Gloomy weather was hovering over the port town of Rague. Once Noah finally managed to arrive, he was quite pleased as scorching hot temperatures would surely disrupt what he had planned next. Standing in front of big announcement board, young mage grabbed a paper that interested him. JOIN THE FISHING COMPETITION. This part didn’t necessarily interest him, but as his eyes were sliding down the paper, he got way more interested. “That’s a lot of money.” Speaking to himself loud was his thing now, as he realized no one around him didn’t really care. Since he finally moved to the royal capital, his funds were constantly low and unlike the rest of his life, this time he actually had to work to get money. Fishing competition seemed like a big thing, considering the fact that he overheard at least a dozen people talking about it during his short stay at the town of Rague.



Once formalities were all set up, the mysterious woman let go off Noah´s shoulder and started walking towards the ships, she gently gestured to follow her. Noah did that without hesitation. “As you probably already know, my name is Verona de la Rouge.” She said as she was getting closer to their ship, which was quite impressive, frankly. No, no I really don’t. Noah thought for himself, but proceeded to just play along. “Yes, and allow me to say it is such an honor to do this competition with you and your crew, miss Verona.” Speaking as politely as he possibly could, Noah was sure this was going to go well. “Stop speaking as a snowflake you little brat.” She said quite harshly but with a genuine humor in her voice. Noah froze for a second and didn’t manage to find a right answer to that. “Look, this competition is incredibly important. We need to catch the biggest fish out of all these losers around us.” She said as she pointed to all the other ships that were in the dock. “The good thing is that the only real competition for us is The Revenge of King Anton, led by that looser Smack Caballero. I don’t expect no wonders from you, little boy, but make sure to do everything I say to.” Noah just silently nodded as he was quite shocked from all the things going on.

Once they got aboard the Red Solaria, Verona managed to briefly introduce Noah to the rest of his crewmates and then disappeared in the lower levels of the ship. As Noah was obviously quite overwhelmed and had no idea what to do, he just stood there and stared to the sea. Big air horns suddenly occupied the sound landscape of Rague and that meant the start of competition was here. Noah got instantly smashed to nearest wall as the ship started insanely fast and went ahead onto the see. “Listen yall pieces of sh*t. We are going straight to the location we talked about, if you see any sign of other ship make sure to get rid of them.” Verona´s voice was coming from somewhere, but as the whole ship got covered in weird mist, Noah couldn’t tell where it was coming from. He got a little concerned about the fact that she directly told them to destroy any other ship they would see and started questioning the whole idea of doing this. “Here hold this.” Some man just threw Noah some rope, which interrupted him from projecting all his mistakes he apparently made by going into this competition. He just nodded and made sure the rope going to the see was secured. Having no idea what this rope was, he just continued holding it and trying to see anything through the mist that was fully covering his visibility field. “O-ow” Noah said as he suddenly felt heavy pull from the rope towards the sea. He managed to lock himself to the barrier that prevented him from falling to the sea and started fighting this insane force that was pulling him down.


While hunting for fishes continued, nothing particularly interesting happened, as it looked like everyone was sure that “Noah´s catch” would win the competition. Once they arrived back to the port, it was apparent from all the fishes presented that the victory was theirs. Noah was just looking on the port and observing Verona as she was bathing in the cheers from the crowd. Her arch-enemy, or at least it looked like that for Noah was drowning in sorrow, or was just angry, Noah couldn’t tell as he was still aboard the Red Celestia and was spectating all the events from afar. Verona then, after claiming the price went back to the ship and came to Noah. “Good job, you won the competition for us. This is for you.” She proceeded to give him a small back of yul, which Noah humbly accepted and then smiled. “It was fun, maybe let´s not instantly kill the fish the next time.” He said, half joking while staring into Verona’s green eye. “If you are interested I have more jobs for a young skilled mage like you in the future. Just come and see me here in the port.” She said and Noah nodded, with a little smile as he finally exited the ship and went back to the streets of Rague.
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