140 Ch. 140 'Incubator Cave'

Hundreds or even thousands of colorful plankton adorn the entire cave wall. She could hear a peal of laughter, not an adult but a peal of baby laughter??

"Welcome to the mermaid incubator room," exclaimed Merylin in a cheerful tone while Niken dumbstruck on her place.

There was a giant egg-shaped like a fetus, and she could see its contents—a baby with a mermaid tail! At least there were dozens of eggs that were the same shape but different sizes. There were small ones like human fists, and there were also big ones like the size of healthy human babies.

"This... this is all... they are..." stuttered Niken as what her feeling couldn't describe in word. It was too otherworldly.

"They are mermaid eggs that get nourishment from the roots of vitality seeds from this place. Each mermaid who old enough could plant the baby seed with their vitality and wait for the baby to break the shell."

Niken saw that the eggs were indeed placed on a rooted plant at the bottom of this room. The plant spreads some of its upper roots around the egg as if protecting it.

"The reason we can't migrate for a while is because of these eggs." Merylin continued, pointing at the eggs. "The largest one will hatch in a few months while the smallest will hatch in about two to another year. We can't leave them here."

"You can't take them?"

Merylin shook her head sadly. "If we cut the root of their food intake, they will eventually die."

Niken looked at the transparent blue eggs like water bubbles with a sad look.

"I understand. I will not persuade you to leave here again. But what should we do now?"

"Tell me, Niken, have you faced the evil mermaid before? I mean, have you ever seen the true form of an evil mermaid?"

Niken frowned, not understanding why the princess asked her this, but she still answered. "Isn't your form the same? At least that time, I saw some mermaids singing while playing a musical instrument in the middle of the lake. The residents said the mermaid would perform a mermaid show every evening to entertain the tourists."

"Are you serious? We still performed even though humans labeled us as evil mermaids?"

"Labeled?"

"Niken, an evil mermaid would never be able to perform well. All evil spirits will eat humans without mercy, including evil mermaids. If a spirit turns into evil, they don't have the common sense to think or feel. Their purpose in life is only one, which is to satisfy their hunger. I think the Lord in your era deceived everyone and spreading false rumors."

"What? It is impossible. What did the Lord do that for?"

"I have no idea. If there really is someone selling mermaid scale as a favorite meal for women, it might be one reason."

"I think I know what to do when I return. I will help you to escape the Lord's clutches."

Merylin was touched to hear this, "Thank you. Does this mean you will leave now?"

"I should be. I already found your purpose for calling me here, but..." Niken looked at her hands, hoping something would happen, but there was no change in her body. "Looks like there's something else I don't know about. Lady Genevieve said I would return to the future as soon as I found your intention of calling me here."

"Hm..." Merylin rubbed her chin while thinking seriously. "Are we missing something?"

Just like Merylin, Niken also seemed to think hard looking for what they had missed.

Meanwhile, in the year x904, Kazuto, Lionel, and Zehell panicked and looked for Niken's whereabouts. Kazuto did not feel his inamorata's presence through their energy fusion symbol as if Niken was not in this world at all. Zehell also tried to trace Niken's magic through his magic, but the results were also zero.

On the contrary, the mermaid princess inside the lake opened her black eyes, which covered her eyeballs like an evil spirit. Her hair was no longer a beautiful purplish-blue color but black as a dark witch.

Her skin was not as smooth as Niken saw, but it was dark with ugly scales adorn her rough skin. The tail was no longer shaped like a beautiful fishtail but turned into a snake tail.

When Merylin opened her mouth, a small, long tongue spread out like a snake. Merylin swam out of her cave, and there were so many evil mermaids swimming around her. The lake's water was not as blue as five hundred years ago but turned black, dark, and filled with sinister energy.

This was what Niken and Merylin had missed in the past five hundred years. They had no idea that the mermaid in x904 had all turned into an evil mermaid, including the princess.

The mermaid show they saw was only an illusion of creation on the orders of the Lord of the North and not the real one.

"I don't think we will find an answer if we continue to be here. We must look for other clues." Merylin suggested that Niken agreed.

"By the way, what does an evil mermaid look like?"

"Believe me. You don't want to meet one of them."

"Is it that scary?"

"You bet. The evil mermaid was no longer a mermaid, but a sea snake that will eat whatever is in front of her. Including the other evil mermaid who was weaker."

"Have you faced one?"

"My mother has. It's easy to defeat an evil mermaid if we are a royal mermaid. My mother also inherited the technique of defeating evil mermaid to me, so I guess I can get rid of them. But I hope I will never face it."

"Well, in that case, I hope that all of you will never become an evil mermaid."

Merylin grinned and nodded in agreement.

Alas, the Mermaladia kingdom was destroyed five hundred years later because all the mermaids had become evil spirits. Only a royal mermaid could eliminate the evil mermaid. Princess Merylin, the only member of the kingdom, had become an evil spirit like everyone else. Then who could wash out all the evil mermaid from Mermaladia?