Crackle! 

Seo Jun-Ho created a glacier on the ocean to land on. Not long after, he sensed a flow of magic as his teammates arrived using Teleport.

“What in the world did you learn in the last year?” Skaya asked.

“I’ll be honest. I was really impressed by the way you walked on water,” Gilberto remarked. They looked both curious and envious. As they talked for a bit, a giant shadow covered them.

[...] The guardian deity of the southern sea, the Leviathan, approached them. It started to speak as the three Players looked at it.

[First, let me extend my gratitude.]

The beast hadn’t gotten away unscathed. Blood was still flowing out of the many injuries it had sustained from the fiends.

“Hey snake, do you want me to heal you? I’m not as good as a priest, but I should be able to help a bit,” Skaya offered.

[I refuse. I will slumber somewhere deep in the ocean and heal myself.]

The Leviathan immediately refused. Perhaps it didn’t want to be even more indebted to mere humans.

[I expected them to do this eventually.]

“You already knew about the fiend...