Balthazar Abyss
The Kraken of this world is not just a giant squid/octopus, it is a creature that can be summoned from a purple scroll with ten times as many tentacles as it should have.
Quickly everyone ran to the deck of the ship. Jules was about to drag Jericho with her but Sky held her back. He could sense it, it was more dangerous to go above the ship. For now they waited underneath the ship.
As soon as all the Caribbean men ran outside they saw their Captain cutting the beast's tentacles down. The Kraken tried to grab Boris but he was simply too fast.
Boris cleared the magical mist using his wind ability. Boris and many high ranking officers have learned all the red scroll abilities but not everyone practices all the abilities as it takes too long to master one.
As the battle raged on between the two dozens of fishmen jumped on the ship armed to the teeth.
"KILL THE HUMANS! GET THE MERMAID!"
"KILL THE FISHMEN! LEAVE NONE ALIVE!"
The Caribbean charged bravely at the fishmen with a battle cry.
In a matter of seconds the entire ship turned into a battle ground between the two races fighting to the death. Many of the officers were no strangers to fighting fishmen and they used lightning bolts the most.
In the back of the ship where the bathroom was located was Jay trapped as the Kraken's tentacles blocked his exit. With his puny strength and lack of weapons he could not escape.
As Boris continued cutting down the Kraken's tentacles that were wrapped around his ship he sensed something running towards him at the same speed as him and it threw a projectile.
Horrified, Boris turned around, blocked the projectile with his sword, which was an ice trident that shattered, and clashed his sword with the figure who used a longer black sword.
It was a tall muscular fishmen with long white hair, and a creepy smile with rows of shark teeth. He had several tattoos on his body.
Boris recognized this man. He is one of the most powerful and wanted fishmen in the world.
"Balthazar!"
"Boris!"
They both jumped back using the Kraken's tentacles as a platform.
Boris shot lightning bolts at him. The majority of all Caribbean officers know lightning bolt as it is the one ability that hurts mermaids and fishmen the most.
Balthazar successfully evaded all the lightning bolts and got closer to Boris. They clashed weapons once again. Balthazar leaned closer to bite Boris but Boris generated lightning in his hands and pushed Balthazar away.
Balthazar uses his sword to stab one of the Kraken's tentacles to not fall. But Boris, who was covered in lightning, slashed Balthazar's arms making him fall to another tentacle.
There are only two known lightning abilities that come from scrolls, lightning bolt and lightning birds, there are no lightning abilities one can find in a purple scroll but only rarely in items found in dungeons.
But there is a lightning ability anyone can learn if their speed stat was high enough, and Boris intentionally trained his speed for this one ability. Boris and many other humans hate fishmen and mermaids due to personal reasons.
Boris jumped down as Balthazar was already done regenerating his hand.
"Huh, I remember the first time we fought seven years ago," Balthazar massaged his arm that regenerated as he talked, "I was the one who beat you easily yet here you are. You've come far."
"Why are you here? Is your brother here? The Warlord?" Boris asked, still cloaked in a lightning aura.
Boris wasn't worried about Balthazar but someone else.
"Maybe. But have you met the rest of my family?"
"What?"
"I don't think you have but first I'll introduce you to the newest member of the Abyss family, say hi to Bruce."
Just then another giant animal jumped out of the ocean, it was the size of the Kraken and another summon one can find in a purple, the Megalodon.
Boris, who saw it, was surprised to see another powerful summon jump out of nowhere. He could run away but the Megalodon would soon crash on the ship killing all his men.
Left with no choice, Boris jumped from the tentacle on top of the Megalodon's head and kicked it down back to the ocean. To many the Megalodon was a powerful summon that can tear down a ship with its giant mount, but to Boris it was just a giant shark, nothing special but even he cannot kill it in one hit.
Boris remained on the air flying. He is confident that two or more members of the Abyss family were here and each member possesses at least one or two purple abilities.
'Balthazar can slow time like me. Someone else must have used magical mist, and summoned the Megalodon and the Kraken, there has got to be two or three more of them hiding in the water.' Boris thought.
He could not afford to think as to why they were attacking them because right now it was important to survive.
It would be suicide to fight fishmen under the sea, even Boris knew if he fought Balthazar underwater he stood no chance of winning. It was common sense to never fight your enemy in their terms.
