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Chapter 15 - Rupus Kingdom of Magic

Everyone was overjoyed by receiving Raven's help, not only were they being protected but a bright light started guiding them. Soon the light got dimmer and it was a Divine Bird. Raven wanted to follow through his plan of acquiring a Divine Beast for guiding his followers in need in place of going himself as something, as he was mumbling about this the God of Incarceration, Shikaha suggested giving him a quest and that was to let his followers go through the "Third ring" of Satus reef without his help which was a success. As a reward Raven received an egg, using his powers he made the egg hatch into an Divine Bird, a Holy Flame Phoenix. The Divine Bird's powers were remarkable as it's wings were made of Pure Holy White Flames giving it a divine and beautiful presence. The Divine Bird was still young and thus was unable to use it's full powers, but it had enough strength to kill most creatures below the Danger mark of High in the Adventurer's Guide Book [and no, Raven didn't use a human form to get a copy of the book, instead he used magic to make himself a copy of the Guide Book because his humanoid form now would be so Divine that anything except High Priest wouldn't be able to keep their eyes off of him, not to mention a divine presence].

As the Divine Bird named Lu, guided the ship toward the correct path, an danger like no other started to approach them. One of the crew members noticed to movement of an giant creature heading their way and alerted the whole crew, everyone was badly exosted and had no stamina to spare. They continued to pray and Arthur heard Raven's voice, "Make gestures towards my pet asking it to land on your arm", following Raven's institutions Arthur did as he was told and oddly enough Lu landed on Arthur's body. Arthur's body was covered in White Flames, but he didn't moan in pain but pleasure, it felt like his body had went to what it was before they left Atlush. Arthur didn't have much time to enjoy being healed completely as giant testicles started to grab onto the ship. While Lu used it's Divine White Flames to burn the undead creature, possibly an Giant undead squid Arthur prepared to use his Blessings Spell on the ship which was stronger then before making the monster run in pain as some of it's tentacles started to burn off and fall. Arthur was able to use his Holy Magic at it's full power because of the Divine Bird's help and in gratitude offered what they had, but the bird took the pieces of the undead giant squid instead. The crew was a bit sceptical, but after cleaning and some light fixes rested as the ship headed in the directed direction.

As Lu returned to Raven's side, Raven was also shock that the Divine Bird preferred to eat squid as it's meal and it's growth rate increased. After further inspection Raven found tracks of Corruption on the monster's tentacles making him believe that Satus reef needed to be investigated later in the list and that Divine Beasts loved to consume opposite type energy as it help in increasing their Mana value by a large margin. Raven was also noticed that his pet had started to grow in size slightly by consuming the testicles of the corrupted giant squid.

Going back to Arthur, they were able to pass through the Satus reef and passed with minimal damage. After crossing Satus reef the travel was pretty normal, an endless body of nearly clear water and lots of marine life. Arthur waited patiently in his room trying to calm himself before they reach Tius and finally his hometown, while Athina watched everything continually writing in a journal about everything she saw and what they truly were. She got to know about over 30 different species of fishes, marine plants, coral and monsters found in the water that covered a major part of the world as well as horrors that are found during adventurers even outside pf dungeons. After a few more days everyone reached to port town Sirius, the major port town of Tius Sea Continent located in the Kingdom of Magic, Rupus.

The location of each of the Kingdom was as follow, Rupus covering one third of the Sea Continent in the North and North East, then is Darvish covering the Western Mountain Range and Mines, South occupied by the Tasuma covering a small land area and majorly underwater as Merfolks preferred to stay underwater majority of the time, Afrodos covered the middle and South East. This meant that Arthur and Athina had to travel from Rupus and through Darvish to reach Afrodos, which involved traveling using Magic mounts, teleportation and carriage riding. Athina ran all across Sirius City looking at the various artifacts, treasures and magic tools that were in every corner of the streets and bought many different things she found interesting, while Arthur located the Teleportation Station to the Capital City of Rupus, Latus. Arthur wanted to leave after a single night's rest, but seeing everyone's state he decided to rest for a few days.

During these few days he was dragged around by Athina across Sirius city for nearly the whole day and the relation between the two seems to have gotten to that a brother and a sister. Traveling to Latus was not an issue because long distance teleportation was very handy, except the fact that everyone except Athina and Arthur were vomiting their guts out. Then the group stays in Latus for a few days in which Arthur arranged their way of transfer from Latus to Obirum a major city in Darvish through a popular traveling service of Wyvern riding. During the time he also looked through the markets of Latus to find useful magic tools and artifacts to make sure of his own safety as well as everyone traveling with him. During which he also finds an rusted sword handle that made Raven force Arthur to buy.

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