Asher's eyes didn't flinch at all as he saw more and more small bubbles popping up, approaching Chronos' direction. Damn, it looks like there is something in this river, so he also planned to make sure the strange bubbles would not disturb Chronos.

"Uh Ash, where are you going?"

"I just see something suspicious near Chronos, Persea. There could be a horrible creature inside this lake that is trying to disturb Chronos. I'll make sure Chronos is okay."

Persea furrowed her brow. "Bubbles? What bubbles? I don't see anything at all. Maybe you're just looking at it wrong."

"No, I'm not. Persea, I saw the bubble. It's right next to...." Asher was silent for a moment. "Uh, wait, wait a minute,where’s the bubble now? I saw very clearly the mass of bubbles near Chronos earlier. I'm sure of it."

"Never mind, that's enough. Now we have to get to Malana village as soon as possible, Chronos seems to have finished repairing the ship. Come on, we don't have much time left."

'Time remaining 23:35'

As long as the ship sailed on the fairy river, nothing strange happened at all and the river seemed to be calm. But for some reason, Asher still kept thinking about the strange bubbles he had seen earlier. He was pretty sure that he couldn't be mistaken and it felt like there must be something hidden in this river.

"Hey, what are you thinking about? You didn't speak at all while the ship is running. What's wrong, Ash? Just tell me, maybe I can help you." Chronos patted Asher's shoulder quite hard."

"Uh, actually I had something to say, while you were-"

Suddenly, a loud crash was heard from the front, causing the ship to shake. Asher instantly lost his balance, but Chronos quickly grabbed Asher's hand and pulled him back into the ship.

"Oh my, oh my. Thank you, Chronos. Without your help, I think I might have fallen into the river."

"Hey, you're welcome." Chronos patted Asher's shoulder. "Damn, but what happened? What is Persea doing out there this time? We should check it out."

'Time remaining 21:15'

"Hey, Persea, what's going on? Why is the ship stopping all of a sudden and almost causing all of us harm?"

"Uh, I'm sorry, but I have some pretty bad news. Our ship stuck in root plants in a fairy river

"What! Oh, Shit! So now we're stuck in this fucking river and just waiting for our time to run out. Good, very good."

"Chronos, calm down. I'm sure Persea has an idea on how to get this ship unstuck from the roots of this plant."

Persea nodded her head. "Uh, actually I can use my power to release the roots from these plants but I need time to do it."

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"Of course, we will both protect you Persea, do what you can," Asher said.

"Uh, alright."

Persea began to chant her magic spell and slowly, one by one, the roots of the plants holding their ship began to fall apart. Good, it seemed like everything was still going smoothly until suddenly Asher again saw the same bubble appear on the surface of the river and move closer to their ship.

"Chronos, look at that! That's the bubble I have seen before. I'm sure there must be something in this river. We just need to see it."

"Asher, what are you doing? Be careful, you could fall off this ship."

"Calm down, I'll-"

Suddenly something jumped out from the river and tried to hurt Asher. Fortunately, Asher immediately pulled himself out of the river before the strange creature could attack him.

"Shit, that was close." Asher wiped the sweat from his forehead, his face tightening.

"Holy shit! What is that!" Chronos rounded both eyeballs at the sight of the creature writhing on the ship. "Fuck, this weird white worm needs to be removed immediately." He kicked the strange creature so hard right away that it returned to the swamp. "Damn it, I didn't expect to find a creature that has that many sharp teeth and seems to look like an alien to me. But, don't worry, I have gotten rid of that damn thing."

"Uh, Chronos but it looks like your guess was wrong, Chronos."Asher patted Chronos on the shoulder, seeing more and more strange bubbles popping up around the ship "Oh God. Persea are you done yet? We have to get out of here before these strange worms kill us."

"Wait what? what are you talking about? Strange worms?" Persea was silent for a moment, trying to catch the words. "Oh gosh, this is bad. Don't let that thing touch the ship or it will destroy our ship."

'Time remaining 20:08'

"Damn, these worms just keep popping up." Asher kicked the worm back into the lake. "Argh, I can't use my spells here either. This ship will be destroyed if I do it."

"Slash! Slash!"

'500 exp gained'

'You've earned 100 gold coins! You have obtained 2x sea worm teeth, 1x sea worm skin'

'500 exp earned'

'You have earned 100 gold coins! You have obtained 1x sea worm tooth, 2x sea worm skin'

"Hey, Persea how long do we have to wait." Chronos killed all the worms that tried to board the ship. "Fuck! I've already killed about 3-4 of these disgusting creatures and the number keeps growing. Hurry up Persea, we can't hold it any longer."

"Uh, just wait a little longer." Persea used her spell, removing the last of the plant roots. "Yes, I'm done, I'm done. Now, we'll be leaving this swamp soon. Hold on tight!"

'Time remaining 16:55'

Persea's small wave managed to increase the speed of their ship until they managed to create some distance from the crowd of those horrible white worms. Good, but the crowd of creatures was still chasing their ship and they had to do something quickly before the crowd of worms would destroy their ship.

"Damn, we need to increase the distance from that thing. We need to make a big wave to get away from all that damn crowd. Can you do it?"

Persea shook her head quickly. "No, no. My magical energy is already quite depleted and I simply cannot make a bigger wave than this, Asher."

"Argh, shit! That mass of creatures will catch up to us if our speed is only like this. Damn it, what should we do?"

"Chronos, I think I know what we should do." Asher pointed his index finger toward the large group of trees at the edge of the fairy swamp. "If we can knock down all the branches of these trees, at least that crowd of worms will stop chasing us."

"Gosh, Genius Ash!" Chronos patted Asher hard on the shoulder. "But now how do we drop those tree branches?"

Asher smiled. "Relax, that's my job."

Asher immediately pointed his magic wand and shot all the branches of the trees around the swamp in streaks. In the blink of an eye all the tree branches immediately fell non-stop until finally, the crowd of worms stopped chasing them and they managed to escape from the pursuit of the crowd of horrible worms.

"Finally." Chronos let out a long breath. "At least we were able to escape frome that fucking nasty worms. Great idea, Ash."

"Calm down, it's nothing. Now we just need to- Oh my God, Persea look out!"

'CRASH!'