A Narrow Escape

"roar……"

Upon seeing the group, the sea monster outside the door went almost mad, frantically ramming against the wooden door with such force that it was hard for the group to believe.

Through the crack in the wooden door, Green and the others could clearly see other sea monsters gradually being attracted from afar, and they all felt a sense of despair.

In terms of combat power, it would be quite good if the wizard apprentices in this room could kill a sea monster, provided that Raffi casts that vine magic.

The group held the wooden door shut, trying to buy time.

Suddenly, the relatively calm male wizard apprentice shouted, "There's still hope!"

As he spoke, he rushed frantically toward the large hole that had just been breached in the cabin. Almost simultaneously, everyone realized something, and hope ignited in their hearts!

Everyone remembered that on both sides of the ship, numerous lifeboats were suspended by ropes, which were connected to the railings on the deck.

At this time, Yocris's room was on the fifth floor, only five or six meters away from the deck, and everyone was able to climb up the rope using their own strength.

The male wizard apprentice was the first to rush out, grab a rope, and start climbing. The other wizard apprentices who realized what was happening followed suit and rushed toward the rope.

Because of her frail body and the injury to one eye, Yoklyana was carried on Yoklys's back as they climbed upwards.

Although Green was injured in the leg, it did not affect his climbing at all. Moreover, he had been very strong and energetic since childhood, and climbing seven or eight meters was no problem for him at all.

Raffi, on the other hand, had been pampered since childhood due to her injury. Being a girl, she lacked physical strength, and her shoulder injury made her barely able to stay on the rope. She refused to lift herself up and climb any further, looking somewhat anxious.

As for the strange witch apprentice whose abdomen had been pierced by a wooden stick, she was on the verge of death. Excessive blood loss had rendered her delirious, and the table and bed blocking the doorway had already been pushed aside by the sea monster outside...

However, at this moment, the people on the rope were stunned by something else.

The group discovered that on this side of the ship, there were three giant sea snakes emerging from the seabed and crawling toward the deck!

Good heavens, could these giant "sea serpents" be living in groups?

  

Moreover, this ocean liner is over thirty meters tall, so you can imagine how long these sea snakes must have been.

boom!

Suddenly, a deafening roar erupted from the deck of the ship. Everyone felt the temperature drop noticeably, and then they were horrified to discover that the sea serpent that had been climbing upwards right next to them was being visibly swept downwards by a layer of solid ice.

"Waaah..."

As the ice spread, the ship began to shake violently, as if a giant monster was rising from the seabed. With a surge of water, a huge octopus head was revealed, emitting a painful howl and stirring up the surrounding sea waves.

"A... a giant octopus?"

Everyone who witnessed this scene gasped in disbelief, their expressions changing as they realized something.

Could it be that what everyone sees as "sea snakes" are actually just the tentacles of this terrifyingly large octopus?

If that's true, just how big is this terrifying behemoth?!

For these naive wizarding apprentices, this was a monster straight out of a nightmare! It was practically something from legend...

Suddenly, as the octopus tentacle beside them was engulfed by the solid ice, it seemed to lose its power and slid down into the sea with a loud bang, stirring up a large wave.

Green felt a hurricane hit him, the ropes swaying violently, and he had to use all his strength to hold on tight.

"No, help!"

A desperate sound fell downwards, and when Green looked down, he saw that it was the strange male wizard apprentice who had climbed the highest who had fallen into the sea.

Falling into the sea in this vast ocean is almost tantamount to a death sentence.

At that moment, Green suddenly realized that more than one person had fallen. Raffi had also been blown down by the hurricane, but luckily, at the critical moment, she used witchcraft to conjure a vine and held onto the rope tightly, keeping her body suspended in mid-air.

However, maintaining witchcraft requires magical power, and given Raffi's magical power level, she could only manage a few minutes at most. Therefore, she was constantly in critical condition, and her death sentence could be delivered at any moment.

At this moment, Raffi's delicate little face had already turned pale. She clenched her teeth tightly to stop herself from crying, but tears were welling up in her eyes.

After glancing helplessly at the surging sea below, Raffi looked pleadingly at the crowd, but whether out of fear or pride, he clenched his teeth tightly, refusing to utter any soft words of pleading, though his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

At this moment, only two people can help Raffi: Joris and Green.

However, Joklis, carrying his sister, had reached his limit and was certainly powerless to continue, leaving only Green alone.

Seeing Raffi's pitiful eyes, yet his stubborn refusal to lower himself and say anything conciliatory, Green's heart softened.

Although this young lady of the city lord usually acts superior and looks down on Green, a guy from a commoner background, she has unintentionally helped Green learn a lot about the Wizarding Continent, and she has not bullied Green because of her knowledge of witchcraft.

