"Fire!" Gil had already noticed the larger river snapper before Walker had shouted out or it had jumped in to the air from the water. His reaction had been to focus every archer in the tower to fire an attack at it at the sa ti.
The use of the fire magic arrows had been the only choice they could make. Instead of resisting the elental mana that opposed water elental affinity, the river snapper would be opposed to it. When the attack hit, even if it didn't defeat the larger river snapper, the flas from the arrows would further heat the water causing more of the river snappers to dive beneath the water and protect the ship.
Hearing the shout to fire arrows, Walker put up a wall of flas to cover Rey, he knew that the attack would be causing so decent damage and could reflect at them. She didn't say a word as the flas she had covering her knuckles were taken and expanded around her.
The multiple thuds of arrows hitting the large river snapper in the air and the pained snapping of its jaws were only there for a second before a large burst of heat ca from behind the wall of flas. Others could see that the fla burst around the large river snapper expanded substantially bigger than the river snapper itself. The fla arrows had impacted and exploded in to fire just as they were intended to do when Gil created them.
There were no more snapping sounds of the large river snapper chomping down in pain or trying to get prey. It fell back in to the water burning away, the water affinity aning nothing against the intense amounts of fire elental mana that had been forced around it. The sll of cooking and burning fish was all that anyone could sll now.
"Another here!" The call caused Rey and Walker to look over at another sizable river snapper leaping in to the air. This one was not called out in ti though, it fell and managed to latch on to the railing of the ship taking a chunk of tal with it before falling down again. The mages and dragonkin that had been in front of the railing had jumped back to save themselves. River snappers had shown their true strength as the ship rounded in to the largest bend.
"We need to increase the heat, Midnight!" Since Walker saw that they were not making much progress yet, he called for Midnight. It was only seconds before he heard a small roar from the back of the ship. She had felt him calling for her and she was not going to leave him alone.
"Listen, Rey, since we have the best three fire controllers up front we can influence the water that will flow around the whole entire ship. Have your partner bring as much elental mana around as it can. Midnight is going to use her golden flas and I will try to push them even hotter. We just need to avoid lting the hull of the ship so I want you to focus on that."
"I can't just control flas like a mage, how will I protect the ship?" Rey wanted to punch Walker outright. She was no mage. She had no elental control that wasn't related to physical contact. This was a ridiculous request.
"Oh, well if you can't control the flas when you do alchemy then I guess you aren't ant to be an alchemist? Right? If you can't just treat the ship like a valuable herb that is caught in the flas of your cauldron then it's fine. Midnight and I will handle it." The sudden nonchalant attitude made Rey want to go mad.
First Walker had asked her sothing ridiculous and now Walker was comparing an entire river to an alchemy cauldron. It was sothing that no alchemist could control. A massive amount of water and one insanely large ingredient that was actually a ship. There were even living beings on the ship. All Rey could think was that Walker had reached a new state of foolishness. He had gone crazy himself and was trying to drag her down with him.
"Good, Midnight, we are heating the water. Use your golden flas and I will boost them. Rey's partner will help if he can. The fire elental mana will get a little intense. If you are struggling, stop or let know. I will focus on helping you." Walker's concern for Midnight earned him a huff of indignance. She knew she could do this. She would breathe her strongest fires and show off just how strong she was.
"Then let's do this, we are already in the most dangerous part of this stretch." Walker saw the river open up in to the large bend. He felt that this would an there were even bigger river snappers. The large ones from before could only be children of those that lived in this massive expanse of slow water. The perfect breeding ground for monsters that could chimp through the ship with enough force.
"You're a huge pain and I will beat you up after this! Get ready!" Alchemy flas grew around Rey as she beca more annoyed with Walker. The dark red flas trailed around her preparing to reach down toward the waters and protect the front of the hull from the intense flas Midnight was building up.
There was a cool feeling from around Rey but Walker knew that it was the heat being redirected toward the water more so than anything else. The magic that was alchemy flas was not just because they were ideal for separating parts of the herbs to make potions.
The alchemy flas had a more powerful and direct control of the heat. This was why alchemists who had this skill could control the way the herbs broke down and lded with other materials. The alchemy flas were always used to heat certain parts and keep others cool by directing the fire elental mana perfectly. That was also where they got their deep red colorations.
Since Rey was using them, they were more powerful. She had used alchemy flas over and over again more so than anyone else here. She also had the strength to focus her flas in one spot for a long period of ti. Just because she was asked to increase the area didn't an she was just going to give up.
The water elbow the ship began to churn. There was enough commotion on the river bank to cause the river snappers to co up for food. But now a large prey had co right to the middle of their ho. It was an ideal situation for them.
Never did the river snappers think that there was a dragon releasing its breath down at them at this mont.
Brilliant gold flas touched the top of the water at the front of the ship. Walker felt the intense fire elental mana that he had not tried to control. Dragon flas were always stronger but Midnight's golden flas were unique. They were a true born dragon champion's flas. A dragon champion with the golden fla heart which was even rare among dragon champions. Controlling such flas was the sa as trying to control the moon and the stars.
Yet, that was for those without bonds. Walker and midnight had one of the closest bonds of family than anyone could have. That was what made the party outstanding. They had fully allowed their safety to be in one another's hands. It was a trust that reached deeper than just face value.
That was why when Walker reached out to grab on to the fire elental mana within the golden flas that roared in to life even greater than before. It was the sa as Midnight asking them to grow stronger. The sa as another dragon wishing them to beco more intense. And intense was what they grew to be.
The golden flas fell on the water causing a massive burst of steam to surround the ship. It made it harder to see but the river snappers charging up from the deeper water felt like they had been slapped. Their retreat from the heat they did not like was instantaneous. How could they hunt sothing so hot? They liked the cool deeper waters of the river, not the near boiling waters that covered the top right now.
Midnight stopped to take a breath and she noticed that Rey was covered in sweat. The control of the alchemy fire to a degree at which she had never used before was taking its toll. But Midnight could see Rey's grin clearly. She was smiling like a devil dancing in the flas of its birth. She was enjoying this insane challenge of will.
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