Chapter 162. Sea of dangers

No matter the world I'm in, the mighty sea seems to be a beautiful mystery over the minds of every human.

How far does it go?

How deep it is?

And what lies within?

Almost a month has passed and I can't believe that people are crazy enough to get on a flimsy ship and venture out into the world.

The sea is not friendly.

The sea follows one rule, and that's the strongest rules over everything!

This is the place where I saw the biggest difference from the game, where there were tornadoes, waves over 10 blocks high, huge fishes, and small fishes that clearly didn't belong to the vanilla or any mod that I could recognize.

I asked the others if it was like this everywhere in the sea, and they responded that it wa wassn't.

Apparently, 500 blocks from the shore are called calm waters, where only a selected number of small fish, squids, and dolphins live. Beyond the 500 mark, there is a drastic change, the waves start to get bigger, the lifeforms are more diverse and everything becomes more dangerous in general.

You need a medium ship from that point onwards.

I asked the reason for all this, and they responded with theories they heard, such as the System itself keeping the people safe, since no fish or wave can pass the mark alive, it dies without a cause.

Then I asked them what was the reason for going so far into the sea in the first place, and I would always remember the looks on their face.

"Because there's no better romance, than the love of the sea!"

I was very confused by that statement, but everyone seemed to completely agree with the man.

In the end, I managed to get a more 'reasonable' answer out of them, and that was because there are a few islands rich with resources deep into the sea.

Those islands are huge and have not been touched by man since it's so hard to get to them in the first place.

There's also a few factories on those bigger islands since it's closer to the source.

In the last month a lot has happen, such as an attack from a huge squid, storms with tsunamis waves, and a few disputes in the crew.

The attack and the storms were relatively easy to deal with since the iron protection seemed to be more powerful than expected.

We didn't even need to patch the ship afterward which impressed everyone.

As for the crew conflict, those were not that easy to deal with.

The crew was made on short notice and the rewards were quite high, and that's the reason a hierarchy needed to be established, especially who would be second in command.

At first, it was quite tame, trying to intimidate the others or kissing the captain's boots, some even tried to approach me hoping to get my help but they didn't find me most of the time.

But after a few weeks with little results, and people getting bored they started to become more daring, and one day came with a proposition to the captain.

"Captian, we all think that your right hand should be someone capable of wielding a sword and battle, and since we're going to use the armor most of the time, why don't we do a match in those to see who's the best?"

In most cases, Siren wouldn't accept such a deal, but the boredom and stress from the journey were getting to her as well, so she gave them two sets of diamond armor and came to enjoy the show.

That's when the big incident happened, one of them after equipping the armor, thought they were invincible and tried to kill the captain and take her place.

Before he could get too close to her, I stepped between them, took out my sword, and cut his neck, decapitating him in one swing.

Everyone froze in fear as they saw me appear out of nowhere and kill someone who should be next to invincible in one swing.

Even Siren got scared a little.

But that was enough to put the mood down for everyone, so the duels were canceled and Siren promised them, they would get the diamond equipment only when will get to our destination.

Ever since then, the crew has been more quiet and obedient, while also being more afraid of me.

But now the wait is over as soon we would arrive at our destination.

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It was a sunny day over the sea, the waters were calm and everyone was doing their jobs or fishing, when all of a sudden a loud noise disturbed the peace.

*Bang!

The ship slightly shook.

"Everyone, get on the deck where being attacked!"

At incredible speeds, everyone got in place ready to fight.

Siren didn't hesitate and gave everyone armor and swords to fight when all of a sudden.

*Bang!

The ship was hit once again.

"Captain! It seemed were being attacked from underwater!"

"Looks like we arrived at our destination, everyone get your crossbows and shoot those fireworks at any signs of life!"

Everyone took out their weapons and ran toward the edge of the ship looking at the water.

Tension was looming through the air.

"I see something!"

One of the crew yelled as he shot into the water.

A silenced boom was heard followed by bubbles rising to the surface.

"I think I got it-"

A laser light beam silenced him with a shoot in the chest. The shot was so powerful that he was knocked back on the other side of the ship, yelling in pain.

But he was still alive because of the armor.

"Be careful, or you'll fall off the ship!"

Everyone looked with worry over the water expecting a deadly bean from any direction.

This wasn't good, we could barely see the guardian and even when we did see it, were not sure if we'd hit it.

I have to go in.

I drank some potions, took out my trident and jumped into the water leaving a huge splash behind that made everyone yell.

Water was all around me, and I could feel that I was sinking at great speeds, but after a few kicks I stopped In place

Once the bubbles were clear, I could see the monster that was attacking as, or more exactly defending its base.

