Chapter 449 – The Sphinx

Chapter 449 – Sphinx Fish

Want something, kill someone and you get it.

No, it can’t!

Saul closed his eyes, restrained the sudden desire to kill that welled up inside him, casually stowed the goblet in his compressed traveling bag, and immediately turned around and swam upstream.

After Sol had just left the narrow underground cave, the seabed under his feet suddenly began to vibrate violently.

The few fish in the sea suddenly began to swim frantically.

It couldn’t even be said that they were swimming, it was as if they were treating the ground as seawater, and one by one, they were like strung arrows desperately crashing into the seabed!
“Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!”

In the midst of the tumultuous ocean, Saul didn’t hear a sound.

But when he saw a battered and bloody fish head, he instantly brainstormed the sound of a gruesome crash.

The sound mixed with his heartbeat made the blood in his whole body start to boil.

“Is it because I took the goblet?”

But it was no longer practical to put things back now.

Several tremors at the bottom of the sea had squeezed the already narrow hole in the ground together and turned it into a ruin.

Saul no longer hesitated and immediately floated towards the surface as fast as he could.

Just after swimming not more than a few meters, a grayish-white column of air suddenly appeared in the seawater behind him.

These columns of air gradually slowed down due to the resistance of the seabed, which also allowed Saul to gradually see their true appearance.

It was actually a grayish-white fish with a human face!

The mermaids in the fairy tale were human-like at least up to the waist and belly, while the fish here only had a face belonging to a human, and the rest of it was no different from a fish.

Because this face grows on the fish’s head, it is then centered on the bridge of the nose and folds over to the left and right.

The two human eyes are located on the left and right sides.

More and more columns of air shot out from the bottom of the sea, accompanied by a large amount of foam, making the seawater even more turbid.

Sol had to unfold his Spirit Armor Technique to avoid those columns of air hitting him.

In terms of personal perception, he didn’t really want to run into those sphinxes.

However, despite deploying the Spirit Armor Technique, there were still a large number of columns of air hitting the periphery of the Spirit Armor Technique, pushing Saul towards the surface of the sea.

He thus tumbled and floated towards the surface of the sea along with a large number of bubbles and murky sand.

Eventually, he came up to the surface of the sea in a very short speed.

It was so hard on his insides that he wanted to vomit blood!

Sol had to cast a Primary Heal to make himself feel better.

But he managed to stabilize himself on the surface of the sea, and looking around, he was horrified to see another grotesquely folded human face.

The only good news was that these faces weren’t paying attention to Saul.

They were looking at the sky, at the sun, at the clouds, at the wind, at the distant land.

They had a mesmerized look on their faces and were breathing heavily in and out obsessively.

They struggled to float their upper bodies out of the sea, as if trying to get out of the water.

However, in Saul’s eyes, this action of enjoying the air and breathing turned into a gill that kept opening and closing.

The gills of the fish were reddish, with strands of blood trailing outwards.

They were actually still fish, not people.

The remnants of their souls cling to them, and their consciousness as human beings is afraid of the bottom of the sea and longs for air.

Saul did not enjoy taking a seawater bath with these sphinxes. After casting a healing spell on himself, he immediately used a flight spell to soar into mid-air.

The scene was even more spectacular and bizarre as he looked down on this sea from a high place.

At this time, Saul suddenly noticed one of the fish with a golden hairpin on its skin.

Saul had some impression of this hairpin, and after searching through his memories, he finally recognized it.

“This is the hair card of Xander’s sister, Midol.”

At that moment, the twisted girl’s face was also covered in blood enjoying the air, but unaware that for her, air out of seawater was like a moon in the water, and obsessing over it would only lead to drowning. Including Midol, these spirits that died in the tidal wave of souls had been suppressed by the seawater for so many years that their souls were no longer intact. Most of their fragments were tainted with rich and strong evil thoughts, gathered in the closed and narrow space.

