Aqua and Coral were sibling mermaids. But Aqua was born with an automatic ability to conceal mental power, so he was hidden away from birth.

Knowing his sister had difficulty moving due to her tail injury, Aqua climbed out of the pool himself and easily came to Coral’s side using the slippery rocks.

Looking at his sister’s tail, he bit his lip in distress.

“How much longer do you have to take that medicine?”

Coral again pressed her hand over her brother’s mouth. “Don’t say it, don’t ask. It has nothing to do with you.”

This wasn’t the first time Coral had refused Aqua’s concern.

Aqua felt heartbroken and guilty, but also knew it was best if they didn’t share what each was doing. Meeting here was actually very risky behavior for both.

If the demon Wizard Alfonso discovered them, they might not survive.

It didn’t matter if they couldn’t survive, but this concerned the future of the mermaid race—they had to be cautious.

This meeting only happened because Coral had sent a rare signal, so he dared swim up from the deep sea to this secret base to rendezvous with his sister.

Suppressing the urgent desire to care about each other’s circumstances, Coral began sharing her important discovery from today.

“Today a wizard came with the demon. I detected a very familiar aura on him.” Coral lowered her voice and said mysteriously to Aqua.

“Familiar aura? What’s familiar about us and wizards? They’re all our enemies!”

Aqua wasn’t interested in wizard affairs. Although their intelligence and soul bodies were much stronger than other mermaids due to atavistic mutation, that didn’t mean he possessed equivalent wisdom.

A mermaid who had been hidden at the ocean floor since birth, no matter how clever, lacked life experience.

Coral again covered her brother’s mouth to stop him from speaking, saying with a serious expression, “Shh, I suspect that new person… is also a mermaid, and possesses mermaid royal bloodline.”

Aqua widened his eyes.

He wanted to laugh but felt it wouldn’t be good to mock his sister.

How could a wizard possibly be a mermaid?

Looking at his sister’s damaged tail, his mood to laugh disappeared.

“No matter what you suspect, don’t do unnecessary things. The more you do, the more mistakes you make. I’ll have Mr. Black Fish verify that new wizard. When the time comes, we’ll rescue the princess…”

Aqua stopped halfway. He knew that although he hadn’t said everything, Coral could understand his meaning.

Although Coral wasn’t very smart, the two had exceptional rapport.

Coral indeed understood. She also instructed her brother, “If the time comes, do what you need to do. Don’t tell me, and don’t worry about me.”

Aqua didn’t respond.

Every meeting Coral said not to worry about her, but Aqua had already decided that if there was even the slightest possibility, he would take his sister along. He wouldn’t leave her alone to serve as a living garbage disposal with the modified mermaids.

After their brief exchange, Aqua leaped back into the pool he’d come from, passed through the narrow waterway, and entered the deep sea.

This was the coastal area—even deeper seawater couldn’t escape entanglement by Red Sea Tree roots.

But deep sea roots were always sparser than near the surface.

There were some invisible black particles in the seawater that would disappear like smoke and dust when touched.

These were black tide pollution mixed in the seawater—something feared by wizards throughout the world.

Aqua didn’t know about the Abyssal Eye, but he felt that since the mermaid race could survive in pollution-filled seawater, it meant they were actually more suited to this world than humans or wizards.

If they could seize the opportunity to escape wizard control and stop meaninglessly consuming their lives cleaning pollution for others, the mermaid race would definitely rise in the future.

Just like the ancient Azure Scale Clan.

This knowledge was all taught to him by Mr. Black Fish.

In Aqua’s heart, Mr. Black Fish was mysterious in origin but the best person to them. He helped them survive in harsh environments and helped them find ways to escape wizard control.

“Mr. Black Fish also has a strong royal aura… Could that new wizard really be Mr. Black Fish?” The more Aqua thought about it, the more shaken he became. “If it’s Mr. Black Fish, maybe he could disguise himself as a wizard? Should I ask next time I see him?”

Aqua gracefully swayed his fish tail in the water. One-third of his silver tail had blue-green scales. This was their greatest characteristic of reverting to the Azure Scale Clan.

Aqua’s sister Coral actually had more blue-green scales on her tail, but she lacked Aqua’s talent for concealing mental power, so she ultimately stood in front.

Shielding Aqua from all covetousness and scrutiny.

Even willing to contract that terrible pollution just to hide his existence.

Aqua squinted. Mermaids had no tears, but that didn’t mean they had no hearts.

Passing through barriers deliberately woven from roots and complex underground crevices, Aqua came to a tranquil sea area.

In this sea area, over twenty mermaids swam freely.

Regardless of gender or appearance, they all shared one common characteristic—their tails had more or less blue-green scales.

Like clear skies after rain.

That was also the hope of their mermaid race.

…

Nearly ten days had passed since obtaining mermaid research materials from Alfonso.

These days Saul had been holed up in his room reading books and conducting simple verifications on the mermaid Kate.

Very efficiently.

Today, he had finally read through most of the basic materials, so he took out the pollution samples obtained from the mermaid Coral, preparing to compare them with black tide pollution samples he’d collected before.

Just then, the large water tank beside him suddenly splashed as the mermaid’s tail flicked out, spraying water everywhere.

Saul looked over and saw Kate had changed demeanor, leisurely leaning on the tank.

He quickly looked around, then used magical power to create a barrier.

“Don’t worry. When I come out, I also watch whether the situation here is appropriate.” Floco said with a smile.

He enjoyed swaying his fish tail in the water. In Sky City, he couldn’t even take a proper soak—only wooden buckets where turning over was difficult.

Most importantly, he was no longer in mermaid form there. Although this mermaid body was terrible, it inexplicably made him nostalgic.

Saul relaxed slightly. Since the Water God said there was no problem, and he hadn’t detected anyone spying, it should be safe.

“I thought you wouldn’t come over again for a long time. After all, your situation there is more difficult than here.”

When Floco had transformed into a water spirit and fought fiercely with Ophelia, although he retreated in time while in poor condition, it had triggered Ophelia’s carpet search.

So he was actually hiding quite miserably now, but he absolutely couldn’t show it in front of Saul!

“I sensed you had contacted the aura of my descendants’ bloodline, so I found an opportunity to come see. You’ve already met the mermaid race here?”

“I’ve only seen a small part so far,” Saul paused. “Their current state is much worse than I previously imagined…”

Saul detailed what he had witnessed these past days and learned from books.

Overall, the current mermaid race was like domesticated livestock, existing entirely for wizards’ needs.

(End of Chapter)

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