Chapter 25: Crabshell Cladding
Aethe’s goodbyes, such as they were, were short. She made sure her responsibilities were distributed among the remaining elves, saluted her commander, and that was that. It was shockingly brief.
“You don’t need more time?” Marco asked for the third time.
“I don’t. And they need to get to work. The meat from the crabs won’t last them forever. They need to also build a ship,” Aethe answered.
“Still…”
“It was a job, Marco. It could have been more than that, but it never progressed beyond a job. I’m okay.” She looked behind her one last time. “As okay as I can be. We can just leave.”
Marco’s ship, The Foolish Endeavor, had somehow survived the crabs. Either the crabs had avoided the ship on purpose or just emerged from the reef in different places, but there wasn’t as much as a scratch on it when they left the island.
“So that’s it? We get a couple of levels and leave?” Riv swung his club, frustrated. “I was expecting more.”
“We got food and water. So we won’t be starving or thirsty. That’s plenty,” Marco countered.
“It was someone else’s dungeon encounter.” Elisa shrugged. “We were lucky to get anything. Besides, I think Marco got more. He has that look.”
He had.
| Crabshell Cladding Your ship has been augmented with the defense of a shelled arthropod, and is now has much improved watertightness and a slight defense against certain types of damage. This quality is not in conflict with any other augment on your ship at this time, and does not displace any previously attained rewards.
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