Chapter Eight: The Voyage (Part Two)

Immediately Number 47 found his way unto the ship, he activated the teleportation talisman which immediately brought sixteen tengu who had already given their consent to the teleportation unto the ship. The moment they arrived, one of the men cast a concealing spell on them. The Captain of The Suicide Squad looked around the ship and was amazed. 'How can the interior of a ship be this amazingly beautiful.' He thought but shook his head and set to accomplish his mission. He activated a communications talisman and ordered his men to attack from the front whilst he and the sixteen tengu attacked the prince who was just in their sights.

...

Emperor Rava pulled his fishing rod up. Hanging from its string was a seven-foot tuna.

"You caught a six-foot tuna here too?" The empress asked in surprise since she was expecting either a small fish or a giant sea monster.

"Seven feet. But what can I say, I'm just that lucky. Rava replied jokingly and they both smiled.

"Yeah. Can I prepare it for Strava and Darlington?".

"Of course, but it seems you forgot to add the fisherman's name.".

Queen Mar Belle Monica simply answered with a smile.

As he was reeling the tuna in, a giant monster's head came out of the water trying to snatch the emperor's prey.

"How dare a mere Kraken try to snatch my children's meal?" In a second, Monica appeared in front of the Kraken, punched its head so hard that it collapsed in an instant and grabbed its tentacle to prevent it from falling back into the sea. She pulled it out of the sea and asked; "What do we do with it?".

"We can give it to the soldiers".

"Speaking of the soldiers, should we help them?".

"No, they can handle the enemy. I know you want to beat them up for targeting our son but there is nothing that they can do to him so please relax.".

"You know I will not be able to relax until I at least get to punch one of them.".

"Okay.".

After Rava gave his approval, Monica turned to look at the Tengu who were attacking the ship while still holding the Kraken. She threw the sea creature that was at least twice the size of the yacht at the Tengu mages who were attacking the soldiers from afar sweeping half of them away. She then appeared on the other side and caught the Kraken. Monica flew closer to the Powstravian navy on the ship and said; "Soldiers, if you defeat the enemy in five minutes this Kraken is yours.".

After the queen swatted half of the flying tengu, all the remaining tengu remained where they were, dazed. After her speech, the navy hit their chests twice and got serious. The tengu while watching the queen in a daze felt an oppressing aura pushing down on them. All that was going on in their minds was that no one told them the queen was that powerful. And if the queen was this powerful... they turned to the navy and they realized they were just being toyed with.

"They are monsters. Everyone esca-". One of the tengus tried telling his comrades to escape but died before finishing his statement. In a minute, almost all the tengu had been dealt with.

Monica watched as the navy massacred the tengu and said to herself; "I guess I overestimated the tengu.". Then she saw a ball of concentrated inferno blast ball flying up from the back of the ship at the speed of at least three times the speed of sound and rushed there.

...

An inferno blast ball is a ball of pure magical energy with the fire attribute that looks like a magma ball which explodes after making contact with an object as long as the object isn't destroyed by it's heat first before making contact.

The moment I felt the heat from behind, I did my best to turn around while dodging but I realized I was too slow to avoid the attack. Luckily, a soldier rushed behind me and blocked it for me. I looked at the soldier and realized his palm had been burnt because his shield spell couldn't completely block the inferno blast ball attack which was just fifteen centimetres in diameter. Of course, I wasn't aware it was an advanced spell because I never paid attention to Sir Roderick's teaching.

A soldier shouted; "Please run your Imperial Highness".

I turned to look at the soldier who shouted and realized there were only four soldiers on my side and one was already injured while the enemies were seventeen. By simple calculation, I realized I was at a disadvantage so I started running. Unfortunately, each of my soldiers could only hold off at most three of the enemies. In the end, I found that six of the enemies were still tailing me. Before long, I found myself at a dead end.

"It seems your Highness has run out of space to run." A Tengu said mockingly and I turned around to look at them with my heart pounding louder than it had ever pounded. "I'm sorry your highness but it's time for you to die. [Inferno Blast Ball].".

I jumped to the side and cleanly dodged the ball of what I perceived as molten lava targeting me. I then checked my memories and realized that the only attacking spells I've learned so far were all beginner-level spells because I thought it a bother learning magic.

