How to become a sea witch
Chapter 15, Part fifteen
It is an extremely cruel thing to solidify life with magic power. The party imprisoned under the magic power will be completely coerced by the other party, and become a living puppet from then on, and can only obey all orders of the other party unconditionally.
This is an ancient and complex powerful curse. While it is extremely difficult to cast, the curse also has extremely strict requirements on the level of magic power of the caster.Therefore, it has been passed down to the present, and few races have been able to know and master it, and mermaid is one of them.
However, considering the consequences of its fierceness and large-scale use, the mermaid tribe has listed it as a forbidden technique hundreds of years ago, so Thiago has never seen it in the Abyss Sea God Realm. Lives like Bernice.
He doesn't know where she came from, or who made her what she is now.Even in Thiago's initial vision, after they parted in Marlow Canyon, they should never see each other again.
However, the fact is that he not only met Bernice again soon, but also gradually became familiar with each other.
Obviously no matter from which angle you look at them, they are two completely opposite extremes.But Bernice's feeling of being unfettered,? Not bound by any dogma or regulation, is exactly what Thiago has never had,? Even subconsciously, he has always yearned for.
For example, he couldn't imagine that one day he would be able to escape the prayer meeting of Yuanhai God's Domain directly in order to watch an aurora.Just like him, he also couldn't figure out how Bernice bypassed those mermaid guards, slipped directly into the Sea God Palace and dragged him to swim towards the North Bay iceland.
The moment the water broke through, a large mass of icy-green brilliant light flowed and stretched just above their heads, like a fluorescent river rushing in the sky, emitting endless cold halo splendor.
Tiago turned his head and looked at the girl with the same wet black hair beside him, who was concentrating on admiring the aurora at midnight, and for the first time a soft tranquility spread from the bottom of his heart which had always been silent.
This kind of thing happens twice, after several times in a row, Thiago and Bernice have cooperated very well.
I remember that time was the Mermaid Clan's Full Moon Festival. As the grand celebration of the Yuanhai God Territory next to the royal coming-of-age ceremony, there was an endless stream of Sea Clans who came to participate that day, and it was impossible to count how many there were.
But even so, when Bernice appeared, Thiago saw her at first sight.
Surrounded by stiff skeletons floating back and forth, she stood on the long steps of the reef with swaying water plants, her whole body was as pale and hazy as the moonlight melting in the sea water.
Soon, Bernice looked over the piles of fish and saw the blond boy standing in front of the Sea God Palace, surrounded by many guards and even members of the royal family. She immediately raised her arm and waved it vigorously at him a few times. Down.
According to the usual practice, Thiago should just treat the opponent's actions as if he didn't see them.It is almost unnecessary for him to do it deliberately. The overcrowded and monotonous repetition of various things in his field of vision makes it impossible for him to take care of every one of them.
But Bernice was different, her every move was extremely clear.
He looked at the other person, imitating her, raised his hand slightly and shook it, with an unskilled stiffness in his movements.
Taking advantage of the opening of the blue hole enchantment, all the mermaids were swimming out happily, and the scene was so noisy that it was close to chaos.Bernice easily slipped into the usually heavily guarded Sea God Palace.
However, even during the Full Moon Festival, there were still quite a few guards staying in the palace.
Just before she was about to be executed directly by the guards as an intruder, Tiago came to rescue her in time, and at the same time, he was a little puzzled why she didn't go to a place where the moonlight could be seen, but instead broke into the palace.
Obviously other sea clansmen had already gathered elsewhere, expecting that she would be the lucky one chosen by the priest to be blessed by the sea god, but she ran in the opposite direction.
Regarding Tiago's question, Bernice explained it quite lightly: "Ah, because I don't believe in God, naturally I have no interest in joining in the fun."
"Why?" He asked, but he didn't tell the other party that he was actually the future Seagod, but because he was still underage, his divine power had not yet fully awakened.
"Look at me." Bernice nodded contemptuously between her eyebrows, with a strange look on her face that Tiago couldn't describe, "If there were gods in this world, I should have gone to hell long ago gone."
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Thiago to ask any more questions, Bernice asked him the same question again: "Then what about you, why didn't you go? You also feel bored?"
"Boring?" Thiago repeated inexplicably, as if he didn't quite understand the meaning of the word.
"Of course. A group of fish huddled together, listening to the same prayer every time, and doing the same thing every time. Everyone hopes that they can be selected to be the one who can receive God's blessing. If this year fails, they will wait for next year If not, it will be ten or a hundred years. This kind of ceremony is not so much born of awe and respect for the Sea God, but rather a desire that is always unsatisfied."
Bernice shrugged: "It's always like this year after year. If I were the sea god, I would have been annoyed to death by them."
"Maybe." He looked at the bright silver sea illuminated by the moonlight in the distance, and he seemed to understand that the indescribable depression in his heart was what Bernice said "" boring".
"So, are you interested in seeing what a real festival looks like?"
It was too late to explain the fact that he could not leave the Full Moon Festival, Tiago was dragged to the shore by Bernice when he came back to his senses.
