The villain daughter did all kinds of things

Machira sent another team of trusted mermaids into the Emerald Sea to investigate Emerald's other secrets and seek out weaknesses for revenge.

These merman scouts lived up to expectations and actually made a discovery—they discovered that Amelie was secretly trading slaves with some of the elven nobles, exchanging energetic and strong human lads for hot and beautiful elven village girls.

When Machira found out, she was overjoyed and decided to personally take action against Baihe Shipping's business. She also wanted to expose Amelie's affairs to the Allen Federation, shattering the saintly image that Amelie had worked so hard to build.

Just as Machira was about to take action, she received another message.

This news comes from the border between the Merfolk and the Fish-Men. Apart from the time they joined forces to wipe out the Squid Clan, these two intelligent races in the sea have always been hostile to each other, and they fight several times every now and then at the border. Every few years, there is a war of considerable scale.

Machira's growth from an ordinary mermaid to where she is today can be attributed entirely to her battlefield training and the accumulation of her battle achievements.

At this time, the merfolk caused trouble on the border again. They launched a surprise attack on two merfolk border outposts, killing almost all the merfolk soldiers stationed there.

Despite her reluctance, Machira was able to distinguish between public and private matters. National defense was far more important than her personal grudges, so she had no choice but to give up on immediately causing trouble for Amelie and deal with the conflict on the border between the two tribes first.

After arriving at the scene and taking a quick look, Machira was furious.

The more than 100 merfolk soldiers stationed at the two outposts were not only all dead, but they were also all cut in half at the waist by the merfolk soldiers. Their lower fish-like bodies disappeared, while their upper human bodies were piled up in front of the outposts as a kind of spectacle, which was a clear provocation.

While Amelie doesn't eat humanoid creatures, it doesn't mean other humans don't. In fact, the lower half of a mermaid's body is a very expensive and top-quality ingredient. In Eastern countries, there's even a saying that eating mermaid flesh can increase lifespan.

However, because they did not want to have a full-scale conflict with the merfolk, several human kingdoms have explicitly prohibited the direct hunting of merfolk.

However, banning hunting does not mean banning trade. Humans are very willing to exchange land specialties for mermaid meat with the fish-men. Therefore, a large portion of the mermaids killed by the fish-men in each war become expensive food spoils of war.

Back in the port area of ​​Sphingard, Antonis Melson ordered seafood from Machira and said he would grill them and eat them. And it wasn't just talk... In fact, Antonis really liked eating mermaid meat. In his eyes, mermaids were a kind of high-end seafood.

So when Machira saw the terrible state of the two outposts, although she was furious, she didn't think too much about it at first. She assumed it was the work of some fishman unit that was greedy for money, and that such things were not uncommon.

Machira's approach was the same as before: she personally led a group to take revenge—the flesh of the mermaids' lower bodies was a top-tier food for humans, and the mermaid pearls inside the mermaids' bodies were also high-quality magical materials for humans.

The fish-men can sell mermaids to humans as food, and the mermaids can of course sell fish-men to humans as raw materials. This is an open secret among the three races.

After all, those who died in the conflict were mostly low-ranking soldiers from both races, while the powerful and wealthy were perfectly safe and even profited from trade with humans. So this strange phenomenon has persisted for a long time.

Machira personally led her people to take revenge on the fish-men, thinking it would be an easy task.

If she could also kill some of the merfolk and take the mermaid pearls to avenge herself and give the angry merfolk soldiers an explanation, the matter could be temporarily resolved, and she could then free up time to deal with Emerald and find a way to kill Shasha.

Unexpectedly, the fish-men did not act according to their tacit agreement this time. Their number one warrior was already waiting for Machira near the border, and they engaged in a fierce battle as soon as they met.

He was a tall and imposing male merman who wielded a trident as his weapon. He was also skilled at manipulating water and his strength was comparable to Machira's, making him an old rival.

Things took a little beyond what Machira had expected, but she remained calm. The number of merfolk soldiers she brought was almost twice the number of merfolk soldiers stationed there. As long as she could hold back the merfolk's number one warrior, the remaining soldier-to-soldier battles would surely result in a great victory for the merfolk.

