Three Layered Plan

The giant spear of water arrived at the humanoid monster, but with a swing of the trident, the water pillar lost its aggressiveness, and formed a giant whirlpool in the air, above the trident.

"You really think you can hurt me with water! An apostle of the Evil-Lord?" The whirlpool started to turn faster and faster. In no time at all, it turned into a giant waterspout moving towards the crocodile. Of course, water was useless against it. Its scales defended against the attack, while the crocodile moved.

When it was only ten meters away from the beast, it swung its tail to the humanoid monster. The tail looked like an oversized mace. But the humanoid monster wasn't flustered. It reached out its hand and grabbed the tail. Its arm swelled and with a shout, the 20 meters crocodile lifted from the ground.

"How strong that monster is!" Xavic commented in fear. The Crocodile was 20 meters long, it must have weighed more than twenty tons, but the humanoid monster was able to lift it by the tail.

"Look at the tattoo on his arm. It is shining with light. He must be drawing power from it." Zall pointed at the mermaid tattoo.

"Hmm. It seems to be the case. That monster is much stronger than Frenzy-Rank." Miles nodded.

"What will we do?" Xavic asked.

"Have you grasped the Veil?" Miles asked.

"Hmm. After you showed us, it was easy to learn." Zall nodded.

"Alright, Xavic, I want you to approach the ship. When you are twenty meters away from the ship, use Veil and sneak into the ship. Then try to lure monsters outside." Miles said.

"Wouldn't the monster feel us from fifty meters?" Xavic asked.

"Precisely for this reason. When the humanoid monster senses you use the veil despite being close to it, it will feel the danger you cause it is close to nil. It will order its underlings to deal with you. You are faster than Zall, so the luring the foot soldiers will be on you." Miles explained.

"How about me?" Zall asked.

"You will do the same, but only when you are 50 meters away from the ship," Miles said and drew the map on the ground. "Monster will still feel it, but it will give it the misconception of underestimating the enemy. The humanoid monster is smart. It can think like humans and will assume that Xavic was the bait, while you, Zall, are the main force. It will still shrug it off, as its monsters will be able to deal with you too. I want you to lure them out slowly, unlike Xavic.

Withdraw slowly while defending, and make your way to this area." Miles shoved the area covered with giant trees with wide leaves. They looked like palm trees but had more leaves protruding from all over them.

"But this is the only path to the ship. If we lure them here, you cannot sneak in." Xavic said.

"That is the third misconception." Miles smiled and explained. "The monster is very keen. It can't feel us maybe, but it certainly knows there are things watching from afar. Yet, it doesn't show any reaction at all.

When two of you come from the same and only direction, it will give the idea that there were only two of you. And if I walk through the monsters without being seen, and Veil is hiding me, it will prevent monsters from noticing me." Miles explained.

"But what if a monster sees you while we are fighting?" Zall asked.

"Forest is dense, so I should be able to go unnoticed. Try to attract them from the center." Miles said and they started to move. The first to move was Xavic. He approached the ship, and was only a certain distance away from it, he hid behind Veil. Of course for the pinnacle-tier monsters, it was like turning the light off in a brightly lit room. In their sense, the Xavic was there, and when he used the Veil, he disappeared out of nowhere, so obviously both monsters felt it immediately.

The humanoid monster shouted like a beast this time towards the ship and did nothing else. Xavic was great at dealing with large numbers of monsters. He could stun them and also accelerate his speed with lightning.

When he just stepped into the ship, more than 20 monsters left the orlop and filled the upper deck. "Oh no! How can there be so many monsters? I thought the other monster was the only one." Xavic shouted with the worst acting ever, but it was part of the plan for him to act badly. Miles was expecting it to be this bad.

Monsters rolled their eyes and started to attack Xavic. Lightning surrounded his body and unleashed it to cover the area around him. When monsters were hit by the lightning, they all got stunned as Xavic tried to run into the lower deck.

More monsters climbed from the orlop and when the number was around 30, Xavic started to run to the forest.

Zall appeared after Xavic finished his task. He was much more cautious than Xavic. He covered his body masterfully with Veil, and none of the monsters following Xavic felt his presence. Of course, two pinnacle-tier monsters still felt him vanish from their radars. Even the humanoid monster was more alert this time. He roared and five strong-looking monsters appeared even before Zall stepped on the deck.

Zall looked at the five monsters with surprise on his face and wanted to run, but the five monsters didn't let him go. They pounced on him at once, but they couldn't land an attack in a short fight. Zall withdrew slowly and met with Xavic, fighting with forty-odd monsters. Of course, he was only running away from them, but he could still keep them busy.

Miles fished out two orbs and charged them. One of them formed a bow, the other one dagger, he put them behind him and hid his presence. Since Frenzy-Rank orbs required energy to activate, it would break his Veil if he wanted to charge them later on, so he charged his weapons even before he started. "Just in case." He said and his energy moved to the back of his arm, marking there.

He walked slowly lest he could be seen. Zall and Xavic were drawing the monsters' attention, and Miles dashed between trees as silent as he could. Fortunately, the trees were too dense, and he could still hide among them.

Not long after he reached the deck, and climbed down the stairs to reach orlop. From there to the bottom deck. There he saw the hole opening to the sea, and a tree with many fruits, but what stood before him and the tree was a monster with a giant body. It looked like a seal with a giant horn.

Seal's eyes were wide open, as it was looking at Miles. The horn was covered with purple energy, indicating its poisonous attribute. The seal was still not sure if Miles was real, as it couldn't feel its presence, but confusion was wearing off.

"Shit, it is high-tier." Miles started as he tried to figure out best course of action.