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Chapter 262
🕑 Added 2024-10-21 02:00:02 +0000 UTCThat night, Colin set up the white blanket that they were using as the projector screen on one of the walls. The unfortunate thing was they couldn’t drag the chairs to face the wall where the screen was set up so they decided just to sit on the floor and use thick blankets and pillows to make the floor comfortable. All of them did purchase a lot of blankets and pillows since they knew that they would probably need them during their journey and carrying a lot of things was not a problem for them due to their spatial items. Since the floor was cleaned by Anton, it was also not a problem to scatter the pillows and the blankets there.
Anton saw Esther and Fronta were confused about what everyone was doing and when the show started, he could see the two new bodyguards exclaiming while watching the show. They were so focused on watching Xena: Warrior Princess that they forgot to maintain their stoic expression and became normal folks watching an exciting television show.
After the show ended, the two bodyguards kept asking questions since Anna welcomed them.
“Should I start the next episode of Hercules?” Anton asked and everyone agreed but before the show started, they heard an alarm.
Harun informed them the alarm would happen if the ship were being attacked.
“I’ll go check it out!” Anton told everyone.
“Be careful,” Anders said to his son.
Some of them wanted to follow Anton but Anders and Lucas forbade anyone else from exiting the suite. Harun informed them that during emergencies, no one was allowed to leave the rooms except the ship’s mages, and since Anton was a powerful wizard, they knew that he could defend himself from any danger that might attack the ship.
Anton got a glimpse of the two new bodyguards’ expressions regarding him leaving the room. It was obvious that they thought of his action as foolhardy and that meant that even if they knew that Anton was a powerful mage, they didn’t believe that he was truly an archmage.
Since he didn’t know where the deck assigned to their suite was located, he simply went to the deck that he knew. At first, the sailors that encountered him reprimanded him so to avoid anyone stopping him, Anton activated his auras’ special effects so anyone who encountered him would think that he was one of the ship’s mages.
He saw Harun and immediately asked the sailor to lead him to where the battle was happening. Harun, of course, did not agree and scolded him.
“Please return to your suite Mr. Sunder!”
Anton didn’t want to bother quarreling with Harun so he simply picked the sailor up using his Telekinesis spell.
“If you don’t lead me there, I’ll just throw you into the sea!” Anton simply said then moved the sailors to the window.
Harun then shouted that he would lead him to the battle. Apparently, the one attacking the ship was a Kraken, and a medium-sized one at that. Anton turned off the special effects of his auras.
They arrived at the large front deck where the Kraken was using its many tentacles to encircle the ships and even though the monster was considered “medium-sized”, it was huge enough that it managed to encircle one-fourth of the ship using its tentacles.
“Harun, is that octopus edible?” Anton asked the sailor.
Anton saw the powerful mages of Amelia attacking the monster and he could see that the ones attacking were only archmages. He could come to that conclusion based on the power of the spells that the mages who were flying above showed but of course, since his understanding of this world’s magic was shallow, he wasn’t truly sure if the mages attacking the monster were just archmages and not Legends or Supremes.
He remembered that he hadn’t seen any wizards higher than archmages before.
“The Kraken is edible and they’re considered a delicacy but the best option right now without the higher-ranking mages, is to drive the monster away,” Harun answered.
Anton saw that one of the huge tentacles was near them so he immediately cast several Ice Blasts near the root of the tentacle. His intention was to freeze a part of the tentacle then use another spell to fracture and cut it off then he would store the tentacle in his private stash.
When he saw that the tentacle wasn’t moving anymore due to the section that he cast his Ice Blast into froze that part, he then cast several Fire Bolts in an attempt to cut off the tentacle. When Anton and Harun heard the crack, Anton intensified his attack on the frozen part of the tentacle until he successfully cut it off.
Anton immediately stored the cut-off tentacle in his private stash then he hid behind the door that they used to enter the deck, taking Harun with him using Telekinesis.
After a while, the Kraken was driven away by the ship’s mages. Anton thought of leaving but then again several mages surrounded the place where he was hiding.
Anton released Harun then the sailor ran out immediately informing the ship’s mages to stop.
The mages ignored Harun and then confronted Anton.
“Who are you?!” One of the mages said.
“My name is Baron Anton Sunder and I’m an archmage from Zalnothel. When we rented a suite to your ship, my family did inform Captain Robertson that I’m an archmage. I was just curious about the monster that was attacking the ship then Harun here said that the Kraken was a delicacy so I took one of its tentacles. As an apology, I, of course, would share half of that tentacle with you guys,” Anton said to the mages.
Harun gasped when he heard Anton blaming him for the action of cutting up the tentacle due to the information that he provided that it was supposed to be a delicacy.
After a few seconds, the mage who looked to be the group’s leader asked a question to Anton.
“Could you have killed the Kraken?”
“Yes. I was wondering why you let it go but I knew that for something like this battle, there could be a reason like avoiding future battles with its family or something like that,” Anton replied.
At first, the other mages looked like they wanted to refute what Anton had said but they did see him cut off a tentacle without effort.
“How old are you?” the leader of the mage suddenly asked.
“I’m seventeen years old,” Anton simply answered and every one of the mages including Harun gasped when they heard Anton’s age.
“You can go.” The leader of the mages said but Anton knew that this situation wasn’t resolved yet.
Anton simply bowed and asked Harun to lead him back to the suite.
“Harun, I’m sorry for using you like that. As an apology, I’ll give parts of the tentacle.”
Anton stopped for a moment then sawed off a part of the tentacle using a knife and was amazed at how tender it was even though when he was cutting it off, it took him a while to slice off the tentacle.
He gave the sliced-off tentacle that looked to be around three kilograms to Hamil and even though the sailor kept saying that he didn’t need to be given the meat, he still accepted it and his face was full of smiles.
When Anton and Harun returned to the suite, the sailor left without entering and he entered the suite.
Everyone was waiting at the dining table and the living room and when they saw Anton entering, they looked relieved.