That was the first time he participated in a human festival, and the whole town was full of lively singing and dancing.The performance team completely abandoned the usual fine-tuning of skills, just how carefree it is, the rapid and intense melody blooms from under the tight strings and their fingers, and it blooms everywhere in an instant.
Children with oil paint on their faces ran in groups on the street, attracted by the colorful fireworks above their heads, and ran towards the center of the square.
Here is a sea of light and music. Everyone is singing and dancing to the beat of dance music. There are laughter and whistling whistles everywhere, continuous fireworks bursting, lively accordion and herdsman bagpipes.
Too many passionate notes collided with various cheerful folk songs, and together they interweaved into a strange and charming enthusiasm and unrestrained.
The strange scene completely different from the Full Moon Festival made Thiago feel a little overwhelmed, but more curious.
A carriage filled with all kinds of flowers came slowly from the end of the street. Bernice reached out to catch a fiery red rose thrown towards her by the coachman, and suggested to Tiago with a smile on her face: "Let's go dance together?"
"I can't jump."
"Please, Your Highness. Dancing is for joy, not just because you know how to dance."
As she spoke, she deftly bit the dark green flower branch in her mouth as if she had appeared in front of Tiago for the first time, imitating how a human male invites his dance partner to bend down and reach out to the boy next to him, showing The invitation, which I just learned from the side of the road, said slightly vaguely: "It will be the honor of my life to dance with you."
There were fireworks shooting straight into the night sky from behind Bernice, like plump flowers that had bloomed to the extreme in an instant.In just a moment, the bright petals were blown away by the strong wind, and the endless night was instantly illuminated by those bright rays of light.
Tiago was dragged by her to join the carnival dancing crowd, moving stiffly to follow the people around him back and forth, and the one who raised his head and caught sight of Bernice's bright smiling face was so bright that he almost had a terrible illusion.It seems that those dark and stagnant pasts that are sealed in the memory are all burned and faded at this moment, leaving only the extremely bright present.
After a while, Bernice stopped suddenly, took off the rose she was biting into her mouth, looked at Tiago and asked seriously, "Are you unhappy?"
"what?"
"I don't think you've ever smiled. Is it because you're unhappy?"
Thiago froze for a moment, shaking his head.It's not that he's unhappy, it's just that he's used to keeping calm no matter what.
But this question is very strange, because no one of his kind has ever asked him if he is happy, and this kind of thing seems to be too much for Seagod.
"That's good." Bernice breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately wiped the tip of Tiago's nose with the rose in her hand, "You should smile more when you are happy, and you will easily get paralyzed if you always have a sullen face. have no idea?"
Thiago touched the tip of his nose and smelled a faint sweet aroma.
The dance gradually came to an end, and the surrounding floats began to throw the full of flowers into the air amidst the cheers of the crowd, like a grand rain of flowers.
Seeing Bernice and other children bouncing around and laughing as they went to snatch the flowers, Tiago unconsciously pulled the corners of his mouth into a slight smile.
It was also at that moment that a slow but extremely clear change began to appear in his vision.
Flowers are resurrected.
In his eyes, those flowers that could only appear in a withered and charred state, began to stretch, bloom, and even gradually show their own rich colors in the process of being thrown up and down.
Thiago looked at everything in front of him in disbelief, subconsciously stretched out his hand to catch the petals blown by the wind, slid his fingertips across its soft and cold surface, and even blinked cautiously, for fear that when he opened his eyes again, his hands would be damaged. Lying there was another mass of rotten and charred wet mud.
More and more showers fell down, brushed the long hair, fell into the palm, and lay at the feet, all of which were full of vitality, so colorful that it surpassed all his dreams.
This is something Thiago never thought about.
He looked up at the brightly colored flowers falling and falling, and felt as if he was coming alive with them, and the slight heartbeat also revived in the originally empty chest cavity.
"Tiago!" Bernice called him suddenly.
Tiago raised his head in response, and was filled with a large bouquet of bright roses, and the dazzling red that seemed to burn filled his sight.
From the sky to the ground, there are dazzling fireworks and blooming flowers.
And the way Bernice stood smiling and waving at him standing amidst the colorful flowers was a unique miracle.
As a god, he can only see things as they are at the end of their lives.And when he gradually realizes and has the same emotions as other creatures, the world in his eyes will slowly come back to life.
This is what Thiago discovered in later time.
First came flowers and plants, then birds, insects and fish.
And the first creature that showed a complete and real appearance in his vision was still Bernice.
Completely different from just a hazy translucent outline in the past, now she is a complete individual with a clear entity in Thiago's eyes.And the other creatures became the same as she was before, becoming countless pale ghosts that gradually became active.
Thiago couldn't explain the odd out-of-synch, but he liked the difference.Because in this case, no matter how many creatures are there, he can find each other at a glance.
However, at the same time, contrary to the character of a god, the emotional awakening of an ordinary creature also made Thiago feel at a loss.He didn't want to go back to that lifeless, devastated and gloomy world.Even recalling everything in the past, those monotonous and depressing times made him extremely doubt whether he had really lived.
