Rosie's Games

Chapter 371: Cliff

The boat rocked violently with every wave that crashed against it, the sound of claws scraping against the wood filled their ears with dread.

Elias used his ability to attack the nearby beasts that were like nothing he had ever seen before- enormous creatures with scales as black as night and eyes that glowed like embers. On the outside, it looked like an ordinary fish- a black fish with really thick scales.

But once it opened its mouth then, one could immediately see its razor-sharp teeth that glinted in the sun.

"I will roast you!" Elias yelled. "You damn fish! I will eat you! I will eat your flesh raw! You-" Elias continued yelling while attacking the fish with his fire.

Valentin's water was not exactly dependable against a creature of the sea this big. Moreover, Valentin was not strong enough to control a large body of water like the sea.

Because of this, Elias had no choice but to defend both of them.

"I am hungry! I am going to eat you! Die fish! Die!" Elias said. This was their second day traveling toward the Howling Mountains.

The mountain looked really near to the shore, but the beasts around them and the unpredictable state of the water that surrounded them were simply too much. The Duke told them that it would take them at least three days to reach the shore of the island- if they were lucky.

The best case scenario was that their boat would sink and they would have to swim to the shore.

To someone like Elias, who hated the water, this was absolutely deplorable.

So, he was doing his best to burn all the beasts that tried to attack them! He was going to do his best to kill them!

There was just one little problem.

They were surrounded by a vast expanse of water that stretched out in all directions. This meant that the beasts were surrounding them as well. Their snarls and growls seem to come from all directions. There was simply no ending to this cycle and Elias was starting to feel exhausted.

"Are you not going to help?" Elias asked the Duke who seemed to be observing him.

"We are going to swim to the shore."

"You- How could you do that?" Elias asked. "I-"

"Are you going to tell me that you do not know how to swim?"

"Well"

"You do not know how to swim?" Atior who stood next to Rosalind asked. She looked surprised as she blinked her large colorful eyes.

"What does this have to do with you?" He shot another ball of fire.

"That means you are a liability."

"I am not!"

"If you cannot swim then... you are going to die here."

"You- You-"

"No one will save you."

"How dare you."

"That is enough," the Duke said. "Prepare to jump when I tell you to jump. We will meet on that... cliff." He pointed at one of the cliffs.

"What are you talking about?" Elias panicked. "What jumped? You said- You said we can fight our way in?"

"Only you are going to do that knowing that there are still multiple beasts on the island. If you exhaust yourself on your way to the island, you will immediately die."

"You- "

"Do not worry," Valentin spoke. He had been standing silently next to Elias. "I can help you out."

"You will let your water carry me to the shore?"

"I would. If I am capable of that control."

"Then..."

"I can give you this." Valentin pushed something on his face. It took Elias a few minutes to realize what it was.

A bubble!

Valentin put a bubble on his head.

"That would enable you to still breathe in the water."

"What?" Elias tried to speak but realized that the words from his mouth seemed mumbled. Seeing this, Valentine signaled that they could no longer hear him.

'How could someone betray him like this?' Elias grumbled inwardly.

Before he knew it, the others started jumping off the boat.

Elias was about to hesitate when he felt someone push him. He turned and realized that it was none other than Atior.

The woman was smirking at him!

How evil!

He expected himself to sink. To his surprise, a weird dark creature mist enveloped him and dragged him towards the shore.

Elias's eyes widened.

It was Atior.

The evil woman actually saved him!

..

1 hour later

The black shore stretched out for miles.

Rosalind looked at the black stones beneath her feet. The stones accompanied the coarse and gritty black sand. It was as dark as night making it look like the beach had been exposed to black ink.

The air around them was thick with hazy fog, the smell of sulfur and ash stung her throat. She immediately took a mask from her spatial bag and used it to cover her face.

Then she looked around her, trying to find someone.

"Lucas?" she called out. "Atior?" Earlier, Lucas told her to jump and that he would meet her at the cliff. However, she did not expect the thick fog around them. She looked around.

In the distance, she could make out the peak of the volcano that had been obscured by the haze. It was not exactly nighttime, yet the haze was giving her problems seeing the area surrounding her.

The sound of waves crashing against the shore was the only thing that broke the silence around her. Then the volcano started rumbling for a few minutes.

She pursed her lips and thought of Lucas.

"Run"

"What?" Rosalind looked around and realized that she was once again hearing the voice of the woman inside her head.

"Demons must run."

"What?" Demons? She recalled the last time the woman spoke to her and that was when she asked her to run because of the demon that she saw with Lucas.

Her senses immediately became heightened, and she began to search her surroundings with greater attention. What demons?

"Run!" The voice became louder this time. It seemed to be speaking right next to her ears instead of just inside her head. Her brow furrowed as she scanned the area, her eyes darting from one place to another. She expected to see a demon, just like the monster that she saw inside that room.

Instead what she saw was Lucas appearing a few steps away from her.

"Lucas?" she called out.

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The others are already edited. I will upload them in a while.