There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 601

Chapter 601: Chapter 595. The Sea Serpent

Senia gritted her teeth.

No--she wasn’t her old self! She was no longer someone surrounded by people who wanted to hurt her. She was no longer alone.

So she turned toward the one she could rely upon the most. "Gus!"

At the girl’s call, the swordsman returned to the ship and saw the swarms of water beasts moving on the surface, as well as sensing even more swimming down below. All coming for their ship.

This ship might be tough, but the barrier couldn’t prevent a ship from capsizing.

"Damn it--cannon 3 and 5 to the sea!" Gus divided the ship’s artilleries immediately. Unfortunately, there was only one mana railgun strong enough to harm the bosses, and there was little he could do in the sea.

Should he use the floating ice pieces? He frowned and paused when he saw something he thought was a boulder suddenly move on the horizon. The roundish head lifted past the water’s surface and a high-frequency shriek blasted, impairing their hearing and disturbing the balance of those standing on the ship. The guns and support halted as the espers fell and closed their ears tightly.

Fuck--it was a boss.

Gus remembered visiting a marine museum in the Southern Kingdom before, and he was fascinated by the big ones, wondering how they could even float with that huge body. That head on the horizon--opened up to a row of sharp teeth--reminded him of one of them. What was it called--ocra? Yeah, looked like an Ocra.

Only if the Ocra had been dead without decaying for a few decades.

Gus shook his head to get rid of the ringing sensation and grabbed the support magician. "Sav! Deploy a sanctuary!"

The support magician spread out a soothing circle to get rid of the negative effects of the boss’s shriek. That momentary lull in the attack was used by the beasts to rush over and tackle Senia’s ice wall together. Cracks appeared on the thick wall, even though it was made with the help of the elemental spirit.

"Senia, can you hold on?"

"Not long..." she shook her head, and gritted her teeth as some beasts had tried to attack the bottom of the ship too. She had to extend her wall into the dock, and more importantly...

Senia pointed to the waterspout with her chin. "That swirly thing sucked up my mana so much."

"Then cancel it," Gus said. "Most of them are getting too close to the ship anyway, so just use projectile magic or make a whirlpool somewhere."

"Ugh--okay..." Senia clenched her fists in the air and sent the waterspout to a colony of horned dolphins one last time before dispersing it. But she didn’t even have the time to take a deep breath when she grabbed the swordsman’s arm and gasped. "H-hey, that fish-like thing is coming here..."

"Tsk--" Gus clicked his tongue and turned toward the upper turret. "Is the Raygun ready?"

"Fifty seconds!"

"Shit," a lot of things could go wrong in fifty seconds--that ocra-like thing seemed like it could reach the ship in thirty. "Senia, let’s do what we did in the riv--what is that?"

Suddenly, the sea parted on the horizon; a big wave soared like a curtain, and when it crashed against the sea, a big figure with a triangular head and a pair of flowy horns howled into the dark canopy. It reminded Gus somewhat of Bassena’s Giant Serpent, but this one was definitely a sentient being; a beast.

"Another boss?!"

Even from afar, they could see it was as big as the Ocra--if not bigger. And it didn’t waste any time to rush toward the ship too, following the other beasts.

Gus took out another sword from his inventory. "Fuck! Let’s--"

Once again, his words could not get out properly.

The Sea Serpent was fast--faster than the Orca--and reached the colony in no time. Gus was having an internal meltdown and had a flashing thought that they should abandon the ship, gambling with the land battle.

But then, something unexpected happened that got his voice stuck in his throat.

The Sea Serpent crashed into the Orca; biting the Orca’s horned head while its body trashed the water beasts around.

"What?" Gus blinked dumbfoundedly, and so did the espers who were attacking the sea.

"What is that?"

The sea became turbulent due to the clash of the giants. The waves crashed into the shore and the ship like a small tsunami; lightning crackled from the dark canopy. Harsh winds blew, twisting like a hurricane amidst the eerie and colorful magic surrounding the trashing Orca and the Sea Serpent. The beasts around them were the first casualties, torn and blasted away from each swat of their tails and crackled of their magic.

At first, Gus thought it was a case of a boss trying to take over another boss’s territory. It happened with commander classes in the dungeon sometimes, where one colony would fight with another to determine the dungeon’s hierarchy. Espers loved that kind of scenario since it became easier for them to face the surviving beasts after the territorial fight.

But after looking at it closely, the Sea Serpent came alone. There was no sign of its minions going against the other water beast colony. If anything, the Sea Serpent was doing a solo hunt against the rest of the sea.