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482 – Real Fight

482 – Real Fight

Two more adventurers came up behind the adventurer I saw yesterday.

There were a total of three people: a warrior, a Magician, and one who looked like an archer like me.

“W-what…”

The adventurer I saw at the hotel yesterday looked at us, expressing his embarrassment.

The greatsword, as big as a person, that he had confidently brandished slowly lowered to the ground.

“You already caught it…?”

The greatsword adventurer from yesterday muttered with a sense of futility.

Even though adventurers were in a competitive relationship, I felt sorry for preempting them like this.

‘What should I do…’

Unable to say anything in the awkward situation, I glanced around at everyone else.

Levinas seemed to feel similarly to me.

“W-who’s the captain…?”

Levinas rolled his eyes around.

Gaeul pointed at Levinas and smiled brightly.

“Shunja!”

“Gasp! Gaeul, you mutt! You’re supposed to hide it in these situations!”

“Woong?”

Gaeul tilted her head, then pointed her finger at Levinas’s head.

On Levinas’s head was a hat, the symbol of a pirate captain.

“Heeok!”

Levinas, with his hands on his cheeks, looked like a famous painting I had seen once.

Amused by the sight, Gaeul put her hands on her own cheeks.

“Levinas is a peaceful pirate… he doesn’t even steal treasure…”

Levinas muttered loud enough for the adventurers to hear.

Unfortunately, Marin, who had gone into the cabin, opened the door and came out at that moment.

“I heard a bang, what’s going on?”

Marin, who came up on deck, was holding a basket in her arms, filled with valuables that the pirates had plundered.

It looked as if we were the ones who had plundered them.

“Woe is me! Why did Levinas have to become a pirate…!”

Levinas fell to his knees, in a situation where suspicion was inevitable.

Fortunately, the adventurers didn’t believe Levinas was a real pirate captain.

“W-wait a minute, guys, I know you didn’t steal anything…”

The adventurer with the greatsword moved his sword back, signaling that he had no intention of attacking.

His expression was tinged with bitterness.

It seemed to be regret for missing the pirates.

“Sorry… if my tracking skills were better, I would have arrived sooner…”

The woman with the staff lowered her head.

She was blaming herself for missing the pirates.

“It’s okay, I’m the one who put you through trouble.”

“…Sorry.”

The atmosphere of the adventurers who came up on deck was not good.

The sight of them being so gloomy naturally made me and the children feel subdued as well.

I should have suggested that we catch the pirates together that day.

I should have mustered the courage to go from being competitors to collaborators.

It was a moment of regret as I let out a long sigh.

Sophia came out of the cabin with an old diary that she seemed to have found.

“It’s too early to be disappointed.”

“Why?”

“The pirates we caught were just underlings.”

“Underlings?”

I approached Sophia and looked at the diary.

The handwriting was as squiggly as ramen noodles, so I couldn’t understand what it said.

“What does this say?”

“It’s a long story, but to summarize… the pirates were originally ordinary sailors. Until they became underlings of the Wraith Kraken.”

“W-Wraith Kraken…?”

I knew about Krakens, but what was a Wraith Kraken?

I decided to listen to Sophia until the end.

“Originally, they were an expedition team gathered to subjugate the Kraken. And they subjugated the Kraken, but a problem arose.”

“Did the dead Kraken become a Wraith?”

“Yes, they were swallowed by the Kraken and became its underlings.”

Oh my god.

A ghost Kraken.

It was as amazing as a Tyrannosaurus ghost.

Of course, it wasn’t impossible, given that I could use Ghostification.

“Even though they became underlings of the Kraken, they seemed to have a desire to subjugate the Kraken. Although their method was not right…”

“What method…?”

“Didn’t they collect treasure on land? Originally, shiny things have the power to purify Evil Spirits. Although the method was plunder, it’s amazing that they didn’t harm people even after becoming underlings of the Kraken.”

Sophia looked around the ship, expressing awe.

It was respect for those who, despite becoming evil beings as underlings of the Wraith Kraken, did not harm people.

‘They weren’t just Monsters.’

Well, yeah.

Monsters aren’t beings that just pop up like in a game.

It was natural for Monsters to have their own stories.

“Sophia, does that mean there’s a Wraith Kraken in this sea?”

“Maybe…”

Sophia stopped talking and looked out at the distant sea.

Marin was also looking at the sea, so she must have sensed something in the water.

Me, the children, and even the adventurers on the ship.

Everyone’s eyes were focused on one side of the sea.

Swoosh-

A huge, transparent pillar rose above the sea.

One of the suckers on the pillar was bigger than my head.

“…There was a reason why we couldn’t find that big guy in the sea.”

