“Is that a damn whale?” Timothy thought to himself.

  This may be a dangerous situation, especially if they let it unfold as such. However, they didn’t know how to prevent such a disaster from ‘unfolding’, so all three of them kept quiet for the sake of avoiding any unnecessary attention, as they did not want to get eaten alive by these monstrous fish! They remained quiet.

  “Is this a new species?” Arvena asked herself, “I don’t remember seeing anything like this the st time I was here, hell no. But then again, I got chased out of here before I could explore the sea at all! Those bastards I guided weren’t as assertive, useless pricks!”

  Two minutes had passed, and these twenty-meter long whales of sorts had not attacked, and sihey seemed so docile, the team started thinking about sneaking out of here as quickly as they could. This ruined city had plenty of spots to hide in, so they figured that they could eventually make some good distance away from this potential sughter that they’ve found themselves in! They had to give it a shot.

  Right before they were about to move, they spotted something that could either be sidered terrifying, or potentially helpful, but either way it was exg. They saw several goblins swimming down from the couple of whales, as in, it was very likely that these goblins had ridden on the whales up until a moment ago!

  “Ah shit… well at least goblins are easier to kill.” Tim thought, and started charging a lightning-bolt on his palm.

  Tim thought that he had a shot to survive here, but theiced that the goblins were absurdly fast, they would not allow loose ends! Less than ten seds ter, someone had even snuck up behind him, and was holding him at gunpoint. Well, they didn’t have guns, but he was still one wrong move away from getting his head fried, as the goblins had magical powers at their disposal as well!

  “Gegegegegeegegegegege,” The goblin excimed.

  Tim could not uand this goblin, that was for sure. However, wheurned around, he noticed that he and it were of the same species, this was an aqus goblin who threatened him! When the goblin then spoke again, its slurred speech was suddenly more coherent, Tim could uand everything this time, as his brain adapted to their nguage!

  “Why do you impersonate us?!” It asked, “I smell your horrid, degranus stench from a mile away! You 't hide from us.”

  “Degranus? Nah, I’m inally a stingray, so your nose isn’t as great as you think.” He taunted.

  Tim was being put under pressure here, he was being threatened, yes, but that didn’t stop him from saying what was in his mind. They couldn’t force the amped, lightning-bolt out of his hand, so he could kill at least one of them if the situation dema so. He remained unwinding.

  “A stingray? I never heard of anything like that before.” It followed along, and it stopped holding Timothy at ‘gunpoint’.

  Then, it asked. “Why would you leave your fortable seas just to get here? Fish aren’t supposed to be greedy, and we have a couple e examples above our heads, even. Those spring whales are our pets, their whole ambition is to serve us. Did you e here to serve us as well, stingray?”

  “Fuck you, and your whales, pencil dick! Put some damn clothes on. I came here to spite the gods, not to be your pet.” He answered.

  After that point, he wao blow this guy’s head off, and tried to figure out the best way to aim, but theiced that the other’s attitude was ging towards the better, for some reason. This was a fusing versation overall.

  “Degranus goblins have invaded many of our temples in the past, and that is why we try our best to kill any new goblin that enters our oasis, we were about to kill the four of you as well. However, we ’t kill a fish who challehe gods, the tter is unheard of, so we won’t fight you, because you might win and embarrass our families for the few decades, we won’t risk it. We will leave you be, but if you came here to cause trouble like the typical goblihen we will have your heads, regardless of how many of us die while doing so. Seek power, but seek it in a fair, banced manner, don’t force our hand.” It said.

  This was a lengthy, and ued expnation, but it was best that they were talking it out. It was better thaing ruthlessly attacked by these beings, because Tim would have lost, regardless of what the collective sensus was. However, since he and the team also hated the ranus goblins that lived here, the two parties mao uand each other really well.

  The aqus goblins the as quickly as they had arrived, they were gone in half a minute. His friends were shocked by what happehe whales had scared them quite a bit, but all-and-all it was great that not a single drop of blood had been spilled throughout the enter. Tim saved his friends by being his normal, insufferable self!

  …

  Tim and his friends spent three more hours in, and around the city. They had the freedom to do so, and this helped them figure out the infrastructural yout of the viity. This city was too big, so it couldn’t be so g in ‘holy sites’ to the extent that they initially believed it was, there had to be something avaible to them.

  One-hundred meters away from the city, they found something that was buried within mud, gravel and sand. It was a temple! They could tell that it was a temple, because the tip of it was e-shaped, and was made of stone. Such a design was really difficult to craft, so they figured that the past residents ied in this building, because its bowels bore some kind of importance!

  Arvena spoke her truth too, she expined. “There’s plenty of mana down there alright, it ’t be anything else. I haven’t felt this alive in erg… weeks.”

  “So we have to dig it out, then? I think it’s buried pretty deep, so it’s gonna take us a while if we have to dig around it.” He said.

  However, just a sed ter, he remembered that he bore a special, and mostly unused ability that might help him dig. Well, they won’t be able to remove the sand with ‘the flick of a magid’, but in this nano universe, her of them wao spend more time than they had to!

  “Bone multiplier, that was its name!” He celebrated, inwardly, and theched. “I have a sort of power that might help us dig this pce out faster. We don’t o spend months here, that would be really unproductive.”

  “Let’s get productive, then. There’s mana down there, so it should be a holy temple. If it’s a temple, then we also remove the bracket on our mana quality in there.” Arvena followed along.

  It didn’t take any more ving after that point, Tim got into work. However, as Skendus withe events unfold, he couldn’t help asking himself a question. He was skeptical.

  “The city behind us is ruined, but it isn’t buried, yet this temple is… This is getting creepy, why would they bury only one building out of the ey? This fiend says it smells like mana, heck, I think it smells like trouble!” He thought to himself.

  Then, he became more alert, and thought. “I’m gonna try to keep my friends alive, that’s the least I do for them if everything goes wrong…”