I Have a Sailing Game-Chapter 101: Mermaid’s Tear
[Mermaid (Mutating)]
[Type: Creature]
[Quality: Elite]
[Level: 5]
[Tier: Extraordinary]
[Explanation: From the enchanting romantic legends, it’s not hard to imagine their beauty, but unfortunately, she is undergoing a terrifying mutation.]
Amid the Mysterious Sea, an island and ocean of wonders.
Rogel, of course, had thought about mermaids.
He had even once caught a mermaid’s starfish.
But he had never imagined that his first encounter with a mermaid would be in this form.
He took a deep breath to calm his nerves.
Rogel glanced around at the other creatures, most either dead or unconscious.
Only this mermaid could still speak.
Yes, speak!
She actually had the ability to communicate with Rogel!
And her voice didn’t seem to come from her mouth, rather it was like a form of Mind Communication.
Now it seemed that the previous mysterious voice was hers.
But, why?
How could she have located him so accurately?
It should be known that Rogel was currently in an Underwater Cave, using the Deep Sea Blood Touch—a terrifying Clone of a creature.
Rogel thought calmly for a moment.
[Are you speaking?]
He questioned the mermaid in his mind.
[Yes... I am...]
The mermaid weakly nodded.
[Can you... save me...]
Rogel frowned.
He decided to rescue the mermaid from the wall first.
Approaching her, he extended his Giant Claw to grasp the meat tendrils attached to her shoulder blade, slicing them off with his sharp Bone Blade, severing the blood touch instantly.
Yet what was chilling was the shrill sound that followed, like a mouse’s squeal when the tendrils broke.
[Ah!]
The mermaid let out a pained cry.
The tendrils on the other side contracted with terrible force.
With a squelch!
The mermaid’s right shoulder exploded in a spray of blood.
Swiftly, Rogel extended his tentacle to the root on the wall and brutally tore it off.
Severing the tendrils extending from the wall, he finally managed to free her.
Then, the blood touch withdrew.
But then, mutation sudden.
Glug glug!
Blood-red bubbles rose from the wall.
The mermaid’s wound continued bleeding.
And on her other side, a Mutated Tumor began to throb violently, as if something was about to burst forth.
Rogel wanted to ask about her condition.
But the mermaid could no longer respond, only clutching her head with her remaining good arm, wailing incessantly.
No need to ask.
Undoubtedly, her pain stemmed from her body’s mutation.
Rogel had no means to address this mutation.
Even the Crimson Fruit seemed useless.
The next moment, a surprising turn of events unfolded for Rogel.
The mermaid, enduring the pain, spat out a pristine scale and handed it to him.
[Memory Fish Scale]
[Type: Special Artifact]
[Effect: Placing the Memory Fish Scale on your forehead will reveal memory fragments embedded by the mermaid, granting Mind Communication and Mind Perception abilities.]
Rogel looked at the scale in astonishment.
[I beg of you...]
With her final effort to communicate, the mermaid’s body underwent complete mutation.
The mutated parts of her body surged violently.
[I... don’t want to die...]
[Ah—]
The mermaid’s horrific screams echoed in Rogel’s mind.
With a squelch!
A three-fingered hand, gripping a crimson curved Bone Blade, burst from a tumor on the mermaid’s other side.
And this was not an isolated case.
Other mutated creatures also began their terrifying transformations en masse.
Flesh and viscous liquid spread through the seawater.
One by one, creatures began their horrific mutations.
The entire space played out scenes more horrifying than any horror film.
Soon, Rogel found himself facing a group of blood-soaked, terrifying mutated monsters.
[Mutated Mermaid]
[Type: Monster]
[Quality: Elite]
[Level: 12] 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
[Tier: Extraordinary]
[Description: The once beautiful mermaid is now but a wrinkled husk on its body, far removed from romance and beauty.]
[Hiss!][Roar!]
The horde of mutated monsters, with an average level around ten, roared as they charged toward Rogel.
Curiously, they were unaffected by Rogel’s Dark Concealment Skill.
"Poor mermaid girl."
Rogel shook his head with a sigh.
He regretted not having the power to save her.
Moments later, he looked nonchalantly at the mutated creatures ahead.
These mutated beings were like stirred-up pork belly and rabbit droppings with ketchup.
Bloody, disgusting, distorted, insane.
To Rogel, they offered nothing but experience.
"The Hunger Pouch could use a snack."
With that, the Deep Sea Blood Touch began its one-sided massacre!
Bone Blades harvested life, Giant Claws crushed flesh, and six tentacles twisted like meat grinder blades.
Bang!
Like a tomato ketchup packet crushed by a truck, or a watermelon dropped from high above.
One by one, the mutated monsters perished lamentably as they lost their newly gained lives.
A display of supremely bloody violence!
Under the influence of the Blood Sucking Skin, the absorbed blood made the Deep Sea Blood Touch swell and turn dark red.
Surprisingly, the blood of these mutated creatures added nothing to Rogel’s mutation progress.
The Blood Sucking Skin seemed to absorb only beneficial parts of the blood.
Notifications of slain enemies sprouted like mushrooms after rain.
[Your Clone Deep Sea Blood Touch has slain a Mutated Evil Worm, gaining combat experience.]
[Your Clone Deep Sea Blood Touch has slain a Mutated Winter Whale, gaining combat experience.]
[Your Clone Deep Sea Blood Touch has slain a Mutated Mermaid, gaining combat experience.]
[...]
Bang!
With the last mutated monster crushed by thick, strong tentacles in a sharp cry, Rogel’s battle with the mutated creatures drew to a close.
[You found a Mutated Tumor ×1.]
[You found a Bloody Dragon Eye ×1.]
[You found a Mermaid’s Tear ×1.]
[You found Shredded Meat ×3.]
[You found Torn Skin ×3.]
[...]
Despite having anticipated the drops, Rogel underestimated their worthlessness.
Yet among this junk, one item stood out.
Rogel retrieved it.
A pure blue drop-shaped artifact.
[Mermaid’s Tear]
[Type: Special Artifact]
[Special Effect: When crushed, it bestows a one-time purification effect on creatures in abnormal states, such as poisoned, frozen, burned, or cursed (ineffective against mutation or certain special curses).]
[Explanation: Opportunists have tormented mermaids to extract these magical tears, but they often die before shedding a single tear. However, seeing her tortured, mutated comrades, she sought to purify the anguish with the power of her tears...]
Upon reading the explanation, Rogel remained silent for a long time.
His silence led him to pick up a wrinkled mermaid skin from the ground.
The dry, broken mermaid skin appeared eerie and frightening.
Gently holding it with his tentacles, Rogel sliced away the mutated, ugly parts with his Bone Blade.
Finally, without a word, he placed the mermaid skin into the Hunger Pouch.
He sought a beautiful place for it, preferably adorned with coral and shells.
A beautiful soul must not be laid to rest in such an ugly place.
