The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 989 - 0986 Heart of the Mermaid

Chapter 989: Chapter 0986: Heart of the Mermaid

Chapter 989: Chapter 0986: Heart of the Mermaid

“Your Majesty Liszt.”

“Gulvig, how has your recovery been?”

“Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I cannot fight yet, but deep-sea swimming is no problem now.” The immense mermaid, Gulvig, whose body’s pits and indentations were healing at a visible rate, looked much more pleasant to the eye and slightly resembled the true elegance of a mermaid.

Liszt smiled and nodded, “That’s good to hear, having a healthy body is essential to enjoying this beautiful life.”

“A beautiful life… I just hope to purify the ocean soon, so that countless souls, fallen under the pollution of the Cursed Dragon, can be freed from their agony.”

“Don’t worry, everything will get better.”

After chatting briefly with Gulvig, Liszt entered the palace-like Overmarine Laboratory. This magnificently grand building looked rougher on the inside. Yu Chou’s artistic sense wasn’t rich enough; the traces of chiseling were too pronounced, and it lacked symmetrical beauty.

This made Liszt instantly think that in future constructions, Yu Chou would handle the construction and serfs the decoration.

“Your Highness, you’ve arrived,” greeted Kenley, the vice president of the Magic Guild—The Flame Kingdom had not yet been established, so the way people addressed Liszt was somewhat chaotic; most people still addressed him as “Your Highness,” while a few had started calling him “Your Majesty,” without any uniform standard.

He didn’t mind, though; whether “Your Highness” or “Your Majesty” was all the same to him.

“Where’s Ach?” he asked.

“Lord Acherloides is in the lab conducting experiments, please follow me,” said Kenley as she led the way and reported on their experimental progress. “During the days you were gone, Your Highness, the laboratory has preliminarily completed the purification experiment of the curse’s power. Lord Acherloides is now refining the processes.”

“So, the complete purification of the curse’s power will be achieved soon?”

“Yes, it isn’t very difficult.”

“Is it not? The ancient mermaids tried all they could but failed to achieve this.”

“Their technological concepts were too outdated. Though the Magic Web is declining, magic technology continues to innovate, and our era’s understanding of Truth far exceeds that of the ancient times. Moreover, Lord Acherloides always brings continuous streams of ideas that help expand our horizons.”

Ach was indeed great, significantly advancing magic technology.

However, Liszt was also proud because many of these new ideas had come from him. Without the knowledge he taught Ach, the magicians here might still be stuck in an outdated understanding, unaware of what the universe, planets, or gravity were.

He inquired, “So, has the experiment to reverse the sealing been completed?”

“The experimental plan has been designed by Lord Acherloides. It mainly draws on the method that used the curse’s power to contaminate Gulvig, forming a concept of reverse petrification. However, some steps in the experiment still need practical verification; it might take a few more days.”

“Understood.”

Upon reaching the largest laboratory, Liszt saw Ach leading a group of magicians, tinkering with a huge Magic Array. In the center of the Magic Array, a mass of black mist continuously changed shape, the power of the Cursed Dragon stripped from Gulvig.

When the experiment concluded, Ach personally briefed Liszt on the theoretical aspects of the experiment—a complex string of ideas which, in the end, Liszt admitted he hadn’t grasped fully.

However, that didn’t prevent him from nodding seriously, “If the solution works, then let’s use your design to purify the cursed power.”

…

Three days later.

Everything was ready.

Ach rode Unicorn Charlie, and Gulvig carried Liszt, diving toward the altar discovered in the sea trench. Although Gulvig had not yet recovered her combat abilities, as a ruler of the seas, the mermaid’s ability to control water was no weaker than that of a Sea Serpent, allowing Liszt to breathe steadily underwater.

And fearlessly withstand the deep sea’s pressure.

The trio quickly dived into the trench and found an opening to enter the sealed altar. Six mermaid statues still towered around the altar, each twenty meters tall. Upon a close look, these statues bore significant differences from real stone statues—they possessed a certain “liveliness,” vividly lifelike.

