Chapter 476 Prelude <TOC> Chapter 478 Clear Distinction
Translator: SumTLMan
“Hilary? What’s wrong?” Coral immediately stood up, propping up her head with one hand, and directly jumped over to Hilary’s side, holding her up.
Nausica had been leaning against a tree, but now she also looked over.
Hilary covered her ears and exclaimed softly, “Such a loud sound, I’ve blocked out 80% of the water flow sound, but it still comes in. It’s so piercing, so piercing…”
“Water flow sound?” Coral looked at Nausica in confusion.
Nausica was also pondering what the so-called water flow sound meant when she inadvertently looked up at the distant sky, her eyes narrowing.
“That is—”
Coral followed her gaze, her eyes widening towards the horizon. Where there had been dark, cloudy skies with heavy snow, the snow still fell, but below it, waves of tides appeared, each one higher than the last.
The tides struck the air, with white waves layering on top of each other. A huge blue whale, with a massive tail, descended from the sky.
The waves surged towards the valley, seemingly about to engulf everyone.
The apprentices in the valley didn’t know what was happening and raised their magical power, preparing to deal with the incoming tides.
However, their preparations were all in vain, as the towering waves that appeared out of thin air were blocked outside the metallic wall of the high ground. A massive magic formation rose below the wall, isolating all the seawater outside.
But the giant whale was not isolated and was allowed into the valley. It flapped its blue bubbles beneath its fins, floating in mid-air.
Its huge size made the apprentices in the valley somewhat frightened. If it were to fall, even a wizard with a powerful bloodline would likely be crushed into a pulp.
Nausica’s location happened to be at the edge of the valley, so she wasn’t threatened by the whale’s massive size, but the intense sense of coercion was still felt by them.
“So the sudden appearance of the sea makes Hilary feel the noise.” Coral frowned.
“No.” This sentence was emphasized, spoken simultaneously by Nausica and Hilary. They exchanged glances, and Hilary took the lead, saying, “I like the sound of the sea, it’s a natural sound. What brought me the noisy sound wasn’t the sound of the tide, but…”
In the distance, there was an uproar, with someone exclaiming, “There seems to be someone standing on top of the whale’s head!”
Coral also heard these sounds and immediately looked up at the sky. Sure enough, when the clouds dispersed and the fog cleared, everyone saw a handsome young man in a blue robe, lazily leaning against a bubble, playing with a thin stream of water in his hand.
“It’s him. The one who makes me feel noisy is the sound of the blood flow in his body.” Hilary still felt uncomfortable in her eardrums. “It’s like… his body is filled with a noisy ocean. The surface is roaring waves, and beneath the surface is a bottomless abyss…”
“Is it really that terrifying?” Coral furrowed her brow.
Nausica: “Did you guys notice? There’s a blue fish scale on his forehead. I remember seeing a wizard organization in the Cloud Library, and they all had fish scale tattoos on their bodies…”
“Could it be…?”
A glimmer of light flashed in Nausica’s eyes: “Song of the Deep Sea!”
…
Perhaps the turmoil within the young man was too intense, and Hilary had been feeling off.
Coral turned her head to look at Hilary, who was shaking with her head down, and gently stroked her curly hair: “There’s nothing to be afraid of.”
“Afraid?” Hilary suddenly raised her head, her eyes wide open and a strange smile on her lips: “I’m not afraid, I’m excited! I want this body of water. Should I turn it all into poison? Or should I turn it all into boiling water? Boiling water it is, boiling an entire ocean, I’ve never done that before.”
As she spoke, Hilary suddenly reached out her hand, and the blue magic flowed between her hands. The blue curls that had been resting by her ears also started to steam.
“Hilary?!” Coral and Nausica had never seen this expression on Hilary before. The Hilary they knew was mostly peaceful and absent-minded, sometimes smiling gently, and mostly dozing off. This was the first time they had seen her looking so strange and furious.
Coral was startled by Hilary’s sudden change of expression and couldn’t help but step back. Thankfully, Gank reached out to help her, or she would have fallen off Gank’s shoulder.
“What’s wrong with her?” Coral looked helplessly at Nausica, using her eyes to ask: should we stop her?
Nausica slowly shook her head: “Let’s see what happens first.”
On the other side, high in the sky, the young man on top of the blue whale.
He squinted his eyes, considering whether to let his little whale fall into the crowd. The thought of so many people being crushed into a bloody pulp made him happy.
After all… they would die anyway when they entered the Purification Garden, so it wouldn’t matter if he killed them beforehand, right?
He was about to order the whale to descend when he suddenly furrowed his brow: “Miss Mein will be here soon. It wouldn’t be good to let her see this bloody mess… Maybe I should forget it?”
“But I’m so considerate of Miss Mein, yet she sees me as an enemy. Why should I care about her feelings?”
As the young man struggled with his thoughts.