But at the same time, he is indeed the host of the heart of the ocean, born to be the heir of the sea god.As long as one becomes an adult, one's own divine power will be fully activated.He must become the sea god, this is his responsibility.
After repeated entanglements and still to no avail, Thiago chose to confess everything to Bernice, including the fact that he is not only the youngest prince of the mermaid clan, but also the future sea god.
He knew that this decision was impulsive and even blind, but he was more willing to rely on Bernice than other creatures.
Just as Tiago thought, after learning of his identity, Bernice was stunned for a long time before she recovered, and then she didn't understand his worries: "You are yourself, and you are also Sea God, is there any conflict?"
"The reason why they ask you like that is because the sea god should be like that in their eyes. But in the end, no one has ever seen what the real sea god looks like. Those things are all imagined by themselves. Do you think the human Holy See on land dares to jump in front of the God of Light and point out, stipulating what he should and should not do?"
"They dare not!"
"It's like no one can define what the God of Light should look like and what he should do. It doesn't matter whether it's a sea clan, an angel, or a human being or an elf or a demon. No creature can control you, except yourself.
You must know that you are the Sea God, and your actions are the actions of the Sea God.The name of God is just a name, it should obey you, not you being held hostage by it in turn.
As for other fish, listen to what you think makes sense, and treat it as if the other fish is spitting bubbles if it doesn't make sense. What's so embarrassing, do they still dare to beat you?
Life is not easy, if you don't even have the right to laugh as much as you want, and cry as much as you want, then you might as well turn your belly. "
As she spoke, she found a more comfortable position and lay down among the coral groves, closed her eyes and lazily continued to enlighten: "Of course, if every time you have any mood swings, it can trigger submarine volcanoes or In the case of an extreme tsunami, please treat all of the above as me spitting bubbles."
Sitting next to her, Thiago was entertained by her words, and couldn't help laughing: "No. There won't be those you worry about."
"That's why. Or if you're really worried that they won't be able to accept the fact that your image has collapsed, then you can just pretend and deceive them."
"Cheat?" Thiago repeated the word in astonishment.
After a few seconds of silence, he looked at the other party intently again, his blue eyes were like a pair of clear lakes floating with crushed ice and dawn light, clearly reflecting Bernice's face: "Are you going to lie too? "
Hearing this question, Bernice's eyelashes trembled slightly. She didn't know whether it was because of nervousness or just because the water flowed over the eyelashes.
She still had her eyes closed, and her voice sounded as if she was about to fall asleep: "Yes. A low-level sea tribe like me can't survive without lying."
A heavy sense of loss and uneasiness flooded her heart instantly following her answer.
Thiago lay down like her, with clean and pure eyes, and asked softly, "Will you lie to me?"
After asking, he immediately added, all the words were naive and serious: "I promise you, no matter what happens, I will remain sincere to you and never lie. So..."
The ice-blue transparent beautiful caudal fin obediently brushed Bernice's drooping palm, and he leaned closer to him, his eyes were full of their entangled floating hair, the light gold at dawn and the dark night like dark.
"Don't lie to me, okay?"
The sun broke through the clouds and shone down, and the entire ocean was brilliantly quiet.
She fell asleep among the corals and did not answer.
The screen shrinks again, and new memories slowly unfold.
In fact, looking back at the beginning with Thiago's current eyes, he can easily tell when Bernice is lying and when she isn't.
Even later, when she became more and more reticent because of the guilt in her heart, and finally suggested that it would be better for them not to meet again in the future, and since then she really did not appear in the Yuanhai God's Domain again, everything was already obvious.
It's a pity he understood it too late.
According to the convention, the royal coming-of-age ceremony has always been the most important festival of the mermaid clan.And this celebration prepared for Tiago, who is about to inherit the throne, is even more grand than ever.
However, when the coming-of-age ceremony was about to begin, Thiago left.
He passed through the protective barrier of the blue hole, went to the human town on the shore, to the magic shop opened by the March Hare and the Cheshire Cat, to the Marlow Canyon and the coral groves and mangroves in the shallow sea area, Everywhere he and Bernice had been, she hadn't been found.
He looked at the surrounding sea creatures, only a layer of hoarfrost-like haze remained in his vision.Those colors and vitality that made him so happy and loved are surrounding him tightly, making Tiago suddenly feel that he is still trapped in a cage, and the only creature who can rescue him is nowhere to be found.
This out-of-control to sharp sense of anxiety and loss was more unbearable for him than the previous emptiness and numbness.
The picture was reversed and shattered into a wreckage, and then re-condensed.
The memory that appeared again was very chaotic, and the light was so dim that it was almost impossible to see anything. It could only be barely recognized that Thiago broke into the territory belonging to the sea witch alone, and was trying to kill a monster that was so huge that it made people feel uncomfortable. Horror monsters to fear.
The demon territory is dark and gloomy, and Thiago is the only bright color as he moves nimbly through the sea water.
