The mermaids were closing in, and they were a few meters say from them.
"Mister John Luke, why the fuck would demons want to kill you?!" Jason asked.
"I-I don't know really, but I think I've got something to kill all of them, the only problem is we risk dying as well!" He said as he was hiding behind Mitsuki
"Just tell us the plan!" Moondust shouted.
"I've got a fragment Ignir grenade, powerful enough to create a big wave of the explosion.
" An ignir grenade, where did you find such a rare item?!" Moondust asked.
"During one of the expeditions..." John replied.
"Forget it, if the item is that powerful, then we won't survive..." Mitsuki said.
Moondust thought for a while of how to defeat the mermaids, and suddenly she had an idea.
"Mister Luke, give me the grenade!" She told him.
He gave the grenade to her and felt the amount of energy inside. It wasn't going to blow the boat, it was gonna blow everything around them!
'I've got this, I know what to do...' she told herself, "Alright, everyone come close to me!"
This caused the mermaids to get closer to the group. Moondust didn't waste time and threw the grenade in the air and created a dust sphere around them to protect themselves from the explosion.
When the grenade was high enough in the sky, it started to shine from the inside as if something was coming out of it. The light caused the Mermaids to look at it before it created a big explosion.
The explosion was so big that it destroyed the boat entirely and flew the ball a few kilometres away in the forest. the amplitude of the explosion created a tsunami higher than a skyscraper which wiped everything in its passage.
The tsunami covered kilometres of terrain, nun the dust ball went further.
The landing of the ball was so impactful that it broke, and the group went flying hitting trees and branches. The statesman was badly injured with a branch deep in his leg.
"Aaargh!" he shrieked as he tried to remove the branch.
The others followed the scream which led them to all meet once again. When they saw the branch deep in his leg, they rushed to him and tried to remove it as they could.
"Don't worry, I'll remove it quickly..." Alexa said as she leaned her hand towards the wound and lifted it.
At the same time, the branch was removed from the statesman's leg at a big speed just widening the wound even more.
"Well played..." Jason said sarcastically.
"Well it was that or we leave the branch in his leg,"
Moondust intervened and said: "We must get him to a doctor, there's a town a few hundred meters from here, we better get moving.
She put him on his back, and they were set to go.
Mitsuki who had the map led the way to the town while the others stayed behind.
"Hey Jason, something's weird," she said putting her hands on her chin, "John saw the danger before we could even figure out the situation..."
Jason was walking with his hands in his pocket while listening to her carefully.
"So that means he knew a danger like this would occur, but if he knew, why on earth did he call for beginners?"
"Yeah, that kinda sucks, he should've chosen higher ranked students, what was he thinking choosing us, does he want to die?"
At the same time they were discussing, Mitsuki found the town, and it looked like an old school village. There were small streets, with buildings attached and barely a single restaurant.
The good news was that the village was quite animated with a lot of people walking the streets, so it was easy for Alexa to find more information on where to get a doctor.
"There is one just down the street," she said running back to the group.
John Luke was already unconscious, so they had to be quick. Moondust covered the wound of dust so too much blood wouldn't come out.
Once they got to the cabinet, they knocked on the door, and a woman came out of it, and when she saw John she rushed to open the door and bring them inside where they could examine him.
"Put him on that table, my name Scarlett Luke, I have a masters in medicine an~," she said before Moondust interrupted her.
"Scarlett Luke, just like John Luke?" she asked.
The doctor's eyes widened and her tone became serious when she heard the name, John Luke.
"John Luke is dead, he was taken away by the rebels a few years ago and never came back..." she said with a frustrated expression.
"By the rebels... So you're telling me he was captured by the rebels?" Jason asked
"Yes, but what surprises me is that you know his name, how?"
Without answering, they looked at the unconscious man, and the doctor understood directly what they meant. She walked to see the man and when she saw his face, she put her right hand in her mouth and bursted into tears.
On the other hand, Jason and the others were confused. A few minutes ago, they thought someone was attempting to murder him, now they discover that he managed to escape from the grasp of the rebels.
When the doctor got back from her emotions she said: "Alright, I need all of you to get out while I'm taking care of the patient."
They all listened to her heading to the waiting room. Mitsuki was surprised she was able to take care of her patients without an assistant or a second doctor.
"She takes care of the clinic by herself... That must be tiring..." He was looking around checking the paintings on the wall and the long hallway.
Moondust was walking back and forth next to the room with her hands behind her back and her head down. She was concerned because team 70s first mission is turning out to be a fiasco.
They waited 1 hour before the doctor came out and reassured them that everything would be okay.
"What a relief, so when will he regain consciousness?" Moondust asked.
"Well, if everything goes well, in about 2 or 3 hours, for now, get some sleep, it's 4 in the morning." The doctor then brought them to a room with only two beds.
Moondust and Alexa shared one bed, while Jason and Mitsuki shared the other. They knew they had a long trip that would last days in front of them, so they needed to rest for a bit before going