A few more days passed and they finally saw the Cobalt Harbour. The ship’s crew was busy preparing the ship for docking. Afro helped out as well since half the crew were on the pirate’s ship. Matthew tried to help as well but he didn’t know what to do exactly and could only watch them.The anchors were dropped and the sails were furled. Once the ship was docked, both the ship’s crew and the harbour’s began working to unload the ship. The pirate ship was practically empty and only its tied up crew members were brought onto the pier. There, Cobalt authorities were discussing with the captain.Matthew and Afro got off and were not that far from them. It was not their place to be involved in the nation’s procedures.“Well, I’ll be heading back home now. Do you need any help finding a ship to Phulu?”“No, I don’t think so. I’ll ask the people nearby. Well, they’re practically surrounding me already.” Matthew could tell that everyone had their eyes on him.In this part of the world, humans
“Sorry to have kept you waiting.” Shima said as he walked side by side with Matthew.They were walking in the palace and passed by guards that were on patrol. All of the guards saluted them as they did.“You didn’t have to come personally.” Matthew replied.“When my guest is someone as esteemed as you, as king, I believe only I am fitting to accompany you. Aside from Lady Cobalt of course.”Shima Melcros, the king of the Cobalt United Kingdom. He was a blue scaled fishman with a slender stature yet defined muscles. He only wore a kilt made from beautiful translucent jellyfish-like material and had a golden ribbon resting on his shoulders. On his neck were five pairs of gills. His hands and feet were webbed like a duck’s and fins on the forearms and on his hind legs. Shima had yellow fish-like eyes and his ears were fins. His hair was blue and reached his shoulders.“What brings you to my palace?” Shima asked.“Well, I was just stopping by to meet Cobalt originally. But since all route
“Who are you? And why do you disturb my slumber?” A deep mature female voice resounded in the chamber.Matthew got a good look at Cobalt. She was lindwurm type dragon with a long flat tail like a crocodile’s. Her arms were webbed and had fins on the side. She had deep blue eyes and frills on her cheeks. She also had three horns on top of her head that curved to the back. The scales on most of her body were dark blue from her spiked spine and became lighter as it went to her under belly until it was white. Upon better look, Matthew noticed that she had gills behind the frills.“Your aura feels familiar. Answer me, human.” Cobalt spoke again.Matthew returned from zoning out a bit and introduced himself. “Oh, I’m Matthew. We just came by to visit you.”“We?” Cobalt lowered her head to inspect closer, but there was really no one other than Matthew.“Hello there Cobalt.”“It has been a while.” Arshild and Draco spoke through the Dragoknight.“Those voices… Arshild and Draco? My, where are
600 years ago, there was a great war that shook the entire world. Unlike the World Wars on Earth, the Scarlett War was not a conflict of multiple countries against other countries. It was a conflict between one country against all others.This story took place about two years before the war.Leviticus Scarlett was a half human half demon. He was always treated unfairly because of his origin. His mentality was strong and endured the abuses, until a certain event happened and made him snap.He came alone and was floating above the ocean where the Kraken dwelt below. They struck a conversation before the fighting began.“Why do you come, O king of demons?” The Kraken asked.“To kill you, ancient one.” Leviticus answered.“I know of your strength. You are not someone that I can defeat, that I know.”“Then why not surrender and die a quick death?”“You are too arrogant, king of demons. You should learn that your way of achieving your goal is pointless for the people will never agree.”“I o
“That’s the entire story.” Cobalt said as she swallowed an entire fish whole.Cobalt had just finished telling Matthew of the fight between the Scarlett King and the Kraken.“Just like that?” Matthew thought it was rather easy.“Well, Kraken mostly does mental attacks and does not specialise in offence, and against the Scarlett King, she couldn’t do much. Fighting that monster is almost impossible to win. Draco would know.”“Indeed. His ability to use both astra and magic is amazing on top of his intelligence. Although I was confident that my strength was greater, he managed to catch me off guard.” Draco said.“I see.” Matthew was amazed every time he heard of the Scarlett King’s feats. He defeated multiple powerful beings alone and brought chaos to the world, yet wished for peace. It did not make sense.“It was said that it took the entire might of the Heroes to defeat the Scarlett King, or so the books say. The truth was that there was an inside conflict between some of the children
Matthew set off with Dzy as his guide. They rode a mosasaur with armour plating to head toward the trench where the Kraken dwelt. The mosasaur was swimming really fast and it was easy to lose a grip on their reigns, but Matthew was able to hold on. They lay their bodies flat on the mosasaurs to reduce drag so that the mosasaurs can swim faster.Still, the trench was far away. On the way there, Matthew got a glimpse of the cities within the Whale Clan territory. It was near the surface and had really large houses that were spherical in shape and connected by what seemed like tubes made from bubbles. Matthew could sense people in the towns, but all their auras were dull as if they were lifeless. No, that wasn’t the correct way of describing. It was like they lacked any emotion and thought, unconscious, yet they were moving as if everything was normal.(That’s the Kraken’s doing. If she really is as Cobalt said, why do this?) Matthew thought but he saved that question for when he actuall
Shima, accompanied by a group of knights, slammed the door to the meeting room with great force.“What’s happening?” He asked the people that were present.“The Whale Clan and the Deep Clan are headed toward the capital with great speed. Reports from our scouts say they’re bringing everyone, civilians included.” Hardy answered.“Why?”“According to scouts, the Kraken is controlling them and forcing them to come here. They aren’t equipped at all aside from those that already are. Seems like this force was hastily put together, or not actually put together at all.”“By the gods. This is a much worse situation than when the Scarlett Army attacked. We don’t want to kill our people and that would be troublesome to deal with.”“Not only that, sire, there is also an armada of 50 ships coming in from the north. From their flagship, it’s the Red Eye Pirates.” Hardy added to his report.“50?! I thought they had only 20. When did they gain such numbers?”“We suspect that they joined forces with
Matthew opened his eyes and saw that he had returned to the location where he and Rose first came to this world. It was the exact same scene.“This place again. Why am I dreaming of it? What actually happened?” Matthew didn’t know that he was knocked out when he confronted the Kraken.“Matthew, son of Mark.” A voice echoed from all around. No, it was multiple voices without a source.“Who’s there?” Matthew asked.“Why, you’ve already forgotten about me? The world tree?” The voice said.Mentioning the world tree, Matthew knew who it was. It truly has been some time since then.“Yggdrasil?”“So you do remember.”“What is it? Did you bring me here?”“Hmm, you could say that. It took a great deal of effort to bring you here. Had you not been knocked out, I couldn’t have possibly met you.”“I was knocked out? How?”“You faced your fated foe while you were unprepared and were defeated quite easily.”“My… fated foe?” Matthew had so many questions that his mind was a haze now.“Yes. Leviticus