I knew how to go back to the fog. I knew how to go back to the Cathedral. I had a way to see the kids once more.
Was it risky? Yes.
Was it dangerous? Yes.
Was it needed? Absolutely. I had a pinky promise to complete.
And I will complete it.
But for now, I needed to take care of my current situation. The swarm of Anglerfish were coming for the brick and for . The whale on which I stood was still and only vibrating, periodically letting out calls, I think.
I can foresee myself dead but if it was like that I should have already been dead. Sure, I could hide the bricks and survive but what use would it be?
If I put them away now, I would put them away forever.
I moved my body to what I believe was the or the middle of the whale. Chances are the Anglerfish Leviathan don't jump out of waters like shark or the Apex Leviathan. They are deep-sea creature and not honed to do that. Granted they might have the speed, strength to pull that of but I am willing to bet they can't.
They were approaching. I could feel it. The cold rain that fell on were getting warr. I could see the light, blood red light approaching giving of heat. Every single drop that fell near the light gave out a fizzle and evaporated into steam.
The light were strong enough to boil waters.
The whale beneath was trembling now, not vibrating but trembling. Was it because of heat? Or the fear of being devoured? Who knows? Who cares?
And I guess I was right. The Anglerfish were roaring, I couldn't hear them but the air that escaped from them were stronger than the stormy wind. Strong enough to make fall but not strong enough to make fly.
They were roaring. They wanted the brick. Every movent they made, their light lure would strike the whale skin. The light lure would cook the whale skin with every strike. Yet, the whale wasn't moving.
The Anglerfish were getting impatient. I could see and feel them with every movent. And then one Anglerfish roared and bit on the whale. Its sharp teeth piercing the whale skin. It even did a death roll to dismber the whale. Luckily, the whale was bigger than the Anglerfish so it didn't roll.
Once one started to do it, others followed. Every single one of the Anglerfish started to dismber the whale trying to reach . The whale was bellowing in pain. I couldn't hear it but I could feel it.
'Sorry, buddy better you than . If it wasn't for the baby whale I wouldn't even be here.' I gave a soft apology and focused on the Anglerfish.
I had a plan but I had a guess. A guess if proved true could help survive.
The surrounding temperature was rising. The Anglerfish had dismbered enough part of the whale to be near. Near enough for to feel steam rise from . They were about a 100 ter away from .
I slowly stepped away from the center and backwards from the Anglerfish. I needed ti to prove my guess.
Step by step I was closer to the Leviathan than I was to the edge. I held my bricks tight. My chomp of the Anglerfish and I am dead.
I took a deep breathe. And started running towards the Anglerfish near to . I jumped towards its light lure trying to clung on it. Yes, I knew it was a stupid plan. A plan made by a mad person.
I would be burned by the light lure but if I survive I could climb on the Anglerfish back making other Anglerfish dismber it like the Whale. And I could jump on another with luck.
Hot. It was smoking hot. My hair was on fire. My clothes were burning as I clutched onto the lure. I could feel the fabric burn and latch onto my skin and flesh. My eyes felt like they were lting.
But my arms and leg could move. So, I climbed. If my body could move then I would move.
I climbed its long lure. Every ter I climbed on its lure it beca colder. I don't know how far I went but my arms gave way and I fell. On top of the Anglerfish head. The head I fell on was dry so I didn't slip.
The fabric from my clothes had already burned and mixed with my skin. My eyes were hot. The inside of its were boiling. But I could see. Everything in red but I could still see. My arms and legs were not in good condition too but were they ever in a good condition after I ca here?
I stayed there wanting to stay more and more like this. But the anglerfish beneath didn't want to. It was frantic. Moving its head here and there. Like it knew the general direction of the but not the exact location.
The other Anglerfish were pretty sure of my location. They were swimming towards . I stood there on the Anglerfish head clutching the Anglerfish lure base.
All the other Anglerfish approached while the Anglerfish I stood on moved in circle, maybe trying to throw in the sea, maybe trying to find . Who knows?
Then the chaos started, one orchestrated by , All the anglerfish started hurling themselves towards the Anglerfish I stood on. So bit its tail. So bit its fins. So slamd into it hopping to knock to the waters. So bit its mouth.
The Anglerfish fought against its cannibals counterpart. While I clutched the lure base for dear life. While they fought, the other lure would strike near and sotis . They burned when they strike near . They burned alive when they hit .
But I hung on for dear life. While the Anglerfish turned cannibal. The lights of the Anglerfish showed what was happening. The back of the Anglerfish was being torn to bits having no significant protection aside from scale or fat skin. While the head part I stood on had less damage as the Anglerfish fought for life with its razor sharp teeth.
My eyes were boiling with every lure that passed by or with with force that made puke blood. But I kept my eyes open. I had to jump onto another one when this one died.
And it was close to dying.
I took a deep breath and prepared to jump. I was going to get burned again but did it matter.
I could choose the smaller light lure and jump but the bigger one gave more protection. Sure the bigger one would burn the most but it was necessary to survive.
