How to become a sea witch

It wasn't until Tiago held her hand and quickly paraded in the dark, narrow and haunted cabin that Bernice suddenly recalled that it seemed that a long time ago, the two of them had escaped together many times in this way.

It's just that Tiago was just a young and ignorant little mermaid at that time, and Bernice would sneak him out of the Sea Clan Palace every time to play, but now he is the one who swims ahead to open the way.

Thinking of this, a heavy sense of guilt welled up again.

After all, Bernice approached him for a purpose, and it was because of Ursula's instructions.But Tiago didn't know it at all, and sincerely regarded her as his only friend until...

She shook her head, cut off the following memories, and lamented that she could still feel apologetic, it seemed that her conscience was still lingering.

"This way." Thiago reminded, and turned into the corner corridor in front of him first.

Nightmare's body is transparent, and can change its color according to the color of the environment, just like a chameleon.Originally, Bernice was a little worried about how to find those monsters in the low-light environment, but now she saw that her worries were completely unnecessary.

The ice continued to spread and grow wildly along the surroundings, freezing all the nightmares hidden in the dark and deep water out of their original shapes.

Bernice looked around, and it felt like they were walking through a strange corridor leading to hell.There are strangely long and skinny sharp claws everywhere, deformed limbs stiffened by thick hoarfrost, and slender tentacles like sea anemones growing out of the mouthparts.

Probably because of the huge size of the ghost ship, Bernice felt that they had been swimming in the cabin for a long time, but the road in front of them still stretched endlessly, turning around like a wall with no way out. maze.

After going around two more bends, Bernice suddenly realized something, and quickly reached out to touch Tiago's shoulder: "By the way, we've been around for so long, haven't we seen the place we came in just now?" Or the way to go down?"

After recalling it for half a second, he quickly nodded: "Indeed."

"These things are just miscellaneous soldiers made by the ghost ship to trap intruders and delay time. You have to find a way down." She said, quickly gathering magic power in her hands, trying to avoid it Those strange faces frozen into stiff sculptures by the deep ice pressed their palms to the root of the cabin wall.

Unlike fresh water, which freezes, seawater has a lower freezing point because of its high salinity.At the same time, the low temperature will continuously decompose the salt in the seawater and melt it into the lower seawater, making it harder for the deeper seawater to freeze, and the temperature will decrease accordingly.

Therefore, even when she was mentally prepared, when Bernice touched those icy surfaces, she still couldn't help being shrank by the almost stinging cold from her hand.

The green halo diffused and penetrated layer by layer, and quickly detected all the structures inside the hull.When the magic power reached somewhere on the third floor, Bernice could clearly feel that another force was constantly interfering and resisting her.

After withdrawing her hand, she pointed to one of the directions and said to Tiago: "That thing is the third one over here..."

Before the words fell, more nightmares began to gather from the end of each passage, and the hoarse screams that made the scalp tingle filled the entire dark seabed, constantly approaching and encircling them.

In the case of invisible cubes, the ice was able to separate them from invisibility.But at the same time, this method will also trap Tiago and Bernice in place and cannot leave.

After realizing this, Thiago immediately changed his strategy, no longer simply sealing those nightmares in the ice layer, but destroying them completely with divine power.

Sea water has become his ubiquitous weapon. Just by raising his hand, countless sharp ice thorns grow wildly from all around, like thousands of flowers blooming everywhere in the blink of an eye, piercing those invisible transparent monsters mercilessly through his body , crucified in the aisle.

The silver-blue divine power turned into a slender and delicate cross sword in his hand, the extremely thin blades on both sides can easily break through the resistance caused by the thick water layer, and it is flexible to swing and stab.

Bernice looked at the broken body fragments covered in cold and hard frost, and suddenly felt that Tiago was even more villain than her villain in terms of fighting methods alone. Especially contradictory.

"Is that thing on the third floor?" He held the cross sword in his hand, and when he tilted his head, the cold streamer on the sword reflected in his eyes, bright and sharp. "yes."

"Let's go then."

After entering the third floor, the surrounding environment became even more depressing, almost comparable to Ursula's lair back then.They are all so gloomy and cold, lifeless, without light, no different from a grave.

The source of the magic fluctuation is at the corner at the end of the corridor, behind a closed solid wooden door.

Bernice tried to push, but it didn't take much effort, but the door opened almost immediately.

The moment the water rolled up, she was blocked by Thiago before she had time to see what was inside the door.The bone-piercing cold air burst out instantly, freezing all the afterimages that flew out from behind the door into ice cubes and falling to the ground.

Bernice took a look, and found that the shadows that had just rushed towards them turned out to be many butterflies.Only now, they are all shattered into pieces of withered wreckage, scattered around.

The door is completely opened, and behind the door is a magnificent and luxurious living room. The thick brocade curtains hang down and close in front of the windows, and many exquisitely shaped flowers, trees and elves are painted on the entire spread animal skin carpet.The huge oil painting is fixed on the wall with an expensive frame made of gold and precious stones. The chandelier on the top hangs like a series of blooming campanulas. Silver platter of apples.

