Chapter 279: Mermaids! I Likey! (2/2)
“There’s someone else?” Ayrin exclaimed in surprise as he looked around and saw a middle-aged man wearing dark purple arcane master robes standing beneath a humongous stone arch not too far away.
Starting from his left eye, scar ran down the left side of this arcane master’s face. Combined with his short and vivid cyan hair, his appearance was extremely fierce.
A look of disbelief filled his face as he stared at Ayrin.
“What is so strange?” Stingham asked as he subconsciously muttered, “It’s not like this is the first time.”
“What?!”
Seeing the nonchalant attitudes of Stingham and Rinloran towards Ayrin’s behavior, the arcane master couldn’t help but tremble.
“That’s right, mister ugly, to appear here, you must be an Evil Dragon Follower!” Stingham shouted as he abruptly realized he was speaking to a stranger.
“Hah. Mister, do you have any more Evil Toutous? Why don’t you release several more?” Ayrin shouted.
The Evil Dragon Follower’s face turned green.
They had only been talking for a little while, yet pretty much only bones remained of the Evil Toutou,
“Come on and talk! I’m asking you a question, why aren’t you responding?!”
Seeing the Evil Dragon Follower standing speechless before them, Stingham stuck his hands on his waist as he proudly shouted, “Forget it. Now is not the time to talk. It is the time to rob! Alright, what goodies do you have on you? Hurry up and take them all out. Also, are there any other Evil Dragon Followers here? If so, call them over so we can rob them too. Oh yeah, I also heard that there are fragments of the Tree of Life hidden here. Do you know of any?”
“Time to rob?”
The Evil Dragon Follower seemed to have fallen into a slight daze.
“I don’t know if there is something wrong with your brains, but since you have discovered me here, prepare to die!”
“Wait! We didn’t discover you. You revealed yourself to us, alright,” Stingham rebutted as he pettily pointed out the Evil Dragon Follower’s mistake.
The Evil Dragon Follower felt speechless once more as he screamed, “Go die! But before you die, remember that it was I, Bowery, who killed you!”
“The Dark King’s Gift!” An invocation rang out from his mouth.
At the same time, four Heavy Evil Dragon Protectors thunderously jumped out from amidst the vegetation behind him and encircled him.
“It’s Heavy Evil Dragon Protectors again?”
Ayrin and Stingham’s eyes began to glow.
Due to their prior experience, they currently associated Heavy Evil Dragon Protectors with treasure, treasures which were waiting to be stolen away.
“What is this look?”
Ayrin and Stingham’s excited expressions caused the Evil Dragon Follower’s scalp to turn numb, even after he invoked his arcane skill.
A vertical plane of black light appeared before him. A wind began to gust out as if it was a door connecting this reality to the unknown.
A shadow appeared within.
The shadow had the upper body of a stunning woman and the lower body of a fish, just like a mermaid of legend.
But unlike the mermaids of the records, the scales covering the lower body of this mermaid were black and exuding black gases and its skin was a deathly dark blue. Arcane energy fluctuations rippled as a black crown formed atop its head.
“Such a thick aura of darkness!”
“This isn’t an avatar… it is a summoning! It’s the Dark Queen Mermaid!”
Rinloran’s pupils contracted as his skin turned numb and his body began tingling.
From the unique aura of vitality emanating from its body, it was very clearly a real and living existence. Furthermore, there had been no arcane energy fluctuations when the mermaid appeared.
Atop Doraster, there were at least ten creatures whose bloodlines naturally released an energy which would harm arcane masters just from being in proximity. These creatures were called dark creatures by arcane masters.
During the Era of the War with Dragons, the dark elves meticulously studied these dark creatures and ended up developing skills utilizing energy which could silently permeate into another living organism and kill them like the dark energy innately exuded by these dark creatures.
The most famous was the taboo skill Darkness Ray.
During the Era of the War with Dragons, this taboo skill had carved a name for itself when someone had used it to kill the Black Dragon from Hell, Xavier, as he stood amid the Evil Dragon Army.
As a descendant of high elves, Rinloran naturally had a higher understanding of dark creatures than most arcane masters.
And right now, this Evil Dragon Follower had summoned one of these dark creatures. It was the Dark Queen Mermaid which normally resided in only the darkest swamps and had many extremely powerful, but strange abilities and methods of attack.
But what caused Rinloran to truly feel shock was that this Evil Dragon Follower had managed to summon a Dark Queen Mermaid. Because from what he learned and remembered, the dark elves had never found a method to summon a Dark Queen Mermaid. Yet it was happening now right before him.
“Hahahaha! Go die!”
As the Dark Queen Mermaid fully emerged from within the dark portal, the Evil Dragon Follower cackled with glee.
But he abruptly stopped immediately afterwards as Stingham cheerfully shouted, “A Mermaid? I likey!”
“Why don’t you date me!”
A light lit up in Stingham’s eyes as he enthusiastically charged forward toward the Dark Queen Mermaid.
“No way?” Even Ayrin was dumbfounded as he exclaimed, “Stingham, you are even interested in something like this?”
“She is very pretty. What more can one ask for?!” Stingham enthusiastically replied.
“… Just who are these brats?!”
The Evil Dragon Follower felt as if he was on the verge of losing his mind. He felt as if he himself was already a very abnormal fellow, yet the three children in front of him were so abnormal that he couldn’t understand them.