He looked at the alien-like monster in the deep sea in front of him. There was no trace of the usual gentleness on his clean and dust-free face. The azure blue on his irises was as cold as a glacier, and his pupils were split black abysses.
Outside the magic mirror, Bernice recognized Ursula's completely alienated appearance at a glance, and was so surprised that she couldn't speak.
The ice crazily climbed every inch of the mirror, and in an instant it had sealed off the entire sea witch territory, and also froze the dying monster in place.
Thiago raised the cross sword in his hand expressionlessly, and the silver and blue light blades split the water flow, cutting the ice sculpture into fragments that could no longer be put together.
After doing all this, he looked up at the reef fortress not far away, and quickly swam over, removed the deep ice covering the door, and used the tip of his sword to break the magic-locked lock at the door, and a large amount of water immediately swept away. Spinning and smashing the stone door open.
He swam into a dark fortress, and the ice quickly spread in, turning the inside into a pale and extremely cold place.
Seeming to have caught something unusual, Tiago paused in place not long before he came to the grotto deep in the fortress, and found the black figure curled up among the gray and white bones.
"Turn around." He ordered, his voice was as cold as his expression, and the undisguised sharp hostility flowed in his eyes.
After hearing his voice, the shadow suddenly trembled and turned its head slowly.
A young girl with emerald green eyes.
Seeing this, Thiago, who was outside the screen, immediately closed his eyes and forcibly cut off the magic mirror's prying of subsequent memories. The mirror once again fell into a messy and meaningless chaos, which looked like a fault in the memory.
In the stabilized picture again, the color of light is no longer as dim as before, but faintly covered with a layer of light red.
Before Bernice figured out where the red color in the mirror came from, she soon saw many brighter red patches spread out.
is blood.
From the hideous wound Tiago was cut by her snail thorns, it kept gushing out, melting the sea water reddish.
She stared at the young man in front of her. There was a kind of irrational fear and madness in her emerald green pupils. Her hoarse voice was colder than ice. The hand holding the thorn was trembling uncontrollably: " Do you see what I look like now?! I am no different from the monster you killed, I will be it sooner or later!"
"Besides, I already knew that you are the future sea god, so I approached you and lied to you, because you couldn't see it. I already let you go once, why did you send me to seek death?!"
The dazzling green light turned into a blade and hit Tiago. He was hit without dodging, hit his back on the reef pillar, and suddenly choked out a mouthful of sea water mixed with blood.
The young man in the mirror looked scarred and extremely embarrassed, and his overly stunning face showed a pale and sickly beauty behind the flushed water, which reminded people of a rose that was being swallowed by flames for no reason, a kind of ecstasy that was about to burst. Bright and fragile.
He seemed to want to say something, but Bernice, who was completely out of control, grabbed his neck, and the thorns cut open his skin mercilessly, and severe pain spread out instantly.
"I lied to you." She looked fiercely at the other person's pale face from the pain, and said these words to Thiago hypnotically, "Do you understand? Hurry up, open your eyes." Open your eyes and look at me. Can you see clearly now? I am a demon, the sea witch that you mermaids hate the most."
"I have only one purpose for approaching you, because I want you all to die and none of you to live!" She growled sharply, and pushed the mermaid away in front of her, as if she was laughing or crying until she lost all her strength , "Go to hell with me—!"
"Bernice..."
Sensing Thiago's approach, she shook off the other's hand in shock, stared at him fiercely, and said every word, wishing to carve all those words into his flesh and blood with a red-hot knife: "Don't Let me see you again."
"I hate her, I hate you, I hate all of you! If I see you again, I swear to you, I will dig out your heart!"
This is a curse, vicious enough to drip with blood, and it is also the last sentence in the whole picture.
The figure of Bernice disappeared from memory, only Tiago remained.
Obviously there were no living beings around, but he always felt that something was crying, screaming, and irreparably collapsing in his ears, so hysterical that he couldn't feel anything except pain.
Something warm and cool was gradually gathering at the end of his eyes, and dissipated into the water as he blinked.
At the same time, the last layer of white mist that covered his sight completely disappeared, and he finally got a complete world full of vitality.
A vivid and colorful hell.
The author has something to say: the first update in V!
In fact, what is shown here is not the entire past of the hero and heroine, um... write slowly, everything will be written.
By the way, it may be that I am too slow, so many cuties forgot to set QA□□Q
Consolidation of knowledge points about sea witch settings——
A sea witch is a magical power, not a specific creature. Whoever inherits this magical power is a sea witch.But this magic power will continue to eat back at the host's body until the host is alienated into a monster, and then the magic power is transferred to the successor designated by the former host, turning the new host into a new sea witch.This alienation phenomenon can only be resolved by the heart of the ocean.
From the setting of the article, it can be seen that Bernice may be twice as old as Thiago [ah, this damn sweet young age].
So in this episode, when Bernice and Thiago met for the first time, Bernice was just an ordinary little jellyfish who had been with Ursula for hundreds of years and was instructed by Ursula to go Deliberately approaching Thiago, wanting to take the opportunity to seize the Heart of the Ocean.
