“Oh, what’s that?”

“It’s some sort of spell to move across the water, I think… but he’s moving so fast. It looks like he’s a mage, so he must be using a spell, right?”

“Dang, he’s sure moving with flair. Seems like he’s an expert.”

“There’s a user like that?”

Unlike when he hid under another party’s boat to move around, Merlin openly zigzagged past the boats. Like a figure skater, Merlin glided across the surface of the water, and his speed was so fast that the boats couldn’t catch up, so he obviously gained everyone’s attention.

“It seems I’ve arrived.”

Merlin could see a shimmer from afar as a large group of gem fish approached the area where the users were gathered.

Whoosh.

Merlin pounced and shot toward the school of fish before anyone else could react. Unlike before, he now moved with half his body submerged in the water.

“What’s up with that guy? He doesn’t face any water resistance?”

“Is he an elementalist?”

“Regardless of what he’s doing or who he is, won’t he die if he collides with the fish? Perhaps he doesn’t know what’s happening because he didn’t participate in yesterday’s event.”

The largest gem fish was nearly three meters long, so the force it could post was substantial. Gems were relatively heavy minerals, to begin with, and...