After enjoying a nice holiday and birthday celebration, everyone was heading back to their place of work or the place they had been sleeping at for most of the year.
Just as everyone was minding their own business, another couple of ships had been following behind and were chasing them at a fast speed.
No matter how powerful or well known someone may be, there would always be some idiots who did not read the news or did not believe in the rumours and decided to test their luck against someone they could not afford to offend.
While staying at Spa Island, Alyssia and her crew had attracted attention to themselves even if they just wished to have time to themselves and not cause trouble.
While some people did recognise them from their earlier photos taken or mostly recognised the stars of White Storm Entertainment, not everyone would be able to remember their faces completely and they had attracted attention because of their unique group that was a mix of many types of races.
The two babies were of an unidentified race that many were unaware of, many animal people forms were among them, two winged people and a female fishmen were all mixed among humans and being so friendly with each other so they would attract attention no matter how much they wished to avoid such things.
Many people had been watching them in secret but did not make a move within Spa Island and they were a mix of people who were interested in the amount of wealth Alyssia and her group her been spending along with the potential berries they could earn from looting them but also selling off the survivors into slavery.
A mix of pirate crews, mercenaries that were low on berries, human capturing teams and many other greedy people joined in and started chasing down the ship that Alyssia was on and were catching up quickly.
However they were far too unlucky as they just so happened to target the main members of the White Storm who had all been together for once and were not currently spread out in different places.
The moment Alyssia could notice their ships and their intent to fight, she took out her two scythe blades as she stepped off her ship and moonwalked right over to the ship with the strongest presences.
As she made her way there quickly, the rest of the crew took out their own combat equipment and began to turn the ship around to ready it for combat.
Upon landing on the deck of the ship, she began walking slowly towards the first approaching combatant and casually dodged the attack with little movement as one of the scythe blades had entered the side of the attacker.
In the next moment, she threw out the other one like she would a spear, it entered the chest of a man that held some form of capture rope or wire based gun or net launcher and she removed the other half of her scythe blade from the wound of the attacker by her side who dropped down clutching his bleeding wound. "Guh..aaah. Fu."
The other scythe blade was thrown out towards another man with a similar type of weapon which entered their chest and killed them.
However as if being triggered by a magnetic force, the two scythe blades began to be attracted to each other as they exited the bodies and came back together as a whole.
That scene caused the attacking group to become more wary of her weapon and strength displayed but soon after, the whole scythe blade returned to her hands as the continued to dodge as if it was attracted to the palm of her hands similar to how they both had come together.
She continued to casually dodge attacks and gunfire until the whole scythe blade returned to her hands and she started spinning it as she moved it around which deflected and stopped many of the bullets fired at her.
As she passed by each person slowly, the rotating complete scythe blade had cut their body between one and four times in different places.
The person believed to be the captain of the ship and his direct subordinates stepped forward with the support of gun fire and other tactics but they were cut down one at a time as Alyssia took her time.
By the time that she had done so, she continued to walk towards the remaining people who had already fallen into despair and were kneeling as if admitting defeat when they heard a cold voice that signalled their end. "I was having that much of a wonderful time that I was able to forget about most of my worries for a little while and relax but sigh… well I guess I should thank you for reminding me and letting me wake up early so that I do not slack off or let my guard down. As a thank you, I will let the rest of you go off as painlessly as possible."
"No.. ple.uh."
"Gu."
"Arh."
"Merc.."
"Spare m.l"
Although Alyssia had enjoyed the break and felt refreshed with her time spent relaxing, the moment she stepped out of Spa Island, she had quickly been brought back into the wide world where danger could appear at any given moment.
Although she may not be too affected by a sudden attack of that level or if it had been stronger, some of her crew members may have suffered an injury or death if they did not notice the incoming ships after letting down their guard too.
Some of the equipment or suits needed to be reloaded, put on or checked for faults before being used in combat so a sudden attack on her ship may be fatal to those weaker and unprepared.
It was especially true since she had two babies on board which could not protect themselves yet.
As she looked at the other ship close by, she separated her scythe blades into two and secured them to her body safely as she removed the two staff parts and began connecting them.
The rest of the crew were keeping a distance while avoiding cannon fire and attacking with gunfire and cannons while the others were busy protecting the ship in their own way or causing illusions, mirages or other effects to confuse the enemy so most of the enemy ships were quite packed together as a result of their efforts.
Alyssia jumped into the sky with her staff and began spinning it around as a large thunder cloud began to form over the ships. "It is time for your judgement, if you somehow survive this then I guess you were just lucky enough."
Alyssia had already steered the main ship away from the blast radius so as the thunder crashed down from the sky as she brought the tip of her staff downwards, many people were hit by it and the many ships erupted in flames.
Even some of the gunpowder on board had exploded resulting in many deaths to those that may have avoided being hit by the thunder coming from above.
Alyssia jumped into the large thunder cloud and began to absorb a large amount of the remaining thunder as she started to disperse the thunder clouds and summoned some rain clouds to put out the fires before landing back on the ship containing her crew members. "That was a good test! Now you can all go check to see what remains of their ship and what treasure remains. Do not forget to pick up any weapons or anything that is not too damaged."
"Sigh.. so much destruction. Do you actually think anything will remain after that?"
"Who knows, it is still worth searching!"
"Let's go!"
"When will these people learn.."
"Oh well, if we do find anything then it is ours to keep. It is their own fault."
While they were busy collecting and cleaning up the remaining ship while lookong over the rest of the ships to see what was still salvageable, Alyssia went to a secluded space as she sat cross legged and closed her eyes as she steadied her breathing.
She kept refining her Electro and gathering it but as she had completely refined the thunder from the thunder clouds, she felt that she had reached a certain stage where she could achieve what she wished.
She continued to concentrate and circulate her Electro within her power core and a vortex of energy started to form in the very centre of it.
The first attempts resulted in failure as the energy was reaching the critical stage but was then returned to normal but after many failures, she slowly grasped where she had been going wrong and fixed her mistakes.
Slowly a vortex of energy started forming and attracting all of the energy towards the very centre of the power core as it continued to refine it until all of the energy within became a part of the vortex as it continued to rotate on its own without her control.
Suddenly she could sense that even without her own instruction, the small vortex of Electro would continue to refine any thunder based energy and gather it from her surroundings even without her concentration and control over it.
The bonuses were not just that as the state of meditation would only help to speed up the already smooth rate of refinement and gathering of energy.
After arriving at twenty stat points of stored Electro within her power core, what she had envisioned had become a reality just a little after the birth of the two babies and her birthday was over.
As she got up onto her feet once more, she patted off the dust on her clothes and smirked. "With this… thunder power users of different types should definitely avoid me if they could. If they get close enough then I may even be able to drain them of their energy. Heh heh heh."
Although she could test the theory on the Minks around herself, she quickly decided against it.
It was not long before several ships were stripped clean, some survivors were found and killed and some people who were captured deep within their ships under the deck were set free while Alyssia and her crew collected the spoils of war.
Many of the ships that were still able to set sail were then brought back to be fixed up a little before being reused by the White Storm or resold.
Archie was the most excited among the group because he was able to put his abilities to use after a period of rest.