Mermaid
Qiao Xue whispered, “The mermaid fiends are fiend beasts, not fiends. From what I’ve read, mermaids who develop intelligence are all gorgeous.”
“They look angry to me. Xiaoshuai, translate what they’re singing without singing,” commanded Mu Yu.
“As if I want to risk singing my way to ugliness. They’re demanding we yield and go with them to be judged for desecrating Ocean Archfiend’s name.”
“When? How?” asked Mu Yu. “We don’t even know what he looks like, let alone desecrate his reputation.”
“They’re also accusing us of stealing their race’s sacred item,” translated Xiaoshuai.
“What libel is this? All we did was go for a ride.”
“What even is their sacred item?” queried the dragon vine.
Qiao Xue and Mu Yu shook their hands.
“Xiaoshuai, can you expl-”
The ocean rose, allowing the mermaids to bounce off the splashed water to attack again.
“We didn’t steal anything!”
Qiao Xue and Mu Yu constantly dodged the relentless, merciless assault but didn’t retaliate because it wouldn’t help their case. Xiaoshuai tried answering. Alas, answering to someone without much intellect was futile.
“God damn it!” Mu Yu cursed.
The air oscillated as Mu Yu drew Shadow Splitter Sword from his void. He splashed sword qi on the splashed water, knocking a mermaid down. Privy it was tough to get through to the mermaids, Qiao Xue also joined the counterattack, turning her water spirit into mist, dropping the mermaids back into the water as ice blocks.
In a matter of moments, the two were able to down half of the mermaids, but they couldn’t do much about the four level six ones. Because Mu Yu couldn’t hold back, he severely injured a few level five mermaids, inadvertently triggering the others even further.
“Why do their voices sound so nice even when they’re grunting and shouting,” commented Xiaoshuai.
A stunning male and female mermaid rode a big wave to the surface. Unlike the other mermaids, their top half was human, while their bottom half was that of fishes. The muscular and ripped male mermaid wore a white crown atop his rectangular face, giving off the vibe of a man in his forties. The female mermaid wore seaweed for a shirt.
“They’re fiends and Spirit Severing Realm Ninth Layer ones for that matter. What do we do now?” asked Qiao Xue.
“Weren’t we told there are no fiends underwater?” Mu Yu questioned back.
Qiao Xue kicked an incoming mermaid and stole a gander at the two leaders. “Judging from their unstable energy, they must’ve just evolved.”
“Just evolved?” Mu Yu repeated, furrowing his brows.
“It’s not as hard as you might think to evolve. It’s quite easy if a fiend was willing to lend fiend energy to a fiend beast that meets the conditions to evolve. Newly-evolved fiends will still have issues with communication because they need time to adapt to their new form. Still, their powers will have been raised dramatically, so be wary.”
The two mermaid leaders sung as they rode a wave over to the two humans.
“Return our Divine Trident to us,” translated Xiaoshuai.
“Tell them we didn’t pinch it!” Mu Yu exclaimed.
“I did; however, they won’t buy it.”
Mu Yu and Xiaoshuai’s valiant effort to continue the talk went nowhere. In the end, the two monarchs ignored their efforts and ordered their mermaids to charge.
If I keep holding back, they’re going to kill us, thought Mu Yu. “Fine, I’ll beat it into you!”
The approaching male mermaid dropped his crown that he had expanded to over three hundred metres in between Mu Yu and Qiao Xue, separating them, with the male mermaid confronting Mu Yu, while his queen confronted Qiao Xue.
While the female mermaid engaged Qiao Xue, the male mermaid, in humanity’s language, demanded, “Hand over our Divine Trident!”
“I didn’t take your trident,” replied Mu Yu, paying extra attention to the barrier the mermaid king set and worrying about Qiao Xue.
“You. Did,” disputed the mermaid king, in fragmented speech due to him having yet to learn to speak.
“You sick in the head?” raged the dragon vine, showing itself. “When did you see us steal it? We don’t even know how it looks!”
The mermaid king shuddered at the sight of the dragon vine’s appearance. Nevertheless, he quickly recollected himself, protesting, “Fiends saw you!”
“Who?” questioned Mu Yu.
“That would be us, of course,” answered Long Xing, showing up next to the mermaid king with Long Yeli and E Wenmao.
“I thought the oceanblaze fiends ate your sorry behind,” Mu Yu insulted.
“Give back my Divine Trident!” repeated the mermaid king, in a frigid voice.
“Mermaid King, the three of us tailed them and can attest we saw him steal your sacred item,” vouched Long Xingyun.
Piece of turd must’ve been tailing us ever since the volcano erupted and then robbed the mermaids while we were busy with Seahorse Taotao to frame us. I’m done with this, inwardly decided Mu Yu, figuring Long Xingyun was the one who masterminded the two mermaids’ evolution. “I don’t have your trident, but I can give you a whooping, instead.”
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