They had now made their way over to the fifth island. Not all of them made it safely, Eddie's leg got pierced by a tooth from a sea monster, and he fell into the water, but luckily Ben had still some mythic powers left and could quickly pull him out of the water with a skill.
"Hey, Eddie, are you ok?"
"Yes, I think if I rest a bit."
Eddie didn't look good, his face turned pale and he passed out. The shock from the last days and the wound must be a big burden on his body and so the others decided that it would be best if Lena stays back and helps Eddie.
"Ok boys, I will stay here but you better finish the level."
"Who do you think we are?"
"Children?"
Ben got a bit angered by Lena's answer but thought to himself that right now wasn't the right place for that. The important thing was, that they come up with a plan.
"Ok, Ben I think if you use your 'holy wall' + 'angel wings' and I run behind you, we will be able to get to the next island."
"Yep, I had the same in mind Luca."
Luca wanted to say that he didn't but hold himself back and focused on the task before him.
"Ok Ben, we go on three"
"One"
Two"
Three"
When Ben heard three he activated his skills and started to fly above the water, if you looked from the outside it seemed like Ben was running on the water just like Luca. But in reality, he was just mimicking foot movements while flying supper close above the water. The smaller sea monsters were clashing against Ben's 'holy wall' and were pushed away by it.
"Luca this is easy"
..kieeeagh...
Ben turned his head back and said that to Luca but in the same second a bigger sea monster jumped out of the water. It was about 7 meters tall and looked like a sea snake, the head of the sea snake came rushing down and ate Ben up. Luca screamed at the sight of his friend getting eaten.
"I will kill you, you shitty monster"
But before Luca could do anything the sea snake was already underwater. Luca stopped his skill and looked underwater, he saw a terrifying sight, there were hundreds of smaller sea snakes and bigger ones looking at him from the bottom of the sea. Behind them, there was a monster from which Luca could only see the tail and parts of his back.
Luca thought to himself, that if he stayed scared right now he would lose Ben. When he thought that a sort of anger filled Luca, he didn't know where it came from, but it was the same when Anton left the group. He didn't want to lose a friend again.
And just like that Luca dived deeper and deeper, hunting the sea snake that was diving toward the other sea snakes.
…iiiieeeeee…
The sea snake who just ate Ben let out a terrible cry and the sea snakes that were on the bottom of the sea came swimming at Luca. Luca saw them coming and swam even faster at the sea snake, he was only a meter away and about to rescue Ben when he got hit by something.
Eddie and Lena were sitting on the island and watched Ben getting eaten and then Luca disappearing into the water. The two of them were shocked and wanted to jump into the sea, but the sea monster before them blocked them off. They waited for minutes, that Ben and Luca both get out of the water.
…blub…
Oxigen bubbles started to appear on the water and a dead body of a sea snake appeared, and Ben's head popped out of the water. Ben swam over to them.
"Ben is everything ok with you?"
"Ben where is Luca?"
Ben first go onto the island and drank a mythic potion, which was in the brown bag lying beside Eddie. He drank it while being questioned by Lena and Eddie.
Puah
"I don't have any big wounds on my body, the snake's teeth broke when it tried to bite on my skin."
"Ok that's great to hear, but what happened to Luca?"
Ben was a bit confused, didn't Luca go to the other islands?
"What should have happened to him?"
"Do you don't remember? He dived after you."
Ben was a bit touched by Luca's actions but also angry.
"So that guy dived after me, I thought we made a plan"
Eddie and Lena were a bit shocked by Ben's easygoing answer and questioned if Ben was really alright or still shocked by what happened.
"Why are you looking at me like I am an idiot guys?"
"How can you be so relaxed over the fact that Luca didn't turn up again"
Eddie asked Ben in a hectic voice, but all Eddie got was a dumb look.
"Did you guys forget who Luca's sponsor is?"
Then something flashed in Lena and Eddie's minds, Luca's sponsor is a water being so Luca should be able to live underwater for a short period.
"Ok it seems you have realised it too, so let's make a plan on how we get to the last island."
After Ben said that, the three of them started to make plans, they made three plans. The first one which Ben suggested didn't work, he flew them to the sixth island but couldn't go any further and he had to make a pause. This meant that it was now just Eddie and Lena, the second plan came from Lena and was rather dangerous.
The plan was to kill a small sea snake and swim with the body, to Ben's surprise the plan actually worked in the beginning, but they had to stop at the seventh island because another sea snake ate up the dead one. Luckily Eddie and Lena saw the other sea snake soon enough and could safely escape to the seventh island.
