>>5357206With you firmly in his grip Aku drops down into the sea, the water splashing off ineffectively against the barrier around you he created. And true to his word, Aku's shield is completely watertight. Sighing out a bit in relief, you watch as the Shapeshifting Master of Darkness changes his form once more. This time he takes on the shape of an eight-legged sea monster, one that looks oddly similar to the mutated krakens you'd fought as he begins swimming deeper. His entire body in this form is used to rapidly swim, you calling out as you see the trench.
“There! It was down in the trench.” you call out, Aku shaping one of his tentacles into a thumbs up somehow as he swims down into the gap. Without the Abyssal darkness radiating from it, it just looks like a normal trench, but then you start to see it. Bodies still line the trench, those of the Rak'kari smashed and splattered against the rocky walls from the battle with the two giant Abyssals. But Aku doesn't slow down, you barely getting a moment to process this as he dives deeper and deeper. Then after several moments he swims down into the familiar looking cavern, then stops as he looks around confused. He then turns one giant eye towards you, brow still flaming somehow as he looks to you.
“Now where do we go?” he asks, you looking around uncertainly. When you'd been down here before, you hadn't exactly paid a whole lot of attention to where you were going as you'd been focused on the individual ki of the Rak'kari warriors instead.
Well? What now?
>Down. You'd dropped further down after being led to a narrow ledge leading to a round arena like area. Wherever the dragon's corpse is, it will be at the bottom>Reconnect with New Salda, the planet hopefully knows where you were when the Abyss was sealed and could probably lead you back there>Telepathically reach out to the Rak'kari champion, see if he knows the way back from the entrance since he and his people were able to leave on their own once the water'd reclaimed this space>Other(write in) 