Chapter 174: Kraken (4)

"What...why are you all killing the kraken?" Craig panted as he still held his hands up despite being bruised up

"It was the boss' orders, and young master Perseus was assigned to it" Jake answered calmly

Jake was also a bit bloodied and injured as his armor cracked a bit under all that aura, but he still kept his cool. The rest of his crewmates were already down, only he was the one remained standing.

"Why'd you join them?" Craig asked

"I'm not allowed to say" Jake replied "But I'll leave you a warning, you've witness Ms. Stella's powers, it would a good move if you all stop pursuing the seekers, we'll leave you alive this time just as a warning, but next time will not be the same."

Craig's knee just then buckled as he was tired from the fight, he had to fight his own teammates which made him used a lot more of his strength than usual, since he didn't want to kill them. He took a rest once he realize that the 2 intruders have no intention of killing him.

But a few of the controlled mages did die by their own teammates attack, so there was a bit of casualties.

"Can't believe...she took so many of us down without even...killing us" Craig panted "These executives are too powerful...and the boy is one of em too..."

"Ah are you talking about my little brother?" Stella joined in

"Brother?" Craig questions

"I'm Stella West, and my brother is Perseus Silver, I believe he used to be your assistant" Stella replied

"West?...someone I know..." Craig then put it all together and realized the hint Perseus gave "Zachary West?! You're related to him?!"

"He is my creator and father" Stella nodded "That's his current name, most of you would recognize his first name better, Andrius Thames, the father of magic"

"And here I thought he was a peaceful scholar" Emma groaned as she got up

"He was" Stella nodded "He still usually leave the fighting to us, but after all these years, I believe you understand that my father has become the strongest among us"

"What is that kraken over there?" Emma asked "And why is the leviathan from Neelofar here?"

"You do not need to know of such information" Stella replied

"Ms. Stella, I think we should head back now" Jake suggested "It's almost sunrise, and they must be tired from fighting for hours"

"Hours? How long have you guys fought that thing?" Craig asked

"I think 10?" Stella stroked her chin

"The kraken will still have healing abilities during the day, but if it's Perseus, I'm sure that he'll kill it without giving it a chance for it to heal" Jake chuckled as Stella warped them both back to their ship.

"Man, we failed terribly, I think I'm gonna retire after this" Craig winced in pain "I'll just be an instructor for the young guardians instead and still continue working as a professor, I don't wanna die and leave Lauren and Amora alone by going on impossible missions"

"Oh I get you brother, but I'm not gonna quit yet" Emma replied "How are we going to head back, we can't operate the ships and no one's conscious apart from us"

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1st person view

The kraken started to sense the large amount of mana gathered into my attack, it then swung one of its tentacles at me, but Perun in his dragon form intercept it and held it in place. it got frustrated and swung another one but this time, Bora got in the way and block the attack for me.

The leviathan was destroying the kraken's tentacles and bit into the kraken's eyes. It then gathered a large amount of mana into shooting a strong lightning bolt at me.

"Devour" I got my ring to absorb the attack as I focused on gathering mana into the condensed light ball above my head.

*****

-There's enough sunlight now, and it has made contact with the kraken, warp them away-

-We'll help you, Damon- Ace said as everyone then warped away apart from Damon and the Leviathan.

They both then used their remaining mana to freeze the kraken in its place before retreating at high speed. I used wind magic to lift me up and jumped towards the kraken with my spell above my hand. The ice cracked and I throw my spell towards its exposed mouth.

"Bless us with your last luminous light, star magic: Supernova " I chanted as the ball of condensed magic exploded.

3rd person view

The whole area then lit up, as a huge explosion took place. The explosion was so bright, that even closing their eyes are enough that they had to turn away, the explosion incinerated everything on site, and the wind blew furiously, the ships rocked as the explosion caused huge waves.

Without the leviathan blocking the waves and Stella using her magic to try to keep the ship stable, the ship would've flipped over. Their skin started to burn despite being so far away. When it died down, no traces of the kraken was left, even the water around the area got erased in the explosion.

"What...the..." Craig jaw dropped in shock as he tried to remain still by holding the rails "If that explosion was used on our kingdom...

"We're dead" Emma finished his sentence.

1st person view

-Man, lucky that my own magic can't hurt me, otherwise there'll be nothing left to bury-

-Don't forget to retrieve your item- Dabria reminded

Then water droplets started to swirl into a water orb in the air, and after it finished, a necklace appeared, it has a gold colored chain with a pendant that resembles a water droplet. I flew toward it, grabbed it and warped back to the ship.

"Remind me to not make you angry" Jake joked

"Here's the necklace, sis" I handed it to Stella "The explosion is strong, but the spell itself explode only in a small area, that's why it requires a long charging, to expand the area of explosion, oh man, that was tiring"

I just laid down on the deck along with the rest, my stomach was also growling as I'm hungry from fighting all night.

"I will now take my leave, child" the leviathan said before diving underwater

"Um, Jake, get us back to the mainland please. And when we arrive, get one of the warp gate crystals I gave you, it'll open up a gate to the Crimson kingdom, we'll rest there before he head back, my treat. I'll abuse my authority as prince for a bit"