Balthazar quickly recovered his sword and fought Boris while on the air.
'I knew it, he is the only one with that ability!' Boris thought.
The reason none of the other family members appeared before Boris is simple, because of his ability to slow down time. It was an ability so powerful that nobody wanted to fight someone with that ability.
And the human race currently has the most people with that ability.
As the battle raged on on the ship Sky looked out of the door. He cannot hope to win the fight against a single fishmen, the majority of them have stats over 1,000.
Sky was confident in escaping alone but he could not leave his crew behind.
The ship they were on was not owned by them therefore he could not teleport to another ship he currently owned, as of now he owned only two ships: one was sitting in the backyard of his parents house, and the other was owned by this Caribbean crew he gave money to after they agreed to "join" his crew.
There was a third one he used to go to the place Madame told him, but he returned it to refund most of his money as he needed it to back Jericho's debt at the moment, and so he lost ownership of the ship according to the system.
"Sky? What do we do?" Jericho asked, scared.
Sky thought of everything but there was nothing he could do.
"Ancestor, you're missing someone." Jules reminded him of Jay. According to his weird command she had to call him ancestor when in public.
"I know!"
'Sloth.' Sky looked at one of the tentacles from the window.
{Kraken has been slowed down by 70%}
The tentacles were slowed down considerably but they were still on the verge of crushing the ship.
"Do you guys trust me?" Sky looked at them seriously as an idea surfaced on his head.
Jules shook her head while Jericho nodded.
"I am so sorry about this."
"What are you… no, nonononononono." Jericho and Jules both knew what he was going to do and they didn't like it.
"There is no other way.
Lowering Jules stats he punched their stomachs hard and reduced both their HP's nearly killing them.
Jericho threw up her spit and could not breathe at all. This was the first time Sky had ever hurt her and this badly, she felt as if she would have died if Sky hadn't held back his strength.
She knew what he was doing and she would have done the same to protect her friends, but that doesn't mean that the pain felt any better because of his reason.
"Card transformation technique."
He turned both of them into cards and stored them safely in his inventory. Jules was capable of fighting but with the sloth curse on her she would die fighting any fishmen on board.
Now he needs to do the same to Jay who was stuck in the bathroom.
Sky was about to head up the ship however the Kraken used its immense strength and it was sinking the ship. The Kraken wasn't aiming to destroy the ship but sink it while fully intact.
With one side of the ship tilting down everyone on board tripped and began falling to the ocean.
Every human on board noticed and the majority of them flew to avoid fighting the fishmen on the sea, but just as many fishmen knew how to fly and so the battle continued in the air.
But the ones who could not fly had no choice but to fight underwater, but they would soon die fighting the fishmen on their own terms. Humans are simply not made for fighting underwater.
The ones who were flying were also in trouble, it costs mana to fly and they were far away from land. It would be a matter of time before they, too, would sink to the ocean. If they had a higher mind stat they could fly forever without running out of mana but many do not have the luxury of using red scrolls every day.
Boris saw his ship was sinking. He tried to help his crew but Balthazar was not going to let him get away.
"Fucking hell!" Boris was angry but Balthazar was too strong.
Sky quickly teleported to the top of the ship while evading the ongoing battles before the ship fully sank, he wanted to get to Jay and turn him into a card quickly to escape with his crew instact.
'Sloth, sloth, sloth, sloth, sloth…'
Sky could not ignore the Caribbean me fighting the fishmen either so he slowed down all the fishmen he saw giving them a better fighting chance.
The fishmen who were slowed down were slowed down considerably and the Caribbean men found it easier to kill them.
{Assisted in killing a fishman}
{Assisted in killing a fishman}
{Assisted in killing a fishman}
{Assisted in killing a fishman}
{Level up}
{Level up}
{Level…}
Sky ignored the notifications. There was a large tentacle wrapped around the bathroom. Sky quickly teleported inside the bathroom and saw Jay in there.
"Jay!"
"Captain!" Jay had never been so glad to see the captain.
"Sorry about this."
"What?"
Sky hit Jay in the stomach lowering his HP to 5% Jay did not know what to think, he was happy to see his Captain and before he knew it he got a gut punch on the stomach, it was the worst pain he had ever felt in his life.
