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Why Did You Mess With Him? He’s the Evil God’s Lackey!

Chapter 272

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Chapter 272: Receive! Redirect! Release!

Splash—Splash—

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The shore was utterly silent. The mermaid girl's teasing voice drifted through the air, carrying an unusually sharp edge.

Helnersen sat with his eyes closed, his steady breathing rising and falling in rhythm with the expansion of his chest—clearly letting everything go in one ear and out the other, paying the girl no mind whatsoever.

The mermaid girl had draped the upper half of her body over the bank's edge, her brilliant fish tail gliding back and forth across the water's surface, trailing little gusts of sea mist.

One hand propped against the bank, the other cupped beneath her chin, she tilted her head and batted her eyes at Helnersen with undisguised expectation.

"Mister Bear-Man, just tell me~"

Helnersen remained silent as ever, composed and unaffected, completely impervious to her antics.

Seeing that Helnersen continued to ignore her entirely, the mermaid girl puffed out her lips. Her forehead flushed red, and she slammed both hands down hard against the sea's surface—sending a spectacular burst of foam and spray flying outward.

"You—if you won't tell me, I won't help you people!"

Helnersen finally spoke, though his tone remained utterly calm:

"No need."

The girl fumed, slapping her tail against the sea and flicking up a spray of water.

She threw herself backward, slipping into the cold water, twisted her tail, and vanished beneath the surface.

At that moment, Leon walked over. Facing the mermaid girl in the water, she smiled and spoke in a measured tone:

"Council Member Finnie, it's a pleasure to meet you."

The mermaid started, poking half her head above the surface, blowing bubbles, and looking Leon over with puzzled scrutiny.

"An Elf?"

What a sight. She had never once seen an Elf at Blairstone Port before.

But looking at Leon, she always had the feeling that the girl's face was somehow familiar.

She blinked, then let out a sudden exclamation:

"Ohh, you're the one who's always beside that little miss...you're Leon, aren't you?"

Leon nodded.

"That's right."

"Well, well—didn't expect that. An Elf, of all people, willing to follow a human."

Lorelei folded her arms and gave a small nod.

"Though I heard the Elven Forest has apparently gone through some kind of change recently. Something about...a reform?"

Her fish brain had a rather poor memory for details—she was fairly sure she'd heard something about it not long ago.

She let the thought drift away without pursuing it further.

Because Leon had already moved on to a different question:

"Council Member Finnie, what brings you to Blairstone Port this time?"

"Hmm? Well, to see the sea, naturally."

The mermaid said cheerfully, as though being in the ocean filled her with immense joy.

Lorelei Finnie.

One of the 12 members of the Mage Council.

Unlike the other Council Members, she lived freely in the sea, and likewise held no national citizenship.

After all, there was no such thing as a Kingdom of the Sea.

Lorelei drifted through every stretch of ocean in the world, keeping watch over the seas for any signs of irregularity—like a guardian of the oceans themselves.

She not only safeguarded the safety of human fishing vessels and corrected disordered ocean currents.

She also delivered heavy-handed justice against anyone who polluted the ocean.

The moment Lorelei discovered someone fouling the sea's environment—no matter who they were, no matter their race—they would receive a righteous beating courtesy of Lorelei passing through.

Lorelei looked at Leon and said:

"Well, I hadn't originally planned to come to this side of the Empire, but as you can see."

She was referring to the wave from a short while ago.

The terrifying scale of that wave was not remotely in the same category as an ordinary tide.

That towering, thunderous surge carried a force that seemed capable of obliterating everything in its path.

Although Helnersen had ultimately blocked it, no matter how many times she witnessed a tsunami of that magnitude, it never failed to leave her utterly shaken.

It made Lorelei feel that this stretch of sea was far from peaceful.

The weather especially—clear one moment, overcast the next, with barely minutes between each shift.

Leon, of course, was no stranger to Lorelei.

This mermaid Council Member often visited the Empire's largest port—Blairstone Port.

Whenever Lady Leah was away, they would accompany Helnersen in intercepting ships on the sea, checking whether any Demi-human slaves were being transported by force.

If any were found, they would deliver righteous judgment without hesitation.

Lorelei had witnessed Helnersen's acts of justice many times, and this warm-hearted Bear-Man had left a deep impression on her...

Lorelei always seemed to find herself noticing Helnersen's presence—after all, she was a mermaid, a Council Member of the highest moral standing.

Witnessing Helnersen's righteous side, Lorelei had grown rather fond of this steady Bear-Man...

Thinking about this, Leon stared blankly toward the shoreline, several exasperated lines appearing on her forehead.

Lorelei's slender, jade-like hands roamed freely over Helnersen, draping themselves around his shoulders and neck, teasing him with practiced coyness.

"Mister Bear-Man, pay some attention to me~"

Helnersen remained unmoved as ever.

But Leon, standing nearby, suddenly had a thought.

