The Villain's Little Cat

That sentence effectively reminded everyone. They were in the middle of the sea with only a ship below them separating them from countless giant mutated animals underwater.

The man who was about to make a move also froze.

He thought that it would be possible for him to kill that damned giant mutated octopus. But thinking of his friends all sinking into the water because of his action…

He couldn’t do it.

They were all comrades who had fought countless battles together.

And even if he could reach that island, could he fight the other high ranked giant mutated animals by himself?

The answer would be a big no.

"What’s your plan?" The leader of the other group who came, stepped forward. Kyle immediately recognized this man as Mr. Yami, one of the few earlier awakened who reached rank 7 back then.

Mr. Yami was supposed to be active at a location further away but perhaps because of his escort and trade mission, he managed to reach this area and participated in this mission.

"Restrict this giant mutated octopus and don’t allow it to reach our ship in the slightest bit. Those of water element will be in charge of defense to prevent the giant mutated octopus’ tentacles from reaching our ship," The military man stated his plan calmly. "And only elements capable of doing long range attack will be allowed to come forward."

That was not impossible.

But it would require cooperation from them, which might not be something that was possible considering that they all came from different groups.

"That’s…" the rank 7 awakened man from before frowned. He wanted to just use his water element and finish the battle as fast as possible.

Seeing the other’s expression, he knew very well that if he were to force this matter, he would be beaten up and possibly assassinated even if he reached the island. It was simply not worth it to offend everyone on the boat just for an additional time that would be worthless.

"Be patient. Mistress didn’t say that we have to make a shot so fast," the rank 7 awakened man’s friend stepped forward.

"That’s…" the rank 7 awakened wanted to protest but in the end just nodded his head.

Counting the people here, the leader of every team should be rank 7. Added with Kyle’s team, there were 10 people who were already at rank 7 on this boat.

It meant that half of the rank 7 in the nation gathered here for the sake of finding this source today.

The mission was truly a bet.

If they lost, they would lose half of the strongest firepower in the entire nation and possibly put their own nation in danger. After all, other nations had also started to recover and might not be too willing to follow the original border.

The matter of nation’s border had always been a trouble since sometimes, there will be dispute for the people there. It was even more so for the land border that connected nations directly.

Conflicts were inevitable.

"I’m water element." The rank 7 awakened looked at the others. "What’s yours."

"Wind." Mr. Yami smiled and the air around him fluttered slightly as if stressing his point. But this kind of move would barely pose any challenge for those at rank 7. With enough time to develop and also enough strength, it was basically very easy for them to make some small phenomenon without exerting so much energy.

The element in the world around them seemed to be attracted to them.

The soldier took a deep breath. "Fire, which I’m afraid will not be too effective against that rank 8 giant mutated octopus."

"That’s really rank 8?" The rank 7 awakened was stunned.

Then, this battle would be harder.

The difference between rank 7 and rank 8 was not just that one rank. The control, power, and use of the elements were vastly different. Not to mention, the rank 8 giant mutated animals would usually have intelligence no worse than that of humans.

If they had to fight a long battle with this rank 8 giant mutated octopus, they would definitely lose in terms of strength.

Petra frowned and replied, "Earth element."

Earth element was naturally not every useful to fight against this rank 8 giant mutated octopus. They were in the middle of water, the earth element barely had any effect even if they wanted to fight the rank 8 giant mutated octopus.

"Fire and lightning element," Kyle replied calmly. He definitely couldn’t hide his rank even if he wanted to because he was quite famous. The others had also known him from the online meeting that was held from time to time.

It would be better to be honest.

"Lightning element?" Mr. Yami looked at the sea beside them and shook his head. If the electricity were to travel to them because of the water element… that would be equivalent to disaster.

Kyle shrugged.

He also knew that battle on the ship would not be his main stage. It was impossible for him to truly fight here.

<That man has two elements, not just wind>

Kate narrowed her eyes. She was quite sensitive to some type of ability. This time, she could clearly sense the shadow element that was similar to Kyle but with completely different application.

Kyle patted Kate. <I know>

He had sensed that Mr. Yami was hiding one of his elements. Presumably, it was because those of shadow element was harder to deal with. At the same time, this could be the trump card he saved to deal with those insolent people who wanted to kill him.

It was really hard to kill someone of the shadow element.

And this shadow element actually belonged to the same category as the illusion element much to everyone’s surprise.

The reason why it was categorized this way? Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Because the crystal they needed was the same. It was that black crystal that everyone naturally knew but rarely found.