Panic Spreads, Food Is Seized

Chapter 6: Panic Spreads, Food Is Seized

For food, he chose bread and dried Sea Beast meat. He reluctantly accepted the sweet sauce as well; there were no better options at this point, so Wang Ya could only stock up in bulk.

Though he was supposed to prepare for seven days, Wang Ya quietly doubled the amount. Even if some force majeure left them stranded in the Endless Sea, it would sustain him for a while.

Next, Wang Ya focused on meditative cultivation of the Vast Sea Meditation Method in his room.

Notice: Analyzing the second Wizard Rune of the Vast Sea Meditation Method. Estimated completion time: 6 days, 3 hours.

Fine glimmers flickered in his pupils. Compared to the instant analysis of all information in the games of his previous life...

The Eye of Truth in the Wizard World was much weaker.

Yet the benefits it brought were an improvement on the most fundamental level for a Wizard.

Researching all kinds of Supernatural Knowledge and conducting Experimental Research both required enormous amounts of time and energy.

Many Wizards became failures simply because they lacked the time to perfect their own Wizard path.

While cultivating through Meditation, he also let Harak go out to forage on his own. However, he strictly limited his range; he could not go beyond the Wizard Ship's safe distance of one hundred meters.

Yet when Wang Ya shared Harak's mental images several times, he saw the dark, surging tide beneath the water and the gazes watching them. Even Harak, a Supernatural Lifeform, trembled instinctively.

Those were Supernatural Lifeforms stronger than Harak.

Wang Ya discovered that this fragile balance had remained intact. The hundred-meter radius was extremely safe.

The Wizard Ship must have been under Wizard Tuta's protection. Even the powerful Supernatural Lifeforms in the sea did not dare invade.

It was just that the food available to catch was becoming scarcer and scarcer. The food supply at the Automated Restaurant should have made that obvious.

Normally, special trapping devices beneath the Wizard Ship would release Special Pheromones to lure in low-level Sea Beasts from the ocean, then automatically hunt them and process the materials in one continuous operation.

With so many terrifying Sea Beasts gathered within a hundred-meter radius, ordinary Sea Beasts feared death more than they were drawn by the Pheromones.

Those Sea Beasts hid very deeply, Buried Deep beneath the water. Without careful observation, nothing would be visible at all.

Harak's supernatural vision naturally saw every anomaly at a glance, while the stimulation of his biological instincts also kept him alert.

Still, when the sky fell, the tall ones would hold it up. As long as nothing happened to the Wizard Ship, things had not reached their worst point yet.

Wizard Tuta's terrifying aura that night remained especially vivid in his memory.

Time passed, and a week went by.

The Wizard Exchange Meeting could no longer continue. The abnormality in the food supply gradually became apparent, and the Wizard Freshmen no longer had enough food even for themselves.

Wizard Tuta remained in the Captain's Quarters and gave no response.

The Wizard Freshmen did not dare go to the Captain's Quarters either. One who had entertained the thought stepped onto the red carpet, only for an overwhelming sense of terror and oppression to force him to his knees, trembling.

He would die. If he went any farther, he would die!!

Panic spread through the Wizard Freshmen.

Then conflict arose over food.

Without Wizard Tuta's command, the automated Wizard Ship would not lower the deck.

With the ship standing over ten or twenty meters high above the rolling waters of the Endless Sea, anyone brave enough to jump down would possess nothing but foolish courage.

What could they do if there was not enough food? They could only take it from others!!

Comfortable days created the illusion of pleasant harmony, but when true hardship came, everyone's true nature was exposed.

A door had been kicked open, and the room lay in complete disarray.

A young man with bruises on his face clung to Rowena's leg, his face full of despair. "Lady Rowena, please, don't take my food. It's my only food. Please, show some mercy!"

"They already took my food. If I lose this food too, I'll starve to death."

Hesitation appeared on Rowena's face, and her hand paused.

The hope on the bruised young man's face was crushed again. A large hand forcibly snatched the white bread from his grasp, then kicked him.

His ribs felt as though they were about to break. He collapsed onto the floor strewn with books and papers, coughing violently.

In a broken voice, he continued begging, "Lady Rowena, Lord Arthur, don't... please, show mercy. The food..."

Rowena stared in shock at Arthur, who had acted. Arthur wore a mocking expression as he said, "A Low Aptitude Wizard Freshman like him is destined to be eliminated even if he reaches Umbral Wizard Academy."

"Food is precious now. It should go to Top Aptitude freshmen like us."

"But—"

"Rowena, the four of us are different from the others. We have higher status. There is only so much food. Who knows when we'll reach the Wizard Continent? One more portion of food means one less time going hungry."

Arthur kicked the young man in the head, knocking him unconscious instantly. He sneered. "Besides, didn't he agree?"

"What are you doing? Are you not done yet?" Orson walked over. Beneath his purple bangs, his eyes showed some impatience. He carried several large and small bags of food in his hands.

"More or less. We've searched everyone on the first floor. Those who aren't here probably ran down to the lower floors to hide." Arthur handed the food to Orson.

"These people sure run fast. But we need to hurry too. Who knows if some brainless low-grade freshmen might decide to eat all their food or destroy it."

Arthur patted Rowena on the shoulder and said with a smile, "All right. The four of us are one group. Those other low-grade freshmen don't matter at all."

Rowena gradually nodded, adapting to the rhythm of things. At worst, they could leave a little food behind to keep them alive. Their own survival was what mattered most.

"Hey, hey, why didn't Anna come?" Orson asked unhappily.

"Anna is a girl, after all. Leave this troublesome sort of thing to us." Arthur smiled generously, a fiery red silhouette appearing in his mind.

He had never wanted a woman so badly. When it came to Anna, he could afford to be generous.

Orson frowned. When he saw Arthur's expression gradually turn cold, he helplessly headed deeper into the cabin.

Top Aptitude allowed the four of them to be stronger than the other Wizard Freshmen, even though none of them had yet mastered their first Beginner Wizardry.

Under the effects of particle Energy Radiation, their physical strength had increased beyond that of the Low Aptitude freshmen.

Clearing the second floor took much longer than clearing the first.

The Wizard Freshmen had begun resisting with purpose, but before the combined efforts of three Top Aptitude freshmen, they were all suppressed.

No matter how hard they fought with fists and feet, their physical strength could not withstand even a single punch from their opponents. The gap between them was simply there.

A few Wizard Freshmen who had attended the Wizard Exchange Meeting less often and spent more time cultivating through Meditation gave Arthur and the others some extra trouble.

"There still isn't enough food. If the four of us eat it, it can only last a month at most," Orson said with a frown.

Rowena suddenly recalled something and blurted out, "That day, it seemed like two Wizard Freshmen collected a lot of food."

Arthur's eyes lit up. "Those two foolish idiots."

There will be another chapter later.