Crunch!

Sharp nails pierced deeply into the hull of the boat. With the bulky muscles the creature had on its thin mismatched arms, it pulled itself up. Soon, its head shot up above the water surface. It was a strange-looking creature. Its whole body was covered with blue scales, and it had an eye too big for its flat and wide face.

Kiiih!

Its shrieks sounded like mocking laughter, and one could see a red waggling tongue between its rows of sharp teeth. To get on top of the boat, it tried to pierce its other hand into the hull, but Windur moved faster than it did and split the creature’s head.

Kuh!

Without being able to finish a proper scream, it died. Its arm holding onto the hull lost its strength and sank back into the ocean. However, that wasn’t the only monster that appeared.

Crack! Crunch!

Monsters of all kinds of breeds began to crawl onto the boat from everywhere. 

“Shake them off!” As soon as Zich shouted his command, everyone moved to the edge of the boat. Hans swung Estellade and Snoc flung out clumps of mithril. Lyla swept away large-scale monsters with incantations, and Elena also calmly aimed fireballs at the monsters one by...