15 Pirates (1/2)

Shiro POV

You know, the feeling of being literally bisected from the waist down doesn't actually hurt much. Like I literally can't feel anything, maybe my body's just in shock or something. Either that or I'm just so used to pain at this point that I can shrug this kind of pain easily now. Wow my body is pretty fucked up now isn't it?

”Ahh! I'm sorry I killed you please don't haunt me!” I heard the sound of the overpowered girl who seemed to be panicking as she nearly pulled out her hair. ”I can't believe it happened again!” she started to cry actual tears. Wow, I guess that thing with the glowy eyes happened in the past. Feel kind of bad for the poor fool who had to stand up against it, because that was quite frankly terrifying.

”You know, it'd be difficult to haunt you since I'm not dead.” I decided to speak out.

”KYAAAAAAAH!” She seemed to have been horrified at the sight of a talking upper body. ”How are you alive!? Are you an actual god!?” Didn't she ask if I was a god earlier?

”No, I'm just not a big fan of death. Now could you please bring my lower half to me?” Honestly I stopped my regeneration since I was wondering if my body could just attach itself back together.

Miya seemed to snap out of her little moment as she dragged my bottom half to me. I let my regeneration do it's magic as my lower half began to merge back with my upper half.

”Much better.” I said satisfied as I checked my waist for anything missing.

”As disturbing as that was, it was sort of cool?” Miya seemed to be unsure of what to think of me being able to reattach my body.

”Well, was that good enough?” I asked getting back on subject.

”Okay! that was interesting enough. Alright! Let's get going!” she exclaimed as she dragged me back towards the docks.

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Shiro found himself looking around the airship in fascination. The ship looked like the size of a football stadium in both height and width. He wasn't sure why they were taking the big fancy ship, but he wasn't complaining. The fact that it was a flying ship powered by magical energy made him excited to figure out how it worked. Although there was something that bothered him.

”Hey Miya, why is air travel the only way to get to the main continent?” he asked since he noticed that all ships headed towards the continent were all airships.

”Guessing you're not very knowledgable in history.” Miya seemed to glance at him oddly as she began to explain. ”Well it's due to the chaos tides.”

There was a great war a couple hundred years ago between the Gods, World Apostle and Hero. The final battle was fought at the western sea, which was in between the Western and Central Continent. While there isn't much details regarding the battle itself, the aftermath was plain for all to see.

The waters around the area of the battle became corrupted from the chaotic power of a light and dark god joining hands. The Apostle of that generation was known as Dark Cloud Apostle, while the Hero was supposedly an Evil Hero who was cut down at the end of it all. The Light and Dark god who sided with the Evil Hero were forced out of the central continent.

It wasn't surprising considering the Hero and two gods were outnumbered against the Four Elemental Gods and World Apostle. But the point was, their battle caused the seas to become corrupted with chaotic energy. Simply getting too close to it is a death sentence to most people. However the main issue is the aquatic beasts who mutated due to the chaotic energy.

Now the only method of crossing was either being powerful enough to traverse the chaos tides or riding an airship.

”What's a World Apostle?” Shiro asked intrigued at the title. Miya seemed surprised at his ignorance but continued anyway.

”World Apostles are essentially the 'World's Champions'.” she emphasized with finger quotes. ”They are given a World Core which basically gives them access to the energy of the world itself to empower them.”

”That sounds baddass, how do the apostles get chosen then?”