Exploring the Dimension After Reincarnation: Academic

Let's Rent a Sampan!

After talking for a while with the short and midget Receptionist, Szesc decided to go around. As a place frequented by tourists, the atmosphere in this place is very crowded, still the same as before.

Ignoring it all, Szesc continued to step in his way while thinking, ‘Huh. I've traded some gold coins, I can survive by buying food for the next few months if not wasteful.’

‘But, it won't be that easy. I plan to explore this world, not just stay in one place. I don't know if he's after me and looking for me in this world or not, but it's safer if I keep moving and stay away from him as much as possible. I'm pretty sure he can survive in this foreign world somehow.’

‘With my current wealth, I could just take a bus and go to another city to take part in a tournament there. But, I still feel sorry for that person for not getting any income at all. Is there nothing I can do to help her?’

*wush!* *byur!*

While being cool to daydream, suddenly sea water gushed up.

“Hmm?” Szesc's location was not near the shoreline or sea water, but he could clearly see what had just come out of the water.

The shape of the creature was like a snake. His body arising from the water can be estimated to reach 30 meters, and this is still not counting the body parts that are in the water. The skin of the scales is blue, there are darker blue manes like rings circling along the body. One of the mane rings has a distance of 5 meters from each other.

“Woah..!” The cheering people created a bustling sound.

The tourists are amazed at the unusual sight they see, while the natives of this place just smile proudly at what they have in their region.

Szesc was speechless as he stared at the creature with the corner of his slightly smiling mouth. ‘So this is called Jormungand? Its size is indeed extraordinary for the size of the animal, also its movements include agile and it should have great fighting ability. He would be something nice if he could submit to me.’

‘Estating his strength, he should be considered a living mythology or legend. Trainers from the Trainer Association should hunt him for research purposes or something else. But I'm sure, some reason and consideration make them inaction to start hunting this giant penther.’

‘The power of the Trainer Association is indeed higher than that of the government in some conditions, but this cannot make them able to move at will on their own. Residents of this place definitely do not allow hunting from this penther because its existence becomes something profitable and increases their economic income.’

‘If the hunt is done, this will instead destroy the ocean ecosystem which will give huge losses to the residents here. Therefore, the idea to hunt it is not also done, and probably will be done when the ecosystem here all of you have been destroyed.’

‘Not a bad thought. If something is untenable, then everything is broken.’

A penther-sized viewer is not something that most people can see every day. Of course, they all became shocked when they saw this one colossal creature. Even for residents around here, they do not see Jormungand arise every day because he is a creature that passively moves when calm.

Jormungand went back into the water. This movement makes waves several meters high spread to the beach.

When it reached the shore, the wave was still advancing for a long distance before disappearing.

There is not a single disadvantage because of this wave, they have calculated how long the Jormungand sleep-wake cycle will take. Because of this, visitors on the waterfront have been urged to leave, while the ship on the dock is slightly raised, but does not suffer much damage because it is just a simple wooden boat and used for fishing.

“Good.” Szesc's view back on the streets. “Next I will do a little cruise to find out more about this creature. Some of the fishermen here were supposed to lend me their boats to go out to sea. If I can't, I can still use the way I did to get to this place.”

Previously Szesc surfed on the waves using the spirit power of the water element. He hides into the waters when he approaches the land so as not to be too conspicuous, then dries his clothes using the help of fire spirits and water to heat the clothes and remove the amount of water stored.

During this journey, he did not meet and was unaware of Jormungand's presence in the deep ocean. He only passed the surface before diving a few meters using the help of the water element spirit.

•••••

Long story short, Szesc went to the dock and got there after walking for a dozen minutes. There was nothing special about this trip, there was only a large crowd of people who filled the road, but the road was still quite smooth to pass.

The closer to the pier, the atmosphere there gradually became quiet. Most people avoid or more towards not interested to go to this place because of the lack of interesting attractions. They prefer to eat good food in any restaurant or food stall that is there, or if not go to the souvenir shop.

“Hmm..., this wooden board is slightly wet and several varieties of marine plants are stranded here. Even if I rent a boat, the boat will definitely get wet from being devoured by the waves before,” muttered Szesc while looking at the wooden board that became his footrest.

Szesc's gaze returned to the front before he monologued, “The sampan milk here is tied using a rope that keeps them from getting carried away by the waves. When the waves gobble up the canoe, they still survive and do not move far because of the ropes. But still, they have been devoured by sea water and become wet.”

“It should be fine and will not affect about fighting ability at all. The thing is, I only have one piece of clothing, and if this is wet, then I have no other clothes for me to wear.”

“Looks like I was planning wrong, deh. I should have bought clothes first, then just got on the ship and sailed.”

“Yeah, let. I can still use the help of the water and fire spirit to dry my clothes like before. It won't be something that's too much of a problem for me.”

After some time, Szesc finally came to a fisherman there and began to negotiate about borrowing ships.