'What should I do?' I asked myself. Since I 'lost' almost all of my power, my mastery of magic can simply be described as pitiful. The moment I cast a spell, it would immediately deplete all the manna that I have access to and cause a disaster. 'Oh yes, I just have to get them over here and use the spell they just used on me on them.' I took in a big breath but before I was done, another attack came over so I had to dodge. After dodging I said; "I have to say; I am very disappointed in you guys. I wasn't aware it takes six old tengu to take down a little boy like me?".

"When it comes to taking down the most powerful kid in the world, I'm afraid it's fair." The leader replied.

"I suppose I should be honoured but haven't you heard that I've lost my power?".

"Who would believe that?".

"You do know you would all be dead if I was still having my powers?" As I was talking to them, I was slowly luring them to the corner that I thought was the closest to the outside whilst moving to another corner.

"I guess we are lucky then. And don't tell me you are trying to buy time.".

"I think I was but it seems the cat is out of the bag?".

"Let's see if you can dodge when all of us attack together".

I slowly moved to the perfect position while saying; "Can you please spare my life? I'm sure my father can compensate you-"

"We are the suicide squad. We don't care about money all anything." Just after saying this, they started chanting their spells.

"Well, I tried. Let's hope no one is behind the wall.".

"What?".

"Goodbye. 'Inferno Blast Ball'." An inferno blast ball which was a metre and a half in diameter appeared in front of me and instantly shot at them incinerating them in a blink of an eye. I thought it would explode immediately after it made contact with them but they turned into ashes before it got to them. Then it melted through the metallic wall and shot out. Luckily I tilted it upward for the possibility that it may go through the wall.

As I was blacking out I said; "That was more powerful than I expected." then I felt someone catch me from falling from behind. "Father? you didn't stop time?" then I collapsed.

After I collapsed, my mother came in through the hole I made in the wall disregarding the fact that it was red hot and melting. She rushed to me and heaved a sigh of relief after checking on me. "Was my Strava the one who cast the inferno blast ball?" Mar Belle asked.

"Weren't you watching?" Said Rava.

"I was but I can't believe my spiritual sense. I mean his inferno blast ball spell burnt through adamantine without exploding."

"Well, he did better than I expected."

In an angry mood, Mom said; "YOUR MAJESTY! Can I have my son?"

Rava realized she was angry because she only calls him Your Majesty on certain occasions, in court and especially when she was angry. "I'm sorry dear. He did very very very well."

"..." Mar Belle took me from Rava without uttering a word.

To lighten her mood Rava jokingly said; "Seems the lioness has grown soft after giving birth."

"I'm sorry to disappoint Your Majesty but I'm a mother now and I don't think there is a mother in the world who would deliberately put her son in danger.".

"Well, I have to go and stop the inferno blast ball before it does some real damage.". Although the emperor could nullify my spell without having to get close to it he used it as an excuse to leave.

....

A while later, I woke up to the sound of merry-making. I guess the soundproofing system of the ship is not as good as my quarters. When I got out of my cabin I realized my guards were having some octopus skewers. Kraken skewers to be precise, but they immediately went into position when they saw me so I told them to mind me not. Of course, my servants were also waiting for me outside.

Carla came forward and said; "Your Highness, Her Highness the Queen ordered that we inform you to come to the royal dining room when you wake up.".

"Okay. You can lead the way. But why were you not eating with the soldiers.".

"We have to make sure Your Highness wakes up first.".

"When will you be eating?".

"When Your Highness is, Your Highness. By the way Your Highness, we saw the aftermath of your battle and it was impressive. I knew you were very powerful but was amazed when I saw that your spell burnt through adamantine"

I simply put my arms behind my neck and started whistling while thinking to myself 'I wonder what they would think if they realized I can not control the little power I have left.'.

On my way to my mother, I saw many soldiers making merry whilst having skewers. They would stop to salute when they saw me so I sent some maids ahead to inform them that they shouldn't mind me when they see me. In a short while, I got to the dining hall and had some delicious tuna with my family. Personally, prepared by my mother with love.