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"I was the one who picked you up from the beach and brought you home, and brought you back to life!"

"But you big female monkey just tried to kill and eat me! Even if you really did pick me up from the beach, you definitely didn't have good intentions! (omitted)!"

The mermaid simply made a face at Julia before hiding behind Emerald.

She was clever; from the previous interactions among the group, she had already clearly determined the family positions of Emerald and the others, so now she naturally had to curry favor with the person of the highest status.

"You stinky fish..."

Julia swung her fist, wanting to punch the fish again, but of course, she was stopped by Emery with a smile.

After calming Julia down, Emerald began to inquire about the mermaid's identity and asked if she needed to be taken home.

Miss Mermaid certainly wouldn't dare go home to die, and Amelie was well aware of that as well.

But the mermaid lady certainly won't easily reveal the truth; of all her statements so far, only the name she gave herself is true.

"My name is Shasha Akanunu Predre, a priestess of the merfolk. Several days ago, I was unfortunately attacked by a sea monster. Thank you, ladies of the human race, for saving me..."

"Hmm... Being attacked by a sea monster, that's really unlucky."

Emery pretended to believe her and said nonchalantly:

"Do you need me to arrange for someone to send you back to the sea tribe? Some of your mermaid patrol soldiers often secretly trade deep-sea specialties with our family's fleet. I can help you contact your own kind."

"Thank you for your kindness, Miss, but there's no need to go to such trouble."

The mermaid quickly waved her hand, and even her fishtail swayed twice:

"After all, I am a priest, so I know the way home... but I am still a bit weak. I hope that you can let me stay here for a few more days to recuperate."

"That's easy to say."

Emery nodded readily:

"Anyway, my fish tank is empty now, so you can stay as long as you want. If you need anything, just tell Sisi... Hmm, Sisi is my maid."

"Thank you for your generosity, Miss."

Miss Mermaid visibly relaxed, and her gratitude became much more sincere:

"May the ocean... cough, may the sea bless you with eternal strength, beauty, and wealth."

After offering her blessing to Emerald with a few special gestures, the mermaid gracefully flipped back into the fish tank.

"Then I won't disturb your rest any longer. You don't need to pay attention to me normally; just treat me as a special ornamental fish."

"Okay, goodnight then, Xia Sha~~"

Emerald smiled and waved to the mermaid, calling her by her name affectionately.

Miss Mermaid nodded to Emerald in the water, then lay back down at the bottom of the tank and started blowing bubbles, seemingly entering a meditative state.

Emery didn't say anything more, and grabbed Julia, who still wanted to ask something, and went straight back to the room.

Miss Mermaid was indeed cautious, but she had never actually been in contact with humans. Even Julia could tell that she was hiding a lot of information and wasn't telling the truth.

The mermaid in the original game basically made her appearance in this way: one day she suddenly appeared on the beach of the magic workshop that Yulia inherited, and was picked up by Yulia and taken home.

Moreover, the mermaid in the original game was also full of lies at the beginning, so that night she was tied up with an invisible ribbon by Emery and thrown onto Julia's bed, and was also forcibly fed a lot of pink magic potions before being thrown onto her.

So the next day at noon, the mermaid told her everything.

In the reality of this world, Emerald doesn't plan to play like she did in the original game. She's had enough of that forced conquest with multiple elf girls and wants to try a different approach.

Anyway, while examining and treating the mermaid, Emery had already figured out most of the mermaid's secrets, which were basically consistent with the original game's setting.

The name Miss Mermaid used in her self-introduction was not a lie; her name was indeed Shasha Akanunu Predre.

However, this name does not refer to an ordinary priest among the merfolk, but to a high priest, who is the leader of all merfolk priests.

There is no religious belief in gods in this world, and the same is true for the sea creatures. The priests of the merfolk do not worship any particular god, but rather the sea itself—at least that was the case in the past.

Xia Sha, the current high priestess of the merfolk, suddenly came into contact with a new power while praying at an altar in the deep sea.

That power was called Abyss Darkness, and Xia Sha was completely captivated by it. So Xia Sha finally abandoned her faith in the sea and embraced Abyss Darkness.

Later, Xia Sha used her position as high priestess to outwardly continue to worship the sea, but secretly dragged her fellow clansmen into the abyss one by one.

When the rulers of the merfolk, the merfolk royalty, discovered the problem, almost all the merfolk priests had become followers of the Abyss, and more than 15% of the ordinary merfolk had also fallen.

The merfolk who worshipped the Abyss didn't actually do anything bad; in fact, their increased power boosted the productivity of the entire merfolk race.

However, the Merfolk royal family could not tolerate this act of betraying their faith in the sea, and suddenly launched an attack to exterminate all the followers of the Abyss.

Caught off guard, the Abyss Cultists suffered heavy losses. Even their leader, Shasha, was critically injured and eventually collapsed on the beach near Julia's Magic Workshop.

The merfolk royalty claimed that the power of the Abyss was an evil force, and that all Abyss followers had become demons and must be exterminated.

