The explosion only lasted an instant.

But the aftershocks continued for a long time.

Many black tide monster fish still stubbornly swam toward where Alfonso had been after the explosion occurred.

But they were immediately swallowed by the exploded black mist and didn’t swim out again.

Because of Alfonso’s sacrifice, the pressure on the defense zone was immediately reduced by more than half, and some wizards who could barely hold on finally had a chance to catch their breath.

But Saul knew everything wasn’t over yet.

Although Alfonso’s self-destruction had killed most of the black tide monster fish surrounding him, some on the periphery survived. After the black mist gradually dispersed, they were no longer obsessed with Alfonso and turned back, attracted by the excessive black tide pollution on the Red Sea Trees’ side.

But the enemy density and intensity were somewhat weaker than before.

Injured wizards finally had a chance to rest.

But Saul never left the Red Sea. He stayed at the very center of the battlefield, still treating pollution for every wizard who came to him.

Now countless fate lines from wizards he had treated surrounded him. They joyfully clustered around Saul, appearing very close to him.

However, Saul knew these fate lines’ influence couldn’t enable him to lead the corresponding wizards in rebelling against the Tribunal, but at the right time, they could also become Saul’s assistance.

But observant people had already noticed that since Alfonso’s self-destruction, Saul had only used his left hand to treat everyone.

His right hand remained tightly clenched.

And he would occasionally look down at his palm.

What Saul was looking at was a pearl.

Ordinary in appearance, not large enough, not even round enough.

But still brilliant and lustrous, not changing its beauty for the world’s opinions.

This was a tear shed by mermaid princess Pearl, which had transformed into a pearl the moment it fell into Saul’s palm.

The constantly confused mermaid princess had tasted the pain of clarity after regaining consciousness.

After Alfonso’s self-destruction, Pearl let out a cry, shed a tear, then like a candle burned to its end, extinguished her life’s flame with a hiss.

In the Little Mermaid story Saul had read, she’d ultimately become foam flying toward the sky, but Pearl became black ash falling into the sea.

Saul didn’t retain the powder between his fingers—this should also be the ending Pearl wanted.

After grabbing Pearl, he had already discovered that her body had been possessed by a higher-order existence, and her body had been used for energy manipulation beyond her capacity. This caused Pearl’s consciousness to recover considerably, but her body was completely ruined.

Even her corpse couldn’t be maintained.

Only that one tear falling into Saul’s palm was probably her last bit of self.

But even this bit of self was abandoned by Pearl along with Alfonso’s departure.

The diary opened proactively for the first time in a while.

[Lunar Calendar Year 321, January 25th, Clear weather, 

Mermaids are spirits of the sea,

Mermaid tears, Are the sea’s sighs.

Holding the ocean’s beloved child, 

You can become the ocean’s friend.]

Perhaps due to Pearl’s special abilities, perhaps her bloodline’s specialness, and perhaps also the influence of Water God Floco, the pearl in Saul’s hand was actually a magical tool recognized by the diary.

After reading the diary’s introduction, Saul had some guesses about the pearl’s abilities in water, but the specific usage methods still needed future experimentation.

His mental power swept over it, storing the mermaid’s tears in his storage device.

This was somewhat difficult.

The storage device was, after all, a spatial tool created by a second-rank wizard. After storing the mermaid’s tears, the spatial power became unstable.

It seemed Saul would need to research how to improve the storage device in the future.

Those ancient magical tools didn’t have this problem—their own seals ensured they wouldn’t affect ordinary spatial tools. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ n0velfire.net

The battle continued, and Saul’s treatment work never stopped.

After an unknown amount of time, a light suddenly appeared on the battlefield.

Everyone’s hearts leaped, thinking the defense formation had been restarted.

But Saul knew it hadn’t been two hours yet.

He looked up and saw a second sun appear in the sky.

The warm yellow sun was bright and warm, dispelling the cold from the deep sea.

“It’s the Chief!”

“The Chief has come!”

Soon others recognized Frim too.

Although they weren’t clear why Frim, who should be maintaining the formation in the rear, appeared on the front lines, as the Tribunal’s absolute core figure, his mere appearance gave everyone boundless confidence.

Frim didn’t reveal his true form but glowed and generated heat like a real sun.

Then, without any special attack movements, the black tide monsters that had been attacking wizards in the deep sea turned belly-up one by one like dead fish, floating on the sea surface.

The wizards below also swam up and finished off the enemies.

The light from the second sun in the high sky illuminated very far places. Saul saw large numbers of black tide monsters floating on the sea surface along the southeastern coastline.

Those monsters were already dying when they floated up, then were completely killed by other wizards who rushed over.

However, despite Frim’s intervention, more distant war zones were still being attacked by black tide monsters, and some black tide monsters on the seabed hadn’t been illuminated and still required other wizards to dive into the pollution-filled sea to fight.

But regardless, Frim alone had almost completed half the coastal wizards’ combat work.

Truly worthy of a fourth-rank wizard.

The real deal!

After Frim appeared, another ten-plus minutes passed before the defense formation behind them finally lit up again.

Everyone breathed a long sigh of relief, then quickly killed the remaining monsters still destroying the Red Sea Tree forest before going outside the defense formation to meet the enemy.

Although the battle wasn’t completely over, everyone knew the crisis had passed.

The defense formation separated the black tide monsters from the Red Sea Trees and also isolated the super-concentrated pollution near the Red Sea Trees.

After a while, the monsters that couldn’t sense black tide pollution would leave, following the retreating tide back to where they came from.

Of course, the seawater pollution inside the defense formation still needed handling. Relying purely on Red Sea Trees was too slow, and all the mermaids under the Red Sea Trees had died.

Without mermaids to take away the Red Sea Trees’ stored black tide pollution stem blocks, the Red Sea Trees would eventually vomit out the pollution they had consumed!

Looking at the Red Sea Trees that had lost nearly thirty percent, Saul retreated to the cliff. Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs novel{f}ire.net

His treatment mission was perfectly complete. His taut nerves relaxed the moment his feet touched the ground.

Saul staggered and nearly sat on the ground.

But an arm reached out to support him.

Saul turned around and was shocked to discover it was actually Royer!

However, Saul cleverly transformed his shock into anger.

“Where the hell did you go?”

Being scolded by Saul, an outsider, Royer wasn’t angry. His complexion was also very poor, carrying a terrible pallor, and his soul body was quite unstable.

But overall there was no life-threatening danger.

Royer, who was usually cheerful and familiar with everyone, showed a bitter expression, “I, I really died once.”

(End of Chapter)

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