A blurry figure appeared in mid-air, a wizard dressed in silver and white, indicating his identity as coming from “Sky Mechanical City.”
“Jiebo, stop your thoughts immediately. Even if they die, they must die within the Purification Garden.” Otherwise, where would the materials for the Blood Sacrifice come from?
“If I don’t agree?” The young man named Jiebo smirked. He was fearless now, having fought with Mein in the main city last time without any consequences, and his mentor was nearby this time.
“If you insist on going your own way, even if the sea god is here, I will kill you,” the silver-white uniformed wizard said, lowering his eyebrows.
Jiebo narrowed his eyes and shrugged. “Well, I didn’t really plan to do it anyway.”
As he spoke, Jiebo gently pressed his brow, and the huge whale gradually shrank until it was small enough to fit in his palm, appearing less ferocious and more adorable.
Jiebo’s submission relieved the monitoring wizard. If Jiebo had been stubborn, it would have been difficult for him to handle.
However, just then, Jiebo did not move, but a red and blue light suddenly shot out from a remote corner of the crowd, targeting Jiebo!
“Somebody is attacking!” The apprentices began to panic, and no one expected that someone would dare to attack at this time!
Even the elite apprentices on the right side of the valley frowned. They knew better than others the background of the person in the sky, and someone dared to attack him?
Jiebo also noticed the ground attack. The corner of his mouth curled up slightly, and he thought to himself: It’s not me who wants to attack, but someone is attacking me, so I must counterattack… As for the counterattack being a bit too powerful and killing a few more people, that’s not my fault.
With that in mind, Jiebo secretly mobilized the vast power of the ocean and looked at the person on the ground who was attacking him.
She was a woman with short blue curly hair, who looked quite ordinary, but she was sipping a strange smile, looking at him as if he were a dish.
Jiebo suddenly felt his heart skip a beat.
Then he noticed that the attack was red with a strange blue… Jiebo’s heart beat faster, and sweat began to pour down his spine.
Something was wrong, something was wrong!
His rapidly beating heart was sending him a message: He couldn’t withstand this attack!
He would die! He would definitely die!
Jiebo stood still, unable to move. He was like a mouse encountering a snake, trembling helplessly under the gaze of his natural enemy.
Just as Jiebo was about to be hit by the attack, the wizard representing Sky Mechanical City beside him frowned: He had just told Jiebo not to attack, and now someone was attacking him, which made him feel somewhat awkward.
The attack didn’t seem too strong, and although Jiebo could avoid it, he seemed to have a reason to counterattack now. So, the wizard acted honestly and reached out to deflect the attack, which eventually dissipated in the air.
Now that I’ve deflected the attack, you don’t have any reason to attack, do you? He thought this way. But what he didn’t notice was that when Jiebo saw the attack dissipate, his eyes flashed with relief. If it weren’t for the wizard beside him, would he have been killed by this woman already?
Who is this woman? Will she launch a second attack?
Jiebo was slightly worried as he looked at the woman on the ground… Then he was stunned. At some point, the woman had closed her eyes and was soundly sleeping, leaning against a strange giant.
So, was he being looked down upon?
A faint, inexplicable emotion flashed in Jiebo’s eyes. He landed at the edge of the valley, and no one dared to approach within several kilometers.
He had been watching the woman who had attacked him earlier with his peripheral vision, secretly guessing her identity. His attention was only diverted when Mein spread her white wings and crossed the metal wall.
…
“Hilary has fallen asleep again.” Coral sighed, touching Hilary’s curly hair. “It seems that the handsome guy has no intention of pursuing Hilary’s attack, which is good.”
Nausica walked over from the crowd at this point: “I just inquired about it. That young man is indeed from the Song of the Deep Sea. His name is Jiebo, and not only is he extremely talented, but he also has a very rare special physique. Moreover, his mentor is Lord Sea God. He might not have pursued the matter at this time, perhaps planning to settle the score after entering the Purification Garden. When Hilary wakes up later, you must remind her.”
Coral nodded: “I know that, but what’s the matter with Hilary? How did she suddenly change to the point where I don’t recognize her?”
“I don’t know either.” Nausica skillfully took out a smoking pipe, lit it, and took a deep puff. “Perhaps this is why her mentor wanted her to enter the Purification Garden?”
Coral seemed to have thought of something, resting her cheek on her hand: “Indeed, who among the people here doesn’t have some secrets and hidden cards?”
As they chatted, more people entered from outside the metal wall on the high ground.
All of them were elites among elites, and several of them just had to stare with their eyes to make one feel creepy.
Among them, the person Nausica paid the most attention to was a woman with light brown hair and wings on her back.
She wore transparent white gauze, exuding both sacred and seductive qualities that were completely contradictory. What made Nausica most concerned was that, facing those white wings, she felt as if she were facing a wizard-level powerhouse!
These were… wizard-level wings!