Veylan threw out the iron ball towards Lorken “Oh, I know this…yes exactly as I thought; how are those called…Ah, doesn’t matter. I just wonder where he jumps out?” He sat still waiting for Veylan. He wanted it to make it far, so he didn’t spread out his aura. As the ball nearly reached him, he was little surprised and confused that Veylan still hasn’t attacked him.

  The ball almost reached him; he stopped the ball with his foot making the illusion of Veylan vanish.

  BAM!

  Something happened only Talen could expect no one else. Veylan was simply running behind the illusion! With his full force he kicked Lorken′s face, but he could closely dodge it; he was truly surprised. Others would surprise and annoyed, but Lorken thought little differently: “Ooouuuhhh…that…that…WAS GREAT…I REALY START LIKING YOU…” He was not just thinking that; he also leaked it in his facial expression. Veylan started kicking and punching him over and over out of disgust. But Lorken is still way too fast for Veylan.

  There still was something that made Lorken even more curious “Why are not using your knife from the block? Can they still be good daggers? Wait I know!” Lorken started breathing hardly letting out little moans in between.

  Veylan put his left arm down; the knife came out of his sleeve. Exactly as Lorken knew, but there was still something he didn’t. All of Lorken′s attention was at Veylan′s right sleeve. As Veylan stabbed, he slid another one out of his left sleeve. Just for a moment, Lorken didn’t see it. But Lorken seeing this made him lose it even more, but things got serios for him. He again activated his aura but again only as a shield. With his aura shield his knife hat was no use. In fact, they even broke.

  He instantly retreated back into the forest only hearing from behind: “You were so REALLY, REALLY GOOD…” Veylan knew in what direction Lorken meant it; but there was whole other problem: It didn’t succeed.

  “What now? I can’t lose hope! I know and he knows it could’ve been slightly a problem for him if he hadn’t used his aura! I just need to come up with a better plan! But maybe…also another item…all this already took hours. I can’t let too many plans fail. The next must be it. I also still need get it for Riven…”

  He was getting hungry and decided to eat a little, a little pond he wanted to catch a fish, as he stepped into the water looking out some, he noticed something weird…there was a little whole in see. They touched it out interest but then it felt as if the water pulled him in with incredible force; the hole widened and brought him somewhere unknown. Everywhere water was at hip level, it looked like an endless big cave, quite beautiful.

  Out of a sudden something that looks like halve human, halve fish got out of the water. “Are you a human? I haven’t seen one in a long time. Tell me what brings you here…probably an accident isn’t it?” Veylan nodded and said “I wanted to catch some fish; I found a black little hole in the water. It pulled me in and now…I am here.”

  The humanoid fish thought for second “Go this direction, it leads you to our village. Your chances are the highest there…I think...” Pointing at a waterfall. Before Veylan went on, he still asked it “Are there any unusual items here? Some that are very rare outside…whatever this is? Maybe something fighting related.

  A moment later it answered “I don’t know what there is to find outside here; but there is some stuff fighting related. Before Veylan could say anything else it dived down into the water.

  A few minutes later he reached the waterfall, he looked out for go but couldn’t until he found a way through the waterfall.

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  Behind the waterfall, the water was suddenly at chest level instead of the hip level as before and the deeper he went the deeper the water got. At a certain point his feet even couldn’t touch the ground anymore. In this cave there was nothing beside water, not even other fish.

  There was also something else he noticed, over time and time he felt small waves from the direction he headed to. Suddenly they got much stronger, tossing him up and down. The waves got so strong he barely gets enough air.

  Swimming for about two or three hours he bumped again a big rock, he pulled himself up; finally getting more air into his lungs. He tried to look back wanting to see how much he had already swam, Veylan couldn’t even see the waterfall anymore. But I saw something different. Three shark tails in the water. Coming nearer to him each second.

  If he stayed on the rock, it would be surely his end; he couldn’t just never leave the rock again. Without a second though he jumped into the water swimming at a fast but not too exhausting pace.

  Unlike Veylan, the sharks didn’t really care about the strong waves. He was letting out his aura hoping to threaten them. But they only answered him with an even more threatening aura; his concern became reality: if they were ordinary sharks, he could’ve beat them relatively easily but sharks being able to spread aura are definitely not normal sharks!

  No matter how fast he swam, he felt the sharks coming nearer and nearer each second. Over time the whole swimming made him fall asleep while continuing swimming as out of all the sudden a shark reached him.

  In just a millisecond he was fully awake just feeling the shark at his leg. He started stomping at it over and over again until it let go of him but quickly after he started coming for him.

  All three sharks came near. His only idea was to throw the iron ball, hoping the sharks would fall for the illusion. In fact, it worked quite well, but Veylan bleeding a little bit from bite attracted them again quickly.

  In the distance Veylan saw the end of water, it finally could be his rescue. His joy didn’t hold for long; he began to feel in a force pushing him back. It isn’t a wave just something invisible. Like an extremely strong current pushing him back. Over time he realized there was no other way than to fight them. His chances don’t look very well not are there just number wise towering over him, he has a much bigger disadvantage because they’re in the water on top of that he has no weapons or items at all.

  Almost reaching him he noticed something. “It’s one shark!”

  Triple fin shark!

  Veylan found out what type of shark it is, but it barely makes his situation better. Triple fin sharks have strength, speed, intelligence and everything else from three sharks. But triple fin sharks are never ordinary sharks, there are many types of them with many differences from race to race.

  Up now, the shark reached him. Instinctively stomped at its nose. But those rules only work for ordinary sharks. The shark dashed at him, but Veylan managed to dodge it by letting himself carry from the strong current; there he could observe something interesting. The shark easily surpassed the strong current. “If I would just be as fast as this shark I could easily get through!”

  They fought fiercely, exchanging and dodging each other’s attacks. The shark went for another attack but right before Veylan planned to dodge, he got stuck. His foot got stuck between some rocks, no matter how much and with how much force he tried to get his foot out. It only got even tighter. “Here and now, I must kill it or damage it greatly now!”

  With his left arm he tried to defend himself, his right arm was trying something. Even though he tried dodging his left forearm is attacked; his right arm grabbed into its gill slide ripping out a little piece. It started to make weird sounds because of its agony. It was the first thing that really hurt, making it retreat a little bit. After he freed his arm, he used the stone wall to push himself towards the triple fin shark. It already expected him to attack its gills, but he had other plans.

  While trying to defend its gills it completely exposed its three fins. They seemed vulnerable, instead of punching or kicking it he grabbed one, pushing his nails in and biting a piece out of it. The shark raged completely but before it could fly, he grabbed its tail swimming with it. It was very strong even though he wouldn’t let go of its tail, it started bumping him against the sharp stone walls. The triple fin shark’s tail was so strong only through the pure impact Veylan′s whole back side of his body began to bleed; the sharp stone wall on top made it really dirty. “If…if this keeps on…I am going to die…I am going to die quickly…”