Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 860 Is There a Glimmer of Hope?

Alfonso felt a chill run through him.

It turned out that the Tribunal had long been aware of the mermaids' unique advantages, and Frim was even more resolute. Regardless of whether Pearl posed a real threat, they directly destroyed her spiritual body first.

No wonder no matter how Alfonso treated her, Pearl's spirit showed no signs of improvement, leading Alfonso to believe that Pearl had accidentally damaged her spirit while integrating the bloodline of the mermaid royal family, which is why she always appeared innocent and ignorant.

Looking back now, it seems that before Flim handed the pearl over to Alfonso for research, he had already ruled out the possibility that the Little Mermaid could only be used as an experimental subject and had no other potential development.

However, the ball of light spoke again.

"Now, you still have a chance to turn back."

Alfonso remained firm, saying, "I'm afraid I cannot agree to your conditions."

"You'll die if you don't agree."

Flim's voice was icy cold.

Despite being faced with a familiar fourth-tier wizard, Alfonso did not give up the fight.

Black mist emanated from his body.

"You want to resist?"

Alfonso pressed his lips tightly together, his voice almost escaping through clenched teeth, "I cannot die now. You will search my soul for the mermaid's whereabouts."

Although Royer has already caught up, Alfonso has other arrangements at the mermaid teleportation site. As long as Hailan can activate the teleportation device again and destroy the device on the other side, she can temporarily get rid of Royer.

Afterwards, they abandoned the other weak mermaids, lured away the wizard's pursuit, and left only the strongest mermaid to go into the water on the west coast.

Aquamarine may not be willing, but Coral is the one who will carry out the plan.

Only in this way can we possibly enter the waters between Neflet and Stadt and find a glimmer of hope.

This was a mermaid escape plan specially devised by Alfonso, taking into account that Flim should have already left Neflet by this time.

But unexpectedly, Flim and Royer delayed their original travel plans in order to bring out all the atavistic mermaids.

Royer had clearly discovered Alfonso's plan long ago, but pretended to know nothing about it. He even cooperated with Flim, appearing immediately to intercept them after Flim gathered the primordial mermaids.

In terms of acting skills, Alfonso is not as good as him.

Although Alfonso managed to send the mermaids away using the instant teleportation array on his body, he had to leave the teleportation to prevent Frim from disrupting it.

But if he were killed by Frim at this moment, Frim would obtain the Mermaid's follow-up plans. Then all of Alfonso's previous preparations would be in vain.

So even if it's Flim's consciousness in front of him, Alfonso is determined to break through here.

Even if it can only buy some time.

"I'm sorry, Lord Frim."

The black mist instantly spread, enveloping Alfonso and the ball of light.

The warm yellow light immediately burst forth with an even brighter radiance, but the black mist continued to steadily and slowly devour all the light.

Fortunately, Flim was only in a fragmented state of consciousness at this moment, otherwise Alfonso would have had no ability to resist.

Faced with Alfonso's stubborn resistance, Flim did not get angry; instead, the light he emitted grew even warmer.

While the two were struggling and pulling at each other, Royer had already found the landing point of the spatial teleportation, following Flim's guidance.

Only a powerful fourth-tier wizard like Frim could determine the approximate direction of landing the instant the spatial magic circle was activated.

As long as Royer keeps searching in the predetermined direction, he will be able to find traces of the mermaid.

Of course, there is another crucial point: this spatial teleportation array is a small array that is activated instantly, so the teleportation distance will not be too far.

If it is a large-scale magic array that has been set up in advance, the teleportation distance is immeasurable and cannot be caught up with by Roye in a short time.

The wind howled, whipping Royer's wizard robes, making them flutter like the prelude to battle, which gradually brought an excited smile to Royer's face.

Beneath this excitement lies immense disappointment and anger.

"Alfonso, you, one of the elders of the Tribunal, have betrayed our will! I've given you so many chances, yet you still value the atavistic mermaids more than the Tribunal itself, more than our century-long friendship! In a moment, I'll kill all the mermaids you value, leaving none alive. Let's see if you still believe that mermaids are the future masters of this world!"

Royer had even decided that he wouldn't spare the life of the mermaid princess Pearl, and would claim it was an accidental killing.

Even if it means being punished by the court magistrate afterward, they are willing to do it.

He simply couldn't accept that his good friend Alfonso was valued more than anything else by the mermaid!

Perhaps Alfonso didn't prioritize the interests of the mermaids above everything else; after all, he only wanted to release a few mermaids.

But at this point, Royer, burning with rage, had become extremely desperate, wanting only to kill the scum who had led Alfonso astray!

After flying for less than five minutes, Royer's eyes lit up.

He's found a mermaid!

Royer descended rapidly, following the faint and incomplete spiritual power he knew so well—the power that belonged to mermaids—and found the mermaids struggling to crawl through a dense forest.

The mermaid princess, shining like a pearl, stood out like the morning star in the night.

As Royer's lips curled up, before he could even land, the sky behind him suddenly darkened, and the white clouds above him seemed to have been pressed into ink, quickly turning black.

Then, one after another, huge orange-red fireballs emerged from the black clouds and fell rapidly with overwhelming force.

The target of their descent was the dozens of mermaids who had fled into the forest.

Lava falls from the sky, one of Royer's signature moves.

It is extremely powerful and has a very wide range of effects.

With this spell, the dense forest below, including all the creatures within, will be reduced to charcoal!

The mermaids on the ground were finally awakened by the commotion above them. They looked up in panic, followed by a feeling of despair.

Coral grabbed Hailan's arm tightly, her sharp fingernails almost piercing her brother's skin.

Mr. Blackfish's teleportation array was almost destroyed midway, so their landing point was some distance from the next teleportation location.

Coral originally planned to send her younger brother and the princess away first, and then she and the other weaker atavistic mermaids would change direction and continue to escape, in order to attract the attention of the pursuers.

If she can stall for an hour, or even half an hour, Hailan can take Princess Pearl into the sea, and then even Coral won't know where they will end up.

But she never expected that the terrifying wizard named Royer would catch up with them in just five minutes.

As the terrifying red ball of fire was about to fall, Coral could only think, "Azure won't be able to escape either."

As the scorching fireball grew larger and larger in their field of vision, almost filling the mermaids' lives and world, the scene before them suddenly froze!

It was as if someone had stopped time.

"No, it's not time pause! Something is stopping the movement of nearby objects!" Royer was the first to react.

Being high in the air, he was least affected and was the first to sense what had stopped his lava descent.

It's a water droplet!

They are tiny, inconspicuous, yet ubiquitous water droplets in the air!

(End of this chapter)