Chapter 140: Attack on the Sea(2) (1/2)

*Boom!*

The hit from the sea serpent threw off the three guards who were watching Jake's room.

It took them more than a minute to get up and recalibrate.

The moment they did that, the door of the room they were safeguarding opened and a rope whipped around one of the guards' neck.

The rope was yanked from the other side, dragging the guard inside the room.

*Ahh--!*

This put the other two guards on alert as they listened to the short-lived screams of their fellow guard.

Ignoring their fear, they walked into the room slowly.

Shouting, they taunted the person they were meant to prevent from escaping, ”We know you are here!”

Due to the hit the ship received, the light crystals of the room were broken, which in turn made the room dark, only a bit lightened by light from the blue sea.

One of the guards brandished his sword and released a fire that illuminated the room, ”I will say this the last time. We kno--.”

Before he knew it, a rope swept off his feet.

He tried to get his balance, but the sense of weakness he had gotten from just the brief contact with the rope overcame him.

After slipping, the fire died out and the guard found a knife buried into his skull, killing him in the process.

The remaining guard did just watch this. He instantly burnt the entire room, all except his closest perimeter, which a shadow took to its advantage as it hid behind him.

In a fluid manner, the rope on the shadow's arm was flung around the guard's neck.

Bending down to gain more force, the shadow strangled the guard until the latter gave his last breath.

*Thud*

Like a waning light, the guard joined his fellow comrade in the afterlife.

The shadow was then surrounded by the fire the guards had ignited.

After removing the ropes from his hand, the shadow blew out a cold breath that extinguished the flames.

It was then the ray from the seawater shone on him and revealed his beautiful looks.

”Perfection,” Jake muttered.

He had made sure to be the first to recover from the ship blast and had immediately cut the rope tying him with Nico's knife.

The rope was one of the things he was interested in. It could not be cut by the wearer's energy, but only an external energy force.

The only way to bypass this is for the wearer to use a physical attack, but the problem there was that the wearer's physical strength is also weakened by the rope.

Jake was sure that if he possessed Nico's base strength, he could tear apart the rope, but he didn't. So, he had to use a more innovative way to bypass the defense of the rope!

His answer to that was a sharp object, a knife sharp enough to cut the rope. Nico provided him just that!

'Hmmm….I can't waste it,' reasoned Jake.

He went to the corpses of the guards and placed his palm on the first two's chests.

Showcasing his extraordinary control, Jake summoned two of his [Purple Whirpool] to suck out the guard's [Source Essence].

After he was done with them, he moved on to the last and did the same.

After many days of sleeping while bound by the special rope, Jake felt liberated and was free to use his energy again.

He could use his [Purple Whirpool], which he had not used since he had been captured.

*Boom!*

Another hit landed on the ship, but Jake was more prepared this time.

He was able to hold onto his room door, preventing him from fall heavily.

After the ship regained its balance, Jake bend his head at the ceiling.

He already knew that the ship was targeted by sea serpents. Since the moment he had seen a sea serpent himself, he knew it could not be alone.

This further hastened his plans, as there was no way the ship could defeat one sea serpent, not to talk of a den of sea serpents.

There were bound to lose. That was why Jake was going to escape now. It was a brash decision, but he couldn't exactly wait to die.

No, it was probably his most foolish decision. However, he was given no alternative.

Dens of Sea Serpents weren't exactly what a ship could take on, especially the southern ships that were particularly rickety.

They were old products moved from the central continent to work till it totally broke down.

If he escaped the ship, he would be met with multiple sea serpents. Hence, he needed to do something…...make a distraction, and possibly something bigger than that.

That was why Jake was currently drifting through the lower level corridor to a room well guarded by the ship's deck guards.

He hid at a corner and watched as the guards used a nearby stairway to hurriedly get to the higher levels.

Jake smiled as he expected that. The ship would need every set of hands it could get.

This saved him a lot of trouble. The room he was looking at was the most important room in the entire ship.

It was supposed to be constantly guarded, but the trouble above, which by the way, was regularly tilting the ship, required all the guards' help.

Placing his hand on the door, Jake was greeted with the abundant smell of mineral.

He caught sight of a lot of metal pipes and complicated tubes, but before he could ask he was questioned by those in the room, ”Who are you?”

”You are not supposed to be here,” shouted another.

”Please leave. This isn't the right time to be in this place,” advised another.

Jake ignored them and focused on the path of all the pipes. The complicated system felt more like technology in his previous world, but, surprisingly, it still gave mystical vibes.

Jake, himself, couldn't identify most of the items in the room. From the way, the others in the room acted, he was sure they also couldn't.

Tracing the pipes and tube, Jake found himself looking at a glass cylinder.

Jake's eyes shook as he saw a small crystal kept inside. It occasionally released fiery sparks that made the pipes and tubes connected to the cylinder pulse.

'The [Ephastone], beautiful, but dangerous. Instead of it being protected inside, it is more like the cylinder being the only thing that is protecting us from our death,' smiled Jake.

”Ok, that's it. I'm afraid we are going to force you to leave,” offered one of the engine room's crew.

They were tasked with managing the room and a trespasser was not allowed.

Bringing out hidden weapons from their cloth, they attempted to force Jake out, but the latter beat them to the chase.

To the crewmates with a lower cultivation base, it was unknown when he moved, but all they saw was a hand sticking out of their chest.

They slowly fell to the ground. Yet, before their eventual departure, they caught Jake slowly walking to their other friends.