As a Bear-Man, Helnersen possessed the habits of a bear as well.

So...

He was actually rather fond of eating fish.

Just then, Director Norma arrived, badge of the Mage Council in hand, striding over with several Mages in tow.

The instant they caught sight of Lorelei in the water, smiles broke across their faces.

When Norma noticed Leon, she paused for a moment, then glanced at the Demi-humans around them and understood.

These were Retainers of the Clavena Family...

After all, the only Family that would allow Demi-humans to hold such a high standing was the Clavena Family.

Norma gave Leon a respectful nod, then turned her gaze—and found herself looking at Helnersen's massive, muscular frame.

She blinked hard, frozen in place.

This...what on earth was this?

"A...a giant?"

The Bear-Man's presence was composed and unassuming, yet even just sitting there, the pressure he radiated was enough to send a shiver of unease through her heart.

The Clavena Family truly did have hidden dragons and crouching tigers...

Finally, Norma's gaze passed over Helnersen and landed on the shifting surface of the sea, where she spotted the mermaid near the Bear-Man.

The mermaid was ceaselessly running her hands over Helnersen back and forth, her coquettish expression practically feeding itself into the Bear-Man's mouth—yet Helnersen remained perfectly calm.

Witnessing the scene before her, Norma stared wide-eyed.

This...what on earth was going on.

Norma decided not to think about it any further. She still remembered what her subordinate had said—that the Council Member was the Demi-human swimming around in the sea.

So she stepped forward and extended the badge bearing 3 shattered human heads with a respectful expression.

"Miss, is this yours?"

Lorelei, who had been busy teasing Helnersen, looked up at Norma approaching with the badge and blinked.

"Ah, yes, yes it is."

She gave a light flick of her wrist. Beneath the sea's surface, a current of water rose immediately.

It seemed to take the form of a slender arm, slipping quietly across Norma's wrist, gently retrieving the badge and refastening it to Lorelei's magnificent chest.

Watching the effortless, fluid movement, Norma couldn't help but stare in awe.

As expected, she hadn't mistaken the right person.

She herself was also a Mage, yet she knew she could not achieve that level of mastery.

"Allow me to introduce myself—I'm Lorelei Finnie."

Hearing the Council Member's introduction, Norma snapped back to attention and replied respectfully:

"I'm the Director of the Blairstone Meteorological Bureau—Norma."

"Council Member Lorelei, are you truly able to help us?"

Lorelei's long eyebrows arched upward with a touch of pride, and she withdrew the arm she had been draping over Helnersen, tipping backward into the sea.

"Hmph, of course."

As a Council Member, briefly altering the weather was a trivial matter.

Norma quickly spoke up:

"Council Member Lorelei, do you need any assistance from us?"

Lorelei waved her hand and replied with full confidence:

"No need."

"I'm more than enough on my own."

As she spoke, her gaze drifted almost involuntarily toward Helnersen.

But the indifferent Helnersen kept his eyes shut, his furrowed brow etched with his utter disregard for Lorelei's existence.

Seeing this, Lorelei puffed her cheeks in indignation, calling out with a vaguely defeated air:

"You'd better watch this!"

With those words, Lorelei began moving across the sea's surface.

Her body was like a paintbrush, tracing intricate patterns and broad Formations across the water.

As she moved, her hands waved ceaselessly through the air.

Countless flickers of fluorescent-blue Magic Power gradually adhered to the sea's surface, transforming into several Runes.

The complex patterns quickly converged together, as though pulling the enormous Formations toward one another, Magic Power flowing continuously between them.

The spectacular fluorescent-blue Formations glittered like scattered stars. Norma drew in a sharp breath:

"A Formation of this scale...so this is what a 4th-Tier Mage looks like?"

The Formations before her had already grown too complex for Norma to comprehend, and their design was equally beyond her.

Yet she could faintly sense the steady direction of Magic Power flowing within them.

Lorelei floated at the center of the Formations, shimmering alongside the blue Magic Power, radiating a brilliant, confident light.

The jarring alternation between rain and clear skies was caused precisely by 2 conflicting elemental attributes clashing against each other.

So her goal was to regulate the chaotic elements—especially this rampaging Water Element.

As a creature of the sea, Lorelei was exceptionally proficient in controlling the Water Element.

6 streams of Magic Power converged at the center of the Formation, and a luminous blue orb of energy slowly began to destabilize.

Lorelei swept her hand—and the orb of Magic Power instantly burst open. A column of blue light shot skyward like a waterfall in reverse, piercing through the heavy cloud layer above.

Tiny fragments of blue light wove between the clouds, the Magic Power at the column's peak dissolving into the sky like specks of starlight.

She was attempting to dispel the storm clouds pouring torrential rain, bringing the rainfall down to a lighter drizzle.

At last, the chaotic downpour began to ease somewhat, and the raindrops became noticeably smaller than before.

"Did it work!?"

