Roydes

Although mermaid shells were a kind of seashell, they had always hidden deep beneath the silt, sometimes requiring one to dig through dozens of meters of mud and sand to find them. By the time you started digging, they would already have fled.

Only when mermaids sang their ballads would mermaid shells foolishly remain where they were, listening to the mermaids sing. They would even unconsciously burrow toward the surface of the silt. Thus, generally speaking, only mermaids could trace them. That was why they were called mermaid shells.

Mermaid shells were extraordinarily valuable and could even be exchanged for magic crystals. A single magic crystal was enough to support a mermaid for several years, or even over a decade. To every mermaid living in Roydes, they were treasures beyond price.

Yet as the little mermaid fled for her life, even when she saw the mermaid shell fall, she did not go back to pick it up.

This made Angel rather curious. What terrifying sight had the mermaid seen within the Nightmare Illusion Fear Spell?

With that thought, Angel quietly withdrew a small portion of the Nightmare Illusion power from between the mermaid's brows. Ordinary Fear Spells could not reclaim illusion nodes, but the Nightmare Illusion Fear Spell itself was different.

However, after withdrawing part of the Nightmare Illusion power, he could only extract a single fragment to observe the target's object of fear. Moreover, once he did so, the entire Nightmare Illusion Fear Spell would develop a massive flaw. Any transcendent being would be able to discover that it was an illusion and break the entire Fear Spell through the extracted fragment.

Though it had such a flaw, he was facing only an ordinary little mermaid. Even if she discovered the flaw, it would be of no use.

Then,