Episode 58. I'll come to save you first.
As the ship regained its balance, Noah opened the door, holding Olivia in his arms. Olivia, stunned by the shock of her first experience, lay dazed in his arms.
Noah opened the emergency escape door provided in each VIP suite, avoiding the spilled items on the carpet. The floor was clean, as the room contained only built-in chairs with seatbelts. Noah seated Olivia and personally fastened the seatbelt.
He took off the shoes that were squeezing her feet and threw them outside, then gave an order to Mrs. Winfred, who appeared, grabbing her shoulder.
“Bring Olivia some comfortable shoes.”
"Yes, yes!"
Until then, Olivia had just sat there, blankly. When Mrs. Winfred disappeared, Noah grabbed Olivia's cheek and forced his eyes to meet hers.
“Olivia, wake up.”
His firm voice brought focus back into her empty eyes. Looking at Olivia, who remained silent and only blinked, Noah spoke quickly and concisely.
“If anything happens, I’ll come get you first, so don’t come out for now.”
Noah stood up and gave orders to Mrs. Winfred, who had reappeared.
"Please put Olivia's shoes on, and you too, sit down in your chair, and fasten your seatbelt. I'll send someone along, so if I don't come, follow their instructions."
"All right."
Noah took a deep breath and went straight out to the room.
"Your Highness!"
He turned his head at the urgent voice coming from behind him, and saw Olivia staring at him, pale and utterly astonished. Noah, sensing the fear in her eyes, relaxed his brow, chuckled, and spoke in a relaxed tone.
"Don't worry. There's a magic dome and wizards. But the boat will rock a bit. Hold on tight."
After saying that, Noah quickly left the room.
Meson and his Navy bodyguards were waiting for him in the outer hallway. Despite the suddenness of the situation, their expressions were monotonous. Meson frowned and spoke to Noah.
“I booked a really nice ship. Sorry.”
Noah walked to the railing without saying a word and looked outside.
Amidst the screams and groans, the Magic Dome continued to fire arrows of light. The ship's engines roared, too. They had to pass through this area as quickly as possible.
“Did you see what it was? A large kraken?”
When Meson approached Noah and asked while looking outside, Noah answered with a stern expression.
“Megalodon.”
The bodyguards' expressions, previously monotonous, finally distorted. Meson scratched the back of his head and muttered.
“Oh... Then my friends will come. Oh, not my friends, but angry prey.”
The primary prey of the monstrous megalodon was the deep-sea coelacanth. The mere sight of a single megalodon would devastate most ships, but an even greater disaster would be the swarms of monstrous coelacanths charging from the deep sea, intent on repelling the megalodon.
Their skulls and teeth were as hard and tenacious as iron. The coelacanths, rushing to slaughter the megalodon without mercy, also slammed into the massive ships floating on the surface.
Ships unlucky enough to encounter a megalodon were often sunk by the subsequent swarms of coelacanths, not the megalodon itself. It's no wonder megalodon and coelacanths were even described as messengers of death and the sea god.
Just then, in the distance, another gigantic megalodon surged from the water. Magic Dome's magic cannon immediately blasted toward it, but it was out of range and failed to hit.
Noah, who was staring at the trajectory of the thin magic cannon, muttered as if spitting something out.
“What kind of sloppy guy did you bring here and call him a wizard?”
Depending on the wizard's skill, the power of the magic cannon varied greatly. The incredibly thin magic stream would become even slower and weaker when entering water.
“Wouldn’t it be better to support the Megalodon and the Coelacanth?”
When one of the bodyguards asked a question, Noah took off his jacket instead of answering.
“It’s because the main wizard’s skills are like that.”
The urgent voices of the sailors mixed in a chaotic mess with the blaring of the alarm bell. A sailor suddenly burst into the outer corridor where Noah was, shouting urgently.
“Sit in your emergency seat and fasten your seat belts! There will be shaking!! Avoid moving!!”
But Noah ignored the sailor's words and passed him by.
“Your Highness?!”
“Meson, you stay and protect Olivia.”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
Noah quickly ran towards the wheelhouse, unbuttoning the uncomfortable button at the back of his neck.
It looked like it was going to be a very tiring night.
When Noah reached the wheelhouse, the ship rocked violently again.
“Damn it!!”
From the wheelhouse, the captain's shriek erupted. He was so out of it that he didn't even realize the Prince had entered the wheelhouse.
Noah checked the speedometer and the Magic Dome diffraction indicator before opening his mouth.
“Set the speed to maximum and focus the Magic Dome bombardment power only on the lower part of the hull.”
“Oh, then what about the baby shark that jumps out from the side...!!”