“I guess so…”

The transparent leg gradually became clearer, and then slammed down on the surface of the water with great force.

Paaang-!

Even though we were far away, the shockwave from hitting the surface of the water was enough to reach the ship we were on.

“I-it’s a giant octopus!”

“It’s not an octopus, it looks like a squid…?”

“What?! Then it has more legs?!”

Gasp.

Levinas grabbed his ears.

At the same time, the Kraken began to approach our ship at an incredible speed.

It was an amazing speed that was hard to believe, given its huge size.

“Gyeoul, did you get the item from Summer?”

“Yes. I have it.”

“Give it to me.”

The item we brought to secure the ghost ship.

Sophia took it and shouted to everyone.

“To kill the Kraken, you have to remove all its legs. Yuna will assist in the water, so cut off the legs that come up.”

“A-alright.”

The adventurers were not part of our guild, but they took their positions at Sophia’s command.

In the face of danger, there was no time to worry about what kind of relationship we had.

Splash-

Sophia jumped out of the ship, and Marin drew up the nearby seawater.

Sophia and Marin, with the water, were surprisingly powerful and were able to slow down the charging Kraken.

‘It’s still fast.’

The impact, if we were hit, was reduced from the ship exploding to just capsizing, but capsizing was still dangerous for us.

I decided to help Sophia and Marin slow down the Kraken.

I shot an ice arrow at the sea.

I imbued it with a lot of Mana for Giantification and shot it towards the Kraken’s path.

Crack-!

A fairly large glacier was created in the Kraken’s path.

The Kraken slowed down and didn’t collide with the suddenly appearing glacier, but it didn’t matter since it achieved the goal of protecting the ship.

“A-a leg is coming up!”

A leg so high that we had to crane our necks.

One of them was falling like a whip onto the ship.

The first to move towards the leg was none other than Saebyeok.

“Bomi, make the foothold a little stronger with magic.”

“O-okay…!”

Bomi increased the hardness of the ship’s supports and deck with Black Mana.

Confirming this, Saebyeok reached out towards the falling leg.

Kwaang-!

Due to the huge impact of the strike from above, the high part of the ship was submerged under the sea before rising again.

If it had gone down a little further, the entire ship might have been submerged.

Swish-!

The waves created by the Kraken’s impact drenched the deck.

On that deck, Saebyeok was seen holding onto the Kraken’s leg, enduring.

“Gasp.”

How strong was Saebyeok?

Everyone’s eyes widened at the incredible strength.

“I’ll hold it, cut off the leg.”

“A-alright.”

The greatsword adventurer rushed towards the leg.

He jumped high and struck down from above, but the greatsword was stuck about halfway into the Kraken’s thick leg.

“Pull out the greatsword and move aside!”

At my shout, the adventurer pulled out the greatsword and stepped aside.

At the same time as he stepped aside, I took out an explosion arrow and shot it towards the Kraken’s leg.

I shot it accurately into the gap of the severed leg.

Puh-ung-!

The leg became tattered from the special arrow Jeong Yuna made, but even this time, the Kraken’s leg was not cut off.

It was an arrow that would shatter any ordinary Monster.

I couldn’t even guess how hard it was.

‘If I use Giant Explosion, Saebyeok will get caught up in it.’

I’ll have to use one more explosion arrow.

Just as I made up my mind, Saebyeok, who was holding onto the Kraken’s leg, used her strength to tear off the tattered leg.

“Kieeeeek!”

The scream echoing from the water pierced my ears.

At the same time, three legs rose above the sea.

Each leg was covered with wounds that seemed to have been made by Sophia.

“I-I don’t think I can block three…”

Saebyeok expressed anxiety for the first time.

In fact, I felt the same way as Saebyeok.

‘This is bad.’

We barely managed to cut off one leg with everyone’s combined strength.

How are we supposed to block three legs at the same time?

Even if we block the three that are up now, there are still six more legs left in the water?

Even in the midst of despair, I nocked an arrow on the bow.

I was planning to blow away one leg with a Giant Explosion arrow and then…

Slow down the world and deal with the Kraken at a fast speed.

In a situation where everyone was fighting urgently, I could see Gaeul standing there with a blank look.

“Woong?”

Gaeul was looking down at her Wooden Caliber with wide eyes.

The Wooden Caliber was emitting a light so bright that it was dazzling.

‘Ah…!’

Gaeul’s Wooden Caliber contained Chae Juyeon’s divine power.

An incredible power that showed overwhelming compatibility with evil Monsters.

The opponent is a ‘Wraith’ Kraken, so…

Perhaps Gaeul’s Wooden Caliber was reacting to the Kraken’s great evil.

Author’s Note

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