

"You keep it. As the human saying goes, "Finders keepers" right? I doubt Sera-sama and Li-sama would like them unless they also wanted a wish to be granted," Lifera suggested.

"Lifera is right, we don't have anything that we can wish for. Since it can't revive the dead, we have less reason to keep it. You should keep it as a keepsake, Bladeheart. Perhaps you will have something that you can use of it," Sera nodded in agreement.

I didn't think that this thing that I just randomly picked up back when we are swallowed by the Ice Devilfish would have something that would be very useful to us.

"So how can this thing grant wishes? How do you do that?" I asked.

"There isn't definitive proof but according to the records, you just need to hold the thing in your hands and say your wish out loud. I don't know if it was plausible but you just needed to try it out."

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After our discussions and paying respects to the deceased, we left the kingdom and we are escorted by Lifera. Sera and Li will still be staying for a little bit before they will leave. As for us, it would be the same thing, our task is to reclaim the Insect Kingdom from the grasp of Alexandria. Now that one of the demons is dead, it is clear that the remaining one will now begin to unleash into the offensive this time around.

Just like before, we ride on the boat that Lina made to use to descend to the portal to the Kingdom of the Deep Sea. According to Sera and Li, to return to the surface from the Maelstrom, we will be using the same boat but this time, we will be getting the power of the blessings of the Primordial Sea God to allow us to go back to the surface without trouble.

Before we left back to the surface, the siblings bid goodbye to us.

"I apologize for us not being able to come along with you guys back to the surface. As much as we enjoyed the short time of your company, we have to part ways here. But we know that fate will allow us to see each other once again," Li grinned.

"Yes. We look forward to our next meeting guys. Next time, tell us your experiences too. We don't need to worry about our certain circumstances too," Sera waved goodbye.

"No worries. Maybe you guys can visit us in Resurgia in the future. We would love to have your company too."

After that, we bid farewell to them and performed what Sera instructed us to do. With the instruction, it was revealed that the other ability of the blessing that Sera granted to us is to command deep-sea fishes and other aquatic organisms to obey us for a limited amount of time. When I performed it, a giant Manta Ray alongside a school of fish appeared before us.

"Woah! What the heck?!" Lucia was surprised when all of a sudden, the school of fishes lifted the boat with ease and the manta ray went under our boat and acted as a support, allowing it to carry the boat up into the water.

We waved goodbye from everyone before the manta ray swims up along with our boat back to the surface.

It only took a few minutes before we returned to the top of the sea. After the task of the manta ray is done, it swam away alongside the school of fishes without doing anything else. Using Lina's abilities, we were able to remove the remaining water on the boat before the boat sinks back to the ocean.

We are not too far from the Maelstrom as we can still hear the loud crashing sound of the maelstrom. Of course, it's not too near that we will be sucked in. It's just enough for us to remain afloat in the water without being disturbed by the strong sucking current of the Maelstrom.

"The feeling of the surface is certainly different compared in the sea. I can still feel and taste the salt of the seawater," Lucia happily spread her arms to welcome the cold breeze of the salty air.

"So, now what do we do? Our objective is certainly the Kingdom of the Deep Sea but our target is no longer alive and the siblings are certainly the ones we are going to ask for help at all since they might be strong but they aren't strong enough to at least compete against the demon boss," Tina is now looking worried.

"I wouldn't be worried if I were you, Tina-sama," Atlas started speaking after staying quiet for the entirety of the discussion of the Heart of the Primordial Sea God.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Tina tilted her head in confusion.

"Do you remember the function of the "heart" that Master currently holds in his inventory right now?"

"Yeah, the wish granter thing. So what about it?"

"As what Lifera said earlier, it can grant one wish of an individual which means every one of us can have a single wish from this thing. As stated, this is not an omnipotent wish granter and it cannot perform the revival of the dead or produce an apocalypse that will end the world but that doesn't mean it cannot grant other wishes. Isn't it time to test out this theory?"

"Looks like we are on the same page, Atlas. Indeed, we didn't have the target person to ask for help but we got this incredible thing. That alone has the potential to help us in this upcoming confrontation again with the demon who took over the body of your sister."

"So you want me to wish something using this wish granter item?" Tina was perplexed.

"Yes. However, I am suggesting that you shouldn't wish haphazardly. Ask for a wish that you needed to do the most. This is your battle. We will assist in the battle but you have to deal the final strike to your former impostor sister. This is a single wish so if you wanted to have your wish granted and realized, use it when it is the exact time."

I then handed her the "heart" of the Primordial Sea God. During that time, I noticed a glint in the eye of Cotton who remained on the head of Tina.. I didn't think too much about it before then but perhaps that was just a sign I have missed.