My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem

“Fine… stay up here.” I growled, glancing over to the paladins. “I’m leaving these girls under your care. If you let one hair-“

“We will protect these little girls with our lives!” The paladins cried out, tears in their eyes as if they were excited about the opportunity.

“Anne, you too!”

“Wh-what? Me? I don’t want children! Wait, what are you doing?”

I didn’t answer her, instead of going over to the edge and looking over the water. I measured the distance between our ship and theirs. If I didn’t want the fight to end up on the girl’s doorstep, then I was going to have to bring the fight to the enemy. I just wished that the ships weren’t moving with the distance changing with each second.

“Faith, look, he’s about to do something cool.”

“Eh? Deek’s doing something?”

“I want to do something…”

I ignored Titan Fall too. I wouldn’t be able to bring anyone with me in this jump. With everything moving like this, I wasn’t even certain I could get myself over. Plus, I was going to do one more thing. After all, I didn’t want to be struck by magic on the way over. I brought out my hand, sending out several hot waves of fire into the water.

I kept shooting, each shot causing a splash and then a rise of steam. The water vapor started to build up until a massive screen of it came out from the side of the ship and in front of the other ship. With the water vapor in the air, their visibility had been blocked, and so the firing had ceased.

“Ohhh… Look, Faith, he’s making it so they can’t see!”

“Stop poking me, I see it!”

I took several steps back, trying to gauge distance. I also didn’t want to shatter the wooden deck when I pushed off so that only made it trickier. I waited for the right moment, and then with a cry I ran and leaped off the ship. Planting a step with magic, I pushed off of it, the force causing me to fly out. I couldn’t use all of my strength because they were far too close, and that made it even more difficult. As I flew through the air, I did my best to use the wind to make sure I wasn’t off-course.

As I became more certain of where I was going to land, I pulled out Alysia. She instantly appeared in my hand.

“Ah! It’s Alysia!”

“She is a sword!”

“I want to be a sword…”

“S-sorry, Master, my friends can be a little…” Alysia sounded a bit embarrassed as her friends watched them leap to the enemy ship.

“It’s fine, we’re going for the canon first!”

As soon as I landed on the deck of the enemy ship, I headed for the canons. At this point, the vapor was passing the ship by, and while half the ship was covered in mist, some of it had started to clear. As I did a swipe with the sword, causing the front-facing canons to fall to pieces, someone had finally noticed me and let out a cry of alert.

It was time to capture the ship on my own.