Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2846

Chapter 2846 Naming Sense (Part 2)

2846 Naming Sense (Part 2)

"You do my people a great honor." Rem bowed her head. "Yet please, keep it to your family only. Otherwise in case our relationship with the land dwellers goes south, not even the ocean will be safe for us."

"Sure thing."

After a few minutes, Orion managed to keep the burning of his lungs to an acceptable level since mistrust and paranoia kept messing up his breathing rhythm.

"Maybe this can help." A second male merfolk took Orion's other hand, doubling his oxygen provision.

A third and a fourth grabbed respectively his left and right ankle and at that point, albeit feeling constricted, Orion had all the air he needed.

During the descent, the merfolk pulled his arms and pushed his feet, making up for Orion's inability to move on his own. For a while, the abundant oxygen and the speed gave him an exhilarating feeling.

Then, when they reached a point too deep for the light to reach anymore, his panic became even worse. Suddenly everything was black. He couldn't tell up from down or left from right.

The fact that he was completely lost and depended on others even for breathing made it one of the scariest moments of his life.

'Calm down.' Mal said. 'I can feel that your heart is about to explode.'

'Get out of my head!' Orion thought.

'Before you ask, I'm not in your head. Only Awakened can use mind links, remember? I'm talking to you by making my words vibrate through my body and then into yours.'

Once Orion managed to calm down, he recognized that it was nothing like the mind links he was used to.

'Your species can't do this, so you can only listen. If you understand, squeeze my hand once for yes and two for no.' Mal said and Orion squeezed once.

'Good. Now I'm going to teach you how to see underwater so listen closely.' The spell Mal taught him required both air and water magic to conjure effects similar to echolocation.

Merfolk didn't really see but they could discern the shape, speed, and size of anything within hundreds of meters of distance. The sound spread through the water faster than any beast could swim, giving them the time to correct their course and the predators a wide berth.

'Shit!' Without Solus' tenth sense, Lith was as blind as Orion.

Life and Fire Vision were useless underwater and the tier four Sonar spell didn't give him enough information to quell his rampant paranoia.

'Why so nervous? I remember you were a lot calmer the first time.' Rem asked him in confusion.

'Dragon instinct. Being away from my daughter is hard for me.' He lied through his thoughts.

'Because the last time I could actually see.' He actually thought.

With the excuse of needing reassurance to overcome their "fear", Solus was holding Kamila's hand, sharing her tenth sense with her.

'Great Mother almighty!' Even while swimming at high speed, Kamila's enhanced senses noticed the bizarre fish who had become blind due to the perennial darkness of the deep.