In the legend of Above the Five Seas, the mermaid has another more mysterious name: Siren.
When Angel just left North Continent and embarked on the sea with Klein Travel, he encountered a child who thought he was Siren because of his beauty and mystery.
Now she looked at the real Siren wrapped in layers of fishing nets, and she couldn't help but sigh that it was understandable that Donna and Danton on White Agate had mistakenly admitted her.
This... Siren, which can only be called a "strip" at the moment, is tightly wrapped in a fine-mesh fishing net. It is naked, with a bulging chest. However, the skin from the neck to the tail of the half-fish tail and half-human leg is covered with gradually thickening scales. It appears blue in the sunset, like a uniquely designed evening dress.
Compared with the fish-like tail, Siren's head is almost the same as that of a human being, and it is a relatively beautiful young woman. Her face has the youthful and lively atmosphere of an underage girl, her eyes are closed, her light eyebrows are tightly frowned, and her long shiny golden hair is close to the scaly skin on her shoulders and back under the moisture of the sea water.
But under the sunlight and the dry air, the seawater covering Siren's body is rapidly evaporating and disappearing. Following this, her bifurcated tail continues to transform into human legs, and her scales gradually disappear under the skin. She is caught between "human" and "Beyonder Creature", making it difficult to tell which side she belongs to.
Just like those of her kind I saw among God War Ruins... Angel muttered and looked at the onlookers Sailor again, waiting for an explanation.
Soon, in their chattering narrations, Angel learned the entire story of Siren's arrest.
At sea, many ships without urgent tasks will drop trawl nets while sailing, catch some passing sea fish, and process them as a major source of fresh food.
After all, not every ship has the carrying capacity of a steam liner and can carry enough food for all the guests and crew on the ship. Moreover, after staying at sea for a long time, everyone will always need some fresh meat instead of marinated and sun-hardened dried meat.
Today, the Sailors who lowered the fishing net as usual and waited for the fish to automatically get into the net to feed everyone soon discovered that the trawl net on one side had become unbearably heavy. This is not uncommon in their minds. It is often the trawl that catches some wooden planks, wine barrels and other waste, so as long as it does not affect normal navigation, they do not pay attention to it.
It was not until dusk when the Sailors put away the trawl net and counted the harvest that they discovered that there was a beautiful mermaid trapped in the fishing net, not the ocean garbage they imagined.
"She even ate all the fish in the fishing net, and at least 20 kilograms of sea fish were caught on the other side!" a Sailor said angrily, looking at Siren lying on the deck with some fear and curiosity, "We were discussing how to deal with her, and you came."
"I heard that the fish-man's meat is very tender. Since she ate our catch, why don't we just eat her?"
A young Sailor suggested eagerly.
"Idiot, that's a fish-man, and this is Siren. They are two completely different creatures... I've seen fish-men. They have fish heads and gills. They are pure monsters, completely different from her!"
Another older Sailor scolded.
"Indeed, I have tasted the fish-man's cheek meat, which is a delicacy that can be eaten raw, but the one I caught is a mermaid, the legendary Siren who can sing and communicate with people..." Angel nodded in agreement and looked at Helene who was thinking deeply, "Captain Helene, you decide how to deal with her."
Although the decision-making power was left to the captain of "Red Haired Woman", Angel believed that the smart "conspirator" could already understand what he just said and what he meant.
"William, take someone to prepare a big wooden barrel, fill it with some sea water, put this Sleeping Beauty in it first, wait for her to wake up, try to communicate with her, and find out how the Siren who haunted Sonia Sea came to the vicinity of Midway Island thousands of miles away... Although there are not many fish for dinner today, you can open an extra barrel of wine. Except for those on the night shift, everyone can drink enough."
Helene looked around and quickly gave instructions.
The unexpected joy made the Sailors cheer. Except for a few unlucky guys on duty, everyone else quickly forgot about the existence of Siren.
Angel also nodded with satisfaction and watched the mermaid in the net bag being put into a huge wooden barrel filled with sea water.
Moisturized by the water, the scales on her body quickly returned to the gorgeous blue color, and her tail also underwent some changes, turning into a huge fish tail again. Her frowning eyebrows spread out, and her head covered with blond hair was tilted on the edge of the bucket, and she fell asleep lazily.
Angel declined to attend the dinner where Sailor added extra alcohol. After the crew members dispersed, he took out a piece of Magic Mirror, stood next to the barrel, and polished the mirror in the fading sunset.
She is going to try to divine the origin of this Siren.
When Klein sought the opportunity to be promoted to "Marionettist" and asked Arrodes for clues about mermaids, Sealed Artifact, who could answer most questions and had a high divination ability, once answered: There are no such creatures in places where human footprints can reach. Except for a small number of mermaids raised by Church of the Evernight Goddess, only a small number of wild ones exist in the depths of the Sonia Sea.
Of course, the experience of the two people also confirmed this. It was not until they went deep into God War Ruins that they found some wild Siren in that mysterious sea where reality and illusion overlapped and had various out-of-control powers, and helped Klein complete Promotion Ritual.
But at this time, at the other end of the Storm Sea, close to the Fog Sea on the west side, a single mermaid actually appeared?
After charging Spirituality, Goddess was used as the inquiry object as usual. Angel successfully made the surface of Magic Mirror in her hand appear a quiet black. Then, a silent scene appeared in front of her eyes.
