Splash!
The waves churned across the surface.
The line on Ul's fishing rod was taut, moving rapidly...
"There's a fish!" Levy cried.
Ul grabbed the fishing rod and jerked it upward. The rod bent even farther, almost forming a U, but the "fish" in the sea still showed no sign of being pulled up.
Something was wrong!
Ul noticed something was off as soon as he picked up the rod.
And he wasn't the only one!
The red-haired boy beside Ul had noticed it too. A faint ripple of magic power was rising from beneath the sea.
Could that monster have been caught? A ridiculous thought crossed the red-haired boy's mind.
The commotion soon drew the attention of several people nearby, and they all turned to look.
Then!
Ul suddenly put his strength into it, and a creature burst out of the water, lunging straight at him.
At the same time!
With a sharp snap, the fishing line in Ul's hand broke.
"Ah!"
Faced with the sudden attack, Levy screamed in fright!
But Ul reacted at once.
He quickly drew the cheap tachi at his waist. A flash of blade swept past, and the creature split in two in midair. At the same time, a faint wisp of magic power suddenly flowed from its body into Ul.
Thud, thud...
The two halves of the corpse hit the ground.
Only then did everyone finally get a good look at the creature.
It was clearly a giant eel... No, that probably wasn't quite right. More accurately, it was a strange fish that looked remarkably like an eel.
Because compared to an eel,
this strange fish was far too big. It was over two meters long, and a faint ripple of magic power stirred within it. It was clearly a creature that had