Translator: WontonChaos & Kii
Translation Checker: Rin
Editor: DragonFae
The leucistic manta ray omega, when viewed from its appearance, was truly beautiful. Plain white cloth was draped over his body, yet it couldn’t conceal his divinely gifted features or his physique that was without the slightest trace of blemish. As the wind ruffled his snow-white hair, it revealed eyes as deep and as blue as the sea, in which flowed a whole expanse of starry sky within. This appearance looked as if he was cut from the same cloth as the Xiao Bai from childhood.
When Rimbaud first saw Bai Chunian, it was exactly this adorably obedient appearance that made people want to dote on him.
Rimbaud couldn’t help but feel a twinge of pain in his heart. His gaze swept the pearl-like youth from head to toe, and then settled on his upper thigh.
The young man’s thighs and forearms were covered in a layer of shimmering white scales. Among them, there was a particularly unique scale on the front of his right thigh. Apart from its translucence, it was also coated in a layer of pale pink-blue iridescence.
Successive generations of Sirens have all been born with that one unique scale on their bodies, which was a symbol of their control over the oceans, signifying their status as chief. Whenever a new merfolk chief was born, the previous one would retreat into the deep sea and never appear again.
The youth was blasted dozens of meters away by Rimbaud’s high-explosive water bomb, and his back bashed a massive crater in the wall. He wiped off the beads of blood dripping from under his nose and jumped out of the deep pit, glaring coldly towards Rimbaud.
This hostility stems from the conflicting “King” identities of the two, it was the successor’s covetousness and challenge for the throne towards the current chief.
The teenager raised his left hand, and the Dead Sea Heartstone in his hand began to melt and reshape under his control, gradually casting into a black crystal crown, which he wore crookedly on his head.
Powerlessly, Bai Chunian watched him do so, his fingers gripping the ground. He knew that now, it was no longer a family dispute that could be easily resolved. This open provocation would surely thoroughly anger Rimbaud.
Sure enough, Rimbaud squinted his eyes and took two steps forward. Blue scales rapidly grew on his exposed skin and on his legs covered underneath the fabric, making a rustling sound as they rubbed against his pants.
Bai Chunian extended his bloodied hand, catching Rimbaud’s wrist. “He doesn’t know anything. He’s…”
“Not at all,” Rimbaud interrupted him coldly. “Even if he is, can’t you see it? His scales are not even fully grown yet, and he’s already trying to usurp my position. Randi, are you even going to disregard me for his sake?”
Bai Chunian’s grip on Rimbaud’s hand stiffened for a moment. Another surge of turmoil coursed through his body, forcing him to concentrate fully on suppressing his own overflowing energy. The Dead Sea Heart Scythe sensed Bai Chunian’s loss of control and automatically melted into water, which flowed to his neck, forming a collar that firmly held him in check.
“Since he dares to engage, I’ll make sure he feels my rage.” Rimbaud said.
Rimbaud left a streak of blue lightning behind him as he suddenly disappeared from his original location. In the next second, his figure reappeared in front of the youth. At this moment, Rimbuad’s human ears were elongated into fin-like ears, his fingertips turned into black pointed claws, his pupils extended into thin vertical lines, and scales rapidly covered his cheeks and wrists. Sharp merfolk claws clasped against the pearl-like youth’s throat, abruptly slamming him against the cracked wall with a bang.
The pearlescent youth was forced to use Bone Armor to withstand Rimbaud’s powerful blows. Only then was he barely able to prevent severe internal injuries.
Yet upon seeing his ability, the oppressive pheromones on Rimbaud conveyed a sense of rage. His cold blue pupils flickered, and he spat a low and fierce sentence from his throat, “You can also use Bone Armor, huh? Alright, then.”
Before he could regain consciousness, Rimbaud gripped him by the neck and lifted him up, then ruthlessly slammed him to the ground. The massive shockwave they generated caused the ground to crack open with a series of veins, sending gravel and glass flying in all directions. Their bodies were scored with bloodstained wounds that rapidly healed.
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The pearl-like youth found himself at a disadvantage in Rimbaud’s hands. Sirens hold the highest degree of suppression over all subject species.
