We arrived at our preparation area and sat down.

  How are you, Greg?

  Dry, luckily.

  “How is he supposed to fight if he can’t swim?’

  How about [Boat Magic]?

  Doesn't that limit your mobility?

  We have Giana, who cares! Let's sink them!

  Greg looked at Giana. I think your presence makes him more reckless.

  “I could use some spotlight too! I will make the boat invincible!”

  Why does logic only work on you guys when it only benefits you?!

  “It's important for survival!”

  Ugh, not you too!

  Giana and I planned out what our ship would look like. It would be complete with sails; cannons and those small boats used to escape or land on islands and stuff. Neither of us could draw well, so we let Greg draw the boat.

  Are you guys actually serious about this? Why does this boat need a stage?

  Well, she needs a place to dance and sing on and I need place for my [Bossmusic] so make some space to the side.

  Are you guys taking this seriously?

  “I want to try and sing to his [Bossmusic], it has been a while before I improvised.”

  Greg started drawing and I tweaked the [Boat Magic] to match his drawings, which wasn’t very easy.

  I don't need that much space for the [Steam Cannons] Greg.

  And what about the boat's defense?

  “Defense?” Giana and I cocked our heads to Greg’s stupid question.

  What? The best defense is offense!

  … I’ll take it upon myself to make this boat sturdy, some thick slabs of ice here, I guess I can weave some shadow veils here and there.

  Look at that Giana, look how invested he is in our boat!

  Greg seemed to be focused on making the boat the best boat this tournament has ever seen.

  I spotted 4 teams who stuck out. There would be 30 people that would ‘win’ the tournament and go on the fishing adventure. It was a normal elimination tournament but the top 10 teams would just be pitted against each other randomly for entertainment after the others were eliminated.

  There was no structure in the schedule, so we had to wait quite long for our next match. I've seen some teams fight 3 times before our next match. This gave Greg enough time to make a detailed blueprint but Giana and I had to veto some questionable decorative choices.

  It is done! You really made me work for it!

  “Uhm, you did most of it by yourself, all we wanted were a stage and cannons…”

  This guy takes almost anything too seriously.

  It’s more that you don't take things seriously enough!

  It was almost time for our match. The current team in combat had made an enormous ice golem, and they all were hiding within it while sending attacks left and right the opposition turned their bodies into water, and they couldn't be hit either. They were very strong offensively but none of them had any support to break the stalemate.

  How would you break the stalemate, Giana?

  “Melt the golem, freeze those using [Water body].”

  Is that what it’s called?

  “You don’t know it? It has great defensive capa… oh… of course, you don't know it…”

  Hey!

  Any possibility you can teach this glasscannon how to use it?

  “Sure!”

  I do have defensive skills! I have [Frozen skin] and my multilayered barrier and [Frost wall!]!

  Yes, go on, what other water defensive skills do you have?

  [Dragonvein: Ocean’s Wrath] and I can make them drown and keep them busy with triple clones.

  Those aren't defensive skills… and what are triple clones?

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  Well, you couldn’t get a good look at them as they weren’t useful in the battle against the gods and they didn’t do much against Kal in the Nightmare dungeon. Let’s go, we’re up!

  “I’m honestly shocked that you can count your water defensive skills on one hand… Thank you for keeping him alive for so long, Greg.”

  You’re welcome.

  Hey! I can look after myself!

  Let's agree to disagree .

  We stepped into the arena and we would be fighting the guys who made the golem. They seemed to want redemption because their last match turned into a draw. We got the start sign and the opponent made their ice golem.

  Gogo, [Boat Magic]!

  The best boat this tournament has ever seen got formed out of frost magic, and we boarded it.

  I set up [Bossmusic] and Giana took the stage. I created [Steam cannons] with frost magic and played some pirate music with [Bossmusic] and Giana improvised on it. Greg used water magic to steer the boat and control the sails, while I was messing around and shooting cannons at the golem.

