Arknights, but the sickly pretty girl starts

At that time, she never thought that she would be far away from home, nor did she ever think that she would fight on the front line.

I never thought that one day I would walk on the coast.

While Skadi was traveling on land, Goletia wasn't idle either. To find her crewmates, she'd covered just as much ground as Skadi. She had originally held a certain pride towards land, but as she traveled, that pride gradually faded.

Although they were indeed much more backward than the Agors on land, the culture and technology they created were worthy of respect.

As a former technical officer, she deeply understood the value of Originium technology developed on land. The more she learned about Originium, the more surprised she was that it completely defied normal mineral laws.

You know, there is no Originium in the sea where Agor is, and he would never consider using Originium as a source of energy.

Not only did they achieve this on land, they even made the Originium Furnace the source of movement for their greatest creation, the Mobile City. Even as an Agor, Gladia had to admit that she was shocked when she saw the Mobile City moving on the ground.

She understood deeply that Agor could no longer stand still.

In the future, the land and Agor must be reconnected, with Iberia as the gateway in the past and the entire land in the future.

Agor...can't remain silent any longer.

Chapter 12: Pearl Tears Lament (referring to Hai Si)

When they arrived at the coast, Noah specially prepared a swimsuit.

It may disappoint some people, but Noah changed into a one-piece swimsuit, which was purely for swimming training. This suit was specially provided to Noah by Muirseth. In order to ensure safety, Muirseth, Mace, and Skadi all came to the shore to take charge of the care. After all, this was Noah's first time learning to swim, and it would be a lie to say that they were not worried.

But Noah also felt that Muerses might not have come here out of concern for his own safety.

"Huh—I've always wanted to swim in a real ocean! Oh, ocean! You're all water!" As a water spirit, Muirseth has a very special connection to the sea. Her Originium technique is to manipulate water molecules. To her, the ocean is no different from her lead singer. Of course, she can filter the salt from the seawater, but she doesn't want to become a salty spirit. With a beach umbrella and a folding chair set up, she donned her swimsuit, and a coconut in one hand, she thoroughly enjoyed the beach.

Noah, on the other hand, still needed to do some warm-up exercises after using his gray matter to reconnect his legs that had not been used for a long time.

Definitely not afraid of water!

While Noah was stretching and warming up on the beach, Skadi was watching beside him, carrying a greatsword. The sea breeze blew her silver hair. She had been in Saltwind City for so long, but she hadn't come to see the sea that she hadn't seen for a long time.

Although it was because she was busy, she had to admit that she was now more adapted to life on land.

The sun was shining brightly today, and Muirseth's swimsuit wasn't as professional as Noya's. She wore a simple bikini, which didn't seem to have much visual impact due to her lack of proper chest development. However, she probably knew this, so she put on a transparent coat, which not only showed off the beauty of the bikini, but also added a layer of conservativeness.

As expected of a scientist who often appears on the covers of fashion magazines, her fashion sense is indeed much better than Noah's. If Noah were asked to choose, she probably would not be able to pick such a fashionable outfit.

For Noya, clothing's primary function was to keep out the cold; appearance was merely an afterthought. She was a pragmatic person. After a rigorous warm-up, Noya approached the sea. The mere act of stepping onto the wet sand sent a shiver through her body. The chill of the seawater seeping through the sand made her feel uneasy. The wet sand was fluid, and it would soon submerge her instep. Being particularly sensitive to touch, she was so frightened that she immediately pulled her foot away. Her unpredictable behavior immediately drew a laugh from Skadi, who was standing nearby.

After all… in Agor, there's no Agor who can't swim. Swimming is like an innate skill for Agors. If you're a resident of a place like Bikini Bottom under the sea, being afraid of water is as strange as being allergic to air.

So to her, Noah's behavior was indeed a little funny.

But when Noah turned around and glared at her fiercely, Skadi stopped smiling and immediately put on a serious expression.

"Ahem, this isn't funny, this isn't funny."

"This is my first time touching sea water, it's normal." Noah defended her behavior dissatisfiedly. She was indeed scared just now, but it was because she was too sensitive to touch, and the sea water itself was a bit cold, which was a stress response. It could not be considered fear at all.

"Ahem, yes, yes, yes. So, Miss Noah, I'll demonstrate it to you and you just follow me." Skadi coughed twice to ease the embarrassment and then walked into the water before Noah. Skadi dived directly into the sea water and then under the sea water, her whole body swam like a group of swimming scales, making wave-like deformations. She was incredibly fast in the water and soon swam out about seven or eight meters.

This was all Skadi managed to control. Soon, she swam back and forth, returned to the shallow waters, and emerged from the water. She treaded water and called out to Noah. "That's it. Just follow my movements."

