Yale smiled when he saw the door of the sacred chamber broke.

After the door broke, everyone saw Mercer appearing there with Merumi in one hand an Ice Sword on the other.

“Who is that kid? How he managed to rescue Merumi?”

The matriarch didn’t understand what was happening at that moment. Due to how the formations inside the sacred chamber were placed it was impossible for anyone with the Mermaid Bloodline or the Sea Race Bloodline to move after appearing there even if for some reason the punishment hadn’t worked. Moreover, there was no way to endure the evil energy that the matriarch infused to the pearl nor grab the pearl without having those two bloodlines.

The Mermaid Bloodline was needed to surpass the reddish light made with the remnant life force energy of the mermen and mermaids sacrificed by the matriarch, and the Sea Race Bloodline was needed to grab the pearl. Of course, that just applied to normal experts because a Law God wouldn’t have any problem in surpassing those restrictions without bloodlines, but the matriarch knew that the kid who appeared was just at the Apprentice Rank.

However, the matriarch never thought in the Mermaid’s Blessing because something like giving the control of her own life to another person was something that she would never think, nor she could believe that someone would do it. Of course, it wasn’t like if a purple-tailed mermaid like the matriarch could use Mermaid’s Blessing.

In fact, due to Merumi having both bloodlines, the benefits of her Mermaid’s Blessing were far stronger than should be, and Mercer also obtained some benefits from Merumi’s Sea Race Bloodline making it possible for him to grab the World Sea Pearl.

“You don’t have time to get distracted!”

Aiwai restarted her attacks since the barrier disappeared, which avoided that the matriarch could focus on Mercer and Merumi. After all, the two of them were like ants in front of the matriarch, and it wouldn’t be difficult for her to kill them if she managed to obtain an opportunity. Moreover, since there wasn’t anyone else in the Mermaid Race who could complain, she wouldn’t need to restrain herself.

“Mercer, you did a good job as I expected of my disciple. Now you can rest, we can speak later on.”

Yale, who had teleported to Mercer’s side after sending Kaigur to the Storage Space while Aiwai distracted the matriarch, patted Mercer’s head before sending him to the Storage Space.

“You!”

The matriarch finally noticed what Yale had just done, but she couldn’t distract herself because Aiwai was powerful enough to make one distraction fatal.

“Everyone! The plan has been completed. We will retreat right now.”

Yale sent a Spiritual Sense message to all the members of his group that were outside the Storage Space and went towards where they were to help them enter the Storage Space again.

The plan was recovering the World Sea Pearl, and that had been accomplished successfully, so killing the matriarch wasn’t relevant at all for the plan despite their feelings. After all, the matriarch wasn’t easy to kill even for Aiwai, and Yale didn’t want to risk the lives of anyone in his group without reason.

Yale didn’t know if the matriarch had a skill that let her use a lot of power in exchange for her life and in that case, it would be dangerous to everyone.

Before Mercer broke the door, the matriarch still had her trump card, so there was no way she used something like that and Yale confirmed it in his vision, but after the matriarch’s plans were broken thanks to Mercer, Yale wasn’t sure of what could do that mermaid.

While Yale was doing his part of the retreat plan, Swordmad’s group joined Aiwai to battle the matriarch. They wanted to kill her, but since they knew that it wasn’t possible, they just wanted to harm her as much as possible.

It wasn’t just because they thought that she deserved it, but to let Yale flee from her later on. Everyone else could hide in the Storage Space, but if Yale also entered there, he couldn’t be too far after exiting and if the matriarch remained in the area that would be problematic.

The matriarch was already having a hard time while battling against Aiwai, but the addition of another three opponents made it almost unbearable for her despite the three of them being individually weaker than her.

“I can’t win, and this battle won’t bring any benefit to me, continue it is useless!”

After battling for a while, the matriarch stopped attacking and focused on fleeing, but making it sure that her direction was the opposite of the one taken by Yale. After all, she knew that she would be pursued if she dared to attack Yale, but she had confidence that as long as she only wanted to flee, she couldn’t be stopped.

“Coward!”

Aiwai truly despised the matriarch of the Mermaid Race, but she didn’t try to follow since she could only be outside of the Storage Space for a limited time and catching the matriarch would need more time than her remaining time.

“Sis, you don’t need to bother about it, killing her was never part of the plan.”

At that moment, Yale had returned to the place where Aiwai’s group had been battling until a few moments ago.

“You are right, but this is frustrating.”

Aiwai wasn’t the only one thinking like that because the others also felt that the matriarch should die.

“Enter the Storage Space. There is no reason to remain here more time.”

Without wasting more time, Yale put the four remaining members of his group into the Storage Space.

“It isn’t part of the plan, but it isn’t like if I can’t kill her without it being part of the plan.”

Yale didn’t want to put the others in danger to kill the matriarch, but he didn’t fear giving it a try since the matriarch was injured and that wouldn’t be an equal battle nor a frontal one.

The reason for wanting to kill her was for how she had made suffer Merumi and Kaigur and for something that he had just remembered.

The quest was completed at the moment the World Sea Pearl entered into the Storage Space and Yale received a huge boost in power of nine hundred million in each of his stats, but the most important part was that he recovered a fragment of Liye’s memories related to the Mermaid Race and the Sea Race.

The Mermaid Race had joined forces with the invaders of the continent capturing the people in the ships and delivering them to the invaders, which turned the mermaids into a common enemy of the continent after the continental war ended. More exactly it was only the members of the Mermaid Race in that place of the ocean since the others were too far to have some relationship with the continent and it wasn’t usual that the mermaids of one place interacted with mermaids living on a different place.

In their case, they did it out of pure greed and not by some mastermind controlling them, which led Liye to go to eradicate them, the only reason he didn’t do it was because the prince of the Sea Race stopped him.

The prince of the Sea Race wasn’t strong, he was merely at the Sage Rank, but he was an old friend of Liye, so he managed to stop Liye after taking the Mermaid Race under his protection.

The prince of the Sea Race was in love with a member of the Mermaid Race, which was the main reason for his actions. In the end, Liye just cut the head of the matriarch and forgive the others for his friend’s sake. Liye even officiated the marriage ceremony of his friend with that mermaid and acted as a testimony of the alliance of the two parties.

There was a big plan to merge the two bloodlines to create a bloodline comparable in strength to that of a divine beast. For those who had bloodlines at that level, becoming a Law Master was just a matter of time, but the Sea Race didn’t manage to have even a single Law Master since they left their world and the Mermaid Race never had one in their story.

However, for some reason that Yale didn’t know, the mermaids ended taking profit of the Sea Race and modified the story to make the members of the Sea Race that had saved their lives look like barbarians.

In any case, since Liye was related with that agreement and it was broken while Liye was in the process of reincarnating, Yale felt that at least he should kill that matriarch for her acts of trying to eradicate the last descendants of the Sea Race.

That was the truth of the quest to obtain the World Sea Pearl, Liye wanted Yale to help the descendants of his friend. However, Yale did it because he obtained a good impression of Kaigur and Merumi and not by some order of Liye.

In the end, he decided to kill the matriarch because he had reasons in both lives to do it.

“I did a plan that was better than the one planned by my past life. However, killing the matriarch was never on the plan as even my past life considered that it is impossible for me. I will show my past life that he is underestimating me and that I still have my means!”