109. Is there anything worth sacrificing except your life?
“Rohan Niiiii!”
Diaz’s scream resounded desperately in the midst of the storm.
Grendel’s face turned white and he sat down on the spot.
Around that time, Orhel, who had just jumped out onto the deck, looked around and surveyed the situation.
When he saw the Kraken’s tentacles, he immediately noticed that things were not looking good.
But… one person was nowhere to be seen.
If a monster like that appeared, I should have shown a more monstrous guy who always rampages.
“Hey! Grendel! Brother? Where’s Rohan?”
Drenched in rain and seawater, Grendel’s hair stuck to her face and turned into a miserable figure.
He stuttered and answered.
“He was caught by the Kraken’s tentacles… and dragged into the sea.”
Looking in the other direction, I saw Diaz throwing off his armor.
Seeing her like that, Andrew grabbed her arm.
“What are you trying to do!”
“What are you doing! I have to go in and get Rohan-sama right now!”
“You alone? Do you think that will work?”
“Then what should we do? Let’s just leave Rohan-nim and go?”
Andrew had never seen Diaz lose his temper like this.
‘no. There was once… when Leanoa died…’
In her mind, it seemed that Rohan had already become the former Rheanoa, no, more than that.
Even so, Andrew couldn’t let go of that hand.
I had to cool myself down now.
“Stay still. I’m going in.”
“……?”
“Even if I send Sir Diaz, who has lost his sight, it won’t help Sir Rohan.
Then Andrew started to take off his armor.
baek!
That moment.
Something hit Andrew in the back of the head.
Andrew turned his head in surprise.
Orhel was looking down at him with a firm expression.
“Arthur, Arthur. What are you, who has the power of heat waves, going to do in that sea?”
“……”
“Get the rope ready. I’m coming.”
“Oh, brother Orhell!”
“Don’t worry. Even if you look like me, I’m a vampire lord.
Even as he said that, Orhel’s face was barely smiling.
Even if you’re a vampire lord, it won’t be easy to deal with the Kraken in the sea.
Even if the blood spreads in the sea, how thick will it be?
Even so, the only one who could most certainly stand up to the Kraken… was Orhel.
He twirled his shoulders and relaxed.
“Damn it… I never thought the day would come when I’d be fighting an octopus monster under the sea… Whoa!”
* * *
Kororororok!
Even if it was me, I was unconscious when I was being dragged into the sea in a storm.
However, the moment I met the goosebumps eyes from below, which looked like an abyss.
Cheers!
I had no choice but to promise myself that I would stay alert.
‘If I let go of my tension even for a moment… I will die right away!’
I try to keep my movement as low as possible so as not to miss the remaining oxygen in my lungs.
I only turned my eyes and tried to understand the reality I was facing.
‘Surprisingly, I wasn’t the target…’
The Kraken’s pupils, visible beyond the bundle of tentacles, seemed to be still aiming for the ship.
Perhaps the ship was the target, but I got in the way.
So I guess I’ve taken care of it…
‘Didn’t you think you could kill just by soaking it in water?’
yes, usually it is
If you are suddenly dragged in by tentacles before you even have time to take a breath.
After struggling for no more than a few minutes, he would drink the water himself and die.
But I had no intention of dying so lightly.
‘Everything I’ve fought so far has been a monster…!’
Having come back to my senses, I began to think of a way to go upstairs.
Apparently, I was a little underestimated.
Thanks to that, I could only get his attention.
I move my sword slowly
Swoop.
After cutting off the tentacle of the Kraken that was quietly holding my leg.
Suddenly, he started swimming upwards.
However, even though I quietly cut off his tentacles.
It seemed he couldn’t help but be noticed.
‘sh*t! It took……!’
Whoops!
The tentacles of the kraken, chasing through the water like snakes.
Strangely, the boy raised his voice.
“I don’t know through which crack he escaped, but…”
I looked back.
I could see the tentacles of the guy who was already close.
“No one can properly wield a sword in this sea…?”
that’s your idea
I swung my sword through the water.
Although the sense of speed was noticeably slower than outside the water…
‘All I have to do is touch my sword!’
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Just in time, the Kraken’s tentacles touched the sword.
Swoop.
Again, his tentacles were cut off in vain.
At that, the eyes of the Kraken down there flashed.
“You cut off my tentacles like fruit at that speed? There’s no way that’s possible…!”
It’s up to you to decide if it’s possible or not.
I’m finally out of the water.
“Fuhak!”
He stuck his head out.
“I thought I was really behind this time…”
* * *
As I poked my head out of the sea, I couldn’t help but be surprised.
It was because I met eyes with Orhel, who was diving just where I came out.
“Whoaaa? B, brother?”
“What, what?”
Both of them panicked, but Orhel was falling, so there was no way he could turn.
I had no choice but to dip my head into the sea again.
right after that.
with a plop!
Orhel and I were reunited under the sea.
We pull out the head again.
“Why are you suddenly jumping down and making a fuss!”
“What a fuss! I ran to save my brother, but that’s too much!”
“If you try to save it twice, you’ll be head-butted!”
“Let’s just skip the minor mistakes!”
Meanwhile.
A lifeline came down from above.
“Rohan Niyim!”
“Hurry up and grab it! I’ll pull!”