If you just look at the various treasures in this room, they are obviously the type that Bernice likes very much.And after continuously collecting many kinds of treasures, she has been able to easily distinguish the quality of a piece of jewelry.

So she can fully confirm at a glance that everything in this room is top-grade.

After realizing this, Bernice couldn't help but wonder who the original owner of the house was, and at the same time couldn't help being a little melancholy.After all, I used to have such a house full of beautiful treasures. Unfortunately, since she was caught in the Fallen Garden, the sea witch's lair must have been turned upside down by the mermaids who hated her, not to mention her before. those precious collections.

"I've been wondering which Sea Race the Angel Guard will let come here..."

A strange female voice with an inexplicable sigh suddenly came from the shadow of the room: "But I didn't expect it to be the two of you."

A tall woman wearing a crown came out of the shadow step by step, lifted her blood-red skirt and bowed her knees: "It is my life's honor to meet you, Your Majesty the Sea God, and...Miss Sea Witch."

As she spoke, she raised her head and smiled strangely at Bernice, with an unpredictable expression in her eyes.

Probably because the appearance of the other party was so different from those outside just now, so Bernice subconsciously felt a little dazed when she saw her.Immediately afterwards, she set her eyes on the unique and eye-catching sapphire necklace on the woman's chest, and immediately recalled her identity: "You are the queen of Macedonia."

The pervert who ordered Sidorov to go to the forest to kill the escaped princess, asked him to bring back the heart as evidence, and finally decided to use the heart for dinner?

Bernice looked up and down the other party in some astonishment, and then repeatedly looked at the necklace of gemstones and the crown on her head, to be sure that she did not admit her mistake.

You know, although her memory for other things is really lackluster, her memory for precious gems is definitely top-notch, especially the ones she likes but has not collected.

But soon, Bernice came back to her senses, frowned and stared at the other person carefully with emerald green pupils: "No, you just used her image, you were projected from a mirror image."

"Miss Sea Witch has good eyesight." She smiled, with an inhuman stiffness in her expression, which even looked a little weird, "I really just borrowed her appearance. But it doesn't matter, anyway, the original owner of this face It has already rotted into a pile of bones, so it doesn't matter who uses this look."

"Then you should use this mentality to play tricks on your subordinates outside." Bernice raised her hand and pointed to the door behind her, and suggested quite seriously, "It's not easy to be physically uncoordinated." Forget it, they don’t even have complete facial features. Those who don’t know think that before they learn to walk upright, they all rely on their faces to rub against the ground to move forward.”

The queen looked at her indifferently: "Then how did Miss Sea Witch get out of the Garden of Fallen Sins? I thought that you would be imprisoned/imprisoned in that air prison forever together with your great feat at the beginning, But I didn’t expect to see you again today. Thinking about it is really surprising, isn’t it, Your Majesty the Sea God?”

Bernice opened her mouth, but before she could say anything in response, Tiago replied in a flat tone: "It was my order, so why not be surprised."

She froze for a moment, then turned her head to see him raise the cross sword in his hand, lightly flicking it towards the heavy curtains covering the windows.The thick silk brocade was easily torn apart like thin paper, revealing a huge floor-to-ceiling bronze mirror.

It was almost half the size of a wall, and the entire mirror frame was carved from top to bottom with countless thorns, dying roses and nightingales, and twisted and deformed bones.Even facing the entire room, the smooth and flat mirror did not reflect anything in the room, only a lot of messy lights and shadows swirling and circling.

It turned out to be the mirror.

Bernice recalled that before the queen of Macedonia was executed, she repeatedly argued that she was bewitched by the demon in the magic mirror to do these things.In order to prove what she said was true, she also confessed how she got the magic mirror, every detail of the mirror and the summoning method of the spirit in the mirror.

But after searching, there was no so-called magic mirror in the whole palace.The Senate decided that it was just a lie that the queen tried to wash away her crimes, and immediately sentenced her to death.

Unexpectedly, the demon controlling the ghost ship turned out to be it.

"Then, come with us yourself, or we will take you away." Thiago looked directly at the other party with an unchanged expression, "Choose."

The magic mirror stared at him thoughtfully, as if he didn't quite understand whether his sentence "I ordered it" just now was true or not.

But soon, she laughed again: "Maybe, it's not me who should make the choice?"

As he said that, the picture in the mirror suddenly changed from chaos to sea.

The sky was gray and hazy, and a white yacht was floating on the dark blue and almost black sea. The deck and fence were crowded with people calling for help.There are constantly mutants coming out of the raging and roaring waves, opening their mouths to face the helpless yacht, with fierce eyes.

Such scenes flashed back and forth in the magic mirror, far more than one place.In other words, there were several phantoms of ghost ships on the Sea of ​​Okhotsk at the same time.

It seems that it intends to use the lives of these human beings as bargaining chips.

Bernice is very familiar with this method, she has seen Ursula use this method to blackmail the former Sea Emperor countless times.

Thiago obviously realized this too, but his reaction was much calmer than Bernice expected, and there was no obvious emotional fluctuation from beginning to end.