The captain, who had been shouting, turned his head and trailed off at the sight of the sleek-looking man. Noah stared at him with a blank expression, as if glaring, and muttered softly.
“Don’t worry about the baby shark, I’ll take care of it. Just go catch some fish that’ll sink your boat.”
The captain, overwhelmed by the Prince's momentum, stuttered and answered.
“...Yes, yes.”
“Please increase the speed.”
Noah tapped his finger on the speedometer and turned around.
Leaving a concise order, he climbed up the ladder attached to the wheelhouse wall. Even as he did so, the ship continued to rock and roll, but Noah held on with his animalistic sense of balance and grit.
Noah finally reached the top of the wheelhouse, clinging tightly to the flagpole for support, and surveyed the massive ship. The soaring wind tossed his once-groomed blond hair in all directions.
Around that time, one of his bodyguards seized control of the Magic Dome, and its previously flimsy magical powers intensified. A thud, ...
Noah's eyes gleamed fiercely, scanning the water's surface. Thick veins bulged on his muscular arms, clutching the flagpole.
At that moment, the water surface in front of the starboard side suddenly sank abnormally.
Noah stretched out his right hand, free of the flagpole, and focused all his senses on his fingertips. The magical energy floating in the air seemed to be sucked into him, creating a whirlwind.
He held his breath, holding his golden fireball of magic in his hand.
The important thing is timing.
And then, at some point, the ship tilted forward to starboard. Noah gripped the flagpole tighter and released all his magical power.
A blast of magical energy, thick and clear, incomparable to the magic dome's, struck like lightning. The moment the golden energy swept across the starboard side, the Megalodon leaped up from the surface.
Without even realizing that the moment of death was right before its eyes.
Puck!
With a chilling thud, Noah's magical power pierced the creature's maw and vanished into the dark depths of the sea. The megalodon's massive body crashed into the water, causing a tidal wave of spray and the ship's hull to tilt to port, rocking back and forth.
Noah, who had killed the Megalodon with one blow, immediately turned his head and glared at the Magic Dome.
Now that he's caught and killed that damn shark pup, it's time to catch a school of fish.
“I need to get a refund for my room rate.”
His sharp mutterings were lost in the tumultuous screams.
A coelacanth corpse floated near the cruise ship due to concentrated artillery fire on the lower part of the ship.
Noah leaped out of the wheelhouse entrance and looked at the still-restless captain with a disapproving gaze. He rebuked him sharply, vowing never to board a ship from this shipping company again.
"Megalodon is dealt with. The coelacanth is a territorial monster, so it will continue to follow you within its territory. Maintain maximum speed until you leave the 100km radius!"
Although he suddenly acted rudely, neither the captain nor the surrounding crew noticed anything strange.
“Yes, Your Highness! I understand!”
Noah headed straight to the Magic Dome.
His bodyguards were all wizards from the Navy's Special Forces. They were elites, skilled in the use of the Magic Dome and possessed extensive experience in slaying marine monsters. Therefore, the wizard employed by the shipping company was given the Magic Dome's control room.
As Noah appeared, the security guards waiting their turn at the Magic Dome entrance all turned to look at him.
“Have you dealt with the Megalodon?”
“It’s not a big deal to catch a baby shark and kill it.”
"I heard that the Wilhelm Corporation has upgraded its Magic Dome. It's a ship-type ship, but its cannons are just as powerful as those on land, and its firepower is said to be higher."
“Oh, yes! That’s right! There’s a lot of fire, Your Highness!”
“John! You just focus on your work!”
The ship was still rocking and screaming, but their expressions were remarkably calm. Even standing, holding nothing, their unwavering demeanor was astonishing, as if they were on level ground.
The private mercenaries and shipping company wizards looked at the Prince and his party with bewildered faces.
However, the Prince and his party, oblivious to their gazes, calmly assessed the speed of the ship and then conversed with each other.
“This should be enough to get away.”
"Yes, I think so. After we've done this, Your Highness won't have to bother with anything. You should go back and rest first."
"I caught a big one, so that's okay. You guys have to work too."
As the bodyguards burst into laughter, Noah chuckled and turned around. Remembering Olivia, who had turned pale and utterly exhausted, he wondered if he should really return to his room.
"Uh?!"
He would have done the same if the eerie, scream-like voice of the last words hadn't pierced his ears.
The vibrations that had been shaking the hull stopped along with the eerie screams, and the distant sound of gunfire disappeared.
“Why did you stop attacking?!!”
As Noah turned around, the guards turned their anger on their colleague in the cockpit.
As the sound of gunfire faded, the coelacanth's attack was immediately transmitted directly to the ship's hull. The crashing sounds, thump, thump, rained down like hail.
"Damn it, don't you know if we stop attacking now, we'll get a hole in the ship?!"
