"Hey Mikey! What's happening?!" Lucy shouts angrily, Ragnar and Zoro leave their rooms and ho to the deck aswell.

"I don't know!" Mikey shouts back while looking out of the ship in the sea.

He can't see anything in the water. That's strange, he thinks to himself.

"I feel danger..." Ragnar says in a suspense, he starts looking around the ship, he feels presence in a certain area of the ship's deck. He throws his axe there... and the axe stops midair.

The axe is literally floating in the air. Ragnar comes up to it, he realizes that the axe had struck an invisible barrier. He pulls the axe out, which shatters the invisible barrier. The fragments of the barrier turn bright red, additionally, these fragments don't throwany shadow, which makes them seem like a glitch or something.

"This must be someone's attribute..." Zoro says as he walks up to the shattered barrier and picks up one of the red fragments.

Mikey and Lucy look at eachother, both of them are thinking about the exact same thing. The same person who attacked them in the hot springs...has been here right now.

"Who do you think could have done this?" Christina who is standing next to Mikey asks him.

"I don't know." Mikey answers, he's lying of course, even though he isn't one hundred percent sure about it, he is pretty certain that the person who attacked them is the second ranked player.

Mikey and his crew continue as if nothing happened. Mikey slows down the ship's course so that they don't crash into anything at high speed anymore.

"Mikey, do you think it was the same person?" Lucy comes up to Mikey and asks him quietly, making sure that no one else hears them.

"Yeah, I think so. Perhaps, the person can't turn completely invisible, but can use those invisible barriers to hide behind them." Mikey says.

"That would make sense, but what do we do about it?" Lucy inquires.

"Honestly, I still don't know why is he after me, but he seems to be after me only, and I can defeat him. I am ranked number one afterall." Mikey answers confidently. "So you don't have to worry about it, I'll deal with them."

About fifteen minutes later, Mikey's crew reaches the shore. They all realize that they can't take all of their belongings, because their inventories simply aren't that big. Everyone only takes the most important things with themselves. Mikey and Ragnar grab one of their chests with themselves aswell. The chests are very heavy, but this allows them to take more things than they normally could.

Mikey even takes his sheep with himself, which somehow still hasn't died. This sheep is actually Mikey's first companion if you think about it.

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The shore is surrounded by a vast forest, Mikey and the others decide to wander throught it. The entire forest is lit up with lights and torches, which begs a question. Did other humans do this?

A few minutes later, and they're out of the forest. A beautiful green valley spreads in front of them which is filled with houses. Beyond this valley, the forest continues. Lucy spots humans, this means that this must be a village built by them. There are about thirty houses altogether. Meaning, that there are atleast thirty players (humans) in this village.

One of the villagers in the distance notices Mikey's crew and points at them. He starts going around the village telling everyone that there are players in the distance. The villager can't see Mikey's rank nor can Mikey see their ranks.

Dozens of players suddenly gather around. They're all wearing iron, diamond or other armor made out of metal. Among Mikey's crew, nobody wears heavy armor besides Ragnar. Lucy ditched her armor aswell because she couldn't move around well while wearing it. Christina and Zoro never really wore it in the first place, and Mikey lost it during his fight with the ultimate chicken horse kraken. He got used to fighting without armor after that.

The "army" of humans start walking towards Mikey's crew.

They're all holding weapons in their hands. Swords, Axes and Bows. Some of them are enchanted too, but only with blue color. This means that the enchantment doesn't grant the weapon any special skills, but rather improves the quality of the weapon itself. A few of the humans have enchanted armor too.

"Are they planning to attack us or what?" Christina asks.

"I don't think so, they're probably just gonna make sure that we're not enemies." Ragnar says.

"Well, they'll surely attack us if we won't comply with them." Zoro says.

"Considering their weapons and equipment... they don't seem very strong." Lucy pulls out her dagger.

"Let's get closer so that we can see their ranks." Says Mikey, who marches towards the players.

In order for players to see eachothers ranks, they need to be in atleast fifty meter radius from one another. Mikey's crew and the army of players are about one hundred meters away from eachother.

(About 30 seconds later)

Mikey gets within sixty meter radius from who seems like the enemy leader. Mikey and his crew stop and so do the opposite players.

"We come in peace!" Mikey shouts at them.

The leader of the player army asks. "What's your business here!?"

"We've come from islands far away from here, we are simply looking to settle down, if that's not okay with you then we will simply pass your settlement and go further in the forest!" Mikey says.

"Do you know what's beyond this forest?!" The leader asks in terror, as if there was something terryfying there.

"Of course we don't! We just came from the ocean!"

Lucy shouts back.

The army of players start whispering one to another, they all seem very confused about the fact that not a single person from Mikey's crew knows about what's beyond the forest. This can mean only one thing.

Beyond this forest there must be something, which everyone who has been on this continent for atleast few days knows about. Something extremely dangerous perhaps?

The unit of humans quiet down. The man steps forward and points at Mikey.

"Can you get closer to me? I want to see your rank, I will walk closer too." He says.

Mikey doesn't like the idea, afterall, if there is a huge rank difference, then these players might get scared of them.

"Before I do, you seem to be their leader, does that make you the strongest?" Mikey asks the man.

"Yeah, I am the strongest among them." The man replies.

Mikey is hoping for their ranks to be around ten thousand, this way they probably won't get too scared by Mikey and his crew.

Mikey and the man start taking steps forward. Soon enough, they can see eachothers rank. The number above the man's head reads 60 981 which is compared to Mikey an extremely low ranking.

The man is absolutely shocked as he sees number one above Mikey, he starts shaking and almost falls. With tremble in his voice he says: "I remember you now, you are the one who fought in that colosseum, isn't that right?"

"Yep, that's me." Mikey says. "Don't worry, as I already said, we're not your enemies." He adds.

[Hello everyone, it's been quite a while since I talked to you guys]

A blue tab appears in front of everyone, it must be from the same person who hosted those duels a while back. Everyone thinks to themselves. And the same person who brought them to this world...

[Now then, I am certain you all remember those duels you fought. That was called an event. Many kinds of different events will take place as long as you guys are in this world]

[With that being said, the next event is about to start RIGHT NOW. No countdown this time]

[I call this event "The Bounty Hunters"]