There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 604

Chapter 604: Chapter 598. The Sea of Fire

Zein hurriedly ducked past projectile magic fleeting on top of the ship and dashed inside the command bridge.

"The vault!" he said loudly to beat the loud sounds of battle.

The Captain was startled at first, but upon seeing Zein, he understood immediately. He rushed toward the vault under the command table and put on a passcode that slid open a keyhole slot. After using the key that Gus gave him, Zein took out the tube with two shards in it and deactivated the glass wall.

"Be quiet and hide your presence as much as you can," Zein told the twins immediately before they could buzz around him. "It’s dangerous outside, so come inside the ring. It’s kind of cramped with five of you, but be good to each other, okay? The other three are new, and one is still sleeping."

After spending a few seconds nuzzling the guide’s cheeks, the twins nodded and dove inside the ring. Zein rubbed the ring’s surface to seal it with Setnath’s energy before standing up to look at the battle from the bridge’s window.

It was still as fierce as ever, but the Giant Serpent had arrived at the dock and blocked the beasts’ advance. It did not actively move around since Bassena was still in deep meditation, but it was enough as an automatic shredding fence.

Hari and Carra immediately cast support magic at the espers and curse magic at the beasts, while Han Shin ran toward the ship, looking for someone in need of healing. Zein saw Senan and Cohen was about to jump to the dock and immediately pressed his commlink.

"I’m okay; guard Bassena and get rid of the beasts around the dock."

The two defenders flinched and Zein hurriedly came out to the deck so the two loyal bodyguards could see him. Even from afar, their relieved gesture could be seen clearly, and Zein felt a bit guilty about what he had done earlier.

But he couldn’t help it; he was worried the Fallen Star would send a fragment to rip the shard off the Sea Serpent, so he couldn’t even explain properly. Well, it didn’t matter now.

Thankfully, they followed his words. Senan slammed his tower shield against the platform barrier and created a shimmering shield around Bassena, while Cohen jumped off the other side, creating a shockwave that flew the encroaching miasmic beasts back.

Zein went to his commlink again; this time trying to connect to Radia’s channel.

[Come in]

"Command Center, please get rid of the dungeons in the East; we experience flooding," Zein reported. "Also, we retrieved the shard on the sea."

There was a pause before a reply finally came with a bit of static sound. [--ood job. The cle..ing team...on the way]

"Thanks!" Gus patted Zein’s back and jumped off the ship to the dock, dashing forward with two swords in his hands.

With the Sea Serpent helping them, there was no need for Gus to do complicated maneuvers in the sea. He could focus on cleaning the port city while the Eastern Sun and Zhan pushed the Fallen Star back.

But pushing back was not what the Eastern Sun wanted. She wanted to beat this ’main’ enemy, the Grand Boss, but what...she couldn’t breach that barrier just like everyone else. It hurt her pride that she couldn’t do anything different than the other kids with less experience.

"Get out of the way, kid! I’m going to use a big one!" she hissed in indignation; the wind whipped around her as her mana rose massively.

If it didn’t work, perhaps she just used not enough of it.

With this thought, she prepared to go all out and used her best spells.

"Whoa, whoa~" Zhan, realizing the mood shifting and intense heat coming out of her, immediately jumped away from the growling Fallen Star, who had been moving defensively due to the barrage of attacks from them.

Chains of lights from the Eastern Sun’s assistant bound the cloaked figure while the spell was chanted, and Zhan kept on moving backward since he had no idea how far the range of the attack would be.

Because of their combined attacks earlier, the surrounding area had been completely devastated, and the beasts around had been annihilated. Still, some of the beasts from another district were moving toward the bright light of spell activation, including the rampaging boss from the newly breaking gate.

Should I take care of the boss, instead? While contemplating this, Zhan bumped into someone.

Not enough--the Eastern Sun spread her hand and ten small white balls came out of the tip of her fingers. They gathered and stuck to each other like praying beads and started to rotate. With a flick of the Easter Sun’s arm, the white beads flew toward the Fallen Star while rotating, getting bigger and bigger until the hollow part in the middle was big enough.