Chapter 247 (2/2)

One of the things the captain had said immediately nabbed my attention

「Kraken’s nest?」

「Oh hey, didn’t see ya The Kraken’s Nest is exactly what it sounds like, a danger zone where you’ll find a whole shi+tload of Kraken」

「Passing through?」

「Well, I guess you could say that」

I knew the shi+p had a barrier that let it ward off largethrough a place called the Kraken’s Nest wasn’t too good of an idea

「We aren’t actually going to be passing right through it We’ll just be skie of it is all」

Fortunately, the captains intentions hadn’t been what I was i them to be

Kraken were the local ecosysteic beasts naturally chose to avoid their territory This was especially true of ic beasts, as kraken had the tendency to prey on them

「We shouldn’t have to worry about getting attacked byas we mind the kraken」

「But kraken?」

I orried that a kraken would attack us and totally screw us over, but, according to Jerome, the chances of that were particularly low The barrier was designed to make the shi+p especially difficult for kraken to detect

As I wasn’t coic beasts that lived in the area, to which the captain replied with a rather siic beasts that lived in the area were the kraken

「Why?」

「The patch of sea between the Gilbard continent, from which we just departed, and the Chrom continent, our destination, is only a couple hundred , it’s quite shallow」

Apparently, most of the other oceans were much, much deeper

「Most B ranked ons, Leviathans, and Dagons, prefer to live in deeper waters」

None of the types of ic beasts the captain had just mentioned had ever been spotted in the space between the Gilbard and Chrom continents

「But the part of the sea between the Gilbard and Brohdinn continents, the Demon Sea, makes up for it It’s filled with powerful beast, and has even got the world’s one and only known S rank leviathan」

The legendary leviathan in question was said to be over a 1000over in its sleep, and, all in all, one of the strongest ic beasts to have ever existed

That said, very little was known about it Sightings were few and far inbetween There was, however, a significantabout 3000 years back in which it completely obliterated a coastal nation that’d pissed it off overnight Said report was likely true as it had apparently been confirmed by someone with an oracle-type skill

One of thebut well known facts about it noted in the aforementioned report was that the S ranked leviathan’s staple food was in fact the Midgard Wyric beast It would leave its nest, capture one, and then slowly feast on it over the course of about 100 years Most sightings of it would happen precisely during these hunting sessions

Naturally, the legendary leviathan was only one of the ic beasts that inhabited the De between Gilbart and Brohdinn would avoid passing through it They’d instead take a safer route and stop by Chro the way The route ere currently on was just that much safer

But despite that, it still had enough kraken for one of its subsections to be labeled the Kraken’s Nest

「You won’t have to worry about encountering any Kraken This shi+p’s got all the kraken countermeasures a sailor could ever ask for」

「Nn」

「But we’ve dedicatedon you to deal with pirates and all the other ic beasts, y’hear?」

「Got it Leave to me」

「’Course」

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