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The ocean grew darker and more murky each day, and sunlight had long become a distant legend, no longer able to penetrate the stagnant waters and illuminate this fallen land.
The number of sirens plummeted precipitously due to the relentless encroachment of the Kuroshio Current and the tragedy of fratricide.
In the end, only Hailequla remained.
She continues to sing the same songs as before, drifting alone in the sea, mourning her compatriots, and searching for the fragments of the overflowing cup.
In a land swallowed by the Black Tide, a solo performance lasted for hundreds of years.
"The people on land will hold an endless feast to reward our sacrifice...?"
The mournful song echoed.
As yet another creature of the Black Tide turned to filthy blood under her sword, a faint spark of hope seemed to be forcibly squeezed out of the girl's song.
Now, the warring Titans have finally taken on the mission of resisting the Black Tide.
Once she clears away the last of the mud, she can travel to the earthly city-states and enjoy the never-ending feast.
Helequula never doubted the Queen's promise.
It is neither stupidity nor blind loyalty.
Instead, she must believe it!
She had to convince herself that the never-ending feast existed in order to keep going and fill the void in her heart.
It'll be soon!
It will be soon!
My mission is about to end.
It will be so soon before we can enjoy a feast!
The siren girl's twin swords grew ever sharper and faster, like a long-distance runner's final sprint.
Just as she was about to strike the target, her sword suddenly stopped.
"Helasia?"
Hailequra's empty blue eyes stared blankly at the last siren being corrupted by the black tide.
The other side still retains a certain degree of siren-like appearance.
The faintly discernible facial features instantly transported her back to a time hundreds of years ago.
Those were her close playmates from her childhood, who chased and played with her in the anemone garden and danced together.
Having buried countless sisters over the centuries, she naturally wouldn't stop just because of someone she knew.
To Hailequla's surprise, the other party did not sing a hoarse chant, nor did they attack him.
"Pain...torture...death...feast..."
The mutant known as Hyrucia tilted its twisted and deformed head back.
The hollow eye sockets seemed to pierce through thousands of meters of dark seawater, desperately and futilely trying to look at the long-forgotten sunlight.
"Helekula..."
The girl's hand, which was gripping the sword hilt, suddenly trembled, and the cold weapon almost slipped from her numb fingers.
She remained silent for a long time, then slowly loosened her grip on the sword hilt and reached out to her old friend.
"Do you... still retain... consciousness?"
"Helekula..."
The monster merely murmured its name, but its distorted tentacles abruptly withdrew after a brief touch.
He seemed afraid that Helequla would be infected by him.
"..."
Seeing this, Hailequla fell into a deathly silence.
She had nothing more to say.
The song, once again, struggled to escape from her lips.
"Daughter of the sea, do you have a heart set on somewhere? When the Black Tide recedes, go to Stikosia, where the people of the land will feast and sing for you."
"lie……"
However, the two words uttered by the mutated jellyfish girl stunned Hailequra as if struck by lightning.
The singing abruptly stopped.
The whole world seemed to shatter completely before her eyes.
"Mother...you're lying...it hurts...ouch!"
The mutated jellyfish siren let out a mournful cry.
It was deafening and sharp.
"No, that's not a lie!"
Hailequla retorted with her hoarse voice.
"I will complete my final mission, and then I will arrange your banquet."
"You're still conscious, aren't you? I'll take you to Stikosia! I'll show you..."
Helekula needed to prove that the light that had guided him all along was right.
Otherwise, she would not be able to suppress that intense, nihilistic feeling of wanting to die immediately.
For centuries, solitude has reached out its claws from the silent depths of the sea, devouring Helekula.
They stripped her of her mind, causing her mental health to deteriorate.
Helequla reached out and grabbed the mutated tentacle with all his might.
Strive upstream!
Improve!
Heading towards land!
Towards that distant light and promise.
Although the latter maintained a certain degree of self-awareness, it was still a creation of the Kuroshio.
She shook off Hailequla's hand.
The sharp, twisted whip grazed Hailequla's chest.
The glass-like armor shattered, wounds opened, and golden blood, like broken pearls, stained the murky seawater.
"Lies...pain..."
Herelekula's heart was about to stop; she sensed a profound emptiness.
"No, it exists, the feast exists!"
Ignoring the wound on her chest, she tried her best to persuade her compatriots to believe, as if affirming her own belief.
Just as the emotions accumulating in Hailequla's chest were like a powder keg about to explode, ready to burst at any moment.
"Beep beep beep beep?~ Beep beep?~ Beep beep?~"
A clear and ethereal flute melody suddenly rang out, like a blazing and clear light shining into the dark, blood-soaked deep sea.
This also attracted the attention of Helekula and the monstrous sea monster.
"singing?"
Who is singing?
The flute music seemed to possess a magical power, transporting Helequla back to the time when she enjoyed feasts with her sisters, and dispelling the self-destructive feeling of being swallowed by nothingness.
The beautiful flute music captivated the siren maiden.
She hadn't experienced this feeling for hundreds of meters.
Even more incredible is...
The mutated jellyfish-like sea monster's body slowly changed in response to the flute music.
She was restored to the alluring body of a siren.
But at the same time, the newly recovered skin began to become transparent.
Like the purest seawater, it transformed into countless particles shimmering with azure light, slowly drifting away.
"Helasia!"
Hailequla seemed to awaken from a dream, and swam to her old friend, "You..."
"My soul has long since dried up. To be able to hear such a song at the end of my life, to be able to hear such a song in the last moment before my life completely dissipates... to be able to see the sunlight again... is already a blessing."
Hyrucia gently shook her head, stopping Hailequla's futile attempts to persuade her to stay.
"Go, Hailequla."
"Sing along with that song."
"Go to the city-state called Stikosia."
"Sing for humanity on our behalf."
"Singing the legend of the deep sea..."
Before she finished speaking, Hyrucia's figure had already vanished in the sunlight brought by the flute music.
Only the lingering sound of blessing and relief remained, echoing in Hailequla's ears.
"Enjoy the feast for us... on our behalf."
Helequ reached out to grab the blue particles, but they slipped gently through her fingers like sand, impossible to hold onto.
But those particles did not disappear immediately.
They seemed to possess a spirit, gently surrounding her, swirling and circling, as if bidding farewell, as if offering a blessing.
Hailequla suddenly turned around.
Her gaze pierced through the endless darkness, locking firmly onto the direction from which the flute music was coming.
That beautiful melody, almost tangible, was like a lighthouse in the darkness.
Without further hesitation, she used all her strength to swim towards the light.
She swam for an unknown distance before finally seeing the surface of the sea.
The melody of the flute, carried by sunlight, pierced through the thick layer of water and shone in.
When this miraculous light and sound converge, every breath of the ocean seems to be tinged with a dreamlike, multicolored halo.
This scene...
Herlechula's lifeless pupils contracted.
Long, long ago, in the days when sunlight could still penetrate the seawater, this was the happiest time of day for the sirens.
She strives upward, chasing the intersection of light and sound.
She saw it amidst the shimmering waves and rippling rainbow lights.
There was a glimmer of golden light.
what is that?
The siren girl instinctively grasped at the golden light.
The feeling upon first purchase... is quite strange.
It is soft yet has a unique resilience.
It seems... there's something else connected to it?
and many more!
Fishing line?
His thoughts abruptly stopped, and a sudden, tremendous force pulled the unsuspecting Hailiequ out of the sea.