Chapter 153 Reunion

"Where are we going? Levia-" Nikol couldn't even finish his sentence as Leviathan suddenly glared at Nikol with her eyes narrowed.

"I mean big sister, where are we going?" Avoiding her dangerous gaze, Nikol quickly corrected himself and questioned hoping that she would answer his question this time.

"We're going to see something very important," Leviathan replied, her grip on his hand tightening.

Leaving the palace gate under the objection of the Esi and the other sea folks, Leviathan started swimming back to the surface holding Nikol in her tight embrace. As soon as she hit the water, her legs turned into something like a fish tail But unlike typical mermaids, her tail resembled a serpentine body with scales shimmering in the sunlight.

As they emerged from the water, Nikol saw a sight that made his heart race. The queendom was surrounded by a vast army, their weapons gleaming in the sunlight and he quickly decided to refute Leviathan thinking it was the alliance, but upon closer look, he saw beast-like ears and tails.

"Who are they?" Nikol asked, confusion creeping into his voice.

"They're the enemies, Nikol," Leviathan said, her voice stern and merciless.

"And they're here for a reason."

Nikol didn't believe her words but, he wasn't foolish enough to make a huge scene and attract the attention of this unknown party so he kept observing them.

As they stealthily advanced towards the adversary's encampment, Nikol's gaze fell upon an awe-inspiring silhouette stationed at the forefront of the battalion. The sight of her was utterly beguiling; she emanated a scorching allure and a dominating aura that took Nikol's breath away.

The figure Nikol spotted was none other than Leona, who was leading the army with her dominating aura. But soon his eyes went to the person above her shoulder, which caused Nikol to almost charge into the battle in anger. The person above her shoulder was none other than the fairy he had been searching for after her betrayal, her beauty almost blinding in the sunlight but, Nikol only saw her as a dirty liar that will do anything to fulfil her goals.

"That's her," Nikol said, with a note of anger in his voice.

"That's the fairy, who betrayed me and she's the reason why-." Nikol abruptly stopped speaking as he pondered what he was doing. Unaware of his actions, Nikol was on the verge of providing information to Leviathan. He questioned why he did it and realized that a part of him didn't want to despise Leviathan.

Leviathan snorted hearing his words.

"Don't be fooled by her appearances, Nikol. That fairy is not as innocent as she seems."

Nikol wondered how she knew Arti, but then he remembered how this Leviathan woman acted like she know something about Nikol that he don't know about.

As they drew closer, the fairy turned to face them, a sly smile playing at the corners of her mouth.

"Well, well," she said, her voice sweet as honey.

"If it isn't my cute son and a bitch. what brings you out to see us today?"

Leviathan stepped forward, her eyes cold as ice.

"We're here to show Nikol the truth," she said, her voice ringing out across the battlefield confusing Nikol about what this truth was.

"The truth?" the fairy said, her eyes narrowing. "And what truth is that?"

"The truth that you're not as kind-hearted as you pretend to be and how you used him in this life and his past life," Leviathan said, her voice growing louder.

"You've been manipulating Nikol from the start, and we're here to put a stop to it."

Nikol felt like his brain was overworking at this point while trying to understand what was happening, and he noticed another thing that really freaked him out.

'Why are they looking at me like I'm some kind of delicious food?'

Nikol noticed how previously dominating and powerful Leona and her armies' every detail of their features were scrutinized with a feverish intensity, their mind obsessively analyzing every curve and contour of his face hoping for his touch and warmth.

Meanwhile, the alliance army was leaving their camp trying to continue their search without knowing about the incident that is currently going on.

Their search for the sea folks had been fruitless thus far, and tensions were running high. Lydia and Zenda gathered everyone for a war council to discuss their next move.

"We need to find them as soon as possible," said Lydia, her voice low and urgent.

"They could be anywhere inside the river by now, and we need to strike before they have a chance to notice us."

The other warrior girls nodded in agreement, their faces grim with determination but still, their plan was not practical since sea folks didn't even bother to come onto the surface unless it was sirens, who are searching for land meat.

"Our scouts have reported that there is an incident river nearby," said Zenda remembering what she heard from them.

"Apparently, while they were spying on the river for any clues, suddenly they heard ear deafening sound,"

"It's possible that the sea folks are hiding underwater, waiting for us to pass by. We could send in our underwater troops to search for them but it's risky, so we need to lure them here somehow."

The plan was quickly agreed upon by everyone to blow the river up with their explosives magic until, mermaids come onto the surface, and the army began to move towards the river hoping to achieve success in their mission. As they approached, they could see that the water was murky and dark red, and it was impossible to see anything below the surface.

Lydia turned to her troops.

"Something is wrong, we need to be careful," she warned.

For what seemed like hours, they searched the river, their eyes scanning the murky depths for any sign of the sea folks but unable to find anything useful, they had to back down with heavy hearts.

"Zenda, what do we do now?" Lydia questioned hoping she would have an answer but seeing her looking at her with a blank expression, she knew that things are not looking good for them.

*Tsk

"Why don't we just dive and crash their little pond, that woman who took Nikol would be happy to see us," Eva said showing she was no different from the other muscles and brains around her.

As they sat there in silence, lost in their own thoughts, a messenger girl suddenly appeared at the meeting, breathless and wild-eyed showing she wasn't in her best condition.

"Commander! Commander!" she gasped, struggling to catch her breath.

"You won't believe what I just saw!"

The girls looked up at her, intrigued.

"What is it?" they asked in unison.

The messenger girl took a deep breath and began to speak.

"I was out scouting the area, as per the orders of the commander, when I saw something strange in the distance. It looked like an army, but it was unlike any race I'd ever seen before. they had tails and ears above their head, and they seemed to be moving in the direction of the river ."

The girls exchanged worried glances.

"What do you think it could be?" Lydia asked with a worried face wondering whether it was another cursed magic-using race.

"I don't know," the messenger girl admitted.

"But I think we should be on high alert. Whatever it is, it can't be good."

The girls nodded in agreement, their hearts pounding with fear and excitement. They knew that they had to be prepared for whatever was coming their way.

"Good work! Ask everyone to get ready for a war if needed, but tell them to not do anything unwanted," Zenda said as she didn't want to offend a race if they are friendly and peaceful toward them.

"We should go and take a look, even if we stay here nothing is going to happen," Eva suggested to which others also had to agree.

"Something is going on, but it's not something good," Lydia felt the atmosphere wasn't that great.

They quickly acted upon the words of the messenger girl and went to spy and see what was happening after equipping their weapons, but seeing the two groups in front of them, suddenly a smile came onto the faces of the girls of the alliance.

"It's Nikol, he's doing okay," Alva muttered feeling like her mind was relaxing after thinking about all the bad things that could happen.

"But-" Lydia saw upon closer inspection that, things are not looking good.

"What is that woman doing besides Nikol, and why do they look like they are about to fight?" There were too many questions in their minds, that didn't get any answers.

But before they could even think about what to do and their future path, Eva mumbled in anger looking at something above them.

"That bitchy fairy! She's there," Hearing her words everyone looked at Arti, who was resting on Leona's shoulder and their eyes became aggressive toward her while some people like Zenda felt conflicted.

"We will solve this here and take back Nikol,"