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“I cannot allow the sea clan to be ruled by a soulless one. Do not linger in the human world, child. It’s time for you to be reborn in the sea, and I will personally guide you there.” Rimbaud’s voice was heavy with an inviolable authority, his gaze profound. His compassion and determination were not in conflict.
The pearlescent youth kept his eyes open, staring directly at Rimbaud, two pairs of deep blue eyes locked in a steadfast gaze.
“Who you are, who I am, where I should go. You tell me.” His voice was desolate, like the tinkling of shattered ice touched by the water in the polar sea.
The look of puzzlement and sorrow on his face briefly caught Rimbaud off guard, causing him to relax his grip.
The pearl-like youth suddenly freed one of his hands and slammed it onto the ground, and water immediately began to pool from out of thin air, forming sharp, sourceless torrents that converged into razor-sharp blades aimed at Rimbaud.
Rimbaud leaped backward to evade the attack, releasing the pearl-like youth, but the dagger was knocked from his hand and stuck blade-first into the ground.
This child’s M2 ability inherited Rimbaud’s associated ability, Steel Hydration. Steel Hydration, as an associated ability, can only forcefully compress water molecules into a dense arrangement similar to the atoms in steel used for weapons. Associated abilities themselves do not possess attacking capabilities, but Steel Hydration has manifested in the youth’s second-grade differentiation ability, allowing him to create water out of thin air, making water an extension of his body, and even improving the precision of his water casting.
The pearl-like youth picked up the fallen Dead Sea Heartstone Dagger, which melted and transformed, layer by layer, in his left palm, ultimately forging into a black crystal M79 grenade launcher.
He was even able to cast firearms using Dead Sea Heartstone. This terrifying casting precision was something even Rimbaud could not achieve.
A shot hydrated steel grenade flew towards Rimbaud. The Dead Sea Heartstone had the ability to devour souls, and the intense heat’s suction forced Rimbaud into the range of the shrapnel explosion.
In the area affected by the explosion of a weapon made from Dead Sea Heartstone, an ordinary person would be instantly annihilated, and even an experimental subject would be severely injured. The pearlescent youth went all out, showing no mercy, determined that Rimbaud must die this day.
The rulers of the sea clan don’t always voluntarily step down. When two Sirens meet, unless the former leader willingly steps aside, a brutal and bloody battle is inevitable. Only the strongest can rule the sea clan, and the tribe only acknowledges the mightiest as their leader.
Rimbaud’s father was not a Siren, and he had never met the former leader before. After achieving adulthood, he naturally became the new chief. Besides personally killing the white shark omega who tried to usurp the throne through treachery, he had never experienced a brutal struggle for power. Rimbaud had never imagined that the second challenge to his authority would come from this child.
Rimbaud’s body lightened as he was carried out of the blast radius. Bai Chunian held him tightly in his arms, with one hand pressing down on Rimbaud’s head, allowing him to bury his cheek in the hollow of his shoulder, protecting his head with the palm of his hand.
“Be careful.”
“Go quickly.” Rimbaud felt Bai Chunian’s body convulse twice weakly.
The speed of a white lion was extremely fast, far surpassing that of a merman on land. Bai Chunian landed silently outside the blast radius and set down Rimbaud. It was only by propping himself against the wall that he was able to stand on his feet with great difficulty.
This was because even so, he still had four or five pieces of Dead Sea Heartstone embedded in his back. The Dead Sea Heartstone was a black crystal-like material. Inserted into his flesh, the wounds turned black, and his flesh and blood was continuously consumed and absorbed by the crystal.
The fragments of the Dead Sea Heartstone were attracted by the collar around Bai Chunian’s neck, ceasing to consume his body. Instead, they were absorbed and assimilated into the collar, and only so prevented further harm.
“Ugh…” The wound on Bai Chunian’s back couldn’t heal, a suppressed moan of pain leaked out from between his teeth, and he broke out in cold sweat.