In fact, this is what the mermaid royal family is worried about—that the followers of the Dark Abyss will shake their rule. Mermaids who believe in the Dark Abyss will never become demons.

Of course, there are still changes. Those who go from believing in the ocean to believing in the dark mermaids will basically have two prominent characteristics.

Firstly, like Xia Sha now, the appearance of the Dark Mermaid will be more human-like, with human legs instead of fish below the waist, and only turning into a fish tail at the ankles.

The second is the magic attribute. Mermaids who worship the sea are all water-attribute, while mermaids who worship the abyss will become dark-attribute.

In addition, the followers of the Dark Abyss have another remarkable ability: they do not truly die.

When a follower of the Abyss suffers irreparable physical damage, her soul travels along the faith circuit to the Abyss, where she temporarily slumbers.

If a powerful Dark Priest summons her soul to the mortal realm and grants her a new body, she can be resurrected and become even more powerful because her soul has been to the Dark Abyss.

Its principle is roughly the same as the necromancer's undead space, except that Abyss Darkness does not have an independent consciousness, nor does it control the bodies and souls of its followers. All Abyss Darkness followers are free.

In the original game, under the protection of the protagonist's team, Xia Sha escaped the pursuit of the mermaid royal family and eventually led the new mermaids who believed in the Abyss to settle in the coastal waters of the Federation. They gained the recognition of the Allen Federation and became allies of the Federation, gradually developing into a new intelligent marine race.

In this world, Emerald certainly wouldn't let Shasha off the hook; she was counting on Shasha to help her expose the true identity of the Ise Rei Group.

However, this time, Xia Sha and the new mermaids will first and foremost be friends of Emerald, and only secondly allies of the Allen Federation.

Moreover, Emerald not only wants to take down Shasha and the new mermaids, but she is also very interested in the power of the Abyss.

Because many properties of the power of darkness are similar to or even identical to the power of death, Amelie believes that darkness can help her deepen her understanding of death and the soul, further enhancing her necromancy. Later, with the effect of fusing with the heart, her divine magic will also improve simultaneously, resulting in a greater overall increase in strength.

If all goes well, according to Amelie's own calculations, after greatly enhancing herself through the power of the Abyss, and with all her trump cards, she should be able to reach the level of the Old Lich and the Red-Clad.

. . . . .

On her first night back home, Emerald naturally wanted to satisfy the girls who had been lonely for a long time by engaging them in a fierce water magic battle.

Viliana was easy to deal with; she was still as weak as before, and after losing in less than five rounds, she completely collapsed at Amelie's feet, losing all fighting ability.

The more difficult one to deal with is Yulia. Her stamina is still so high. She keeps fighting despite losing. Even though Emery didn't lose a single round, she was still exhausted with a sore back, weak legs, and stiff fingers.

Fortunately, Emerald's trip to the Eastern Kingdom greatly improved her. She first used some soul-related tricks to make Julia, who was still very energetic, feel extremely sleepy and eventually fell asleep while hugging Emerald's leg.

Emerald's own fatigue was even easier to resolve; a few sips of Marcy's Liquid Flame Essence would completely restore her, and even strengthen her vitality—according to the game, Marcy's Flame Essence could permanently increase her maximum health, making it an absolute treasure.

"...As expected, you're the best, Sisi~~"

After defeating Viliana and Julia in consecutive water magic duels, Emery, seeing that there were still more than two hours until dawn, didn't rush to sleep. Instead, she lay still and enjoyed Marcy's care to recover properly.

Upon seeing Viliana again, Amelie naturally couldn't resist tasting the fresh elven honey, and then Marcy, not to be outdone, immediately offered up the essence of the Flame of Life for Amelie to enjoy as well.

Amelie didn't stand on ceremony and compared the two exquisite delicacies.

In conclusion, if we consider it objectively as the top-quality ingredient, the Elf Honey, which has received unanimous praise from those who have tried it, actually tastes better.

However, the Essence of Vitality was modified by Masi to suit Emerald's taste, so Emerald prefers to drink the Essence of Vitality.

Marcy was overjoyed, her face beaming with satisfaction.

Viliana wasn't angry. Elves didn't have concepts like love and fidelity, so they naturally didn't understand what jealousy was. The reason she and the other elven maidens like Edith were able to restrain themselves wasn't because of their fidelity to love, but because of their loyalty to their masters.

So when Viliana saw that Marcy had won with the Essence of Vitality, she didn't think about making a more suitable elven honey for Emerald's taste. Instead, she thought about how to mix the elven honey and the Essence of Vitality in a certain way to make an even better-tasting drink exclusively for Emerald.

Given the elves' expertise in alchemy and potion-making, Viliana was quite confident.

After learning of Viliana's idea, Amelie expressed her support. She also suggested that Viliana not only research her own special drink, but also explore whether she could further enhance the effects of the Flame of Life Essence through alchemy or potion-making.

Although the essence of life flame is already very powerful, according to the theories and experience of alchemy and potion-making, no matter how good the material is, its effect can be further enhanced by adding auxiliary materials during the refining process.

