14. Strange Situation

Everyone was preparing for the fight, at this moment we divided into two groups, one commanded by Grandfather and the other by Master Roldan, there always had to be a group awake both day and night, when we were all on deck the Shark Queen was getting closer and closer to the ship graveyard.

"Attention everyone, you know what the objective of this trip, this will not be the first time we enter the cemetery, you know how to proceed at this time, divide into two groups, while one rests the other defends" the grandfather spoke with one solemn voice.

"Open the sails, use your skills to blow the wind in your favor, let's go into the center of the cemetery, look for that damn boat, and let's get out of this place" ordered Mr. Roldan.

"Rishi prepares something good for dinner, today we will not sleep until we have advanced enough, Dan go and help Rishi, Ignite also help, move quickly we must raise the morale of men" ordered the grandfather.

Old Rishi and I entered the kitchen right away, as soon as old Rishi entered, he sent me to look for some potatoes and other vegetables, today he would prepare vegetable soup, on the other hand, he took out some poultry to kill them and proceed to cook them.

Mr. Ignite set fire to the stove and placed a large cauldron on top, together we began to prepare dinner I was a little nervous, the words of grandfather and Mr. Roldan reminded me that this trip was not a game, our lives were at stake.

Four hours passed before finishing the dinner for the entire crew, outside we had heard the sounds of fighting, but they were not as intense as I expected.

The crew began to eat in groups, they all had worried expressions, I felt my heart tighten, I felt that something was wrong but I didn't know what it was.

After the eighth group entered, I couldn't contain my anxiety any longer, all the previous groups had the same face, I asked Mr. Ignite what was happening, but before answered, the old Rishi spoke.

"Something is not right in this place, everyone knows it but nobody dares to say it"

"What is wrong?" I asked anxiously

"The beasts, the number of attacks we suffer is very low"

"But that's a good thing, isn't it?" I confused.

"If we were somewhere else it wouldn't matter much, but we are in the cemetery, have you ever heard of predatory beasts?" he asked

"Predatory beasts?"

"Yes, predatory beasts, predatory beasts are creatures that come to a place and start hunting lower-level beasts, whether for food, to test their strength, or for fun."

"So there is a predatory beast here?"

"Exactly, or that's my theory"

At that moment the group that ate got up and we served for the next group, in that group was Mr. Samir, Marcus, and Mr. Sergei, Marcus approached me, he had a confused and panicked face.

"Dan, something is not right, Mr. Samir and Mr. Dragan are acting strange," he whispers me.

"Don't worry, everything will be fine" I replied, pretending calm.

Hearing Marcus' words surprised me quite, Marcus's character is quiet calm, seeing his scared face hit me quite a bit, but forced me to act calm.

"I hope so Dan, I'll go eat," said Marcus as he sat down.

I went up to old Rishi and asked him.

"How dangerous is a predatory beast?"

"Depending on the circumstances, there are medium and high-grade predatory beasts, there are even some low-grade beasts that can be predatory beasts"

Hearing that, I let out a sigh of relief, if the predatory beasts were medium or high grade it wasn't that bad, but to look Mr. Ignite frowning, I thought of something that horrifies me, I turned to see old Rishi, his face seemed to have aged 10 years.

"You know, Roldan, your grandfather and I met a predatory beast in the past" the old man's voice sounded strange, the voice that always sang happily, now it sounded bleak, all his happiness disappeared.

"We found that beast in the west sea near the Brenia confederation, it was an extreme degree beast" those words echoed in my head, a chill ran through my entire body.

"That extreme grade beast came while we were fighting another extreme grade beast, that beast only came to hunt, identified us as its prey and began its hunt" in Old Rishi's voice there was a bit of helplessness.

"In that fight, Roldan lost an eye and I lost one of my horns and your grandfather almost died in that place, we managed to escape but the damage was enormous, although we were young and Roldan and Basilio were not as strong as are now, that is an event that was recorded in my memory "Mr. Rishi sighed.

