7 The Gray Myite

Anila opened her eyes and she looked extremely calm. She looked towards Rais and couldn't believe her little boy already so concerned and asked her so many questions. "This is an opportunity for me now I have to find a decent sparring opponent. If I am able to break through most of my injury should recover by themselves."

Her spiritual power stated spreading but she prevented it from going to the forest and nearby city. She directed her power towards the north as her target was the Ocean. She flew in about twenty Kos into the sea. She dived into the darkness of the sea. Her surrounding started glowing from intense light. At the bottom of the ocean there set a figure on an ice crystal platform. The person sitting on the platform looked exactly like Anila. She opened her eyes and moved fast and attacking Anila. Ice spears speed through the water but water froze in front of Anila and stopped them in front of the track. Fast moving water current started surrounding the other Anila and Ice arrow rained down from all direction as the water current got closer and closer to her. The arrows pierced through her but nothing happened as if the body made of water but the water pressure got closer and slowly destroyed the body. Only Thing remained was a ball of glowing water. The water merged with Anila as her eyes became blue like the sea and then turned back to brown.

"It's wired fighting myself. I can't utilize my abilities in the right ways. I need to find a decent opponent."

She attacked some armored whale and giant turtle but they became a ball of ice without being able to resist. She realized she wouldn't be able to find any decent magical beast unless she traveled deep within the Great Central Ocean.

Her power started probing and she turned into water vortex and dived deep within the water ."I should go and attack the mermaid queen of the nearest underwater settlement. She should decent enough to last a few hits. I had sensed three powerful spirit energy from beneath.

Diving deep down she looked around and saw nothing but darkness and occasionally she heard sounds of sea creatures traveling a great distance.

She dived deep into darkness as she saw a large glow of light within the opening a large trench. The light became brighter and brighter as she got closer. She saw a gigantic transparent dome structure surrounded by an extremely fast current. The dome had a radius of at least four kos. A gigantic glowing stone hung at the very top, lighting the entire area with a soft glow. In the Depth to four kos water pressure kept ordinary sea magic beasts out of the boundaries but life flourished within the dome. Outside the dome, a small glow of lights came out of the ocean floor as it had within the Wooden Shield of Ranatelia. The light went up for a short distance before disappearing. The dome had layers of defensive arrays and traps. Sound based rune was all over the outer shell of the Structure.

The dome had three main layers separating each other. The outer layer filled with water and thousands of colorful sea creatures. The second layer also filled with water but on the top section, it had some air. Thousands of small underwater stone structure filled the entire second layer. The inner section was the smallest but it had the only areas with few drylands. It contained a gigantic mansion in the middle.

Anila easily passed through all the barriers without any obstacles. She arrived in front of an underwater court within the mansion. The middle section of the mansion looked like an arena with thousands of seats around it. Shadow cast by the waves from the second layer created a beautiful web of light in the inner area.

The extravagance display of power and wealth impressed Anila. "This is no ordinary dominion" She descended on to the arena. To her surprise, crystal clear divine water filled the arena.

A group of anxious merman and mermaid stood inside the arena around a throne. On the throne set a young mermaid with a proud face.

She had stood up and come slightly forward and looked up. A small silver crown was on top of her head. She had a head full of copper-colored hair with strings of pearls twisted within the hair braid that reached to her waist. On the very front, her hair parted in the middle and they had small waves on them. She had bright pale skin with deep blue eyes to compliment them. Two ice needle earring hung on her ear. Slightly over her elbows, she wore armlets made pearls with a crimson translucent pendant. She wore a decorative crop top with detached sleeves. She had slightly orange scales that covered the bottom of her body. She looked around twenty-five years old. Her plump lips pressed against each other as she became slightly worried.

She raised her arm and six needles came out of the throne and started floating behind her. She didn't know how someone could so easily barge in without even trying to hide. She saw a figure wrapped around a fast-moving water current. She stood there revealing her powerful denominator. she knew her power could easily devastate everything around her.

Anila looked at the girl and knew she was not the mermaid queen she looking for. Although she looked slightly mature she knew she was not even in her twenties. She looked at her forehead in between her eyes and saw a powerful blue droplet shaped water rune carved in containing the power of a sea deity.

