177 Wave Stone (1/2)

Chapter 177: Wave Stone

Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

On the other end of the aisle, the Kuo-toan murlocs were shouting and crying when they got in the cabin, and the water was still flooding in.

Lucien felt more difficulty to breathe when the air got very humid.

Some apprentices had already lost their footing. Now, they were sitting on the water-covered floor and crying, while others were shaking out of great fear. They were just like how Lucien felt when he first got into the sewers and faced the red-eyed mice. There was no way that they could stay calm.

There were so many plans flashing through Lucien’s mind. However, no matter how much Lucien wanted to both protect himself and the other apprentices and hide from the pastors and knights on the ship, obviously, it was not likely to happen at all.

At the fork of the aisle, the Kuo-toans divided themselves into two groups: most of them followed three bigger murlocs and ran toward the main cargo cabin, while the rest of them, also following a leader, were aiming at Lucien and the apprentices.

As they were dragging their tridents and quickly coming to Lucien and the teenagers, Lucien got many thoughts in his mind:

”It looks like their target is the cargo?

”Maybe there’s something that interests the Kuo-toans? That’s why they attacked the ship?

”If that’s their real purpose, most of the murlocs should be coming to this floor, or the captain’s cabin or the viscount’s…”

And then Lucien got more determined, ”Then we still have hope!”

Lucien quickly turned around and ran into his own cabin. As he was running, Lucien bent his knees and jumped up high using the momentum, and his right fist fiercely punched through the wood ceiling.

”Bang!”

After the wooden planks fell on the floor, there was a big hole in the low ceiling.

”You all, climb up through the hole, and hide in the nearby sailor’s cabin!” said Lucien to the startled apprentices.

Although his tone was serious, Lucien was not panicking.

Since Tom dared let them live here, Lucien was pretty confident that the people who lived on the floor above should be people that Tom trusted, or the noise the apprentices made could easily expose them.

If the Kuo-toans’ purpose was not killing but robbing, hiding in the sailors’ cabins should be a good choice, and they could also hide from the pastors and knights.

Lucien quickly took out his Alert and rushed out of the cabin to stop the murlocs to earn time for the apprentices.

”Annick, Oimos… You two take charge. No panic.” In the last second, Lucien decisively commanded the apprentices without looking back.

He had to kill the Kuo-toans, or they would follow the apprentices to the above floor.

”Yes, Mr. Evans…” said the two apprentices together. Although Oimos was quite frightened, he tried his best to function properly, while Annick, who had been trained by Lucien for a while, was encouraged by Lucien’s equanimity and started to think how they could get onto the floor above through the hole in the ceiling.

The two apprentices exchanged a look between each other and came up with the same strategy, ”Using the hammocks… and Mage Hand. Also, spells improving agility and balance…”

Then Oimos and Annick hurriedly started to collect the hammocks, and Katrina, Sprint, Layria and Heidi were either helping them, or trying to comfort the other apprentices.

At this critical moment, the apprentices were united together under the leadership of Lucien.

Outside the cabin, when Lucien, who was holding his knight sword with his both hands, was almost right in front of the Kuo-toans, there were sudden green waves coming out of him.

The green waves quickly reached the Kuo-toans, and most of them slowed down their pace as soon as they were touched, lost their balance and fell asleep on the floor. Even the murloc leader was influenced: for a second, it felt very exhausted and sleepy.

However, the first circle spell, Sleep, was not powerful enough to get the big one to fall asleep as well, and, currently, it only worked on those ones who were not yet of a real knight’s level.

The whole aisle suddenly quieted down quite a bit. There was only Lucien, the Kuo-toa leader and a bunch of mulocs who were sleeping on the floor.

When the murloc leader realized that the human being they were facing was actually a sorcerer instead of a knight although he was using a sword, it quickly cast its own magic, Water Ring.

As the murloc leader was regaining his consciousness when it was surrounded by rings of waves, Lucien sensed the great difficulty of breathing as if he was overwhelmed by water, since the air quickly got so moist that Lucien felt he was intaking water beads into his nose and lungs.

Lucien did not panic, however. He held his breath and then shot three flashing ice blades at the murloc.

Although the murloc leader was seemingly only about ordinary knight level, Lucien still activated his magic item, since he needed to finish this creature as soon as possible.