Shatei Kyokufuri Yumi-Ojisan

dy had that sheen that could only come from metal.
And there were red lines that ran through it.
This color combination always looked cool.
While people generally thought of fish as being weak, this one was covered in armor and looked quite solid.
And the way that its black fins moved in the water reminded me of a crow.

‘Do you want to register the Ravengar as a Unison?’

I immediately clicked ‘yes.’
Currently, you could only take one of them with you, but you could register multiple ones.
But even if I could only register one, I would probably still take this guy.
It felt like fate.

Still, a black monster fish that is attracted by light…
The childish side of me was very excited.

“Oh, this is no time for that.”

I could check the details about the Ravengar later.
My comrades who had been killed were now waiting for their Sea God Stones.
I had to hurry up and take them so I could return.

It was comforting to have the Ravengar with me now.
It hunted down any monster that came nearby.
Well, that just showed how weak the other monsters here were.
So the sage hadn’t been lying.

“Alright, I picked up 4.
Now it’s back to the surface!”

In this game, the water pressure was the same no matter where you were.
And so I didn’t have to think about anything while going back up.
Once I was back up, I immediately moved to the town and brought my party members back to life.
They were truly happy when I handed the Sea God Stones to them.

And while they invited me to continue questing with them in order to fill out the map, there was someone that I had to show this stone to.
And so I said goodbye to them and rushed back to the sage at the beach.

“You finally…finished the trials! There is no more that I can teach you! You did very well!’

I looked at the ‘Sea Bow Arts – Form 7’ Grow Card that was completed.
The card depicted the sea and a lot of fish on it.

“But it would be reckless to challenge the Bluesea Dragon just like this.
You need to become stronger in a more general sense.”

“I see.
Still, you know a lot about dragons.
Could it be that…”

“As if! I’m just a curious old man… There are people like me all over the place.
So if you ever need to challenge a dragon, you should go and talk to them.
Hohoho…!”

The sage laughed as he walked away.
In any case, I had acquired the Sea Bow Arts and the item that would fill out my map.
Now my adventure at sea is finished…
I was a little sad…

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“In order to rewrite that special map that you have, you’ll need the Sea God Stone and the Dragon Palace Stone.”

“What?”

The young man looked like some kind of muscular surfer, not someone who would draw maps.
But this revelation was what truly surprised me.
I had to acquire two stones…!

So that was why the people I had been in a party with had wanted us to finish the quest together…
I had assumed that it was finished.
And there wasn’t really any reason to go with them just to make a report…

While I felt a little bad, there was no point in thinking about it now.
Apparently, this Dragon King Stone lay in the depths of the ‘Dragon King’s Underwater Shrine,’ which was a dungeon.
But if I was going solo, there was no rush, as I didn’t have to move at the same pace as the others.
That meant it was time to look into this new friend, the Ravengar.

“Gaar! Gaar!”

As for the first thing that I learned.
The way that it cried was so typical…!