After carefully looking at all the pictures in the mirror, he still maintained the calmness at the beginning, and commented in an indifferent and even regretful tone: "You shouldn't do this kind of thing at sea. Yes."

"But I can't help it, can't I? I know, since His Majesty the Sea God has come in person, I will definitely not be able to escape today." The magic mirror admired the cries and struggles of the humans in the picture, then turned his head, his eyes Going back and forth between him and Bernice, "So I thought, maybe we can play a game. If you win, I'll let these people go right away. It's a deal, how about it?"

"Then what if you win?" Bernice asked with an uneasy expression.

"If I win, the request is very simple. Take me away from the bottom of the sea and return to the land. After I am sure that I am safe, I will also let these humans go."

As she spoke, she carelessly scratched the images of panicked crowds on the mirror with her fingernails. Seeing a few humans who were torn into many pieces by mutants immediately after accidentally falling into the sea, she smiled a few times with extra pleasure: "Why? So, these human beings will be saved no matter what, this condition is very good, right?"

"If you just want to get back to land, why don't your servants take you out?" Bernice didn't believe she would be so kind.

She has told a lot of lies that sound like the other party will definitely make money without losing money, and she is naturally very clear about the truth and falsehood in it.

The magic mirror blinked, and replied with a half-smile: "There are very few sea creatures who can leave the ocean and go to land, Miss Sea Witch. In fact, I have tried many times, but they can only Activities in the ocean. What's more unfortunate is that the willpower of most human beings is too weak to stay awake in front of me, let alone take me out of the bottom of the sea. So, it's a pity to think about it, if I If it was you who met us at the beginning, maybe our situation will be very different now, what do you think?"

The corners of Bernice's mouth were also perfunctory: "I don't think so. My price is very expensive. I'm afraid you can only afford it if you sell yourself to me."

"So, is this why the sea witch, who is obviously a demon, appears here with the gods now? For a better price, or, benefits?" She said clearly, her smile was a little illusory, " I'm just curious, after all, it is said that mermaids are mercenaries who always take revenge and are merciless, why would they tolerate their old enemy living under their noses?"

Coincidentally.Bernice nodded in agreement in her heart. In fact, she had been thinking about this question since she was released from prison, but she didn't dare to ask it.

I thought that Thiago would not respond to this kind of question at all, but unexpectedly, the moment the magic mirror's voice just fell, his eyes suddenly shone, and the long/sword in his hand pointed directly at the opponent's throat, and fine cracks emerged from the tip of the sword. The place where it touched the skin began to spread, and the white cold air scattered scattered ice flowers and spread in the water.

After suppressing all the emotional colors, the blue eyes are like a pair of diamonds that are so clear to the cold, with sharp hostility that has never been polished, and the center of the pupil is dark.

"I'm not that picky. I'll kill whatever is necessary." Compared with the darkness of the deep sea, his voice sounded colder and more depressed.

"I believe Your Majesty will. But..." The magic mirror tilted her head, this action made her cracked neck look more fragile and fragile, "I think after I become a pile of glass, those who are not controlled by magic power will be Pets who have been hungry for a long time may also be less picky eaters, what do you think?"

Bernice looked at the mirror, the waves were dyed a touch of blood red and were constantly churning, the side of the yacht had been hit with many dents, the whole ship was surrounded by a group of monsters, and it might be eaten alive by them at any time.

"Actually, it's just a game. You can think about it." The magic mirror said to Tiago unhurriedly, even with a smile, "You, Miss Sea Witch, either one is fine. As long as you enter the mirror Here, and keep on the sidelines throughout the whole process, don't interfere or try to change anything, and don't show any emotions that I can detect, even if you win."

The magic mirror supplements its magic power by absorbing the strong evil thoughts of living beings. If it wants to be undetected by her, it is basically impossible to have any emotions like anger or hatred.

It is too unrealistic to achieve absolute restraint in mood.What's more, judging from the confrontation with those nightmares just now, Bernice can guess what she will see after entering the magic mirror without even thinking about it.

She's going to screw up, no doubt about it.

But at the same time, she also knows that from the perspective of the "reliable partner" personality she has been working hard to manage, now is definitely not the time to back down.

Most importantly, if she were Thiago, she would definitely choose to let him enter the magic mirror.Otherwise, let the two notorious demons outside, God knows what kind of death plan will be plotted to kill the fish and kill the mouth.

But on the other hand, she is indeed not a master of emotional management. At best, she can pretend to be calm and hypocritical, and she cannot be truly indifferent to anything.Once she enters, the magic mirror can win the whole situation in minutes.

While Bernice was thinking quickly about how to bargain with the other party to gain her own chance of winning, Tiago had already withdrawn the cross sword and replied without changing expression: "Yes."

"Ah?" She was stunned, and couldn't help but approach the other party to discuss in a low voice, "This is too fast, I'm not ready yet."

"You hold her back, don't worry about anything else." Thiago replied quickly, his voice was inaudible.

"But……"

Before she finished speaking, she heard Tiago calmly agree to the magic mirror:

"I'll go in."

The completely unexpected answer made Bernice's thoughts froze for an instant when she looked at his exceptionally clear and beautiful side face, and she lost all ability to speak.