Floco touched his chin, which was equally blue and smooth as water, "More or less, but I'll only escort you away and ensure that the Tribunal's wizards temporarily can't track you. The path ahead still needs to be forged by yourselves. After all, rmaids who can't live independently are too disgraceful—better to just die."
The rmaids shrank their necks and tails upon hearing this.
Looking at the water spirit before them who wasn't large but also had a fish tail, they had thought he was one of their own kind.
But he wasn't so easy to talk to.
Seeing that Aqua had no intention of speaking, Coral stepped forward herself, "My lord, the teleportation array to leave this place is just ahead."
She pointed in a direction.
Floco didn't waste ti. Although he had easily dealt with a veteran third-rank wizard, it didn't an the current him could fight against a veteran fourth-rank wizard.
Lord Water God was still not at full health.
The rmaids set off again. This ti, with Floco's help, they walked on land as if swimming in water.
Water in the air condensed into small droplets, moistening their skin and scales.
In just over two minutes, they reached the designated location.
Arriving beside a withered old tree, Aqua stepped forward and took out a guidance device that Black Fish had given him before the operation.
The guidance device looked like a shuttle from a loom, with a circle of miniature magic formations inscribed around its thickest middle section. Magic crystals were also wrapped inside.
Aqua activated the guidance device. The withered old tree imdiately split open and fell in all directions. After a flash of light, it ford a perfect circular magic formation.
Aqua walked in holding Pearl, then inserted the guidance device into the center of the circular formation, "Five people enter each ti."
The guidance device without wizard control had limited power and could only send five rmaids away at once.
If they encountered an ergency, rmaids who couldn't enter the teleportation had to imdiately destroy the guidance device, so pursuers couldn't follow the teleportation array to catch those already teleported.
According to the plan, Coral and several weak rmaids would be in the last batch to teleport.
Even without pursuers, Coral wouldn't leave but would destroy the guidance device at the end and lead the rmaids to draw away the pursuers' attention.
So when Aqua stood on the magic formation and turned back to urge Coral to hurry in as well, Coral hesitated.
"Go in." Floco had already seen Coral's intention, "With here, there's no need for you to sacrifice yourself. Moreover, I guarantee that the Tribunal absolutely won't have the mind to track you down next."
"Are you going to the Tribunal's territory to kill everyone?" Aqua said excitedly.
"Uh," Floco decided to ignore him and continued to the sowhat hesitant Coral, "For rmaids to establish themselves outside, relying solely on so natural abilities won't work. The most important thing is brains. In my opinion, among these rmaids, you have the best mind and strongest willpower. If anyone should survive, it should be you."
This was the first ti Coral had heard soone recognize her so much, even considering her more important than Aqua.
Her lips trembled slightly, not knowing whether from joy or enduring hardship.
Ever since Mr. Black Fish told her that to help the atavistic rmaids escape their tragic future, she needed to sacrifice herself by pretending to be infected with disease and accepting wizard experints.
After wizards confird that atavistic rmaids were no longer suitable for absorbing pollution from Red Sea Tree stems, they would be abandoned and not watched so strictly, giving them a chance to escape.
Coral only hesitated for one night before telling Mr. Black Fish she was willing.
From then on, pain and disease plagued her, and her body was dissected again and again.
But as long as she saw her brother's hopeful eyes, she could endure all torture.
Yet today, the powerful water spirit lord said she was the hope of the rmaid race.
Was she really that important?
Was it okay?
Seeing Coral still hesitating, Aqua hurriedly called to her. Aqua hadn't known before that Coral would deliberately stay behind, and now he was afraid she still wouldn't want to leave.
But Floco had run out of patience.
The rmaid called Aqua had ability but was sowhat reckless, while the rmaid called Coral had brains but lacked confidence.
These two rmaids were best not separated.
Floco waved his hand, and Coral was pushed into the formation by tiny water droplets.
The other rmaids quickly followed.
"My lord, do you know when Mr. Black Fish will co?" Aqua didn't imdiately activate the teleportation array.
Just now Mr. Black Fish hadn't co with them, so in his urgency, Aqua could only continue fleeing with everyone according to plan.
But now with such a powerful helper appearing, he still hoped the other could also bring Mr. Black Fish along.
Mr. Black Fish?
Floco thought: Saul didn't ntion any black fish. If there really is one, then this Black Fish's identity would be interesting.
"You take care of yourselves first and escape as many people as possible,” He looked at the rmaid princess Aqua was holding and suddenly reached out to grab her from the magic formation.
Aqua was stunned for a mont and instinctively reached out to pull Pearl back, but because the latter moved too quickly, he only grabbed empty air.
"My lord, why did you take Princess Pearl away?" Coral also called out anxiously.
"I already said that to survive independently outside, brains are very important. And your rmaid princess has long lost this ability. Let her beco assistance for your escape instead."
The water spirit looked at the confused Pearl and sighed lightly, "A rmaid princess, rmaid royalty, shouldn't be like this."
As soon as the water spirit finished speaking, his entire being transford into a blue light and drilled into the rmaid princess's body.
Pearl's whole body shook as if electrified, then closed her eyes and opened them again. Her originally pearl-colored pupils were now tinged with water blue.
Then, she slowly turned around, looked at the still-confused rmaids, and raised her hand: "You may go."
"Princess?"
Pearl turned again, facing the direction of the Red Sea, no longer looking at the other rmaids, "Today you learn that rmaid royalty has always fought on the front lines, and has never been soone who needs others' protection."
Then, Pearl suddenly flew into the sky as if leaping into the ocean.
With a flick of her cyan fish tail, she beca a shadow and disappeared from the forest.
The other rmaids didn't even have ti to voice their objections.
"Sister, what should we do? Mr. Black Fish said that no matter who among us dies here, we must protect Princess Pearl's escape." Aqua asked Coral in panic.
"I don't know what to do either." Coral was also very anxious, but she knew that under current circumstances, their thoughts didn't matter. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel_fіre
Because none of them could bring the rmaid princess back out.
Finally, Coral grabbed Aqua, "Let's go."
Aqua was stunned, and the other rmaids all looked at Coral.
Coral made the difficult decision, "We can't do anything. If we continue staying here, we'll definitely be caught by pursuers. That way, whether it's Mr. Black Fish's sacrifice or that lord's efforts just now, it would all be wasted."
Aqua had long been indoctrinated by Mr. Black Fish about the rmaid princess's revered status. His mind couldn't turn around for a mont, and he still couldn't make up his mind.
But when his gaze fell on Coral's ssy short hair, his heart suddenly clenched. Thinking of the suffering his sister had endured these days and how she had almost sacrificed herself for them, he unconsciously nodded.
"Alright!"
...
When the rmaids were leaving the southeastern coast, Pearl had already silently arrived at the Red Sea coast.
She looked expressionlessly at the increasingly bright sky and the wizards who had begun forming ranks, her heart slightly cold.
"Sorry, Saul. The plan needs to change slightly. To make the rmaids escape Nephret more smoothly, just killing a few third-rank wizards won't do. We need to create so big trouble for them."
Pearl's lips curved into a cold smile, "If you want to bla soone, bla them for underestimating rmaid abilities."
Pearl's gaze fell below the sea surface, "Since you've already been raised to be useless by wizards, then sacrifice yourselves for your true kin."
She raised her arms, slowly lifting them above her head, her ethereal voice moaning.
"Be angry, go mad, is this how the sea should be? Twist, struggle, this world should have been destroyed long ago..."
Crazy ravings repeated again and again.
At the sa ti, a highly penetrating ntal power wave probed into the sea.
A few minutes later, the entire Red Sea... boiled!
(End of Chapter)
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