After all, the soldiers of the two races are of similar quality, and without a strong commander, the side with more soldiers usually wins the battle.

But as the battle between soldiers officially began, Machira instantly lost her composure.

Because the actual battle situation was completely opposite to her expectations, the merfolk soldiers, who outnumbered the enemy by almost twice, not only failed to gain the upper hand, but also suffered a near one-sided massacre.

The main reason for this situation is the weapons on both sides.

Merfolk soldiers still use a spear-like weapon, and in combat they need to charge to the target before attacking, which can be said to be stuck in the era of cold weapons.

The merfolk soldiers used to do the same, but now they all took out a strangely shaped metal tube. Hundreds of meters away, they would aim at the charging merfolk soldiers, and high-speed steel nails would shoot out from the tube's opening, easily piercing the merfolk soldiers' armor and penetrating their flesh.

This meant that before the merfolk soldiers could even reach the enemy, many merfolk were shot and killed by the merfolk's new weapons, floating belly up and turning the nearby seawater red.

Chapter 285 The Mermaid Schemed and Manipulated

"A human-made magic gun... or rather, an improved version with enhanced underwater performance!"

Machira recognized the metal pipes at a glance, her beautiful features contorted with rage. She forcefully shoved her trident-wielding opponent aside with a powerful spear thrust, roaring furiously:

"Are you out of your mind, Ketu?! You actually bought human weapons? Does this mean your fish-men are going to break the oath you made together with the sea?!"

The civilization of the sea people has been passed down for nearly 10,000 years, but its development has been slow, and the fish-men and mermaids have been fighting each other for many years.

In the generations of hatred and war between the two races, the only time they joined forces was to completely annihilate the Squid Clan, the third largest of the original sea tribes, and drive them out of the sea.

The main reason this happened is that the Squid Clan had been playing both sides in the war between the Fish-Man Clan and the Mermaid Clan, reselling weapons and supplies at high prices. This not only made the civilians of the Fish-Man Clan and the Mermaid Clan grit their teeth, but also seriously infringed on the interests of the powerful and wealthy of the two clans.

After completely driving the squid tribe out of the sea, the fish-men and mermaid tribes made a joint oath to the sea—no matter how the two tribes fought, they could not purchase weapons from third parties, nor could they allow third-party forces to intervene.

The fish-men and mermaids are still very devout to the sea. If the first warrior of the fish-men, Ketu, really broke his oath to the sea, even his own people would despise him.

But Ketu simply stretched out his large mouth on his fish head and let out a strange, cacophony laugh:

"Buy? Who said I bought these weapons? A while ago, a small transport airship belonging to the Merson family had an accident and had to jettison a few boxes of cargo to reduce its weight, which we just happened to find... It's all a gift from the sea! We found it, we didn't buy it, and we haven't broken our oath to the sea."

"Found it?"

Machira was so angry she laughed.

She wasn't stupid; she immediately understood the cause and effect of the matter.

Clearly, this was Amelie's doing again. Otherwise, why would the Melson family's small airship carrying goods have an accident at this particular time? And why would it happen that several boxes of weapons were lost in the waters patrolled by the merfolk army?

However, after figuring this out, Machira became even more wary of Emerald. She hadn't expected that Emerald could not only influence her queen's decisions, but also have connections with the fish-men.

"You wretched witch! I won't let you get away with this!"

Despite her anger, Machira still needed to resolve the issue.

Ordinary merfolk soldiers were no match for merfolk soldiers equipped with magic guns, so Machira had to personally kill those merfolk soldiers.

But Ketu, the first warrior of the fish-men, would not stand idly by and would continue to attack Machira to stop her actions.

Machira had no choice but to resort to some dangerous methods, enduring Kt's attacks to kill the fish-man soldiers wielding magic guns.

With the mermaid commander Machira personally taking action, the ordinary mermaid soldiers, many of whom were not even considered first-stage cultivators, were naturally powerless to resist and were quickly killed. Their magic guns were also destroyed by Machira.

However, in her attempt to kill these merfolk soldiers, Machira was also caught off guard and stabbed hard by the handle of her trident by Ketu, the merfolk's number one warrior, and was slightly injured.

