Chapter 115 (1/2)

“Ha!” Ray shouted and brandished his long sword, managing to cut three to four mermen, as well as their weapons, into two halves. Then he quickly broke into another crowd of mermen and brandished his sword. Instantly, the ground was covered with the light blue blood of the merman, and the merman that were shouting and yelling were all dead.

In fact, there were some soldiers that had been trapped by the merman and were at the brink of being killed by them, but thanks to Ray’s help, they managed to survive. When they wanted to thank Ray, they found that Ray had already left.

Ray’s armour had turned blue due the blood of the merman, and behind him, a huge number of dead mermen were lying on the ground. Looking from the sky, one could have spotted a blood line among the merman army which divided the upcoming mermen and the mermen that were having fight with the sea defense army.

Ray was running in the battlefield and brandishing his sword as quickly as the blowing wind, leaving a pile of dead mermen behind him. Ray then suddenly found that the space in front of him became very open, and he realized that he had already fought all the way across the battlefield.

He finally had the chance to take a rest; then he turned around and found that the ruthless merman had been shocked by his strength. He could see the fear in their ugly faces.

When he brandished his sword again, the merman could stand no more and ran away while whining.

The battlefield was covered with the merman’s bodies.

“Well done!” the old official who had also gotten blood all over himself touched his moustache and got blood all over his hand. He was disgusted by this and cleaned his hand on his clothes. Then he gave a thumbs up to Ray and said, “I know you won’t disappoint us, since you can catch the three-headed snake alive all by yourself!”

Ray smiled and got rid of the blood that was left on the sword. Then he cleaned the sword and put it back into his sheath.

“This is just the beginning; more mermen will come soon!”

The old officer nodded and sighed while watching the merman army that was organizing its team at the bay in the long distance.

“The damn mermen, why there are so many of them!”

Both the soldiers and the adventurers standing next to Ray all agreed with him. If it were another battlefield, killing such a huge number of mermen would be equal to a massacre, but in the fight with the sea race, it was just killing a tiny part of the sea race.

Even the one who was the most confident and brave could not think positively that he had won this battle when he saw the boundless mermen army in the long distance.

The mermen team was always in chaos. Since most of the mermen were just ordinary creatures who didn’t even know what order really meant, and being in disorder was their nature. Only those who were strong enough to suppress their natures could maintain the order to a certain degree, just like a child pretending to be a soldier.

When it came to an individual merman, they were not that powerful. Even the “strong merman” that was in the rank of tribal chief was only as powerful as a new and inexperienced adventurer; for the experienced adventurer, it was basically nothing.

This disadvantage was offset by the large quantity of mermen. A grown female merman laid around a thousand eggs once a year, and if a certain priest hosted an incubation ceremony, then about thirty days later, almost sixty percent of the eggs would hatch. If there was enough food, around half of the larvae merman, that looked like malformed fish, could survive. They would change their form in three months. They would mature in a year and could breed in three years, which meant that if good conditions were provided, a female merman could breed three hundred children in a year. Three years later, among the first generation of three hundred mermen, half of them would began to breed…

The fertility of the mermen was indeed strong; and they must have been number one amongst all the intelligent creatures in this regard. The gap between them and the creature who was number two in this regard was as big as the gap between a landmark tall building and a short shabby shack!

The reason why the sea race intruded the land from time to time was believed to be a way to decrease the oversized population, so they could avoid the waste of resources.

The population was actually a very precious resource for most intelligent species, but for the mermen, it was a burden.

The mermen knew that they had a huge population, so the tactic they liked most was to attack all together. They didn’t care about the loss of their peers, since they knew that the number of the mermen that were killed was basically nothing compared with to the whole population of mermen. Once, when the sea race intruded the land, there was a legendary wizard who counted the number of the mermen. He was sure that there were around three million of them, but he didn’t manage to finish counting, since he was forced back by the strong mermen of the sea race.

Since the sea race had a huge population, it was never a problem if the individual merman was feeble, or that they were always in disorder. In particular, when the sea race intruded the land, and there were some strong men from the other races that would practice spells to help them, the mermen would become crazy and not retreat until they died.

When facing an enemy that was a few times, or tens of times, or hundreds of times, or even thousands of times more in terms of the number, and that enemy was not afraid of being killed, who dare to say he was not afraid?

Ray dared not to, anyway.