Moreover, since they are all going to the unfamiliar wizarding continent to study together, they may inevitably have to take care of each other in the future, so...

Green gritted his teeth and stopped hesitating. He took a deep breath and slid down until he stopped on the lifeboat at the end of the rope. After securing himself on the lifeboat at the bottom of the rope, he raced against time to pull up the vine that had been transformed by witchcraft.

Having endured much hardship since childhood, Green still possessed the strength to lift a hundred pounds. With Green's full effort, he finally pulled the dying Raffi back from the brink of death.

"call……"

Because of the race against time, Green was exhausted and rested on the suspended lifeboat, panting heavily.

Meanwhile, Raffi was equally shaken, staring blankly at Green, his eyes sparkling, tears welling up in them.

Having rarely been stared at by such a beautiful girl since childhood, Green casually rubbed his nose, feeling somewhat uncomfortable to hide his embarrassment.

"Well……"

Just as Green was about to say something to ease the tension, a fragrant breeze wafted over, and Raffi clung tightly to Green, wailing.

"Waaaaah, I thought I was going to die! I thought you were going to abandon me! I told my father a long time ago not to go to that ruthless place like the wizarding academy! Waaaaah..."

Feeling the warmth emanating from the graceful body in front of him, Green suddenly felt extremely nervous. He stood stiffly, unsure of where to put his hands, and even the words he was about to say to ease the tension stuck in his throat. He didn't know what to do.

Rafi's tears streamed down Green's neck, but Green dared not move.

After a while, Raffi calmed down and seemed to realize her outburst. She stopped hugging Green and looked at his nervous and evasive face with red eyes. Seeing his bewildered and dazed expression, she chuckled, "What are you standing there for? Do you want to hang on to this lifeboat with me for the rest of your life?"

"Uh? Oh... no, no."

Greene stammered a little.

From a deep emotional perspective, Green disliked this arrogant girl who looked down on ordinary people. While he didn't hate her, he certainly didn't like her either.

After a slight stirring in his heart, Green forcibly stopped his wild thoughts, calmed his emotions, and nodded, saying, "Okay, let's climb up quickly."

Then, Green noticed the bloody wound on Raffi's shoulder and hesitated, "Shall I carry you up?"

"Um!"

Almost without hesitation, Raffi nodded in agreement and hugged Green from behind, her curvaceous body pressed tightly against him, Green could even feel her breath on his neck.

Suppressing the strange feeling in his heart, Green took a deep breath and began to climb upwards with a hundred-pound thing on his back.

On the other side, seeing that Green and Raffi had resolved the crisis, Joklis stopped and began carrying his sister on his back to continue climbing upwards. In the blink of an eye, he collapsed onto the deck and then began to pull on the rope that Green had been climbing to help him.

Later, Green and Joklis leaned against the railing, panting like dogs. However, as they came into view of the hellish scene on the deck, they couldn't help but gasp and even forgot their exhaustion.

The massive deck, over a hundred meters long, was riddled with craters and littered with the corpses of hundreds of sea monsters that had invaded the ship's cabins. In the center of the deck, a severed giant octopus tentacle was twitching unconsciously, oozing dark green blood and emitting a foul, fishy stench.

However, along with the numerous sea monster corpses were the corpses of sailors and a few wizard apprentices, and occasionally some mangled or strangely murdered corpses, making it impossible to tell whether they were human or sea monsters in life.

Boom!

With a loud bang, everyone looked over and saw that the room where the wizard Dila lived, which was already in ruins, had been completely wiped off the deck by the attack of the terrifying octopus tentacles, leaving only countless scattered pieces of wood.

At this moment, the wizard Dila's face was flushed unnaturally, and the black eye mask had been removed, revealing a complex mechanical gear that was constantly turning, looking extremely eerie and terrifying.

At the feet of the wizard Dila lay the corpse of a sea monster, completely frozen but inexplicably protected. Even as the giant tentacle, which was over twenty meters long and protruding from the deck, attacked, Dila chose to use her magic to withstand it, conjuring a huge ice shield seven or eight meters high for defense.

With a "bang," ice shards flew everywhere.

The sorcerer Dila once again used her magic to thwart the giant octopus's attack, desperately protecting the frozen corpse of the sea monster beneath her.

On the other side, the remaining sailors desperately blocked the cabin door, preventing the sea monsters from entering.

Among the resisting sailors, Green and his companions were horrified to discover that there were two wizard apprentices, a man and a woman, who had come out of Wizard Dila's room that day!

Moreover, at this moment, these two wizard apprentices were actually using strange witchcraft, which was so powerful that it was hard to believe.