Chapter 996 - 825: Mermaid’s Reckless Behavior

Chapter 996: Chapter 825: Mermaid’s Reckless Behavior

Chun and Aileen immediately headed to the lighthouse. From inside came the Mermaid’s vague voice: "Got it, I’ll go to Bronze City to save someone first, then head to Black Iron City."

Chun was dumbfounded! So she’s going to Bronze City to save Sariel? No, why, on what basis! Just going to Bronze City for no reason is already basically overstepping and job‑hopping, right? Let alone sabotaging the other side’s plan—she’s practically handing them ammo on purpose!

But maybe this is just how NPCs operate? Even if they screw players over, they can’t possibly give absolutely no return. Sariel is her obvious big sponsor, the one who got her appointed Guardian God of two cities; she has to pay that back one way or another. Saving people is the bare minimum, right?

Even thinking that, Chun still felt tangled and miserable. No idea whether I cuckolded the Ten Lords, or the Ten Lords cuckolded me—once that crossed Chun’s mind, she got even more resentful, and felt an even stronger urge to screw Silva over to patch up her own psyche.

Aileen exclaimed again: "My Divine Mirror just linked to Bilenna. Darling, go to the residence and learn a foreign language."

Chun could only calm herself down: "Alright..."

She arrived at the residence. The Divine Mirror showed no image, only sound.

Aileen said, "Because it’s too far, and we’re putting full power into keeping the sound waves crystal clear, we’re filtering out the image."

Bilenna said, "You got stronger again, huh? Playing favorites, darling!"

The sound really was crystal clear!

Chun wiped sweat: "So I’m starting to learn Bat Language right now, huh."

Bilenna laughed: "Alright, I’ve contacted the Crystal Bat. It’s daytime right now, it has nothing to do but sleep, so it’s got plenty of time to teach..."

Chun still chose to give a heads‑up first, in case something unexpected happened later and cut the connection: "Also, the Mermaid Guardian God is coming to stay in Black Iron City for a while. Find a way to contact any trustworthy people you can and have them protect her."

Bilenna was startled: "Something big’s about to go down?"

"Yeah."

Bilenna laughed: "I was just thinking life was too boring. I’m looking forward to it."

No! I am not looking forward to it!

Just then, squeaking waves came from the mirror.

Bilenna said, "That’s the sound from the Crystal Bat. It means ’Master Chun.’ Time to start learning."

Chun was sweating buckets—how am I supposed to learn this, squeak like it does? Guess I can only rely entirely on Wisdom and brute‑force this.

"Please have it demonstrate...a few hundred times!"

And right at the tenth demonstration, what was bound to happen finally happened—System prompt: Your extraordinary Wisdom has smoothed together your Great Druid Elder profession skill "Divine Craftsman Level Spiritual Perception," Cleaner Fish profession skill "Leviathan’s Strength," and Basic Dragon Language, successfully obtaining the "Advanced Bat Language" insight. Your Erudite Scholar profession experience has increased.

Advanced Bat Language?

Chun’s heart gave a jolt—she’d expected Wisdom, Druid, and Cleaner Fish factors to be involved, but hadn’t thought Basic Dragon Language would be related to Bat Language too? Because Dragon Roars have an ultrasound shock effect, the two are connected in that respect?

Speaking of which, she’d learned Dragon Language a thousand years ago—her alt had Nan go to Black Dragon City to find the Lizardman mentor Izak, while she herself stuck a little flower in her hair and eavesdropped from behind the scenes to audit the class. Izak’s sequence of instruction was simple and clear; something like "Tooth," "Claw," "Wind," "Fire," "Thunder," "Lightning," "Gold," "Silver," "Bronze," "Iron," "God," "Demon," "Lizard"... Basically, first you understand yourself, then understand nature, then understand friend and foe, in that order.

Since she had ready‑made learning experience, she shouldn’t just learn randomly now.

Chun asked, "How do you say ’tooth’?"

Divine Mirror: "Zhi‑zi——"

——System prompt: You have obtained "Advanced Bat Language" insight. Your Erudite Scholar profession experience has increased. Your Basic Dragon Language experience has increased.

Chun was stunned—she was actually leveling up Basic Dragon Language too!

She remembered Izak saying back then that because of racial limitations in pronunciation and such, ordinary people could only learn Basic Dragon Language.

But my main account is different—first thing that happened to my main was Old Whale’s badass blessing; I can use ultrasound now, my main is already beyond normal races!

Holy Shit, if this can power‑level Dragon Language, then I absolutely have to study it properly. According to Izak, once you’ve learned Dragon Language, Dragon Language Magic is super advanced! And once my Bat Language has a strong Dragon Language flavor mixed in, you think that bat won’t show respect?

Chun got fired up: "How do you say ’claw’?"

...

Bronze City sewers.

Sariel’s mood was utterly and indescribably irritable. She wanted to find that little creature, but the tiny thing flickered in and out constantly and was absurdly hard to locate.

With no other choice, she activated the offline wargaming simulation system, having it simulate the optimal deployment pattern for the Eye of Omniscience. As long as she could guarantee uninterrupted surveillance, Sariel would have ways to capture it.

Just then, the butler cut in with an emergency live broadcast: "The Mermaid has come to Bronze City against the advice of the Silver Church!"

Sariel was both shocked and delighted: "Baby’s here to save me?!"

Michael, however, was stunned: "What the hell? That shouldn’t be happening!"

Sariel snapped back to her senses and panicked as well: "Yeah! Baby can’t come here, this is going to blow up!"

Sure enough, the Bronze Guardian God’s voice rang out over the city: "Lady Helen of the Silver Divine Throne, you have come uninvited and are already committing an act of overstepping."

The Mermaid wrapped herself in a ball of water and went straight to the nearest manhole, flipped the cover, and burst out laughing: "I’m here to look for a missing citizen of Silver City. This is my duty—doesn’t count as overstepping, does it?"

As she spoke, a huge surge of floodwater instantly gathered in the sewers. Wherever the flood passed, the manhole covers in the streets were blasted skyward by the overwhelming, surging water pressure with a series of bangs, and pedestrians and vehicles along the way were drenched into chaos.

The Bronze Guardian God’s tone grew angry: "Lady Helen of the Silver Divine Throne, you were overstepping first, and now you’re disrupting Bronze City’s traffic order and interfering with the functioning of the sewers. I will report your reckless behavior to the Imperial Church headquarters!"

The Mermaid laughed carelessly: "I’m clearly helping you clean out your sewers. You should be thanking me, not complaining..."

Sariel was going mad! First an Oak Guardian God reports her, now the Bronze Guardian God as well—the Emperor will definitely have to take action.

But before she could think more, Sariel felt the surrounding space violently shaking and heard the roar of floodwaters.

Such a delicately crafted maze space was about to be broken through in such a crude, brutal way! As expected of my little baby—too strong!

The next instant, with a boom, the flood shoved a wall of wind pressure forward; Sariel rode that air current, popped open a nearby manhole cover, and reemerged into daylight!

Sariel immediately transformed into an Angel and flew at once to the vicinity of the Teleportation Plaza where the Mermaid was: "Ba—Lord of the Divine Throne, I’m here!"

The Mermaid promptly turned around and left: "I’m going to Black Iron City to have some fun."

Sariel froze, but didn’t have time to ask questions. After all, right now the biggest fear was Bronze City suddenly shutting down the Teleportation Array so they couldn’t leave even if they wanted to.

Luckily, Bronze City wasn’t that impulsive and didn’t shut down the Teleportation Array over this kind of street‑washing incident. The Mermaid and Sariel successfully teleported to Black Iron City.