Mystic Overlord: Reading Gives Strength
Chapter 425 - 422: The Mermaid’s Song

Chapter 425: Chapter 422: The Mermaid’s Song

"Don’t let the hunters get close to Halbes in the next two minutes."

This didn’t sound complicated, but actually doing it... actually wasn’t too difficult either.

Possessing the underwater capabilities developed by the "Supernatural Angel," Ronald’s physical fitness had hardly decreased, and together with the constantly driven water currents that disrupted the hunters, he still maintained an absolute advantage in fighting these sea monsters.

Whenever any of the hunters rushed nearby from any direction,

Ronald’s response strategy was to quickly close in and kill them directly.

Although these creatures possessed strong physiques and speed, in front of Ronald’s current abilities, they still relied solely on their numbers to pose any possibility of combat.

After mechanically repeating the action of twisting the necks of the hunters several times, this sort of suicide-like charge temporarily stopped.

A large number of hunters still swam around in the sea, while the one that had previously seemed to be giving orders, simply floated in the water, staring at Ronald and Halbes.

Ronald naturally noticed this.

He saw a dangerous look in the eyes of this dangerous creature, clearly considering its options in the fight.

"..."

Just how high was their intelligence?

As this doubtful thought emerged in his mind, Ronald pondered briefly, then lifted his arm and made a simple and easily understandable taunting gesture.

His understanding of the hunters was, after all, just superficial.

Now, he was curious to see what these suddenly attacking monsters were really made of.

However, right after that, Ronald experienced a rapid change of emotions.

When the leading hunter saw his taunting gesture, the previously simple contemplative look in its eyes suddenly changed. It then turned and quickly retreated, immediately calling out:

"Hiss—hiss—"

"..."

The reaction of the other hunters was similar to the one that had initially charged.

When they heard the leader’s call, all the hunters who had been surrounding Ronald and Halbes stopped immediately, turned their heads toward their leader, and then twisted their necks and scattered in all directions.

In the blink of an eye, these dangerous creatures all fled into the dark depths of the ocean, and none could be seen within visible range any longer.

Ronald’s gaze flickered.

Had they understood the meaning of his provocative action and then fled directly?

If that was the case, then the intelligence level of the hunters was definitely on par with normal humans. Dealing with intelligent enemies and non-intelligent enemies required considering completely different things, and the degree of danger was like heaven and earth. If...

A series of hypotheses popped into his mind.

It was at this moment that Ronald saw the remaining hunter leader make the exact same taunting gesture towards him.

This thing even knew how to mimic actions and taunt back!

How could he let it escape?

"Starting from the relationship between the entire Earth and sky, we’ll begin to form our cognition!"

He directly activated the "Astronomy Master’s" Magic Power, and the ability of Star Traction locked onto the hunter leader who was also preparing to leave the next second.

Almost sprinting through the water, the hunter leader broke through the water barrier in a blink. In just a split second of reaction time, it hesitated not at all and emitted an unprecedented sharp noise:

"Hiss—!"

The special sound waves spread through the water.

At the same time, the hunter leader, like its subordinates, had its neck caught by Ronald. Unlike the ordinary violently aggressive hunters before, this guy, even while Ronald was choking it, didn’t rush to attack, but instead stared intently at the man before it.

Maintaining eye contact with the Hunting Nest person whose neck he was clutching, Ronald slightly furrowed his brow.

The language this thing used had nothing to do with humans, so even though he had restrained its movements, it wouldn’t be easy to interrogate it for more information in the short term.

What to do...

Suddenly, an intense Magic Fluctuation emanated from behind Ronald.

In haste, he turned around and immediately witnessed the Spell the mermaid Haerbeis had been preparing for two minutes.

With her hands clasped in front of her chest, Haerbeis was now making a gesture akin to prayer. Without even opening her eyes, accompanied by a sudden surge in magic power, the mermaid opened her mouth.

"Wait..."

"Ah—"

Ronald instantly realized something terrible was about to happen and attempted to stop her.

However, just as he opened his mouth to warn Haerbeis, a wave of singing came from the mermaid, quickly spreading throughout the area.

In terms of sound, what Haerbeis was now producing was akin to a melodious chant.

But with the reinforcement of extremely powerful magic, this song had a high penetrative power and speed of propagation, and included some specific frequency of vibration.

A highly unusual phenomenon ensued.

The water itself did not change due to the passage of the sound, yet Ronald felt a distinct pushing force in front of him, though not strong enough to be considered an attack. Physical interference was very apparent.

Reacting even more directly...

The Hunting Nest person in Ronald’s hand.

Almost as soon as the sound waves brushed over it, the creature began to struggle insanely, but within a breath, this powerful struggle abruptly stopped, and the once strong neck went limp.

Ronald looked at the Hunting Nest person in his hand.

The large eyes, which had just been able to express rich emotions, were now dull and losing their lustre.

It was dead.

It couldn’t last even a moment in the Spell prepared by Haerbeis.

Had it not been for this creature previously dispersing the other Hunting Nest persons nearby,

all these ferocious marine creatures would likely have died in the mermaid’s attacking Spell without exception!

More than ten seconds passed.

Haerbeis slowly opened her eyes in the water, then gripped the flashlight she had tucked under her armpit again. Looking at Ronald and the corpse of the Hunting Nest person in his hands, Miss Mermaid very calmly spoke:

"It’s alright, let’s continue swimming."

"..."

Ronald thought for a moment, then said,

"This creature seems to have a pretty good intelligence?"

"When facing enemies, killing is the first priority. Ronald, do you really think it’s necessary to communicate with such creatures?"

"Alright..."

Haerbeis indeed had a point.

The Hunting Nest person displayed ferocious habits and full of hostility.

Let it be killed.

What’s done is done, Ronald could no longer change what had happened.

Resignedly glancing at the corpse of the leader of the Hunting Nest persons in his hand, he let go, allowing the body to fall into the sea.

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