With all enemies dead, Almond snatched their storage rings before they could end up in some monster’s mouth.
“Do we continue to explore ourselves or bail out and relax?”
“Let’s bail out. We gained enough today. Next, we chill and relax.”
“Sounds good.”
And so, Almond put Raicanor and Lily in Spirit Realm before using one token and returnign to the ship before putting them out—saving two tokens.
“You guys…”
One of the Immortal Kings of Lyna’s party suddenly dashed at him, her jaw dropped and her pink twin tails turning upward in shock. “You are alive!”
“Of course we are,” Almond laughed. “We also got the Emperor-rank Abyss Sea monster that we killed.”
“What?! How?”
“Let’s just say we have an artifact that can keep us safe, so we just encased ourseleves with this body, stored it, and used token,” Lily answered.
“Damn, that’s awesome. But seriously, we all thought you’d have died and felt sad, haha.”
Almond and Lily smiled while Raicanor snorted, “We wouldn’t die to a bunch like that.”
The girl laughed and nodded, “That’s good to know. Anyway, come on, we just ordered food, so we are about to eat. Everyone will be happy to see you are safe and sound, not to mention you also brought back our prize.”
…
Lyna and others were indeed shocked, but then the mood turned festive as everyone ate and drank before going to various places in the giant ships.
The giant ships were basically like a city with all the needs available. There were hotel rooms, bars, meditation dimensional pockets, a market, and everything.
The whole large parking area had people going to and fro, numbering tens of thousands.
The first thing they did was to sell the Monster bodies.
Including the Immortal Emperor Sea Hose of late stage, the whole party earned a whooping 774k high-tier Arcane Crystals.
Interestingly, 268k was the price of late-stage Emperor-rank Sea Horse Monster alone and it would’ve been more if its body was more complete.
Lyna, Garlon, Devon, and Raicanor got more as they contributed more against Emperor-rank Monsters. Aside from that, everyone got Arcane Crystals they deserved depending on kills.
Almond and Lily earned a total 42k together, and including Raicanor’s share, their total earning came to 112k. Just his share from Sea Horse monster was 64k.
The price of the token was 10,000 high-tier Arcane Crystals, so everyone made a big profit.
Lyna wanted to give more to them since they brought back the Emperor-rank Monster’s body, but Almond refused.
After parting ways and scheduling to meet after eight hours, Almond and Lily saw two Supreme Emperors shooting to destroy a high-stage Immortal Emperor trying to run away.
It looked like there really wasn’t any way to leave without alerting this clan’s forces and they had fully barricated the borders of this ocean with sensors.
Even if one tried to travel through the ocean to the other side, it was useless. Going deeper, like upward, was courting death because the Abyss Water would become more and more dangerous as one went deeper upward into the sea, eventually reaching a border famously known as the limbo of death.
Only strong Supreme Emperors could go there and return. If others went even five kilometers near the end of the depths, they would be sucked into oblivion and die. At least, that’s what everyone believed because no one had returned after getting sucked in, not even Supreme Emperors once they dared to go in.
“Well, we don’t need to steal or anything,” Lily shrugged. “Let’s go and sell the stuff we got from the storage rings.
And so, Almond’s group gained an additional 238k high-tier Arcane Crystals just from the Immortal-King monster’s bodies that the vampire and others had defeated, and 64k of the early-stage Immortal-Emperor Sea Horse monster.
With this much money, Almond and Lily decided to enjoy to the fullest because they didn’t plan to do savings or buying items and suhc things like others.
After asking a few people, Almond and Lily arrived at the most luxurious ship, which was the first ship and also the largest one as it stretched seven kilometers in length and two kilometer wide.
The ship had an entertainment district with expensive stuff and entertainment.
The streets were wide and the number of people were a few thousands, most of them being Emperor-rank powerhouses.
“Let’s go to that building,” Lily pointed at a crystal palace with the nameplate [ Sky Pearl Club Palace Casino & Resort ]
“Looks good.” Almond nodded and the duo flew there.
The stone path was beautiful with glowing trees on both sides. As they arrived at the wide transparent crystal door and entered the lobby, they were greeted by staff.
The reception spot was in the middle with a big round golden black desk with a few different beastfolks and one elf handling customers.