"...I'm following..." Noah was speechless. He wanted to keep up with Skadi's movements? He was afraid he was being too careless. The other party's level was really too high to understand. And she didn't mean any harm. She simply thought that anyone could do this. Especially with the silly expression on her face, Noah couldn't get angry at all. "Miss Skadi...we live on land. We are really not on the same level as aquatic creatures like you."

"...Huh?" For a race like the Agol, who learned to swim before breathing, Noa's words were indeed a bit difficult to understand. Miss Killer Whale tilted her head and thought for a long time, but she couldn't think of any difficulty in swimming. "It doesn't matter if you start slowly. You just need to learn to move your body and you can learn to swim."

"..." Although Noah was helpless, she knew that this was the only way, so she immersed herself in the sea water little by little, squatted in the shallow sea, kept her head above the water as much as possible, then gritted her teeth secretly, and then plunged her head into the water. Soon, circles of foam appeared on the water surface, and then Noah immediately raised her head with a red face, not because of lack of oxygen, but because she accidentally opened her mouth in panic and leaked all the oxygen.

She coughed up several mouthfuls of water violently. The salty taste of the sea water made her stick out her tongue constantly, as if this could get the salt out of her mouth. Muirseth, who was watching from a distance, couldn't stand it anymore and immediately threw a small water ball over. Noah saw the small water ball and tentatively drank two sips before diluting the salt.

"How on earth did you manage to adapt to such salty water?!" Noya was completely baffled. After all, the Agors could dive underwater for long periods of time. Did they have no sense of taste? How could they adapt to something like this?

Skadi didn't understand what was going on. To be honest, she even took a sip of sea water. For her, the salt content of sea water was not a problem.

On the contrary, she didn't understand why Noah thought sea water was not tasty. She felt that there was not much difference between drinking sea water and drinking fresh water on land.

The Agors have been dealing with seawater since they were young. They have corresponding organs in their bodies to filter seawater and can also obtain oxygen from seawater. This is completely different from other Terra residents on land.

Secondly... maybe it's because my kidney function is particularly good.

Of course, Skadi didn't know all this. Although she preferred to drink fresh water, she had no objection to drinking sea water.

With the support of Muirseth's small water ball, Noah once again plucked up his courage and began to try diving.

This time, because she did not panic, she dived longer and even dared to open her eyes to see what was happening around her. At first, Noah felt a little pain when she opened her eyes, but she soon adapted to it. This was probably because the gray matter was subtly changing the situation in Noah's body, and even began to help her adjust to the salt content of the seawater. Soon, when Noah could not help but open her mouth, the seawater entering her mouth was not so bitter and salty.

When she emerged from the water this time, her complexion looked much better than before, and this was the result of only two dives.

With her gray matter, she seemed to have the ability to move around in seawater. She was aware that her gray matter played a certain role in helping her adapt to seawater, otherwise there was no reason for her to adapt so quickly.

But here comes the problem… Her ability to move in the water is different from whether she will be useful.

When she tried to float herself in the water, although she could feel the buoyancy supporting her body, she was unable to get her head out of the water, and because she was paddling too frantically, she looked like she was drowning.

Skadi swam to her side quickly, lifted her up, and let half of her body out of the sea. Noah suddenly spat out several mouthfuls of sea water. Although it was much better than before, she still couldn't get used to the taste of the sea water.

"...I can't float. I feel like I'm falling down like a weight." Noah's voice sounded aggrieved. She had read some swimming tutorial books, and the buoyancy of salt water was higher than that of fresh water. Why couldn't she float?

She felt like she had done everything in the book, whether it was holding her breath or paddling with her limbs, but she just didn't seem to be moving forward. Instead, she was spinning in circles.

"I think you're just too anxious. You need to get the rhythm right and keep your strokes steady. The most important thing in the water is to maintain your form and use your buoyancy," Skadi said as she demonstrated. "I think there are only so many tricks. It's really not that difficult."

"...I understand. Put me down and I'll try again." Although Noah didn't think that what Skadi said about no difficulty was the same as what she understood, she also started to be stubborn. She learned everything very quickly, so there was no reason why she couldn't even learn to swim. You know, her body flexibility and coordination were very good. At most, the synchronization rate of her legs was a little low. After all, using gray matter as a medium would still have some delay. But other than that, Noah was still very confident.

Just like when I was practicing swordsmanship, I first observed Skadi's movements. Although Skadi's movements were very fast, in the final analysis, they were just a connection of some movements.

For example, when Skadi first entered the water, she put her legs together like a fish tail, exerted force from her hips, and then paddled up and down with her legs. She dived into the water and used her legs to push the water forward.

