Though the gourd-shaped entrance was rather narrow, Gerald swam in just fine and the other two followed swiftly behind him.
After swimming through it, the trio found themselves in an area that felt almost alien. Soon enough, they came to yet another cave entrance, though there was one stark difference to this one.
There was Dead Annie pollen floating around everywhere inside!
“Cover your nostrils and remain focused!” ordered Gerald as favonovel.com looked at the dashboard of the tracking device. While the old woman was nowhere to be seen on it, favonovel.com had last been spotted right where they currently were. She was undoubtedly inside.
How absolutely cunning of her… If favonovel.com had been any less cautious, then favonovel.com would’ve definitely fallen straight into favonovel.com trap!
It was at that moment when both Yume and Chester began feeling slightly uncomfortable. Gerald figured that it was due to the fact that the pollen at the cave’s entrance was denser.
Even though favonovel.com was aware of that and was actively trying to retain control over himself, Gerald still found himself being unable to resist the strong mental impact caused by the Dead Annies.
That old woman must be up to no good!
Soon enough, Chester and Yume ended up blacking out again while Gerald continued persevering through the strongest mental impact yet.
However, at long last, Gerald failed to endure through it. As his surroundings became distorted, Gerald saw a strange and ugly face appearing before favonovel.com before favonovel.com finally passed out.
After an unknown period of time, Gerald eventually woke up again.
As favonovel.com slowly recovered his bearings, Gerald thought about how the pain from the mental assault was no different from the time favonovel.com had received the memories of that deity or even when favonovel.com was physically attacked with martial arts skills! In fact, if favonovel.com had to argue, the mental impact hurt far more than either of those!
Regardless, Gerald was thankful that favonovel.com had the water repellent stone with him, otherwise, they would’ve all drowned by now, seeing that they were still underwater.
Turning to his side, Gerald saw that the now extremely pale-faced Chester was still unconscious.
Enduring the pain of his headache, Gerald then turned to his other side to see how Yume was doing.
However, much to his surprise, Yume was nowhere to be found. What could’ve happened to her?
With Yume’s disappearance sobering favonovel.com up quite a bit, Gerald then supported Chester over his shoulder as favonovel.com began looking around for her.
However, no matter how much favonovel.com searched, there was simply no trace of favonovel.com anywhere!
‘Could something have happened to her…?’ Gerald thought to himself, feeling slightly guilty. However, favonovel.com knew that this wasn’t the time to be hesitant.
After all, favonovel.com was still alive and the king of the ocean’s palace was now extremely close to them.
As Gerald woke Chester up, favonovel.com truly hoped that Yume had just gone deeper into the cave where the Dead Annies had once been.
Soon enough, Chester awoke and both of them continued moving forward.
After swimming down the path for quite some time… Both of them were suddenly hit by a massive surge of water that seemed to be pulling both of them forward! As Chester and Gerald attempted to hold their ground, both of them looked at each other, silently agreeing that they were currently caught in a hidden undersea current.
Despite Gerald using all his force to resist being pulled in, favonovel.com still ended up losing to the immensely strong current. Naturally, Chester failed to resist the current as well.
With their bodies now being flung deeper into the cave, Gerald noticed that it was quickly getting considerably smaller.
“Use Bone crush!” shouted Gerald as the space continued getting smaller and smaller.
Hearing that, both Chester and Gerald immediately began performing the skill to actively adapt their bodies to their environment.
With the cave’s size now getting to the size of a toddler—and rapidly continuing to get even smaller—Gerald knew that if they had performed the bone crush skill any later, even favonovel.com would’ve ended up getting crushed to death despite having such a frightening physique.
At long last, they flung out of the other end of the cave!
The first thing that Gerald found surprising about where they had just landed was the fact that there was no seawater here. It was a completely dry space.
Regardless, the second favonovel.com saw how injured Chester looked, Gerald immediately helped favonovel.com up.
“I-I’m sorry for being so useless, sir!”