After being helped back to her best condition by Marcy, Emerald still didn't sleep, but quietly left home again and went to Sulina's place.

"Hey senior, I've come to visit you!"

Emery launched a surprise attack on Sulina using water magic.

"Hey?"

Sulina was somewhat surprised, but she still skillfully retaliated with water magic:

"I thought you weren't coming... After all, Yulia's stamina is so outrageous, you must have had a hard time winning just by dueling with her before, right?"

"Hmph, I'm different now, senior! After growing up in the Eastern Continent, I'm incredibly powerful now... I've already taken down that mere Yulia!"

Emery proudly showed off, while simultaneously increasing the output of her water magic:

"Let me check if you've been slacking off lately, senior... You haven't been so engrossed in taking control of the company for me that you've forgotten that your water magic is what I love most about you, have you?"

"Of course not... Mmm!"

Sulina pushed her body's flexibility to the limit as an excellent dancer, trying to use softness to overcome hardness and resist Amelie's water magic attack. However, it was like trying to block a flood with silk and cotton cloth. In the end, everything was washed away by the flood.

. . . . .

Back home, as she soaked in the bath and enjoyed Marcy's attentive service, Emerald felt as if she had forgotten someone, but couldn't quite place them, so she simply stopped thinking about it.

"Hmm... Emerald, you're getting better and better..."

Just then, Yulia woke up, groggily walked into the bathroom, threw off her nightgown, jumped into the tub, and lay down on Emerald.

"Give me a back rub too, Marcy? My back is so itchy... Anyway, you're Emerald's maid, so you're my maid too."

"That won't do... honey."

Marcy didn't seem to care, but Emerald stopped her and personally pulled Julia into her arms, looking at her intently.

“You can use any of my other things, my darling, but not Xixi. She belongs only to me.”

"...Tch, stingy Emerald."

Julia stared at Emerald with her big, watery eyes for a moment, then just pouted and looked away. She then turned around and rubbed her back against Emerald.

"If you can't bear to use your precious maid, then you can wash my back yourself. My back is so itchy."

"Okay."

Emery chuckled nonchalantly, then took out a new bath towel and began to bathe Julia in her arms.

Chapter 276 Treatment

"Emerite, what's wrong with you? Did you go to the East and play with too many Japanese girls and then you evolved again? Why did I still faint last night even though I tried so hard? And then you left me at home and went to find other women... Don't try to deny it. Even if you take a shower as soon as you get back, I can still smell the scent of Surina on you!"

Amidst Julia's somewhat rambling mutterings, it took Marcy quite a while to finish bathing Emily, who then bathed Julia.

After a simple breakfast of boiled seasonal vegetables sprinkled with salt and pepper, chopped parsley, and dried garlic, the group traveled from Emerald's villa to the Blue Star CEO's office to begin their workday.

Even now, although Yulia has become the almost destined president's wife of Blue Star Films and Melson Entertainment, successfully leaping to the top of the pyramid of federal society, she has not forgotten her original beliefs. She still insists on going out to help others every day, using her powerful strength, which is now equivalent to the third stage, to help everyone in need free of charge.

With such a powerful idol hero protecting them, and an even more formidable backer, Locke City has long been the safest city in the Allen Federation. Even in the most remote alleys, you won't find a thief or a scoundrel. The gang members are all dressed in suits and are well-mannered, looking more like respectable people than most federal police officers.

As a result, the tourism industry in Locke has been developing at an extremely high speed, and it has now completely surpassed the original tourist hotspot, Champs-Élysées, to become the largest tourist city in Caledonia.

The Weilen Copper Mine, which was originally a pillar industry of the city, is now almost marginalized, with its economic output falling from more than 70% to less than 10%.

Once the fixed teleportation portal that leads directly to the Upper Sakura Kingdom is completed, Emeryte also plans to build an Upper Sakura Kingdom-themed street in the northern part of Locke City to further develop commerce and attract tourists. In the future, Locke City will definitely become the most prosperous city in the southern part of the entire Allen Federation.

Shortly after Julia flew out of the window to work on the street, Flora sent word that Ark and Kerry would be arriving soon.

Actually, the two of them had wanted to come to Locke City to seek treatment from Emerald yesterday, but Kerry had just been to Drunken Red House once, so there was no need to rush. Besides, Emerald had just returned yesterday, so it wouldn't be appropriate to visit her immediately. That's why they waited until today.

Amelie understood Ark's feelings; no one wanted to watch their wife spend the night with someone else every two days.

Flora herself used spatial magic, in coordination with Ark from afar, to pull Ark and Kerry directly to Emeryte's office, where tea had already been prepared for them.

Unfortunately, Ark was too eager to save his wife to leisurely savor his tea. After exchanging only a few simple pleasantries with Amelie, he went straight to the point:

"How was your trip to the Eastern Kingdom, little sister Emerald? Did you find out anything about that Rei's background?"

"Well, we've had quite a few gains, but there's good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first, Brother Ark?"

Emery calmly sipped her tea, appearing completely in control, which reassured the anxious Ark and Kerry couple.

"...Let's start with the bad news."