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Chapter 11 - The Husk Captain

Chapter 11 - The Husk Captain

"But before we go." Mikey says as he takes off his helmet and puts it on Lucy's head. "I am sure that you've noticed it too, the zombies mostly aim for the head. You're going to need this more than me." He says.

"Thanks, but will you really be fine?" Lucy asks worried. "You saw me on that ship didn't you?"

"Yes I did." Lucy answers.

"In that case, there's nothing to worry about. Can you get on the ship? Your ladder probably isn't tall enough for it to reach." Mikey says.

"Don't worry about me, I have a way to get up there, but do you?" Lucy asks while raising her eyebrow.

"I'll just try to replicate the move I used against Clau-" Before Mikey can even finish his sentence, Lucy cuts him off.

"Wait, wait, wait. You mean when you jumped in the air and came crashing down like a meteorite?" Lucy asks with an expression that clearly says 'You're not serious right?.'

"Oh right, that would probably be too dangerous huh." Mikey says as he realizes that the shockwave of the fall would be too powerful. "Wait, but theoretically I coul-"

(BOOM) Once again, Mikey gets cut off before he can finish his sentence, but this time it's a cannonball coming from the huge ship which is already next to them.

Mikey uses his attribute to get faster and gathers the crops around his ship. Then he takes his sheep with himself.

(BOOM) The cannonball hits the ship and Mikey and Lucy have no other way, but to abandom it. They look at eachother, nod and get prepared to jump on the ship.

Lucy takes out her ladder and climbs to the top, the ladder starts falling over as it isn't supported by anything. She quickly takes her ladder back in her inventory and uses a wind spell while midair, to carry her to the large ship.

After she lands she looks around, there are a few husks around her, she can also see Mikey who somehow managed to get on the ship already. He is punching and throwing the husks around him.

Lucy takes Mikey's diamond sword (which he gave her a few moments back) in both hands and starts fighting the husks aswell. Despite her figure, she is very fast and strong, easily defeating all of the husks around.

It isn't too long until all of the small fries are taken care of and the bigger and stronger husks show up.

There is five of them and they all came from the quarterdeck, the place where the captain resides.

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"Lucy? Were there zombies like these on the Island?" Mikey asks, the big husks are muscular, even bigger than those who carried the boats out of the underground into the water. And if that wasn't enough, they are covered in iron armor which doesn't expose a single part of their body.

"I fought against one of these on the island, although it didn't have any armor. I almost died while fighting it by the way." Lucy says.

"Well, it's not gonna be too hard now. We have our attributes afterall." She adds and smiles.

"That's right." Mikey puts down the sheep that he was holding this whole time and takes out his pickaxe out of the inventory.

"You're going to fight with that?" Lucy asks confused.

"Yeah, pickaxe is actually quite effective against armor." Mikey says.

"If you say so." Lucy responds as the five husks charge at them.

She puts the diamond sword in her inventory and starts chanting another skill, this time her hair color changes to brown, she forms a bunch of small rocks and sends them flying at a very high speed on one of the husks. The attack was pretty effective. A few small bruises appear on Lucy's arms and her hair changes to normal.

"Lucy, just make sure not to create a huge boulder that could damage the ship, I want to take it after we defeat these guys." Mikey says.

"You want the ship?!" Lucy asks shocked.

"Yeah, the old ship probably received too much damage from that cannonball. Might as well take this one!" Mikey shouts as he clashes with one of the husks.

He's got a point. Lucy thinks to herself.

Mikey starts fighting three husks at once while two other focus on Lucy, Mikey is able to overpower one of the husks easily, smashing its head with his pickaxe and shoving it over the board right into the water.

After this, the two husks that Mikey is left with become cautious of his pickaxe, they also start attacking consecutivelly instead of attacking one by one.

Did they get serious? Mikey asks himself. No matter.

Mikey punches one of the huge husks into the stomach, the husk was too focused on Mikey's pickaxe and that allowed him to land a huge hit on it.

The Iron Chestplate of the husk that was hit by Mikey starts slowly falling apart.

Meanwhile

Lucy defeated one of the husks by creating a long fire arrow and sending it at the husk's helmet, the shape of the helmet is the same as the frog mouth helmet, having absolutely no openings besides a small opening in the helmet in order for the user to see.

The arrow went though that opening and burned the husk's eyes, this made the husk go berserk as it started flaying its arms around. Thanks to that, Lucy was able to push it over the board easily.

Creating that arrow however, made her eyes hurt and burned her hands, more than before.

The other husk charges at her, she is dodging all of his attacks and is waiting for an opening.

Meanwhile Mikey took care of the husk who's chestplate was damaged. The last husk torn apart its armor and started attacking Mikey at full speed.

[You have activated an ability of the Ultimate Fighter]

Mikey once again, the same way he did against Claudius, punches the husk so fast that it has no chance to react whatsoever. The husk is sent flying over the board.

Mikey looks over at Lucy, she somehow managed to cut off the head of the last husk even through its helmet.

"What now?" Lucy asks Mikey.

"Your attribute, not the one with elements but the other one, it allows you to see what others can't right? Like how you localized me aswell." Mikey asks.

"Yes, but I can only look at things that I have some kind of a connection with." Lucy replies. "I can't look into that quarterdeck or into the underdeck if that's what you're asking." She adds.

"But then, how did you find me?" Mikey asks.

"I don't know, we must've met one time randomly or something, we are both from England so it's not impossible." She answers.

"I guess that's right, where do you live? Like in what city I mean." Mikey asks.

Lucy is about to answer him as they notice another husk. The husk seems to be the captain of this ship. He has a strange black armor and a black captain's hat with a claw mark on it. He's also holding a small hammer which seems to be enchanted somehow.

"This is the captain right? I'll tell you after we defeat him." Lucy says.

There is an omnious black aura around this husk.

"You two killed my whole crew?" He says. Wait, he can talk? Is what Mikey and Lucy are thinking right now.

"Yeah, we did, and you're next." Mikey points his pickaxe at the husk captain

"Don't make me laugh."

The Husk Captain dissapears...