326 The Matriarchs Hidden Trump Card (1/2)

Yale was still hidden in the crowd that had started moving towards the places where the disturbances were being provoked.

However, that crowd didn't manage to accomplish anything because everyone stopped to move a few seconds after they started to move.

”The more you move, the quicker the poison will spread on the body. If all of you remained on the spot, you might have lasted some more minutes.”

Yale had poisoned all the crowd in the time he spent hidden among them. The effect of the poison was only putting them into a deep sleep, but without feeling a great pain or without Yale giving them the antidote, they wouldn't be able to awaken in a day.

The only bad part of that poison was that it could only affect those at the Elder Rank or lower.

In a normal environment, it would have been difficult for Yale to make so many people drink his poison as he had done, but since he was under the water, he could merge the poison with the water thanks to Water Control and make everyone absorb the poison without them noticing anything.

”What happened?”

The matriarch couldn't hide her shock when all her subordinates fell asleep at the same time.

However, in the short moment she divided her attention, Aiwai wounded her again.

”You don't have time to worry about others, dirty fish!”

The matriarch was better at long range battle than in melee battle, which made that battle extremely difficult for her.

”You... Don't even think to leave alive today...”

Aiwai attacked even more fiercely after hearing those words.

”You know how to bark, but you can't bite. You are the one who will die today!”

Aiwai wasn't only at the 2-star Sage Rank, she was a Divine Beast, which made her far more dangerous than an ordinary 2-star Sage expert. Even a pink-tailed mermaid could only be compared with a beast at the level of a Frost Winged Wolf.

The matriarch had a purple tail, so she was even weaker than that making that she was far weaker than she should when battling against someone who was only one level higher like Aiwai.

”A barbarian like you dare to speak so arrogantly in front of me... Wait, stop!”

While speaking the matriarch noticed that someone had freed Kaigur and swam away. The one who rescued Kaigur was Yale who went there while the matriarch was distracted.

”It seems that I need to use my trump card. I can only do this once in a year. You shall be proud to experience it!”

The matriarch felt that she couldn't continue to hold back more if she wanted to survive.

”Go and kill the one who saved Kaigur, after doing that bring Kaigur to me, and then you must kill yourself! This is an Absolute Order!”

That was a Forbidden Skill of the Mermaid Race that very few mermaids in the story managed to execute. It was a fearsome skill that could force complete obedience of others, even enemies, but it could only be used once every year by someone like the matriarch who was fairly talented with that skill.

In fact, she became the matriarch because she used that skill to manipulate the previous matriarch.

”Killing my little brother? You are dreaming!”

The matriarch was unable to avoid Aiwai's attacks because she never expected that Absolute Order wouldn't work with Aiwai.

In fact, the skill worked but was nullified instantly because the order of the matriarch included something that Aiwai couldn't do.

Aiwai couldn't kill Yale, that was impossible since the moment she formed the Soul Contract with Liye, and a Soul Contract made by someone at Liye's level had more than enough power to dispel that kind of mind-controlling skill if it opposed to the Soul Contract.

A normal Soul Contract would only block the part regarding Yale, but not those unrelated to that, but the matriarch was far unlucky of having used her once-in-a-year trump card with the worst possible combination of target and order.

Besides Aiwai, the only person who could have endured Absolute Order was Yale because that skill counted as an illusion skill.

Moreover, to use that skill, it was needed that the target was extremely near, so the matriarch could only use Absolute Order on Aiwai.

”Why didn't work? This shouldn't be happening!”

The matriarch felt as she was experiencing a bad dream when Aiwai continued attacking disregarding the Absolute Order.

Yale smiled from the distance when he saw the face of the matriarch. He knew from the start that the matriarch had that skill and that she would make that order to Aiwai.

The reason for having that knowledge was that he saw the future after the strategy planning started, and everything worked exactly as in the vision. However, in his vision, the plan ended in failure despite everything going well in most of it.

After seeing that vision, Yale should have discarded that plan and then made the one that Liye devised since seemed the most logical option after seeing that vision, but in that vision, Yale noticed something that could make the plan turn from impossible to a plan that was just the opposite.

The matriarch seemed desperate, but she still had another trump card that she had been secretly executing the whole time since Aiwai appeared. Even the failure in Absolute Order didn't matter as long as she used that trump card.