As the ship regained its balance, Noah opened the door, holding Olivia in his arms. Olivia, stunned by the shock of her first experience, lay dazed in his arms.
Noah opened the emergency escape door provided in each VIP suite, avoiding the spilled items on the carpet. The floor was clean, as the room contained only built-in chairs with seatbelts. Noah seated Olivia and personally fastened the seatbelt.
He took off the shoes that were squeezing her feet and threw them outside, then gave an order to Mrs. Winfred, who appeared, grabbing her shoulder.
“Bring Olivia some comfortable shoes.”
"Yes, yes!"
Until then, Olivia had just sat there, blankly. When Mrs. Winfred disappeared, Noah grabbed Olivia's cheek and forced his eyes to meet hers.
“Olivia, wake up.”
His firm voice brought focus back into her empty eyes. Looking at Olivia, who remained silent and only blinked, Noah spoke quickly and concisely.
“If anything happens, I’ll come get you first, so don’t come out for now.”
Overwhelmed by his forceful presence, Olivia reflexively nodded.
"Please put Olivia's shoes on, and you too, sit down in your chair, and fasten your seatbelt. I'll send someone along, so if I don't come, follow their instructions."
"All right."
Noah took a deep breath and went straight out to the room.
"Your Highness!"
He turned his head at the urgent voice coming from behind him, and saw Olivia staring at him, pale and utterly astonished. Noah, sensing the fear in her eyes, relaxed his brow, chuckled, and spoke in a relaxed tone.
"Don't worry. There's a magic dome and wizards. But the boat will rock a bit. Hold on tight."
After saying that, Noah quickly left the room.
Meson and his Navy bodyguards were waiting for him in the outer hallway. Despite the suddenness of the situation, their expressions were monotonous. Meson frowned and spoke to Noah.
“I booked a really nice ship. Sorry.”
Noah walked to the railing without saying a word and looked outside.
Amidst the screams and groans, the Magic Dome continued to fire arrows of light. The ship's engines roared, too. They had to pass through this area as quickly as possible.
“Did you see what it was? A large kraken?”
When Meson approached Noah and asked while looking outside, Noah answered with a stern expression.
“Megalodon.”
The bodyguards' expressions, previously monotonous, finally distorted. Meson scratched the back of his head and muttered.
“Oh... Then my friends will come. Oh, not my friends, but angry prey.”
The primary prey of the monstrous megalodon was the deep-sea coelacanth. The mere sight of a single megalodon would devastate most ships, but an even greater disaster would be the swarms of monstrous coelacanths charging from the deep sea, intent on repelling the megalodon.
Their skulls and teeth were as hard and tenacious as iron. The coelacanths, rushing to slaughter the megalodon without mercy, also slammed into the massive ships floating on the surface.
Ships unlucky enough to encounter a megalodon were often sunk by the subsequent swarms of coelacanths, not the megalodon itself. It's no wonder megalodon and coelacanths were even described as messengers of death and the sea god.
Just then, in the distance, another gigantic megalodon surged from the water. Magic Dome's magic cannon immediately blasted toward it, but it was out of range and failed to hit.
Noah, who was staring at the trajectory of the thin magic cannon, muttered as if spitting something out.
“What kind of sloppy guy did you bring here and call him a wizard?”
Depending on the wizard's skill, the power of the magic cannon varied greatly. The incredibly thin magic stream would become even slower and weaker when entering water.
“Wouldn’t it be better to support the Megalodon and the Coelacanth?”
When one of the bodyguards asked a question, Noah took off his jacket instead of answering.
“It’s because the main wizard’s skills are like that.”
The urgent voices of the sailors mixed in a chaotic mess with the blaring of the alarm bell. A sailor suddenly burst into the outer corridor where Noah was, shouting urgently.
“Sit in your emergency seat and fasten your seat belts! There will be shaking!! Avoid moving!!”
But Noah ignored the sailor's words and passed him by.
“Your Highness?!”
“Meson, you stay and protect Olivia.”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
Noah quickly ran towards the wheelhouse, unbuttoning the uncomfortable button at the back of his neck.
It looked like it was going to be a very tiring night.
When Noah reached the wheelhouse, the ship rocked violently again.
“Damn it!!”
From the wheelhouse, the captain's shriek erupted. He was so out of it that he didn't even realize the Prince had entered the wheelhouse.
Noah checked the speedometer and the Magic Dome diffraction indicator before opening his mouth.
“Set the speed to maximum and focus the Magic Dome bombardment power only on the lower part of the hull.”
“Oh, then what about the baby shark that jumps out from the side...!!”
The captain, who had been shouting, turned his head and trailed off at the sight of the sleek-looking man. Noah stared at him with a blank expression, as if glaring, and muttered softly.