Anila looked disappointed as she stood in front of the young mermaid. She had her hopes up for a long time for it to end up being for nothing.

"I had sensed a powerful aura for the last few years but now I find a little girl. I came here expecting at least a fight mermaid queen but it's was just a girl playing around with her toy"

Listening to Anila she became little proud.

"I am no little girl and you don't look very much older than me. the technique that fooled you was taught to me by my mom to divert away any large sea beasts that mistakenly wondered near the magic dome. I had never expected that I would attract such a big fish like you instead."

She became a lot more relaxed and had a bright smile on her face. A mermaid warrior from behind her whispered something to her in an unknown language.

Anila had no idea what she was saying to the girl but her attention was towards the most powerful and sinister aura that she had sensed before diving here. She saw a grayish clay pitcher on the corner of the arena. She had a serious look on her face and she became very alert.

She pointed toward the pitcher "How long has that thing been there"

A disgusting laugh could be heard and it made a chill run down through everyone's body.

"Do you know what that thing is? Water deity told me to leave it alone as it is impossible to kill it so it's better to let it do whatever it wants and eventually it will leave eventually on its own."

She became very afraid from the sudden burst sinister aura. "I didn't know it could laugh."

"I never saw it before but my husband said to avoid it as much as possible as it is immortal. He said it takes little children and disappears deep within the sea and no one ever finds even a trace of them."

A hideous looking hand came out from the top of the pitcher. It attacked extremely fast towards Anila as it hand stretched and traveled extremely fast. The pitcher started floating grayish shadow legs came out of it. The legs consisted of eight filaments like fingers. When it moved it stubbed into the ground and it moved at a very slow pace. An old head floated out of the opening with a vile smile on its face. The head opened its colorless eyes completely. White hair floated on its head like snakes.

Anila despaired from where she was standing and stood outside the range of the pitcher. Two pieces of pitcher fell revealing another pair of eyes in the middle of the pitcher.

She could have easily destroyed the pitcher but it was not worth considering what came next. She heard it was impossible to kill these hideous things so she avoided doing anything to it.

"cursed women you know a lot, It may not be wise for you. I see you are part of a big destiny"

Anile just listened to the pitcher without saying anything.

"Very wise girl"

It slowly walked away leaving a footprint that weathered everything around a twenty angul of area around it.

"Everyone stood their ground to avoid offending the pitcher. They saw it walk through the walls like it was an illusion."

When it left few of the mermaids and mermen had blood coming out of their eyes and nose.

Their eyeball became pupils less and then turned white. Their bones started twisting and they made agonizing noise. Their body emitted an aura of death and their already pale skin turned bluish as all the blood veins could be seen. They started crawling like mindless dogs after the pitcher.

Few if the mermaid and mermen threw up from witnessing the horror but right after their body lost all its luster and health and became skeleton-like undead. The holy light from the water deity temple dimmed down.

Everyone became horrified witnessing the scene but also slightly relieved when they saw the monster had left.

When all the mindless puppets had left the mermaid girl walked to the mermaid water deity altar containing three stones with a silver flame on top. The flame burned underwater without any problem.

"She took out a pearl and burned it within the flame. The powerful magic rune burned away within the flame"

Water deity why did you take away their divine protection. They wear really good people. How am I going to answer to my mother?

"They had a bad intention toward the gray myite. It has the blessing of thousands of diety. I have no choice but to abandon them. Even the main mermaid deity of the central ocean would have abandoned them."

You should also avoid the woman who came from the surface. Her deity seemed to abandon her. She might be a cursed Witch from the land. A silver like female deity manifested on top of the flame.

"How did she survive from that hideous things. Maybe she wasn't abandoned but she just worships the common god as so many people on the surface do. " She became slightly curious.

She came down from the altar. All the mermaid had their head down and the right arm raised for worship.

Inside the house where Rais quietly slept. A barrier protected him from any outside intent. A mark on his right arm started spreading but the bracelet around his arm restricted it. A black flame ignited but it also died down. Around his neck a was a new necklace made with the same stone materials. The ball-shaped bell that was around his abdomen was also around his neck.