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“Are you coming or are you just going to stand around all day?” I asked Adam who snorted in annoyance, leaned forward, and then took a running start at the water. Water sprayed as his foot came down upon it, but he was moving fast enough that he didn’t even begin to sink. As the arcing trails of electricity from Celerity crackled around him, he shattered the sound barrier and blew past me, sending up a wave of water taller than I was.

My smile widened as I glanced at it—but I was gone before the first droplet hit my skin, Gou leaping into the air to land firmly beside me. I let Gou set the pace as we took off and slowly caught up to Adam, who’s vastly higher base stats were a match for the vast number of multipliers I was able to grant Gou. Even so, you’d be hard pressed to win against Gou in a battle of stamina and when Adam began to falter, we caught up. I healed him once as we moved into place beside him, restoring his spent energy, and then we continued on our long distance run.

It wasn’t long before we were near our previous stopping point and I found a Leviathan without even consciously thinking about it. When we were a little less than a kilometer away, I gathered energy into the shape of Gungnir and hurled it with all my might, sending the energy spear deep into the sea.

A moment later, the resulting explosion sent up a building sized pillar of water that came raining down on us as we approach. Before the central pillar could wholly loss it’s shape, however, I created a modified version of my firing spheres, this one channeling Deposition around itself as it moved invisibly through the water. With several such spheres working in concert, the tower of water was quickly frozen solid and without the slightest hesitation, the three of us hopped up onto it.