The cargo s.h.i.+p we were on was really old, so we also had to ditch it as soon as possible. Apparently during the time I"ve been gone, my crew had infiltrated a large snuggling ring and stole one of their flags.h.i.+ps, unfortunately there"s been a planet wide blockade with the arrival of demons and devil"s from the gates of h.e.l.l, not to mention I was very much a wanted man. The popular consensus was that I was the only one who knew what had happened in the Ocean City Of Atlantis, since till date my s.h.i.+p and crew were the only known survivors, even players who were stuck in the city were not allowed to speak of what was happening, the game itself had most of them under contract not to expose the details of the events. Which left only one sea faring rogue captain with the answers they needed.
Bounties have been placed, rewards were being given out, and such and such. I didn"t care though, let them deal with that s.h.i.+t themselves. Our main concern now was how to get off the planet and get a better s.h.i.+p as soon as possible. Apparently the guys we stole this s.h.i.+p from had placed a tracker of sorts on it, the only problem here is that the tracker was of a magical nature, and no on here was well versed enough in magic to disable it. Houki was super smart, but her smarts were only limited to in-game medicine and the magic that went with it, which is also a fancy way of saying out perfect group was missing a mage.
"So any suggestions on how to break the blockade?" I asked the a.s.sembled crew, Raven Song, Zareth, Mack and Dinah all had their heads down in embarra.s.sment. They were being punished, of course standing with a cup full of fuel on your head could not be considered punishment, but when you"re balancing on a can placed on top of a patch hot coals, then that"s punishment. They"re still very much a part of this meeting though.
"That would be impossible, the blockade is the fighter I"ve seen in my entire life and it"s formed from a coalition of all the major power holders on new Gaia. We need access from one of them to even be able to get off the planet, much less go through the blockade. And last I checked we"ve fallen out of the Grace"s of your elven sugar mummy." Qitar answered with an annoyed look on her face, but a voice that was still very much bland. I guess she was still angry I vanished for two whole weeks, even with Houki explaining why, she was still upset. Guess someone"s gotten attached to her captain.
"Well we"re public enemy no1 so how the h.e.l.l are we to get off this planet, and it has to be soon before we get drawn into a s.h.i.+t storm. I really don"t want to be here when the whole demon thing blows over, and can someone tell me where the f.u.c.k Persephone is!" I asked as I got up from my seat.
At the moment the s.h.i.+p was hiding with a thick cl.u.s.ter of storm clouds somewhere over a continent called Derak, so far all of our adventures has been on the sea and on islands, not one of us know what the main lands are like, but then again at this point we"re not really interested, we just wanted to get off the planet." I"ve a.n.a.lyzed the blockade, there"s a weak point in it where we can break through, however I reckon it"s a trap that they had set for us. But we can break through the blockade if we get close enough and if we use the Acheron, it has the fire power we need to break through." Dinah said to me with a smirk on her face, I looked at her and said.
"Did I say you could talk.....but none the less tell me how you intend to use a sea faring vessel against stars.h.i.+ps ten to twenty times bigger than it. I don"t get how you can make that work, so please enlighten me."
"When you say it like that, you make me seem like and idiot!" Dinah complained with a pout, I raised an eyebrow and asked.
"Aren"t you already an idiot?"
" well, not that big an idiot, and only for the duration of this punishment. We"re sorry we were drinking on duty, but would you listen to my idea or not?" she asked me with an exasperated sigh.
"Fine then, let"s hear it."
"Well we can just go knock on their front door, they wouldn"t expect that, we just need someone to get us closer. As for how we can use the Acheron, this cargo s.h.i.+p has a magnetic plate built into it"s frame. It"s old technology, but back in the days cargo s.h.i.+p"s that cleared s.p.a.ce of dirt and debris used it to attract literally mountains of junk to their frames and deposited them close to stars, where the gravity from the stars would pull the s.p.a.ce junk and incinerate them. They don"t really add that kind of hardware to s.h.i.+p"s anymore, but this s.h.i.+p has it. And we can use it to keep the Acheron attached to it, and just in time to have it power up the Ion Cannon and break through the blockade. Of course they would probably notice the s.h.i.+p getting powered up and take measure to stop it before we get close enough, but I recently developed a controlled EMP cannon that I"m also going to be adding to the Acheron"s weapons system. All of the tools and materials I need to use to build it is on the s.h.i.+p, I just need to get that f.u.c.king dragon to wake up and get off my tool cache."
" Well that"s a good idea and all, but we still need someone to get us close, they would see us coming from a mile away, and they"ll stop us. From what you have planned we only have a very small window to act, so we need to make sure we"re as close as possible, but that is now another problem." I Said to Dinah as I leaned back on the chair I was on, but then Qitar handed me a hologram with words on it.
"I might have a solution for that; the trial of the tree of revelation has reached the final ring, and it"s now between the crown prince of Patmos and his sister princess Martha. Almost everyone within the n.o.bility and power circle are in support of the prince, the princess is known to be a very strong advocate for change, and that"s quite frankly something that none of the want. However it"s not up to them, as the trial itself is very sacred, so they can only watch helplessly as the princess goes against her brother.
