As the current pressure started to multiply because of the swimming speed of the Sea King, the wooden wall that became harder and sturdier still cracked and squeaked so that Pate could only suck on more blood to upgrade the wooden wall.

And he attempted to grow many roots to form another layer of a wooden wall as he wrapped his waist and legs with vine to not exhaust himself from hugging the tree because of the inertia.

"What is happening, Pate!?" The phantom levitates on his side as every tree starts to turn into a shade of red, making the Guardian Forest worriedly scanned every one of it "stops this madness, the pond might be affected by this blood you're sucking onto!" and he stopped as he slowly understood the overall situation!

"Don't tell me that we are attached to a massive Sea King and y-you!?" the phantom cat pointed at him while looking at him like a madman "Stopped this right now, you madman! and the pond must not be affected by these powerful blood of a being, they are going to die!"

"Okay, I'll try my best but this is the only option we have to survive in this kind of crisis as you won't be able to come up with a solution!" Pate yelled back at him as he tried to eliminate every blood that started to implicate the forest and transfer it to the wooden wall that protected them from the current pressure.

After thinking for a while, the phantom cat can only sigh as he knows that Pate's point is quite true and he can't retort in any way "I hope that the Sea King wouldn't mind us hitchhiking." he could only pray to the fishwheel ancestors to guide them.

"It wouldn't notice us for sure, now that I think about it did you feel that it's kinda hard to breathe?" he asked, while he tried to breathe slowly and feel the shortness of the air around.

"Nah, I don't think so." the phantom cat tried to sniff in the air as it gave its own opinion.

'F*ck you!' Pate could only curse in his mind as he regretted asking a will about breathing but the situation wouldn't look good as the air is really thinning out.

He tried to squeeze out oxygen from the forest but he couldn't feel if he succeeded in squeezing some of the air and while he was on it, the forest shook and Pate fell with the inertia "The Sea King is starting to deviate in another direction!" he said while debating to himself if he would detach themselves from the Sea King or still go on.

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"Hey what are you doing! let go now or else our direction would shift to another location!" the phantom cat hurried him and he could only pull back the four blood roots and let them sink further to the abyss.

Lamenting in a corner after he untied himself from the tree 'My chances of surviving are getting slimmer and slimmer!'

"Wow! Pate your decision is right, we are in the abyss. 20,000 meters deep in the sea!" an exhilarated voice resounded in his mind that added to his sorrow 'I really want to kill him somehow or at least beat him a little!'

But he was stopped in his thinking when the shortness in his air started to kick in, a feeling of tightening in his chest were felt as his eyes enlarged.

He tried to smack his chest to loosen it up and suck a large amount of air but it got tighter and tighter that he almost suffocated and fell on his side as he lay down weakly.

He tried to think of a way but his body couldn't even move as he suffocated, he could only open his mouth and suck some air but it was futile. Pate's eyes started to dilate and his sight started to blur, that's when the phantom cat noticed his state and dash immediately at his side "Pate! What the hell is happening to you? What can I do for you, Pate!"

He could vaguely see the silhouette of the phantom cat, the reason why he is going to die after he swore for vengeance 'This f*cker is the reason!'

And with newfound strength, his right arm moved to the face of the phantom cat slowly that the phantom cat eye's started to twinkle as he hope to saved the kid's life but the hand smack him in the face, and to his surprise, it touches him completely and makes his face turn to the side.

"W-what is that!?" the phantom cat couldn't believe what happened as Pate successfully smacked him in the face when he was just a will, a phantom that could not be touched.

Pate smiles with satisfaction as he loses his consciousness and drifts to the afterlife, satisfied.

The phantom cat was angry and he tried to swing his paw's claw to the face of Pate who currently smiling but to his disappointment, it just got through Pate's smiling face like it was supposed to happen earlier, he tried to attack again to his anger and it stopped halfway as the root wall collapsed on its own.

With Pate's control gone, the roots simultaneously destroyed and bent because of the pressure, and when the phantom cat started to panic as he tried to shout in Pate's smiling face, trying to wake him up.

The seawater gushed in almost destroying the outer area of the forest and because of this impact, the forest tilted to the side that Pate's body rolled to the side to the incoming seawater that gushed in.

"Pate!" the phantom cat dashed forward as he tried to grab Pate's clothes not thinking that he couldn't hold a thing or any living form but he successfully grabbed it.

"If I could just smack you in the face in exchange for this chance of saving you!" the phantom cat could only complaint as he know this is the end and after all the planning and sacrifice for hundreds of years, it would come to an end like this and he even dragged an innocent kid in his mission.

'Ancestor, I couldn't accomplish my mission. I failed you!' a tear slowly fall in his eyes as the seawater gushed in their directions he tried to materialized himself to liquefied form and enveloped the kid in front of him.

'Kid, I'm neglecting my duty to give you some time but still, it was not enough. I just give hundreds years of time to the next generation of fishwheel but I can only give this much time to you, I apologize for everything.' the phantom cat looks at the Pate's smiling face and couldn't help to slap him back in return "Now, we're even!"

And the current pressure pour out in all directions that the forest island that was almost destroyed because of pressure was submerged in the sea and the abyss started to shrouded them.

But when they are in their death's door, a light were seen and the forest island debris pulled them down because of its weight towards the questionable light.