Fighting alone with orcas was not the same as fighting sharks, sharks relied on their strength to drive one into a corner, orcas used their brains, not all of them attacked some just swam around threateningly while making a few sudden moves to occupy a part of one"s attention, and as soon as one relaxed they would pounce from your blind spot.Orcas were smarter than sharks and they used that to call in reinforcement, figure out the limits where Yunan would use instant kill attacks and just only sent attackers within that limit while keeping the rest as threats and ambushers. As Yunan was unknowingly pushed towards the deeper waters and away from the sh.o.r.eline the size of the orcas kept getting bigger while the smaller ones either changed targets or stayed as a distraction, there was subsonic communication between the orcas, Yunan could see it disturbing his echolocation map.
Finding himself getting more and more overwhelmed, Yunan was not feeling too bad, as he was able to gain much more experience thanks to the organisation skills of orcas and the s.p.a.ce they gave him to become used to fighting, however once the size of orcas became longer than 80 meters, their strategy has changed, now they would do sudden shockwave attacks using their tails aimed at Yunan. The shock waves would turn Yunan into mush if he kept getting hit, simply because it was a not a brute force external damage attack, it was targeted at his internal organs. The orcas borrowed the water"s ability to pa.s.s on waves to hit Yunan from far away, the attacks would only feel like a wave crashing on the skin but with the amount of force exerted and the water pressure at this depth, this method would cause Yunan"s organs to shift, even if the organs did not change their location, a small shift could lead to torn blood vessels, internal bleeding and organ failure leading to death.
Thanks to the armour those tremors felt like ma.s.sage taps on Yunan instead of doing the intended damage, however the most dangerous thing about tremor type attacks is that it acc.u.mulates and then by surprise one finds himself in a bad position. Therefore Yunan went out of his way to clean up this group and head back to rest before the day was over and got himself checked for any hidden damage.
Once with Ophelia in the infirmary, Yunan was inspired by the twin snake staff on her back and thought of a design for Ophelia"s choker: two mithril snake on opposite ends holding the stargazer pearl on the tips of their noses, using the tails as a lock, he worked on it while she checked him and any damage to his internal organs, thankfully there was nothing more than mild contusions and he only needed to bath in honey for an hour or so.
Ophelia had tears streaming down her face when she saw the choker, she wanted to say something but Yunan put his finger on her lips before putting the choker on her then hugging her and whispering "it"s not your fault you have such a bad behaving G.o.d, as I said, I will always believe in you, so don"t be said like that again". Ophelia cried her heart out after those words, she knew her G.o.d was making some kind of move against the disrespectful Yunan and she was specifically told she would not be part of it, however, all those sc.r.a.pped plans of attack were shared with her, who even if she decided to abandon her G.o.d cannot save the guy who treasures her.
Yunan was not aware of what was going on, but he thought it was mostly the G.o.d torturing his believer for letting an outsider disrespectfully talk to her G.o.d and address him like a street beggar, and being happy to hear his words nonetheless, as for Hermes, well he almost forgot about the incidence after leaving, his priests, however, did not tolerate that, and somehow made things reach this point without the consent or the care from their G.o.d.
That night Yunan asked what kitty wanted to have attached to her own stargazer pearl and she immediately went for a bell, she thought it would be cute if she could jingle every time she made a move, Yunan could not help but agree, so he made a collar for her it was a thick and soft spider silk collar adorned with two silver bells inside each one was a stargazer pearl instead of a silver bead, the chimes they made was almost musical and hypnotic as kitty swayed her head this way and that to play around with the new toy. As for Lina and Nina declined the idea of any neckwear so Yunan made gold earrings for them instead, before heading to sleep.
The next two months were the same as today, fighting until Yunan was uncomfortable with the number of internal injuries and then returning home, making jewellery with Balin and Fae as designers and then letting Dustan handle selling the merchandise, there was one thing that the family agreed on, stargazers were exclusive to the family and can only be gifted, and never sold, and to test how the n.o.bility would react to them they were given to the Reina"s parents and Leol"s grandparents, they were told to use a slight amount of mana to stimulate the jewellery while they were with other n.o.bility, and the projected galaxy of stars almost drove some n.o.bles to try stealing them.
When asked about the origin, the n.o.bles trembled at the thought of a level 70 blacksmith, and then they were deflated with the rules that stated that those stargazers are only gifted, and anyone who is seen with one such piece of jewellery that was not gifted personally by the blacksmith himself would be killed on the spot and any attempt in selling or gifting them leads to the loss of the item, the only way for the item to change hands is through inheritance.
Making those rules up, was the way Debauchery choose to protect Reina"s parents and Leol"s grandparents as thanks for being the first testers. After the acclaimed reception of the jewellery, the n.o.bles were informed that there is there will be auctions to sell such jewellery by the same blacksmith.
Yunan also made sure to send a jewellery set with stargazer as the main theme for his mother and later on to all the girls around him because they got jealous, the jewellery set was made fully from pearls, even the parts that looked like woven threads of metal were, in fact, pearl shavings, Yunan made the sets full of vibrant colours and patterns, his mother almost thought Yunan had stolen it, because ordinary adventurers don"t usually send home things other than money, occasionally, while her son was by all means covering all the spending needed for the whole orphanage and made them some savings.
The pope got himself a cane with a crown of pearls because Lili wanted to get his attention and guild leader Martin got a fountain pen made from black pearls, simply because he was a hard-working man who was thinking about others more than himself and had left a good impression on Debauchery.