Above the Crystal Palace, the blue sky seemed to float faintly, and everything looked peaceful and vast. Queen Percy, however, raised her eyebrows, and her brows seemed to furrow even more.
"How could we possibly let go? The ocean is our very foundation! Yet those treacherous demons are stirring restlessly. They covet all the treasures of the seabed, and the spiritual energy within us..."
They exploited humans, spreading legends that the blood and bones of mermaids, when boiled into a paste, could not only be used to make everlasting lamps, but also grant longevity and eternal youth.
"That's absurd! Even if our flesh and blood were boiled into a paste, it wouldn't achieve the effect of prolonging life or maintaining youth. On the contrary, it would cause great harm to humans due to the rejection between different species."
This indiscriminate slaughter not only severely distorts minds but also damages the normal marine environment. For humanity, it brings nothing but harm. How could humanity possibly commit such a counterproductive act?
"But such absurd legends only serve to incite humanity's shameless greed."
People's stances are inherently unstable, and driven by self-interest, they are easily misled by demons and thus firmly believe in their fallacies.
Some evil forbidden arts were unearthed during this time, giving the originally sealed demons the opportunity to bring evil to the human world and spread it wantonly, causing the demonic energy in the human world to become more and more prevalent.
Demons and monsters are lurking among humans, closing in on us step by step. Alas!
The ocean is our best habitat, and we have the responsibility to protect and clean it. For trillions of years, merfolk and humans have lived in harmony, benefiting each other...
But now, because of their pursuit, we can only temporarily hide in this other world to recuperate. Even so, they won't let us go. I already sense that they are trying to open the gate to this other world; our calamity has truly begun.”
"Your Majesty, do not be discouraged. Didn't you say that our aquatic race has placed special guardian deities among humans? As long as these guardian deities appear, I believe all of this will soon pass..."
"You mean the illusion?" The Queen sighed again, her eyes growing increasingly unfocused.
"What does the Queen Mother's sigh mean?" Mercury raised her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling slightly.
"Legend has it that this phantom can be male or female, and even its gender is unclear. Of course, its gender is not the point. The point is that there are probably very few people in this world who have seen its true form. Part of the phantom's existence may lie in its mystery, each generation of phantoms." The Queen Mother turned around and looked calmly at her son. "For each generation of phantoms, almost only the previous generation knows its origin, and they all have roughly the same characteristics. They don't like to be constrained by others, and they won't force themselves to do things or people they don't like."
Your maternal grandmother and my mother have only heard about them from others, passed down by word of mouth. They don't appear when everything is peaceful.
It only appears naturally at specific times. Moreover, this spirit has a strange personality, both righteous and evil, wandering between the mortal and otherworldly realms, unpredictable and unfathomable. No one can understand it, nor can anyone control it, yet it is precisely this spirit that can help the Holy Maiden and the aquatic tribe overcome their calamities.
"If that's what you mean, Queen, it seems this phantom will be hard to find, and even if we do find it, it will be difficult to tame." Mercury was filled with worry, her brows furrowed.
"You can't say that. Everything depends on fate. Your grandmother said that Phantom has a unique characteristic: at a specific time, its entire body will experience ripples of water, and at that time..."
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