“Hoo—”

The mermaid princess in Aqua’s arms suddenly let out a long breath, her pale eyelashes trembling lightly as she slowly opened her eyes.

Her pearl-colored pupils immediately reflected the full screen of fiery red, along with a tiny bit of water blue.

That bit of water blue occupied only a very small part of her vision, yet it instantly captured all of Pearl’s attention.

“Ah…” Pearl opened her mouth, making meaningless sounds.

This sound was like a switch, setting the entire frozen world in motion again.

But when those fiery red molten rocks continued to fall, a blue barrier appeared, catching all the lava.

A large amount of white steam immediately boiled up with sizzling sounds, while the heat of the gas instantly surged upward toward Royer in mid-air.

Royer immediately retreated, dodging the steam carrying terrifying heat.

But he didn’t stop attacking. While retreating, he condensed a firebird with three pairs of wings in front of him. Wrapped in cracks and accompanied by a mournful cry, it dove headfirst toward the world covered in steam below.

The massive firebird flapped its three pairs of even broader wings, directly blasting a clean passage through the large amount of white mist.

However, when the passage was cleared, the mermaids that Royer had thought would have long since escaped were actually still standing dumbly in place, looking up at the sky.

Royer’s momentum slowed, and he immediately felt uneasy.

Because where those mermaids were looking… there was nothing!

“Are they misleading me? Or has whoever was originally there moved at a speed beyond my perception?”

The former would be fine, but if it were the latter…

Royer was a third-rank wizard, but he understood better how terrifying someone who could make him completely unable to sense their presence would be.

So after realizing this, Royer immediately retreated.

However, just as he retreated two meters, his back suddenly collided with a soft object.

Then two blue arms embraced Royer’s body from behind like a lover.

Royer immediately burst into crimson flames with all his strength, his entire body becoming a fire man.

Under normal circumstances, the flames covering his body surface would next expand into a human form the same as him but a hundred times his body’s volume, transforming into a giant fire man to fight for him.

But this time, although the flames tried to expand, they couldn’t break free from those thin blue arms.

His full-strength struggle actually failed?

Royer grew anxious, not knowing when such a powerful expert had appeared in Nephret.

The person restraining him from behind was undoubtedly a fourth-rank wizard.

But where did Nephret have other fourth-ranks?

Moreover, this suddenly appearing fourth-rank wizard was also one who specialized in water attributes.

Among fourth-rank wizards, the only one who specialized in water attributes was the Sky City Lord, Ophelia!

A fourth-rank brazenly appearing in territory that didn’t belong to them was an action tantamount to directly declaring war on Nephret! Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs NovᴇlFirᴇ.ɴet

Otherwise, Chief Frim wouldn’t go through such trouble to secretly head to the Sighing Wall during the black tide assault.

“Since the Sky City Lord has appeared in Nephret, then the situation here isn’t something I alone can handle.”

After failing to break free from the restraint, Royer didn’t hesitate—a lantern immediately appeared in his palm.

He was going to directly summon Chief Frim!

However, before he could use magical power to light the lantern, the blue arms holding Royer suddenly turned into water, and the strange water attribute magical power made it impossible for Royer’s flames to ignite anything.

After controlling the fire attribute particles, the blue water transformed into a gel-like blue soft substance, directly extending into a protective membrane that rapidly spread over Royer’s entire body, covering him like an outer garment.

Even facing the Sky City Lord, Royer wouldn’t surrender without a fight. He prepared to explode again, but his brain suddenly rang with a “buzz.”

It was as if someone had forcibly restarted his brain.

When Royer tried to mobilize magical power again, he discovered that his spiritual body had begun violently oscillating irregularly, completely unable to condense magical power.

Now, Royer could no longer struggle at all.

He had started as the hunter but had fallen to become the prey.

His eyes were full of anger.

The next second, Royer’s head was gripped by the blue gel and forcibly twisted more than twenty times around his neck!

Such severe injury put even Royer into a near-death state in an instant.

But it wasn’t over yet. After completely sealing Royer, the blue gel began destructive twisting and stirring.

Soon, this powerful third-rank wizard who was among the best in the Tribunal was sealed in the blue gel and completely reduced to a pile of minced meat.

His formidable body and vast magical power seemed like a soft cake before the blue gel, easily crushed to pieces with a gentle squeeze.

“Hmm?” A voice came from within the blue gel, “The soul disappeared? Already prepared positioning for escape in advance? Heh!”

The blue gel expanded and contracted for a while, turning the wizard’s corpse inside into nutrients and directly absorbing them.

Then, the gel contracted and transformed into a water spirit that also had a fish tail.

The mermaids below watched the entire process of wizard Royer’s death and were now almost scared senseless.

Coral gripped Aqua’s arm tightly, her whole body trembling.

Aqua almost let go of Pearl in his arms.

The other mermaids were even worse off—several were lying on the ground shivering, not even daring to look at the water spirit above.

The water spirit slowly descended and met the gaze of the only relatively composed mermaid princess.

Pearl also looked up at the water spirit in a daze, her mouth opening even wider, her vocal cords vibrating to produce meaningless sounds.

“He was right. Coming here at this time, I really could see a good show.” Floco said with a light laugh.

Then, he turned to look toward the ocean, where the black clouds had already retreated to the deep sea area. This black tide invasion was entering its final phase.

Soon, the Tribunal would be able to mobilize large numbers of personnel to hunt down the mermaids.

If Floco wanted to save these mermaids, he needed to speed up.

He looked down at the ground again.

By now, Aqua and Coral had recovered some courage and could look directly at Floco normally.

Pearl still watched Floco with some bewilderment and curiosity.

“Like this, you can’t be a mermaid princess. If you want to continue the mermaid race, you can’t be a leader either.” Floco couldn’t help but sigh, “What a pity about your decent royal abilities.”

He looked at Coral and Aqua again, “You two aren’t bad. Although your bloodline concentration isn’t very high, at least you’re normal mermaids. If you can escape the Tribunal’s shackles, there’s still hope to survive in this apocalypse.”

Neither Coral nor Aqua responded. They didn’t recognize Floco, although their intuition told them he was somehow related to them.

Aqua was also very afraid, but thinking of Coral behind him, he gathered his courage: “Hello, are you here to pick us up?”

(End of Chapter)

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