Essentially, it's about using your whole body to paddle the water and let the water push you forward.

Logic is about the same as a propeller!

After seeing everything, Noah immediately began to learn. At first, she always stretched her hands out of the water, causing her whole body to sink, but soon she learned to tread water and keep her head above the water as much as possible.

Seeing that Noah was able to keep afloat by treading water, Skadi no longer stayed by her side worriedly, but kept showing off her swimming style. To be honest, her swimming style was essentially based on instinct. She hardly used her arms because her arms were often used to hold weapons, and it was basically her legs that did the paddling. But even so, she was still frighteningly fast.

Noah was also trying to move his legs alone, but this was obviously very difficult, and the Agor people could breathe underwater, which Noah could not do.

However, as the result of the first learning, it was already very good. Noah didn't think she could get it right in one go. Soon, she felt very tired. After all, swimming is very physically demanding. But when she wanted to go ashore, she suddenly found that her eyes went black. Then she realized that an hour had passed. However, because of her excitement, she didn't notice it at all. At the same time, her eyes went black, and her legs also went on strike. Noah could only use her hands to paddle and try her best to keep herself above the water.

Fortunately, Skadi quickly discovered this and picked it up.

"Sorry, I didn't pay attention to the time either." Skadi blamed herself a little, but Noah thought it was his own problem and just shook his head.

"This is my own problem, Miss Skadi. Please help me get to the shore."

"Ah."

Skadi just nodded, but suddenly seemed to realize something. She turned around in the water while holding Noah, and Noah suddenly realized that a cold gaze fell on her. Skadi's face changed slightly, because she was very familiar with this breath. This cold and damp breath obviously belonged to her enemy - Hai Si.

This group of sea snakes targeted this place? Why? Neither Noah nor I were bleeding, and before entering the water, I confirmed that there were no sea snakes within a kilometer.

In other words, these sea creatures have just appeared?

Skadi gritted her teeth. Carrying Noah on her back to fight Haisi in the water was still a bit of a stretch, and she wasn't sure she could keep Noah from getting hurt. So she said to Noah, "I might not be able to take care of you when the fight starts. I'll take you back first. I hope it's not too late."

They were already some distance away from the shore, and now Noah couldn't swim. It would be difficult to send Noah back as much as possible under such circumstances, but she could only try it.

Noah nodded, trying his best not to cause trouble to Skadi, but obviously... Hai Si did not intend to abide by the moral code of the game, and their target was originally Noah Kyrielight.

Soon, a group of shadows appeared under the water, their backs breaking through the water, like a group of cold death gods. They were hunting, and their targets were clear. The sea herd split into two groups and surrounded Skadi, whose speed was slowed down by Noah, at a very fast speed. After realizing this, Skadi hugged Noah with one hand and directly grasped the hilt of the sword with the other hand. Although the sword was heavy, due to the material it was made of and Agor's special technology, the sword would not affect the hunter's speed when in the water. As for the principle - Skadi certainly didn't know.

But what she knew now was that this sword would probably have to see the flesh and blood of its old rival again!

Chapter 13: Possessed by Evil Spirits

Deep Sea Hunter, why is it called Deep Sea Hunter?

Before becoming a hunter, Skadi was actually a skilled worker in Agor's social distribution.

In Agor's society, which has achieved a huge surplus of productivity, work is more inclined to realize self-worth. Skadi followed her interests and became an electrical engineer, a technical position, a stable job in a sense. She would have lived such an ordinary and leisurely life.

But the good times didn't last long. Unimaginable changes occurred in her family, which turned her from an electrical engineer into what she is now.

People can never choose their destiny. When destiny comes, they can only choose to accept it.

And Skadi accepted this fate and became what she is today.

She did not complain about anything. She trained hard and tried to adapt to her current identity. Although she still misses the carefree days, she has no regrets.

Since we cannot choose our destiny, we should just follow our predetermined fate and move towards a distant place that we originally could not reach.

It is precisely because of this mentality that she can adapt to the terrible training of deep-sea hunters and withstand the huge gap between their identities.

However, it is precisely because of her extraordinary concentration that she has become a monster in the eyes of many Agor people.

Even though her original intention was simply to do what she loved, Skadi was so careless that she became a weirdo in the eyes of most people.

And now, she is still the same.

Guard what needs to be guarded, and hunt what needs to be hunted.

Hai Si is her enemy.

The job of the deep-sea hunter is to kill all the sea creatures.

It was like this before and it is still like this now.

