1 Turbulence
"Quick, call the captain!! There's nothing we can do against this titan of a monster! At this rate we'll all be blown away without a trace!"
"Ye-Yes, sir!"
As the vice captain of 'Earth-Crust', one of the 9 pillars of the kingdom sent an order to a subordinate, the gigantic Kraken sized 3 headed sea Hydra that stood over their ship, with the other half of its body still submerged under water, let out a loud roar that created waves in the surrounding waters.
The sea Hydra was a Great Mage class magical creature in its late stage that uses water magic of up to the 6th tier. The vice captain is only a Grand Mage class magician at the middle stage who specialized in ice magic, while the rest in his party were Senior Magicians or early stage of Great Mage class. In the presence of such a monstrosity, their superior realms meant little.
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The scout reported the magical beast to be at the master class. That was why they were confident sailing out into the middle of the sea. Little did they know that this mid-day trip to the middle of the sea was about to be their fishing trip with death.
As they were about to be swallowed whole by the hydra whose mouth was twice as wide as their ship, a man suited in a sophisticated looking white and maroon robe appeared in front of the ship, mid air.
With a wave of his hand, the hydra's head that was about to swallow the ship changed direction and went into the sea. The man in robes had just used strong telekinetic type magic to brush it away from the ship into the ocean.
With a sigh of relief, the vice captain said, "it's the captain. He has arrived."
As the giant head fell into the ocean, everyone on board let out a stream of joyous scream as they celebrated the appearance of their captain. It didn't last long though, because the hydra just grew angrier.
The hydra let out a loud screeching sound as it conjured up a massive spell that caused the ocean behind it to burst out into a titan sized wave, more like a tsunami. The magician who the men in the ship referred to as captain looked up to the dense rain clouds that had formed above the entire area earlier on, and smirked.
"Perfect."
He raised both of his hands in the air, as a drop of water rolled down the side of his face from the splash of water earlier.
"6th tier magic, downpour of the Sun God Temple"
Immediately, the clouds above turned into a sea of lava as it poured down on them.
The dense clouds that had formed throughout the sky started flowing to the point directly above them like a raging sea of volcanic magma. As the clouds of lava came to a single point, the ones already in the spot started pouring down as the man dropped his hands. The scene resembled the draining of water from the sink.
Although it looked like magma, what poured down from the sky was a sea of fire so dense and voluminous that it hardened. The once dark sky of rain clouds had now been lit up, causing the ocean beneath to reflect the bright, almost blinding light. With this brightness came intense heat that would make one feel as though he was in a sea of molten lava.
In awe of the miraculous sight before him, the vice captain said, "this is truly a piece of art, no, a masterpiece."
'Strangely enough, I don't feel any heat. The captain must have cast a protection spell around us.'
As the waves created through the hydra's magic towered over its remaining heads, it was met by the artistic downpour of fire from the sky. At that moment, all the people aboard the ship could see was steam that covered the entire place like fog as the fire clashed with the hydra's wave, and the sound of water meeting burning coal.
It stayed like that for several minutes, and surprisingly, the steam was not on the ship, neither could they feel the heat.
"Fhuuu," the mage standing midair above the ship in exhaled slowly, before waving his hands. With a wave of his hands, the steam magically vanished.
As everyone's vision of the surrounding area restored, their jaws dropped so hard that it could bowl a hole into the ship's wooden floors, as what their eyes were seeing could not be imagined, not even in a hundred years.
The entire sea had evaporated, leaving countless fishes, magical creatures, and three titan sized beasts dead on the seabed. What remained of the hydra was just an anatomical skeleton, while one of the 3 beasts that appeared to have been sleeping within a crater laid motionless in the deepest part of the sea, with steam rising out of it's skin like freshly cooked seafood.
As the clouds returned to normal, the light shown from them dimed gradually, until sun pierced through once again.
"Simon! Come up here!" the man above the ship called out to the vice captain, who wasted no time casting his flight magic.
Opening his eyes wide in shock, like a man who had remembered the face of the person who killed his mother, he shouted in response. "Captain the ship!!..." the captain pointed to the ship, which Simon then turned to face, "oh. Its floa-ting…"
"Now Simon, go down and check the meat of that creature. Check if its edible"
"Sir? How am I supposed to do that, sir?"
"Cut a chunk and stick it into your mouth, that's how"
"And what if it moves all of a suddenly?"
"Then you take care of it. Aren't you the vice captain of the strongest pillar?"
"ehh, I might be the vice captain, but I'm not a monster..." before Simon could continue what he was about to say, the captain grabbed him by the ankle and launched him to where the creature was.
"Just go and stop complaining." He said as he launched him with a blast of air spewing from his arm, "I'm hungry."
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"Captain!" A feminine voice called out to a man standing on the edge of a cliff.
"Yes, I know. I saw it too. That was a spell of immerse power."
"There's only one man that can cast such a large scale spell."
In a calm voice, the man responded. "Yeeess. The son of the sun, Aaron..."
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As Aaron landed on board the ship that was now floating midair, the men on board murmur to themselves, 'the captain is truly a monster', 'captain Aaron is surely the strongest person in the world'.
"What's wrong with these people? I save them from a monster, then they call me a monster."
Not long after he came on board, Simon returned with big chunks of meat, with no skin on any of the meat. He had to dig into the creature as the outer flesh was over cooked from the heat so its texture was like thick mud.
After proper seasoning with ingredients that their captain pulled out of his dimensional ring, everyone enjoyed themselves as they ate the meat that was lightly cooked a second time so that the spices would settle in. They enjoyed sea food, in its literal sense.
With that, they set sail back home, in style.
