Chapter 959: Floco's Peril

“This place is some distance from both Iskaper and Stat Continents, and it’s not on the shipping or airship routes between the two continents.”

“And the pollution here is relatively less severe.”

“So can we settle here permanently?”

Dozens of mermaids chattered excitedly, each face filled with hope for the future.

Coral smiled as she watched everyone before her, feeling very comforted. Five years ago, who could have imagined that their mermaid race could live so freely?

“Coral, Aqua, come here for a moment.”

At this time, Floco’s voice, who had been away for several days, sounded in the ears of the two leader mermaids.

Coral and Aqua exchanged glances, both with joyful light in their eyes.

“Lord Floco, you’re back?” Coral’s tail had mostly healed, but the previous injury had consumed her talent, leaving her no different from ordinary mermaids now.

However, she now served as the mermaid race’s strategist. When Floco wasn’t present, even Aqua unconditionally followed her lead.

“Lord Floco, are there still wizards pursuing us outside?” Aqua asked. If there were, he would definitely be willing to fight alongside Floco.

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“The Tribunal currently has no energy to hunt you down,” Floco said. “But you must also restrain your people—don’t go outside. The black tide just passed, and now is the time for reproduction and recovery. The mermaid race currently only has dozens of people—too few.”

Both Coral and Aqua blushed slightly but understood that in the face of racial survival, this wasn’t time for shyness.

“I’ll also go to various places to search for scattered mermaid race members. Only by raising the numbers above three hundred will there be guaranteed survival.”

Both Aqua and Coral solemnly agreed.

“You can go back first. I’ll call you if something comes up.”

Aqua was actually reluctant to leave Floco. The other was too powerful—many times stronger than the former Mr. Black Fish. Now that Mr. Black Fish had already sacrificed himself for the mermaid race’s freedom, it was a fortune that Lord Floco appeared at the last moment to save them from the evil wizards’ hands.

It was just that Lord Floco was very cold and appeared even less often than Mr. Black Fish. This left the strength-admiring Aqua with no opportunities to spend more time with him.

This time, Aqua finally couldn’t help wanting to invite Floco to enter the seabed to see the new home they had arranged themselves. But before he could speak, he saw Lord Floco looking over coldly.

His heart trembled, and then Coral pulled him into the seabed.

But Aqua didn’t know that Floco was glaring at him not out of impatience.

But because…

“Floco, I originally thought you died at Cat Lord’s hands. I didn’t expect you actually escaped back to the wizard world.”

Floco had just sensed a powerful yet concealed mental power approaching, swallowed what he was about to say, and ordered Aqua and Coral to leave.

Anyway, the two weak mermaids shouldn’t attract the other’s attention.

But he hadn’t expected that he actually knew the person who came.

“Douglas? You actually came back too?” Floco asked in surprise. “Didn’t you say there was nothing you wanted here anymore?”

“Hehe, whether there was before, isn’t there now?” Douglas floated in the high sky, looking down at Floco standing on the sea surface. “You don’t know?”

“Know what?” Floco asked coldly.

“It seems you’ve been busy fish-raising and haven’t paid good attention to this world at all. You still don’t know even now that the pollution source inside the abyss is actually a sixth-rank wizard’s corpse?”

Floco’s water spirit blue eyes widened. “Sixth rank… corpse?”

“Yes, surprising isn’t it? An existence capable of destroying a world actually has a day of perishing too. So as long as one hasn’t reached seventh rank, the essence of life is all the same. Just the cycle of life and death.”

Floco fell silent. He was also a fifth rank who had seen the outside world and knew how terrifying a sixth-rank corpse was.

But if Douglas wasn’t lying to him, if the pollution source in the abyss really was a sixth-rank corpse, then his previous interpretations of the black tide were probably all wrong.

Some things were probably completely different from the wizard world’s understanding!

“You?” At the same time, Floco suddenly understood Douglas’s reason for returning. “You wouldn’t be thinking of using that sixth-rank corpse to advance to sixth rank, would you?”

Douglas had once been a very famous fifth rank in the wizard world. To advance to sixth rank, he had caused countless killings.

Even with multiple powerful wizard organizations simultaneously hunting and pursuing him, they still couldn’t do anything to him.

But even such a powerful fifth rank still hadn’t found a suitable method to advance to sixth rank.

Now facing a sixth-rank corpse, it would be strange if Douglas wasn’t tempted.

“You should think carefully—the underlying logic of destruction can’t be obtained through simple devouring.”

Douglas’s lips curved slightly upward. “You don’t need to worry about that. You should do more important things instead.”

Floco’s mental alarm bells rang loudly, and he immediately half-submerged his body into the sea. “What do you mean?”

“For instance, providing a little insignificant help for the great cause of advancing to sixth rank? Such as your life?”

After Douglas finished speaking, he raised his hand and stirred fiercely in the air. His hand’s end disappeared, and the nearby air scenery became muddied like oil paint being stirred.

Floco had already turned and dove into the sea to escape when Douglas said the first “for instance.”

His originally water spirit blue body quickly became transparent and merged with the ocean. But despite escaping a thousand meters in advance, he was still caught in a whirlpool.

The sea around him seemed to become a canvas painted with thick oil colors, and along with him, was stirred together by an invisible hand.

Floco immediately opened his mouth wide in pain but couldn’t even say a word.

That hand had already stirred his waist and tail into a pulp. Floco immediately mobilized the surrounding seawater to replenish his blue body. At the same time, enduring the pain, he transformed himself into an almost invisible water current.

Floco hadn’t recovered his fifth-rank strength yet and couldn’t compare at all with Douglas, who was at fifth-rank peak. Only in the deep sea was there a slim chance of escape.

However, he still underestimated Douglas.

That was a powerful fifth-rank wizard who had wandered the starry sky for a hundred years, not an unlucky guy like him who had just gone out only to be sealed and imprisoned on the seabed by Cat Lord.

Just as Floco’s body transformed into transparent water, he felt the surrounding world seemed to become a vividly colored, overly jumpy oil painting, then he himself merged into the painting, gradually changing his original shape and color with the paintbrush’s movement, gradually losing himself.

“Help…”

Floco’s voice also became an unclear small dot on the canvas.

Douglas in the high sky was expressionless. In his view, defeating Floco was a matter of course. Now he only needed to extract Floco’s soul, then give Ophelia some afterward, and the latter could obtain the method of connection between soul divisions.

He had originally thought Ophelia could only comprehend through herself, but unexpectedly found a fifth rank in distress in this sealed wizard world. It had to be said that Ophelia’s luck was quite good.

However, just as Douglas was about to completely extract Floco’s soul body, a white thin thread suddenly appeared on Floco’s soul body surface, wrapped around it over ten times, with both ends extending to the invisible distance.

Douglas’s movements just stopped in place.

After a moment, he chuckled lightly and actually released his hand, putting Floco’s soul back.

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“Well, Ophelia, it seems your luck isn’t that good. This Floco has already been bound by Saul.”

(End of Chapter)

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