The last plan came from Eddie, normally they needed to be three players to do this, but they tied it with just the two of them. The plan was to build a small boat out of the materials on the small islands and paddle over to the next island.
"Hugh, Eddie won't the sea snakes just eat up our boat, as they did with their old friend?"
"Oh yes, I think they will try it, but it won't work."
"Huh? Why won't it, do you have a special skill?"
"Yes, I have a special skill, it is called 'realization' and just as the name describes it can transform fake things into real things."
Now the plan finally made sense, but Lena still wondered which ship or boat Eddie choose to be realized. Nevertheless, the two of them worked on the small boat for many hours and it got night. Time seemed to be slower than the time on earth but the four of them had already accepted such circumstances.
When it got night some players who were close or on the starter island left the level and the rest went to sleep, only one player was still awake, that player was Luca. He was lying in the mouth of a bigger sea snake and his oxygen was running out.
The darkness before his eyes slowly started to disappear and a light shone. Luca first thought that he had died, but he somewhat felt that his sponsor wouldn't let that happen so easily.
When he finished thinking, he was standing in a pure white shining abyss.
>Hello Luca, it is the first time we met in person<
Luca looked up at the voice and he could see a being standing there in pure blue, when he looked longer he could see the ocean within this being. This being was without a doubt his sponsor.
"Yes, I guess it is"
>You don't need to be so tense, I am here to help you<
"Ok, I need your help"
>Yes I have seen it, unfortunately, I can't give you any skills. That would hurt my mythic powers, but I can show you a skill<
After his sponsor said that, images were flowing into Luca's mind, images of an enormous fleet. The fleet was much bigger than the sea snakes at the bottom of the sea.
>Huh, do you like it? That is one of my best skills, I hope that I could help you<
"Ohh, yes it is a superb skill, before you go can I just ask you one more question?"
>Oh, of course, <
"Will you tell me your real name?"
His sponsor was a little shaken and it took a bit before he answered.
>I am sorry apostle but I can't tell you my real name because the real name is the biggest weakness of a mythic being<
"Oh, ok I understand"
Luca understood his sponsor and the white light turned into darkness again. Now all Luca had to do was to activate the fleet skill. But the question was how should he do that? He had seen how his sponsor used the skill, but he didn't know how he should use it.
And another problem was his oxygen was now so low it got hard to breathe, he had to find a way to get out and suddenly a thought came to his mind if his sponsor made the fleet out of the trees and water around him, could he do the same with just water?
He tried to remember how he made the 'water sword' and tried to use the same technique again, but it didn't help him. He tried it a few times more, before coming to a realisation. When he made the sword, there was no water surrounding him but now there was lots of water so he had to use a different technique.
Ben who got to the seventh island was looking at the water around the islands disappearing and thought that could only mean one thing. Luca made it. He looked back at the trail of dead sea snakes lying behind him, he also made it.
More and more water went away and now Ben was getting worried, what if all the water disappeared, wouldn't they be stuck on the island? But to his luck, the water stopped sinking at about two meters, and a few seconds after a giant fleet appeared, the fleet was made out of water and consisted of about twenty ships.
A player was standing on top of the biggest ship and waving to him, it was Luca. Ben quickly woke up Eddie and Lena and they went onto the big ship. The smaller ships were sailing to the smaller islands and picking up the other players. Meanwhile, the group talked on the ship.
"Luca, I can't believe you met your sponsor. You are now the third of us, after me and Anton."
"Yes, but why did you tell your name first? Wasn't Anton the first to meet his sponsor?"
"That doesn't matter does it, the important thing is nobody died here and we can clear the level."
Everyone looked at Eddie and nodded, it was now not the time to make jokes. The danger was approaching.
When the ships went back to formation the players on the ships all screamed at Luca, thanking him for saving them. Luca waved back to them and the ships started to move, they passed the eighth, night and tenth safety island, and were on course to the main island with the volcano.
Then suddenly a big tail appeared and it punched away 4 of the smaller ships but the tail was not everything, smaller sea snakes appeared and the players who fell into the sea had to fight against them. While that fight was going on, the tail went back into the water and a monster appeared instead.
The monster was enormous and wasn't a snake it was more a dragon, to be precise a water dragon. Luca had read about them in the newspapers, there are six dragons in the levels: water, wind, fire, ice, earth and light dragons.
But all these dragons should be on the levels after level 50, so why was the water dragon here?