  Giana was buffing my cannon shots and slowly melting the golem. She was also protecting the boat from taking hits Greg couldn't steer the boat away from. After 5 minutes of shooting ineffective ice cannonballs, I started shooting fire cannonballs. It wasn't super effective because I kept the power low as Greg wouldn't be able to do stuff if this area ended up covered in steam. I was just assisting Giana in melting the golem like this.

  The opponents were doing their best in trying to repair the golem. Giana was reaching her limit on improvising on this [Bossmusic] after 10 minutes so I changed it, allowing her to change to a different melody and lyrics.

  The boat took a wind-augmented golem punch, but the boat could take it. Giana took the chance to melt the golem’s arm and add its water to our boat. The opponents fixed the missing arm, but Giana kept adding the water she melted from the golem to our boat and slowly it started to look less like a boat and more like a… what is this?

  Hey, Giana what are you making?

  “A jellyfish!”

  A jellyfish?

  “Yes! I love jellyfish!”

  I see, I know a forest that you might like.

  Greg lost more and more control over the ship because it wasn't a ship anymore… I changed the frost to regular ice and let Giana take control of the jellyfish which tanked the golem hits like it was nothing.

  Never thought I’d see a battle of a huge jellyfish against an ice golem. Unfortunately, the jellyfish was almost as if it was the embodiment of Giana, so it hardly took any damage, but it didn't do any damage either. I decided to get rid of the cannons and respect Giana’s design choice, and started sending purple lightning to the jellyfish’s nettles by using the [High Voltage].

  “Ohh! That is a great idea!” Giana manipulated the nettles that I sent the lightning through and whipped them at the golem. I increased the speed and the lightning shifted to red. The harmless jellyfish now turned into an immortal killing machine.

  Greg didn't seem to be happy now that he was surrounded by water. Different [Bossmusic] activated and Giana changed to a different song.

  The opponents were running out of mana, and we weren't even trying. I toned down the tier of lightning because the opponents weren't protected by their golem anymore. The lightning turned blue and Giana grabbed the opponents with the nettles and the opponents got zapped and then knocked out.

  Giana came up to me while walking back to our preparation room. “That was exciting! Thank you for aiding my jellyfish!

  No problem

  Giana gave me a radiant smile. “Thank you for allowing me to sing to your [Bossmusic]! I will keep this memory dear to me.”

  Ahh so bright! So brilliant!

  “Stop teasing me!” Giana caught me in a headlock and she kept it up until we reached our preparation room. Giana sat down and was happily spinning around on her chair. She got dizzy and fell off.

  What a silly vixen…

  I looked at Greg who was busy drying himself off.

  Can we just win? I’m tired of all this water.

  Hmm, could be arranged.

  Oh no.

  I’ll see if I can arrange a battle royale.

  I got up and slipped away. I had no clue how to fix this, but Greg did have a point; a battle royale would work better. The chaos of a battle royale would emulate the chaos of the open sea.

  I sneaked into the room of the commentators. They were busy commenting on what was going on. I tried something out by making them say to raise the barriers to protect the audience. It seems that the words of commentators have weight. I did some small harmless tests and then wrote a note and placed it close to one of the commentators. It had the illusion on it to make it look like the format and show the characteristics of whoever is in charge of this place.

  The commentator noticed the note and read it. He muted his microphone and discussed it with someone in the back, and then announced that things had changed and that we would move over to a battle royale style. I sneaked out and got back to the preparation room.

  Well, that was easy.

  I owe you one.

  “Things will get chaotic, though.”

  Perfect let's sink them all!

  “The boat again?”

  Yes please, I prefer to stay dry.

  I think we could get away with using that large jellyfish and just win. They had made this arena to accommodate enormous battles because the arena was changing.

  “I think everyone would team up and try to take us down.” Giana said while still spinning around on her chair.

  That is the only right answer for them.

  We spent time perfecting our boat and I added some rail guns and Greg added some catapults.

  “Hey, are you sure this all belongs on a boat?”

  For once Greg wasn't the one being the voice of reason, but we would be taking on every group still in the running.

  I don’t care what we need on the boat as long as I stay dry.