However, it took little for the creature to appear again above water because the churning waves parted violently, revealing a massive fish form that rose from the depths.
Water cascaded off its scales as it briefly rose to the surface to attack. But even just that tiny part of the monster's back dwarfed even the tallest masts.
Chaos erupted on deck as the creature's sudden appearance troubled the Chimaeric Demons.
They, Erik, Mira, Amber, and Emily, never fought sothing like this, so they didn't even know what the best thing to do was.
"Attack!"
The ship's artillery flared, and with it, the attacks sent by the Chimaeric Demons.
However, the starlight fire brain crystal power Erik got from the Luminaclaw bear wasn't enough to kill the monster, even with the stars shining so brightly.
That must have been because the beast was within the water, and fire was useless against the monster within it.
As for the ship's weapons, it looked like the beast was used to them and avoided the attacks relatively easily.
"Fuck!"
Erik stood his ground, eyes locked on the beast before them. However, the creature disappeared again beneath the turbulent waves. For a second at least, because then, a vast chasm appeared in the water.
It wasn't because of the water itself, but for the creature's gaping maw, full of razor-sharp teeth, which opened and tried to bite at the ship.
The thaid's scales under the water shimred with an array of blues and greens. It would have been beautiful if those lights weren't made by a thaid so big.
"Brace yourselves!" Erik said. "Aim for its eyes and gills! Don't let it get a grip on the ship!" The sea thaid let out an ear-splitting roar that shook the very air around them. It lunged forward, jaws snapping at the nearest portion of the ship. The ship resisted, but it got a huge indentation on its hull, and where the teeth landed, so holes appeared.
"Fuck! If we go on like this, we won't reach Hin if not by flying."
Erik and the crew would not die, that was for sure, but the ship served its purpose.
For starters, whatever the blackguards were doing in Mur ant they might end up eting so flying thaids from that accursed place, and at that point, Erik could do nothing.
The second problem was that flying thaids could be easily seen from the shores, and if that was true, it ant Erik and the Chimaeric Demons would be in the sa situation.
The third and last problem was that Erik didn't want the enemy to learn he went to Hin, and going there, on top of flying thaids, or better, his clones turned into them, would make that pretty obvious.
While that a ship had been stolen might have been clear to Hin, at least to those who were at the docks, if one of them arrived at Hin's shore, that wouldn't an that was the ship in question.
So, there would be so monts while the enemy tried to understand where this ship had co from, in which Erik could act. Those precious monts could make the difference in an eventual battle.
Amber and Emily huddled together near the stern, their eyes wide with terror. Mira stood protectively in front of them; she was used to such situations much more than them.
"Didn't they say that sea thaids were weaker than flying ones?" The woman said.
"That's it if they don't co from the waters surrounding the Mur continent!" Erik said.
"Then does this thing co from there?"
"I don't know!"
The Chimaeric Demons kept firing at the monster. Bullets and energy blasts peppered the thaid's scales, but most seed to glance off them.
Sohow, though, it looked like one of the attacks made it leave its grip on the ship.
"Can any of you copy this creature's form? If the ship sinks, we might need to copy it to traverse the sea."
"We will try, master!"
Erik's mind raced as he assessed the situation. The thaid's size and strength were too much for an average sea thaid, at least based on what people said, but there had to be a weakness.
He noticed the creature flinched when shots ca close to its eyes and its gills.
Erik called out.
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