Almond and Lily arrived before the octopus beastfolk, who promptly greeted them with a smile, “Welcome to the Sky Pearl Palace. May I know what kind of activity would you like to do here?”
“What do you have here?” Lily asked.
“If you want to simply live leisurely with food and meditation, then the prices of such mini-island rooms start from 1000 high-tier Prana per night to 10,000 high-tier Prana per night.”
“Island rooms?” Almond raised his eyebrows.
“Yes,” the octopus beastfolk grinned. “There’s an upsidedown archipelago below this sea, owned by whoever owns this Floating Abyss Sea every month. It’s a wonderful archipelago with a collection of hundreds of mini-islands, connected to each other via pathways for the staff to bring food and other things. They are built with first-class housing structure and enjoyment in mind, not to mention the peace and purity of arcane there.”
“The higher the price, the more purity of arcane, perfect for meditative training. Aside from the archipelago resort, you can enjoy in the casino, try some of the finest drinks in our pub, you can dance like a mortal or at hyper speed, watch professional dance shows brewing with mystical intents, listen to singers showing their concepts, and even spar against others in the Arena Dimension, either for fun or to resolve a dispute with someone.”
Almond and Lily looked at each other, grinning.
“Get us the best mini-island first. We’ll explore the rest of the club palace after that, starting with the casino.”
“Thank you for the patronage.”
…
After settling the bill and booking the island for five days by paying 50k high-tier Arcane Crystals, Almond and Lily arrived at the archipelago after entering through a portal.
All around them was water and islands with exotic structures built on them, and long stone bridges connecting them to each other.
At the center of the archipelago was the biggest island and biggest structure were most of the food and drinks for the people resting here was cooked.
They cooked Abyss Sea monsters for them, albeit of Immortal-rank and lower since the food and drinks here were free after booking a top-class island costing 10,000 high-tier Arcane crystals per day.
They couldn’t see through the islands as they had formations preventing outside eyes from observing.
Almond could try, but he scanned it and saw that if he breached it forcefully, alarms would set off and Supreme Emperors would be on his tail.
During this one month where this Floating Abyss Sea was in a clan’s control, they would station 80% of their force in security and maintaining order.
After Almond and Lily arrived at their island, they were indeed blown away by the purity of arcane and prana as well as general vibe.
The most awesome thign was the sea it self. It pulsed as if alive, and from this position, the sea reflected the deepest part of it on the surface, which was the main attraction of this archipelago.
500 kilometers of surface seemed to be special as its waters were abyssal and colorful, showing exotic phenomena en-mass.
Almond and Lily observed a few and could dive into anyone they desired by sending their consciousness in.
“It’s chaotic, but also lots of material to get fragmental insights,” Lily said as she blinked and returned her consciousness.
“Yeah, looks like we made the right choice by coming to Azureprism Cosmos first,” Almond smiled.
Lily walked before him and wrapped her arms around his neck, a charming and seductive smile on her face. “Now I am in the mood to do something first.”
In the next second, her clothes vanished, displaying her pale peachy skin with a rosy hue in perfect and moderate curves.
Twin peaks the size of D-cups perked in their glory with the pink cherries already erect.
Almond’s gaze turned hot as he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her into his embrace while his clothes also vanished. Planting his lips and beginning a passionate kiss, Almond’s push made them roll over the sandy beach before they fell into the water, still within their island’s privacy formation.
Soon, moans and groans of pleasure started to ring as they began fighting passionate battles.
Two hours later, both of them returned and showered themselves.
Maybe it was the food or drinks they had with Lyna and others, but under the shower, as they soaped and cleaned each other while having fun, Almond and Lily made another round of love exciting.
They ordered food as they got hungry after fucking like rabbits and ate before deciding to sleep for a few hours.
…
“Where are they?”
“It looks like they’ve decided to go low-key after taking over a clan. The House of Regalon is making daily deals and collaborations with other clans in their cosmos, but no one has sighted Almond or Lily.”
“Hmmm…we are still in the observation phase. Let some time pass by and waves to calm down. People are still talking about them.”
“So you want to hit them when they least expect it?”
“Exactly. In the meantime, put up people to locate their whereabouts.”
“Alright.”