Chapter 160: The trip in Shark Cemetery part 2 (1/2)

A few hours have already passed. The sun in the sky was now in the middle, indicating that the time is in between 3 to 4 pm.

Inside the boat, everyone was gathered in a cabin with a Magic Map of the entire path from Floating Mountain to the Blue Fin Kingdom on a table in front of them.

”According to the map, we have already crossed the red zone of the Shark Cemetery, now we are entering the dark green zone!” Teacher Homer informed with a grim face.

Everyone immediately understood the reason for such a grim face.

If hunters look at the zone of each wilderness as something like green equals to safe, dark green equals to a little bit safe, red zone equals to dangerous, purple equals to really dangerous, and black equals to death, then they are only half correct.

Every experienced hunter would rather go into the red zone or purple zone of wilderness if they choose to recover from an injury, hide from someone, or something else.

As to why?

Pretty simple, the more dangerous the place was, the lesser Magical Beast occupies, due to the fact that every powerful Magical Beast are territorial and they don't want to see weak Magical Beast lying around their territory. This simply means that the hunters are given a lot of places to hide and recover.

On the other hand, the less dangerous the place was, the more Magical Beast occupies, due to the fact that almost every wilderness has a huge population of weak Magical Beast and these weak Magical Beast are all staying in either the green zone or the dark green zone, which simply meant that hunters almost doesn't have a place to hide and recover.

Putting that in their current situation right now, entering the dark green zone now pretty much only meant to say that they will be encountering a lot more of Magical Beast Sharks.

To be honest, the Floating Mountain was actually located in between the dark green zone and the red zone. If they choose the dark green zone though, they needed to travel an extra of 30 kilometers, which means they needed 80 kilometers to finally reached the Blue Fin Kingdom, and the red zone is the path that only takes them 50 kilometers.

However, despite given the path to sail in the dark green zone, which was labeled as a little bit safe, they actually still choose to travel in the red zone, simply because there is only a few Magical Beast Sharks powerful enough to live in the red zone, and a majority of those Magical Beast Sharks that live in the red zone too, are actually nocturnal, so they pretty much only becomes active during the night and will choose to sleep while the sun is still up. So, their travel in the red zone was pretty much smooth sailing.

Now that they entered the dark green zone though, it was expected already that they will be facing a lot of Magical Beast Sharks. Though they are weak, zerg tactics are one of the most deadliest tactics for a reason. And weak Magical Beast Sharks are not all nocturnal Magical Beast, almost all of them are active 24/7.

”Prepare yourselves for a battle! But be sure to always remain calm and patient!” Teacher Homer advised.

Because the boat they are riding almost looked like a floating tree, the weak Magical Beast Sharks would always try and come close out of curiosity, unlike the powerful Magical Beast Sharks that would only take a glimpse underneath the ocean and when they deemed it useless for them to bother they just let it continue floating. So, they should not attack immediately after seeing that a weak Magical Beast Shark was approaching, and instead, wait, be patient, and see what would happen next. Attacking first simply means they already blew up their cover, and hence they need to keep on fighting until they finally reached the Blue Fin Kingdom.

”Just 30 more kilometers and we will arrive at Blue Fin Kingdom border!” Axel can't help but said.

”30 kilometers of trouble!” Leo added while feeling helpless. Seriously, just how did a trial competition between 1st-year students turn out to become a battle for the fate of Silver Kingdom? He can admit that he was one of the people that had caused this situation to turn out like this since he pretty much caused the Black organization's secret operation to be found out by the teachers of Silver Mage Academy. But still, why did he decide to follow this bunch when he can actually just choose to hide.

”Am I perhaps changing?” Leo can't help but think to himself. If this was in the past, he would definitely exempt himself from a situation with a 90% chance of dying. Not because he was afraid of dying, it's simply because it's troublesome.

”Quickly eat your lunch and go back to your position right after!” Teacher Homer said before he walked upstairs towards the boat's steering wheel.

The moment teacher Homer left, Axel suddenly broke the silence, ”What do you think, guys? Would we be able to reach the Blue Fin Kingdom or would we die in the middle of the ocean?”

”What's with that question? You're causing the moral of our group to decrease!” Ehtelyn scolded.

”This is called real talk!” Axel defended.

”That's called lowering the moral!” Ehtelyn argued back.

”Just which part of that lowers everyone's moral?”

”Everything!”

”.....”

”I think we will be safe!” Leo replied as he stood up and left the cabin with the little Leviathan. He was curious to what will happen in here the moment teacher Homer left out of worry, but realizing that there was actually nothing to worry about since they were even able to argue like the normal times, he decided to leave and go back to his position, specifically at the bow of the boat.

Arriving in his position, he immediately saw a lot more of Magical Beast Shark's dorsal fin or more commonly known as the back fin, simply meaning that a lot of Magical Beast Sharks were currently swimming around the boat right this moment.

Looking at the scene farther ahead, Leo can't help recalling Axel's question, ”With Magical Beast Sharks as many as this, we would definitely be discovered soon...” And it would be during that time where they can finally determine whether they can really live or die.

Suddenly, Leo quickly hid behind the branches of leaves as he noticed a Magical Beast Shark surfacing its head from the ocean. At the same time, he signaled teacher Homer using some leaves to not move straight.

Magical Beast Sharks would definitely try to avoid hitting the boat, since it is still deemed as an object subject for curiosity for all of them. However, it is a different story for those Magical Beast Sharks who had surfaced their heads.

When Magical Beast Sharks surface their heads, they are only going in a straight line, which means they will eventually hit the boat if teacher Homer doesn't change the direction of the boat. This might then lead to aggravating the Magical Beast Sharks and hence they might decide to destroy what they thought as a tree floating in the ocean. After that, it would definitely lead to them being discovered.