Alright this is not funny.

Aqua decided to just move behind her friends and to my knowledge didn’t tell them anything for now. I can tell, because I can actually hear those mermaids talk about me. Nothing pretty really…

¨We should murder it¨

¨I agree, it endangered life of Aqua as well¨

¨It doesn’t attack I think we should leave it be¨

¨No it is too dangerous, we cannot allow any stronger monster find about the passage!!¨

Eh… it gets confusing for me really. So many voices that I have hard time even orienting who is speaking. I know for sure that Aqua isn’t and it is getting on my nerves. Is she testing me one more time?? Freaking hell woman you are so damn annoying.

There was that one nice girl that wanted to not attack but most of them just straight up want to murder me.

¨OKAY THAT’S ENOUGH! NOT ONLY CAN I HEAR YOU ALL, BUT DAMN YOU WANNA MURDER ME DESPITE NOT BEING AGGRESSIVE AT ALL¨

I think I overdid it a little bit because clearly they all were a bit stunned by my loud inner voice. Even Aqua was clearly in pain. Good, you deserve it for this charade.

¨Sorry, I overdid it quite a bit. I can hear you clearly talking not nicely about me and it got the best of me. Overall I am a really nice guy if you get to know me¨

¨How are you listening to our speech, we weren’t talking to you at all creature!!!¨

One of the commanding mermaids was talking to me. That’s interesting so because of my skill I am able to tap into the communication of these despite not being included in the telepathy… but I also can mimic the telepathy. Got me thinking quite a bit. I will test something when I have the chance but right now I still have mermaids to deal with.

¨To me it seems like you are just talking to each other, if I wasn’t smart enough I wouldn’t even know it is through telepathy. I also can speak the same way by mimicking it¨

I don’t really know if it is enough answer for her but she realized I indeed speak to her also through the same telepathy that they use. I don’t think she was happy about it at all.

¨That’s also weird. But how are you able to speak our language. It is not only we talk in telepathy but we have our distinct language, no creature knows it, because we never taught it to anyone. Only humans could decipher it and they still didn’t to this date¨

Cool that would make sense a bit but I cannot tell. I just understand it easily.

¨Okay, okay I get it. I don’t know. I have a skill that let me do it¨

She believes me but still isn’t happy.

¨What skill is it?¨

That’s rude. I am also not asking her about her skills. We aint on equal grounds there rude bitch. URGH. CALM DOWN FELIX. THERE IS SIXTEEN OF THEM AND YOU ARE SURROUNDED.

¨I don’t know. I have too many I forgot. I can just do it¨

I could clearly feel her distrust but she accepted that. I was sure there is a chance that monsters can in fact forget some of the skills they pick up because they shouldn’t have access to the status at all. Convenient in this time to act like I am a regular monster. HAHA.

¨Why shouldn’t we kill you? You are a monster and we can use your core. You also kidnapped our princess and that is not easily forgivable¨

I think she is really intent on killing me. Wait princess?? Jeez I hate you Aqua. No matter what I tell her will change her mind about that… I can clearly see her smirk and she is also constantly taunting me, daring me to do anything so they can murder me.

¨Our princess could also use some experience, you are a good source of that¨

You know what. Sure. SURE! BRING IT ON!

¨Alright, I understand, do it¨

I could clearly see the shock of every mermaid currently there. They didn’t really believe what they just heard.

¨I said do it. If you are all already so sure you are about to kill me lets skip pleasantries and go into killing each other¨

I think they are genuinely at loss what to do.

¨Listen pretty women. I tried to negotiate with you, I failed, I can learn from this and maybe next time I see mermaids I know I need something that outweigh the benefits of killing me. Thanks for the learning experience and we can just murder each other¨

The leading mermaid thrusted her trident at me, I just dodged it casually to side perfectly and when I was about to do something guess who finally decided to act.

¨That’s enough, leave the rat be. It in fact did something that outweigh the benefits of killing it. Has none of you realized the presence of Qrhturlulu is no more?¨

Mermaids currently about to murder me one by one realized the boss is not there. Clearly some happy faces there. That’s suits them better when they are smiling. Aww… I wish I was a fish man. They are really, really pretty. Aqua is still the best looking one so I am not that dumbfounded by the rest of them but boi… they are all beautiful.