They dodged a grenade explosion, but the pharmaceutical factory and its warehouse couldn’t; they were overturned after getting hit by several grenades in succession. The fuel stored inside ignited, causing a series of explosions to occur, and the deafening trembling sound resounded in the air. The factory containers blew up, and a large amount of engine oil and coolant came bursting out, flowing downhill and converging with the river behind the factory. The cooling tower collapsed. Many pharmaceutical raw materials of different colors came flowing all over the ground, mixed with the wet floor, and formed a layer of viscous metallic sheen. A pungent, headache-inducing smell rose into the air.
And the pearl youth was indifferently facing the collapsing ruins and surging river engulfed with oil, calmly loading the grenade launcher.
Rimbaud watched in shock, looking wide-eyed at everything getting destroyed.
Bai Chunian’s cry of pain made Rimbaud come back to his senses. Rimbaud placed his hand on Bai Chunian’s nape and gave him enough soothing pheromone to help him heal quicker. He crouched down, touched his cold lips on Bai Chunian’s forehead, and appeased him, “Randi, I’m sorry, but I must get rid of him. This is my duty.”
Bai Chunian deeply bowed his head, his bangs covered his eyes, and the collar around his neck tightened even more, exposing the blue veins on his neck. There were a few bloody marks around his neck caused by the sharp edge of the collar. He raised his hand and put it over Rimbaud’s wrist. Using a serious voice, he said with difficulty, “…I understand.”
Rimbaud kissed his teary eyes, then left him and walked toward the surging waves. The pearl-like youth saw where Rimbaud was heading and followed after him.
Eternal Undead, who was floating in the air, also wanted to follow them, but was intercepted by Bai Chunian halfway.
Eternal Undead laughed while wandering in the air, his voice obscure as he said, “What a truly moving show.”
Bai Chunian stood back on his feet with difficulty, held his injury, and slightly raised his head and looked at the wandering Eternal Undead in the air. He hoarsely said, “Enough, let him leave in peace. Stop torturing him, I’m begging you.”
The expression on Eternal Undead’s white cloth changed to a smiley face. “What right do you have to beg me?”
“Did Aileen order you to do this…?”
Eternal Undead sharply laughed. “Nobody can order me around.”
“Then I’ll kill you right now!”
Bai Chunian’s hoarse shouting made the collar on his neck tighten even more, and it extended into a muzzle detaining his sharp teeth. Black water flowed out from the collar and formed a scythe in Bai Chunian’s left hand.
The Dead Sea Heart Scythe sliced through the air, and there was even a brief rift in the air. Eternal Undead dodged within the scythe’s light and laughed. “Why are you restricting yourself? How about you show me your A3 ability? Otherwise, I’ll break one of his arms when I go back, making him cry the whole night. So will you show it to me?”
“I’m in the deterioration stage while you’re in the maturity stage. If you don’t use your A3 ability, will you be able to hurt me?”
Bai Chunian finally saw through Eternal Undead’s intentions—he wanted to force Bai Chunian into deterioration.
He drew diagonally upward, and the cold light of the scythe cut off a corner of Eternal Undead’s white cloth. The cloth fluttered down, and Eternal Undead’s calf was cut so deeply that the bone could be seen.
Eternal Undead screamed and flew away from Bai Chunian. The wound on his calf wouldn’t heal, black smoke came out from it. The pain caused Eternal Undead to make an ear-piercing sound, the fluctuation in his voice gave Bai Chunian a headache.
During Bai Chunian and Eternal Undead’s confrontation, Rimbaud dived head first into the river, his legs combined and extended, scale slowly covering his translucent blue fish tail, and the glowing blue tail turned to an angry deep red.
The pearl-like youth followed after him and entered the waters. He dived in, his lower half changed to a fish tail covered in glistening white scales. The fins on his waist spread out as if they were a pair of translucent wings, revealing the human form of a leucistic manta ray.
A large amount of machine oil and chemicals poured into the river floated on the surface, but when it came into contact with Rimbaud, the contaminated water automatically purified. The river water around Rimbaud was clean and clear, making him look even more white and untainted.
The white merman, on the other hand, was covered in grease. When he swam in the water, he had to strain himself a bit. He was also.amazed by Rimbaud’s purification ability.