At the end of this chapter, Tiago has just come of age, Ursula is alienated into a monster, and Bernice has also become the new sea witch.
This is an ancient and complex powerful curse. While it is extremely difficult to cast, the curse also has extremely strict requirements on the level of magic power of the caster.Therefore, it has been passed down to the present, and few races have been able to know and master it, and mermaid is one of them.
However, considering the consequences of its fierceness and large-scale use, the mermaid tribe has listed it as a forbidden technique hundreds of years ago, so Thiago has never seen it in the Abyss Sea God Realm. Lives like Bernice.
He doesn't know where she came from, or who made her what she is now.Even in Thiago's initial vision, after they parted in Marlow Canyon, they should never see each other again.
However, the fact is that he not only met Bernice again soon, but also gradually became familiar with each other.
Obviously no matter from which angle you look at them, they are two completely opposite extremes.But Bernice's feeling of being unfettered,? Not bound by any dogma or regulation, is exactly what Thiago has never had,? Even subconsciously, he has always yearned for.
For example, he couldn't imagine that one day he would be able to escape the prayer meeting of Yuanhai God's Domain directly in order to watch an aurora.Just like him, he also couldn't figure out how Bernice bypassed those mermaid guards, slipped directly into the Sea God Palace and dragged him to swim towards the North Bay iceland.
The moment the water broke through, a large mass of icy-green brilliant light flowed and stretched just above their heads, like a fluorescent river rushing in the sky, emitting endless cold halo splendor.
Tiago turned his head and looked at the girl with the same wet black hair beside him, who was concentrating on admiring the aurora at midnight, and for the first time a soft tranquility spread from the bottom of his heart which had always been silent.
This kind of thing happens twice, after several times in a row, Thiago and Bernice have cooperated very well.
I remember that time was the Mermaid Clan's Full Moon Festival. As the grand celebration of the Yuanhai God Territory next to the royal coming-of-age ceremony, there was an endless stream of Sea Clans who came to participate that day, and it was impossible to count how many there were.
But even so, when Bernice appeared, Thiago saw her at first sight.
Surrounded by stiff skeletons floating back and forth, she stood on the long steps of the reef with swaying water plants, her whole body was as pale and hazy as the moonlight melting in the sea water.
Soon, Bernice looked over the piles of fish and saw the blond boy standing in front of the Sea God Palace, surrounded by many guards and even members of the royal family. She immediately raised her arm and waved it vigorously at him a few times. Down.
According to the usual practice, Thiago should just treat the opponent's actions as if he didn't see them.It is almost unnecessary for him to do it deliberately. The overcrowded and monotonous repetition of various things in his field of vision makes it impossible for him to take care of every one of them.
But Bernice was different, her every move was extremely clear.
He looked at the other person, imitating her, raised his hand slightly and shook it, with an unskilled stiffness in his movements.
Taking advantage of the opening of the blue hole enchantment, all the mermaids were swimming out happily, and the scene was so noisy that it was close to chaos.Bernice easily slipped into the usually heavily guarded Sea God Palace.
However, even during the Full Moon Festival, there were still quite a few guards staying in the palace.
Just before she was about to be executed directly by the guards as an intruder, Tiago came to rescue her in time, and at the same time, he was a little puzzled why she didn't go to a place where the moonlight could be seen, but instead broke into the palace.
Obviously other sea clansmen had already gathered elsewhere, expecting that she would be the lucky one chosen by the priest to be blessed by the sea god, but she ran in the opposite direction.
Regarding Tiago's question, Bernice explained it quite lightly: "Ah, because I don't believe in God, naturally I have no interest in joining in the fun."
"Why?" He asked, but he didn't tell the other party that he was actually the future Seagod, but because he was still underage, his divine power had not yet fully awakened.
"Look at me." Bernice nodded contemptuously between her eyebrows, with a strange look on her face that Tiago couldn't describe, "If there were gods in this world, I should have gone to hell long ago gone."
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Thiago to ask any more questions, Bernice asked him the same question again: "Then what about you, why didn't you go? You also feel bored?"
"Boring?" Thiago repeated inexplicably, as if he didn't quite understand the meaning of the word.
"Of course. A group of fish huddled together, listening to the same prayer every time, and doing the same thing every time. Everyone hopes that they can be selected to be the one who can receive God's blessing. If this year fails, they will wait for next year If not, it will be ten or a hundred years. This kind of ceremony is not so much born of awe and respect for the Sea God, but rather a desire that is always unsatisfied."
Bernice shrugged: "It's always like this year after year. If I were the sea god, I would have been annoyed to death by them."
"Maybe." He looked at the bright silver sea illuminated by the moonlight in the distance, and he seemed to understand that the indescribable depression in his heart was what Bernice said "" boring".
"So, are you interested in seeing what a real festival looks like?"
It was too late to explain the fact that he could not leave the Full Moon Festival, Tiago was dragged to the shore by Bernice when he came back to his senses.
