BXBX NOVEL Chapter 78. Starfall Bay - 1
Chapter 78. Starfall Bay - 1
From all directions, as far as one could see, was the vast expanse of the blue ocean. The endless horizon seemed to stretch infinitely, with no land in sight. The gentle, rhythmic waves shimmered under the bright sun, creating an almost hypnotic effect.
However, the serene silence was soon met by the unexpected arrival of a group of people falling from the sky.
They were none other than Orion\'s group, who had walked through the portal in the dungeon.
"Ah, why are we falling?!?"
"We are back in the ocean!"
"We don\'t have our boat."
They didn\'t expect that they would fall from the sky when they entered the portal, and because of that, they hadn\'t prepared for this at all.
Orion, who was among them, also appeared to be falling at breakneck speed. He felt wind rush through his face, causing the skin on his face to deform as he continued to fall down.
He quickly took out his heavy sword as he fell and let it fly alongside him while he jumped on it by using attraction on his legs. Having done that, he flew upward while the rest of the group was still falling down.
Noticing that, Orion frowned. He felt that at this rate, everyone would fall into the ocean. While falling in the ocean wasn\'t a problem for them, he couldn\'t help but remember the giant centipede. It was because of this beast that they somehow found themselves in that troublesome dungeon. Nôv(el)B\\\\jnn
\'Let\'s help Famir and Ryfin.\'
He felt that he couldn\'t help everyone so he decided he would help his friends first.
"Famir, Ryfin, watch out."
He shouted at them as he took out his other swords and let them fly towards them.
Famir and Ryfin, when they heard Orion\'s shout, turned to look towards him when they noticed two swords flying towards them, one for each other.
A moment later, the swords reached them and flew at the same speed as they fell down beside them. Seeing that, they quickly held on to the hilts of the swords, which slowed down their falling momentum before they started floating in the air like Orion.
At that moment, the rest of the group fell into the ocean.
"Hey, are you guys alright?" Orion asked, seeing them fall into the ocean.
We are fine," Ralf said as he looked at all his pirates when his attention was drawn to the group of transmigrators. "But I can\'t say the same for these kids."
Orion also saw that some of the kids among the group of transmigrators were doing fine making their way towards the surface of the water, while others looked like they didn\'t know how to swim at all. They were trying hard to move towards the surface of the water and not drown.
But as he looked at them, Orion felt helpless about it. He didn\'t have any curses related to water, nor would any of his curses be useful in helping them.
He could only turn to Ralf regarding them.
"Ralf," he called out to him. "Do something about them. They will either drown or die of suffocation."
"I am already doing something," he said as he took both his hands out of the water. But his hands weren\'t empty; instead,! they held a translucent sphere of water in them.
"Everyone!" he shouted, looking at the ones who were in the water with him. "Come towards me."
The group of pirates understood what their captain was planning to do, so they didn\'t waste time and moved closer towards him.
Meanwhile, the group of transmigrators also moved towards him, albeit very slowly. Some of them were trying hard to reach the surface of the water after they fell down deep in the ocean because of the speed at which they fell down in the water.
Ralf had already taken them into consideration, so he kept moving towards the group of kids while the other pirates followed closely behind.
A moment later, he reached close to the group of kids, and his pirates also floated beside him.
Seeing that, he quickly pressed his hands onto the spherical ball of water, causing it to slowly expand in size. First, it was the size of a football, but after Ralf started pressing it, it expanded slowly and became as large as him. But it was still not over, and a moment later, the spherical ball of water enclosed him within it and continued to expand.
Before long, its size became massive enough to not only contain all the kids but also the group of pirates who stood close to Ralf.
From up there in the air, Orion saw a huge spherical ball of blue floating above the surface of the water, and inside of it were a group of pirates and kids. They didn\'t appear to be touching the water of the ocean, as the shell of the sphere, when it enveloped them, became solid enough to endure their weight while at the same time being light enough to float above the surface of the water.
\'I wonder what Ralf\'s curse is.\'
He thought as he looked at the spherical ball below him. He felt that Ralf\'s talent appeared to be related to water, whereas he didn\'t have any curse that could be useful in water or a curse directly related to water, so he thought it would be good if Ralf had a curse that could come in handy to him.
"Orion," Ralf called out to him at this moment. "Can you push this sphere in that direction?"
He was pointing in a specific direction.
Orion turned to look in that direction and saw only the blue ocean, as far as his eyes could see. There wasn\'t even a silhouette of land in the distance.
But he still trusted Ralf, thinking that he knew the ocean far better than him, so he must have a reason to go in that particular direction.
"Alright," he said to Ralf as he flew towards the back of the sphere.
Arriving there, Orion touched the outward shell of the sphere and started pushing it forward with the help of his sword, which carried him along.
Slowly but steadily, the sphere of water started moving, and once it gained enough momentum, it became easy for Orion to push through and keep the sphere moving at a constant pace.
As the sphere floated in the direction Ralf intended, Orion turned his attention to him.
"Ralf, where are we going?" He asked, pointing in the direction they were moving. "What is it in that direction?"
"That\'s where the land is," Ralf said, looking at Orion. "Once we reach the land from here, the first city we encounter will be Starfall Bay. As the name suggests, it\'s a bay for all the ships moving in the ocean to dock their boats."
Orion nodded, but he wanted to know more about the situation in this place.
"So, what\'s this place called?" He asked Ralf. "Is this the Magus Kingdom?"
Ralf didn\'t get suspicious over him asking this question because he knew the kids he kidnapped were mere orphans running here and there. They didn\'t have much knowledge about the world they lived in, and he thought that since Orion was among the kids his pirates had kidnapped, he also mustn\'t know anything about this place.