327 Mermaids Blessing (2/2)

”Mercer, until we return, you must take care of her.”

At that moment he remembered his master's words before departing.

”That is true, Master entrusted her to me, how can I let something happen to her without doing anything? Moreover...”

After thinking that, Mercer finally moved and jumped to catch Merumi who was still in the air.

”There is no way I can have a happy life if I let you die in front of my eyes!”

Mercer shouted while catching Merumi's body before the light around Merumi's body expanded engulfing the two of them and making them disappear from the Storage Space.

Before his body disappeared, Mercer managed to hear a thank you from Merumi's weak voice.

At the next instant, Mercer didn't feel any explosion nor mysterious power; he just felt as if someone had put him inside a pool without notice and his body was sinking.

”I am under the water. I can't breathe.”

Mercer was too weak to correctly enduring while being under the water for a long time since he was still at the Mortal Rank, but suddenly he noticed that he could breathe despite being under the water

”What is this? Right, where is Merumi?”

Mercer didn't have time to wonder why he suddenly was able to breathe under the water; he looked around until he found Merumi floating ahead of him with a light surrounding her body. That light was one of the two only points of light in the room.

Mercer swam until Merumi's body and noticed that although she was unconscious, and her face was pale, she was still alive.

From where Merumi's body was, Mercer could see a pearl shining with a reddish color that remembered him the color of blood. Mercer felt that the pearl was the main reason for Merumi being in that state.

Mercer tried to move Merumi's body, but despite her body's being floating, Mercer was unable to move it.

”I need to do something about that pearl first. Maybe that is the World Sea Pearl that master was trying to recover.”

At that moment Mercer remembered another part of the words told by his master.

”After your playtime ends, you will need to work hard.”

Mercer finally understood that his master predicted that situation and entrusted it entirely to him. Thus, Mercer also guessed that no one would appear to help him and Merumi, most likely because that wasn't possible.

”I need to do it myself.”

Although Mercer didn't understand why his master chose him and not someone stronger to do that job, he didn't mind because he wanted to be the one saving the girl he loved. Especially, since he saw that Merumi was ready to die as long as she didn't harm Mercer in the process, he felt that only he could do that job.

Mercer swam towards the World Sea Pearl, and some of the reddish light entered into his body provoking a lot of pain; if it weren't because all the stats of his body were perfect for his rank, he would have exploded.

Despite the pain and knowing that if he continued, he would explode, Mercer continued ahead while stopping the suppression of his breakthrough.

Due to that, he immediately stepped on the Novice Rank while absorbing the reddish energy as a substitute of the formations that usually were used in that situation.

The reddish energy was extremely violent, but somehow Mercer managed to turn it on his own energy without too many difficulties. In fact, that was the reason why only Mercer could save Merumi.

The mermaids with a pink tail had a special capability called Mermaid's Blessing that could be used only once in their lives on someone of the opposite gender that was from a different species.

That blessing gave the target some abilities like breathing under the water or being able to absorb the mermaid's life force that the World Sea Pearl was emanating after absorbing the blood of the sacrifices made for the matriarch.

However, using the Mermaid's Blessing was a serious matter because it could become lethal for the mermaid. If the target who received the Mermaid's Blessing stopped loving the mermaid or died, the mermaid would also die.

Mercer unknowing that he had obtained such a precious blessing, but he didn't stop until he grabbed the World Sea Pearl with his hands despite the terrible pain that he was suffering.

A lot of wounds appeared on Mercer's body, but he managed to endure the energy without exploding while he returned to Merumi's side after grabbing the World Sea Pearl with his hands.

The reddish light of the pearl disappeared once Mercer neared Merumi and then it changed to a pink light that entered on Merumi's body. However, Mercer saw that the pink light didn't seem to harm Merumi as it made her face recover its usual color and her expression relaxed.

Besides that, the originally black hair of Merumi changed into pink hair like her tail, but Mercer didn't mind about that as long as she was safe.

The World Sea Pearl remained floating near to Merumi's body like if it had found a suitable owner.

Even after Mercer hugged Merumi with his left arm, and advanced towards the huge door that was in front of him, the pearl, which continued emanating that pink light, followed at his side.

”I need to break this door to exit.”

Mercer wasn't too sure of how his strength was at that moment since he had leveled up far too quickly until the Apprentice Rank due to the energy of the World Sea Pearl.

A Frost Claw appeared on Mercer's right hand for the first time, and he started to attack the door, but it didn't seem to have any effect on the door.

”I am finally able to create a Frost Claw, but I am not used enough to use something like this.”

After thinking that, the Frost Claw turned into a long Ice Sword. Mercer's control over the water improved a lot since he received the Mermaid's Blessing making that he could change water into ice easily.

”Break!”

Mercer used his whole strength in that attack which even created Sword Qi and made him advance to the master stage in swordsmanship in one go.

The door wasn't too sturdy from inside since that chamber wasn't really a place to imprison others, so it broke after receiving that attack.