Chapter 532 – Side Story) Karma Returned From the Deep Sea (6)
Luckily, his godmother and the mermaids under him came to this world with their powers almost intact.
Of course, the sea was also in the midst of chaos due to the arrival of numerous races… But compared to the land above, it was only a small chaos… The Mermaids, who were strong enough to come to the world with their power intact, were quickly destroyed. We were able to unify the sea in that area.
And, in the eyes of the Great Mother, who unified the sea into one force… It was land, not the vast sea that could still go further.
In the previous world, the land was full of chaos that had never existed before… In the eyes of the Great Mother, it only seemed like an opportunity.
Moreover, the godmother at that time… One of the reasons was that the mermaids had the strongest power in history.
Therefore, the Great Mother came up to the surface with Mermaids, Mermen, and Nagas who could fight on land, as well as numerous sea monsters.
And…
“…”
Just like that, the godmother, who confidently climbed onto the land, was planted on the ground by the black-haired monsters that suddenly flew in.
The memories after that were terrible.
The Mermaids, the Great Mother, and the sea races suffered almost annihilating damage in an unexpected surprise attack without any dialogue or negotiation. The sea monsters they had dragged were scattered to pieces by the black-haired monsters, and they were scattered across the land. It was because I had no choice but to watch it become fertilizer.
The experience of almost ‘drowning’ on land with that blood and meat… Was actually less terrible than the experience that followed.
“… I was left as is until I withered and twisted.”
After that… The monsters who planted them on the ground and their fellow monsters set up something called a world government, and the sea race, which was dying out like them, was forced to bow down under the world government in order to survive. There was no outside.
Is that all?
In return for obedience, even finding a groom for breeding… No, even finding a ‘seed’ could only be obtained with the supervision and permission of the world government.
And that at a huge cost.
If this is violated…
There was nothing they could do because the blond fox monster, who was a companion of the two black-haired monsters, was instantly returned to the time when it was ‘withered and on the verge of death’ due to a curse passed on to the mermaids.
Actually…
The ban imposed on all Mermaids except those who were waiting on the sea instead of on land because they were still young and unable to fight at the time… In fact, even the survival of the Mermaid race could be saved only through humiliating obedience and surrender to the world government. It was an evil, evil prohibition that was made.
“… Up to that point, yes, up to that point is okay.”
It happened because they lost.
If it had been the other way around.
They, too, would have taken numerous ‘grooms’ to the sea as mermaids’ partners every year… So I could understand that.
But.
The question was whether the quality of the ‘seed’, which was not even a ‘groom’, that was obtained with great difficulty while suffering such humiliation and contempt, was not even that.
The gems that can be created by hundreds of mermaids clinging together, and the ‘seeds’ that mermaids can obtain by giving away the tears of the sea, are enough for at most a few dozen people.
In the first place, the cost of ‘traveling’ to the mainland and taxes for recognition of autonomy… If you add in the jewels that were extorted for various reasons, in fact, you had to sacrifice hundreds of jewels every year to get that much.
Is that all?
In the first place, a separate fee had to be paid to the ‘dispenser’ who provided the seeds.
… After enduring all that, that’s all I got.
Even from the point of view of the Mermaids, who were basically infertile, in reality, only one or two children were born from the seeds they saved at one time.
“… Now, I guess I can somehow hold on.”
There might be no problem now in crafting Tears of the Sea, but it was obvious what would happen later.
It was clear that the Mermaids, whose numbers were gradually decreasing, would never be able to escape from the constraints of the world government due to the burden of ever-increasing costs.
So…
“Now is the opportunity that will never come again…!”
Due to the great chaos that occurred on land, the world government is now extremely vulnerable.
The burden on the mermaids immediately increased tremendously, but surveillance and vigilance were at an even greater level than before.
Moreover, as if to give the Mermaids one more chance, they were born one after another… Hundreds of ‘new generations’, each born with talents that may or may not have existed in the history of Mermaids, are beings who have escaped the prohibition of those monsters. It was.
Even more so.
Three children were born with dazzlingly brilliant talents that, if given time, might be able to defeat even those monsters.
The godmother also knew where all this came from.
“… Yow.”
A being that Cecilia encountered by chance when she went to look for ‘seeds’ on land.
A ‘disciple’ of that blonde fox monster, and in less than a few years, another monster who became a ‘hero’ on par with those monsters…
“… If there’s a problem, it’s that it’s the male who took those monsters as his wife.”
Sadly, those monsters had already monopolized the outstanding ‘male’ for themselves.
Of course, considering the ‘new generation’ that was born, it was obvious that he would have felt the same way, so I could understand their feelings.
… Anyway, the important thing was that he was a ‘male’ that even the monsters recognized and vouched for.
So…
“… Even if we break away from the world government, it would be better to maintain good relations with it.”
Now the key was to regain freedom first.
Moreover, humans, a race of wild kings, were known to be weak in appealing to the feelings of kinship, unlike the mermaids.
In that respect, the monsters that would be the only obstacle to the plan… Maybe they wouldn’t interfere with the Mermaids.
Cecilia and the countless ‘new generations’ born by other Mermaids are also the children of the King of Demons.
Furthermore, maybe it would become a good ‘relationship’ and we would be able to have more ‘children’ in the future.
But… It all happened as planned.
And, the children who play the most important role in that plan…
To be honest, Cecilia’s behavior in taking him to the mainland out of sheer love was the height of foolishness, no different from maison’s behavior.
“… Of course, that child doesn’t know our situation yet.”
Everything that happened on land was strictly ‘controlled’, so there was no way for Cecilia, who had never been on land since she was young, to know about such things.
“Really…”
Also, she thought she should properly inform Cecilia when she returned.
She has kept it a secret until now, but considering what will happen in the future, Cecilia must also know.
Although she was a foolish and foolish daughter.
She is now the mother of children who will become queens after herself, who is nearing the end of her life.
For the sake of her people, it would be up to her, the queen of her time, her godmother, to give her the right teachings.
No matter how talented the children were, they could not grow up straight if the person teaching them was foolish.
At least during the time when those three children and the new generation of children grow up… Cecilia must be thoroughly educated as a shadow until the day the plan is realized…
“… Huh?”
At that time, something caught her godmother’s spirit.
Something was coming down quickly towards the undersea palace.
“What on earth…”
Tukwaaaaang!
At the same time as I recognized the fact that something was approaching – I felt that what had arrived in that short period of time hit the barrier of the undersea palace.
At the same time, over hundreds of high-ranking magicians… The barrier that the Mermaids’ barrier magicians had spread around the undersea palace was shattered so easily that it seemed like nothing.
“?!”
Just like that, something that didn’t stop crashed into the middle of the palace… Her godmother looked at it with her eyes wide open when she saw that it was stuck right in front of her.
It wasn’t enough that she suddenly shattered the barrier of the undersea palace, and the thing that landed right in front of her was a tree.
Just, a tree that was processed into the shape of a spear, or rather, grew as if it was ‘natural’ to grow that way in the first place.
“What is this…?”
No magical energy was detected at all.
In truth, it was just a tree in the shape of a spear.
However, I could tell just by looking at it that it was no ordinary tree.
Not only was it not in the shape of an ordinary tree in the first place, but ordinary trees did not try to take root in magically processed coral… Nor did they take root that quickly.
Pop, pop, pop…
When he saw that it was going down the roots at an abnormal speed, and was approaching his tail before he knew it.
“Ooh, take a seat first…”
Her godmother tried to escape from the ominous and bizarre appearance, but it was too late.
ㅡGrow.
The bizarre tree grew even faster, as if responding to a voice coming from somewhere, and attacked Nana and her godmother.