Chapter 524: Dragons Roam the Skies, Leviathans Prey the Seas.
[Music Resonation (Major)] [Marine Lungs] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]
Azure … No, no, no. So many words, so many adjectives, so many different ways to describe the view I was looking at, yet, at the same time, would my words be able to do it justice? Did my description encapsulate the beauty of the fierce wildness of the glacial wasteland of the north? Nature fully drenched in mana, the energy of the world, enriching it with both natural disasters and life?
I couldn’t find the words to describe the sight before me. I’ve “dived” once or twice with swimming goggles, peering down into the shallow murky or clear waters of beaches, yet all I saw was sand. Dark brown, heavy, salty, muddy sand—I never was able to see the “nature” of the world under the surface of the waves.
Cautiousness? Cowardness? You could use words to describe my lack of interest in swimming further from the shores. Every kid would be warned to not swim so far away and to always keep themselves in sight of their guardians. Everybody heard the scary stories, right? Even if you haven’t, horror movies exist.
A simple strong wave and you would be gone! Snatched away by the griesly, uncaring attitude of mother nature. Behind all the fun of playing in the waters would lie the abyssal end, where your grave would become part of the decor for all the many fishes living down there … Within us all lies the fear of the waters. The fear of the depths of the oceans.
… Yet, why was this apparently scary place so damn bewitching to look at?
Oh gosh … My eyes raced as I couldn’t fathom what a stark difference it was from Iceskale, no, from most of Frozen Nest.
Green and colorful vegetation wasn’t a foreign thing in the valley surrounding Home, nor the icy background of gray hail showers I would see here or then. The sea just in front of Iceskale’s harbor was all that, but even more.
Coral, seaweed, sea anemone, and so many different kinds of aquatic flora and other plant-looking organisms could be seen immediately, varying from red, brown, to even pure limestone-white. It almost seemed like these aquatic beings were absorbing the different hues of mana, making them so colorful like how Peolyncian hair colors were so varied, to the point some children might not even inherit the hair color of their biological parents or grandparents.