328 The past of the Mermaid Race and the Sea Race (1/2)

Yale smiled when he saw the door of the sacred chamber broke.

After the door broke, everyone saw Mercer appearing there with Merumi in one hand an Ice Sword on the other.

”Who is that kid? How did he manage to rescue Merumi?”

The matriarch didn't understand what was happening at that moment. Due to how the formations inside the sacred chamber were placed it was impossible for anyone with the Mermaid Bloodline or the Sea Race Bloodline to move after appearing there even if for some reason the punishment hadn't worked. Moreover, there was no way to endure the evil energy that the matriarch infused to the pearl nor grab the pearl without having those two bloodlines.

The Mermaid Bloodline was needed to surpass the reddish light made with the remnant life force energy of the mermen and mermaids sacrificed by the matriarch, and the Sea Race Bloodline was needed to grab the pearl. Of course, that just applied to normal experts because a Law God wouldn't have any problem in surpassing those restrictions without bloodlines, but the matriarch knew that the kid who appeared was just at the Apprentice Rank.

However, the matriarch never thought about the Mermaid's Blessing because giving control of her own life to another was something that she would never think about doing, nor she could believe that someone would do it. Of course, it wasn't like if a purple-tailed mermaid like the matriarch could use Mermaid's Blessing.

In fact, due to Merumi having both bloodlines, the benefits of her Mermaid's Blessing were far stronger than they should have been, and Mercer also obtained some benefits from Merumi's Sea Race Bloodline making it possible for him to grab the World Sea Pearl.

”You don't have time to get distracted!”

Aiwai restarted her attacks since the barrier disappeared, which prevented the Matriarch from focusing on Mercer and Merumi. After all, the two of them were like ants in front of the matriarch, and it wouldn't be difficult for her to kill them if she managed to obtain an opportunity. Moreover, since there wasn't anyone else in the Mermaid Race who could complain, she wouldn't need to restrain herself.

”Mercer, you did a good job as I expected of my disciple. Now you can rest, we can speak later on.”

Yale, who had teleported to Mercer's side after sending Kaigur to the Storage Space while Aiwai distracted the matriarch, patted Mercer's head before sending him to the Storage Space.

”You!”

The matriarch finally noticed what Yale had just done, but she couldn't distract herself because Aiwai was powerful enough to make one distraction fatal.

”Everyone! The plan has been completed. We will retreat right now.”

Yale sent a Spiritual Sense message to all the members of his group that were outside the Storage Space and went towards where they were to help them enter the Storage Space again.

The plan was recovering the World Sea Pearl, and that had been accomplished successfully, so killing the matriarch wasn't relevant at all for the plan despite their feelings. After all, the matriarch wasn't easy to kill even for Aiwai, and Yale didn't want to risk the lives of anyone in his group without reason.

Yale didn't know if the matriarch had a skill that let her use a lot of power in exchange for her life and in that case, it would be dangerous to everyone.

Before Mercer broke the door, the Matriarch still had her trump card, so there was no reason for her to use something like that; Yale had confirmed it in his vision. However, after the Matriarch's plans were broken by Mercer, Yale wasn't sure about what that mermaid could do.

While Yale was doing his part of the retreat plan, Swordmad's group joined Aiwai to battle the matriarch. They wanted to kill her, but since they knew that it wasn't possible, they just wanted to harm her as much as possible.

It wasn't just because they thought that she deserved it, but to let Yale flee from her later on. Everyone else could hide in the Storage Space, but if Yale also entered there, he couldn't be too far after exiting and if the matriarch remained in the area that would be problematic.

The matriarch was already having a hard time while battling against Aiwai, but the addition of another three opponents made it almost unbearable for her despite the three of them being individually weaker than her.

”I can't win, and this battle won't bring any benefit to me. Continue it is useless!”

After battling for a while, the matriarch stopped attacking and focused on fleeing, but making it sure that her direction was the opposite of the one taken by Yale. After all, she knew that she would be pursued if she dared to attack Yale, but she had confidence that as long as she only wanted to flee, she couldn't be stopped.