Chapter 919: rfolk Realm
Raphael sighed and knew that gods did not have much patience. "You are free to leave, naturally—as long as you don't share a word. But do know, that when I ascend to be the next King or am rewarded... I won't think of you that much either."
"Did you hear complain?" the god laughed. "I can burn letters from this princess' daddy dearest all day! Just give the word and I can even burn the entire castle of this King Draco if you really want it to be done."
Raphael paused and looked at the god. As much as he was tempted to kill Rowena's evil father, if he did sothing like that, word would quickly spread around.
It wasn't obvious, but King Draco was not just any regular human. Twenty-odd years ago he was deed worthy enough to attend the Tournant to Godhood. Had he won, he would have been one of them now, not just a re mortal.
There were still so people in Cretea who kept tabs with him, and if Raphael had even heard of it correctly... King Draco might even reach out to his late wife's royal family in order to look for Rowena. He married an elven princess and still had a good relationship with a few elven princes in that realm.
That was why Raphael needed to be here in the human realm to stop all of the man's sches and let Rowena live a good and happy life.
He thought she deserved that much.
Even if it ant that Raphael needed to stay away and work in the background to make her dreams of freedom co true, he didn't quite mind it... after all, she did save his life.
Rowena saved his life and that was why he was doing all of this.
"Huh..." The god of sea suddenly blinked and looked at a river nearby with a frown.
"What's the matter?" Raphael asked.
Nymia blinked and looked at the waters too and quickly shook her head. "He must just be having so troubles with so ships, right? Nasty seafaring captains are really focused on delivering those damn letters..."
The Goddess had once managed to make the sea god let her handle so of the waters, and when she had taken care of it—she secretly allowed so of the ssengers to reach other continents.
Nymia thought that if the word finally reached other lands, Raphael would stop and consider his mission as a lost cause and return to Cretea, but in the end, it had given him more of a reason to stay.
And now, Nymia wanted to shut up the sea god and prevent him from speaking—but the water carried ssages from everywhere and it had already reached both her and the sea god.
Unfortunately for Nymia, the sea god shook his head and slowly looked up to Raphael.
"Your friend... human friend?" The sea god looked carefully at Raphael's face and then plucked one of the lette
rs from the God of Avary's sparrows and showed the portrait of a younger Rowena. "This is her, right?"
"Well, I wouldn't quite call her my friend." Raphael rubbed the back of his neck. He knew that Rowena loved Lucent, but it didn't apply to him... so they were practically strangers. Except for the fact that he was focused on her.
"She has golden hair and eyes like athyst?" the sea god asked.
Raphael imdiately nodded. "Yes, yes, that's right. Did you—"
"So of the rfolks seed to have captured a young woman that fit the description, Raphael." the sea god explained. "She was viciously destroying the coral reef in their lagoon."
"What? That's crazy!" a god laughed. "Is she really a human princess? That's really funny."
"Well, she has done sothing that warranted them to capture her." Nymia interrupted.
"Rowena wouldn't do sothing like that without a good reason," Raphael said.
"You haven't seen her for a long ti, at least a long ti in terms of human years," another god said. "So you can't really say that, Raphael."
The Seventh Prince frowned but shook his head. "Whatever the case, she's still the person I owe my life to—and that is more than enough reason for to intercede on her behalf."
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When the strong water whirled around Rowena and pulled her downwards, she couldn't help but start to drown and be engulfed thoroughly.
Even the hardest of resistance could do nothing in the water and yet this was the only way to save Julian.
She had risked her life, forced herself to swim, and stayed underwater for far longer than any ordinary person would have done—and her vision turned dark.
Rowena sunk deeper and deeper into the water, bubbles escaping from her mouth and nostril as the air she had slowly vanished as she traveled downwards.
Until at the last mont, the water around her started to shimr, no, not the water itself but the magic contained in the water. If Rowena had been born in the elven realm, if her mother had stayed alive enough to tell her about her heritage... then she would have known.
Instead, Rowena's forehead glowed a beautiful shade of green which depicted a small magical rune—a mother's love placed once upon a ti and made the magic help her.
Rowena's eyes widened as a light emanated from around her and gave her the ability to breathe underwater. Just in ti for Rowena to recover her consciousness and experience the world that she knew turned upside down.
One mont, she had been falling downwards into the abyssal waves, drowning as she fell from the Wishing rmaid Lagoon.
The next thing t
hat she knew was that she was rising, being pulled upwards into the waters, and being carried sowhere else until finally, she was thrown out of the water and into a cave.
Rowena coughed up so water out of her mouth, touched the land, and looked up in bewildernt.
The cave was not dark, on the contrary, it was decorated with sothing that resembled luminescent stars that decorated the cavern's roof. It depicted a beautiful galaxy above her.
And yet that was not what caught Rowena's attention. When she glanced back towards the waters, she ended up seeing a number of rocks around the lagoon and each one held a spectacular being. Half-fish. Half-human.
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