Talk:Episode 05/@comment-24.16.135.29-20200416183333/@comment-45405164-20200416192123

In the web novel, Maple is playing with Kanade. Kanade doesn't have the book from the anime. The island Sally swam to has a staircase that descends to a portal and using it teleports you into the middle of the ocean (surrounded by water and likely affected by Ancient Sea's slow effect). The TRUE Sea Emperor, who is noted as guarding 2 of the Mystical Beast eggs, automatically begins the battle by attacking without giving a moment for players to adjust.

We learn this because Kanade mentions he has the Swimming skill and offers to investigate for us. He dies and then comes back to the sand area where he was playing with Maple. His respawn point is nearby in the forest.

Maple and Sally move on further down the coast and discover some ruins where they find a group of 3 players. They overhear the players talking bout having 3 silver medals and a book that they're trying to understand a mystery of. Sally wants to PvP them for the stuff and although Maple shows a small amount of hesitation, she approves hunting them down! (Who saw Maple approving PvP before this?)

Sally proceeds to act 100% out of the norm and after the PvP, Maple asks her to do it again so she could record it but is denied. The 3 players take the bait because Sally said she had 5 silver medals on her, falling to their greed. The duo gain 3 medals and the book that is guaranteed to drop on death.

From this, they read the riddle and search the ruins, eventually finding the "heart of the city", the 4 fountains. After a little experimentation, they are barely able to meet the conditions by filling the liquids at a specific time of day, 12 midnight, and they follow the strange occurrances they cause to a shrine in the nearby cliff. At the shrine there was a teleportation circle that teleports them to the sea floor in a cemicircular room. They then walk through a tunnel-like area where the walls are the sea itself towards an imposing door that leads them to the lesser Sea Emperor. The battle is significantly different from the anime.