Chapter 507 The Mystery of the Scales <TOC> Chapter 509 Diverting the Disaster Elsewhere
Translator: SumTLMan
Angel was on the move again, but this time, he was no longer alone.
Although he still didn’t quite agree with Cherie’s personality, he had to admit her abilities and wisdom after a day of collaboration. Moreover, Cherie had stepped in at critical moments several times, saving Angel a lot of effort, and even Luna had saved him once.
Most importantly, Cherie possessed a profound foundation that Angel currently lacked, especially in terms of basic knowledge. Angel could not catch up with Cherie’s pace, no matter how hard he tried.
Therefore, Angel chose to continue with Cherie.
The direction of the Sword of Mer was precisely where they needed to leave the ocean trench. As they ascended, the pressure decreased, and the Purification Field’s light shield gradually recovered from its compressed state to a smooth, full state.
Seeing this, Cherie whispered: “Your physical body is too weak. You can rely on the Purification Field underwater, but what about in other environments? In a vacuum, extreme cold, or intense heat, the Purification Field won’t help you much. You should find a way to solve your physical body’s problems as soon as possible. Integrating bloodlines is the best choice, as wizards ultimately rely on their bloodlines.”
“I know, but suitable bloodlines are hard to find.” Angel was aware that his physical body was his weakness, especially after experiencing the powerful sensation each time his soul left his body. He didn’t even want to return to his physical body. He estimated that among the elite apprentices who entered the Purification Garden this time, everyone except him had integrated bloodlines.
“As long as you understand,” Cherie said no more.
As soon as they left the ocean trench, they encountered a battle.
Their opponents were not wizard apprentices but a group of glowing blue ghostly jellyfish.
These jellyfish had potent mental toxins and were highly toxic. However, they also had a fatal flaw: their intelligence was too low. Even if their power was decent, they were no match for wizards known for their wisdom.
The most effortless way to deal with these low-intelligence jellyfish was to cast an illusionary mist, which would trap them all.
After trapping the jellyfish, they didn’t bother to fight any further and left. After all, these jellyfish would eventually be sacrificed anyway, so killing them now was a complete waste of magical power.
After that, they encountered several battles in a row, all against deep-sea creatures with energy reactions.
Angel was puzzled. When he first dived into the sea, he barely encountered any extraordinary creatures. But now, it seemed as if they were everywhere, making him feel as if he had returned to a world dominated by flying fish.
It wasn’t until Cherie told him that these deep-sea creatures were actually those flying fish that had crossed the boundary membrane into the Purification Sea.
Upon learning this, Angel finally understood and became even more cautious about the path ahead.
Now, the Purification Sea is like the high altitude of the flying fish world, filled with a large number of magical beasts and demon fish, making the already difficult path even more unpredictable. Moreover, in the flying fish world, Angel could rely on the Boundless Silence to hide his figure, but in the depths of the sea, it’s too easy to be exposed. It’s unrealistic to rely solely on Boundless Silence to dodge these extraordinary creatures.
The only good thing is that the Purification Sea is vast, dispersing these extraordinary creatures so that they don’t appear as numerous as when Angel attracted tens of thousands of flying fish. However, at the same time, since the sea is home to many native aquatic creatures, the extraordinary creatures from the flying fish world mixed among ordinary creatures will greatly enhance their ability to hide.
Their current route is almost to avoid all fish, so as not to accidentally enter the community of extraordinary creatures.
On two occasions, they encountered powerful magical beasts not inferior to Arketipo: a huge humpback whale almost comparable to the cloud whale in size and a small green-haired turtle with an aura stronger than the island whale.
Chased by these two nearly wizard-level magical beasts, Angel had no choice but to run with Cherie.
They ran back and forth for nearly tens of miles before finally shaking off the humpback whale and green-haired turtle.
Shaking off the magical beasts was certainly a joy, but when they saw the direction of the Sword of Mer, they fell silent.
They had deviated tens of miles in their direction, and the direction of the Sword of Mer had not changed at all, still pointing southeast. This means that their destination is very far away, so far that even if they deviated by tens of miles, the change in the direction of the Sword of Mer could be almost ignored.
Such a long journey also means that there will be numerous dangers ahead.
…
In an underwater castle belonging to the Ger race, tens of thousands of miles away from Angel, a candlestick was lit with the body oil of a ten-thousand-year-old demon shark. Bright flames accompanied by the dark, cold scent filled the entire room.
Jiebo leaned against the coral bed, smelling the faint fragrance, and closed his eyes to recover his magical power.
A cloaked woman pushed open the door of the room, and through the opened door, one could clearly see the bloodstained room, a half-human, half-fish woman lying lifelessly in a pool of blood, her chest brutally pierced with four bloody holes.
“Fisch, did you find anything?” Jiebo looked over.
Fisch took off her bloodstained cloak, revealing her sexy figure, and changed into a pure white gauze skirt in front of Jiebo. Then she sat across from Jiebo and threw a small golden sword at him.
