The Royals Crabs.

A pair of crabs that are separated into the King Crab and the Queen Crab. They are very rare and can appear in any kind of crabs like water crabs, and mountain crabs. Gold rank monsters that could crush a city. The King Crab's exoskeleton is harder than steel and its claw can crush skyscrapers and its legs are sharp enough to poke through steel. The Queen Crab may not have the power of the King Crab but it is able to lay more than 3,000,000 eggs and is faster than the King Crab and can snap a person's spine.

And they were here in Riverwood.

"It makes so much sense now," Drake said.

"What do you mean?" Lester said looking at Drake.

"Those are the Royal Crabs, and the Queen Crab can lay over three million eggs which is why there are so many water crabs," Drake said.

"I don't think there are three million crabs here," Basil said.

"Cannibalism."

"What?"

"There're not enough foods in River Mu or in the forest to feed the water crabs, so they had to resort to cannibalism," Drake explains.

*Boom* *Boom* *Boom*

The Royal Crabs crawls away from the adventurers not even noticing them.

After the crabs left Cyan yell, "We have to do something about the crabs!"

"We can't," Drake said shaking his head. "The Royals Crabs are something only gold ranks or platinum ranks can take care of."

"But we have to do something!" Cyan said.

"But what can we do?" Lester sneered. "You heard what Drake said about those crabs."

Cyan faltered.

*Ring* *Ring*

The adventurers all turn to the noise and saw Basil holding his phone and calling the Adventurer's Guild.

"Ah, I forgot about that," Drake said.

"Hello, this the Adventurer's Guild how may I help?" A receptionist answered.

"Giant crabs pass by us," Basil said.

"I'm sorry what?" The receptionist asks.

"Let me do the talking," Drake said taking the phone from Basil. "Hello. So the Royal Crabs have been spotted around the forest of Lake Mu. Mhm, correct. Who's calling? Ok, Drake steel rank. Which party?" Drake turns to Lupin and mouths 'What are we called again.' Lupin mouths 'Bronze Turtle' Drake nodded. "Yeah, I'm still. I'm from the Bronze Turtle party. Ahuh. They went out of the forest and to the shore of Lake Mu. Thank you." Drake cancels the call and handed the phone back to Basil. "They're sending Riverwood's only gold rank party, the Flying Phoenixs.

"The Flying Phoenixs?" Cyan yell excited causing the other four to look at him. "Sorry, I read about every gold rank and platinum rank and the Flying Phoenixs are gold rank," He said sheepishly.

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"What so special about them," Lester asked.

"They're made of garudas which is a rare sight to see here and they mainly use fire magic or flame thrower," Drake explains.

Four shadows flew over them and when they look up and saw five garudas flying to the shore of Lake Mu carrying flamethrowers or swords.

"Let's watch them," Lupin said

*Few Minutes Later*

The Flying Phoenixs flew around the Royal Crabs setting fire at the King Crabs, dodging its claws.

"[Fire Ball]" A garuda chant, sending a fireball at the crab's eyes making it roar in pain. A stream of bubbles hit him, sending him to the ground. "Urgh."

"The Queen Crab keep on blasting stream of bubble at us!" A member yelled.

A cast of water crabs swarms at the fallen garuda. "Fuck!" The garuda panics, he tries to fly to the sky but his wings were too wet, his teammates try to help him but were pressured by the King Crab attack and the Queen Crab's stream of bubble. The water crabs were nearly about to crush him, he closes his eyes as his teammate panic. "Argh!" 'Huh,' The garuda opens and saw a man swing a warhammer which either crush the crabs or send them flying. 'Is he a gold rank' He thought not believing what he was seeing, then he saw the man's tag. 'An iron rank?' The garuda didn't believe what he saw, he felt himself being picked up and taken to somewhere where else before being dropped.

A pair of feet came into his sight and lookup.

Lester with his signature scowl look at the garuda and look at the watching slivers and iron ranks. "What the hell do you think you're looking at! A single iron rank is doing more than you!" He sneered, he took a grenade from his belt taking off the pin, and threw it into the cast of crabs.

*Boom*

The explosion kills some of the crabs and heavily injury some. The injured ones stumble and were then shot, the bullets pierce through the exoskeleton and hit the brain killing the crab. Drake reloads his sniper rifle and mutter, "How annoying."

Riled up by Lester's comment, the watching adventurer attacks the water crabs.

"Hahaha!" Lupin laugh as he crushes a crab with Chad before shooting another crab with Betty. "Good thing we have armor-piercing rounds! Even if they cost a pretty penny."

Cyan just dodge the crabs swinging their claws at him panicking, "[Guided Shot] [Eagle's Eyes]' Cyan fire his guns hitting several crabs on their exoskeleton leaving a dent. Some of the adventurers decided to charge at the Queen Crabs swarming it and grabbing its attention.

Being allowed to focus on the King Crab, the Flying Phoneix fried the crabs, "[Fire Ball]" "[Flame Arrow]" Casting the spells the mages boil the crab with the rest using their flamethrower to boil it. After hours of fighting, The Royal Crabs fell, first the king then the queen.

"""""""WE DID IT!!"""""" The adventurers cheered. Lester was away chopping off the crabs' small claws for the bounties. Basil held up his hammer, Lupin laugh and Drake just help Lester cutting off the claws. Cyan fell to the floor tired.

"Thank you." The Bronze Turtle and one bronze rank turn and face a garuda with red feathers wielding a sword and equipped with a steel chest plate with holes that let his wings out which larger than Cyan. "I'm Felix, leader of the Flying Phoneixs." The garuda introduces himself. "Thank you for saving Goro." The Bronze Turtle just shrugged. Cyan ran up to the garuda, surprising the garuda, and said, "Can I have your autograph?" The garuda smile and said, "Sure."

"Can we just go?" Lester said holding a bag of crab claws. "We got to turn in the bounties."

Lupin shrugged, "Sure." And with that, the four began to head.

"Wait for me!" Cyan yell taking his autograph and ran to them.

"Why are you following us?"

"You said that you would show an inn to stay."

"Ah, I forgot that."

Watching the adventurers leave, Goro walks up to Felix and said, "It's hard that they're only iron rank since that man, Basil can send the water crabs flying."

"Is that really impressive? They're just water crabs even iron ranks can take them." A female garuda said.

"But an iron rank can't send water crabs flying." Goro retorted. "Only an adventurer that is a high sliver rank or gold rank can do that. While water crabs are weak when alone, a party of iron ranks can send it flying."

Felix held up his hand causing the two to be quiet, "We'll discuss later, let's just get our pay."

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*In Bronach*

"Sir, I found the ones you been looking for."

"Where."

"In Riverwood sir."

"Send...Assassins...After.....Them....I...Want...Their.....Heads."