“Let’s pick them clean!”
The extraordinary act of humans attacking sharks for food started and 15 practitioners died in the process.
If they were attacked on land it would have been easy to hunt the sharks but because of the rolling waves it was difficult to control your body in the sea so they took damage.
"You rascals, you'll be eaten for sure."
"I agree, the punishment is death."
They landed on a nearby island and made shark barbecue, and continued moving forward when the dead practitioners revived and rejoined.
Hunger was satiated by catching fish, and they gathered fresh water when it rained on the sea to relieve thirst.
Indeed, it was swimming under extreme hardship.
Various sea creatures came at them, pushing them to the brink.
Most of the Geomchi exceeded Level 300. Four times to five times they came close to death, but still welcomed the challenge!
So far they were not even half way to the northern continent where Morata was situated.
At this point, it would have been normal to hear someone say to go to the nearest continent or island to ask for help, but they weren’t just anyone, they were the Geomchis.
With their strength, they would choose hard and dangerous quests to improve themselves.
“Isn’t it fun?”
“It’s fun!”
“This is how you should be risking your life.”
“Let’s go to our destination without stopping!”
While they were swimming along the vast open sea they came across something.
Far away, they could see a trading ship and approached it.
"Look! Its a shipwreck, let's go inside!"
The captain and his crew quickly threw a rope to save the victims.
Geomchi 317 yelled out loud.
“This place is… *gurgle gurgle*, don’t worry us go on ahead guys.”
“I think you are mistaken, we are not pirates. We will take you to land so get on board.”
The captain was actually a merchant. Trying to save what he thought were victims of the sea, the sea merchant acted out of the goodness of his heart!
“We are just… *blub blub* enjoying swimming”
“Just what are you saying. I don’t even see another boat around here.”
The place where the trade ship met the Geomchi was actually the heart of the ocean.
“Where is your destination that you are trying to swim to?”
“Mo… rata.”
Since Geomchi 417 was talking while continuously swimming, he ended up drinking quite a bit of sea water.
Though this was a mistake that he wouldn’t have made in the past, it caused his Vitality to drop to the point where he couldn’t swim well anymore, all he could do was flail his arms and leg around.
“What, Morata? Isn’t that the northern part of the continent?
The captain had an expression like an Orc had just hit his forehead with a glaive.
“Are theywe really going to Morata?”
“Where exactly did you start swimming from? There was even a wild storm two days ago.”
“Yo, there are no harbors nearby, let alone a place to have started swimming from… not to mention there’s not even any harbors until you get to Morata from here.”
The sword practitioners were rambling amongst themselves.
Difficult to believe that the captain of the merchant who is leading the boat for a few hours saw them.
But they really were endlessly swimming towards the direction of Morata.
He was surprised by their enormous vitality and again when he noticed some of the practitioners were unable to endure it any longer and sunk into the sea.
‘If they have that much vitality then they should be very high leveled warriors....’
As a merchant, his insight on things were on another level.
Even though the Geomchii’s were quite a high level, despite wearing light armor and leather, some of them were capable to wear lvl 340 Equipment.
For these high level players to attempt to swim across the continent!
Warriors gain fame and stats from hunting difficult monsters.
But those stats could be lost if they died needlessly, this was truly a difficult adventure to take on.
It was common knowledge among the Royal Road Players, even if the person was uninterested they would still know that Stats and Skill proficiencies were important in the game.
The men in the High Seas were the same, even if the sea had large flesh eating monsters they still raised their proficiencies.
The captain was envious and breathed a heavy sigh.
“These are truly happy men.”
During the weekday, he would accumulate considerably large amount of stress when he was working the company.
But sailing in Royal Road and looking for fun and trading goods, and now seeing the Geomchis he felt himself humbled.
"I think I was too comfortable."
The Trader’s cabin which served as a warehouse had a lot of high priced glass and precious metals. Throughout the Versailles continent he was included in the top 300 merchants. Traders were more or less similar to the Warrior class but leveled up by Trading.
The logbook in the High Seas was an opportunity to look back at yourself in the future.
“After we finish this trade, let’s get a new boat and crew and depart to that place!”
He pulled out the ocean map he received before. The probability that they could swim out of the sea was paper-thin, but their determination was very high.
In addition they were headed towards the place where there were pirates, uninhabited islands, or other places that no one had ever returned from.
The Captain decided then that he would embark on his own heart-racing adventure.
If the Captain saw how the Geomchi would occasionally drown in the ocean or get eaten by sea monsters, he might have realized how extremely they were adventuring and how much they were risking to do so.
And if he only knew the truth that the Geomchi had started swimming from Bellona Island on the inner Neria Sea, passing the Ocean Gateway to get all the way here.
No, perhaps he didn’t even need to have heard their stories or realized how far they’ve come. If the Captain were only a little more manly and brave, he would have stripped on the spot and started swimming with the Geomchi.
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