Julie sliced the plague soldier in half, she then kicked it away before it imploded on her.

"Pesky Implosion types, Why can't I get an electric spitter" She pouted and turned to face the next opponent

The Plague is underlings of Kylia, and despite their naming of Soldiers, Beasts, Juggernauts, and more, they also have their own types.

There was pyro, electric, smog, blizzard, acidic liquids, implosions, explosions, and more. Each of them were destructive in nature, to people, to everything in general.

The Plague soldier thrusted his spear forward, and Julie ran her blade along the edge, blocking it, and then forcing a parry, The gem on my sword lit up and the Plague soldier screamed as the sword penetrated the head.

Throwing the husk aside Julie looked to see Yoshiro finishing off his batch of opponents. Chance had a field of tornadoes, preventing the husks from forming, before subjugating the Plague through poisonous smog.

In addition to her two friends, she turn to see the newcomers to the group.

Roa- A blazing construct who was skilled in tanking damage, his fiery body also damaged his opponents when they try to attack. As a puppet-type being, he could easily replace any damaged body parts with crafted materials.

Isla- A sprite who knew a wide range of healing and defensive spells. She can quickly fly around to heal those in need due to her small size, she is also capable to dodging many obstacles. Again, despite her small size, she is a huge glutton, and the food expenses are mostly from her.

Tis'CKet'Taru- A trio of insects that consists of Adamantium Fortress Spider, Berserk Mantis and Arclight Wasp, They are mainly used for transportation and cargo hauling, but they in themselves are capable fighters.

Julie smiled as she saw all her friends together, the quest they all started to defeat Kylia has brought them to meet each other. Roa wanted to find out the origins of the planet they were on. Isla wanted to help out, to do whatever she could to help defeat Kylia. The insects just wanted to travel during dangerous times, mostly because their hives were destroyed by the Extinction Pillars that Kylia summons.

Following the hints of the gods, Julie and her friends were able to travel around, getting the necessary equipment for their dive, and the locations of the Sword.

The morning they set sail in the Nova-Gradro Sea, towards the approximate location of Poison Trench, the original home of the Poison Leviathan. Roa looked over the ship's edge, looking at the water below. "Are we sure the Drya-Moss will keep me safe kuhu"

"You worry on liquid to great, already tested it, is it not?" CKet hissed, she pulled herself to the edge alongside Roa and peered over the edge with him.

Julie sat at the bow of the ship, peering at the horizon, her sword on her back. Nearby Chance was meditating, the gentle sea breeze swirled around her. Yoshiro on the other hand was busy sparing with Tis, the person with the strongest attack, vs the insect with the strongest defense. Yoshiro rushed forward spear in hand, looking for a weak point her Tis's defense and Tis fired a web to restrict his movements.

Next to Chance the Arclight Wasp was napping, after a night of patrol, Taru was sleeping soundly and sun-basking at the same time. The sight of the two brought a sense of tranquility to Julie. "When this is over, I believe we should get together and live the rest of our lives in peace" Julie said to herself. Smiling she turned and looked toward the horizon once more.

Time passed, in the distance an Extinction pillar rose around a mountain, but our little boat chugged along the waters, the water itself started to turn an acidic green color and the sound of sizzling was heard.

The guard at the time was CKet and she screeched out a warning "Grah the Aslima Grass, we entered toxic territory" she chitters and Chance and Tis rush to grab the grass from the storage.

Suddenly a horrid screech coarse through the night and Julie looked toward the skies. A smoky being was currently grappling with Tura, Tura screeched out again, as the smoky being tore off another one of her wings before stabbing it's hands inside of her thorax, slowing pulling it apart, attempting to tear her in half.

Yoshiro grabs his spear and lobs it toward the intruder but it nimbly dodges it, Tura starts to drop and CKet jumps up to catch her. The smoky being suddenly appears and attempts to cut Cket in half but she moves her body so that it grazes her.

Landing with Tura in hand, CKet landed, her prothorax bleeding haemolyph. CKet roared and her green body started to turn red and her movements and power doubled. Charging forward toward the smoky being, unknowing to her, that she had already lost her left arm during the charge.

Around the ship, fish started to swarm, one fish jumped into the air and landed on the ship, A decayed Sahuagin tilted it's head, a yellowish bone spear in hand. Julie grinned at the thought of a challenge and charged forward. The sahuagin coughed and spat a glob of acidic goo and she dodged to the side, the deck started to melt where the goo landed.

Julie grimaced at the sight and decided to end it quickly instead of drawing the fight out. With one thrust of her spear, the Sahuagin was impaled and throw overboard. Chance and Tis returned with the grass and quickly applied it to the boat so it wouldn't decay. Meanwhile more and more sahuagin attempted to jump on the boat.