Gulvig swam up to one statue, gently caressing its face, her eyes expressing complex emotions. It was as if she was reminiscing about her past life and lamenting the changes that had occurred.

She murmured the other’s name, “Krasteka Tedyo Yufuski Winnika… Eternia, we shall truly be reunited soon.”

More than three hundred Moon Language words formed her name, which she painstakingly recited for quite a while.

Then she moved to the second statue, muttering similarly, “Komminis Podolski Aktaiwon Dieyoni… Bluposi.”

“… Tibidais.”

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“… Sharivara.”

“… Viswinti.”

“… Cocolix.”

Each of the six mermaids’ names comprised over three hundred words from the Moon Language, and it was impressive that the orphan Wendy could still remember them without forgetting.

However, Liszt only remembered the last name of each mermaid—Eternia, Bluposi, Tibidais, Sharivara, Viswinti, Cocolix. He planned to force these mermaids to change their names after obtaining the Heart of the Mermaid, forbidding the use of their original lengthy names.

At that moment.

Acherloides had already split open the altar, revealing a pitch-black abyss below, then set up a Magic Array to channel the Cursed Dragon’s power and bind it with the Magic Array.

“Roar!”

The dragon’s roar echoed in Liszt’s mind and around his ears, the rotting flesh-like power of the Cursed Dragon burst out and collided within the confines of the Magic Array. It then transformed into dragon claws, wildly clawing at its surroundings, but under the strong restraint of the Magic Array, it was continuously dispersed and purified, the accompanying black mist becoming thinner and thinner.

Ultimately.

The mass of rotting flesh was purified of all its mist and could no longer coalesce into rampaging dragon claws. It slowly formed into the image of a dragon, moving slowly within the Magic Array.

The dragon was grayish-brown in color, its slender body resembling a snake, and its wings like a skeletal frame. The entire body was just scales covering bones, virtually devoid of any flesh, somewhat similar to the Nergigante from “Monster Hunter,” most notably at the connection of its neck and body, which also featured a Dragon Tooth Platform.

“This dragon can also be ridden!” Liszt’s pupils dilated slightly, his thoughts unknown, but his heart filled with desire—he still craved dragons despite already having six.

“Your Majesty Liszt, Lord Acherloides is about to reverse the petrification of the mermaid statues. We should move further back to avoid affecting Lord Acherloides’s spellcasting.”

“Okay.”

He rode on Gulvig’s shoulder, moving farther away. Mermaids lacked something like a Dragon Tooth Platform, so he could only grab onto her hair to stabilize himself. Fortunately, as Gulvig was trying to integrate into human life, she had made a skin-tight suit of fish scales with the scales returned to her to avoid exposure.

With the Eye of Magic employed, Liszt closely observed how Acherloides reversed the petrification of the statues.

The Magic Array divided the small dragon, transformed from the Cursed Dragon’s power, into six parts, then swiftly channeled these six parts into the mermaid statues. Moments later, these forces seeped out from the statues and recombined into an even smaller Cursed Dragon—clearly a lot of power was consumed in the reversal process.

Acherloides then took out a carefully crafted glass bottle, collected the Cursed Dragon into the bottle, and then dismantled the Magic Array, retrieving some of the still usable materials.

“Is it done, Acherloides?” Liszt asked as he moved back near the statues with Gulvig.

Acherloides nodded with a smile, “All done, brother. Now we just wait for the stone seals of the statues to be melted by the power of the Cursed Dragon, and they will regain their flesh.”

“How long will it take?”

“It might take a few days.”

Immediately, Gulvig spoke up, “Your Majesty Liszt, Lord Acherloides, I will stay to protect them. Once they are restored, I will bring them back to Anchor Island and offer you the Heart of the Mermaid… As for now, please accept Gulvig’s Heart of the Mermaid.”

Saying this.

She held her chest with both hands, and soon, a pulsing, translucent crystal-blue heart leaped out, landing in her hands before she presented it to Liszt.

Liszt, looking at the Heart of the Mermaid, which was much larger than his own, was somewhat at a loss, “So, Gulvig, what should I do next?”

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