And Diaz and Grendel sticking their heads out and shouting.
Orhel and I held on to the lifeline together.
“Once you go up.”
“Yes, yes, Brother.”
Wrap the lifeline around your arm and secure it.
Right away.
“Pull it!”
A cry was heard from above, and we were pulled back onto the boat.
Let’s step back on the deck.
The fact that there was a bottom instead of the deep sea beneath my feet made me feel so uncomfortable.
Orhel turned to me and asked.
“I heard you got caught by the Kraken? How did you get out?”
“What else can I do other than cut off the octopus leg and escape?”
“Yongke also came out……”
“He’s still alive.”
Chow ah!
Before the conversation was over, the Kraken’s tentacles came out of the sea again.
Orhel nodded.
“I guess so.”
without even a chance to catch your breath.
The battle with the Kraken began again.
* * *
While the commotion was brewing, members of the Noia Death Squad, including Atrum and Levarsen, who were in other rooms, were showing up one after another.
It seemed that they had already figured out the whole situation.
but.
It would be hard not to know
The back of the ship fell off as much as I did.
Atrum found me and came straight to me.
“Three personnel, risking their lives, decided to lure him out.”
“Three?”
When I asked back, the three elves stood side by side behind Attrum.
I turned to Atrum again.
“What are you going to do?”
“It’s impossible to escape the Kraken’s clutches in the middle of the sea. We hoped this wouldn’t happen… but in case something like this happened, we prepared our own countermeasures. These three would attract the Kraken’s attention. Five.”
As soon as I heard the words, I immediately understood what Atrum was thinking.
Preparedness is thorough.
But is it just a decoy operation prepared with such thorough preparation?
Giving up your life, only attracting attention and running away?
From the name, they said it was a death squad.
They were truly immortal.
In the eyes of the three of them, who were actually prepared to risk their lives, there was not the slightest bit of fear to be found.
It wasn’t that I didn’t like the momentum either.
However, isn’t it another thing to give up like this without any will to fight back?
“You’re thinking about dying.”
on my advice.
Atrum flinched.
He sighed heavily again with a small sigh.
“Would you like me to do this?”
“Don’t you want to do that? Then you shouldn’t. You should find a way not to.”
“It’s easy to say. Nothing in the world can be achieved without sacrifice.”
“Sacrifice? Yes. That’s true. You can’t get it without any sacrifice. But…”
I looked straight into Atrum’s eyes.
“Is there anything worth sacrificing, except your life?”
“……”
At those words, Atrum’s eyes shook.
“Unlike your death squad, no one in our expedition has ever died.”
“Then…what are you willing to sacrifice?”
“What is sacrificed…A little bit of physical strength?”
I smiled and answered.
Atrum’s face was rather covered with absurdity.
“Che, stamina…”
I didn’t bother explaining it in words, I thought I’d show it with my own eyes.
It is said that it is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.
“Orhel! Diaz! Grendel! Andrew!”
“Uh. Brother.”
“Yes! Mr. Rohan.”
“Tell me sir!”
“Just talk! Ready!”
I looked around them for a long time and asked for a favor.
“You have to pull the Kraken’s body out of the water.”
To that, Orhel asked.
“The torso? What are you going to do?”
“I’m thinking of making a whole grilled octopus. Wouldn’t it be fine as a side dish?”
Everyone who heard my answer immediately knew what I was thinking.
“Roasted Joochi!”
* * *
“Sir, Captain……Who the hell did we pick up?”
“Well. Do you understand me?”
The captain and crew couldn’t find a chance to close their gaping mouths.
I just thought of them as merchants who cross continents.
However, when the Kraken appeared, the life they radiated was to the point that even those who had been sailing rough seas all their lives could not stand it.
It wasn’t just living.
In fact, the movement itself was not normal.
The Kraken’s tentacles slammed the ship in a row.
But isn’t it blocked by them?
four in particular.
A man who looked like a drunkard, a young man, and two women.
The Kraken’s tentacles they cut off were already floating in the sea like mountains.
Of course, the skills of others were also reaching a fairly high level.
The four of them were completely different.
Like……
“It seems like you’re very familiar with fighting monsters…”
Sailors who fought against the waves for a long time did not panic and calmly faced the rough waves.
That’s exactly what they looked like.
Like a veteran sailor who doesn’t get scared no matter how big the waves are, an expert who doesn’t blink an eye no matter how rough the attack is.
monster expert.
Even in the eyes of the captain, who had no experience in combat, it was visible.
But… it’s strange… rather than trying to kill me, I felt like I was enticing.
He made a living by earning his living by fishing, so he was a sensitive captain.
While I was thinking like that.
The navigator standing next to him spoke up.
“By the way, Captain. Where did the young boy who was caught in the sea a while ago go?”
“…I see? Where are you resting because you drank a lot of water?”
“Ah. I see…!”
The moment the navigator answers.
Chow ah!
Through the sea, the huge head of the Kraken emerged.
“Oh, oh oh oh!”
“It’s a kraken!”
The time when the sailors scattered in confusion.
I heard someone making strange noises.
“Tae, Taeyang?……”
The sun in this storm
The thought that he might have gone out of his mind was soon erased from the captain’s head.
A real fireball like the sun.
Roaring.
It radiated heat and floated on the hand of a young man.