That was the first time he participated in a human festival, and the whole town was full of lively singing and dancing.The performance team completely abandoned the usual fine-tuning of skills, just how carefree it is, the rapid and intense melody blooms from under the tight strings and their fingers, and it blooms everywhere in an instant.
Children with oil paint on their faces ran in groups on the street, attracted by the colorful fireworks above their heads, and ran towards the center of the square.
Here is a sea of light and music. Everyone is singing and dancing to the beat of dance music. There are laughter and whistling whistles everywhere, continuous fireworks bursting, lively accordion and herdsman bagpipes.
Too many passionate notes collided with various cheerful folk songs, and together they interweaved into a strange and charming enthusiasm and unrestrained.
The strange scene completely different from the Full Moon Festival made Thiago feel a little overwhelmed, but more curious.
A carriage filled with all kinds of flowers came slowly from the end of the street. Bernice reached out to catch a fiery red rose thrown towards her by the coachman, and suggested to Tiago with a smile on her face: "Let's go dance together?"
"I can't jump."
"Please, Your Highness. Dancing is for joy, not just because you know how to dance."
As she spoke, she deftly bit the dark green flower branch in her mouth as if she had appeared in front of Tiago for the first time, imitating how a human male invites his dance partner to bend down and reach out to the boy next to him, showing The invitation, which I just learned from the side of the road, said slightly vaguely: "It will be the honor of my life to dance with you."
There were fireworks shooting straight into the night sky from behind Bernice, like plump flowers that had bloomed to the extreme in an instant.In just a moment, the bright petals were blown away by the strong wind, and the endless night was instantly illuminated by those bright rays of light.
Tiago was dragged by her to join the carnival dancing crowd, moving stiffly to follow the people around him back and forth, and the one who raised his head and caught sight of Bernice's bright smiling face was so bright that he almost had a terrible illusion.It seems that those dark and stagnant pasts that are sealed in the memory are all burned and faded at this moment, leaving only the extremely bright present.
After a while, Bernice stopped suddenly, took off the rose she was biting into her mouth, looked at Tiago and asked seriously, "Are you unhappy?"
"what?"
"I don't think you've ever smiled. Is it because you're unhappy?"
Thiago froze for a moment, shaking his head.It's not that he's unhappy, it's just that he's used to keeping calm no matter what.
But this question is very strange, because no one of his kind has ever asked him if he is happy, and this kind of thing seems to be too much for Seagod.
"That's good." Bernice breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately wiped the tip of Tiago's nose with the rose in her hand, "You should smile more when you are happy, and you will easily get paralyzed if you always have a sullen face. have no idea?"
Thiago touched the tip of his nose and smelled a faint sweet aroma.
The dance gradually came to an end, and the surrounding floats began to throw the full of flowers into the air amidst the cheers of the crowd, like a grand rain of flowers.
Seeing Bernice and other children bouncing around and laughing as they went to snatch the flowers, Tiago unconsciously pulled the corners of his mouth into a slight smile.
It was also at that moment that a slow but extremely clear change began to appear in his vision.
Flowers are resurrected.
In his eyes, those flowers that could only appear in a withered and charred state, began to stretch, bloom, and even gradually show their own rich colors in the process of being thrown up and down.
Thiago looked at everything in front of him in disbelief, subconsciously stretched out his hand to catch the petals blown by the wind, slid his fingertips across its soft and cold surface, and even blinked cautiously, for fear that when he opened his eyes again, his hands would be damaged. Lying there was another mass of rotten and charred wet mud.
More and more showers fell down, brushed the long hair, fell into the palm, and lay at the feet, all of which were full of vitality, so colorful that it surpassed all his dreams.
This is something Thiago never thought about.
He looked up at the brightly colored flowers falling and falling, and felt as if he was coming alive with them, and the slight heartbeat also revived in the originally empty chest cavity.
"Tiago!" Bernice called him suddenly.
Tiago raised his head in response, and was filled with a large bouquet of bright roses, and the dazzling red that seemed to burn filled his sight.
From the sky to the ground, there are dazzling fireworks and blooming flowers.
And the way Bernice stood smiling and waving at him standing amidst the colorful flowers was a unique miracle.
As a god, he can only see things as they are at the end of their lives.And when he gradually realizes and has the same emotions as other creatures, the world in his eyes will slowly come back to life.
This is what Thiago discovered in later time.
First came flowers and plants, then birds, insects and fish.
And the first creature that showed a complete and real appearance in his vision was still Bernice.
Completely different from just a hazy translucent outline in the past, now she is a complete individual with a clear entity in Thiago's eyes.And the other creatures became the same as she was before, becoming countless pale ghosts that gradually became active.
Thiago couldn't explain the odd out-of-synch, but he liked the difference.Because in this case, no matter how many creatures are there, he can find each other at a glance.
However, at the same time, contrary to the character of a god, the emotional awakening of an ordinary creature also made Thiago feel at a loss.He didn't want to go back to that lifeless, devastated and gloomy world.Even recalling everything in the past, those monotonous and depressing times made him extremely doubt whether he had really lived.