"withdraw!"

Although she suffered a loss, she had barely achieved her goal of killing the fish-man soldiers to avenge her subordinates. Machira did not linger in the battle and retreated in a torrent, carrying her subordinates with her.

Seeing this, the first warrior of the fish-men only symbolically waved his trident and unleashed a few magical attacks in pursuit, but he did not chase after them himself.

Because Ketu is also quite devout to the sea and unwilling to break his vow to the sea, picking up weapons is actually a bit of a rip-off... but there's nothing he can do, someone just gave him too much.

For Ketu, this outcome is a win-win situation... He got the benefits, and all the fish-man soldiers who broke the oath of the sea were killed. They were all cannon fodder soldiers from commoner backgrounds, so he wouldn't care how many died.

. . . . .

Meanwhile, on another side, in a submarine in the secret black market of the Velen mine, eight mermaids were hanging in mid-air with their hands bound, their eyes vacant and their expressions completely ruined. Only the occasional slapping of their fishtails indicated that they were still alive.

These were all merfolk scouts that Machira had sent to the Emerald Strait. They were basically captured as soon as they arrived, and the intelligence they sent back was all at the behest of Emerald, containing information that Emerald wanted Machira to know.

Merfolk are naturally adept at hiding in water, and their scouts are even more so. Theoretically, unless Emery or Julia personally goes into the water to search, it would be impossible to find these merfolk scouts.

This is also why Machira dared to send them to gather intelligence; Machira didn't believe that a young lady like Emery would go into the water herself so easily, just for the sake of vigilance.

In fact, Emerald did not go into the water herself, but she anticipated Machira's actions, and the one who captured these merfolk scouts was none other than Shasha.

Don't be fooled by Xia Sha's seemingly weak and vulnerable appearance when facing Machira; that's only because she's an office worker and not good at combat. After all, Xia Sha is a former high priestess of the mermaid clan, and her magic power is genuinely at the third stage level. Her combat ability is at least around level 120 from the original game.

Even if they're not good at fighting, they can still overwhelm others with sheer numerical superiority. Those merfolk scouts were no match for them; they were captured almost as soon as they entered the Emerald Strait, and didn't even have time to send a message back before they were captured.

The subsequent re-education and training of these merman scouts was not carried out by Amelite herself, but by the elven girls of Edith, who thoroughly enjoyed the task. They used less than a third of the methods Amelite had used on them on the merman scouts, and these mermen were reduced to mere fodder.

At that moment, one of the mermaid scouts suddenly focused his empty eyes, and the rhythm of his tail slapping the ground suddenly quickened.

Snapped!

This caused a whip to lash her body immediately, leaving a crackling electric current that made the fish tail slap even faster.

"What happened? Tell me!"

Edith was dressed like a succubus, wearing a leather bra and leather hot pants, and holding a heart-shaped leather whip.

The merman scout's eyes flickered with struggle for a moment, but upon seeing the crackling electricity at the heart-shaped tip of Edith's whip, his expression turned to fear, and he obediently said:

"It's the commander... Oh, it's that old woman Machira who contacted me. She said she's taken care of things on the border and will be coming to Emerald Strait soon."

"I see... Hmph, you're good, here's your reward!"

Snapped!

Edith said, lashing the merman scout with her whip again. This time, however, the heart-shaped tip of the whip emitted not electricity, but a pink magical glow. The merman scout, instead of showing any pain, grinned from ear to ear, clearly enjoying the sensation.

"Go and inform the owner that the plan is going well and the fish is about to bite."

Edith first gave an instruction to another elven girl, then snapped her fingers.

hiss~~

The chains binding the merman scouts' hands instantly frosted over, and the bound merman scouts shuddered, their empty eyes gradually regaining focus.

Seeing this, Edith swung her whip again and raised her voice:

"Don't forget your mission! You have already betrayed Machira and can never return to the Mermaid Clan! Your only bright future right now is to complete your mission, receive Lady Shasha's baptism, embrace the Abyss, and become fish belonging to your master!"

The merman scouts exchanged glances, all seeing the helplessness in each other's eyes; they truly had no other choice.

