Chapter 27 - Conch of Forgetting

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After sending away the merman priest, Lei Luo wrote down everything he said and analyzed them one by one.

He temporarily put aside the relationship between the Poison Dragon Race and the Dragon Race. After all, it wasn’t something that could be dealt with now.

The traces of Lei Luo’s mother in this life were not something that he could care about. Only creatures at the Legendary Realm could enter the abyss rift. However, he was only Level-2 now and was too far away from the Legendary Realm. The most important thing was that the humans would come to the Merman Race, and the Merman Race might leak his existence.

How should he keep his identity a secret?

The Merman Race had only guessed his existence, yet they didn’t hesitate to search 50,000 kilometers of the sea. If the humans knew specific information about him, wouldn’t ten Legendary Realm experts come to kill him?

It was obviously impossible to kill all the members of the Merman Race. After all, they had already reached an agreement with the human race. Once all of them died, it would definitely attract the investigation of the human race. However, if he didn’t kill all of them and one or two of the Merman Race members escaped, wouldn’t he be exposing himself?

On the contrary, not many members of the Merman Race knew of his existence. Even if they saw him, they might not recognize him.

The Poison Dragon had appeared on the continent 800 years ago, but its appearance was recorded in text.

Without a specific image, how would an ordinary merman know that Lei Luo was a Poison Dragon?

They might even treat him as some kind of sea beast they had never seen before.

“Therefore, the current solution should be to keep a low profile and take away all the mermen who know my identity. Then, I’ll have the merman priest announce that the sea beasts are attacking tonight and not expose the weakness of our race to external parties.”

“I took advantage of the night to launch a sneak attack. The Level-3 merman warriors knew that there was a poison attack. However, the only ones who have seen me are the three Level-4 merman warriors. Now that I’ve killed two of them and taken the remaining one away, the only hidden danger is the Sharbao.”

Lei Luo wrote and drew on the ground as he quickly sorted out the matter. Then, he looked at the word “Sharbao” with a deep gaze.

He could not kill him, but he could not ignore him either. If he killed Sharbao, he could only control the merman priest. However, the priest was already at Level-4. The hidden dangers of controlling the merman priest were too great. Meanwhile, if he ignored Sharbao, Sharbao might betray him.

Perhaps he should not give him the position of tribe leader first and let the Merman Race choose any one of them to be the tribe leader. After the humans left, he would then give the position of tribe leader to Sharbao.

No, he was thinking in the wrong direction. He could ask the mermen to come up with ideas to prevent a rebellion.

He would let Sharbao think of a way to check and balance the power in the race. If he couldn’t think of a way, Lei Luo would take this opportunity to push Sharbao down the line of succession to become the tribe leader. Then, this would no longer be Lei Luo’s responsibility.

The humans would arrive half a month later. After putting aside five days as a buffer, this meant that he had to settle everything within 10 days.

Thoughts flew through his mind. With a swipe of his claw, Lei Luo erased the marks on the ground. Then, he got up and went into the sea to find the Sharbao. He would go along with this plan.

He did not understand the Merman Race. Thus, there were many things that he could not think through thoroughly. It was most suitable for the Merman Race to deal with the Merman Race.

However, would Sharbao resist?

He had already betrayed his race, so why would he still care about such things?

Previously, when Lei Luo took action, he had directly knocked Sharbao unconscious and threw him into the sea. The nearby sea area was relatively safe and should not be dangerous.

When he returned to the original spot, Lei Luo looked around and Sharbao took the initiative to swim to him.

“Great Poison Dragon, I’m here. How was your operation?”

“I saw a lot of mermen running away, but I didn’t dare to ask, so I remembered their location instead. Do I need to lead the way for you to deal with them?”

Lei Luo chuckled and did not answer. Instead, he said, “I have already suppressed the three Level-4 warriors from your race and killed two of them. That priest is still alive. Now, we lack a tribe leader.”

