Chapter 860 – There is a chance of survival
Chapter 860: There Can Be a Silver Lining
Alfonso’s heart went cold.
It turned out that the Ruling Court had long realized the special superiority of mermaids, and Frim was even more determined. Regardless of whether Pearl was an actual threat or not, it directly destroyed her mental body first.
No wonder how Alfonso treated Pearl’s mental body showed no signs of improvement, making Alfonso think that Pearl had accidentally injured her mental body while integrating the mermaid royal bloodline, before she was forever in a state of naivety and ignorance.
Now that he thought about it, before Frim gave Pearl to Alfonso for research, he had already cut off the possibility that the mermaid princess could only become an experimental material with no other development.
However, the mass of light spoke again.
“Now, you still have a chance to turn back.”
Alfonso, however, did not relax, “I’m afraid I cannot agree to your terms.”
“Promise or die.”
Frim’s voice was icy cold.
Facing the incomparably familiar fourth-ranked sorcerer, Alfonso didn’t give up resisting there.
There was black mist floating out from him.
“You want to resist?”
Alfonso pursed his lips tightly, his voice almost coming through his teeth, “I can’t die now, you will search my soul for the whereabouts of the mermaid.”
Although Royer had already chased after him, Alfonso had other arrangements in the mermaid teleportation place, as long as Aquamarine could activate the re-transportation device and destroy the device on the opposite side, he could get rid of Royer for the time being.
After that, abandon the other weak mermaids to draw away the wizard’s pursuit, leaving only the strongest mermaids to go down on the west coast.
Aquamarine may not want to, but Coral is the one who will carry out the plan.
It was the only way to get into the waters between Nefret and Stout and get a shot at survival.
This was Alfonso’s special mermaid escape plan considering that Flim should have left Nefret by now.
But he didn’t expect that Frim and Royer would delay the original travel plan in order to transfer all the returning mermaids.
Royer had obviously discovered Alfonso’s plan, but pretended not to know anything about it, and cooperated with Frim, immediately appearing to block their party after he had gathered the returning mermaids.
In terms of acting skills, Alfonso is not as good as him.
Although he relied on the instantaneous teleportation spell on his body to send all the mermaids away, Alfonso had to take the initiative to exit the teleportation in order to stop Frim from destroying it and stay behind.
But if he was killed by Frim at this time, the other party would be able to obtain the mermaid’s subsequent plan of action. Then all of Alfonso’s previous preparations would have been for nothing.
So even if it was Frim’s consciousness in front of him, Alfonso had to rush out from here.
Even if it could only delay some time.
“I’m sorry, Lord Frim.”
The black mist spread instantly, enveloping Alfonso and the light mass together.
The warm yellow mass of light immediately erupted into a brighter light, but the black mist remained firm yet slow as it devoured all the light.
It was also fortunate that what Frim had here at the moment was just a bit of splintered consciousness, or else Alfonso wouldn’t have been able to resist at all.
In the face of Alfonso’s resistance, Frim didn’t get angry, only that the color of the light he emitted grew warmer and warmer.
Just when the two were fighting and pulling, Royer had already followed Frim’s guidance and found the landing point of the spatial teleportation.
Only a powerful fourth-ranked sorcerer like Frim could determine the general direction of the landing point the moment the spatial spell formation was activated.
Royer only needed to follow the established direction and keep searching, and he would be able to discover the mermaid’s trail.
Of course, there was also the crucial point that this spatial teleportation spell was a small spell that was instantly energized, and the teleportation distance would not be too far.
If it was a large spell formation that was prearranged, the teleportation distance would be incalculable, and it wouldn’t be something that Royer could catch up with in a short period of time.
The gusty wind blew against Royer’s sorcerer’s robe, hunting, like a prelude to a battle, causing an excited smile to gradually appear on Royer’s face.
Underneath such excitement lay an incomparable rage of disappointment.
“Alfonso, in vain you’re still one of the ruling court’s patriarchs, how dare you betray our will, I’ve given you so many chances, yet you still value the returning mermaids more than the ruling court, more than our more than a hundred years of friendship! Later on, I’ll kill all the mermaids you value, not leaving a single one behind, I’ll see if you still think that mermaids are the future masters of this world?”
Royer had even made up his mind that he wouldn’t even leave the mermaid princess Pearl alive, and would say it was a manslaughter when the time came.
Even if he would be punished by the court master afterwards.
He really couldn’t accept that his good friend Alfonso was actually valued by the mermaid over everything else!
Maybe Alfonso didn’t value the mermaids’ interests above everything else, after all, he just wanted to let a few mermaids go.
But at this point, Royer’s thoughts in his rage had become so extreme that he just wanted to kill the trash that had led Alfonso astray!
After flying for less than five minutes, Royer’s eyes lit up.
He spotted the mermaids!
Royer quickly descended, and he followed the faint and crippled spiritual power that he was immensely familiar with, belonging to the mermaids, and found the mermaids struggling to crawl through a dense forest.
Among them, the mermaid princess that shone like a pearl stood out like an enlightened star in the darkness of the night.
The corners of Royer’s mouth curled up, and without even waiting to land, the sky behind him suddenly dimmed, and a white cloud overhead quickly turned black as if it had been pressed into ink juice.
Then a huge orange-red fireball drilled out from the black clouds and flew down with a devastatingly powerful momentum.
And the target point of the descent was none other than the dozens of mermaids fleeing in the forest.
Lava Skyfall, Royer’s specialty.
It was powerful and had an extremely wide range of ripples.
When this sorcery went down, the dense forest below, including all the creatures inside, would be turned into charcoal!
The mermaids on the ground were also finally awakened by the commotion above their heads, raising their heads with panic, and despair ensued.
Coral grabbed a hold of Aquamarine’s arm, the sharp nails of her fingertips nearly piercing her brother’s skin.
Mr. Blackfish’s teleportation spell had narrowly escaped destruction midway through the journey, so their landing point was some distance away from the location of the re-teleportation.
Coral had originally wanted to send her brother and the Princess and a few others away first, and then she and the other weaker returning mermaids would switch directions and continue to flee, to attract the attention of their pursuers.
As long as she could stall for an hour, even half an hour, Aquamarine could take Princess Pearl into the sea, and then even Coral wouldn’t know where they would end up traveling to.
But how could she not have expected that the terrifying sorcerer named Royer would catch up with them in five minutes?
Looking at the terrible red fire that was about to fall, all Coral could think of was “Aquamarine won’t be able to escape either”.
As the hot ball of fire grew bigger and bigger in the field of vision, almost filling up the life and world of the mermaids, the image in front of her eyes suddenly stopped!
It was as if someone had suspended time.
“No, it’s not a suspension of time! It’s something stopping the movement of nearby objects!” Royer was the first to react.
Being at a high altitude, he was the least affected and was the fastest to sense what had suspended his Lava Skyfall.
It was water droplets!
It was the tiny, inconspicuous, yet ubiquitous water droplets in the air!
(End of chapter)