Skadi, holding a long sword, protected Noah behind her like a knight, and stood guard in front of her with an extremely tough attitude.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

It wasn't just Skadi who noticed something was wrong, but also Mace and Muirses on the shore. However, Muirses was not good at dealing with creatures like the Sea Si, and Mace was not good at water battles. Like Noah, although she was not a landlubber, she was not far off.

At the first moment, the only person Noah could rely on was Skadi, who was good at water battles.

In order not to cause trouble to Skadi, Noah could only hold Skadi's neck with both hands and stick to Skadi's body tightly, trying not to affect Skadi as much as possible.

When the sea creatures came towards them, Skadi held the blade across her body, taking a defensive stance first, then suddenly turned the hilt, and the sword disturbed the tide and broke the ocean current. In an instant, the calm sea became turbulent.

This manifestation of inhuman power is precisely Skadi's exaggerated and terrifying power, which is second to none even among deep-sea hunters.

Her power is enough to split mountains and seas, and crushing the tides is just the beginning.

In this turbulent ocean current, even the sea creatures could not avoid being unable to control their bodies. At this moment, the sword blade had already pierced through the waves. The sharp blade directly cut a large number of sea creatures in two. The fishy blood in their bodies had no time to dissipate before they were swallowed up by the turbulent ocean tide.

In the ocean, the power of deep-sea hunters far exceeds that on land.

With just one encounter, Skadi destroyed nearly a quarter of the Haisi.

But this wasn't enough. The Sea Si that were about to attack were clearly not headless flies. Those killed were the vanguard, testing the waters. After realizing Skadi's combat power was truly superhuman, the other Sea Si immediately broke up into small groups. After these blue-gray creatures dispersed at an extremely fast speed, Skadi's tidal wave attack was of little use.

No matter what, she was just one person and it was impossible for her to stop so many Hai Si at once.

In this situation, after the enemy was broken up into small pieces, it would be difficult for Skadi to wipe out the enemy's manpower in one go as before.

Of course Skadi knew this, so she swung her sword again, stirring up the tide and creating another gap in the community of sea creatures. Then she dived directly into the water with Noah. Only in the water could she reach her fastest speed.

Noah reacted quickly as well. Before Skadi dived underwater, she held her breath. Although she felt water entering her ears and nose, she knew that the first goal was to return to the shore first, not to kill these sea creatures first.

It's a bit of a stretch to bring myself along.

Although Noah was unwilling to become a burden, he still held Skadi's neck tightly, trying his best not to affect the other party's speed.

Skadi was very fast and quickly broke out of the encirclement. After the sea creatures reacted, they immediately started chasing the two. The tide was surging, and when the sea creatures reached the shore, they suddenly couldn't swim. It felt like the water suddenly turned into something like mud. Not only could they not swim, but it even became harder and harder.

Soon, these sea creatures saw a scene that they might never forget. The mace was stepping on the sea water - yes, it was really stepping on the sea water. The sea water seemed to be solidified. She swung the two maces in her hands as if walking on flat ground. In no time, a golden whirlwind arose on the sea surface, and countless sea creatures were swept up and then smashed to pieces.

However, not only were Noah and Skadi not affected by the solidified sea water, they even vaguely felt that the current was pushing them back to the shore.

It was not until she stepped on the ground that Skadi realized that the person who had just helped the two of them was Muirses. She controlled the water flow to control the group of pursuing sea creatures, and also temporarily solidified the water surface so that the mace could step directly on the water surface to provide support.

Next to a large amount of water, the water elves' Originium skills can be perfectly displayed.

It is no exaggeration to say that the water elf on the seashore is like having unlimited firepower. The abundance of water molecules makes her seem omnipotent at this moment.

With the combined efforts of the mace and Muirses, the remaining Hai Si were quickly strangled to death, and Noah was put back into the wheelchair by Skadi.

As for Noah, apart from choking on water several times, he was not seriously injured.

It was already considered lucky to be able to escape unscathed from the attack of the Hai Si, and the arrival of this wave of Hai Si was strange, as if they knew they would come to this sea area. However, Noah did not have time to think about it, and he felt Skadi's self-blame and worry beside him.

"I'm fine, Miss Skadi." Noah waved his hand quickly. "I really appreciate your help this time. Otherwise, I would not have been able to escape by myself."

After realizing Skadi's uneasiness, Noah was very understanding and comforted Skadi first. After all, this was an emergency and had nothing to do with Skadi herself.

It’s better to say that it was I who decided the time and location. If you want to say something, it’s just that I chose a bad location.

All in all, it has nothing to do with Skadi, but the melancholy Miss Killer Whale seems to have determined that it is her responsibility, and she looks as EMO as she can be. Although Noah doesn't know why she seems to think that Hai Si's appearance must be her fault, Noah still speaks to comfort her.