147 Ch. 147 'Extinct'

Niken could no longer hold her breath and involuntarily opened her mouth, which caused the water to enter through her throat. Niken's body slowly twitched because her brain was no longer able to work, and the protection array slowly began to crack.

Flynn saw that Niken barely survived, sending his magic circle right under the girl's feet. Without thinking, he promptly moved the girl's body to someone.

Just as Niken's defense array broke, the evil mermaids instantly burst to pounce on Niken to eat her. Luckily, Niken's body had teleported in time to make Flynn breathe relievedly.

Smelling the magic aroma from Niken's body, Flynn immediately knew that Niken was the inamorata sought by his master. When he met Niken five hundred years ago, he did not recognize the scent because the Elementalist knights did not exist in this world five hundred years ago.

Apparently, the pleasant aroma emanating from Niken's body was a fusion of Niken's cultivation energy and the black knight's.

That's why he directly sent Niken's body to Kazuto without a second thought.

Meanwhile, Kazuto and others waiting near the lake barrier felt surprised when suddenly there was water from above soaking Kazuto. Even more surprising, Kazuto faced both his hands to the sky readily accepted the girl's body from above as if he knew that there would be a girl who appeared.

Zehell and Lionel's mouths opened wide when they saw the girl's face none other than Niken!

"Niken? How can she suddenly fall from the sky?" queried Lionel as he approached Niken to check his condition.

"I don't know. I felt her presence, and she just appeared." Kazuto replied while drying Niken's wet clothes using his magic. These days Kazuto has become increasingly skilled at using magic because he often used magic to track Niken's whereabouts.

That's why he could dry his clothes with Niken efficiently without running out of energy. It's just that he did not know how to wake Niken.

"Why doesn't she wake up?"

"Let me see."

Lionel stepped aside to make room for Zehell to examine the state of his disciple's inamorata. Zehell moved his right hand and created a magic circle under his palm.

The palm of his hand stopped just above Niken's chest and then moved it up towards Niken's mouth. Instantly a lump of water came out of Niken's mouth, causing the girl to cough and spit out the remaining water that had entered her lungs.

"Niken," Kazuto could not hide his extraordinary relief, finally meeting again with his inamorata.

"Kazu?"

Kazuto immediately hugged the girl tightly as if he was afraid Niken would disappear from his sight again. Niken also felt relieved that she had returned. Her hand clutched Kazuto's clothes enjoying the man's arms.

When she was surrounded by the evil mermaid, she could see Merylin among the other evil creatures. Even though her face had completely changed for the worse, Niken could see a small black tiara on her head, signifying her identity as a royal princess.

The beautiful Merylin, who was so cheerful and childish, now turned into a terrible monster. And the monster really wants to eat her blindly. If Flynn hadn't saved her on time, she might have been the evil mermaid's food.

Flynn? Niken just remembered the daemon and broke away from her lover's arms.

"Flynn, he saved me. Where is he?"

"Flynn? How do you know Flynn? "

Niken hadn't had the chance to answer Zehell's question when suddenly Flynn appeared near them without warning.

"Flynn! Thank you for saving me," said Niken gratefully.

Flynn only gave a faint smile but said nothing more to Niken's surprise. Flynn was a nosy and mischievous daemon in her memory rather than a quiet and giving a mysterious cold aura.

What happened to the daemon?

Niken did not rebel or speak again when she felt her body float to the air as Kazuto lifted her in bridal style to return to their inn.

Kazuto deftly covered Niken with a thick blanket and cupped the girl's body into his arms. Niken, who was shivering from the cold, now let out a warm sigh as she felt warmth enveloping her body.

"Niken, where have you been? We have been looking for you without success these days."

"Actually, I was lost in the past."

"In the past? What do you mean?"

Without breaking away in Kazuto's arms, Niken told her mentor and the two men what she experienced. Including information about her being a Great Time Master who was also a time traveler, she told them. This made Zehell shocked to death, while Lionel acts normal.

"You are a time traveler? It's impossible!" exclaimed Zehell surprised Lionel.

"Is being a time traveler something terrible? This is the first time I've heard that there is a time traveler in this world."

"No. It's just that the time traveler has long gone extinct and also... only the pureblood wizard has this rare ability. So I don't believe that this girl is a time traveler at all."

"What happened to the previous time traveler?" asked Niken curiously upon hearing the word 'extinct' from Zehell's explanation.

"The ability of a time traveler is taboo for pureblood wizards. Just try to imagine if there was someone who was able to come to your past and then kill you when you were little and helpless. Or when he comes to your bright future, then returns only to seize all your glory and make your future bleak."

Niken was speechless. "They wouldn't do it, right? Not all time travelers have such evil intentions."

"Maybe, but it still can't make the nobles pureblood felt peace. The Beast clan and wizards joined hands to catch all the time travelers."

"Then what happened to them?"

"They were all burned alive."

Niken gasped. In other words, as to why are time travelers extinct because they were all burned alive? Then what about the sister of Lady Genevieve? Didn't the lady's younger sister stay alive and lived peacefully on Nishian Island?