Chapter 1203: Anthony On Tour - Orinoco Flow

Chapter 1203: Anthony On Tour - Orinoco Flow

Landing in the water wasn't my most graceful landing, I'm going to own up to that straight away. I'd love to tell you that I masterfully manipulated the sparkling waters of the Lake using my mana, gliding to my ship upon a wave shaped like a herd of horses.

Instead, I plummeted down and smacked face first into the waves. It felt like I ran straight into a rock wall. Unpleasant to say the least.

But that wasn't the worst of it. Not even remotely.

I was pretty much directly underneath the gravity bomb when it terminated. Great stuff, still very pleased that I wasn't consumed whole by the void of death. Great stuff.

However, other things were consumed by the void of death. A lot of things. Well, mostly rock, but lots of it. Lots and lots. And, as we all know, the gravity bomb does what a good black hole should, sucks things inside and crushes them into one nice little ball.

So what fell out of the sky right behind me? You betcha! An extremely hot, extremely dense ball of super rock. Not long after I hit the water, I sensed the damn thing coming and started to frantically paddle with my legs, not that it got me far, and a few seconds later.

Let's just say there was quite the splash.

When the waves settled, which took a while, the brathians were eventually able to fish me out and dump me back onto the ship, which is where I now find myself.

Basically, I'm just flopping on the deck, not moving, letting myself slowly recover from the excitement of the day. It's almost refreshing, in a weird way, to find myself this drained. It's been a while since I was genuinely tired, physically, mentally and emotionally. There are still ten thousand ants around, so it'll go away eventually, even if I don't sleep, but for now, I am straight up exhausted.

[A moment of weakness!]

Which is when Odin decides to pounce at me. Claw arms extended, he leaps through the air, heading straight for my most vulnerable point, my eye. I can't even move, I just watch him come, floating through air, almost in slow motion, blade arms extended, a twisted glee burning in his demon eyes.

Actually it's it's taking a long time for him to get me. Is he actually using some slow motion ability?

He's still floating toward me.

I scratch my back with my antennae, then reach one out to poke him. He's still moving forward just really slowly. Oh, I know what's going on.

Probably not.

"You abandoned the method because I got too heavy?"

"Yes we we abandoned the idea for sure."

"Good. Now put the silly demon down."

It takes another hour for Eran, the ants and Isaac to get back aboard the fleet. I'm not sure exactly what went down inside, but Eran is still fuming when she gets aboard, visibly steaming.

When I try to ask her about it, she throws up her hands and storms off, growling something about lawyers. I didn't even know they had lawyers on this planet. And people are scared of monsters? Weird.

[What's the plan, Marzban? After all this excitement, I assume we aren't going to stick around?]

[No. It's time to sail away.]

[Sail away?]

[Sail away,] he confirms. [We've got one major and one minor stop to go.]

[Which one's the big one?]

[Silver City,] he tells me. [I hope to goodness they aren't as dumb as the golgari. They shouldn't be.]

I'm not filled with confidence.

Time to sail the heck out of here.