“Sword of Mer, golden.” Fisch yawned: “I kept the other one.”
“Of course, it’s what you deserve.” Jiebo took the Sword of Mer, and with a light touch of his finger on the scales of his forehead, a small blue whale swam out from his brow.
“Master, you finally let me out!” As soon as the companion appeared, the blue little whale happily swung its tail and rubbed Jiebo’s face.
Jiebo smiled and pushed it away, then gestured for it to open its mouth.
As the whale opened its mouth, a strange space about ten meters long appeared in front of Jiebo, filled with various supplies. However, in the far corner, there was something special. Here, there was a pile of colored scales, which were all the heart scales of the Ger race. There were dozens of gray scales, six white scales, and three silver scales.
Not long ago, Jiebo and his team had destroyed a Ger tribe of nearly a thousand people, but unfortunately, only about two to three percent of the tribe was there. Moreover, there wasn’t even a single high-ranking member of the tribe.
Although Jiebo didn’t know what purpose the golden scales served compared to the other scales, his personality was such that he either didn’t want something, or it had to be the best. So, after torturing a few silver-scaled tribe members, they came to this underwater castle, killed the tribe’s third-ranking princess, and obtained the golden heart scale.
“I’ve interrogated them. The golden scales represent power and influence within the tribe, but other than that, there’s no special meaning. However, the third princess did mention an interesting ancestral legend.” Fisch said, a mocking smile crossing her face.
“An interesting legend? Let’s hear it.”
“According to the legend, if you hold the golden Sword of Mer, you’ll have a greater chance of serving the gods.” Fisch smirked.
“Serving the gods? Hah, the so-called gods are just a spectacle staged by Sky Mechanical City.” Jiebo shook his head: “It seems that the golden Sword of Mer doesn’t have much use for outsiders like us. But it doesn’t matter, I don’t want to enter the Land of Demise with a gray Sword of Mer.”
Fisch covered her mouth and laughed, wanting the golden Sword of Mer just for the sake of appearance was indeed in line with Jiebo’s personality.
“Since we can’t figure it out, let’s go.” Jiebo said and took the lead to get up and leave.
Fisch followed him, walking through the corridor and towards the exit. Along the way, there were still many patrolling frogskin monsters in the castle, but none of the guards noticed them, let alone knew that their master, the third princess, was already dead.
“Those frogskin monsters look really disgusting. Should we just kill them?” Fisch asked through a voice transmission.
“There’s no need. They’ll die in the end anyway,” Jiebo said indifferently. “First, they sacrificed a half-formed world, and now they’re going to sacrifice a complete civilization… Mechanical City is really going to great lengths to advance the Purification Garden.”
After Jiebo and Fisch left the underwater castle, they immediately headed in the direction indicated by the Sword of Mer.
However, they hadn’t flown far when the little blue whale suddenly said: “Master, I can sense it. A heart scale is rapidly approaching us from a hundred miles away.”
“Plunderers, huh?” Fisch narrowed her eyes.
“No need to bother, keep moving. If they come, kill them.” Jiebo said without pausing, continuing forward.
Tens of minutes later, a group appeared in front of Jiebo.
“Damn, it’s Jiebo!” a childish female voice said: “We can’t win, let’s run!”
Before her words fell, Jiebo raised his head, looking disdainfully at the group in front of him… Suddenly, Jiebo’s gaze fell on one of them, and his eyes flashed with fear: “It’s you?!”
The woman, who was half-asleep, frowned and complained: “So noisy! So noisy!”
Then, she opened her eyes and saw Jiebo across from her.
Endless ocean, roaring waves… That enormous sound came from Jiebo and entered her ears.
The woman was initially somewhat dazed, but when she saw Jiebo and heard the sound coming from him, her expression changed suddenly, turning from a gentle look to a creepy smile: “Nice to see you again!”
The eerie voice entered Jiebo’s ears, and the woman across from him had her eyes flicker, laughing maniacally: “I’ve always wanted to do this, turning an ocean into poison, how about that? Or boiling it into hot water? Unfortunately, the Purification Sea is too vast, and my ability can’t reach that far… But the ocean inside you, I think I can handle that.”
As she spoke, the woman suddenly charged forward.
“Hilary?!” The people who were originally planning to escape looked back and found that their teammate had already started fighting, their eyes widening in shock.
“She’s at it again.” The lazy voice paused: “Why did I say ‘again’?”
“I always feel that she’s like she’s too excited when she encounters Jiebo. I have a bad feeling about this,” the naive female voice lamented with a gloomy face.
“I also feel that the situation is not good, but it seems like they should be the ones saying that, Coral, take a closer look.”
Following the teammate’s guidance, Coral looked up. What she saw was not Hilary being defeated instantly, but… Jiebo without any power to fight back, his body half red and half green, constantly retreating.
“Huh? Jiebo… lost.”
Chapter 507 The Mystery of the Scales <TOC> Chapter 509 Diverting the Disaster Elsewhere