Aqua was about to continue when the leading mermaid attacked me with her trident again only to be completely bound by my tail. I even knocked her trident towards Aqua, she was the only one without weapon anyways.

¨You really suck at this. Are you so proud that you would get killed because you cannot be bothered to try negotiate more? You may be strong but you are not immortal Felix¨

She then went closer to the still bound by my tail mermaid and clearly… she was pissed actually.

¨I said that’s enough. Are you going against me Lilia? I will punish you for this accordingly later¨

Very confident she then just told me. ¨Release her¨

Sure… sure. Princess words are my commands… I am so tempted to squish the mermaid currently helplessly bind by my tail, especially because Aqua is commanding me to release her. But no. I am not that evil. I understand that to them I just am a monster. It actually hurts me quite a bit to be treated this way.

Still, if Aqua talked right from the beginning nothing would have been like this. She just let me eat all this because she wanted to know how I will act huh? I can promise you I don’t enjoy being tested so much little princess.

¨What if I don’t? Also I did this only because she was attacking me. It was self defense and we both put our lives on the line, but honestly now I could use some biomass, she also has probably enough experience for me to be happy about killing her, who knows maybe I can evolve afterwards…¨

I could see the shock on the face of Lilia, that was exactly what I was aiming for. Payback. Eat your own words bitch.

¨That is not funny Felix. I know you are pissed, I am sorry but if you don’t want to be only a monster and more importantly if you want to survive then stop talking at all¨

I think she meant well this time. I could tell by her looks. Damn I think I wouldn’t be able to not listen. I just cannot refuse request from such beauty and this time she feels different. I think she might be putting on a front because of others. She should be very aware of how scary I can get and maybe that’s why she is trying so hard to defuse this situation.

I just released the Lilia.

That bitch stabbed me with her trident that she got from the Aqua. I have no idea how is it possible for her to deal so much damage but I died in single hit.

Only to be unfazed and full hp even before she pulled her trident off my face.

I was sure my hp dropped to zero. How the fuck am I already full hp. I know it regenerated really quickly. That’s not that surprising in this water kingdom but I should be dead. I just don’t understand. This is the second time. It was so fast. Maybe even faster than with the Kraken. But I was sure I died for a sec.

Aqua however was not amused. She did some magic and bind the Lilia.

¨You two take her to our home. I don’t want to see her today anymore. I will deal with you later Lilia¨

I swear to god I want to kill her and I think I must have somehow shown that on me because all the mermaids were cautious and ready to fight. Not that they wouldn’t be ready to fight the entire time but now they expected it to happen.

¨I am sorry Felix. Please calm down. Your mana is leaking out and you are starting to look like a real monster¨

She was shaking a little bit probably because she is literally right in front of me.

Alright… so it was my mana. You betrayer of inner feelings. I got it under control really quickly. But I swear that I will find out how to pay back Lilia in full.

¨I am calm. Sorry it is hard to control myself when someone stabs me in my face¨

¨I can see why that would be the case. Please follow us while being hidden, that way everyone might relax a bit¨

Afterwards she just told everyone to follow her home.

I hid my presence completely and they were really surprised of my sudden disappearance but Aqua was right, I think they maybe thought I am not even there. Everyone was chill and I just followed them without any problems.

We were going past the deep sea into few tunnels and into a wall. Literally into a wall. I don’t know how but it seemed that the wall just doesn’t block our passage. That’s nice so they hid this passage with illusion or something? I can clearly feel the mana somehow there but it feels too similar to the regular dungeon mana for me to pick up on this, so I would probably not notice it otherwise.

That tunnel was also weird in a sense that I was sure something is going on. I couldn’t describe the feeling exactly but I was sure something really weird is going on.

It didn’t take long and we left the tunnel straight into another what would seem deep sea. I could already tell it is very different and insanely bigger, even the mana was more abundant there it was so much mana, I felt insanely good. I felt like I finally can breath and my senses got even better than they used to be. I felt a lot of things. Too many to properly grasp in such short time and Aqua speaking directly into my mind didn’t really help either.

¨Welcome to floor twenty Felix. Our home.¨

FLOOR TWENTY? WHAT?