妻子的谎言

Sato and Delta made their way toward the village's water bank to meet up with Giron and Divanchi.

"Giron, where is it?" Sato asked as he approached them.

"Lord Sato, very nice to see your face after so long." Giron enunciated with a smile on his face, leaving the river and walking toward Sato.

His eyes were sharp to pick up on Delta's appearance, "Lord Sato, is that a guest?" Giron asked.

"Ahh,... Uhm, she'll be staying in the village from now on." Sato explained.

"Ohhh, in that case, nice to meet you, little lady, my name is Giron, what about you?" Giron inquired with a nice tone.

She immediately wore a smug look before she leaped and rested on Sato's shoulder, "Delta… My name is Delta." She let out,

"Nice to meet you, Miss Delta." Giron beamed, he then looked to Sato and gave out the initial information he wanted him to know about.

"Lord Sato, sorry this is coming in a bit late, but during your trip to Rizaha, one of the water beast men noticed a small cave on the other side of the river that led to Nervek." Giron asserted.

"Cave?" Sato asked, 'Could that be what Orland wanted to tell me about?'.

Delta sniffed her nose and suddenly voiced out, "Uuuuu, I smell fishes!" She let go of Sato and sprinted into the water.

Letting out a sigh, Sato switched his focus back to Giron, "Don't worry about her, she won't cause much trouble… probably".

"It's not really a problem." Giton answered back.

"Good, now, tell me, what cave are you talking about?" Sato and Giron discussed as they walked.

"It was during the evening, we had some bandits trying to break into the supplies, thankfully, Deka and a fish beastmen were able to chase them away, but during the chase, the fish man came back with news of a cave underneath the water and apparently, he could also see a shiny object on the inside," Giron explained everything to Sato as they went to where the event happened.

"Object? What did he say it looked like?" Sato raised another question.

"Well about that, he made mention of some sort of barrier stopping him from entering." Giron responded, "But not to worry my lord, I'm sure if you speak to him directly, you'll understand more".

Standing at the Riverside was a fish-looking

man, with gills on the side of his neck and fish features on his head, arms, and legs.

The river was quite massive since it linked throughout the whole of the forest and even extended toward other kingdoms.

A huge portion of the river was available for the elves, it was so big that some parts had waterfalls and water-covering caves.

Hearing that there was a hidden cave in the river was not so surprising since for the last few months, they had been discovering different types of herbs underneath the river.

"Is that him?" Sato asked, strolling toward the fish man.

As soon as he spotted Sato, The fish man bowed.

"Lord Sato, this is the guy that found the cave, Crustave." Giron introduced.

Sato stretched out his hand for a handshake, "Nice to meet you, Crustave." He complimented.

"V-very n-nice to meet you, sir." Crustave stammered as he shook Sato's hand with a wide smile on his face.

"S-sure." Sato replied with a nervous smile, "So, where is this cave?" He asked.

"Right away, this way." Crustave uttered, running toward the edge of the water before he pointed at it, "Right this way sir, the cave is right here".

Sato moved closer and looked down at the water, using his ultimate skill Perceive, he was able to see everything underneath the water and then spot the cave.

He could see a large toad statue right at the

side of the cave and three glowing lights shining from inside the cave.

Blinking his eyes, Sato looks to Crustave, "Let's go." He said.

Crustave saluted, "Right away".

"Good… now." Sato voiced out, 'How do I swim underwater, I don't think I have the ability to stay under for that long'.

<<Skill of your subjects automatically becomes yours, this is part of the Record skills… sigh!>>

'Was a sigh really that nesdercfery?'.

<<Not really, just felt the need to do it>>

'Sure,' Sato sighed, before he looked at Giron, "I'll be going in now, don't let anyone come here until I'm out of the water".

"As you wish, my lord." Giron responded.

Once that was settled, Sato descended into the water, and he was surprised to see that it was no different than breathing on land.

"This is pretty cool, I wish I knew about this sooner." Sato articulated, looking around to see weeds and fishes swimming around.

"Lord Sato! This way!" Crustave yelled from the other direction, close to the pack of weeds.

"Give me a sec." Sato replied, 'Okay now, how do I…'.

Boom!

Sato's body went zooming past Crustave with just a push of his left leg, he was so fast, the water started forming some kind of vacuum behind him.

"Sir! That's the wrong way!" Crustave followed him.

They managed to make their way to the front of the cave, but their attention was drawn to the giant rock toad.

Sato could also see the three bright blue lights shining from inside the cave and it felt more magical than how he saw it from above the water.

"This is it Sir, but for some reason, I couldn't go into the cave." Crustave informed.

"Here let me try." Sato swam toward the cave, but as he was about to pass the giant toad, it suddenly spoke.

[Have you finally come to claim your belongings?]

Sato propelled before he boosted away from the toad, "Did it just speak?!" He exclaimed.

"Uhmmm, yes sir, I didn't see this before when I came here for the first time." Crustave replied, slowly moving away from the small toad.

"Great, a talking statue, that's not weird at all." Sato voiced out.

[If you are here for your belongings I'm guessing you came with my reward… Successor of the Overseer]