I observed and noticed a big lure that would hit near at certain intervals. I let go of the base that I held tight and prepared to jump. Not directly to the lure but the part that connected it. 'That way I would be burned less.' And then the light lure struck on the head and I ran towards it.
My injuries made slow and miscalculate my speed and when I jumped. I was once again t with the harsh burning light glow. This one was even hotter. I wanted to scream. I wanted to shout. I wanted to curse even more. But like hell that would do any favor. I climbed on its lure. I climbed it like a fucking koala on a tree.
My legs and arms were giving way. They had been burned, muscles pulled beyond normal, torn and healed. Now they had to once more support my weight while I koala climbed. Like hell they will give way. I clutched the lure tight. My body was screaming but who fucking cared.
I koala climbed all the way to the base. I was burned. My blood was boiling. My wounds were steaming. My eyes were half cooked. But I reached in one piece to the next Anglerfish. A few tens of ti more and I will have killed most of the Anglerfish leviathan.
Now the others Anglerfish were fighting the Anglerfish on which I stood. Even the previously torn apart Anglerfish was coming. The bricks had much more attraction to the Leviathans than I knew.
And I clutched tight on the base of the lure. This Anglerfish was going to et the sa fate as the previous fish. Eaten by its own. Torn to bits by its own. So I waited. Nothing unexpected was going to happen. All I needed to do was make sure I was alive while I jumped and koala climbed from one Leviathan to another.
I gave a slap to my burnt face. I set up a fucking red flag, didn't I?
And voila, in less than a second after I slapped myself. A wave so big ca that flipped every single Anglerfish like pancakes into the air. And lucky for I was flipped too.
And with Lightning as its background, I could see what caused it. I could see what caused the massive wave to occur. I could see it all in slow motion. I could see it all in boiling red.
It was a whale. A much, much bigger whale jumping from the water. And it had a kraken latched onto its head. Both of the beast that ca out of the depth were humungous. big enough to make the Anglerfish and the Whale I stood on seem small.
I sighed. This red flag is quite deadly, isn't it? I didn't manifest a red flag. I summoned the black flag that summoned the fucking grim reaper.
Just because the system notification notified there were kraken, siren in the water doesn't an I want to see them so soon.
I could sohow manage the Anglerfish and benefit from the chaos. But this whale and the kraken. Bruh. just kill .
Goddamn it. I am not your strongest solider man. Stop sending the hardest battles.
My arms had given up as my grip had loosened from the base of the lure. I was catapulted far away with the force.
And like a skipping stone, I bounced on the water too many tis to remain healthy. Every ti I skipped, I slowed down but it still hurt like hell.
And then I hit a brick wall, a Anglerfish leviathan that was hurled a little farther away from . I swear all the bones in my body had cracks or they were outright in pieces. I was vomiting out blood and flesh.
I was sohow alive. Sohow. My legs were bent in poses I could never dream possible. My lowed half were once more out of use. I don't even want to curse anymore.
My left arm worked. While my right arm had bones protruding out of the skin.
The brick wall I hit with force and stuck like a graffiti. My body was losing grip on it and I was falling on the water below. The water seed a better option to survive. Because the apex Leviathan taught many things.
One of them being, If a Leviathan jumped out of the water making a wave then it will make a wave when entering it.
And this whale made a wave when jumping with a kraken. It is going to make one more when entering the waters.
The underwater were my safe bet. The wave would not affect that much if I was underwater.
Yet, my fall was slow from the Anglerfish. If my arms and legs were working, I would have used them to hasten the fall. But just one working hand would do no favor. Beside the lightning had already shown the whale and the kraken falling into the surface.
I had no ti to be under water.
And so a wave ca once more.
It catapulted the Anglerfish and once more, as if we were stones skipping above the surface.
Just that this ti, I bounced on the surface head first many tis.
I heard a crack from the first ti.
My spine had broke.
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Wrote this Chapter like 5 tis. So I took ti to explain in more detail. So I went a different approach. But I felt this one suited the best. Its filled with a lot of action and a hint of well desperation and madness. Aside from him surviving all the stuff a normal person would never survive. I have a reason. A good reason. But its to be explained later on. Very later on.
And the size of the Leviathan are humungous. Just absolute humungous. And in the one piece world I have in mind for the story. While they too play a part they are in no way the strongest. The world in my mind is cursed.
And most importantly I had designed and planned to write Volu 1 as so sort of cinematic experience to those who could imagine. That's why I went in such detail and all that. Sadly aside from so Chapter, my writing skills didn't match what I had in mind. So I will do a rewrite but later on. Volu 2 is going to be more action based. Soti fast and soti slow.
But lets be clear on one thing. All the torture the MC is getting is character developnt. he needs it for the cursed world up ahead. The Mc is rational but he is also mad.
And lastly, Volu 1 would have officially ended next Chapter but a fight scene was planned. Courtesy to Inevitable End. Praise the Fool. The fight scene is going to take around 10ish Chapter. So the official ending of Volu 1 is after the fight scene. And I am going to introduce a storyline character cause I feel Volu 1 is too original to be called a fanfic.
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