It was a picture of countless Sirens with their heads exposed in the water in a huge pool in a dimly lit prayer room, lowering their heads and praying devoutly.
It was a picture of the Sirens saying goodbye to the bishop wearing black clergy robes in the island's haven and swimming into the deep sea.
It was a picture of Siren, with long platinum hair floating in the water, a calm demeanor and vigorous movements, following the group to hunt sea fish.
Afterwards, the surface of Magic Mirror returned to smoothness, reflecting the half-yellow and half-dark blue sky.
It seems that this Siren is not wild, but comes from one of the ethnic groups raised by the church?
Angel looked at the beautiful mermaid still sleeping in the barrel in surprise and fell into deep thought.
"According to the information once provided by Arrodes, Church of the Evernight Goddess is located at Serenity Church located at the Loen Kingdom Winter County, which is Holy Cathedral, and Cathedral of Serenity on the Sonia Sea Dainos Island both have mermaids. The first picture Magic Mirror Divination sees is obviously the latter...
"In the second scene, the Sirens say goodbye to the bishop and leave the island to enter the deep sea. Does this mean that Cathedral of Serenity will 'release' these Siren who have become Goddess believers back to the sea, allowing them to live freely... But according to Klein's speculation, the church should always Monitoring the mermaid belonging to them, in order to block the promotion process of 'Marionettist', and control this Pathway, which is officially controlled by Secret Order and Intis... The act of releasing the mermaid is contrary to this intention, but it is also possible that the church has other surveillance methods, and these mermaids are only used as bait on the surface...
"The last scene is of them hunting for food in the sea... When we went to God War Ruins, Frank Lee of 'Future' said that most of the rumors at sea were false. Siren would not seduce the crew with songs and feed on humans, but would hunt sea fish to satisfy their hunger. Most of the crew members died of drowning... This scene confirmed his words."
After analyzing the divination picture, Angel has a certain understanding of the origin of this mermaid, and even feels a little closer to it.
After all, she also believes in Evernight Goddess.
"But the most important question has not been clarified... The divination screen proves that she has her own tribe, and Siren is a gregarious creature and usually does not appear alone, but she came to the sea thousands of kilometers away from Dainos Island... Could it be that she was captured, transported here, and then escaped from the human ship?"
Angel murmured and decided to find another way to confirm her guess. She took out a semicircular silver piece from her pocket, covered with various symbols and logos.
It was a "dream" Charm, and its effect was similar to the Dream Invasion ability of "Nightmare".
She half-leaned on the mast, activated Charm, took the initiative to let her Spirituality embrace the power emanating from Charm, and then entered the dreamland of the sleeping Siren.
With the empty deck next to her, the looming sunset in the distance, and half of the red-hot sky surrounded by endless sea water, Angel seemed to be in the deep sea where she could not see her fingers clearly, but she could sense all the movements around her. She understood that she had arrived in the dream that Siren was currently experiencing.
Looking around, she quickly found the platinum-blond haired Siren, who was floating in the endless sea, with large and small sea fish slowly swimming by. She grabbed one from time to time, opened her light red lips, revealing sharp, white teeth like wolf fangs, and gnawed the raw fish meat roughly.
Is this... her dream just to have a full meal of raw meat? How long have you been hungry for? Or maybe she is the greedy Siren... Angel was also a little hungry after watching it, and quickly controlled the dream, incorporating a trace of negative emotions, allowing Siren to enter the scene that impressed her most.
This should be the moment when she separated from her tribe and came to the edge of the Fog Sea alone.
Sure enough, as the surrounding scene gradually dimmed and then became brighter, Angel and Siren with long blond hair appeared next to a reef, surrounded by an invisible sea surface. Dark clouds were rapidly gathering above their heads. In the blink of an eye, heavy rain fell, and the waves surged, almost submerging the reef where the two of them were.
Angel knows that this is not the real scene at that time, but the manifestation of Siren's inner panic in the dream. If you use this scene as a clue to find the real location, you will find nothing.
After a while, several Sirens with the same gorgeous appearance, beautiful scales and huge fish tails came to the surface of the sea. They shouted towards Angel, their pitches were sharp, not like the beautiful singing voices Angel had heard.
The blond Siren had just jumped into the water and came to the tribe's side. The seawater under them suddenly boiled, with pieces of crimson waves gushing out.
That was blood, blood so rich that it seemed impossible to dissolve it!
Angel was half confused and half alert, but knowing that this was just a dream, she did not make any move. She just watched Siren quietly as they writhed in the blood, communicating with each other in some tones that she could not understand, which seemed to express emotions.
It's not like normal language, maybe it's the roar between some kind of animals... But if they can understand Goddess's teachings, they should be able to use at least one human language... Angel frowned, Just as he was about to carefully distinguish the conversation between Siren, he suddenly discovered that a slender, seemingly young Siren was grabbed by a huge force and dragged from the sea into the sea in an instant, disappearing.
The other Siren were like frightened quails, fleeing in all directions. Among them, the Siren with gorgeous red hair and a mature and sexy face was swimming in the direction of Angel, but was dragged into the sea by the same force, and the struggling sea water almost hit her face.
This time she saw clearly that the one who caught Siren was another Siren lurking in the sea!