Machira hates traitors the most. Once their betrayals are exposed, even if they were defeated and captured and had no choice but to betray in order to alleviate their suffering, they will face the most severe punishments and the cruelest executions when they return to the Merfolk army.

They had no choice but to remain traitors to the end.

. . . . .

Although I really wanted to teach that pink-haired witch a lesson right away, it was best to wait until night to carry out the covert operation.

So after dealing with the conflict on the border, Machira patiently waited until late at night, taking the opportunity to heal the wound inflicted by the trident, before heading towards the Emerald Strait.

Based on the intelligence relayed by the merfolk scouts previously sent to this area, Machira quickly located a submarine belonging to the White River Shipping Company.

The ship was painted with the words "Marine Material Collection," but Machira knew this was a complete cover-up; Shirakawa Shipping's real business was the slave trade.

They would sell strong young human men to the elven kingdom to serve wealthy elven women, and sell some elven village girls or elven nobles who had lost in internal power struggles to powerful figures in the Allen Federation or to brothels.

These things are actually an open secret in the Elf Kingdom and the Allen Federation, but they can only be done in private. Openly, they still violate the laws of both sides, and whoever is exposed is finished.

Even though Amelie has now established herself as a saint, her good reputation will inevitably be affected if her company's business dealings are exposed. In fact, the contrast with her saintly image may even provoke greater public anger.

This was also Machira's purpose for this trip. She wanted to obtain evidence that Emerald had condoned her subordinates or even personally participated in the slave trade, in order to threaten Emerald into handing over Shasha... It would be even better if she could take this opportunity to teach Emerald a lesson again.

Unfortunately, the idea was beautiful, but the reality was cruel.

After secretly observing the White River Shipping submarine for a period of time, Machira made her move against it.

She used magic to throw the submarine out of the water and fix it in the air, then roughly broke into the submarine, trying to find evidence of Amelie's involvement in the slave trade.

Then Machira was dumbfounded.

Because there were no elven slaves or strong young human men on the submarine, but a real collection team working there, and they even had a reporter with them.

The members of the data collection team cowered in fear in the face of Machira, but the reporter was fearless, practically shoving his camera device right up to Machira's face.

"Are you Commander Machira of the Merfolk? What are you doing here? And why are you attacking our ocean resource collection ship? Are you declaring war on the Allen Federation?"

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Machira, of course, wouldn't answer. Journalists are masters at taking things out of context; whatever she says will become a weapon against her.

At this point, Machira did not realize that this was a complete trap, because she was unwilling to believe that the excellent scouts she had chosen would betray her.

So, faced with this situation, Machira's first reaction was that this matter must not be exposed, and the best way to bury a secret is, of course,...

To silence them.

brush!

So when faced with the reporter's bold question, Machira didn't say a word. Instead, she swung her three-pointed double-edged spear and unleashed multiple ultra-high-speed compressed water blades, shredding the submarine like potato cubes, along with the crew members, including the rather pretty female reporter.

After completely destroying the evidence of her crimes, Machira immediately looked around to see if there were any other witnesses. She only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was no one else nearby.

"Oh ho ho ho ho~~~~ I saw it~~~~"

However, at that moment, a very arrogant laugh suddenly rang out in the night sky:

“I saw it…and I wrote it all down! Commander Machira, your brutal murder of my Allen Federation resource gathering team and frontline reporters! I will lodge a formal diplomatic protest with Her Majesty the Queen. Just wait to get a scolding when you get back, hehehehe…”

"Aimee! Litte!"

As she watched Emerald, dressed as the Winged Saintess, descend from the sky and float on the sea, Machira bit her lip and spoke each word with utmost deliberation.

Only then did she realize that she had been tricked again, and that she had fallen into the witch's trap from the very beginning.

Emerald, however, disregarded Machira's anger. With one palm facing upward, she used magic to create a projection that played on a loop.

This projection was none other than the entire process of Machira's attack on the White River Shipping submarine to the brutal killing of all the crew members to silence them. The entire projection video was crystal clear and the angle was perfect, making it look like a meticulously crafted movie.

"Oh dear, oh dear..."