Marcus's group got up and another group entered, it was the group of Master Roldan, the face of Mr. Roldan was as severe as that of old Rishi, I silently observed those who entered, Mr. Roldan was still holding his trident in his hands it looks like it will attack anything that moves.

After the group finished we served the food to the last group and we sat down to eat with them, this was the grandfather's group, contrary to my expectations the grandfather had a normal expression, I don't know if he was pretending, but even if it was like That calmed me down a bit.

When everyone finished eating the moon was already high in the sky, all the crew were in their positions, there was no one sleeping, everyone was awake and looked worried, some were playing dice or cards to dispel their concern.

At that moment Mr. Yurem shouted. "High-grade beasts, it is a big group, there are approximately twelve of them, they are approaching on the starboard side"

At that time everyone grabbed their weapons, normally anyone would be concerned about the high-grade beast attack, but right now we all want beasts to attack us in heaps, we wanted to believe that everything in this place was normal.

The beasts came to the ship were beasts known as deep-sea lizardfish, they were huge fish with extremely hard scales that looked like the scales of a reptile, they had huge tusks, these beasts could jump out of the sea to catch their prey with their powerful jaws.

The fight began immediately, three beasts jumped towards the crew on the edge of the ship but before they reached their goal they were hit by magical attacks of all kinds, there were attacks of lightning, water, fire, wind, sound and shadows, the cannons did not They were used.

The beasts that attacked were wounded after they were wounded they returned to the sea, while on the ship the crew began to make an attack formation.

"The shooters take their harpoons, the fighters prevent the beasts from reaching the shooters, the magicians, and the deck guns fire into the water" the orders of the grandfather reached all the crew.

This was the first time I had seen the crew use an attack pattern, as I moved away from the fighting area I approached Marcus, he looked excited if I didn't know him I would swear that at any moment he would join the battle.

As the grandfather said, the magicians and the cannons began to bombard the water and at that moment the beasts jumped towards them to attack them, the magicians backed away and the fighters hit the beasts making them back off while the shooters took advantage to shoot their harpoons.

In the first attack, only one beast was killed by the harpoons, the harpoons had chains that would serve to retrieve the body of the beasts, this was the first capture of the night.

After that first attack things continued until eventually all the beasts were killed, a total of 15 high-grade beasts were collected.

Those who participated in the battle had weary expressions, some of them received injuries but were being treated by Mr. Vedmid, the most serious injuries were to a silver rank that was struck by a lizardfish in the arm.

For the rest of the night, we continued to advance, although we were attacked by 4 groups of medium grade beasts and 2 groups of high grade the environment was still heavy.

The night ended and we collected 78 medium-grade beasts and 39 high-grade beasts, some crew were in charge of dismembering the beasts to separate the useful parts from the useless ones and others were in charge of storing the loot.

The next morning we began to intersperse the rest hours, we sailed for four days towards the center of the cemetery, fighting against the beasts and collecting materials.

The moral of the crew increased a little, we found four shipwrecks but none was the one we were looking for, on the ships there were chests of gold, weapons, and materials.

The crews with an affinity for the water threw themselves to the seafloor; those who threw themselves were all of the gold rank, they inspected the shipwreck and selected the best they could to get it out of the seafloor.

At this moment we found another shipwreck and there were already people investigating them, I was in the kitchen as always but I was training with Mr. Ignite, he was evaluating how he used my weapon and promised that after this trip he would make me a weapon so that he stopped using my stick.

"Everyone on deck"

A deafening scream surprised us was the voice of Mr. Roldan, it seems that something happened, put aside the stick and watch as old Rishi and Mr. Ignite quickly went up.

I went up on deck just to watch all the crew on the ship prepared to fight, but my surprise was that Mr. Roldan and Grandpa looked extremely happy.

"We found it, Garald was right, they followed this route, it seems that they wanted to reach the continent of Orbia, we found the Bashtar family shipwreck" the grandfather shouted with emotion.

The entire deck was filled with applause, laughter, and screams of happiness, everyone wanted to plunder the boat and get away from this place as quickly as possible, we had achieved our first objective