Saul believed that the Soul Tidal Wave came from the outbreak of these evil thoughts.

The thoughts of yearning for freedom and life drove them back to the land.

But because there is still a major portion of souls trapped at the bottom of the sea, the tidal wave of souls will eventually rise and fall, returning to the bottom of the sea and to these “faces” again.

Just like when Morton was in the Valley of the Drooping Hands, even though he was in the form of an evil spirit, he still wanted to get back to the other half of his spirit body.

Thinking of Xander’s letter, and the fact that he was wandering around Bluewater Town in search of his sister’s spirit, Saul hesitated for a moment before flying over to collect the fish with Midori’s face.

He went and raised his hand to create a water sphere and placed the fish with Midol’s face in the center.

After being trapped in the water balloon, “Midol” panicked and started struggling like a person who was about to suffocate underwater.

His head kept hitting the edge of the water balloon, trying to get out of it.

Saul frowned as he watched.

“Mithril!” He scolded sternly.

And surprisingly, the fish immediately turned around, turning its sharp face toward him.

Its mouth opened and closed, revealing tiny, dense and sharp teeth inside.

“Surprisingly, it can understand its own name?” Saul held up the water balloon with one hand and stroked his chin with the other, “Stay in the water balloon and don’t move, I’ll take you to your brother Xander.”

Saul was just trying, who would have guessed that “Midol” could actually understand everything.

It drilled into the water ball, endured the pain of suffocation, but did not drill to the surface.

If you ignore its deformed face and the silver body of the fish behind it, the eyes of the other party looked very pure.

Finally silencing the other party, Sol once again looked around at these fish at his feet.

In fact, each of the sphinxes probably existed to miss the person who was holding them.

It was just a pity that Saul couldn’t possibly take every single fish away, nor could he find relatives for them who were still alive.

The nearby fish turned their heads one by one when they saw Saul putting away the Meadowlark.

They seemed to have understood Saul’s words as well, and a relieved yet joyful expression actually appeared in the fish’s eyes.

These soul fragments of faces that had been suppressed at the bottom of the sea and were attached to the fish surprisingly did not have the slightest bit of evil thoughts mixed with them.

“Go back to the bottom of the sea, the surface is no longer a place where you can survive.” Saul spoke softly, and his voice traveled to the ears of every fish.

Even he couldn’t save so many broken spirits, and the power of these pure souls wasn’t enough to sustain their existence for too long. Once the power of the seal was lifted, they would turn into even more broken pieces and disappear into this world.

But if they could return to the bottom of the sea, they could survive for a while longer instead.

The nearby fish, however, shook their heads in unison at Sol, and then once again struggled on the surface of the sea like drowning people.

At this time the sky suddenly resounded with a thunderclap and large drops of rain fell down.

“There’s something wrong with this rain!” Saul immediately unfolded his Spirit Armor Technique and covered himself and “Midol” in it.

In the next second, he felt that the raindrops that fell on the Spiritual Armor Art began to corrode the magic power on it. Saul had to keep replenishing the magic power of the Spirit Armor Technique.

At the same time, the rain fell on the surface of the sea and dripped on the fish with human faces, instantly emitting white smoke.

The human faces and the fish’s bodies were simultaneously corroded by the rainwater, revealing large, large wounds.

But the weird thing was that those fish revealed a look of obsessive enjoyment while being corroded.

The rain was very heavy and rapid, but it stopped in a minute, and by now the sea was already capped with white bones.

The blood of countless fish dyed the sea red.

At this time, dozens of meters of the sea around Saul suddenly rose up again with white soul fragments, which surrounded him in unison, but were blocked by Saul’s Spirit Armor Technique.

Saul mentally withdrew his Spirit Armor Technique.

Those pure white and clean soul fragments drilled into his body one by one, bringing with them pure, powerful and unadulterated soul power.

It was a power that could be fully utilized without the need for diary cleansing!

Next chapter in the evening.

(End of chapter)