The battle raged on, Julie, Tis and Chance were fighting to keep the sahuagin off the boat, Tura was recovering, Roa was piloting the ship Isla was flying around healing people in need. while CKet and Yoshiro was busy fighting the smoky being. Cket lost one of her legs and part of her tegmina, making her original fast flying attacks choppy and uneven, but that was due to her fighting harder than everyone else.

Suddenly a spire of water erupted from the Toxic Territory and a huge kraken emerged, grabbing the sahuagin and pulling them under. The smoky being saw the sahuagin being pulled away and jumped up and started to fled for it's life.

Shadows in the water followed after it.

Julie fell to the ground dead tired, breathing heavily she looked to observe her companions. Roa was scratched, parts of his limbs missing or decaying from the poisonous goo. Isla had minor injuries and was not flying as fast due to fatigue. Tis had his shell broken, corroded by acid and bashed by bone weapons though her overall body wasn't to damaged. Chance had minor burns and clothes ripped but still okay. Yoshiro seemed fine, just a few scratches but nothing missing.

The two who needed the most attention was Tura, who had two of her wings torn off, a gaping hole in her thorax revealing the insides of her body her stinger missing and a few of her legs gone. CKet on the other hand, was missing three of her legs, an entire arm, multiple cuts on her prothorax, mesothorax and abdomen, one of her eyes were crushed and her tegima and her remaining tibia was partially destroyed. Haemolymph was oozing from their missing limbs. Isla came close but CKet sent her away. "I an near the shedding time, I an fine till then." she chittered and she dragged herself to her quarters,

Julie turns toward Tis, the only insect well enough to answer any questions that she wanted to answer.

Tis's fangs rub together and then he speaks. "Us insects as you call then, have tines of shedding skin, this enahles us to get larger. It also regenerates lost anatomies. insects like CKet and I have this special features, it happens in times of 10 rotations of earth to 10 rotations around sun."

"What about Taru" Chance asked concern. Tis just shakes his cephalothorax, "Taru is one of the unlucky ones, her hive is one that does not shed, they have one hody for life, Taru is now danaged goods."

Upon this reply Chance cried out in shock and crumpled to the floor sobbing tears, crawling toward Taru who was resting. Tis's body seemed to relax, and it slumped down, his will to fight seemed to have diminished.

Yoshiro looked as if he was uneasy with the situation at hand and he decided to go pilot the ship. Julie didn't know how to react to this news but luckily she didn't have to because a few of the krakens pulled itself onto the ship.

"Greetings fellow land-walkers, Are you hear in search of the sword as bestowed upon us by the gods" one of the krakens asked .

Yoshiro decided to take the lead and answered "Yes, we are here to search for the Holy Sword of Water: Abyss."

"Then you must have gotten the necessary ingredients to go into the depths, Gourd Shire, Aslima Grass, Gravity Shells. Roan Charcoal. Drya-Moss" the kraken asks and Yoshiro nods his head.

"Good, how many are going this time, we must leave before Kylia's servant comes back" the kraken says

Julie walks forward, so does Roa and Yoshiro. Chance was still crying on Tura as Isla is healing her. Cket was still in her cabin.

"Guess its the three of us kuhu" Roa says and he consumes the materials, Gourd Shire to be able to breath underwater, Aslima grass for the poison, Gravity Shells to deal with pressure, Roan Charcoal for temperature control, and Dyra-Moss to stay dry. Each of them had various time-limits so different amount of materials were required for each of them. Roa, after consuming the materials, smiled at the duo that was going with him and he jumps into the water.

Yoshiro and Julie looked at each other and after consuming the materials, followed Roa and jumped into the water. shortly afterward the kraken also follows.

"Quick, into the abyss, after a period of time I will not be able to follow so good luck" the kraken speaks and after an hour of swimming, he veers away toward the surface, where a plague soldier started to form.

Ahead of the trio, a wide chasm where darkness obscured the bottom from sight, caverns were located here and there, and a couple of poisonous residue floated toward the surface.

"Alright guys, lets start the search kuhu" Roa announced and he swam toward one of the caves. Yoshiro flashed Julie another smile and swam down into the abyss. Julie just floated there, looking for signs and then swimming further down.

"Let's find this sword" Julie exclaimed with determination and she swam into the abyss.

Here it is again, To explain a few things,

The insects Tis, CKet (See-Ket), and Tura are beings without lips, in the English pronunciation, there are things you can't say with lips, and that includes the letters B, P, M and W, so mind their weird way of explaining things.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter and remember- Praise or Criticize me to your hearts content

- Author Sederance