Chapter 70: Release the Kraken! (Part 1)
As the boats got further from the shore into the open sea, they maintained their triangle formation. Commander Garret took the lead and gave the order to stop after a few moments.
Minutes passed, and the people were looking from the side of the boats with expectant faces, searching for anything that looked strange in the water.
The day was quite sunny, with only a few clouds in the sky, making the water clear and easy to see. However, there was no sight of anything strange, as all we saw were common fish.
"It won’t come out..." said Vespera, making the group on my boat turn to her in confusion.
"Why? Isn’t this a big enough prey?" I asked while crossing my arms.
"It’s focusing on assimilating the demonic energy. Basically, it wants to evolve first..." she answered.
Commander Valentina spoke up. "Could we stop it from evolving?" she asked my companion.
Vespera looked at me. "When we were scouting, it attacked us. At that moment, it stopped the evolution..."
Her explanation made sense. If we managed to lure it out by doing something similar to what we did before, it wouldn’t just ignore us once it was on the surface.
The problem was luring it all the way there without getting caught in its tendrils. The first time I couldn’t sense or see its attack, I had to come up with something a little different.
"I’ll try to lure it out, but I’m not diving too deep..." I said as the gravity enchantment from my poncho activated and boosted myself with air magic toward the area we had seen the previous day.