But at the same time, he is indeed the host of the heart of the ocean, born to be the heir of the sea god.As long as one becomes an adult, one's own divine power will be fully activated.He must become the sea god, this is his responsibility.
After repeated entanglements and still to no avail, Thiago chose to confess everything to Bernice, including the fact that he is not only the youngest prince of the mermaid clan, but also the future sea god.
He knew that this decision was impulsive and even blind, but he was more willing to rely on Bernice than other creatures.
Just as Tiago thought, after learning of his identity, Bernice was stunned for a long time before she recovered, and then she didn't understand his worries: "You are yourself, and you are also Sea God, is there any conflict?"
"The reason why they ask you like that is because the sea god should be like that in their eyes. But in the end, no one has ever seen what the real sea god looks like. Those things are all imagined by themselves. Do you think the human Holy See on land dares to jump in front of the God of Light and point out, stipulating what he should and should not do?"
"They dare not!"
"It's like no one can define what the God of Light should look like and what he should do. It doesn't matter whether it's a sea clan, an angel, or a human being or an elf or a demon. No creature can control you, except yourself.
You must know that you are the Sea God, and your actions are the actions of the Sea God.The name of God is just a name, it should obey you, not you being held hostage by it in turn.
As for other fish, listen to what you think makes sense, and treat it as if the other fish is spitting bubbles if it doesn't make sense. What's so embarrassing, do they still dare to beat you?
Life is not easy, if you don't even have the right to laugh as much as you want, and cry as much as you want, then you might as well turn your belly. "
As she spoke, she found a more comfortable position and lay down among the coral groves, closed her eyes and lazily continued to enlighten: "Of course, if every time you have any mood swings, it can trigger submarine volcanoes or In the case of an extreme tsunami, please treat all of the above as me spitting bubbles."
Sitting next to her, Thiago was entertained by her words, and couldn't help laughing: "No. There won't be those you worry about."
"That's why. Or if you're really worried that they won't be able to accept the fact that your image has collapsed, then you can just pretend and deceive them."
"Cheat?" Thiago repeated the word in astonishment.
After a few seconds of silence, he looked at the other party intently again, his blue eyes were like a pair of clear lakes floating with crushed ice and dawn light, clearly reflecting Bernice's face: "Are you going to lie too? "
Hearing this question, Bernice's eyelashes trembled slightly. She didn't know whether it was because of nervousness or just because the water flowed over the eyelashes.
She still had her eyes closed, and her voice sounded as if she was about to fall asleep: "Yes. A low-level sea tribe like me can't survive without lying."
A heavy sense of loss and uneasiness flooded her heart instantly following her answer.
Thiago lay down like her, with clean and pure eyes, and asked softly, "Will you lie to me?"
After asking, he immediately added, all the words were naive and serious: "I promise you, no matter what happens, I will remain sincere to you and never lie. So..."
The ice-blue transparent beautiful caudal fin obediently brushed Bernice's drooping palm, and he leaned closer to him, his eyes were full of their entangled floating hair, the light gold at dawn and the dark night like dark.
"Don't lie to me, okay?"
The sun broke through the clouds and shone down, and the entire ocean was brilliantly quiet.
She fell asleep among the corals and did not answer.
The screen shrinks again, and new memories slowly unfold.
In fact, looking back at the beginning with Thiago's current eyes, he can easily tell when Bernice is lying and when she isn't.
Even later, when she became more and more reticent because of the guilt in her heart, and finally suggested that it would be better for them not to meet again in the future, and since then she really did not appear in the Yuanhai God's Domain again, everything was already obvious.
It's a pity he understood it too late.
According to the convention, the royal coming-of-age ceremony has always been the most important festival of the mermaid clan.And this celebration prepared for Tiago, who is about to inherit the throne, is even more grand than ever.
However, when the coming-of-age ceremony was about to begin, Thiago left.
He passed through the protective barrier of the blue hole, went to the human town on the shore, to the magic shop opened by the March Hare and the Cheshire Cat, to the Marlow Canyon and the coral groves and mangroves in the shallow sea area, Everywhere he and Bernice had been, she hadn't been found.
He looked at the surrounding sea creatures, only a layer of hoarfrost-like haze remained in his vision.Those colors and vitality that made him so happy and loved are surrounding him tightly, making Tiago suddenly feel that he is still trapped in a cage, and the only creature who can rescue him is nowhere to be found.
This out-of-control to sharp sense of anxiety and loss was more unbearable for him than the previous emptiness and numbness.
The picture was reversed and shattered into a wreckage, and then re-condensed.
The memory that appeared again was very chaotic, and the light was so dim that it was almost impossible to see anything. It could only be barely recognized that Thiago broke into the territory belonging to the sea witch alone, and was trying to kill a monster that was so huge that it made people feel uncomfortable. Horror monsters to fear.
The demon territory is dark and gloomy, and Thiago is the only bright color as he moves nimbly through the sea water.
He looked at the alien-like monster in the deep sea in front of him. There was no trace of the usual gentleness on his clean and dust-free face. The azure blue on his irises was as cold as a glacier, and his pupils were split black abysses.
