>>5374452>>5374308>>5374191>After that defeat, the matter of your own power is important to you. Focus on ways you can cultivate your divinity.Without your goddess or your home, the one thing you have to hold onto is your divinity. That divine spark of the heavens passed down by your mother, rendering you a demigod and providing you a claim to those very heavens. The ability to will something to happen, and have it occur, that is the realm of the gods. And as long as you have that, you won't give up for anything.
After your defeat by the merman king however, you feel perhaps what you have is simply not enough. It never was a problem for you in times past, but then you always had the support of your mother. Now you are on your own, and unless you seek to ascend to godhood yourself, you feel that you would never be able to rest easy knowing that something out there could defeat you in such a risky way.
After all, if a mortal for example should somehow find a way to kill you, it would only destroy your physical body but not your divine being. If a sufficiently immortal being such as King Idaios had killed you however, that would be it for you.
<span class="mu-b">"So... how do you feel about leaving, little man? Not from my side, but out to sea."</span>
<span class="mu-s">"More than anything I care for my home, but then I do not have a choice, yes?"</span>
It is clear to see that Faysal longs for his homeland, and is quite unhappy about his ongoing captivity. Would that he could go free, he would gladly do so without a second thought. However there is the one detail which could serve to change his mind.
<span class="mu-s">"...unless you seek more wonders, like the sunken city. I would give to you all you ask, for such chances as that!"</span>
When you first kidnapped him, he had been quite depressive until you took him to Atlantis, for which he enlivened greatly and has remained more that way. It's a difficult matter for him because he despises being the hostage of a sea monster, yet he realizes that you provide him with opportunities no other human ever has. He, that seeks glory and restoration of his status, knows that he will have no better chance than with you.
In turn it makes you more interested and invested in the conflict of his own people, and how you might exploit and benefit from that. Before you make such a move however, you would like to be more secure in your power, and you certainly would like to have adequate people skills... or at least the ability to interact with the humans without fear or hostility from them.
So you resolve to set out, to travel from your cave here and survey what you can of the mainland and the sea as you go. Only for a short while at first, just to see how much you can easily reap elsewhere. Compared to these seas which may have already been reaped by that pretender society trespassing in your domain, in your ruined sunken city.
