175 Ch. 175 'Ambushment'

Aqua was still in shock when she saw the evil Merylin hiss at her. Not only Merylin but the other evil mermaids with Merylin hissed horribly at him.

Is it possible that the water shield from Ceryle's husband failed?

Ah, no. It's not failed. The evil mermaids who swam upwards were still safe within the tortoise shapeshifter's water shield magic technique.

This one was the evil mermaids who were not interested in approaching the full moon. That was why they did not swim upward and stayed where they are.

It was a little bit confusing as to why many evil mermaids were not interested in the full moon. Could they perhaps fall asleep?

But now three intruders enter the area where they live, causing them all to wake up from their sleep.

Aqua was very sure that currently, Niken and Ceryle are also experiencing the same thing as her. At least the evil mermaid princess is in the palace, so she was sure Niken and Ceryle would be fine.

It seems that the evil Merylin is more interested in occupying the throne of this kingdom, so Merylin completely ignored Niken, who is currently in the incubator's cave.

Unluckily, the other evil mermaids roaming below are more interested in targeting Niken and Ceryle than the throne seats. Even though they couldn't think straight as evil spirits, they still had a general spirit nation's ingenuity.

They knew they could never compete against the evil Merylin, who was eyeing the throne. That's why most of them prefer to target easy quarries rather than compete with the evil mermaid princess.

Niken, who finished combining Merylin's two astral soul orbs, directly stored it into her astral dimension.

"We have to get out of this place," stated Niken, followed by Ceryle's nodding.

It's just that Niken couldn't possibly survive using her indigo magic circle. Once she reformed his magic circle, she wouldn't be able to breathe underwater because she didn't have a mermaid tail.

The only way is to find a way out of this lake.

One of the evil mermaids swam towards them, showing its sharp fangs and both hands' claws.

Niken activated her central blue magic circle, and then a water whirlpool appeared towards the evil mermaid. As a result, the mermaid was thrown in the opposite direction, but the other evil mermaids attacked them simultaneously.

In the end, Niken and Ceryle worked together using a water whirlpool with their backs facing each other.

"We can't fight them all. We have to quickly find a way out of here," announced Ceryle without stopping launching the whirlpool against the evil mermaids.

Niken bit her lip knowing that if they just stayed in this place, their cultivation energy would run out, and sooner or later, the evil mermaids would eat them.

"I have an idea. I will turn my magic circle into a barrier."

"What? But you won't be able to breathe."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. I'll try to hold my breath as long as I can."

"Okay. I'll keep them away while you concentrate on creating the barrier."

Niken nodded her head, and Ceryle concentrated on gathering her magical energy into her hands. It didn't take long for her hands to glow with bluish light, and a wave of whirlpools appeared from both of her hands.

Initially, the whirlpool was small, then it grew and then merged with each other to create a vortex, causing the evil mermaids who approached would be sucked into the vortex.

As soon as she saw that no evil mermaids were attacking her, Niken quickly concentrated on turning her tail into a barrier around them.

At the same time, evil Merylin was still busy fighting Aqua, who was still in her human form. Merylin's attacks were brutal, and her magic destroyed the entire palace. Aqua also felt overwhelmed by Merylin's brutality and blind attacks.

Aqua should have easily defeated Merylin, but she didn't want to hurt this royal mermaid princess. She couldn't even concentrate on starting the purifying of this lake.

What should she do?

Right now, all she could do was dodge Merylin's attack while pulling Merylin's long tail away from the throne seat.

"Groaaawwwl!!"

It seemed that evil Merylin was getting angrier because her attempt to sit on the throne's seat was thwarted by Aqua. She could feel the unfortunate mermaid's wrath, but she couldn't do anything.

It didn't take long before she felt like something was holding her hands together, and Aqua could see a lopsided smile adorning the evil mermaid princess's black lips.

Aqua looked sideways to see that green grass had tied her wrists in the opposite direction. Not only the hands, but the same grass also bounded her feet and pulled her down.

The seaweed is very long and elastic like rubber, but its pull is compelling. The more Aqua struggled, the stronger the grass pulled her down.

Aqua had no choice but to change into her original form. Otherwise, she will be pulled down to become food for this seaweed.

Sringg!!

Aqua's whole body shone so that it could blind one's eyes, making the evil mermaids who saw the light swim away and hide in the caves. Aqua took advantage of this opportunity and radiated more light to Niken and Ceryle's position so that the two of them could escape more easily.

Niken had just finished creating the barrier, and Ceryle was about to grab Niken's wrist to take her to swim past the evil mermaids when they noticed a blinding light.

The evil mermaids who were not hit by Ceryle's water vortex swam away and hid behind the reef avoiding the light.

Without further ado, Ceryle stomped her tail and swam quickly toward the border.

Once at the border, Niken lowered her barrier and turned it into a dagger. She used the dagger to create a rift in the array at the border.

Ceryle stood guard behind her in anticipation of the evil mermaids' sudden attack. Fortunately, the dazzling light still lasted a long time so that Niken and Ceryle could get out of the evil mermaid lake smoothly.

Aqua smiled as soon as she felt her two allies escape unharmed. She no longer created light, and her true form was shown. A gigantic serpentine that intimidates all creatures living in the oceans, including the evil mermaid princess.

Unfortunately, the evil spirits couldn't think straight and had only one goal. Once they have that goal, all evil spirits will do whatever it takes to achieve their goal regardless of whether they die or not.

And right now, the evil mermaid princess is only eyeing the throne, and she doesn't care whether she will die or not at the hands of this sea monster. All she wanted was to sit on the throne and increase her magic cultivation to get out of this cursed place.

Aqua realized it, and she instantly put the throne back into her astral dimension, causing a furious growl from the evil mermaid princess.

After all, she wouldn't be able to perform the purification ritual if she kept moving to avoid the evil mermaids' attacks. It was better for her to keep the throne back than for the evil princess mermaid to enhance her cultivation.

Aqua moved around while throwing the evil mermaid with her tail and four legs into Ceryle's husband's water shield.

The tortoise shapeshifter was baffled, noticing that some evil mermaids were not swimming upwards.

The aura and energy flowing from the serpentine were so overwhelming that the barrier in the lake shook. Kazuto and Lionel are entirely concentrated on strengthening the barrier defense, so it doesn't crack or break.

"What is this? Why did the serpentine power's aura pressure increase so many times?" Lionel could not help but wonder why the serpentine used all her strength to purify this mermaid lake.

Didn't Aqua say she would only use half her strength?

"It seems there are evil mermaids who didn't swim up. Right now, the serpentine is throwing all the evil mermaids into the water shield so that she can concentrate on performing the ritual."

"Evil mermaids are down there? What about Niken?"

"Kazuto! Focus!"

Kazuto instantly returned to exerting his energy to maintain the barrier defense, which was still shaking due to feeling the familiar sea spirit's energy aura.

Even though he seems focused on doing his job, his mind worries Niken. He tried to contact the girl through his mind-linking.

'I am fine. We made it out of the lake's borders.'

Only then could Kazuto breathe a sigh of relief when he heard Niken's answer and returned to concentrating on his task.

But unfortunately, his concentration only lasted a moment as now dozens of unknown Elementalists had suddenly appeared surrounding them. Not only that, Kazuto just realized, but the shadow form of his wolf that he had placed with Xehan had also disappeared.

Tch!

Looks like the mix-blood wizard's ambushed is starting.