The Immortal Player

Chapter 26: The famed ship, Karakoa!

"Get in!" Madame Soledad pointed to one of the rooms that glowed a beautiful blue color.

"Eh?" Pedro was confused. The Madame said he can pick any room he wants, but the room Madame Soledad tells Pedro to get in was an unfurnished room. It looked like an interrogation room made of steel with huge glasses that were probably two-sided. Yet, the blue light on the floor glowed beautifully.

"Tsk!" Madame Soledad pulled Pedro and pushed him inside the empty room.

"Ahh... Madame? Is this my room or your room?" He was confused seeing Madame Soledad enter the room and the metallic door automatically closing.

"Neither! But if you wanna stay here, you can!" She coldly replies as she faced a panel full of buttons glowing in blue light with numbers located beside the door. She then pressed the lowest number which was one.

"Authorization required! Please place your hand on the scanner screen!" A voice suddenly spoke somewhere in the room. While a blue light shone beside the panel full of buttons.

"Authorization my ass! I'm gonna wreck you, part by part if you don't get me to the first floor in minutes!" Madame Soledad angrily placed her hand by the scanner screen that it was about to shatter.

'An Elevator?' Pedro uttered while still being confused.

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On the elevator control area, one man was sleeping on the chair while the other one was eating a bowl of noodles. When the man eating a bowl of noodles heard someone scream on one of the elevators he quickly looked at the security cameras placed and saw the irritated Madame Soledad, He quickly placed his bowl of noodles aside and reached the elevator radio, he pushed a button and spoke.

"My apologies Vicealmirante! First floor! right ahead!" He quickly controlled some complicated buttons and made the elevator move down smoothly and quickly, Making it so that Madame Soledad and Pedro won't feel dizzy when they reach the first floor.

"This voice! Zexau! then Xajua! you're slacking off again whilst in duty! you're dead when I see you again!" Madame Soledad was angered and Zexau, the man who was eating noodles in the elevator control area had a grim face. He then slapped the bald head of the sleeping man, Xajua.

"Ouch!!! What's that for!" The angry Xajua complained to Zexau. Zexau ignored him and just pointed to the screen in a scared manner.

"Oh!!! Hi Vicealmirante! How... how was your trip?" Xajua suddenly looked grim and was like someone whose faith was sealed and death was scheduled.

"Xajuaaaa!" Madame Soledad screamed on the top of her lungs, as they descend in a slant manner and Pedro was able to see the beautiful underwaters where fishes were around... other than that he was shocked to see the real ship Madame Soledad was telling.

"It was really a ship!" He exclaimed. The Karakoa was composed of 3 ships that were submersible. The main ship was a very large Sword looking ship with three superstructures above it, where the elevator they currently are and descending was of the highest. While there were two smaller "sword-like" ships on two sides connected by two docking platforms each on its front and rear.

It was a massive sword looking ship with two smaller swords looking ships as an outrigger. (It actually looked like a sword blade from a katana.)

'Wait a minute! Based on its looks... Ain't this the famed ship, Karakoa? During the continental war and start of the Dark realm continent exploration, an isolated NPC "government" group existed and it was called Bearth Human Organization... BHO! They were a collective group of NPC humans from all over the Bearth that aims to protect the sacred "god's continent" and regain the stolen lands which were the Dark realm continent.' He had a sudden realization based on the beautiful underwater look he sees while they were going down the elevator

The overall progress of reclamation of the dark realm continent was too slow that even during the time Pedro died and reincarnated, the reclaimed land didn't even reach ten percent. This was because players were too afraid to explore the dark realm continent and feared that they might lose their own plot of lands. Hence, to show their participation at the least, some sent their "excess" or "cannon fodder" forces into which none came back.

They all had one consolation in their minds... "At least we didn't get in the BHO's bad side!"

BHO was an individual entity that can rival the combined forces of all continent, not including the dark realm continent and the "god's continent". The overall combined player force can just dream of fighting BHO even with their superhuman abilities.

One of BHO's major component was its naval force. Where it was composed of thousand of submersible ships. These forces were divided into three classifications. Class C, Class B, and Class A classification.

Class C submersible ships were the most common. They were of the size of a normal battleship and was equipped with complete battle armaments either underwater or surface battle.

These ships where commonly commanded by a "Teniente de Navio" or captain ranked BHO personnel. There were three players who were under the BHO that had their own Class C submersible ships.

Unfortunately, Because of the strength of the mutated sea creature that they faced while following the orders by BHO on the dark realm continent seas, they quickly sank to their death.

Other than that, there was of no story heard for a player reaching greater heights than what they have achieved as a BHO personnel.

Class B submersible ships were called the fleet heads. They were massive ships that lead tens of class C ships. These massive class ships were purely equipped with advanced detection technology and the boasted "Kraken shell defensive" magic. Its firepower came from hundred of BHO master class mages. They were strong enough to defeat a kingdom if the battle was just a contest of firepower.

In the fifth year of bearth, a system update was done, into which NPCs were also given a ranking based on the threat level. Common rank, Transition rank, King rank, BHO Common rank, BHO Elite rank, BHO Master rank, BHO Legend rank, and finally BHO Emperors.

Class B submersible ships were the standard design of battleship the BHO has. Hence, aboard it were above BHO Elite rank NPCs.

While Class A submersible ships had little to unknown information in Pedro's past life. It was only rumored that the design of each ship was unique and dependent to each captain. Its size was so huge, that it can be compared to a hundred class B submersible ship glued together. And only BHO Leaders and Legends had the information about them. Although its personnel was at a bare minimum of BHO Elite rank, it was assumed that it was commanded by a BHO Master rank at the least.

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The famed ship Karakoa was of a unique design in reference to the sword. And it was considered at the top of Class A submersible ships. It was also rumored that there were two more Class A ships connected to the Karakoa. Hence, forming the legendary "clean up" fleet, as called by the players in his past life.

This was the sole fleet of A class ships, that roamed around Bearth and annihilated Monsters that had escaped from the dark realm continent. These monsters were mostly water type giant creatures. For those land creatures that reached other continents, either the kingdoms, players or all together fight them. Hence, they had fewer activities on land.

Other information, like the ship captain or its firepower and defense capabilities and such, were unknown.

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However, the rankings in their overcoat showed their military ranks within BHO. This included their influence on the overall organization. The threat level ranking was only available to players to identify the threat level of an NPC based on the mastery of his/her skills and talent.

Common rank and BHO common rank were composed of NPCs who were either ordinary or no talent NPC, an apprenticeship and beginner ranked. (All based on the talent ranking, check chapter 21, lol)

Transition rank and BHO elite rank were composed of NPCs who were Intermediate ranked and Advanced ranked in terms of talent.

King rank, BHO Master rank, and BHO Legend rank are NPCs with Master and grandmaster rank in talents. While BHO Emperor rank was only composed of few people who seemed to have favorability of the gods and lead BHO in governing "peace" in Bearth.

Common rank, Transition rank, and King rank were ranks of NPCs who didn't belong to BHO. However, their individual strength doesn't deviate that huge from those of BHO NPCs. Various factors play a huge role and their strength was only based on player perspective. Hence, Pedro wished that somewhere after the next seven years, there would be at least a battle between BHO NPC and other NPCs.

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"Uhh... Madame? Perhaps you are the captain of this ship?" Pedro asked while trying to suppress his glee...

"Of course! Can't you read this?" Madame Soledad was still irritated as she just pointed at the back of her overcoat.

'Am I really that Unlucky?' He thought inwardly...