About fifteen minutes later, Mikey and Christina meet up with the others.

"Unfortunate." Mikey says as they approach others.

"What do you mean unfortunate?" Christina asks him.

Mikey and Christina can see Lucy, Zoro and Ragnar walking around the market, with dozens of pirates knocked unconcious all around them.

"Well, I won't be able to sell my relics if there's no one to sell it to." He replies.

Christina laughs and says. "Don't worry about that, I am sure you'll sell it somewhere else."

"I sure hope so." Mikey responds, at that exact moment Ragnar notices them and starts waving at them.

Mikey and the others talk for a little bit and then decide to leave the island, on their way out, they make sure to steal some coins from the Pirates that they've beaten up.

[Achievement Completed: Steal from Pirates]

[Reward: 15 Emerald Nuggets]

(Later that day)

They had only one more island left to explore before finally going straight for the continent. They found someone strange on it.

"Huh?! I am not going with you are you crazy?!" An old man shouts at Mikey and his crew. He is a human, which means that he is the same as Mikey, Lucy, Zoro and every other human on this planet. There is a big difference between him and the others however.

This old man seems somewhat deranged and suspicious. The number above his head reads 333, which means that he's also really strong.

About his appearance, he seems to be in his 60's maybe 70's. He is short, has long grey hair, long beard, a few wrinkles on his face, he also seems to be blind on his right eye. He keeps it closed, similarly to Zoro. He's half naked, only wearing brown pants. He is lean with low body fat and somewhat visible abs.

"You sure you wanna stay here, old man?" Zoro asks him.

The old man gets really angry because Zoro called him that. He opens his closed eye. It's completely purple. His sclera is bright purple, almost pink. And his pupil has a really dark purple color. He wasn't blind afterall.

The old man who was until now sitting down with his legs crossed, stood up so fast, that no one besides Mikey and Zoro were able to react to it.

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Mikey's eyes change and Zoro finally opens his eye which he kept closed until now. Zoro at this very moment awakened a new ability through his second attribute which is still a mystery to the others.

Zoro's eye looks exactly the same as the old man's, the only difference is that Zoro's eye color is blue.

The old man attacks Zoro with a karate chop, but Zoro catches the old man's hand. Mikey quickly dashes behind the old man, taking a strange stance which resembles a wolf who is ready to strike you once you drop your guard down.

All of the things written in the paragraph above this one happened in about one second.

Aura appears around all three of them. Mikey remembers a situation very similar to this one, it was when he fought against Claudius, at that time, orange aura appeared around Claudius.

Purple aura appeared around the old man.

Blue aura appeared around Zoro.

Black aura around Mikey.

Not a single one of them understood what it meant, but they all realized one thing, it gave them an edge over all the other humans who don't have their own aura yet. Each aura works differently, they just don't have any clue how...not yet atleast.

Just like with domains, auras can be obtained in certain ways, one of them was when Mikey fought Claudius. Claudius was supposed to die several times before he actually did.

But by pushing his own limits to the border of humanity, he was able to unlock his own aura. Which was, as you all already know, still not enough to defeat Mikey.

This situation however, is different. Not a single one of these three is going all out right now, which leaves it a mystery as to why Zoro suddenly awoke a skill, and as to why all three of them awakened their auras.

They stand still for about two seconds, not moving an inch.

The old man placed his other hand behind his back and opened his fist. It seems that he wants to block Mikey's attack if Mikey does end up attacking him.

"How come we have auras around ourselves?" Mikey asks.

"You think I know?" The old man responds.

"You guys can feel it too right? The sudden surge of power." Zoro asks.

"Yea." Mikey and the old man answer at the same time.

Lucy, Ragnar and Christina too are all shocked, they have no clue what happened either.

The phenomenon which occured here is known as the Chain Reaction Aura Activation.

It occured because all three of them did something at a high speed consecutively, creating a perfect scenario for their power to blossom.

The old man attacked Zoro, Zoro blocked the attack and Mikey took an offensive stance and dashed behind the old man. For a split second, all of them focused everything on coming up with the best move to the current situation.

This all happened by a chance and was not planned whatsoever, which makes it an even more amazing feat.

They all take a neutral stance again, Zoro lets go of the old man's hand and their aura dissapears.

"I am still not going with you guys." The old man says.

"Eh, is this guy serious?" Christina asks with frustration.

"How come you don't want to go with us?" Mikey asks the old man.

"I have a bad feeling about going with the likes of you. I'll create my own ship and go by myself, so just leave me here." The old man answers and sits down with his legs crossed again.

(About an hour later)

"You sure we shouldn't have brought him with us?" Lucy asks Mikey.

"Yeah, for some reason, I trust what the old man said." Mikey says calmly. "Isn't it kinda weird to imagine that someone like him must have played Minecraft aswell." Mikey asks Lucy.

"Oh, that didnt even occur to me. Yeah, I definitely can't imagine someone like him playing video games at all..."

Everyone from Mikey's crew is on the ship, Mikey and Zoro have tried activating their auras, but they wouldn't activate no matter what they tried. They still have a lot to learn about this power which they have just obtained.

(Some time later)

Everyone went to sleep besides Ragnar, he wasn't really tired.

The entire underdeck was reformed by Mikey and Zoro, they have essentially created a large separate room for everyone on the ship. This way, everyone had their own private space and storage.

Mikey wakes up in the middle of the night. A large storm started brewing. He goes upstairs and sees Ragnar in the distance. Mikey comes up to him. Ragnar is completely petrified while looking in a certain direction.

Mikey looks in the same direction, he sees a Kraken. Not the baby one which he already thought was huge...

This Kraken was about ten times bigger than the baby one. It was MASSIVE. Mikey's hand started burning in pain. He looks at it, his cursed mark is glowing bright red color.

Mikey looks into his inventory where he can see the current location of the Kraken which cursed him. According to Mikey's knowledge, the Kraken that was about one hundred meters in front of them, was the Kraken which cursed him.

"This can't be! He wasn't this close the last time I checked!" Mikey says and pulls out his Duskblade.