The Guardian.

It looked much more robotic than I remembered in the game, the flesh was green and real for sure, but the eye was clearly artificially made.

It looked at me, and bubbles gathered around its pupil, but with my trident, I managed to get out of the way before it could hit me, then it looked around trying to find me.

Good, looks like my armor was semi-efficient, I can work with this.

With the trident in my left hand and sword in my right hand, I dashed towards the creature.

Hitting first with my head then with my sword.

Surprisingly I saw red blood as the wand was created. The guardian turned towards me and hit me with its beam right in the chest, pushing me back 10 blocks and aching on my chest.

But no damage was done, showing the overwhelming defense this armor had.

Before another beam could hit me I got out of the way with my trusty trident, going back to attack.

As I was fighting it, I realized a few things.

This was truly a weapon of war.

It could turn quickly and swim at great speeds, it could tank a lot of damage and its regeneration was annoying as well.

The only weak point I could deduce was its eye, but I couldn't reach it no matter what I did.

I have to do something before it's going to call the others!

As I was blitzing through the water trying to catch it off guard, an idea came to me

I got closer with the trident, but instead of attacking it, I threw my trident for one more push, this time hitting the Guardian.

It was a success as the guardian was moved over 10 blocks and seemed confused about what just happened.

Before it could analyze, I used another dash toward the monster, but this time we broke the surface of the water hanging out in the air.

"Violet, kill this thing!"

Gravity did its job and brought us down, but instead of hitting water, we hit cold ice.

The guardian was like a fish out of water frantically moving around trying to get back to its domain.

But an invisible hand slashed its eye killing it on the spot.

Red blood was slowly spreading over the melting ice blocks, but the enemy was defeated.

Unfortunately, this was not the end.

Before the ice could fully break, I jumped into the water, and with the help of the trident got onto the ship.

"What just happened?"

"Did you just fight that monster underwater?"

"How were you able to move so fast underwater, are you the God of Sea?"

The crew started to overwhelm me with questions and admiration until Captain Siren yelled with her powerful voice.

"Everyone SHUT UP! Do you think the fight is over? Who told you to abandon your posts, get back and watch out for more attacks to come. This kind of monster doesn't fight alone!"

Everyone froze, before running back to their posts watching for the new wave of enemies.

While everyone was doing that, Siren got closer to me and spoke at a lower volume.

"You're monster friend was here all along? How did you manage to convince her to do that, I thought Endemans hated water?"

"She's my friend, so I couldn't exclude her from this adventure. Plus I took precautions."

While Siren was contemplating how a monster walked amongst them unnoticed for a month, I looked at a certain pair of diamond boots in the corner of the ship.

Those belonged to Violet, the one who killed the guardian in one move.

True, she hates water like every Enderwoman ever, and if she didn't want to help me, she wouldn't dare get on such a vehicle.

But I came up with a solution for that, and it was enchanted diamond boots with Frost Falk.

So even if something happens to the ship and she doesn't have solid ground, she would create ice whenever she walks.

Surprisingly she can also equip armor except for the chest plate since she couldn't get her claws in the arm holes of the armor.

The rest had an easier time registering to her size once the equipment recognised it was worn.

But she didn't want to wear any armor and I would agree with her, since it didn't became invisible like her, which was her strongest point.

She only carries the boots around in case of emergency.

"I see multiple monsters incoming, I think we're going to be overwhelmed soon!"

Siren looks back at me with a tense expression.

"Is it time to use those?"

"It's the perfect time to use them."

"Ok everyone, gather here since we're going to throw TNT at those monsters!"

Everyone quickly gathered asking what she was talking about.

But the plan was simple yet very dangerous.

When you have a TNT block in your hand, you can't light it, because it needs to be placed down, and then you can't move it.

But when the bomb is lit, there's a few second where you can move the explosive, and were going to use that time to throw it into the water towards the guardians.

The crew though the Captain was a madwoman, and she thought the same thing about me since I came up with the idea.

But nobody could deny the effectiveness of the plan.

So we got work.

They placed the TNT block at the very edge, lit it with flint and steel and pushed it into the water, resulting in silent explosions and water splashing all over the place.

Let's just say Violet wasn't to pleased about this outcome.

But we didn't do this in vain, as the guardians were damaged or thrown out of the water were Violet or the crew killed them.

I looked over the bord and saw that a dozen guardians were surrounding the ship, but we're to preoccupied with dodging the explosion to attack any of us, which was good.

This was the prefect time to sneak past them, while they were distracted.

So I jumped back into the water, leaving a small splash compared to the explosives.