Chapter 3216: Troubling Waters
Their journey was unlike anything that Rui had ever experienced before. He could say with confidence that he had never experienced such a strange and exotic means of travel. It was almost straight of a fairy tale.
And yet, they soared across the Great Nam Ocean at great speeds as they whizzed above the surface of the ocean, crossing over great distances at high speeds. The warm, humid winds above the ocean grew chills as they brushed past it at great speeds. The temperatures began reducing as the Sun dipped below horizon and the sky grew dark.
Rui and Amare, on the other hand, merely enjoyed the ride as they drew closer and closer to West Genora.
Their first contact with the true world, however, came after they left the sphere of influence of Great Nam Ocean. The waters of the great ocean surrounding the Panama Continent did not mix with the waters of the true world, for whatever reason. They were lighter and were intensely blue-green in color than the darker waters of the true world.
Likely because the compounds contained in both oceans conferred upon them different densities, causing there to be a distinct and visible boundary between oceans. The deeper they crossed into the waters of the true world, the more they could sense the differences.
The waters of the true world had its own diverse and versatile biosphere, far more diverse than one would have ever imagined from a world without esoteric substances. There were giant, vast creatures beneath the surface of the ocean.
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And despite that, they didn’t give Rui the same impression of power and peril that the Great Nam Ocean did. The creatures of that ocean were quasi-Transcendent in their power, making them far more powerful than any conventional creature without esoteric substances could ever hope to be.
It also meant that the monsters of the Great Nam Ocean were free to essentially terrorize the waters of the true world. Rui could expect a diffusion of at least low-grade sea monsters to spread across the oceans and seas of the true world.
He also expected that seafare would become much more dangerous than it ever had been before for the sailors of the true world. Even if the Great Nam Ocean did not attack trade vessels systematically, it didn’t mean that the true world was just immune to standard predatory behavior from the monsters of the ocean.
He highly doubted that Jormungandr would suppress basic predatory activities for the benefit of land-dwelling civilizations. And if, by chance, there were underwater civilizations in the true world like there were in the Panama Continent, then he suspected that they were especially in danger.