Outside the magic mirror, Bernice recognized Ursula's completely alienated appearance at a glance, and was so surprised that she couldn't speak.
The ice crazily climbed every inch of the mirror, and in an instant it had sealed off the entire sea witch territory, and also froze the dying monster in place.
Thiago raised the cross sword in his hand expressionlessly, and the silver and blue light blades split the water flow, cutting the ice sculpture into fragments that could no longer be put together.
After doing all this, he looked up at the reef fortress not far away, and quickly swam over, removed the deep ice covering the door, and used the tip of his sword to break the magic-locked lock at the door, and a large amount of water immediately swept away. Spinning and smashing the stone door open.
He swam into a dark fortress, and the ice quickly spread in, turning the inside into a pale and extremely cold place.
Seeming to have caught something unusual, Tiago paused in place not long before he came to the grotto deep in the fortress, and found the black figure curled up among the gray and white bones.
"Turn around." He ordered, his voice was as cold as his expression, and the undisguised sharp hostility flowed in his eyes.
After hearing his voice, the shadow suddenly trembled and turned its head slowly.
A young girl with emerald green eyes.
Seeing this, Thiago, who was outside the screen, immediately closed his eyes and forcibly cut off the magic mirror's prying of subsequent memories. The mirror once again fell into a messy and meaningless chaos, which looked like a fault in the memory.
In the stabilized picture again, the color of light is no longer as dim as before, but faintly covered with a layer of light red.
Before Bernice figured out where the red color in the mirror came from, she soon saw many brighter red patches spread out.
is blood.
From the hideous wound Tiago was cut by her snail thorns, it kept gushing out, melting the sea water reddish.
She stared at the young man in front of her. There was a kind of irrational fear and madness in her emerald green pupils. Her hoarse voice was colder than ice. The hand holding the thorn was trembling uncontrollably: " Do you see what I look like now?! I am no different from the monster you killed, I will be it sooner or later!"
"Besides, I already knew that you are the future sea god, so I approached you and lied to you, because you couldn't see it. I already let you go once, why did you send me to seek death?!"
The dazzling green light turned into a blade and hit Tiago. He was hit without dodging, hit his back on the reef pillar, and suddenly choked out a mouthful of sea water mixed with blood.
The young man in the mirror looked scarred and extremely embarrassed, and his overly stunning face showed a pale and sickly beauty behind the flushed water, which reminded people of a rose that was being swallowed by flames for no reason, a kind of ecstasy that was about to burst. Bright and fragile.
He seemed to want to say something, but Bernice, who was completely out of control, grabbed his neck, and the thorns cut open his skin mercilessly, and severe pain spread out instantly.
"I lied to you." She looked fiercely at the other person's pale face from the pain, and said these words to Thiago hypnotically, "Do you understand? Hurry up, open your eyes." Open your eyes and look at me. Can you see clearly now? I am a demon, the sea witch that you mermaids hate the most."
"I have only one purpose for approaching you, because I want you all to die and none of you to live!" She growled sharply, and pushed the mermaid away in front of her, as if she was laughing or crying until she lost all her strength , "Go to hell with me—!"
"Bernice..."
Sensing Thiago's approach, she shook off the other's hand in shock, stared at him fiercely, and said every word, wishing to carve all those words into his flesh and blood with a red-hot knife: "Don't Let me see you again."
"I hate her, I hate you, I hate all of you! If I see you again, I swear to you, I will dig out your heart!"
This is a curse, vicious enough to drip with blood, and it is also the last sentence in the whole picture.
The figure of Bernice disappeared from memory, only Tiago remained.
Obviously there were no living beings around, but he always felt that something was crying, screaming, and irreparably collapsing in his ears, so hysterical that he couldn't feel anything except pain.
Something warm and cool was gradually gathering at the end of his eyes, and dissipated into the water as he blinked.
At the same time, the last layer of white mist that covered his sight completely disappeared, and he finally got a complete world full of vitality.
A vivid and colorful hell.
The author has something to say: the first update in V!
In fact, what is shown here is not the entire past of the hero and heroine, um... write slowly, everything will be written.
By the way, it may be that I am too slow, so many cuties forgot to set QA□□Q
Consolidation of knowledge points about sea witch settings——
A sea witch is a magical power, not a specific creature. Whoever inherits this magical power is a sea witch.But this magic power will continue to eat back at the host's body until the host is alienated into a monster, and then the magic power is transferred to the successor designated by the former host, turning the new host into a new sea witch.This alienation phenomenon can only be resolved by the heart of the ocean.
From the setting of the article, it can be seen that Bernice may be twice as old as Thiago [ah, this damn sweet young age].
So in this episode, when Bernice and Thiago met for the first time, Bernice was just an ordinary little jellyfish who had been with Ursula for hundreds of years and was instructed by Ursula to go Deliberately approaching Thiago, wanting to take the opportunity to seize the Heart of the Ocean.
At the end of this chapter, Tiago has just come of age, Ursula is alienated into a monster, and Bernice has also become the new sea witch.
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