9 The journey to the narrow sea 2

With roosters Ivar awoke . He spread his hand and did some basic training . Than he put all of his belongings in small backpack and went to the dock.

Boat was lively as over eighty men were present on the deck . In front of them was the berserk captain and yelled ;"Listen here you maggots our young lady is going on important diplomatic mission to Dagger tip. You are not to exchange contact with her. When lady looks at you you look down until she asks you to look up .You do not speak to the lady you do not smile to the lady you do not even look at the lady is that clear ?

All the men responded with ; " Sir yes sir "

"Now back to your posts , we are on tight schedule we must be at fortress five days from now. AND new guy do you remember where your post is?

"Sir yes sir" Ivar responded as loud as he could .

"Good , lets go Hoist the sails " captain screamed .

"Hoist the sails " men responded and let big sail loose. May Njord grunt us free pasage trough his waters" ( Njord is god of the sea in old Norse legends ) they prayed and finally longship left the harbor.

The fjords of Skandinavia province were often as sharp as daggers . They even looked more like larger river with not to much of depth but there was one major difference . The fjords water was salty.

First day passed in full work . Wind was still helping them a lot , but the rowing had to be done to pass cliffs that were as sharp as teeth of the dragon.

Ivars bench mate was Floki . It was well built young man that just joined the breserker squad . He had long legs and well built torso but what was truly special about him was his strength . He did most off the job on the bench and Ivar was fine with it.

Ivar heard from him that he was a lesser nobility from Skane capital province but his father lost the estate due poor decisions and gambling. Young Floki could not do anything else but to join the berserkers . Legion guaranteed meal and housing for family of the soldiers and since he had little brother and mother at home he felt obligated to take care of them.

This was his first mission and first time that he left capital province so he was kinda happy and yearning for the new adventures witch than reflected in the way he told his stories and treated others. He was well liked and respected young men with boundless future . He even was in great circle of the ninth level of core formation and he was so young.

On the other hand Ivar was still at doorstep of his cultivation and broke trough level 3 of qi gathering 10 days ago.This was still fast because he just started to be a martial cultivator a month ago but in the eyes of the rest he was trash.

Floki did not let Ivar do the hard work on their bench.He felt kinship with him because Ivar reminded him how was 5 years ago . When he looked his soft hands it reminded him of his brother and on the first day they bonded and become friends for life . On the first night they spent lot of time talking and discussing and Ivar told him his story. Of course he left the some parts of his fist life out but he told him his Ivars story from the start to the present . First Floki thought Ivar was telling him lies but when he showed him parchment with arts he was astonished . "I am in company of first heir of mighty Volsug clan " their ancestor Siegfrid liberated the northern planes from ice giants clans and for his service first emperor gave him yarldom of Daggertip .Haha he is noblest of all the people on board , maybe that young lady have some better ties in capital but as province clans go Volsung clan is second to none. He felt so lucky , on his first mission he met an heir of ancient linage and even befriended it. Finally he felt a bit tired and closed eyes to get some rest while Ivar was so happy that he made a new friend that was smiling in the sleep all the time.

Floki was not wrong in his judgment. Ivar was a heir to the noble clan but due to his disability he was shunned and even used as sacrifice but Ivar could not tell him because he wanted to look like the great man in his new friends eyes. So he did not refute and correct his new friend and enjoyed the praise

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Days passed on the third day the weather was starting to get worse. Cold winds rose from the north and in the winds loud screeech was heard . Great white shadow noticed ship and was moving fast towards them .Old captain screamed : " Oh shit red flood dragon !get ready men !".

Flood dragons were just a step up from drakes. They gained ability to fly and were responsible for the melting of the snows form high mountains in the middle kingdom but in the north end of the continent they were wild beasts . They preyed on poor sailor ships and ate man that came near them.Also as they were still part of the dragon family they had pride and arrogance of true element dragons .Still they lacked the strength elements dragons had but they were still dangerous , driven and when found a pray crazy to get it.This made them nightmares for longships .Regular fire dragons when faced with runic nature protection would just fly away but these prideful idiots would charge until mutual destruction.

Thats why berserker captain was now panicking .He knew how important his mission was and that the young lady was empire princess . If anything happened to her not only he would loose his life , his family would also suffer greatly .

He decided : " Bring out the Scorpios , let this mix breed face the might of the imperial siege weapons !

As world MIX BREED LEFT HIS MOUTH dragon went on rampage . He never had his pride trampled and raged as pools started to form around the ship.

HE unleashed his fury on the trunk of the ship but couldnt do anything .Because whenever his water magic would arrive near the woodwork ancient rune art would negate it.

Than the dragon tried to use the wings on the main sail .This made thing even worse . When his wind magic was upon sail the runes again shined brightly and resent the wind magic back to dragon. Now dragon was attacked my his own magic and could not fly well.

That was the moment old captain was waiting for :" Fire scorpios right now !"

Than 2 iron arrows flew from 2 scorpios right away and a shot trough the back of the clueless dragon. He the mighty dragon was now falling to the blue sea . As he was 10 meters from the surface of water he screeched with his last breath.

Capt knew what that was , Distress signal and call for blood .!

"Fuck fuck fuck "was heard" Start rowing boys we got to get far from here as soon as possible ."

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All men new what happened . Soon more dragons will come but not a sound was heard just

40 paddles that moved in unison and tried to escape the fate..

The rhythm of the paddling increased as they were now in danger .Ivar noticed that all of the common men were surrounded by berrserkers quad members . Even him was cut out from any of the commoners by 5 berserk members.That whole formation was a bit strange but Ivar did not think long about it and continued to paddle.

He paddled with all his might as they were running away from certain doom.

Soon On the horizon, there were many black clouds moving in the distance .

"Oh my god " captain said ."Keep on rowing maybe we will come into the range of Dragon tip sentries and pointed the way.

They could only do that . Dragons followed call from their fallen kin and will soon be upon them.