The team got into the nano-universe of Nul, and sihis tiny universe solely featured a big body of saltwater, the entities didn’t leave the four of them aloil they woke up. Water could be deadly against an unscious person, especially saltwater, they could all easily drown! The entities felt morally ied to help these guests survive the post-entrance experience, and all they had to do was keep their heads above the water, really, it wasn’t a tiresome task.

  Ohe four of them woke up, the entities left right away, they disappeared out of thin air within the blink of an eye! As for the foblins iion, they felt beyond pissed off that their clothes and armot wet, so it was best that they didn’t have to deal with any spooky entities on top of this disfort. Too stressful.

  It was really unfortable to wear anythiheir skins couldn’t really work around this sluggish disfort, so their first thought was to take all of their clothes ht away, they wao strip hey figured that they shouldn’t be needing any clothes here uer, but it appears that they’re wrong about that!

  “Keep your clothes on, people, we don’t o see each other’s junk this time.” Arvena interrupted them.

  Then, she expined. “We turn into aqus goblins, if we’re to fit in around here. Nul is filled with them, and sihey’re about our size, then we don’t have to take our clothes off this time. We’ll refrain from taking them off, because armor and ons are expensive, you know? We’ll be shifting into aqus goblins.”

  “You make a pelling argument,” Tim joked, “I was looking forward to using a sword anyway, we never get to use these things.”

  “Hold on to that because you may ,” She nodded, “There are a lot of normal goblins like you and I, who never left Nul ohey got here, and they’ve bee very territorial over time, very dangerous too. We may o fight them, heck, I got chased out of here st time before I could make any real progress, so always be on yuard.”

  “Hmm…” Tim sighed, and thehought to himself. “I still have a couple of tricks up my sleeve that I never used before. I'm sure that these hiki-tiki bastards won’t pin about being killed by spooky neantic powers, so we should be alright.”

  Anyway, after that short versation, Arvena led by example. She shapeshifted into an aqus goblin, and sihis species wasn’t really superior to degranus goblins, she didn’t have to beg the gods in order to achieve this transformation. She had visited this nano-universe before, and uood that aqus goblins were just dark-blue skinned goblins, who also had gills. Those were the main differences betweewo species, they weren’t too special.

  With that sidered, it didn’t take her long to groair of gills, she transformed under five minutes!

  Tim transformed uen mier on, and thearted mog everyone’s ears, this tter part redictable. The ears of aqus goblins were longer in parison, and they hung backwards like the ears of a rabbit, so they were funny to look at on most occasions!

  Skendus and Ortana shapeshifted as well, without any plications. Sino one in the group had to sacrifiything, the sizes of their bodies remained very much the same. Skendus was still the rgest in the group!

  Their feet had grown a bit too big, so they had to take their shoes off, but other than that they were the same. It was easier to swim without shoes, and the webs that had grown on their hands, along with their feet, were sure to help them swim better as well.

  Their pairs of shoes were the only things that they had to sacrifi this journey, and siheir skin was very recipient of the seawater around them, odds were that they didn’t have to leave any more clothes behind!

  Anyway, after they were fit to travel, the four of them started swimming. Their idle swimming speed was about 5 km/h, which was handy because most fish swam at that speed, so they really felt at home here! At most, they discovered that they could swim up to 11 km/h if they o, apart from Tim, who could swim even faster than that with the aid of his powers. He was happy with the numbers overall, and so were his friends, as they could swim away from danger if they o.

  They ended up swimming deeper in this weird sea, they had to. This nano-universe sisted of a single, circur, five-kilometer wide sea, so they khat they only had to swim down if they were to discover anything important. The explorative part of this journey sisted of that simple formu, so they weren’t going to see anything that hadn’t been discovered by their forefathers already!

  Arvena came here with a pn in mind, and since she had some back-up now, she felt fident that they were tn victorious against any and all obstacles that could be tossed against them. In previous journeys when she had been in this universe alone, she hadn't been fortu all, progress-wise, and that’s why she was so appreciative of the help that her guests were willing to offer, all for the sake of collective progress! She knew of its value.

  With that said, she was fortable enough to share her pn. “We're here to remove the mana-quality bracket that each of us have, guys. I've told you about this before, each of us are bound to hit a limit of how much we improve the quality of our mana, this is iable, it happens to most mages, so we have to do something about it. In this universe, ush’ this limit further away, it’s very possible to do so, and I haven’t told you much about Nul before, because I didn’t want to disce you. It's very dangerous to swim in these waters!”

  “Nothing is as scary as being stu the same level forever,” Tim added, as he swam alongside her. “You should've told us.”

  “Well, I am telling you now. oal today is to find a holy site, basically, and we're to kill everyone in the holy site that opposes us. It feels wrong to kill our own kind, but the degranus goblins here have usurped a bunch of holy sites for decades now, and they don't accept visitors. We'll be fighting some really powerful guys, but if we win and remove our power brackets afterwards, then I'll take you to the Ruins of Aqumus ba the mainnd, where our progress will be bountiful!”