As soon as he finished speaking, surprise flashed in Sharbao’s eyes, and he looked at Lei Luo eagerly.

When they set off, Lei Luo had agreed that the position of merman tribe leader would be his.

Could it be realized now?

“I thought of giving you the position of the tribe leader directly, but there’s a small problem now. If you can’t deal with it, you can only let another merman take over the position of the tribe leader. Afterwards, if the new tribe leader is willing to, he’ll give the position to you.”

Sharbao’s expression changed as he said firmly, “Great Poison Dragon, what problem did you encounter? Tell me. I will definitely handle it well. I guarantee that there won’t be any hidden dangers.”

Another merman would take over the position of the tribe leader, and then give it up to Sharbao later. He did not believe that such a thing would happen.

It was just like when someone became the king and had only enjoyed the position for only a few days before someone asked the king to give up the throne. How could the king agree? The highest probability was that he would fight with his life on the line.

Looking at the determined expression on Sharbao’s face, Lei Luo smiled in his heart.

“It’s not a big problem. It’s just that the human nobles will pass by the Merman Race and might stop for a while. Now, the Merman Race has been invaded by me. Although most people don’t know who I am, a small portion of them have seen me before and can accurately describe my appearance.”

“If humans discover my existence, there will probably be an accident. Therefore, I plan to nip it in the bud.”

“As a price to settle this matter, I have decided to sacrifice your position as the tribe leader. I will take away all the members of the Merman Race who have seen me and choose any one of the remaining mermen to become the tribe leader.”

“If you want to take over as tribe leader, give me a safe method to deal with this problem. Otherwise, I will have to sacrifice you.”

After Sharbao heard this, his expression changed. He suddenly thought of something and said, “Great Poison Dragon, have you already controlled the priest?”

“That’s right. He’s recuperating while pacifying the other mermen.”

Sharbao could not help but clap his hands. “That’s great. I know that the Merman Race has a treasure that protects our race, the Conch of Forgetting. After blowing it, it can eliminate any living being’s short-term memory, and it can’t be recovered. If you grasp it, you can minimize the impact of tonight’s incident. If the other mermen don’t have memories of you, they naturally can’t reveal your existence.”

“The priest and I can follow you. We can let the other clansmen receive the humans.”

“It’s the same in the past. The human nobles are very proud. Whether it’s the tribe leader or the priest, they see no difference, so we only need the ordinary mermen to receive them.”

Lei Luo’s eyes narrowed with intent.

Just from the name alone, he felt that the Conch of Forgetting was a good thing. It could erase short-term memories and, to a large extent, prevent outsiders from learning about him.

“What kind of restrictions are there in using it? How many memories can it erase? Does it include elemental living creatures?”

Sharbao smiled with embarrassment. “The limitation of its usage is that it has very little effect on the strong. It can only be effective on creatures under Level-5. I’m not sure about the rest.”

Lei Luo thought for a moment but did not pursue the matter. He waved his hand and returned to the island above the Merman Race.

After reaching the shore, he used the poisonous breath on the seabed to call the merman priest to swim up. At the same time, he kicked the two corpses on the shore into the sea.

The merman priest swam toward the island. Halfway there, he found the bodies of the merman tribe leader and Gerton falling. With a soft sigh, he moved their bodies into his room to hide the news before swimming up.

After settling all of this, the merman priest stepped onto the island. The moment he saw Sharbao standing beside Lei Luo, his pupils shrank and anger rose in his heart.

He knew it. How could the base of the Merman Race be leaked? He even suspected who the traitor was.

However, he did not expect it to be Sharbao, the elite that he thought highly of!

After his anger rose, there was fear. The Merman Race wasn’t big, and they hid many things from the ordinary clansmen. However, it was different for the elite clansmen. They didn’t know about only a few things, and basically knew everything else.

The merman priest felt a lingering fear in his heart. “Thankfully, I didn’t hide the news from that Poison Dragon or thought of using the humans to kill it. Otherwise, I would probably be the dead one right now..”