183 Ch. 183 'Mission Accomplished 1 '

'Niken. Niken.'

Niken whined lazily while holding her head, which felt dizzy when she heard someone calling her name.

Her eyelashes were flickering and open to see who had awakened her. Niken regained her consciousness quickly when she saw a pair of blue, teary eyes and a red nose. It looked like the mermaid had been crying for a while, making Niken wary to her surroundings.

"Ceryle, what happened?"

"I have no idea. I'm watching you fight with the wizard to get the antidote, but seconds later, you fell unconscious and also…"

Niken followed Ceryle's line sight showing Xehan's small body in deteriorating condition. Niken instantly remembered the antidote that the wizard had taken and directly searched for it in her astral dimension.

Once found, Niken immediately took it and drank it to the poor little boy.

Ceryle doesn't know how Niken got the antidote. She remembered seeing Niken overwhelmed by the magic power of the mix-blood wizard. But the next second, she saw that Niken was lying unconscious while there was an old wizard not far there who was also unconscious.

Who is the old wizard, and where is the young mix-blood wizard? What happened, exactly?

Despite the many questions that confused her, Ceryle still focused on her son, whose life was on the line.

Both Niken and Ceryle watched Xehan's expression to see the changes that would occur after her son took the antidote.

Ceryle embraced her son's head in great relief as his son's facial returned to normal. Niken also breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Xehan's condition slowly recovering back to healthy.

After waiting for a few minutes, Xehan finally opened his eyes. "Mommy?"

"Yes, child. I'm here." came the gentle sound from Ceryle while kissing her son's face.

"We should go back to the others."

Ceryle nodded in agreement, and the three of them walked towards where Kazuto and the others were currently about to finish defeating the metal Elementalist army.

Ceryle still didn't know anything about the metal Elementalist' ambushed, so she gasped when she saw that many Elementalist bodies fell unconscious in each path they walked.

Niken and Ceryle accelerated their steps while looking for Kazuto and the others.

Niken called Kazuto through mind-linking, but the man didn't respond. The more unconscious bodies they saw, the more restless they both became because they still had not found their friends.

Fortunately, they soon saw Ceryle's husband, who was safely inside his own water barrier. The tortoise shapeshifter broke the water barrier and opened his arms to let his wife and son rush at him.

"Ceryle, what happened? Why are you crying?"

Ceryle did not know that many would oppose the purification of this mermaid lake. If she knew that her journey to the human realm was a dangerous one, she would not have let her husband and son come with her.

But her husband insisted on coming with her, and they couldn't possibly leave their young kid alone in the spirit realm.

Fortunately, things ended well. Ceryle's son and her spouse are still alive, and they can return to the spirit realm in five months when the portal door opens.

Niken smiled at the little family reunion scene, but she still didn't calm down before she saw her lover and mentor.

"Sorry to bother you, but did you see Kazuto and sir Lionel?"

"They fought the lord and headed that way."

Niken quickly marched towards the direction pointed by Ceryle's husband after telling them to wait by the lake. Niken did not need to worry that the evil mermaids would attack them because the evil mermaids were currently recovering to their original forms.

Niken only hopes that Aqua will be able to complete the purification of energy in the lake water on time.

While running to find her lover, Niken kept calling Kazuto through her mind-linking. She tried to calm down and convince herself that the two men were fine.

Just as her feet set foot on the vast expanse of land, that was when her eyes saw what she wanted to see.

"Kazuto!"

The person she called turned towards her then gave a big smile before jumping and approaching Niken with a single leap.

"Hey, I was just about to catch up with you." Said the man, wrapping his hands around Niken's waist, then pulled her to give a light kiss to her forehead, earning some butterflies flying inside her heart.

But it only lasted for a moment because Niken recalled something. She remembered a stranger had kissed her on the lips, so there was a guilty blooming inside her. Her hand grabbed Kazuto's cloth meekly, then she sank her head in the man's chest because she didn't dare to look straight into her lover's black eyes.

But this action made Kazuto misunderstand and thought that Niken was injured because she faced the mix-blood wizard.

"Niken, are you hurt? Did the mix-blood harm you?"

Niken immediately shook her head in answer, then replied softly, "I just miss you."

Kazuto chuckled while tightening his arms and kissing her crown lovingly. "Me too."

Lionel clapped his hands as soon as he finished tying Lord Traze with metal mixed with magic energy from his equipment so that Traze couldn't control the iron that restrained him.

Facing an experienced metal Elementalist as lord Traze was quite a pain.

Fortunately, they were able to arrest him and his men. It's just that they didn't think it would take that much time to beat them all.

"What happened on the lake? Did Aqua successfully complete the purification?"

Having not had time to answer, a dazzling blue light appeared from the direction of the lake. Simultaneously, the three of them returned to the lake mermaid to see what was happening.