Sky turned him into a card and teleported outside of the ship and flew. Sky did not have a high mind stat either but with his system and the help of some items he is wearing he can fly without having to worry about mana.
He saw many Caribbean officers fighting in the sky. Sky used this chance to slow down every single fishmen he could see that was in the air.
On the corner of his eye he saw Boris and Balthazar fighting. Their clashes alone caused several powerful collisions that could be felt by everyone present.
Sky could not even slow down the fishman fighting Boris, they were too quick for him to see.
Nobody paid attention to Sky as not only were they fighting for their lives, he did not stand out in the heat of battle.
Sky would use this moment to flee somewhere safe but stopped. He could not leave Boris fighting that powerful fishman, and Sky knew he could not help him out with his current stats.
But that did not mean he didn't have a way to help.
"Ice trident. Super dash. Super strength. Mana grace. Absolute shot." Sky threw the ice trident relying on this ability of his while his stats rose temporarily..
The ice trident flew fast and it managed to hit the back of Balthazar shattering into several pieces, not hurting him in the slightest but managed to push him to lose his tempo.
Boris who saw this took his chance and pierced his sword right at Balthazar's stomach and electrocuted Balthazar.
Sky finally saw the two of them stand still for a second only.
'Sloth.'
{Target has been slowed down by 70%}
'Now we're even.' Sky did not want to leave Boris for two reasons: Boris did end up saving him and his crew even if it was for a reason, and second the sooner that powerful fishman died the better.
Sky left quickly before anyone noticed him. The battle was going to end with the fishmen as the victor's, but it soon turned into a victory for the humans.
Balthazar ignored the pain and grabbed Boris by the arms. For some reason he felt incredibly heavy and slow. Balthazar recognized this feeling but could not understand why he was affected, he was wearing an item that protected him from all curses.
Just then Megalodon jumped out of the water to swallow them both whole. Boris managed to fly away but the Megalodon swallowed Balthazar, rescuing him from death.
Boris quickly flew to his ship but it was too late, the Kraken pulled the entire ship to the bottom of the sea.
There were many bodies floating on the ocean, many of them were not intact and none of them were alive.
The remaining crew flew over to Boris' side.
Looking at his crew, there were only half of them remaining.
"We need to get out of here quickly. Those fishmen are waiting for us to run out of mana and eventually we'll fall to the ocean and we'll be at their mercy."
Boris wasn't worried about running out of mana, his mind stat was high enough, he was worried about his men running out of mana.
Everyone agreed and they flew away with him.
Sky was high above the clouds. He looked back and breathed a sigh of relief.
'That was way too close. And I do not have a map to navigate. Crap.'
{What do you mean you do not have a map? Have you forgotten you can use the map function?}
'What? You told me I can only use it while on the ship.'
{I do not believe I told you that. I said you cannot use any of the ship commands while you're not near a ship you own, but the map function is something you can use any time anywhere}
'Wait, what? And all this time I thought… map.'
Sky looked at the map and saw some inhabited islands. In a matter of hours he arrived at an island. It was easy to spot as it had various light sources and it stood out in the darkness.
Sky could rest easy now as he landed on the island. Nearly everyone on the island was already asleep.
Reaching into his inventory he took out his cards and summoned his crew.
Jericho, Jay, and Jules fell on the ground weak and in pain.
"Heal. Heal. Heal."
Everyone was back to full health but they were still lying on the sand.
"What the hell was that place?" Jericho asked.
"I felt like a prisoner trapped in my own body." Jay said.
"I did not want to go through that a third time again." Jules said weakly.
"I know, but I hope you all know I had no choice."
"We know." All three of them said in perfect unison, just because they understood doesn't make the experience any better.
Sky also lay down beside them on the sand.
"At least you made it out of there, Captain." Jay said.
"Yeah…" Jericho said.
"Ancestor…"
"Don't call me that unless the Caribbean finds you again and takes you."
"Got it, Master."
Jules didn't show it but she hoped Sky would survive. If he had died while they were still transformed as cards, would they remain as cards forever until someone finds them? Or would they be stuck in his inventory forever?
This question bothered her while stuck in limbo and she was afraid that she would be stuck in that place forever.
However this also meant she would not be able to see her brother anytime soon anymore which bothered her deeply.
"What now?" Jericho asked.
"We sleep. We'll figure out the rest tomorrow."
"Ay, Captain."