When the Leviathan rose from the depths, colossal, with dolphins surrounding it creating a pink hurricane that reached the clouds, the boat was like a drop of water in the turbulent ocean.
Thunder and lightning flashed in the black sky.
LEOFWYNN VS LĪEGET& HLĀFORD
Æthelflæd chuckled softly, drawing the attention of her friends on the deck. Leofwynn intervened:
— What's so funny?
— Isn't it obvious, Leofwynn? They aren't here for our sake, they must just be passing by.
— No. We came here for you. — the Leviathan roared, approaching the boat, its head was so colossal that less than a third of it remained above the ocean, with the serpent looking down at them. — You are marked by the Demon King, I can feel his magic on the skin of you three. That old man with the three of you is probably a God as well.
— No. He's just an old man. — Leofwynn drew her sword as she addressed the colossal creature. — Say something, are you and the Demon King friends?
— Mortal enemies. We fought a few times, and, if it weren't for him, I would be the ruler of this planet. And that is the Kraken, Hlāford, who drinks my blood and receives my powers. Praised be my name, Līeget, the Great!
The three looked at each other, they had never heard of such beings.
— Can't you just let us pass? We are on an important mission. And we are not loyal to the Demon King, he forced these marks upon us. — Æthelflæd was explaining when she noticed the shadow in the water. Her eyes shone. — It's them, I can feel it, it's the mermaid breasts!
She jumped into the saltwater trying to embrace the shadow.
The old man who moved with a dragging gait shed tears in the rain, talking to himself:
— Yes, it's them! I can smell it. Take a good look at this sight, Æthelflæd! They are the face of the Creator Himself, proof that there is something beyond, and that this something is Benevolent and Perfect!
Leofwynn, who was preparing for battle, observed the murky waters. And even the giant serpent moved its head slightly, aiming at the growing shadow.
Submerged, Æthelflæd embraced the scaly skin, observing that this was a being different from what she had imagined. A crocodile, not understanding what was happening.
Æthelflæd began to run out of air, but she was too deep.
She opened her arms. The lightning flashes allowed a view of marine life, with crocodiles, algae, sperm whales, and fish of all colors. The alchemist surrendered, when the vulcan pulled her back to the surface.
— Fuck it, human, today is tough. — and, back on the old man's boat, Leofwynn removed part of the bandages covering her left wrist. — The situation calls for drastic measures. Seal, release!
The fire in Leofwynn's hair no longer ceased, and she burned, on her skin and in her red-orange strands, levitating in front of the boat.
On the Leviathan's face, surprise and something malevolent, the desire to devour that bright being, whose body created mists with the storm's water upon contact with the everlasting fire.
— Leofwynn has seven seals on her body, this serves to prevent the flames from spreading. Without them, it would be impossible to approach her without getting burned. — Cwenburg explained, as Leofwynn lost blood from her open wrist, forming the new sword, of fire, with her own flowing blood.
The Leviathan moved away, and with telekinesis moved the dolphins, tens of thousands of them, attacking the boat.
With the fire sword, Leofwynn melted the killer animals that approached, bathing the air in blood and pink carcasses.
The carcasses accumulated in the ocean, and the movement lasted for hours, with hundreds of thousands of dolphins eviscerated by Leofwynn's impenetrable defense.
— Kraken! — the Leviathan's shout ordered the Kraken's attack, which as it approached the boat created gigantic waves.
In turn, Leofwynn broke the second seal, losing blood from her body that formed a luminescent shield, evaporating the waves before they could hit the boat.
Now the launched dolphins exploded against the fire shield, which was twenty-six meters tall.
On the boat, after the first hours of conflict, Æthelflæd prepared dolphin meat sashimi. The old man loved it.
— You cannot persist burning eternally, vulcan, time is on our side. — thus, the Leviathan sent millions of dolphins, in an attack from all directions, targeting both the boat and the warrior Leofwynn.
With her face distorted by the effort, the vulcan broke the next three seals simultaneously, screaming, tearing the stigmas on her feet and at the height of her neck.
The seal of the fire armor, which was like a long dress of magma and lava, covered her entire body.
The seal of the aura, which expanded the heat, no longer limiting it, creating a vast mantle of fire around her and the boat.
And the seal of the flames. The weapons she now held were incandescent flames without form, moved just as a conductor leads an orchestra, yet her instruments were infernos.
When the last dolphin was obliterated, the Leviathan leaped with its colossal body. It planned to sink everyone with such bodily opulence.
The penultimate seal was broken, the pillar of fire. Uniting sky and ocean, the pillar of fire split the Leviathan in half, killing it as its entrails flew around the vessel.
The Kraken attacked with its claws, each blow against the fire shield emanating deafening thunder.
— I cannot control it, without releasing the last seal, it will be the end of all of us!
— No, Leofwynn, you are winning, you don't need more power, in fact, the last two seals didn't serve much purpose. — Æthelflæd, with her mouth full of sashimi, tried to explain, but it was too late, the last seal was broken.
The new dimension was conjured, one hundred and thirty thousand kilometers above the ocean, formed only by fire. It sucked in the Kraken and began to attract the waters, which fell upwards, inverting the course of the rain, altering gravity.
Fish and crocodiles were sucked in, and just like the Kraken, they burned in fire as they approached the dimensional rift.
Finally, the seals were remade, the rift disappeared instantly, and, in the normal course of the waters, the boat crashed against the sea, shattering into countless pieces.
In the wreckage, Cwenburg was still vomiting blood, delighting in what was left of the sashimi. Æthelflæd had saved the old man, and Leofwynn surfaced to hear from the human:
— Why the fuck didn't you fight like this against the Demon King?
— He is immune to fire. — Leofwynn recalled calmly, and both were saved by Godwyna, who also took the old man.
Still that afternoon, when they returned to the beach, the old man and Godwyna went to the brothel and there they found the mermaid breasts.