The final trial states that both of them would have to find a champion to fight for them, in a series of tests. It"s going to be a ma.s.sive and very b.l.o.o.d.y obstacle course that both champions would have to go through and try to kill each other in the process. The prince has chosen his champion, it"s the sin dragon avatar of Anger. A half orchish, half dragon, half elfin berserker by the name of Locke DoomShadow. I guess you could say he"s basically you, just a lot more rogue like and handsome and very dangerous.
So far no one has accepted to be the princess"s champion, Locke"s reputation precedes him, apart from Io, it is believed that not many people have a chance of beating him. She sent this invitation to you a week ago, I told her we"ve not heard from you yet, however the deadline is in three days, we can get you a disguise and send her a message that help is coming.
The thing is after the trial is over and she ascends the throne, there"s a meeting between leaders happening off world in a ma.s.sive base. After you help her win, we can hang with her entourage, and use that to get close enough to the blockade, then we can bust a hole through it and get the f.u.c.k out of here."
This wasn"t a plan backed by any hard facts of stance, it was just a couple of "IF"s" a very ma.s.sive gamble that we could all loose if I was not ready for what was in front of me. However Gamble"s are what we do best, and I know we could actually pull through with this.
"I"ll have to go on my own then, I can"t use a bow or the trident, and my face has to be covered at all times. Get me a quiver and lot"s of arrows, I mage that in my inventory, just in case I need them. I"ll need to spray paint my armor of something, and then find a way to keep all of my information very secret.
I"ll leave as soon as possible, you guys take care of what you need to take care. Seems like this part of the journey is one that only I can take, if I have any one of you guys with me, there"ll probably figure out who we are. It"s a good gamble, and I like Gamble"s, especially when the stakes are against me, it means I get to happily win with a smug look on my face and a s.h.i.+tty look on my enemies. Now you guys finish your punishment, I"ll go take care of your dragon problem."
I left the bridge where we just finished our meeting and went straight for the holding area. The Acheron was tightly bolted to the stars.h.i.+p floor, she looked so out of place off the water, so lonely, or maybe that might be just my perception of it. It was just a s.h.i.+p after all, it"s not like it can feel or anything.
I flew over and landed on the deck of the s.h.i.+p, the drain was still blissfully asleep, it"s green and blue scales vibrating as it breathed. It was curled up so I really couldn"t tell how large it was, but none the less I needed it to move, It was sleeping on Dinah"s tool cache. I went over to it"s ma.s.sive head, and then knocked on it, three times, it"s eyes suddenly sprung open and I was left staring into piercing greenish blue serpentine eyes.
"What!" she asked with a boat load of annoyance in her voice.
"Oh don"t give me that s.h.i.+tty att.i.tude, you"re on my s.h.i.+p, I saved your f.u.c.king life, the least you can do is not lie down and sleep for weeks and making everyone"s life a ha.s.sle. I don"t like lazy d.i.c.ks, especially when said d.i.c.ks are b.i.t.c.hes!"
"Did you just liken me to a freaking mongrel! YOU DARE!"
I looked up at the dragon that had stood to her full form, wind dragons tend to be smaller than other dragons. However they were much longer in length and their bodies were streamlined and lithe. They were built for speed, however they had really compact muscles that carried a ridiculous amount of power in them, which is something they evolved into over the years as wind dragons needed really tough bodies to be able to withstand the speed with which their bodies could travel.
I remember reading somewhere, that at the height of the civilization, the wind dragons if the elemental dragon race didn"t need stars.h.i.+ps to fly in s.p.a.ce, their winds were sharp enough to slice through s.p.a.ce and time, through Dimensions and fast enough to travel from planet to planet with dying in the vacuum of s.p.a.ce.
Amongst the fastest creatures within the game, they were probably ranked third, right behind the light dragons and right behind the G.o.ds themselves.
Either way she seemed capable of increasing and reducing her size, very much like Sky, and she was just as large as I was, only much more evolved and pretty. Her scales seemed to glow, changing colors from Green to blue, to purple, yellow and red it was like an optic illusion, well an illusion that was about to eat me.
"Good you"re up, if you need to rest, you can do it near the engine core, it has enough energy to get you back to top shape in no time and have enough to spare. Plus there"s an egg seed there, I think you would be better served staying close to it, at least until you find you way off this s.h.i.+p." I said to her in a nonchalant tone, before turning around to move into the s.h.i.+p, but that was when I felt a hand on my shoulder that roughly pulled me back, and I was face to face with a very naked woman, who didn"t hesitate to grab me by my collar and lift me into the air, determination and hope in her eyes.
"Repeat what you just said! What egg seed! Speak!"
And I would have very much liked to speak, there was just one very big problem, I couldn"t f.u.c.king breathe from the way her clawed hands were wrapped around my throat. I was pa.s.sing out way to fast, help!