So You're the Dark Tide, Huh! / Hyacine and Cipher

"There, Fagina, the Ocean Titan, dearly loved her people. The sea sirens sang and danced in laughter, only for their home to become the first battlefield when the Black Tide surged forth."

"Correct!"

Hua Yi snapped his fingers, and Cerydra's scene temporarily vanished, replaced by an underwater world.

In the Fagina Kingdom, deep beneath the ocean, there were schools of fish, seaweed, and the race known as sea sirens.

Their forms resembled the mermaids of fairy tales, elegant in every movement.

Yet this fairy-tale kingdom beneath the sea contained something that did not belong.

Blackness churned in the deepest depths. The disaster destined to plague Amphoreus was about to bare its fangs and devour all living things.

Please give flowers.

This should have been the first kingdom destroyed by the Black Tide.

Compared to the various city-states of the same era, the Fagina Kingdom was likely the most beautiful and fairy-tale-like place—yet the world-ending calamity had set its sights on it first.

—It was simply the Creator's unadulterated malice.

The sea sirens noticed the Black Tide as well.

They awoke from their revelry in alarm at that profound darkness. One group of sea sirens returned to the palace to seek Fagina's protection, while the other remained behind, preparing to face the unknown disaster and defend their homeland.

March 7th had already nocked an arrow to her bow.

"If we outsiders hadn't come, what would have happened to the Fagina Kingdom? Could the sea sirens have resisted the Black Tide?"

"They couldn't."

Hua Yi swept his gaze over the mermaids. Every one of them was a living being with lovely features and graceful figures.

"Even a peaceful death would have been an impossible luxury. They would have been corrupted into Black Tide monsters and become part of the force that destroyed