The sea dungeon

As Akira entered the dungeon, his danger sense was activated by everything around him. As the monsters began to grunt and screech, it was dark, freezing, and loud. Akira took a cautious step forward as Umi's orb illuminated his path. The orb floated in space and glowed blue to serve as his light. Akira followed the orb as it moved on its own.

Akira dashed to the crystal to destroy it. Then a swarm of skeletons fired arrows at him, causing Akira to come to a halt. Hundreds of skeletons drew their swords, pointed their spears at him, and positioned their shields in front.

Akira attempted to clear his path with a blood slash but was unsuccessful. Akira then used his giganta blood blade to strengthen his blood slash, threw a larger one, and successfully cleared all of them.

After clearing his path, he came across a large one, three times the size of a 5.7-foot skeleton.

It swung its sword vertically down, Akira jumped away, and the sword smashed the ground. Akira used another massive blood slash to sever the skeleton's spine. It tripped and became immobile. He jumped over the skeleton's body after neutralizing it.

Akira hurriedly strode through the dungeon, looking for the crystal. He was trapped in a maze that obscured his vision of his path. He attempted to jump higher than the maze's wall, but an unknown boundary from above prevented him from attempting to find his way out.

Akira stood up and patted his head.

"Ouch, ugh, what the hell? This maze has boundaries too? " Akira looked above him after getting hit in the head after his jump.

"Yes, the crystal is still active. You just got hit by a magical force field that won't allow you to see through the maze." This was because of the magic that was inputted into the crystal.

"WAHH! It talked! " Akira was startled because the orb had just talked.

"I can communicate with you even without being there with you. I'll guide you through, so follow me! " The orb flew away and asked Akira to follow it.

"Wait for me!" Akira rushed out and followed the orb.

Akira finally reached the end of the maze after running through it. Akira was perplexed. "What happened to the crystal?" She too was perplexed by how the crystal disappeared because she knew it was there but was gone mysteriously. She was aware that it was present but had vanished.

Akira's danger sense was then violently activated. When Akira leaped aside, the orb was crushed by a massive blade. Akira came face to face with five massive temple guardians as he landed.

Akira drew his scythe once more and began fighting. A temple guardian that was the size of 4 stories building, each was equipped with armor and various knightly weapons.

Its massive blade swung horizontally to Akira's left. Akira jumped onto the blade and ran toward it. A massive arrow was shot by a temple guardian, forcing Akira to jump off the blade and land on the tip of the arrow.

After the arrow landed, Akira jumped out.

He landed on the ground and resumed his marching. Akira shot himself at the temple guardian's head like a cannon.

Akira swung his scythe behind his back to strengthen his swing. The guardian's spear later interrupted Akira's attack, canceling it.

Considering they were just living statues, the teamwork was quite impressive. Akira, strengthened his arm muscles while remaining completely still and motionless.

Akira took a deep breath as if preparing to throw something powerful. He stomped the ground while twisting his body right and holding his scythe behind his back.

He then unleashed his unique technique called...

[BLOOD MAGIC: BLOOD HAMMER]

He released a massive blood-looking hammer, with a giant flat surface on the top of his blade. Akira screamed as he lift the giant hammer twice the size of a 144cm tall human. He then struck the ground with the giant hammer while also making a giant dust explosion.

Akira jumped up after launching a diversion strike and creating smoke on the ground. Akira launched down and seized the opportunity to kill each of them. He bashed his hammer, and the temple guardian was smashed by the massive hammer.

Akira struck down another one by swinging horizontally to his right. Striking another one with his second strike, he lifted the hammer and dropped it down, causing the whole place to quake.

The rest of the temple guardians lost their equilibrium, giving Akira an advantage to win the fight. 

After that, one of the temple guardians shot an arrow at Akira. He showed no signs of flinching.

He swung his blood hammer at the arrow that was aimed at him and fended it off.

Its stony armor was shattered when the shot hit directly on its chest. Due to the hammer's weight and four times the power of his giganta blood blade, Akira appeared to struggle each time he raised it.

As he dragged his hammer down, Akira ran at it. Akira leaped and slammed its head, successfully killing it.

Three temple guardians down, two to go.

Two guardians stepped up and aimed their weapons at him. Akira rotated himself while holding his hammer. Their attacks were deflected by him, and he used his chance to strike. Akira aimed at one of the guardian's legs, making it fall. After falling to the ground, Akira bashed its body to pieces.

One more left.

Its sword then tried to impale him, but Akira destroyed the sword by striking down the blade of the sword, fracturing every part of it. Weaponless, Akira moved over and struck his last blow, crushing the last one.

The fight was finally over when Akira erased his blood hammer.

Akira called out to Umi, but she didn't respond. Akira went into the strange glow on the next path of the dungeon and discovered a temple seconds later.

There was a bright red crystal discovered there. Akira suspected that it was the crystal Umi was referring to. He then shattered the crystal, causing strange things to occur.

The dungeon shook, startling Akira. Akira dashed to the exit to flee. Akira could now freely jump without being constrained by any barriers. Akira then emerged from the dungeon and rested.

He celebrated by tilting his head back and yelling. Akira stood up and looked for Umi, which he did within seconds. Her tears streamed down her cheeks as she gazed at the shattered kingdom.

"Thank you, Akira..." said Umi...

Fading away...