The day agreed upon with the chieftain arrived quickly. The merfolk's counterattack guard team had already set off, but Maggie did not go with the team. Instead, she quietly approached the Ice Merfolk's lair alone.
She wanted to investigate something privately, but couldn't do it openly, so acting alone was the most appropriate option.
Xiu and the twins were also in the mermaid guards' group. Maggie had informed them in advance, so they didn't deliberately look for Maggie's whereabouts.
According to the map given by the chief, Maggie set off later, but quickly arrived at the Ice Mermaid's lair.
It was a dark, dark cave, completely dark, and didn't look like a place where mermaids lived. But the chieftain said that a mermaid guard who was in charge of the investigation had seen ice mermaids coming and going from here.
The guard found it very strange and went back to report it to the clan chief.
However, they dared not venture in rashly, which remains a mystery to this day.
Maggie quietly waited not far from the cave, observed for a while and found that no ice mermaids were coming or going. After a while, she cast a spell on herself and moved closer to the cave.
Meanwhile, inside the mermaid settlement, the ice mermaid sent by the mermaid shadow to assassinate Maggie was staring blankly at the settlement, because not only was Maggie gone, but the entire mermaid race had also disappeared.
The entire settlement was deserted, and he entered without any hindrance.
As for the reason... it was because the chieftain was afraid that after the strong and powerful guards of the mermaid clan left, the ice mermaids might take advantage of the situation. So the chieftain hid the slightly weaker mermaid cubs and the mermaids who were responsible for daily life.
As a result, the mermaid settlement now appears to be devoid of any fish.
Maggie felt that it was unnecessary to go to such lengths, but the chieftain insisted on evacuating and hiding, so Maggie did not stop him.
Being cautious is never wrong.
Enraged by his failed attempt, the Ice Mermaid Assassin smashed two houses in the settlement to pieces. He would have killed any living beings there to vent his anger.
Now, he can only cause destruction, posing no threat to life.
Although he was a mermaid formed from ice crystals, his intelligence was only about the same level. With his simple mind, he couldn't understand why this was the case.
Unexpectedly, the merfolk had already arrived at their lair.
At that time, Maggie had already entered the cave. It was pitch black all around, and Maggie dared not use the light spell for fear of attracting attention.
The deeper she swam, the more she could feel a strange aura, until... she touched something with a skin-like texture.
"!"
Maggie was startled. She looked up and was met with the face of a sleeping ice mermaid. In the darkness, she could only make out the general outline.
So even though the ice mermaid doesn't look scary, in this situation, it's comparable to a horror movie.
Maggie stiffly looked away and swam to the side, but then...
Next to it stood an identical, sleeping ice mermaid. Although their appearances might be different, their sizes were very similar, and they made not a sound.
Maggie was so startled that she choked and swam backward abruptly, wary of the ice mermaids waking up and discovering her presence.
However, after waiting for a long time, these ice mermaids did not react at all, like robots that had been turned off, which was even more terrifying than when they were moving.
After a while, Maggie took a deep breath before swimming back in.
Now she finally realized that the so-called sleeping ice mermaids were not just the two she had encountered, but all of them, standing in rows in the cave like statues or plastic mannequins, without a trace of life.
Their appearance was so vivid and their numbers so numerous that it made Maggie's hair stand on end.
It feels like being in a horror movie, entering a scene filled with a huge number of silent ghosts. If you trigger a certain condition, they will instantly come to life and start chasing you all over the map.
She didn't know how much time had passed, but Maggie finally made it through the group of ice mermaids. The surroundings no longer felt crowded, but rather spacious.
But the eerie atmosphere still made her uneasy, and Maggie became more cautious with every step she took.
She came ahead to scout the way. When the mermaid guards arrive, she'll have to figure out how to ensure their safety, since the number of ice mermaids outside is definitely not normal.
The mermaids sent out wouldn't be able to defeat the Ice Mermaid Squad, because there are just too many sleeping ones outside.
As Maggie was thinking, a glimmer of light finally appeared before her eyes. It wasn't very bright, but it was enough to guide her.
She guessed that the truth about the birth of the ice mermaid must be in there.
We might even see how such poorly made puppets as ice mermaids are manufactured.
Maggie cautiously approached the source of the light until she could vaguely see the scene inside. Then, she simply found a crack in the cave and crawled inside, leaving only a small gap through which light could pass.
Maggie pressed her eyes close to the crack, her whole face pressed against it, to quietly observe what was happening inside.
As a result, she saw a huge ice crystal, which shimmered with an unusually clean aura. It was definitely not from the same source as the black liquid. If nothing unexpected happened, it should be a very powerful treasure.
Judging from how it's rooted in the sea, it must have been here for a long time.
Shifting her gaze slightly, Maggie noticed a dark shadow inside, frantically swirling around the ice crystal, seemingly doing something unknown.
She could sense that the shadow was anxious and uneasy, expecting the ice crystal to grant it something, but nothing for the time being.
The moment Maggie saw the shadow, her brows furrowed instinctively. Just looking at it made her uncomfortable, and the thing that gave her this feeling of repulsion and disgust was this dark shadow.
It seems that the black liquid must have come from this shadow.
Thinking of this, Maggie couldn't help but purse her lips.
Even though they were both shadows, Maggie thought the shadow that Perkin had transformed into was a hundred times cuter than the thing inside. This dark shadow only gave her a greasy and sleazy feeling.
Although it's rather subjective, and the shadow isn't exactly lewd, that's just how Maggie feels.
Perhaps because of the shadow's prayer, the ice crystal finally responded to his expectations, leaving behind a crystal-clear liquid that separated from the seawater, just like water in water, clean and transparent.
After it spilled onto the ground, the shadowy figure quickly pulled out a small bottle from his pocket and mixed the black liquid with the clean liquid. Then Maggie witnessed a scene that she could not understand at all.
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