“Don’t worry about the baby shark, I’ll take care of it. Just go catch some fish that’ll sink your boat.”
The captain, overwhelmed by the Prince's momentum, stuttered and answered.
“...Yes, yes.”
“Please increase the speed.”
Noah tapped his finger on the speedometer and turned around.
Leaving a concise order, he climbed up the ladder attached to the wheelhouse wall. Even as he did so, the ship continued to rock and roll, but Noah held on with his animalistic sense of balance and grit.
Noah finally reached the top of the wheelhouse, clinging tightly to the flagpole for support, and surveyed the massive ship. The soaring wind tossed his once-groomed blond hair in all directions.
Around that time, one of his bodyguards seized control of the Magic Dome, and its previously flimsy magical powers intensified. A thud, ...
Noah's eyes gleamed fiercely, scanning the water's surface. Thick veins bulged on his muscular arms, clutching the flagpole.
At that moment, the water surface in front of the starboard side suddenly sank abnormally.
Noah stretched out his right hand, free of the flagpole, and focused all his senses on his fingertips. The magical energy floating in the air seemed to be sucked into him, creating a whirlwind.
He held his breath, holding his golden fireball of magic in his hand.
The important thing is timing.
And then, at some point, the ship tilted forward to starboard. Noah gripped the flagpole tighter and released all his magical power.
A blast of magical energy, thick and clear, incomparable to the magic dome's, struck like lightning. The moment the golden energy swept across the starboard side, the Megalodon leaped up from the surface.
Without even realizing that the moment of death was right before its eyes.
Puck!
With a chilling thud, Noah's magical power pierced the creature's maw and vanished into the dark depths of the sea. The megalodon's massive body crashed into the water, causing a tidal wave of spray and the ship's hull to tilt to port, rocking back and forth.
Noah, who had killed the Megalodon with one blow, immediately turned his head and glared at the Magic Dome.
Now that he's caught and killed that damn shark pup, it's time to catch a school of fish.
“I need to get a refund for my room rate.”
His sharp mutterings were lost in the tumultuous screams.
A coelacanth corpse floated near the cruise ship due to concentrated artillery fire on the lower part of the ship.
Noah leaped out of the wheelhouse entrance and looked at the still-restless captain with a disapproving gaze. He rebuked him sharply, vowing never to board a ship from this shipping company again.
"Megalodon is dealt with. The coelacanth is a territorial monster, so it will continue to follow you within its territory. Maintain maximum speed until you leave the 100km radius!"
Although he suddenly acted rudely, neither the captain nor the surrounding crew noticed anything strange.
“Yes, Your Highness! I understand!”
Noah headed straight to the Magic Dome.
His bodyguards were all wizards from the Navy's Special Forces. They were elites, skilled in the use of the Magic Dome and possessed extensive experience in slaying marine monsters. Therefore, the wizard employed by the shipping company was given the Magic Dome's control room.
As Noah appeared, the security guards waiting their turn at the Magic Dome entrance all turned to look at him.
“Have you dealt with the Megalodon?”
“It’s not a big deal to catch a baby shark and kill it.”
"I heard that the Wilhelm Corporation has upgraded its Magic Dome. It's a ship-type ship, but its cannons are just as powerful as those on land, and its firepower is said to be higher."
“Oh, yes! That’s right! There’s a lot of fire, Your Highness!”
“John! You just focus on your work!”
The ship was still rocking and screaming, but their expressions were remarkably calm. Even standing, holding nothing, their unwavering demeanor was astonishing, as if they were on level ground.
The private mercenaries and shipping company wizards looked at the Prince and his party with bewildered faces.
However, the Prince and his party, oblivious to their gazes, calmly assessed the speed of the ship and then conversed with each other.
“This should be enough to get away.”
"Yes, I think so. After we've done this, Your Highness won't have to bother with anything. You should go back and rest first."
"I caught a big one, so that's okay. You guys have to work too."
As the bodyguards burst into laughter, Noah chuckled and turned around. Remembering Olivia, who had turned pale and utterly exhausted, he wondered if he should really return to his room.
"Uh?!"
He would have done the same if the eerie, scream-like voice of the last words hadn't pierced his ears.
The vibrations that had been shaking the hull stopped along with the eerie screams, and the distant sound of gunfire disappeared.
“Why did you stop attacking?!!”
As Noah turned around, the guards turned their anger on their colleague in the cockpit.
As the sound of gunfire faded, the coelacanth's attack was immediately transmitted directly to the ship's hull. The crashing sounds, thump, thump, rained down like hail.
"Damn it, don't you know if we stop attacking now, we'll get a hole in the ship?!"
“The Magic Dome is weird!!!”
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