Team Sandstorm traveled along the land bridge.
It was kind of strange to see so much water everywhere while a seemingly endless path of land stretched to the horizon.
The surroundings were eerily quiet. The only sounds came from the moving carriage and the waves.
This uniform path didn't feel natural at all.
'I mean, it's not natural,' Kyle thought. 'That's kind of the point.'
The caravan slowed down a bit out of security reasons.
Their speed reached 50 kph, which meant they would need almost ten hours to reach their destination.
'Explains why this mission takes two fucking days,' Kyle thought.
The journey was quite boring since there was nothing but unending water to look at.
"You know, you would think watching such a gigantic body of water would be interesting," Kyle commented. "But it seems- wait!"
Kyle stopped his commentary on the mundanity of the journey when his instincts told him that something was approaching.
"Mine!" Kyle shouted as he charged to the last wagon.
The people of the caravan looked with confusion at Kyle while team Sandstorm readied for battle.
They knew that Kyle had terrifyingly accurate instincts.
Kyle quickly jumped over the carriage and looked at the calm ocean from the air.
A moment later, the ocean exploded, and a gigantic tentacle, almost five meters wide, shot towards the last wagon.
The people of the caravan looked with shock at the approaching tentacle.
BANG!
Kyle used Boost to speed up his fall and slammed his hammer into the tentacle.
BOOM!
The tentacle stopped moving and was pushed against the ground, the pick of the hammer buried deep inside.
"Boys! We got calamari!" Kyle shouted as his entire body bulged.
Then, he pulled on the tentacle, and several more meters of tentacle came out of the ocean.
'That fucker's long!' he thought.
"Lily! I want calamari!" Kyle shouted.
Lily just snorted while the tentacle quickly straightened again.
The beast the tentacle belonged to was trying to pull it back, but Kyle kept holding it.
Luckily, the ground was so hard that Kyle could use his full power.
Although he was still being pulled back.
The next moment, several golems rammed their axes into the tentacle and started pulling as well.
"Heave-ho!" Kyle shouted as he pulled back.
The golems kept the tentacle from retreating whenever Kyle pulled more of it out. This entire process of pulling kind of worked like a zip tie, allowing one end to go deeper but not back out. Eventually, the tentacle behind Kyle started to angle towards him, and a ton of Water Ether gathered on it.
BANG!
A ball of water shot at Kyle with incredible speed.
Yet, Kyle just jumped over the tentacle, easily avoiding the attack.
Then, he continued pulling, and eventually, the water parted, revealing a… big shrimp?
"I was promised calamari!" Kyle shouted, looking at the shrimp that had a huge tentacle growing out of its face. "You're a liar!"
Surprisingly, the shrimp didn't have any shears or claws.
It seemed like the gigantic tentacle was its only weapon.
A moment later, the flying golems started peppering the shrimp with iron feathers, but they only managed to crack its shell.
BANG!
Then, a brown arrow shot into the shrimp's head, breaking through the shell with ease.
"Thanks!" Kyle shouted to Selene, who was naturally disguised as Sven.
Selene wanted to smile a bit, but that wouldn't fit her disguise, which was why she just nodded with a neutral expression.
"No!" Kyle suddenly shouted in terror.
Michael interrupted his Spellcasting.
"You're going to burn it!" Kyle shouted as he pulled the shrimp closer.
Michael just sighed.
He just wanted to help.
The golems kept the tentacle in place while Kyle charged towards the shrimp.
By now, the shrimp had recovered from the arrow and tried to retreat back into the water.
Sadly, the golems kept it from retreating.
Kyle quickly reached the shrimp and flattened its head with his hammer.
When the people of the caravan saw that, they took deep breaths.
This was a Fighter, right?
Then, where did this power come from?!
Fighters were not supposed to be this destructive!
When Kyle looked at the dead shrimp, he grimaced.
"I hate shrimp," he said before looking at the tentacle. "But I love calamari."
"I swear, if this shrimp spoiled my calamari, I'm going to kill it again."
Then, under the shocked gazes of the merchants, Kyle took a bite out of the gigantic tentacle.
As Kyle chewed, he slowly moved his head back and forth, evaluating the taste.
"Eh, good enough," he said, cutting through the tentacle with the pick of his hammer.
Then, he simply grabbed it and carried it with him.
"We can continue," Kyle told the caravan, pulling the humongous tentacle behind him.
"Sure," the leader of the caravan said awkwardly, watching Kyle take a ridiculously sized bite out of the tentacle.
'How can he even swallow that?' the leader thought in shock. 'In fact, how can he even eat that?!'
The leader watched in shock as a huge lump traveled down Kyle's throat after he swallowed.
While the caravan slowly resumed its journey, Falk went over to the shrimp and cut a couple of things out of its corpse.
In order to not waste materials, Falk had undergone the tedious process of getting a Hunting License.
Naturally, this included learning a lot about how to properly break down a corpse and spotting valuable materials.
Ten minutes later, Falk caught up to the caravan, carrying a couple of pieces of shell and the tail of the shrimp.
"Can we store it here?" Falk asked one of the people, pointing at one of the wagons.
"Sure," the person said, and Falk threw the valuables onto the wagon.
Two hours later, another beast attacked them.
This time, Lily wanted to test her golems and sent them into battle.
Sadly, while none of her golems were destroyed, the enemy also didn't die.
It just retreated after it realized that this prey was a bit too strong.
Nevertheless, Lily got some valuable combat data.
Another hour later, another beast attacked, and Lily gathered more combat data.
BANG!
Yet, before the beast could retreat, it was hit by a powerful bolt of lightning.
"This is free money," Michael commented with a nod.
Lily frowned while Falk ran towards the corpse to break it down.
"You know," Falk said after returning with his loot. "Maybe we are actually earning more than expected."
Kyle just grinned.
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