While Saul was cursing inwardly but outwardly righteously taking up the banner of resisting black tide monsters, Frim also discovered the abnormality at the coast.

Originally, to conserve energy, he had never been serious, instead resisting Alfonso’s attacks with a playful attitude while restraining Alfonso from escaping.

But when the massive mermaid aberrant appeared by the seaside, even though their location was some distance from the coast, Frim immediately noticed the anomaly.

It was just that Alfonso was simultaneously blocking Frim with desperate determination, which caused him to spend some time trapping Alfonso.

However, after dealing with Alfonso, Frim didn’t immediately kill him or forcibly search his consciousness, but instead brought the immobilized Alfonso to the seaside.

Although his main body was about to leave Nephret, Frim wasn’t truly unconcerned about the black tide assault situation.

It was precisely because of this that he had semi-forcibly made Wizard Elo replace him in maintaining the defense formations of the entire southeastern coast, and had Stuart disguise himself as Elo to serve as backup.

However, when Frim reached the high ground where he could see the coast, he happened to witness Stuart using wind as a blade to split open the hundred-meter-tall mermaid aberrant.

Frim immediately frowned. With his eyesight, he naturally saw that something was wrong with the mermaid aberrant’s condition.

The mermaid aberrant’s situation was special. When relatively far away, even Frim hadn’t discovered the abnormality within it.

By the time he saw the mermaid aberrant, Stuart had already completed his final strike.

Although Alfonso, enveloped within a ball of light, was severely injured, his consciousness was still relatively clear, so he naturally also saw the situation by the seaside.

“What is… happening?” Everything occurring at the seaside was completely outside Alfonso’s plans.

Although he had spent ten years making up his mind to let Pearl regain her freedom and live as a true mermaid princess, he would never do anything to harm Nephret Continent.

This was his home, the place he had protected for a hundred years, struggled for a hundred years.

If it weren’t for Pearl being enslaved and oppressed here with no hope in sight, he wouldn’t have created some pollution disease to isolate the atavistic mermaids.

Seeing the aberrated mermaids become massive pollution bodies, Alfonso felt a flash of guilt in his heart.

But soon, his guilt turned into self-blame and pain.

Because what happened next was completely beyond both their expectations.

Watching the massive mermaid aberrant explode violently, Frim knew everything was developing in the direction he least wanted to see.

Having led the Tribunal against black tides for so many years, he had also seen situations where black tide monsters flowed back to return to the coastline.

But at that time, Red Sea Trees hadn’t been planted yet, and pollution cleanup on shore was difficult, so after each black tide retreated, they still had to do a lot of cleanup work to prevent a few preparing-to-retreat black tide monsters from being attracted back by overly concentrated black tide pollution on the shore.

Since Red Sea Trees were planted extensively along the southeastern coast, basically no black tide monster backflow had occurred. The lower-rank wizards in the Tribunal now had probably forgotten about it almost completely.

But Frim, as the Chief, wouldn’t forget.

He looked at Alfonso inside the light sphere and questioned, “Do you want to destroy Nephret?”

Alfonso’s face was full of confusion at the extreme of terror.

He wasn’t afraid of fighting black tide monsters head-on, even if they numbered a hundred times more than himself.

He wasn’t even afraid of dying in battle.

But he was afraid that all this was caused by his releasing Pearl.

He couldn’t bear this result.

Frim also couldn’t accept this result, but he could only force himself to calm down.

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“Mermaid princesses can control mermaids through mental power—don’t you know this? I destroyed her soul body in advance, yet you released this monster again. Although I don’t know how you repaired her soul body, I’m very clear that all of this was caused by you!”

Alfonso really wanted to tell Frim that he had no method to treat Pearl’s soul body at all.

But his whole body was trembling, every muscle was no longer under his control, and he simply couldn’t speak.

Frim let out a long sigh, then bent down to look at Alfonso under his foot.

“Remember this: if the Red Sea Trees are destroyed, you are the Tribunal’s sinner; if the black tide reaches shore, you are Nephret’s sinner; if my journey terminated because of you this time ultimately leads to Gorsa angering the Abyssal Eye, you are the entire wizard world’s sinner!”

Alfonso’s eyes widened, and a tear suddenly slid from the corner of his eye, falling into the earth and disappearing.

Seeing Alfonso shed tears, Frim felt no emotion in his heart.

He only had anger.

He had clearly reached Nephret’s edge and was about to head to Stat to deal with Gorsa, who was advancing to fourth-rank.

Who would have thought he would fail at the last moment?

“Was I too arrogant? Assuming Alfonso couldn’t possibly escape my control?”

A trace of doubt appeared in Frim’s anger.

But he quickly suppressed this doubt in his heart and threw it out of his mind.

As Tribunal Chief, he couldn’t have the slightest doubt.

Everything he did was correct, verified by the future.

Looking at Elo appearing in the distance and Saul taking up the fight against the black tide monsters among the crowd, Frim slowly closed his eyes.

Having just suppressed Alfonso, this consciousness fragment’s power was already running low. Even if he entered the battlefield now, his effect would be less than a third-rank wizard.

Better to concentrate on having his main consciousness return as quickly as possible.

As long as he could return to the coast before the Red Sea Trees were severely damaged, the losses could be bearable.

After a moment, Frim opened his eyes again and lifted his foot from Alfonso, “I originally wanted to extract your soul and make you a lonely spirit forever unable to find release in the Maze Corridor. But considering your hundreds of years of service to the Tribunal, I’ll give you a chance to die with dignity.”

…

Saul stood atop the waves, his body rising and falling with the seawater. He was observing wizards from this area taking turns diving underwater to resist the black tide monster fish continuously approaching the Red Sea Trees.

Originally, Saul, who had taken on the responsibility of defense command, was also supposed to go underwater, but he quickly discovered that most wizards currently had poor combat endurance.

Previously, everyone fought on the sea surface. Although they would be hit in the face by great waves stirred up by the black tide, it wasn’t as painful as now, constantly fighting in seawater with pollution levels exceeding safety standards.

Not only was it difficult to release magical power, but they were also easily polluted. Several wizards, while fighting black tide monsters, nearly mutated and almost ran to the enemy camp.

Soon Saul understood that the fundamental reason making this battle extremely difficult was still pollution.

He made a decision—he simply wouldn’t go underwater and would hand over command duties to others as well.

He would just stand at the battlefield center. Whenever a wizard was replaced due to excessively high pollution concentration, they would immediately rush to Saul for treatment.

Saul hadn’t expected that he, originally invited to treat black tide pollution in mermaids, would ultimately return to his old profession—treating black tide pollution in wizards!

(End of Chapter)

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