Bang!
A crisp sound came from the confrontation, as though someone had cracked a whip sharply. The witches outside the mudflat all let out soft cries of alarm.
Zheng Qing, who had just bent down, straightened up forcefully and turned to look. He moved so quickly that he flung up several clumps of mud, splattering Li Meng and making the Little Witch mutter a low complaint.
Zheng Qing paid no attention to her grumbling.
As he looked toward the confrontation, he happened to see an orange-yellow point of light slowly fading away. It had appeared between the Patrol Team members and the merfolk, seemingly some kind of Warning Magic.
Zheng Qing let out a heavy breath of relief.
"It's the Palace Yellow Spell from the Five Tones Five Colors Spell, an initial Warning Magic," Xiao Xiao, who had also been watching the standoff, promptly explained to the others. "...Overall, the situation is still under control."
"Get back to work, get back to work." Zheng Qing repeated himself twice for emphasis, as though he wanted everyone to remember why they had come to this mudflat today.
More importantly, he did not want his hunting team and friends to get involved in whatever was happening at the lakeshore in the distance. That would be no small trouble.
But this time, whether it was the hunters of the You Zui Hunting Team, Nicholas, who had temporarily joined them, or the witches outside the mudflat, none of them listened to Zheng Qing's nagging. They all stopped what they were doing.
The orange-yellow light had barely gone out when another sharp bang exploded from the lakeshore. This time, the warning spell had turned scarlet, and its sound was slightly louder as well.
Yet the merfolk who had surfaced did not retreat. Instead, they pressed several