“Stop with your futile resistance.” Rimbaud’s tail slapped the surface of the water, the shaken water stirred up an enormous wave up to ten meters high, and fell back down. The tip was tempered into a sharp spike, then became countless upside-down spikes.
The youth dived into the water to escape, lifting up pebbles and sunken garbage. The river became more turbid; the fish and shrimp in the water were sucked into a whirlpool. The passing finless porpoise was pierced by the head of a rusty harpoon lifted from the bottom of the river. The water became filthy due to the silts and blood mixing together. The youth used all means to withstand Rimbaud’s attacks.
Rimbaud became more and more disappointed in him.
His blue tail shimmered, and a whirlpool appeared from the tip of it, getting bigger with each turn. The dirty water was being sucked into the whirlpool without stopping, and at the same time, became clear and transparent.
The whirlpool’s suction power was so great that it swallowed the entire river. The water level decreased, leaving stranded pebbles behind.
Rimbaud slightly raised his hand, and the whirlpool rushed in the direction where Rimbaud pointed at. The youth was pushed up in the sky by the rock-solid current. The water became a sharp spike in the air and penetrated the youth’s body, fixing him in the air.
The hydrated steel wave was like frozen ice, the pure and clear icicles pierced the sky. They were clean and didn’t have an ounce of impurities.
More than ten holes were pierced on the youth. He was impaled on a hydrated steel pillar and unable to move no matter how, but still struggled uselessly.
A ray of blue lightning climbed to the top along the water column, and Rimbaud appeared in front of the youth, raising his hand to caress his cheek.
“Me and Xiao Bai were looking forward to your arrival, and even now he still loves you dearly. When we chatted at night, he looked at the night sky and wanted to name you Bai Aixing. He hoped that you would live for a long time like a star. When he thought of you, there would be a galaxy in his eyes. Your every action today probably destroyed him completely, but he won’t blame you for it.”
The youth’s eyes turned red, and tears slowly started to form. Large pink and white pearls fell from his eyes.
“You shouldn’t stay here, go where you should be.” Rimbaud caressed his cheeks. The youth rubbed Rimbaud’s palm in confusion. “Sorry.”
Rimbaud used his palm to cover the youth’s teary eyes, form a hydrated steel dagger in his hand, and he aimed at the youth’s nape.
Suddenly, the youth’s body darkened. Rimbaud’s hand went through a figure of nothingness.
Eternal Undead raised both hands, and the darkened youth flew back to him and back under his white cloth.
“How can you make him cry?” Eternal Undead took back the white cloth and draped it over his own head. The youth returned to its pearl state and landed in Eternal Undead’s palm.
Eternal Undead laughed crazily in the air. “He’s my Underworld Envoy. I won’t ever let him go.”
Rimbaud landed beside Bai Chunian, landing with his feet. The hydrated steel river fell back into the river bed and flowed. The water was clean and transparent, clear enough that the ground could be seen.
Rimbaud gritted his teeth and stepped forward. Next to him, Bai Chunian was strangled by the collar until he bled. He bled from his mouth and nose, almost fainting.
There was a thin line keeping him from going into deterioration, and it was all due to the Dead Sea Heart Stone collar restraining him from going crazy.
“Bear with it, be good.” Rimbaud turned around and picked up Bai Chunian with a hand wrapped under his legs. Bai Chunian lost consciousness, and his hands slid down from his body.
Rimbaud looked up and stared at Eternal Undead darkly, the tide of the Dead Sea in his eyes surged.
“I won’t let you go either.”
Thank You for the new chapter ❤⃛ヾ(๑❛ ▿ ◠๑ )
My kokoro is brokoro. Imagine the pain of having to kill your own child ( ꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ )
I really hope by the end they can keep little Pearl and raise him 😭
no pueden, su hijo es un alma muerta, el ni siquiera pudo nacer recuerdas
So heartbreaking ! I’m not sure to have understood all. So Pearl died but Eternal Undead’s ability can bring back the dead to life or made them live in the mirror and the young merman represent Pearl if he could have bien born safely ?
If that’s it Ailées desserve to die t’en times !
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Noooo this broke my heart 😭 whyyyyyyy????