After sleeping another night in the cabin James was pretty tired of the cabin and wanted to travel again.
"Alright, today we are going to raid a dungeon near the ocean. If we're lucky we can find a monster that is big enough to take us across the sea." James said.
"Really? We just raided a couple of dungeons yesterday. Don't you think you're rushing it?" Ella said.
"Of course not, we have to keep going while we are on a hot streak." James replied.
"Okay, if that is what you think." Ella said.
And like that, the three teens had their breakfast and set out to the shore to find a water-themed dungeon.
After raiding a few dungeons and only getting normal cave dungeons they decided to take a break and eat some lunch.
"Huff… I'm exhausted." Brodin said as he sat down in the sand.
"Yeah, me too. I hope we find the ocean dungeon soon." Ella said.
"Same. However, raiding all these dungeons isn't bad for us either." James said.
"What do you mean?" Brodin asked.
"Well, you got more crafting materials and can craft all kinds of new weapons, and Ella's Valkyrie and lion keep leveling up and keep getting stronger." James replied.
"Yeah, that's right. I just don't know if I can tame a large water monster yet." Ella said.
"Of course you can. I believe in you." Brodin said as he smiled at Ella.
"Really? I'll try my best then." Ella said while blushing.
After taking a quick break for lunch they started to search for another dungeon.
Eventually, they found another one. They walked through the entrance and could not believe their eyes.
They were in a beautiful cave. There was a small path for them to walk on with on the left the ocean entering the cave. Inside the walls, all kinds of gems were embedded. The sun reflected from the ocean water onto the gems resulting in a beautiful scene with different colours of light. There were no monsters in sight so they easily walked along the path.
They kept following the path and they reached an open space in the cave. The path made a turn upward. And in the middle, the ocean water gathered it took a deep blue colour. This time there were monsters on the path. They were ocean folk. These types of monsters had a human form but they had scales for skin and had gills behind their ears, allowing them to breathe underwater. They used tridents as their main weapon.
"Arlok come forth."
"Kair let's go!"
"Elsing please help me."
As the teens summoned their heroes the monsters were already charging toward them.
"Twin tails!" James said as he also charged toward the ocean folk.
There were four enemies so James used his tail to slam one of them into the wall and he hit the other with a jab catching it off guard.
"Alvit fight for me!" Ella said and a moment later Alvit flew to one of the other ocean folk as she brandished her sword and clashed with it.
"Smashing hammer!" Brodin yelled as he swung his hammer at the last of the ocean folk.
He hit it toward the wall of the cave smashing its head. However, this head was way stronger than those of the valkyries. It didn't explode. After that, a fierce battle broke out.
After the battle, James and Brodin received some minor injuries, and Ella her valkyrie was weakened. So they first took a little break to recover a bit.
When they walked on they immediately came into another room. This one, however, was much bigger than the other one. And there was a lot of ocean water in it with only a small plot of land for the players to stand on.
Then suddenly everything started to shake and from the depths of the ocean water, something resurfaced. It was a giant pile of gems. The gems were in a special pattern and they kept coming. Eventually, it stopped growing in size. But then suddenly a head came up.
"What is that?!" Ella asked.
"It's probably a tortoise or something." Brodin said.
"You're right. It's a crystal tortoise. It has multiple gems for its shell making it one of the monsters with the strongest defense in the game." James said.
"Then how are we going to defeat it?" Ella asked.
"Their defense may be strong. But their magic defense is pretty weak. So I will use all my magic attacks on it and Brodin will tank any attacks that come out. Ella, you will summon your valkyrie and she will do chip damage." James explained.
They all summoned their heroes and started the fight.
James began with a barrage of fireballs damaging the tortoise. But the tortoise started to retaliate and it shot out various gems of various sizes. Ranging from small like a tennis ball to as big as a yoga ball. Brodin then jumped in and blocked all the gems which were shot at James. Alvit would also slash at the tortoise doing only a little bit of damage.
After fighting for a while James wanted to end it. He used the fire tornado five times and then send all of the fire tornados to the tortoise. As the fire tornados made their way he also sent out another barrage of fireballs. This was the first time in a while that he was low on mana so he had to give this his all and hope that it was enough.
"Boom!!" a giant explosion was created when the tornados and the countless fireballs made contact with the giant tortoise.