Director Norma felt a surge of elation. She hadn't expected the Council Member to act—and in mere moments, the air was already beginning to stabilize...

SPLASH!

Suddenly, the torrential rain crashed back down with renewed fury, as though even heavier than before.

The shocking deluge poured down onto Director Norma's face, soaking her and everyone around them to the bone.

"?"

What—what was happening?

Everyone exchanged baffled looks. Hadn't it just been said the rain was supposed to get smaller?

Even Lorelei herself was completely bewildered. She said indignantly:

"That was a mistake—let me try again."

She urgently mobilized the Magic Power within her body, making continuous adjustments to the Magic Formation. But the patterns within the Formation gradually grew chaotic, losing all regularity entirely.

An increasingly flustered Lorelei continued trying to reduce the moisture in the air—yet those star-fragment-like blue light specks seemed only to scatter even more Water Elements into the sky.

When the final release concluded, the rain in the sky grew even heavier.

Lorelei: "???"

She sank into a state of deep bewilderment.

It was as though some far higher existence was controlling the enormous Water Elements in the sky.

How could this be possible?

How could anyone manipulate rain clouds, stretching rainfall across thousands of miles?

Could it be that the force contending with her for dominion over the weather...was Nature itself?

Then suddenly, the surrounding Water Elements seemed to erupt with fury, erupting in an extremely peculiar frequency.

The downpour above Blairstone Port swept through once more with ferocious intensity. The raindrops were flung into wild, directionless chaos by the gale. The savage drops, like a wind-borne pincushion, slammed into roadside signs with a series of dull, heavy thuds.

Enormous waves reared up once more above the sea's surface.

This time, Lorelei was completely at a loss.

Because no matter how she channeled her Magic, the surrounding Water Elements refused to obey—rendering her utterly unable to cast a single spell.

And the moment a Mage could no longer use Magic—she was no different from a useless bystander.

At that moment, Norma stared at the towering wave practically grazing the cloud layer, and her mind went completely blank.

She had no thoughts left at all.

Just as the wave was about to crash down onto Lorelei and smash through the port—

Helnersen stood up.

The massive Bear-Man stood alone at the shoreline, his expression grave, his broad and heavy frame looking particularly resolute against the backdrop of dark storm clouds.

His back was turned to the crowd, showing only his unyielding spine.

Then, he stepped forward—into the sea.

Everyone stared blankly at Helnersen walking toward the oncoming wave.

Because Helnersen's feet were standing on top of the water's surface.

As though some power upheld him—despite his enormous, solid frame, he simply could not sink into the sea.

The mermaid girl leaned against the water behind Helnersen, mouth open, staring rigidly at the breadth of his back.

In the moment the wall of water came crashing fully down, Helnersen's hands made contact with the edge of the wave.

【Receive!】

The wave flowed gradually along the Bear-Man's broad arms—and then, as though braced and held, came to a forced halt.

The enormous mass of seawater surged and churned, yet was suspended completely in midair.

【Redirect!】

Helnersen drew one foot back, his hands wheeling in a wide arc through the air, white Energy accompanying the motion of his hands as it slowly began to move.

As his body turned, the path through which his Energy flowed shifted—and the wave turned with it, as though flipped over in midair.

Completely. Every trace of its crashing force—gone.

【Release!】

Helnersen rode the momentum and pushed forward, driving the roaring tide to disperse its power in an instant. He seized the opportunity to thrust it back toward the sea's surface, sending a column of white spray shooting a hundred meters straight into the sky.

The wave dissolved into scattered foam and plunged, all at once, back into the ocean.

When it was all over, the sea settled into a profound silence—only the undulating swell remained, the vast ocean at rest.

The disordered raindrops continued to hammer the sea's surface, and the driving downpour swiftly reclaimed the stillness of that space, interweaving with the rolling motion of the waves.

Amid the storm, everyone standing frozen on the shore was completely at a loss.

Even Lorelei stared blankly at everything that had just happened.

Yet in the midst of everyone's shock, Helnersen didn't look back once.

His gaze turned toward the center of the ocean.

Then, his entire body flowing with that white, dense Energy, he faced the open sea—and leaped.

Leaving behind only ripples spreading across the water and the mist still drifting in the air, he shot into the sea like an arrow and sped away at tremendous velocity, gone in an instant.

Lorelei blinked in a daze, then immediately flew into a panic.

"Bear—Mister Bear-Man!"

Forgetting entirely about how her own performance had just gone, she plunged into the water in a flurry and sped off after Helnersen.

Watching the bear and the fish grow smaller and smaller until they vanished from the port entirely, Norma blinked in bewilderment.

"Er...don't tell me...that Bear-Man is actually the Council Member?"

Leon spoke up from beside her in a composed tone:

"...No."

"Helnersen is the Steward of our Clavena Family."

"And for what it's worth—bears can indeed swim. You needn't worry."

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