Alfonso’s heart turned cold.

So the Tribunal had long ago realized the special superiority of mermaids, and Frim was even more resolute. Regardless of whether Pearl posed any actual threat, he had directly destroyed her soul body first.

No wonder no matter how Alfonso treated her, Pearl’s soul body showed no signs of improvement, making Alfonso think that Pearl had accidentally injured her soul body when integrating the mermaid royal bloodline, which was why she forever appeared naive and innocent.

Now that he thought about it, before Frim handed Pearl over to Alfonso for research, he had already cut off any possibility for the mermaid princess to become anything other than experimental material.

However, the light sphere spoke again.

“Now, you still have a chance to turn back.”

But Alfonso didn’t relax, “I’m afraid I can’t agree to your conditions.”

“Refuse and die.”

Frim’s voice was ice-cold.

Facing the extremely familiar fourth-rank wizard, Alfonso didn’t give up resistance.

Black mist began drifting from his body.

“You want to resist?”

Alfonso tightly pressed his lips, his voice almost squeezing out from between his teeth, “I can’t die yet. You would search out the mermaids’ whereabouts from my soul.”

Although Royer had already given chase, Alfonso had other arrangements at the mermaid teleportation site. As long as Aqua could activate the secondary teleportation device and destroy the device on the other end, they could temporarily escape Royer.

After that, they would abandon the other weak mermaids, draw away the wizards’ pursuit, and leave only the strongest mermaids to enter the water from the western coast.

Aqua might not be willing, but Coral was the actual executor of the plan.

Only this way would there be a possibility of entering the sea area between Nephret and Stat, gaining a glimmer of hope.

This was the mermaid escape plan Alfonso had specially formulated, considering that Frim should have already left Nephret at this time.

But he hadn’t expected that Frim and Royer, in order to draw out all the atavistic mermaids, had actually delayed their original travel plans.

And Royer had clearly discovered Alfonso’s plan long ago, yet pretended to know nothing while cooperating with Frim to immediately appear and intercept them after he had gathered the atavistic mermaids.

In terms of acting skills, Alfonso was no match for him.

Although he relied on the instant teleportation formation on his body to send all the mermaids away, Alfonso had to actively exit the teleportation and stay behind to prevent Frim from destroying the transfer.

But if he were killed by Frim now, the other would obtain the mermaids’ subsequent action plan. Then all of Alfonso’s previous preparations would be in vain.

So even if what faced him was Frim’s consciousness, Alfonso had to break through from here.

Even if he could only delay for some time.

“My apologies, Lord Frim.”

The black mist instantly spread, enveloping both Alfonso and the light sphere.

The warm yellow light sphere immediately burst out with more dazzling light, but the black mist still firmly and slowly devoured all the light.

Fortunately, what Frim had here now was only a strand of split consciousness, otherwise Alfonso would have no ability to resist at all.

Facing Alfonso’s desperate resistance, Frim didn’t become angry, only the color of the light he emitted became increasingly warm.

While the two were locked in struggle, Royer had already found the spatial teleportation landing point according to Frim’s guidance.

Only a fourth-rank wizard as powerful as Frim could determine the general direction of the landing site in the instant a spatial formation activated.

Royer only needed to search continuously in the predetermined direction to discover traces of the mermaids.

Of course, there was another key point: this spatial teleportation formation was an instantly activated small formation, so the teleportation distance wouldn’t be too far.

If it were a large formation set up in advance, the teleportation distance would be immeasurable and not something Royer could catch up to in a short time.

The strong wind blew Royer’s wizard robe with a flapping sound, like a prelude to battle, gradually revealing an excited smile on Royer’s face.

Under this excitement lay immense disappointment and anger.

“Alfonso, you’re supposed to be one of the Tribunal’s elders, yet you betrayed our will. I gave you so many chances, but you still consider atavistic mermaids more important than the Tribunal, more important than our friendship of over a hundred years! In a moment I’ll kill all the mermaids you value, leaving none alive. Let’s see if you’ll still think mermaids are the future masters of this world!”

Royer had even made up his mind not to spare the life of mermaid princess Pearl, claiming it was an accidental killing afterward.

Even if he would be punished by the Chief later, he wouldn’t hesitate.

He really couldn’t accept that his good friend Alfonso actually considered mermaids more important than everything else!

Perhaps Alfonso wasn’t really putting mermaid interests above everything—after all, he only wanted to release a few mermaids.

But Royer, now burning with anger, had become extreme in his thinking, only wanting to kill the trash that led Alfonso astray!

After flying for less than five minutes, Royer’s eyes lit up.

He had found the mermaids!

Royer quickly descended. Following the weak and incomplete mental power belonging to mermaids that he was extremely familiar with, he found the mermaids struggling to crawl through a dense forest.

Among them, the pearl-like lustrous mermaid princess was as conspicuous as the morning star in the dark night.

Royer’s lips curved up. Without even waiting to land, the sky behind him suddenly darkened, and the white clouds overhead seemed to be pressed into ink, rapidly turning black. ᴛhis chapter is ᴜpdated by ɴovᴇl_Firᴇ.ɴet

Then huge orange-red fireballs emerged from the black clouds, falling rapidly with devastating momentum.

And the target of their fall was precisely the dozens of mermaids fleeing in the forest.

Molten lava descending from heaven—Royer’s specialty.

Tremendously powerful with an extremely wide area of effect.

With this spell, the entire dense forest below, including all living creatures within, would turn to charcoal!

The mermaids on the ground were finally awakened by the commotion overhead. They looked up in panic, and despair followed.

Coral gripped Aqua’s arm tightly, her sharp fingernails almost piercing her brother’s skin.

Mr. Black Fish’s teleportation formation had nearly been destroyed midway, so their landing point was some distance from the secondary teleportation site.

Coral had originally wanted to send her brother and the princess away first, then continue fleeing in a different direction with the other weaker atavistic mermaids to draw the pursuers’ attention.

As long as she could hold out for an hour, even half an hour, Aqua could take Princess Pearl into the sea, and then even Coral wouldn’t know where they would ultimately go.

But she never expected that the terrifying wizard called Royer would catch up to them within five minutes.

Looking at those terrible red fireballs about to fall, all Coral could think about was “Aqua won’t be able to escape either.”

Just as the scorching fireballs grew larger and larger in their vision, almost filling the mermaids’ lives and world, the scene before them suddenly froze!

As if someone had paused time.

“No, time wasn’t paused! Something prevented nearby objects from moving!” Royer was the first to react.

Being in the high sky, he was affected the least and was fastest to sense what had stopped his lava’s descent.

It was water droplets!

Tiny, inconspicuous yet omnipresent water droplets in the air!

(End of Chapter)

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