Chapter 52: Merman Pearl

Her Majesty’s series of unexpected revelations left not only Hong Yan and her sister stunned, but even Willipol and Silisa were left speechless for a long time.

However, the former King of the Mermen soon decided to regain his suppressed momentum and began to laugh heartily.

“Anies, even if what you say is true, the situation is completely in our hands now. The sacrificial ritual cannot be stopped at this point, but what do you have left to turn the tide?”

“True, after my divine descent, I will indeed become tangible and vulnerable, but the question is, do you possess such power? To withstand and even defeat the kind of strength that could topple the Great Evil God?”

“That Vilyric is indeed mysterious and fills me with genuine caution. Even the Book of Truth can’t reveal any information about her, but no matter how powerful she is, she can’t compare to a real god. Would an outsider really risk their life to fight against the deity for you? You trust her too much, don’t you?”

“If your hopes truly rest upon such an enigmatic figure, I must retract my previous assessment of you.”

“Heh… is that so.”

Queen Mingjiao maintained her smirk but suddenly changed the topic.

“Willipol and Silisa, you previously mocked me for being heartless, for being cold-blooded, willing to sell even my daughter to stop the ritual… But think about it: if I truly intended for such a purpose, why didn’t I quietly send Nitira out of the Emerald Sea or simply eliminate her?”

“Letting poachers capture her not only takes time and effort but also opens up many unforeseen variables. It seems you never considered my reasons for choosing this method.”

Willipol’s expression shifted slightly, showing his first signs of unease, likely because he had never thought about such issues or perhaps he noticed them but couldn’t quite figure them out.

This was a question that exceeded the scope of the Book of Truth’s ability to answer.

“What do you mean?”

Despite their tension, Anies simply raised her hand, her slender emerald fingers pointing high towards Princess Nitira Mingjiao, who was enveloped in dark blue light like a cocoon, making her almost invisible from the inside.

“You all have lost.”

“What…?!”

Willipol and Silisa instinctively turned their heads, only to instantly change their expressions!

“Buzz~~~”

A point of golden light burst forth from the girl serving as the offering and vessel.

It first dispelled the palm-sized dark blue light surrounding her and then rapidly expanded, transforming into a pure, immaculate, and inviolable bright golden pearl that rose from Nitira’s abdomen, shining brilliantly like the sun illuminating all!

“Buzz!!!”

That was a blazing ray of light powerful enough to purge all evil. In an instant, it consumed the dark blue cocoon enveloping the girl, reverting her once-darkened hair back to its original blue and white color at a visible speed.

Countless dark energies that had already taken residence in this vessel-like body spurted out desperately from Nitira, sizzling loudly under the golden radiance, as if they were a frenzied swarm of insects fleeing from a wildfire!

“Ahhh! This! This is…!!”

Almost at the same moment, a horrified Silisa screamed and collapsed to the ground, clutching her head in pain as streams of dark energy flickered violently around her, threatening to shatter.

As a priest closely connected to the divine, who could even summon them to a degree, it was natural that the harm to her master also affected Silisa accordingly.

“I… I heard a voice! It’s wailing, it’s in pain! Something terrible is burning it! It can’t escape! This is truly a trap!!! Quickly, quickly cancel the sacrificial ritual ahhh!!!!”

“But, but the ritual cannot be…”

Faced with this sudden massive reversal and chaos, even the former king Willipol found himself at a loss, as he had rightly stated that the sacrificial ritual was already at an irreversible level due to it having begun prematurely, something even he, as the host, could not change.

“What on earth is happening… what on earth is happening! Why is Nitira suddenly clashing with my god, and so violently! What is this horrific force repelling it? She was supposed to be the perfect vessel!”

“This golden orb… wait, is that her Merman Pearl? How could her Merman Pearl…?”

“Ah, let me explain this part.”

As Silisa fell injured, the Pirate King Rashid, who had quietly removed himself from danger, returned to the queen’s side and exchanged a knowing glance before sighing and saying, while healing the not-yet-dead guards with divine magic:

“King Willipol, you should remember the private meeting I had with you and Queen Anies over five years ago, right?”

“At that time, I told you that the sleeping Great Evil God of the Sea was about to awaken, and that the entire Emerald Sea would face unpredictable disaster. I urged the court to quickly evacuate the beings within the domain to minimize losses…”

“You scoffed at such requests, deeming it shameful to flee, and instead resolved to find ways to resist and defeat the Great Evil God… using the power that the Book of Truth sourced from, the former nemesis of the Great Evil God, who was another deity.”

“After several futile debates, you expelled me from the court. Although I felt a bit indignant at the time, I had to admit that if your plans succeeded, it could fundamentally solve the problem. Therefore, I chose to wait and see, returning to land to find a key individual who could guide my next actions as indicated by the Book of Truth.”

“After many twists and turns, I found that extraordinary being known as the Seer within the Human United Kingdom in the west. Using my position as a medium, she foresaw the future of the Emerald Sea through her divine power of time insight.”

“But that answer shocked me greatly.”

“A sea of darkness… no matter what I did, this divine-created paradise would soon be completely annihilated. Though due to the interference of divine forces, she couldn’t see too clearly, the outcome was certain.”

“You should know that the Book of Truth does not lie or make mistakes. Some truths may be beyond discovery, but once they manifest clearly, that is without doubt the truth.”

“Thus, I could only believe that what the Seer said was true.”

“I asked her if there was still a chance to turn things around, even a tiny one. The Seer replied—that indeed, there was a path leading to an entirely unknown future, but that path was more ambiguous than all she had seen. The Emerald Sea might be saved, but it could also fall into an even more disastrous state. It was a gamble.”

“To be honest, I really hesitated for a long time, contemplating whether to go all in, but in the end, I brought back that only possible variable as revealed by that great being, and then returned to the Emerald Sea.”

“The distance between the two places is incredibly vast, and the round trip took almost a year. Sure enough, when I returned here, I found that you had already used the power of your trusted god to resurrect countless deep-sea spirits and waged war to seize the enormous costs needed for the ritual.”

“Everything was in complete alignment with the Seer’s prophecy, which ultimately solidified my resolve to gamble on that remaining possibility.”

“And the crucial step toward that future… was to have Princess Nitira of the Merman Tribe kidnapped by poachers.”

   

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