Book 13: Chapter 52
I didn’t know if the potions would be effective, because Nier didn’t agree to my request. She shoved me back and took in a deep breath. She spoke in a slightly livid tone: “Your Majesty, now is not the time for you to realise your dream of being a hero. It’s swarming with flood corpses outside. We’re safe here, since they haven’t found us. Aren’t you courting death if you go outside now? By the time we get on the deck, the flood corpses will be able to throw our entire room into the ocean!”
“No… I was thinking… that it was worth a try…”
Nier mustered up all of her patience: “A try? You want to try in this situation? Your Majesty, if you fail in this situation, everybody will lose their lives. Have you considered the consequence of failure? I am willing to die without regrets protecting you, and I believe Lucia shares the same sentiment, but how about you? You don’t need to die!! All we have to do is to wait here in this room until Ying finishes off the wyrm. You cann-”
Nier twirled her wrist and thrust her sword toward the door. Another muffled scream was heard, followed by the sound of something heavy dropping to the ground. A green sticky liquid dripped onto the ground. Another hole appeared in the door. However, the corpse that dropped to the ground seemed to attract even more flood corpses.
The flood corpses pressed themselves up against the door. Their clothes corroded, exposing their corpses that had started to turn black. Groans followed by the stench of the sea and rotting came in. The situation outside the door was comparable to zombies laying siege to a city; hence, the sturdy wooden door didn’t provide any sense of safety.
Nier stabbed through the door over and over in order to prevent the flood corpses from breaking the door down. Soon enough, the door was akin to Swiss cheese. The powerless dead corpses leaned on the door when they died, because the flood corpses from behind would push them forward from behind, creating a perfect flesh shield. The flood corpses didn’t seem to be very strong; or rather, they had no idea how to move obstacles in front of them. As a result, they kept stepping in place. But nonetheless, we were trapped in the room. There was a window. That said, jumping out of it meant jumping into the wyrm’s ocean.
That might be a viable option for Lucia and Nier, but it was a one way ticket to hell for me. The wyrm would surely eat me. I was lucky last time, as Ying was present and it seemed to be more interested in the necklace than me. I might not be so lucky again. After taking a thrashing from Ying, it might eat me just to vent.
I didn’t know how the other ship was doing. The wyrm didn’t attack our ship, so it must’ve attacked the ship with Mom and Ying on it. Mommy Elizabeth was assigned to protect our ship, but she’d definitely head to where the fighting was most intense when the battle started.
Mommy Vyvyan didn’t need the mana dissolving potion. It was a full-moon night; her power was at its peak. Taking on the wyrm as a demi-god shouldn’t be too difficult for her; however, her duty wasn’t to kill the wyrm. Her task was to imprison it within a specific area for Ying to slay it.