Chapter 1357 1357 A Chance for Others to Thrive

Chapter 1357 Chapter 1357 A Chance for Others to Thrive

?--- March --- (Around the same time as Lily is negotiating with the crab)

"HAHAHAA I FUCKING LOVE THIS!" shouted March as she took down her most recent opponent.

March had wondered towards an odd structure with a bunch of lights shining out of it. At the front, she'd met a grungy looking Thyme with a dirty beard, rags for clothes and missing an arm. The Thyme had informed her that if she wanted, she could fight for treasure in the arena, but that she'd have to be everything each time she made a challenge.

March had shrugged at that, considering she only had the one item to begin with. The 'water gun' she'd found in the middle of the sticky syrup. She'd spent a decent chunk of time wandering the beach looking for more chests, missing several clues along the way. After her lack of success she'd moved on, and found the structure she was currently inside.

Betting one treasure for the chance at one more was a great deal. March had needed to fight off a bunch of fish with really sharp teeth. Sadly for them, their teeth were sharp yes, but also incredibly fragile, and if March so much as flexed in their direction the fish ended up seriously injured or dead.

At the end of that round, March had been offered the chance to open the one chest she'd received and leave the arena, or keep it shut put it up, alongside her original bet, to win a third chest. March of course, went for the third chest. That fight had been even easier. She was supposed to fight this boxing sea horse. It seemed really cool, throwing out a few jabs into the water as it bobbed towards her with its weird boxing glove hand things...

But one punch straight to the jaw and it was out. It didn't even TRY to block the attack March had sent at it. March was thoroughly disappointed in that match. It hadn't even been one of her stronger punches. She'd just wanted to test the waters a bit and had been expecting the sea horse to block the punch easily and come in for a follow up. Not get one hit K.Oed from what March considered a love tap.

But Marigold and Blue. They're going to be an issue. Unless I'm near the net and I can just push Marigold out that elf bitch will just keep going. If she'd picked up a good weapon I'll be in trouble. She's also crazy enough that if I stuck her down with the gun she'd just use what leverage she had to rip out her own skin to escape. Complete basket case that one. Ma always said that elves could be a bit soft in the head... but she always seemed to imply it took them a few decades to get there. Marigold seems to be starting early.

Then there's Blue. I do NOT want to fight a water mage on the ocean let alone IN the ocean. I'm honestly not sure what I can do about her. I think I'd just have to grit my teeth and charge straight at her, tanking whatever she throws at me until either I go down, or I punch her lights out... and I just don't think I can quite manage to be the last one standing in that confrontation.*

March let out a long sigh as she eyed the treasure chests all along the wall. Thyme was waiting for her answer, but there didn't seem to be a time limit, apart from the one imposed on the entire round. "You know what? THYME! Give me another round!" shouted March. All this thinking was getting annoying. She needed to do a bit more punching before considering the serious stuff.

--- Blue --- (Around the same time as Lily is negotiating with the crab)

Blue let out a long breath as she started to 'sit down' in the cave she'd found. She needed a bit of a break, and she needed to sort out her shit properly. She'd managed to find thirty treasure chests. Which sounded fantastic... but eight of those were a complete wash because either she hadn't found the challenge for them, or they were time based and weren't ready to open yet.

Then there was the next five. They all had challenges that had seemed a bit hard at the time so Blue had chosen to ignore them for now and focus on other things. In the end, that meant she'd ended up with eighteen treasures and NOT A ONE was a storage artifact of some kind. Well that wasn't entirely true one of them was a water bottle called 'The infinite water bottle' which was great for storing water, and really useful for a water mage in a fight...

EXCEPT WHEN YOU WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN. Yeah Blue had been a touch annoyed when she'd found that one thinking she might be able to squeeze some of the treasures into it. Really it was more of a jug then a bottle, the opening was large enough to fit her hand in, and a lot of the junk she'd acquired... but nope. Only water.

Because of this, Blue had taken to dragging a not-bubble of stuff around behind her and it was becoming an annoying drain on her reserves to carry around. Plus she was pretty sure that one of the two paintings she'd found had a tear in it now because of the rough handling.

*Well, I suppose I can't complain too much. Really, I'm suffering from my own success here. I just wish that Thyme had some more storage artifacts around. That would've made this so much easier. Hopefully sorting things out a bit will help... though knowing my luck the next chest will have a storage ring in it. Aw well, I've had that same thought about six times already so best not to hold out hope.*