"M-Master, you really know how to joke. This ship is going to Narukami Island."
As the ship sailed into the open sea, one person finally stood up tremblingly and laughed at Enjou.
It seems this Master is not only powerful but also an excellent storyteller.
"???"
Enjou was full of question marks. What was going on? Hadn't Shimada said this ship was going to Watatsumi Island?
"Haha, isn't that right? The Shogunate and Watatsumi Island are fighting fiercely right now. How could we possibly go to Watatsumi Island?"
"Indeed, I even heard that cargo ships between Watatsumi Island and Narukami Island have all stopped!"
"Sigh, I wonder when this war will end."
The man's words seemed to open up everyone's floodgates. Having held back for so long, they could finally talk to each other.
In their excitement, even their injuries seemed to lessen. They uncharacteristically began to chat about everything under the Sky, about their new lives in the future, about the impact of the war, about when they could return to their homeland... The more cheerfully they chatted, the darker Enjou's face became, eventually resembling the Abyss power stored by The Order.
Enjou was now ninety-nine percent certain he had been deceived. As for the remaining one percent, one could only say that an Abyss Herald still needed some delusions.
What if those patients were the ones who had been deceived?
Thinking this, Enjou strode into the ship's cabin. To his surprise, the Ashigaru who should have been ensuring the ship's operation at various posts were all gathered here.
"Hey, tell me, where exactly is this ship headed?" Enjou asked, arms crossed, looking indignant.
That kid Shimada was dishonest; he should have given him a good beating earlier!
The Ashigaru looked at the abruptly intruding Enjou, a hint of surprise on their faces. But soon, that surprise vanished.
"Headed where? To the underworld, of course!" The Ashigaru sneered, and then talismans appeared in their hands.
These were summoning charms made by Inazuma shrines, possessing the power to allow even ordinary people to use elemental energy.
Like the Kairagi wandering Inazuma, they used incomplete summoning charms to imbue their swords with Electro or Pyro.
And these complete summoning charms... Enjou suddenly felt the elemental energy in the air rapidly converge towards the paper talismans in the Ashigaru's hands.
"Hahaha, I hope your corpses can nourish some Thunderbeast. Those important figures really like this rare fish!"
The Ashigaru waved the summoning charms in their hands, and the talismans stuck to the decaying, moldy wooden planks, instantly erupting in dazzling light.
"Boom!!!"
Electro and fire intertwined, blasting a large hole directly in the fragile bottom of the ship. Seawater poured in, and with other residual explosions, this dilapidated wooden ship seemed on the verge of breaking apart!
"Damn it!!! Not even The Order's people are as ruthless as you!" In a short moment, the wooden ship had already begun to tilt.
More seawater seeped from the ship's cracks. At this rate, it wouldn't be long before this wooden ship became wreckage at the bottom of the sea.
Enjou didn't have time to think much and immediately ran out of the cabin.
On the wooden ship, half-submerged in water, was a scene of despair.
Some people clung to the torn deck, blood seeping from their fingers; some had already sunk to the bottom of the sea, struggling; and some had closed their eyes and floated on the surface of the sea, their fate unknown.
"What exactly happened?"
"I... I don't want to die!"
"M-Mom!"
"I... what should I do?" Enjou frantically clutched his head, and as he waved his hands, he caught sight of the light points in his hand.
"Right... right, Enyu, he's smart! Call him!" Enjou immediately found his backbone, activating the power within his body, and the light points in his hand instantly grew to the size of a person.
Before Enjou could say anything, the three, Enyu, Ensa, and Yuan Fire, fully prepared, emerged from the Abyss Passage.
"You..."
"What's going on, tell me!" As soon as Enyu emerged, while observing the situation, he didn't forget to ask Enjou.
"The ship sank, we need to save people!" Enjou also reacted and immediately laid out the current situation.
"Shipwreck... saving people..." Enyu's small, dark eyes constantly rolled, emitting bursts of bright light – his brain was working overtime.
"Ensa, envelop everyone in water bubbles!" Enyu said to Ensa, who was constantly conjuring water bubbles beside him.
"Understood!" Ensa nodded. He waved his staff, and countless water bubbles rose from the sea, from the seabed, and from the ship's body, enveloping everyone.
The fuzz on Ensa's neck was soaked in such a short time. This wasn't from water element immersion, but from the sweat flowing from his body.
Enveloping dozens of people in water bubbles was still too strenuous for him, an Abyss Mage.
If not for being in the open sea with readily available water, he wouldn't even be able to condense dozens of water bubbles.
"Abyss Fire, blast this ship to smithereens! Clear out a flat sea surface for me!"
"Be quick and accurate, if you don't want anyone to be burned to death by you," Enyu instructed.
"Hoo..." Enjou took a deep breath, then the Abyss power within his body surged, mixing with the external Pyro elemental energy.
"Grace of the Abyss!!!"
A hoarse voice erupted, and a rising wall of fire, starting from Enjou, spread outwards.
Under this flame, the decaying wooden planks, even soaked in seawater, could not escape their fate of turning to ash.
However, just as Enyu said, Enjou, while releasing his power, did not forget to control it.
The wall of fire was naturally fierce against the ship's wreckage, but it considerably restrained itself when facing the water bubbles enveloping the patients.
With Ensa's water sphere protection, at most, it was just a rather hot bath.
The spreading wall of fire directly shaved off a layer of this small sea area. When the wall of fire dissipated, what appeared was a flat water surface with floating charred ash.
And an Abyss Lector, whose body was enveloped in unceasing flames.
"Cough, cough, cough! Singer, still strong!" Enyu exclaimed, then also waved his staff.
Now, it was his turn to exert effort!
Spinning ice shards appeared around Enyu. The biting cold wind swept across the water surface, bringing out thick sheets of ice.
Under Enyu's full exertion, the ice shards spun extremely fast. Not only that, but extremely cold hail occasionally fell from the Sky, expanding the sea's freezing range.
"Quick... Ensa, put these people on the ice!" Seeing that the open space was large enough, Enyu immediately ordered Ensa to place the humans on the ice surface.
"Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!"
The sound of water bubbles bursting rang out. One by one, the people who had been immersed in water landed on the ice surface. The residual seawater on their bodies touched the ice, and immediately there were signs of freezing.
However, Enjou acted again. Rising fireballs appeared behind him, evenly scattering across the ice surface.
Water and ice melted simultaneously, but the water was not replenished, while the ice was continuously replenished by Enyu's spellcasting.
Wreaths of steam rose from everyone's bodies. Enjou saw that there were no longer any signs of freezing, so he flicked his fingers, and fireballs blasted towards the Waverider in the distance.
Since Enyu hadn't spoken, the fireballs only exploded on the sea surface next to the Waverider, merely causing a violent tremor.
Enyu looked at the distant, shaking ship, nodded at Enjou, and said, "Go. This ship is too small to hold everyone."
"Haha, I was waiting for you to say that!" Enjou, engulfed in flames, floated on the sea surface. He clasped his hands together, and the abyss chapter before him turned pages on its own without wind.
"Although I don't like to show off, for you all... it's better to die as dust."
Enjou took a deep breath, then raised the open chapter before him above his head.
"Feel it, the Burning truth!"
In the Sky above the sea, a falling star wrapped in lava appeared out of thin air.
The falling star descended from a dark crack in the starry Sky, rushing towards the Waverider swaying in the waves.
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